Dominic: 570 books

The aims of this book are to enhance the knowledge of a user who has some basic knowledge of drainage systems and to give a working knowledge of solving problems in domestic and small commercial drainage systems. It focuses mainly on below ground domestic drainage and assumes some knowledge of building...

When author Dominic Charles Okero was growing up in Kenya, he had heard the United States was a land of opportunities. In Quest of the American Dream, Okero shares the excitement, joys, anxieties, disappointments, challenges, and hopes he experienced as he navigated a country and culture different...

From two leading instructors in business and Buddhism comes a fresh approach to making peace with your finances and creating true abundance. It may seem contradictory that Buddhist teachers Kulananda and Dominic Houlder have also been highly successful in the business arena, but they have learned...

Do you have enormous difficulty with your clothing? My shoes and I are constantly at odds because they regularly kidnap my socks. In my house, all kinds of conspiracies abound. Does your cat think you’re stupid? If so, you should be concerned, and this book will tell you why. My cat insults me every...

MAXIMIZE PROFITS... NEVER SAY NO... FOCUS ON YOUR CORE PRODUCT... There are plenty of myths and empty phrases commonplace in the business world. This book attacks and reformulates ten of the most common myths about how to build and run a business. This short book is laid out as a guidebook with illustrative...

In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials...

Second Place, Liturgy category Catholic Press Association book awards, 2012 “This little book is a gem!” **From Sunday Mass to Monday mayhem: Can the central act of Catholic worship transform our daily lives? ** In the United States, only 25% of self-proclaimed Catholics attend...

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy in...

How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have? An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which...

Broadway Rhythm is a guide to Manhattan like nothing you've ever read. Author Dominic Symonds calls it a performance cartography, and argues that the city of New York maps its iconicity in the music of the Broadway songbook. A series of walking tours takes the reader through the landscape of Manhattan,...

DS Eddie Kane is a reckless individual, under investigation by the force and in debt to local mobster, Vincent Mullis. When a killer starts targeting prostitutes in north London, Mullis is keen for Eddie to find the killer, but why? The rogue detective’s investigations lead him into the murky London underworld of pornography, murder and revenge in this gripping, action-packed crime drama.

The Golden Lands, one of the three worlds of Terra, is supposed to be a place of peace, light, and happiness. But the Golden Lands hasn't exactly been such a place for John Hedekira, a jaded, hot-headed teenager.John, Faith, and Bernard have come farther than they ever thought possible. They’ve...

I was told that my regular GP was away on leave somewhere in South America and I would be seen instead by a locum; a Dr Lightfoot, was that ok? Even if it wasn't I didn't see what I could do about it so I concurred. In reality I was concerned that a stranger was about to poke around my body in a perfunctorily...

In confronting their tumultuous time, antebellum American writers often invoked unrevealable secrets. Five of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most inventive interlocutors - Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass and Jacobs - produced their most riveting political thought in response to Emerson's idea that...