David Woods: 22 books

Volume Four of David Woods' four-volume history of Bristol City, from the club's beginnings to the modern age. Football supporters know ecstasy and despair in equal measure. Bad times invariably follow good times. Then, with luck, the good times return - until the next collapse. Bristol City knew the...

Volume Three of David Woods' four-volume history of Bristol City, from the club's beginnings to the modern age. In this volume he takes the story from the resumption of league football after World War II up to 1967, when his fourth volume, The Modern Era, begins.

Volume Two of David Woods' four-volume history of Bristol City, from the club's beginnings to the modern age. In Bristol City: The Early Years he reported the clubs history to the outbreak of The Great War. Now, in From War to War, he carries the story from the Kaiser up to and be-yond the death of...

Bristol Bulldogs, a name to conjure with for all speedway fans, even though their throaty roar hasnt been heard since 1978. Riders of the calibre of Mike Beddoe, Dick Bradley, Bill Clibbett, Eric Collins, Phil Crump, Roy Dook, Steve Gresham, Phil Herne, Billy Hole, Tormod Langli, Fred Leavis, Cordy Milne,...

This best-selling book takes a practical look at how improvements can be made in any school. It cuts through the jargon of the specialist and shows how ideas and intentions can be turned into direct actions that will help a school improve its performance and effectiveness. As well as addressing headteachers...

Volume One of David Woods' four-volume history of Bristol City, from the club's beginnings to the modern age. Bristol City enjoy a long, though relatively unsuccessful history. Without doubt, their most successful period is the one covered by this book. During those years, City were runners-up in the...

School improvement is an increasingly complex field with developments in policy, research, practice and language making it difficult to get a complete picture. Leading authors David Woods and Tim Brighouse pull together the approaches, characteristics and technical terms needed for busy school leaders,...

Butler University in Indianapolis became the smallest school in 40 years to reach the NCAA championship game. Prior to the tournament, a statistician calculated the Bulldogs as a 200-to-1 shot to win. But as fascinating as what Butler accomplished was how they did it. Underdawgs tells the incredible...

The Butler Way opens with a discussion of the Butler Way. Barry Collier, a former Butler player, was hired as coach in 1989 and slowly rebuilt a program that has declined since the days of Tony Hinkle. Collier emphasized the Butler way which featured team play. Fans will also be pleased to read about...

Football systems, changing room banter and a couple of mops solve the big questions of life – immortality, happiness and why England always lose, in a new play tackling the beautiful game. After several years of embedded research in the football darklands, a failed attempt to create a UK...

Mediterranean roasted vegetables. Finnish Folk and Margaret Drabble. Adolf Hitler and the knitted cover for a toilet roll. An audience split in two experiencing auditory hallucinations. The new work from acclaimed theatre company Ridiculusmus is inspired by a treatment method for psychosis...

Welcome to the world of war veteran Zach. As the last man standing, he has retreated into a tiny dugout under a barrage of hostile fire. His enemies are cunning, using every trick in the book to mess with his mind. Even the landscape is weird … it’s a cardboard box, in Zach’s kitchen. His wife...

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation....

Chi è Deadpool, un eroe o un assassino? Il salvatore del mondo o chi lo ha condannato? La risposta è più complicata di quel che parrebbe, specialmente ora che qualcuno che sta giocando con la sua mente. E chi è quella donna che gli pare così familiare? Ospiti speciali: Bullseye, Thanos, coniglietti...