Howse: 38 books

This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain. The bestselling author Christopher Howse makes ten great railway journeys that explore the interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets,...

The author of The A-Z of London Murders takes readers behind the bars of the city’s numerous jails and tells the tales of their most infamous inmates.   London has had more prisons than any other British city. The City’s “gates” once contained prisons but probably the most notorious of all...

London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side. Geoffrey Howse has uncovered an astonishing catalogue of sinister deeds, some of them famous but others long forgotten. Read about spying, treason, embezzlement, regicide, robbery, forgery, religious...

Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality. In Murder & Mayhem in Sheffield he takes a look at some of the events that took place during a period of enormous growth within Sheffield; including a failed plot to murder...

The author of The A-Z of London Murders delves into the long and storied past of South Yorkshire to reveal infamous crimes and killings.   Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister side of South Yorkshire’s history in this diverse collection of true crime tales—from Victorian to modern...

The Moral Qualities Revealed in Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest Eight masterpieces of the theater are explored in light of the universal moral problems they dramatize. Dr. Howse finds that while each play indicates moral responsibility...

Get savvy with OpenCV and actualize cool computer vision applications About This Book Use OpenCV's Python bindings to capture video, manipulate images, and track objects Learn about the different functions of OpenCV and their actual implementations. Develop a series of intermediate to advanced...

Geoffrey Howse is well known for his books on Yorkshire subjects, including six books in the Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths series, two of which cover Barnsley and District and a third which covers South Yorkshire as a whole. In Barnsley in the Great War, he has pulled out the stops and delved...

In his second book in the Foul Deeds series relating to Barnsley and its neighborhood, Geoffrey Howse continues to uncover aspects of the areas' darker and more sinister past. Many districts not covered in the first volume are included here. Read about the shooting of Lord Wharncliffe's head...

Geoffrey Howse delves into the his crime files covering 200 years of the area's darkest past. Events covered include long forgotten cases that made the headlines in their day as well as others more famous: Britain's first railway murder, the first criminal to be caught via wireless telegraphy and...

Christopher Howse has spent more than two decades exploring Spain. For him, its centuries-old cathedrals, monasteries and shrines demand pilgrimage more than tourism. In a journey across the Castilian interior he follows in the footsteps of El Cid and St Dominic, examines St Teresa's arm, samples...

She scattered away, wondering why she was feeling so threatened tonight, and why every nerve in her body was on edge. She was never afraid to walk in the dark before, past this creepy hall, but why tonight…it felt as if unseen eyes were following her, the feeling of fear was a force so strong she...

  Drawing on a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources, respected authors Trebilcock and Howse here provide a critical analysis of the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules. In light of the growing debate over globalization, they include special...

Leo Strauss is known to many people as a thinker of the right, who inspired hawkish views on national security and perhaps advocated war without limits. Moving beyond gossip and innuendo about Strauss's followers and the Bush administration, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Strauss's...