Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: chris baker

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  • CULTS
    STEPHANIE ALICE BAKER / EUGENE MCLAUGHLIN / CHRIS ROJEK
    This engaging text introduces readers to the sociology of cults. Covering the history and current state of cult studies, this book includes topics ranging from doomsday cults and new religious movements through to self-help cults, the cult of celebrity, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs. Case studies as varied as David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, the Manson family, and the ...

    $640.00

  • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BATTLESHIP
    CHRIS BAKER
    In the hundreds of books written about battleships, the authors tend to draw down the curtain on the careers of these great vessels in September 1945, with the surrender of Japan. Yet, on that day some ninety-eight battleships or ex-battleships might be spotted around the world, and eleven of them were in or around Tokyo Bay for the surrender itself. What happened to all those ...

    $473.24

  • GETTING THE BEST OUT OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN YOUR SCHOOL
    CHRIS BAKER / KATE EVERALL / FRANKLIN HARTLE
    Tried-and-tested by specialist educational consultants Hay Management Consultants, this volume will help head teachers and subject leaders make the most out of performance management in their schools. The government's insistence that each school in England (whether primary or secondary) implements a performance management system has lead schools to see this imposition as yet an...

    $520.00

  • CONFIDENT LEADERS BY DESIGN
    CHRIS BAKER
    Do you feel confident at work? Are there times when you lack confidence but can’t show it? The role of confidence in successful leadership is both significant and undisputed and yet organisations are full of leaders and teams who don’t have as much as they want and, even worse, are not doing anything about it. Attempts to develop confidence are usually confined to empty affirma...

    $860.00

  • THE BATTLE OF THE LYS, 1918
    CHRIS BAKER
    The second of two Battelground Europe titles covering this highly significant battle of spring 1918.The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaisers men. Following close on the heels of the devastating Operation Michael attack in March, which had been aimed against the Briti...

    $179.00

  • PHOTOGRAPHING THE DEEP SKY
    CHRIS BAKER
    Spectacular nebulae where stars are born, beautiful star clusters from the early formation of the Milky Way, and galaxies as far as a billion light years away, all feature in this book of stunning images from astrophotographer Chris Baker.The author takes the reader on a journey through time and space to the Deep Sky, far beyond our Solar System. It is a pictorial description o...

    $119.00

  • THE BATTLE OF THE LYS, 1918: SOUTH
    CHRIS BAKER
    The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaisers men. Following closely on the heels of the devastating Operation Michael attack in March on the Somme and around Arras, named as Operation Georgette, the offensive was aimed at strangling the vital railways and roads that supp...

    $119.00

  • THE BATTLE OF THE LYS, 1918: SOUTH
    CHRIS BAKER
    The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaisers men. Following closely on the heels of the devastating Operation Michael attack in March on the Somme and around Arras, named as Operation Georgette, the offensive was aimed at strangling the vital railways and roads that supp...

    $119.00

  • PHOTOGRAPHING THE DEEP SKY
    CHRIS BAKER
    Spectacular nebulae where stars are born, beautiful star clusters from the early formation of the Milky Way, and galaxies as far as a billion light years away, all feature in this book of stunning images from astrophotographer Chris Baker.The author takes the reader on a journey through time and space to the Deep Sky, far beyond our Solar System. It is a pictorial description o...

    $119.00

  • OTHERS HAD IT WORSE
    VETRA MELROSE PADGET COVERT / CHRIS D. BAKER
    In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Writing abo...

    $313.38

  • THE BATTLE FOR FLANDERS
    CHRIS BAKER
    The Battle of the Lys, fought in April 1918, was critical for the Allies and for Germany. The outcome of the Great War hung in the balance. After the successful German offensive on the Somme, their breakthrough on the Lys threatened Ypres and the British hold on Flanders and brought them close to victory on the Western Front. The Allied line was broken it was only saved by impr...

    $164.00