Imprint imprint: 962 books
A Scientist in Wonderland
A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This is the story of the author’s life as a doctor and a scientist. Despite a youthful ambition to become a jazz musician, he studied medicine and eventually became a medical research scientist, taking up appointments in Germany, Austria and finally in England. His reverence for the pursuit of truth...
A Throne in Brussels
Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
by S.Y. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Jamison Kessler and Lee Grayson are back in book two of the "Under" Series. Set one year after Under the Midnight Cloak, their adversary is very human. Someone has a fixation on Lee that manifests itself in a series of grisly murders rapidly approaching serial status and child abductions. These crimes...
Thomas Reid
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is the foremost exponent of the Scottish 'common sense' school of philosophy. Educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Reid subsequently taught at King's College, and was a founder of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. His Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of...
by Eddie Merrins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Legendary golf instructor, PGA Hall-of-Fame member, and Bel-Air Country Club Professional Emeritus Eddie Merrins shares his knowledge of the game in this Inaugural eBook Edition of his classic book, "Swing The Handle - Not The Clubhead". Utilize his revolutionary method and time-tested techniques to...
Great Ceos Are Lazy
How Exceptional Ceos Do More in Less Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
How do the really exceptional CEOs get more done in less time than everyone else? What is their technique for getting their work done while still having the time to spend pursuing hobbies and spending quality time with their friends and family? The truth is that great and lazy CEOs know a secret when...
The 1975 Referendum on Europe - Volume 1
Reflections of the Participants
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Provides an analysis of the relationship between the UK and the EU, treating the key overarching issues in the 1975 referendum and looking ahead to the prospect (eventually) of further referendums on the subjects of EMU and a European constitution.
There is No Such Thing as a Free Press
...and we need one more than ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel...
by Dale Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Dale Bell, associate producer of the 1970 Oscar Academy Award winning documentary feature film Woodstock, adds a new introduction to the inaugural digital edition of his book on the making of the movie. Interviews with now legendary filmmakers on their incredible experience at the iconic Woodstock Festival...
by Jennie Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Parenthood, we are told, requires a massive adjustment to our lives, emotions, and relationships, and we have to be taught how to deal with that. But can it really be so bad that we need constant counselling and parenting classes? It is a myth that today's parents are hopeless and lazy: in many ways,...
Managing Britannia
Culture and Management in Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
For more than thirty years the solution to all Britain’s problems has been better management. As a result management schools dominate higher education and managers are at work everywhere developing ‘strategies’ and ‘systems’ and quantifying ‘outcomes’. There are now more managers on the...
by Steve Moxon
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Outlines the events that led to the decision that the author could no longer participate in a policy that appeared to be at odds with the intentions of Parliament. This book includes an analysis of the relevant scholarly literature in demography, economics and psychology.
Morse Code Wrens of Station X
Bletchley's Outer Circle
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Anne Glyn-Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls' boarding school with romantic ideas about joining the navy as a Wren, Anne had no idea that she would be working for the mysterious 'Station X', which we now know to be...
Get Over Yourself
Nietzsche for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Many books have sought to introduce the writings of the infamous and influential philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Get Over Yourself puts matters the other way round. Rather than simply explaining his thought, it instead asks: what would Nietzsche make of us? What would he think of our 21st-century,...