Mick: 406 books

December 1985 and New Romancer’s first single had peaked at number 40. Keyboard player Jonnie Cole’s dreams of girls, money, girls, travel, girls, drugs, girls and music seemed to have stalled. But with new hit producer ‘Magic’ Dan McCloud on board, 1986 looked like being their year. Join...

Mick Cooper and John McLeod pioneer a major new framework for counselling theory, practice and research - the 'pluralistic' approach. This model breaks away from the orientation-specific way in which counselling has traditionally been taught, reflecting and responding to shifts in counselling and...

How much would you pay to experience something truly disturbing?   Tyler Sparrow isn't too happy about recent changes in the movie and television industry.  The continuing emphasis on unscripted reality entertainment is putting writers like himself out of work.  As his career enters...

Are we just the puppet of our emotions? No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending. They are what motivate our behaviour and influence our beliefs. Maverick Theatre-maker...

From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the realistic and all too recognisable world of retirement,...

In the Middle Ages monasteries were among the greatest owners of land in Britain; today their influence on the landscape can be seen not only in the magnificent monastic ruins, but also in earthworks, patterns of landholding and even industrial remains. Mick Aston examines the place of monasteries...

“Glam was about make-up, mirrors and androgyny. It was narcissistic, obsessive, decadent and subversive. It was bohemian, but also strangely futuristic. It was Oscar Wilde meets A Clockwork Orange. It was a mutant bastard offspring of glitter. But while glitter was sparkling distraction, glam was...

This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s and...

Em novembro de 1989, quando a queda do Muro de Berlim liberou os alemães orientais para devorarem os bens de consumo do mundo capitalista, os discos de música mais procurados por eles não foram os dos Beatles, de Bob Dylan, Mozart ou Beethoven. Foram os do AC/DC. Publicada à época pela revista...

Nesta biografia considerada o relato definitivo da carreira meteórica de um dos fundadores da música pesada, o lendário jornalista de rock Mick Wall reúne entrevistas realizadas com os membros do Led Zeppelin ao longo de mais de quatro décadas, uma vasta pesquisa em jornais e revistas, consultas...

Mick Powis describes the novel threat posed to the British war effort by the raids of German airships, or Zeppelins, and the struggle to develop effective defenses against them. Despite their size and relatively slow speed, the Zeppelins were hard to locate and destroy at first. They could fly higher...

Who was first to the South Pole? Does the question seem banal? Far from it. Of his own accomplishment, Roald Amundsen stated unequivocally: “we were not standing on the absolute spot”. Captain Robert Scott thought he had reached the Pole, but was misled by a Norwegian marker intended for another...

NEW 2017 Edition! Vienna is a city that embraces the celebration of Christmas, nowhere more so than in the sheer number and variety of Christmas markets to be found nestled in front of its stunning architecture and along its cobbled streets. Whether you want to enjoy a mulled wine in...

We all want to be happy, and there are plenty of people telling us how it can be achieved. The positive psychology movement, indeed, has established happiness as a scientific concept within everyone’s grasp. But is happiness really something we can actively aim for, or is it simply a by-product...