Gavin: 705 books
Street Culture
50 Years of Subculture Style
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Street Culture explores the family tree of youth movements, examining the lines that tie Beatniks to Bikers, Punks to Emos, Goths to Metal Heads. Illustrated throughout, the book presents a sumptuous visual history of youth culture, and the style, behaviour and values of the groups who have defined it.
by Revd Gavin Tyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The Hip-Hop Gospel of Luke is a rhyming version of Luke’s gospel that can be rapped, performed or read in the head. It’s a great way to communicate the Bible in a new and engaging way. The Hip-Hop Gospel of Luke is ideal if you’re reading the Bible as part of your own daily devotion, or if you’re...
Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation
Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is an urgent need to address this urban crisis. Recently, innovative approaches have focused on the role...
by Rick Gavin
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Repo man Nick Reid had a seemingly simple job to do: talk to Percy Dwayne Dubois— pronounced "Dew-boys," front-loaded and hick specific—about the payments he's behind on for a flat screen TV, or repossess it. But Percy Dwayne wouldn't give in. Nope, instead he saw fit to go all white-trash...
The evolving role of national parliaments in the European Union
Ireland as a case study
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book examines the gradually increasing role of national parliaments in the European Union and asks how and why this came about. It takes Ireland as a case study, examining the relationship between Ireland’s parliament (the Oireachtas) and the European Union. It also focuses sharply on parliament’s...
The Age of Olympus
Duncan Forrester Mystery 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Duncan Forrester's research on an Aegean island is interrupted first by the murder of a British archaeologist, and then by the outbreak of the Greek Civil War. The worship of ancient gods may provide a clue to the murderer, but in such a tumultuous time, little is what it seems.
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Roman
Language: German
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Das Leben hat seine Höhen und Tiefen. Die Kunst ist es, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden.
Alles begann, wie es manchmal eben so ist, mit einem toten Mann. Er war ein Nachbar – niemand, den Abby gut kannte, dennoch: Einen Verstorbenen zu finden, wenn man sich nur gerade eine Dose Tomaten...
The Japanese '68
Theory, Politics, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2021
Japan: The "other," lesser-known 1968
The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan: it is also the pivotal year for a new anti-colonial and anti-capitalist...
Transatlantic defiance
The militant Irish republican movement in America, 1923–45
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Examines the militant Irish republican movement in the United States from the final months of the Irish Civil War through to the Second World War
Fighting Irish
The Irish Regiments in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Fighting Irish is a meticulous and engaging account of the First World War from the perspective of the men of the Irish Regiments of the British Army, revealing the extent of the Irish military commitment to the Great War effort from 1914-1918. Startling and sympathetic matters, from campaign strategy...
by Gavin Reid
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Le ricerche sulla dislessia sono in continuo aggiornamento, così come le normative e gli strumenti che si prefiggono di rendere il riconoscimento più tempestivo e il trattamento più efficace. Nonostante in questo senso si siano compiuti innegabili progressi, l’effettiva qualità della vita dei dislessici,...
TWO TO BE REMEMBERED
A Couple's Life and Survival in the Dutch East Indies
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
The Netherlands colonized and governed the Dutch East Indies for more than three hundred years. The motherland’s sovereignty over this Indonesian archipelago was abruptly and horrifically turned upside down when the Japanese invaded the islands in World War II. The Dutch-Indonesian...
Modern Biocatalysis
Advances Towards Synthetic Biological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The synergy between synthetic biology and biocatalysis is emerging as an important trend for future sustainable processes. This book reviews all modern and novel techniques successfully implemented in biocatalysis, in an effort to provide better performing enzymatic systems and novel biosynthetic...
by Gavin Deas
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This groundbreaking collaboration between two Gollancz authors tells of the invasion of Earth by two different alien races - at the same time. Two men become aware of the threat, and must work to sabotage the invasion plans and see off the aliens.
Each book follows one hero, uncovering the...