Books with author Alan Collins

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSE BiologyFirst teaching: September 2016 First exams: June 2018Left your GCSE Biology revision to the last minute? Don’t panic! Revise and prepare for your exam in just one week using this effective, concise and manageable revision guide.• A revision planner that breaks all the essential topics down into a manageable 7-day programme• Concise explanations ensure topics can easily be covered in no more than 45 minutes• Summary boxes provide a final recap of the key points• Quick test questions to check recall and understanding• GCSE-style questions for GCSE Biology exam preparation

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE Maths HigherFirst teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017Need more exam practice? Letts will get you through.• Have a go at 2 complete tests• Questions just like the real thing• All the answers at the backNeed more exam practice? Letts will get you through.•Have a go at 2 complete tests•Questions just like the real thing•All the answers at the back

Your essential companion to the times spelling bee! a comprehensive guide to spelling, this is an invaluable reference source for all those preparing for the times spelling bee competition. This essential guide to spelling includes spelling rules, strategies for better spelling, hints and tips on better spelling and a wide range of word puzzles. It helps students to understand and learn the roots of english words, and how to use this knowledge to spell better. It also gives information on how to get involved with the times spelling bee competition. Written in a light-hearted and accessible style, with word games throughout, this is a fun way to improve spelling and to prepare for a spelling bee competition.

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?" Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.

My life was over! I mean really over! Here I was, a kid who’d placed second in the city tennis tourney, a top-scoring soccer player, lots of friends, loving my life in Chicago, and what happens? My parents were killed in an auto accident. And I was too young to live alone, so I get shipped off to Texas to live with my grandparents on a farm. A farm! Here I was in Hicksville with nothing to do. Boy, was I missing my parents and my life in Chicago.Nobody here understood me. There’s one girl, Satara, who’s been nice, but she just doesn’t get me either. So you wonder how I got from here to having the nickname, Touchdown Tommy? Well, why don’t you open the book and let me tell you ...

Following in the successful footsteps of our Christmas Carols Miniature Edition™ (more than 300,000 sold), this lovely little adaptation of a popular book about the origins of more than 30 of the most beloved Christmas songs, both secular and religious, promises to be a strong seller as well. “Collins is an ace at song history . . .” notes Booklist.