Knight: 2012 books
Education Forward
Moving Schools into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Too often, we think of school as a fixed-rail path we all have to follow: teachers teach, students learn, exams are taken, futures set. That's how it's been since the introduction of compulsory schooling in the 19th century.
But parents, teachers and corporations around the world are now voicing...
by Phil Sparrowhawk, Martin King, Martin Knight
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Grass is the incredible story of Phil Sparrowhawk, a working-class boy with gambling in his blood. Like most punters, he enjoyed an incredible run of luck, but finally rolled the dice once too often.
Before he had come of age, Phil had accumulated a small fortune from street trading. He then...
Under the Same Sky
From Iran to Australia, an unforgettable story of seeking refuge, being torn apart by government detention and freed by love
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
After fleeing their homeland, Australian refugee policies threaten to tear this young couple apart. An unforgettable story of love, hope and a quest for freedom.
At seventeen, all Mojgan Shamsalipoor wanted was to be safe from physical and sexual abuse, go to school, and to eventually marry...
Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937
Writings on Philosophy, 1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
New and annotated translations of philosophical essays written by Mao Zedong in 1937, which have come to be regarded as a cornerstone in the development of Chinese Marxism. The editor analyzes their textual, philosophical and historical significance.
by Eric Knight, Ann M. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland—too far a journey for any dog to make alone.
But...
The Making of Major League
A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With a foreword by Charlie Sheen. A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever. If you love watching Major League, you’ll be fascinated by this inside story. Based on interviews with all major cast members plus crew and producers, it tells how writer/director...
Strangled
Identity, Status, Structure and The Stranglers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow "outside" the realm of...
The Hiram Key Revisited
Freemasonry: A Plan for a New World-Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPELLING BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT THE SECRET SOCIETY THAT SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD. Freemasonry, with its arcane rituals, occult symbols, and labyrinthine hierarchy, has mystifi ed the outside world for centuries. But it has become apparent that even the most senior Freemasons...
by Jill Knight
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005
Made up entirely of volunteer civil servants and their friends and despite the Government's reluctance to release them, the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles fought with distinction at Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai, Salonika and Palestine. As casualties mounted, the Rifles' spirit and...
by Ken Hada, Ryan Weldon, Daniel Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources as varied as Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dalí, Washington Irving, and Dr. Seuss, Burton's creations frequently...
by Anouska Knight
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
How do you learn to love again?
In one tragic moment, Holly Jefferson's life as she knew it changed forever. Now-to the external world, at least-she's finally getting back on her feet, running her bakery, Cake. But inside, she's still going through the motions befitting a twenty-seven-year-old...
On The Cobbles
Jimmy Stockin: The Life Of A Bare Knuckled Gypsy Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Everyone is familiar with the gypsy race but few outside their close-knit and ancient community really know what being a gypsy is about -how they live and how they think. This is the story of a gypsy man, Jimmy Stockin, born into a world where fighting is first nature. Whilst football maybe the chosen...
The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
Sixteen Rivers Press, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...