Michael imprint: 765 books
Kings of the Grail
Tracing the Historic Journey of the Holy Grail from Jerusalem to Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to retrace the spot where the Holy Grail has been kept for the last 1,000 years. The authors, a medieval history lecturer and an art historian, came across the clues leading to the Grail's discovery...
Television on the Wild Wild Web
And How to Blaze Your Own Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
There is a revolution happening in entertainment and it is all the Internet’s fault. It’s a revolution that is changing the rules for television and filmmaking and the major studios are scrambling to figure out their place in this new world. Independent filmmakers have discovered that web television...
Robin the Hoodie
An ASBO History of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Hans Christian Asbosen is back with more wickedly witty tales of ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order) England.
When the Earth Was Flat
All the Bits of Science We Got Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Perfect for anyone with an interest in our scientific history, When the Earth Was Flat exposes the scientific theories that were once widely believed to be true but have since been disproved. Featuring ideas that now seem more crazy than credible, from the human body being made up of only four humours...
The Masters of Sitcom
From Hancock to Steptoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are two of the most influential and celebrated television scriptwriters of our time. Praised for inventing the sitcom, their own seminal creations are still standing the test of time with modern audiences - Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son are two of the most successful...
by Karen Dolby
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
With each new generation we all tend to think of our predecessors as 'old-fashioned', 'conservative', 'prim', 'proper' - and downright dull. The sexual revolution happened in the 1960s, right? Wrong. History's Naughty Bits is full of incredible stories that would curl the hair of the most liberal-minded...
Auld Lang Syne
Words to Songs You Used to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Celebrating the wonderful variety of songs, shanties, ballads, ditties and anthems that wind through our lives and bring us together, Auld Lang Syne is a timeless collection for all to cherish. Our memories are bursting with half-remembered songs. They stick with us in a way that no other words do. Just...
by Nicola Chalton, Meredith MacArdle
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
A rich, complex and absorbing subject, it’s hard to find the history of the twentieth century in one accessible book ... until now. From two World Wars to astonishing scientific progress and social upheaval, the twentieth century saw unprecedented change. In this concise history of a century like no...
Rewrite 2nd Edition
A Step-by-Step Guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters, and Drama in your Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Legendary screenwriting instructor and award-winning writer Paul Chitlik presents an easy-to-read, step-by-step process to take your script from first draft to submission.
Letters from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War
A Soldier of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy,...
by Flic Everett
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
With an entertaining and informative tone, this guide is filled with handy advice and true stories from grandmas who have had to relearn those tricky parenting skills and acquire new ones for the digital age
"But I'm too young to be a granny!" After her children moved out of the...
The Science of Everyday Life
Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don't cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke Marty...
Spirit Whirled
The Deaf Phoenicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
An exploration of etymology, magick, occult knowledge, the sacred science, and the Language of the Birds.
The Little Book of Big Ideas
150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history – from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art – each presented in brief, accessible form. ‘Big’ ideas are those concepts and theories that have radically transformed our...