Geoffrey: 1373 books
Evacuees
Growing Up in Wartime Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In 1939, at the age of nine Geoffrey Lee Williams and his twin brother Alan felt ready for the war but were not ready for its consequences. The government had long planned the mass evacuation of children, under the code-name 'Pied Piper', but the details were kept secret from local authorities and...
Visible Thought
The New Psychology of Body Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Are you saying one thing whilst your hands reveal another?
Are you influenced by other people's body language without even knowing it?
Darting through examples found anywhere from the controlled psychology laboratory to modern advertising and the Big Brother TV phenomenon, official Big...
by Geoffrey Partington
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
This is the autobiography of a working class boy in a cotton-spinning town in Lancashire who became a teacher, headmaster, schools inspector and university lecturer in England, and Australia. He also carried out commissions to enquire into teacher education and social studies curricula in England...
Canterbury-Erzählungen
Canterbury Tales
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury-Erzählungen. Canterbury Tales Erstdruck: London (William Caxton) ca. 1478 (n.d.). Canterbury Tales. Hier nach der Übersetzung von Adolf von Düring, Straßburg: Karl J. Crübner, 1886. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin...
by Geoffrey Perret
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2000
This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.
Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings...
No More Laughing at the Deaf Boy
A Technological Adventure between Silicon Valley and the Alps
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Hearing loss affects countless millions of people, yet few sufferers even seek help, let alone try to find a cure. This is the story of a man who took on that daunting task and ultimately invented the world's most successful middle ear implant. Geoffrey Ball's adventure in technology began in the legendary...
Cruzando el abismo
Cómo vender productos disruptivos a consumidores generalistas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2015
En Cruzando el abismo, Geoffrey A. Moore describe lo que denomina el Ciclo Vital de Adopción de Tecnología, cuya idea principal es que no todos los consumidores son iguales. Hay entusiastas de la tecnología o visionarios que adoptan los productos nuevos muy rápidamente, a pesar de estar inmaduros....
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer edited by Reverend Walter W. Skeat. This book includes the complete Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English with extensive notes, published by Oxford University in 1900. According to Wikipedia: "Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 1400?) was an...
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter...
by Geoffrey Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
"Punchy dialogue and compact sentences should make this a read-aloud delight."—Publishers Weekly
"Part-slapstick, part-fairy tale, the gently humorous plot has enough twists and turns to keep newly independent readers engaged."—School Library Journal
Fred the...
Scale
The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the...
by Geoffrey Hudson-Searle
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Geoffrey’s skills and self-motivation gave him the drive, determination and tenacity to continue a journey through hardship to reach self-fulfillment and, ultimately, success. His book describes the life journey of a young man’s heart and his desire to turn his dreams and vision into a business...
Black Sun
The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Includes an afterword by the author.
Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs,...
by Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, Geoffrey Broadbent
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2003
This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions. The author discusses `picturesque' and `formal' tendencies...