Growing Out of It: Machinations Before Madness (Snowball Ian)(Paperback)

Growing Out of It: Machinations Before Madness (Snowball Ian)(Paperback)

Whether flying across a screen or lighting up the stage, Madness' wild, energetic sax player has always been hard to miss. For Lee 'Kix' Thompson, life is about having fun--even when times are tough. Growing Out Of It is the tale of one 'nutty boy' not really growing out of it at all. From getting

Before We Was We: Madness by Madness (Barson Mike)(Paperback)

New Foreword by Irvine Welsh. In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's basement to the Top of the Pops studio. In their own words they each look back on

Growing - Seven Years in Ceylon (Woolf Leonard)(Paperback / softback)

Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard

Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services (Black Ian)(Paperback)

One of the events most crucial to the war in the Persian Gulf occurred nearly ten years before it began, when Israel destroyed Iraq's most advanced weapon, the nuclear reactor at Al-Tuweitha, acting on information obtained by Israeli intelligence. Israel's Secret Wars is the first documented,

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life (Firstenberg Arthur)(Paperback)

5g is being rolled out across the country, despite growing evidence that it is disruptive to our health, our safety, and the environment. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electricity as it's never been told before--exposing its very real impact on the biosphere and human health

Reading Planet - Out of the Pond - Blue: Rocket Phonics (Macdonald Ian)(Paperback / softback)

The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia (Dimatteo Frank)(Paperback)

'When Mom got out of jail, it was great having her home.' Mondo the Dwarf. Frankie Shots. Joseph 'Little Lolly Pop' Carna. Larry 'Big Lolly Pop' Carna. Salvatore 'Sally Boy' Marinelli. Johnny Tarzan. Louie Pizza. Sally D, Bobby B, Roy Roy, and Punchy. They were THE PRESIDENT STREET BOYS of

Don't Stop Me Now (Clarkson Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Takes time out to consider: the madness of Galapagos tortoises; the similarities between Jeremy Paxman and AC/DC's bass guitarist; the problems and perils of being English God's dumbest creation; then there are the cars: whether it's the poxiest little runabout or an exotic, firebreathing supercar,

Behind the Mask (Dene Glenn)(Paperback)

'It felt like the videos you see of what happens just before a tsunami hits; when the tide goes out, the sea disappears and everything goes eerily quiet. The public were on lockdown and although we'd had a trickle of patients enter the hospital, with elective operating ceased and most people

Cockroach (McEwan Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwanThat morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or

Growing Season (Lageschulte Melanie)(Paperback)

She had everything figured out. But life had other plans.Melinda Foster had it all - well, almost. A charming vintage apartment in Minneapolis, a rewarding career at one of the city's top marketing firms, supportive friends and a flush bank account. So what if she was nearly forty and single? Or

Sealink British Ferries (Collard Ian)(Paperback)

Sealink's antecedents go back to the packet boats of the days before steam. The invention of the steam engine greatly assisted the development of the railways and led to the growth of the packet boats. The private railway companies recognised the need for an integrated transport system which

Winner Effect - The Science of Success and How to Use It (Robertson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Sort It Out! (Mariconda Barbara)(Paperback)

Packy the Packrat's mother has had enough It's time that he sorts through his ever-growing collection of trinkets and puts them away. Told in rhyme, the text leads the reader to participate in the sorting process by categorizing Packy's piles of things according to like characteristics and

Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds (MacKay Charles)(Paperback)

More than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase 'irrational exuberance' to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of 'tulipomania,' a speculative madness surrounding the value of tulips in the 18th century that was the ruin

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness (Schiller Lori)(Paperback)

Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her

You'll Grow Out of It (Klein Jessi)(Paperback / softback)

What it takes to be a 21st century

Places of Pilgrimage (Massie Scott)(Paperback)

Places of Pilgrimage is a record of the travels of artist Ian Scott Massie, as he seeks out the spirit of place of over 75 locations around Britain. In words and paintings, he explores the personality of these sites explaining, for example, what he feels on the spot where Saint Cuthbert's coffin

Triumph in Dust (Ross Ian)(Paperback / softback)

In the final instalment of the Twilight of Empire series, Aurelius Castus is ordered out of retirement to confront the King of Persia's challenge to Rome's authority in the

Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective (Phoenix Karen)(Paperback)

Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of historians at Washington State University who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be better at facing current and future challenges,

Tarr (Lewis Wyndham)(Paperback)

Played out against the backdrop of Paris before the start of the First World War, Tarr tells the blackly comic story of the lives and loves of two artists--the English enfant terrible Frederick Tarr, and the middle-aged German Otto Kreisler, a failed painter who finds himself in a widening spiral

The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food (Solomon Steve)(Paperback)

'It is bold, it is courageous, and it challenges many of our preconceptions about food, about soils, about farming, and about health.' --Michael Ableman, farmer, author of Farm the City To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality, the essential minerals lacking in our soil from intensive

Ways of Seeing (Berger John)(Paperback / softback)

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book

The Early Foucault (Elden Stuart)(Paperback)

It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing cultural programmes and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw and Hamburg. Although he published little in this