Birch: 361 books
Call the Vet
Farmers, Dramas and Disasters – My First Year as a Country Vet
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
When fresh-faced, newly qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village of Ebbourne, little does she know that this tiny rural community is about to change her life …
Straight in at the deep end, Anna faces two tricky calvings, an emergency call-out to a frightened mare,...
Ethics and Integrity in British Politics
How Citizens Judge their Politicians' Conduct and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first general account of popular understandings of political ethics in contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how citizens understand political ethics...
Supreme Sacrifice
A Small Village and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable - except in the important respect that they, like...
by Ann Birch
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The untold story of scandal and political intrigue in early Toronto. Anna Jameson arrives in the tiny settlement of Toronto in November, 1836. She has come at the request of her estranged husband, but she intends to gather material for a new book, which will eventually be published in England years...
by Kevin Birch
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Well, I'm sure Will was not referring to insomnia when he penned those famous lines from Hamlet. But it's also a sure bet that at some point he, too, suffered from this common contemporary malady.
Millions of people suffer from the inability to get a good nights sleep. Sleep can be likened...
by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Porges Watson, Dinah Birch
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and...
by David Birch
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A collection of wise words from one of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders.
“A bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”
“Money has to serve, not to rule.”
“True joy comes from a profound harmony between persons.”
“The person who is most high among us must be...
A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book has become a standard text in seminary and university classrooms. The purpose of this second edition is to help readers come to a critically informed understanding of the Old Testament as the church's scripture. This book introduces the Old Testament both as a witness of ancient Israel...
by Authors: Hans A. Baer, Sherry Baker, Brian D. Birch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In The Little Book of Mormon, eleven experts explain the history, beliefs, and rituals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which originated in the United States in the 1840s and has since faded in and out of public consciousnessand public controversy. Now, as a Mormon politician attempts...
The Creative Writer's Workshop, 5th Edition
A Sourcebook for Releasing Your Creativity and Finding Your True Writer's Voice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book aims to get you writing and keep you writing - and help you enjoy your writing to the full. It will show you how to free your own unique voice and create original, individual work. It is packed with exercises, visualisation techniques, flow charts, dream-work and word webs that will enable...
by David Birch
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book argues that identity and money are both changing profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends are converging so that all that we need for transacting will be our identities captured in the unique record of our online social contacts. Social networks and mobile phones are the...
We Have Never Been Neoliberal
A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the 'Atlantic Heartland'. However, if we look at the history of the 'Heartland' economies then it becomes evident that they were never neoliberal in the first...
How to Start a Pension Consultancy Service Business (Beginners Guide)
How to Start a Pension Consultancy Service Business (Beginners Guide)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This publication will teach you the basics of how to start a Pension Consultancy Service Business. With step by step guides and instructions, you will not only have a better understanding, but gain valuable knowledge of how to start a Pension Consultancy Service Business
Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences
Beyond clusters
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy. This sector is frequently presented as a major opportunity for policy-makers to upgrade and renew regional economies, leading...