Martin Collins: 15 books
by Martin Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012
This text is primarily focused on the preservation of the existing building stock, both residential and commercial. In America, there are thousands of employees at many levels of government who are responsible for enforcing laws, codes and regulations designed to address the condition of buildings...
A Telephone for the World
Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
In June 1990, Motorola publicly announced an ambitious business venture called Iridium. The project’s signature feature was a constellation of 77 satellites in low-Earth orbit which served as the equivalent of cellular towers, connecting to mobile customers below using wireless hand-held phones....
The Teesdale Way
From Dufton to the North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
A guidebook to The Teesdale Way which follows the River Tees for exactly 100 miles from its source near Dufton to its outlet at Middlesbrough on the north-east coast. The Way is divided into eight stages of moderate walking and takes about a fortnight to complete. The route leads through varied country...
by Martin Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The British School of Osteopathy is the oldest and largest teaching institution of osteopathy in the UK. To mark the one hundred years of its history, the book traces its chequered history and the characters involved from when it was simply providing vocational training and awarding its own diploma...
Very Merry Christmas Bundle
20 Tales of Christmas Cheer
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Christmas: a time of family, friends, joy, merriment, and gifts. Especially gifts!
Unwrap these 20 Christmas tales and find a wealth of Christmas delights. From action to urban fantasy, science fiction to women's fiction, crime to romance, bitter-sweetness to silly fun, you will...
The Shape of Actions
What Humans and Machines Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1999
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions.The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic...
The Tigers of Bastogne
Voices of the 10th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
The gallant stand of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne has long become part of historical and media legend. But how many students of the war realize there was already a U.S. unit holding the town when they arrived? And this unit—the 10th Armored Division—continued to play a major role in...
by Michael S. Collins, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major—but understudied—American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931–1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well as a drug addiction that led to an eight-year prison sentence, to publish five volumes of poetry...
Pollution
Causes, Effects and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both the developed and developing worlds.
The...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Voices of the Bulge
Untold Stories from Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
The powerful German counteroffensive operation code-named “Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine) launched in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought from December...
Lost Voices
The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and their Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
2017 is the 100th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America’s involvement but it cannot be underestimated by any means. It was the reason that brought Germany to it is knees and forced them to accept an armistice that...
The Fighting 30th Division
They Called Them Roosevelt's SS
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2015
In World War I the 30th Infantry Division earned more Medals of Honor than any other American division. In World War II it spent more consecutive days in combat than almost any other outfit. Recruited mainly from the Carolinas and Georgia and Tennessee, they were one of the hardest-fighting units...
by Paul Collins, MB, BCh
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Covering all aspects of the syllabus, Crash Course offers you a fast way to recap on all you need to know to get through the exams with ease! Styled in an easy-to-follow, readily accessible format, each book has been prepared by senior medical students or junior doctors - under faculty supervision...
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