This is the ideal companion for those needing guidance when carrying out a research project in a management or a business-related subject. The text is succinct and concise, written with modular courses in mind for the reader to quickly gain an overall perspective of the fundamental areas and identif[...]
Loaded with flaps, pull-tabs, 3-D trains, and a spectacular pop-up model of a bustling railroad station, a sturdy exploration of trains and how they work is a tour de force of paper engineering and a bonanza for railroad aficionados of all ages.[...]
In Play Foundations People , the theme is explored through five chapters focusing on different ways in which children discover 'people', including activities related to family, children around the world, ourselves, people who help us and people in our community to help them start to develop positive[...]
In a powerful debut novel that moves between the crowded streets of London and the desolate mountains of Iran, Yasmin Crowther paints a stirring portrait of a family shaken by events from decades ago and worlds away. On a rainy day in London the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface[...]
Using clear examples of research problems and possibilities, this book shows students how to design and do their own criminological research. Each chapter integrates research theory and practice as the text explains a variety of methods in undergraduate and professional contexts. It is the ideal res[...]
Palaeobiology: A Synthesis was widely acclaimed both for its content and production quality. Ten years on, Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther have once again brought together over 150 leading authorities from around the world to produce Palaeobiology II. Using the same successful formula, the content i[...]
A train book containing fun facts and pop-up surprises. Look inside a steam engine to see how it works, pull the tabs to race trains over bridges and through tunnels, and open up the last page to discover a model of a train station.[...]
"A sympathetic and illuminating portrait of a quintessential Englishman". (Ian Bradley). The author of "The Pirates of Penzance", "The Mikado", "H.M.S. Pinafore" and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. H[...]
Rarely does the world see as versatile a figure as Herbert Simon. A Nobel laureate in economics, he was an accomplished political scientist, winner of a lifetime achievement award from the American Psychological Association, and founder of the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon Univer[...]
It was a typical all-American backwater - until the night the monsters came. When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light that cuts off communication with the outside world, they discover that something has taken the place of their friends and fellow townfolk, and imbued them wit[...]
Explores the importance of stories about Adam and Eve in sixteenth-century German Lutheran areas.
This 1859 publication contains the journals kept by Samuel Crowther (who in 1864 became the first African bishop of the Anglican church) and John Christopher Taylor during their respective missions to the banks of the Niger in 1857 and 1858. Crowther, a rescued slave educated at the Anglican mission[...]