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Punch and Judy Politics
An Insiders' Guide to Prime Minister’s Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Prime Minister's Questions is the bear pit of British politics. Watched and admired around the world, it is often hated at home for bringing out the worst in our politicians. Yet despite successive leaders trying to get away from Punch and Judy politics, it's here to stay.
Ayesha Hazarika and...
Betting The House
The Inside Story of the 2017 Election
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
On 18th April 2017, Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election. With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn’s divided Labour Party, the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher’s day seemed certain.
Seven weeks later, Tory dreams had turned to dust. Instead...
Rails Across Canada
The History of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Few stories in the annals of railroading are as compelling as the construction, evolution, and astounding successes of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. This sprawling volume combines two of Voyageur Press' most successful Railroad Color History titles into one volume taking in...
by Tom Coote
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
This article details a short trip to Tripoli and Leptis Magna in Libya, during the first days of the Arab Spring. Libya appeared to be making its first tentative steps towards opening up to mass tourism but then everything changed.
Falklands Gunner
A Day-by-Day Personal Account of the Royal Artillery in the Falklands War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The Royal Artillery played an absolutely vital, though often forgotten, part in the British armed forces’ successful operation to recapture the Falkland Islands in 1982. The actions of the artillery were recorded by one young officer in a journal which he kept before, during and after the conflict.
Second...
by Scott Baker, Tom Philbin
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Nothing quite prepares you for what you will see on the street once you become a cop. It is one of the most dangerous jobs a person can do but also the most fun as well. --Scott BakerCops are the people who see and hear it all. They work at one of the world's most dangerous jobs, but it's also...
by Tom Blake
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
One of the hottest issues in senior dating is who pays for the date. The author dissects this sensitive topic with humor and input from his newspaper column readers by presenting the woman's and man's point of views. Then, at the end, he provides the middle ground where both men and women can agree...
by Tom Perchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays contained in this volume address some of the most visible, durable and influential of African American musical styles as they developed from the mid-1960s into the 21st-century. Soul, funk, pop, R&B and hip hop practices are explored both singly and in their many convergences, and in...
Modern School for Mallet-Keyboard Instruments (Music Instruction)
Includes Classic Morris Goldenberg Etudes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
(Percussion). Modern School for Mallet-Keyboard Instruments contains materials for the development of technique, performance skill, reading ability and musicianship on marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, bells, and chimes. Compiled by experienced teachers and performers Jim Sewrey, Ben Hans and Tom Schneller,...
See How They Run
The gripping thriller that everyone is talking about
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
How far would you go to save your family?
In the dead of night, new parents Alice and Harry French are plunged into their worst nightmare when they wake to find masked men in their bedroom. Men ruthless enough to threaten their baby daughter, Evie.
This is no burglary gone wrong.
The...
Ukulele Man's Song Book
30 Songs
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
From Pee Wee Herman to John Lennon, sacramental wine to hard-drinkin’ mamas, the Mississippi River to the Redwood trees, from marriage to marijuana, from Pirates to Jesus, from Spam and boogers to Uncle Sam, “Ukulele Man” Tom Harker’s poetic, funny, political, philosophical, and loving songs will touch you.
by Tom Graves
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Award-winning author and journalist Tom Graves in "Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers" collects the best of his long-form journalism articles and profiles as well as his in-depth interviews with a variety of curious personalities. The lead piece is "My Afternoon with Louise Brooks"...
by Tom Graves
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
White Boy is one man's unvarnished story of love, loss, race, Memphis, and a dark past. Everything is laid bare when Memphis author, journalist, and university professor Tom Graves takes a vivid and deeply introspective account of his life. Certainly no one can accuse Graves of looking back through...
Sir Walter
Walter Hagen and the Invention of Professional Golf
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his living playing the game rather than teaching it, Hagen won eleven major professional tournaments over his long career -- two U.S. Opens, four British Opens,...