Peter Jackson: 41 books
by Peter Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
England has contributed some of the greatest players and most colourful characters to the rich history of the Lions, and never more so than in recent years. During the course of little more than a decade, a golden era for the Red Rose yielded four Grand Slams en route to the thrilling climax of the...
Sacrifice, Captivity and Escape
The Remarkable Memoirs of a Japanese POW
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Sacrifice, Captivity and Escape is an exceptional story. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the army at the start of World War II. He had no wish to be there but like most of his generation he was given no choice.
Peter arrived in Singapore just as the city...
The Mongols and the Islamic World
From Conquest to Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An epic historical consideration of the Mongol conquest of Western Asia and the spread of Islam during the years of non-Muslim rule The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished...
by Peter Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
It was just luck that placed George and his boat in such a place and time that he couldn't help but be faced by a terrorist group intent on one final act of mass murder. The yarn carries us from the splendor of Western Canada, through the urbanity of Southern England to the jungles of Costa Rica.
George...
by Peter Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Jennie.....the retired Detective Sergeant, George, her husband, a retired Special Air Service Trooper, CEO and sole proprietor of a large security firm. He’s into boats.....large boats, she’s into horses.....thoroughbreds....they can afford it.
Their past catches up with them but George is off...
by Peter Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
in 1965 the british special forces (the sas) were active in sarawak and kalimantan....what used to be borneo. 23 years previously gema had been born into a community deep in the borneo jungle totally detached from civilization as we know it. as a teenager she was sent to a catholic community to learn...
Beyond the Balance of Power
France and the Politics of National Security in the Era of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
This is a major study of French foreign and security policy before, during and after the First World War. Peter Jackson examines the interplay between two contending conceptions of security: the first based on traditional practices of power politics and the second on internationalist doctrines that...
Covert Radar and Signals Interception
The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication Research Establishment, Boscombe Down, with an honorary...
Data Driven Business Transformation
How to Disrupt, Innovate and Stay Ahead of the Competition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
OPTIMIZE YOUR BUSINESS DATA FOR FIRST-CLASS RESULTS
Data Driven Business Transformation illustrates how to find the secrets to fast adaptation and disruptive origination hidden in your data and how to use them to capture market share.
Digitalisation – or the Digital Revolution –...
Anxious Appetites
Food and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual...
The Mersey Road Tunnels
The First Eighty Years in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The story of the Queensway and Kingsway road tunnels, together known as the Mersey Road Tunnels, is a story of progress and growth as the area around them developed and changed. No tunnel of comparable diameter had been built before, and nothing matched its length or its complexity. Once completed,...
Aristotle on the Meaning of Man
A Philosophical Response to Idealism, Positivism, and Gnosticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Why was (and is) Aristotle «right» and why are we «wrong»? In other words, why are Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on man and the world full, real, and convincing and why is so much of our modern philosophy partial and false? This work offers a detailed assessment of Aristotle’s thought...
by Peter Jackson, Helene Brembeck, Jonathan Everts
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those...
The Iron Duke
Bobby Windsor - The Life and Times of a Working-Class Rugby Hero
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Lions legend Bobby Windsor has enjoyed triumphs beyond the dreams of most international players but has also suffered personal tragedy. His rugby career as the best hooker in the British Isles during the second golden era of Welsh rugby in the 1970s is a turbulent tale of blood and thunder on the...