Adrian: 1834 books
The Cape Horners' Club
Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World's Most Feared Cape
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Cape Horn's fearsome reputation and the price it has extacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth's surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water...
Great Westerns Last Year
Efficiency in Adversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In 1947 the Great Western Railway (GWR) was at the lowest ebb of its entire history. Worn out by war, there had been no maintenance for 6 years and the government couldn’t supply the steel they needed for repair. The staff coped with rationing, a desperately cold winter and blazing hot summer,...
by The Editors of REA, Adrian Dingle
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by Adrian Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
In order to get the best out of people in organisations, managers need to address the fundamental principals of people management: those of motivation, ability and confidence building. This proposed book aims to bring together clarity and understanding of these three main areas in one text with anecdotes...
The Bristoe Campaign
General Lee’s Last Strategic Offensive with the Army of Northern Virginia October 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Described by John Esten Cooke, of JEB Stuart’s staff, as “one of the liveliest episodes of the late war” the Bristoe Campaign was a small and seemingly unimportant event sandwiched between the battle at Gettysburg and the Wilderness bloodbath. Bristoe receives scant attention from historians,...
by Adrian Bonenberger, Brian Castner
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A decade has passed since boots first hit the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the war has not ended—only changed. Twenty-five diverse veteran voices reflect the changing face of combat and reflect the haunting realities and truths only fiction can reveal.
These masterfully crafted stories...
Engaged Neutrality
An Evolved Approach to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The notion that neutrality is a phenomenon only relevant to the Cold War is false in many ways. The Cold War was about building blocks, neutrality about staying out of them. From 1975 until the end of the Cold War, neutral states offered mediation and good offices and fought against the stagnation...
Swiss Federalism
The Transformation of a Federal Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The political and economic crisis of EU integration has made it increasingly apparent how challenging it is to bring together different sovereign cultures, languages and regions into a single political system. Switzerland – being one of the three classic federations in the world – can provide...
by Tony Dundon, Dr. Niall Cullinane, Adrian Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
In Employment Relations the authors translate years of experience, with the help of interesting vignettes, real life examples and connections with popular culture, into a critical understanding of the topic that brings the field to life.
Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R
A User’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal...
Curling Letters of the Zulu War
There was Awful Slaughter'
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
The crushing defeat suffered by the British Army by the Zulus at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 is by any standards a gripping and shocking story. The discovery of a complete set of diaries written by a young Royal Artillery officer who was the only survivor of his unit which lost all their guns is...
Crossing the Buffalo
The Zulu War of 1879
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
A new and complete history of Zululand, and its destruction at the hands of the British in 1879.
This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa.
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Shaka Zulu...
Victoria's Scottish Lion
The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The first full-length appraisal of an incredible military career ranging from the War of 1812 to the First Opium War in China and well beyondMilitary service over an unprecedented 55 years took Field Marshal Colin Campbell from the battlefields of the Iberian peninsula to the plains of India, via...
Sister Janet
Nurse and Heroine of the Anglo-Zulu War 1879
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2006
Janet Well's achievements make for fascinating reading. She was only 18 when decorated for her nursing service to the Russians in the 1878 Balkan War. The following year she became the only nurse to serve at the Front in the Anglo Zulu War. After a period in Northern Zululand she was sent to the garrison...