Geraint Ellis: 5 books

World renowned jazz trombonist Jack Threlfall helps his younger colleague (who narrates) kick the drug habit in 60’s Paris, and in so doing is responsible for producing the happiness high-peak of the younger man’s life; his marriage to Stella.We fast-forward about 30 years. The two musicians meet...

If you are a musician, a non-musician, a jazz-fan, a social historian or a researcher of American music, then this book will prove invaluable to you, for it contains a series of entertaining face-to-face discussions between the author and leading performers of the day, from: Jimmy McPartland – who...

Eight humorous stories, many of which deal with the confusions that arise when we become over-concerned about our image – when we care too much what others will think of us. But in our over-eagerness to create that ‘hip-cool-nobody’s-fool’ image and thereby gain the admiration of our peers, we can, all too easily, become the sport of all our passing ideas …

Back Cover: Sixteen and a half year old Annie has attempted suicide. We need to know why. But we also need to know why the therapist is taking such an apparently unhealthy interest in her. Annie’s mother, Kim, is a dizzy, New-Age-Butterfly-Brained person who has little perception of the real world....

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.