Geoffrey: 1373 books
Cause of Death
Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Dr Geoffrey Garrett was for over 30 years a Home Office pathologist. This is his personal memoir, in conjunction with crime journalist Andrew Nott, of many infamous, unusual and heartbreaking cases and a fascinating history of his professional life, giving a unique insight into a pathologist's work.
Beginning...
Just One More Day
A Dog Lovers Guide to Quality of Life and Healing from Pet Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
If you, or someone you know, have ever had to put a beloved pet to sleep, then you will know the pain and guilt surrounding this most difficult decision. Are we playing God, or are we fulfilling a beautiful and compassionate act of Love? As a pet lover, one of the toughest decisions you may face will...
by Geoffrey Mandragora
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
What you will be working on is underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English.”1887The British Empire is in danger of collapse and teeters on the brink of war with the Kaiser Reich. Spies and saboteurs play at deadly games in the British shipyards as each side seeks naval superiority.Ian...
Scars of the Spirit
The Struggle Against Inauthenticity
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In this fascinating collection of essays, noted cultural critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total and...
The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion
Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
What should literature with political aims look like? This book traces two rival responses to this question, one prizing clarity and the other confusion, which have dominated political aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Revisiting recurrences of the avant-garde experimentalism versus critical...
by Geoffrey Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
There is no excuse needed for basing this biography of Sir Henry Rider Haggard on the personal account of his literary life given in his own words in his autobiography, The Days of My Life. There can be no truer biography than that given by the first hand witness, the author himself. Of course,...
Murder on Long Island
A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Tragedy & Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A meticulously researched account of one of the North Fork’s most infamous crimes: the Wickham Axe Murders of 1854.
In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a mansion and eighty acres of...
Jack
A Life Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Previous biographies of John F. Kennedy have been based almost entirely on newspaper files and personal recollections. Geoffrey Perret's Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive and important documentary record that has...
When Principles Pay
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are now bankrupt, and Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success by positioning...
Enchanted Evenings
The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West...
by Geoffrey Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The Aspects series takes the reader on a voyage of nostalgic discovery through their town, city or area. This best selling series has now arrived, for the first time, in Chesterfield. Geoffrey Sadler offers the reader a chance to become re-acquainted with the forgotten by-ways of the social history...
by Geoffrey Alderman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable renaissance in the academic study of the history of the Jews in Great Britain and of their impact upon British history. In this volume Professor Geoffrey Alderman presents essays that reflect the richness of this renaissance, penned by a new generation...
by Geoffrey Howse
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
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...
Delivering Dreams
A Century of British Film Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews with leading British distributors of today, Delivering Dreams tells the, largely unacknowledged,...