Measuring Efficiency in Health Care (Inbunden)
avRowena Jacobs, Peter C. Smith, Andrew Street
ISBN: 9780521851442 - UTGIVEN: 2006-06With the healthcare sector accounting for a sizeable proportion of national expenditures, the pursuit of efficiency has become a central objective of policymakers within most health systems. However, the analysis and measurement of efficiency is a complex undertaking, not least due to the multiple o[...]
Dive Bomber! (Häftad)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9780811734547 - UTGIVEN: 200804Details on planes like the German Stuka, the American Dauntless, the Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val," the Soviet PE-2, and numerous others Riveting accounts of aerial combat Includes maps, diagrams, tables, and photos For many, it is a dive bomber that conjures the most dramatic, quintessential image of W[...]
Massacre at Tobruk (Pocket)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9780811734745 - UTGIVEN: 200805In the late summer of 1942, Rommel's Afrika Korps stood perilously close to breaking through to Cairo and the Nile, having already taken the fortress of Tobruk. In a desperate effort to halt the Germans and buy time for the Allies, British forces - including the Royal Marines, Royal Navy, the SAS, a[...]
War in the Aegean (Häftad)
avPeter C. Smith, Edwin R. Walker
ISBN: 9780811735193 - UTGIVEN: 200810This work offers the first complete retelling of an important but little-known campaign. It features eyewitness accounts from a colourful cast of German SS troops, British commandos, partisans, spies, Greek pirates, and more. Both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler wanted the Aegean Sea in 1943. The[...]
Cruise Ships (Inbunden)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781781592816 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Peter C. Smith presents us here with the second release in his visually splendid Cruise Ships series. Whilst his first book concerned itself with the large-scale ships currently cruising through our seas (those weighing 40,000 GT and more) this volume focusses on the other end of the market; the shi[...]
Kamikaze (Inbunden)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781781593134 - UTGIVEN: 2015-02In this brand new publication from eminent historian Peter C. Smith, we are regaled with the engaging and often incredibly disturbing history of the Kamikaze tradition in Japanese culture. Tracing its history right back to the original Divine Wind (major natural typhoons) that saved Japan from invad[...]
Mitsubishi Zero (Inbunden)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781781593196 - UTGIVEN: 2014-12The Mitsubishi Zero is one of the great legendary fighter aircraft ever to have graced the skies. Symbolic of the might of Imperial Japan, she represented a peak of developmental prowess in the field of aviation during the early years of the Second World War. Engineered with manoeuvrability in mind,[...]
Critical Conflict (Inbunden)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781848845138 - UTGIVEN: 201107Critical Conflict is a fascinating and comprehensive account of the British fight to secure the most pivotal waterway of the Second World War - the Mediterranean. During 1940 Churchill and the War Cabinet regarded safe passage for British ships in the Mediterranean Sea to be of paramount importance.[...]
The Battle-Cruiser HMS Renown 1916-48 (Häftad)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781848845206 - UTGIVEN: 201104This is the story of the Royal Navy battle-cruiser HMS Renown, a famous ship with a long and distinguished operational career. Originally built for the First World War she subsequently served in the post-war fleet and took royalty around the world. Modernised just in time for World War Two, she re-j[...]
Offshore Ferry Services of England and Scotland (Inbunden)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781848846654 - UTGIVEN: 2013-01This is a practical guide to the many offshore ferry services that sail from English and Scottish ports to destinations on continental Europe, Ireland and Britain's many islands. Details will include the ferries in current service, a description of the routes, car and truck capacity, destinations, o[...]
Air Combat Manoeuvres (Häftad)
avSteve Thompson, Peter C. Smith, Consultant Maj
ISBN: 9781903223987 - UTGIVEN: 200811Computer flight simulation is one of the fastest growing modern hobbies, with thousands of 'pilots' or 'simmers' going online everyday to pit their flying skills against their computers or opponents from all over the world, in many different scenarios, both current and historical. This is the defini[...]
Dive Bomber (Häftad)
avPeter C. Smith
ISBN: 9781932033748 - UTGIVEN: 2008-05Diving vertically at the target, in the same direction the bombs will take, was an incredible bombing technique developed by the British and put into action in World War II. Bombers would dive and release the bombs very close to the target at high speed, with high risk, to accurately bomb relatively[...]
Residential Child Care in Practice (Häftad)
avMark Smith, Leon C. Fulcher, Peter Doran
ISBN: 9781847423108 - UTGIVEN: 201102Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves workers and children sharing a common lifespace, in which the quality of interpersonal relationships is k[...]
