Hillier: 50 books
by G. Lacy Hillier
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This early manual on bicycle construction is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A fascinating read for any cycling enthusiast or historian of the sport, it also contains much information that is still useful and practical to today's cyclist. Detailed instructions are accompanied...
Philosophy and Geography II
The Production of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence....
Childbirth in the Global Village
Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?
Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?
If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?
These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights...
Revival: An English-Chinese Dictionary of Peking Colloquial (1945)
New Edition Enlarged by Sir Trelawny Backhouse and Sidney Barton
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Many of the marks attached to the phonetic rendering of the Chinese words in this volume differ from those assigned to them in the dictionaries. These apparent discrepencies are intentional, the tones being given as they are applied, or appear to the ear of the compiler to be applied, by the natives of Peking.
by Tim Hillier-Graves
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Turbomotive was unique in Britain's railway history, and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of steam development or deflect the onset of diesel and electric locomotives. It was the brainchild of two of the most influential engineers of the twentieth...
Planning in Ten Words or Less
A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights...
by S. M. Hillier, Tony Jewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1983.
Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the...
The RAF Battle of Britain Fighter Pilots' Kitbag
Uniforms & Equipment from the Summer of 1940 and the Human Stories Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The scenes are familiar ones; the young ‘Brylcream Boys’ sat at dispersal waiting for the haunting call of ‘Scramble’, lounging in their shirt sleeves and fur-lined boots, their leather flying helmets lying limp by their side. But what did the RAF fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain really...
by Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1989
The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on the basis of a new way of describing and analysing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns. The methods are explained so that anyone interested in how...
Memory Improvement Tips
Quick Tips for Memory Improvement, Memory Improvement techniques and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Learn to trigger photographic memory and remember everything memory improvement techniques and much more memory improvement tips to start using.
by Paul Clements, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
576 pages, 170 images, 43 contributors This latest edition of Nursing Approach to Child Maltreatment is an invaluable resource to nurse and other professionals in a position to identify and report child maltreatment. Such professionals include pediatric nurses, family nurse practitioners. school nurses,...
Complexity and Planning
Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the...
Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field.
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by Tim Hillier-Graves
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as making...