Rob: 2367 books
by Rob Kirkup
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Gateshead has often been portrayed as the ‘poor relative’ in comparison to its larger and more glamorous Tyneside neighbour, Newcastle. But Gateshead has a long and proud industrial and social history, much of which has sadly gone, but in recent years there has been a revival in Gateshead’s...
by Rob Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In a collection of essays that are often personal, occasionally journalistic, and, now and again, meditative, Rob Campbell takes a look at the world from a different perspective - through the reflective lens of the automobile in our car-obsessed culture. From the Los Angeles he knows, where people...
by Rob J. Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Red O’Ryan spends most of his days like many high school juniors—dealing with the demands of class, thinking about girls, and trying to measure up to his older brother. Cerebral palsy is just part of his life, and he doesn’t think the experimental treatments he’s receiving for the disability...
by Rob Lewis, Ryan Young
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 1998
Rhode Islanders were once able to enjoy amusement parks without traveling far; the state was home to several ocean front parks as early as the mid-18th century, with some of them surviving into the late 19th century. Photographers Rob Lewis and Ryan Young have embarked on a journey to discover the...
by Rob Gore
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Finding Rest is a collection of 31 short stories of individuals from the bible who were greatly impacted by the grace of Jesus Christ.Told from the point of view of the person receiving God's grace, hear from Joseph, Mary, Peter, John, Matthew, Zacchaeus, the woman at the well, the leper,...
Takeover
Explaining the Extraordinary Rise of the SNP
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Even before soaring to the apparently impossible challenge of an outright majority at Holyrood in 2011, the Scottish National Party had long dominated the political narrative in Scotland. With the independence referendum in 2014 and their near clean sweep in the general election the following year,...
Victory Lap Retirement, Second Edition
Work While You Play, Play While You Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
The key to a happy retirement may be . . . not retiring. Work because you want to, not because you have to, to achieve balance, health, and purpose in your life after full-time employment.
The rules of retirement have changed and there’s more at risk than ever. People are living longer and...
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals,...
Political Corruption in Bridgeport
Scandal in the Park City
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
First incorporated in 1836, Bridgeport is notorious for a raucous political history that includes both liberating accomplishments and salacious scandals. From a state senator who spent several years in prison for racketeering to a mayor who was caught taking drugs while in office, Bridgeport has had...
Crafted in Britain
The Survival of Britain's Traditional Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still...
Britain's Living Past
A Celebration of Britain's Surviving Traditional Cultural and Working Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes and working practices, some centuries old, that survive...
Unsettling the West
Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively...
by Rob O'Malley
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
by Lorraine and Rob McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Finally, theres a step-by-step action blueprint for preparing your business for sale! Authors Lorraine and Rob McGregor penned Fast Track Secrets for Making Your Business Saleable to aid entrepreneurs in realizing their dreams of selling their businesses for a profit. This accompanying PlayBook guides...