R M: 2583 books

Aimed at those at the sharp end of contract grounds maintenance, this book will provide guidance for anyone unfamiliar with the process of contracting work out. Written in a clear and readable style and full of practical details it will be particularly valuable to local authorities who, from 1990 will be thrown into contractual maintenance and competitive tendering for the first time.

Jasmine Na’Darod lived a simple life with her parents and older sister on the family’s farm. She never strayed far from home until the ill-fated Blood Moon arose, basking the country of Caristan with a terrible, sickening drought. When her mother falls ill, Jasmine and her family are forced to...

In the 1950s, the city of Seattle began a transformation from an insular, provincial outpost to a vibrant and cosmopolitan cultural center. As veteran Seattle journalist R. M. Campbell illustrates in Stirring Up Seattle: Allied Arts in the Civic Landscape, this transformation was catalyzed in part...

Philanthropy, is becoming a hugh enterprise, with wealthy businessmen setting aside fortunes for worthy cause. Their targets are ambitious: no less than the removal of disease, disparity and deprivation on a vast scale that even governments may not be able to tackle. Thus, Bill Gates is striving to...

Engineers and geologists in the petroleum industry will find Petroleum Related Rock Mechanics, 2e, a powerful resource in providing a basis of rock mechanical knowledge - a knowledge which can greatly assist in the understanding of field behavior, design of test programs and the design of field operations....

Crusoe is a super intelligent dog and a best friend of his young master Dick, who had rescued him, when he was only a little pup. Now Crusoe has made it his life's mission to save his human partner from the various misfortunes and mishaps in the wild prairies, and which somehow always find a way to trouble young Dick! R M Ballantyne was a famous children's author and a renowned artist.

When at a sufficient distance from the ship, an order was given by the officer in charge. Immediately the outrigger on the right or starboard side was run out by invisible hands to its full extent -- apparently fifteen feet beyond the bow of the launch; then the inner end of the outrigger was tilted...

Like a lot of R.M. Ballantyne's books this is about the sea. The British life boat service. Many storms and life saving adventures take place and adventure abounds. (Amazon)

In a collection of poems that moves from meditations on emotions to struggles with a cancer diagnosis, from the comfortable world of sun and sand to the jarring dark corners of the so, R. M. Ryan offers us insights into the experience of living. The Lost Road Adventures Club recalls the ephemera of...

Nestled between a dozen longshoremen working on Dock B, Junior Patrone was the only one that heard the distant blast coming from the ocean. A few minutes past four on a humid summer morning in 1946, an unmarked German U-boat awaits patiently in oil slick waters two miles off the coast of New York...

Facing a life crisis, Jane Schumacher, the press secretary to a leading presidential candidate abruptly upends her life's work to return to her upstate New York home to make amends with her estranged family, only to discover her fraternal twin sister is the victim of an abusive husband. She faces...

“The world is round,” said somebody in ancient times to somebody else. “Not at all; it is flat-flat as a pancake,” replied somebody else to somebody; “and if you were to travel far enough you might get to the end of it and tumble over the edge, if so disposed.” Ever since...

R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish writer of juvenile fiction and wrote over 100 books.[citation needed] He was also an accomplished artist and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. He belonged to a famous family of printers and publishers.

A fantastic historical adventure by the Scottish master of juvenile fiction R. M. Ballantyne.