Ian: 5018 books
The Little Magazines
A Study of Six Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
'There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers. But all 'little magazines' have been small in one or another of these ways, and usually in both... And yet most of them have had arrestingly large-scale ambitions...'...
by Ian Peel
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Internationally acclaimed, knighted and immortalised in music's pantheon, Paul McCartney nevertheless remains one of the least fully appreciated of modern icons.
Throughout his career, McCartney has initiated and participated in projects that have taken him very far away from the kind of music...
Midway
Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with...
Robert Lowell
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third book, he found the intense, highly personal voice that made him the foremost American poet of his generation....
Inventing Japan
1853-1964
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his...
by Ian Fineman
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Chelsea Handler and Amy Schumer are two of comedy's funniest females and unprecedented trailblazers in the male dominated world of standup comedy.Now, their laughs, lives, and legends are shared together for the first time ever."Amy Schumer and Chelsea Handler: Laughing Past Limits"...
A Glasgow Mosaic
Cultural Icons of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
With this book is completed a trilogy of works begun in 2005 with This City Now: Glasgow and its Working Class Past, and continuing with Clydeside; Red Orange and Green in 2009. The three books have all had similar aims in trying to raise the profile of forgotten or neglected areas and aspects of...
Financial Times Guide to Business Development
How to Win Profitable Customers and Clients
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
“The Financial Times Guide to Business Development is inspirational. It is easy to read, hard to put down and there are absolute gems on every page. Read it and get fired up.”
Jonathan Straight, Chief Executive of Straight plc, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
“Ian’s...
Green Leader
Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response To The Viscount Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small children, survived the crash only for most of them...
by ian cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
As the 40th anniversary approaches new information about the infamous Birmingham Pub Bombings has come to light.
Ian Cassidy’s latest novel Until You Get Caught contains sensational new material about the notorious events of 21st November 1974.
Daisy the innocent heroine of Ian Cassidy’s...
by Ian Hutson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
NGLND XPX (or “England Expects”) is a wonky-wheeled pudding-trolley of sweetmeats and savoury treats for your brain-gland. We recommend a spoonful of everything. It’s all dreadfully civilised fun, and not at all serious. The science is improbable, the history inaccurate, the plots farcical and...
Strategy that Works
A practical guide for executives and managers that gets results
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In Strategy that Works, Ian Mann discusses – and debunks – a number of popular theories of strategy before presenting his unique approach based on many profound insights that have never before been gathered together in one place to form a coherent theory and method. He explains the difference...
The Fat Tail
The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
As Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat reveal in this innovative book, volatile political events such as the 2008 Georgia-Russia confrontation--and their catastrophic effects on business--happen much more frequently than investors imagine. On the curve that charts both the frequency of these events and the...
Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers,...