Μmike: 6654 books

We all have a responsibility to continually work to improve ourselves and our communities. While some people accidentally achieve greatness and happiness, relying on chance does not make sense. We all have the capacity to proactively pursue and attain our own definitions of success and positively...

The late Mike Lee was the premier basketball handicapper between the 1970's and 2003. He was a columnist, a theorist and a bettor. He condensed his line-making theory and handicapping theories into this technical paper which has been the foundation of many players, and which was presented at a seminar to a sold-out crowd of novice players

The most momentous decade in London’s colourful history was one of huge contrasts. The war provided a heady brew of fear, bravery, stoicism, cowardice and crime, set to a background of popular music from Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn. To some, London was vibrant and exciting, but even during the war...

Mike Filey's "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper's most popular features. In Toronto Sketches Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto...

Mike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In More Toronto Sketches, the second volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns. Each column looks...

Mike Filey's collection of pictures of Toronto from the earliest days of photography had gained a reputation as one of the most interesting visual archives of the city's history. This classic look at old Toronto portrays scenes of public life from 1860 to 1950, illustrating how dramatically the urban...

This was written to open the eyes and mind of the Urban Demographic. To show a community of people, who have taken unwanted risk in life to survive, how they can use those learned skills, to now live, in poverty stricken neighborhoods, many men choose to sell drugs, to provide for their family, and...

Packed with personal anecdotes and details you won’t find anywhere else, this is the secret history of World War II. “A fast-moving overview stuffed with interesting factoids and historical tidbits . . . Casual readers will find themselves carried along, and hardened military buffs will...

Following his first three successful books, describing his long career as a military pilot, Mike Brooke completes the story with more tales of test flying during the 1980s and ’90s. During this period his career changed to see him take control of flying at Farnborough and then at Boscombe Down,...

Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation. Two of Britain's major manufactures, Saunders-Roe and Supermarine, were based in Cowes and Woolston respectively. The area has been home to flying boats of Imperial Airways and, latterly, BOAC and Aquila Airways. With...

London in the late 1980s – the era of Thatcherism and Loadsamoney – is an exciting but sometimes dangerous place to live. Fitzroy Maclean Angel gets by partly through gigging as a jazz trumpet player, partly through taking illegal fares in his de-registered black taxi cab, and partly through …...

Mike Cox knows as much about the Texas Rangers as anybody on the planet. And in this, his second book on the Rangers, he spins more great tales of these larger-than-life heroes and their sometimes almost unvelievable adventures. These are all new stories, some only told among the Rangers themselves,...

When demonic beings sever the veil between our world and the spiritual world, attempting to steal the soul of a future spiritual warrior, Scott Green, God allows Scott’s guardian angel, to step in and provide divine protection. As the only son of an unwed mother who struggles to pay the bills...

“This is a good text to accompany a core text on Public Relations. It is also very useful for marketing and business students. Valuable for post grads new to PR also.” - Robbie Smyth, Griffith College Dublin “Offers the reader a concise and very readable tour through the many facets of...