John Lane: 47 books
by John Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The importance of emptying the mind has been recognized for millennia across a variety of cultures. Meditation is a way of life for millions; at the end of a Hindu?s life, he renounces all and becomes a wandering ascetic, seeking union with God; and the Japanese tea ceremony provides an interlude...
A Very Peruvian Practice
Travels with La Señora
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Acclaimed as one of the funniest and most perceptive accounts ever written about Peru, this travel book is exotically set in South America, spanning the sandy shores of the Pacific coast, across the heights of the snow-capped Andes to the dark rain forests of the Amazon, relating an interlude passed...
Chicken Street
Afghanistan before the Taliban: Clearing the Deadly Remnants of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This captivating work tells of Afghanistan before the Taliban - a land of majestic mountains and arid plains, terrain contaminated by the deadly remnants of war; landmines and unexploded ordnance, silent killers ready to kill and maim the innocent and unsuspecting. A historic and timeless land of...
Art of Ageing
Inspiration for a Positive and Abundant Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Ageing remains a natural part of life, and it is precisely the impermanence of life that renders it so precious. Knowing that it is brief requires an appreciation of each moment of beauty and wasting no opportunity for learning and love. The Art of Ageing has been written to help achieve these ends....
The Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way...
by John Lane, Denis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
For space operators to find a derelict ship on one of the many dead worlds at the fringe of the Galaxy was not unusual, but in this instance it led to one of the weirdest adventures ever experienced by mortal beings. From a salvage point of view it was a worthless find, but its log book-and the small...
by John Lane, Denis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The arrival of a party of aliens from a distant world would arouse mixed feelings in the mind of any human witness involved. But if the strangers prove to be the advance party of a gigantic global migration scheme most human beings would almost certainly be afraid. Hardly surprising, therefore, that...
Fate Moreland's Widow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
On a placid Blue Ridge mountain lake on Labor Day Weekend in 1935, three locals sightseeing in an overloaded boat drown, and the cotton mill scion who owns the lake is indicted for their murders. Decades later Ben Crocker--witness to and reluctant participant in the aftermath of this long-forgotten...
by John D. Lane IV
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Today in the United States, students are graduating from college already in debt from student loans and beginning their careers in an uncertain economy. Statistics have shown that freshman college students are stressednot about their grades or about doing wellbut rather about the debt they are already...
'Dearest Squirrel…'
The Intimate Letters of John Osborne and Pamela Lane
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A completely fresh insight into the mind of one of the UK’s greatest playwrights, the letters between John Osborne and his first wife, actress Pamela Lane, are also a love letter to a now defunct system of repertory theatre, and life in post-war Britain.
As these letters reveal, soon after...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
by Johnny Mains, Simon Bestwick, Ramsey Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Welcome To The New Home Of Horror
‘Johnny Mains is the go-to man for horror in the UK. His extensive knowledge of and unbound passion for the genre is amazing. If there was a government Ministry of Horror (which there should be), Johnny would be in charge. He is the Minister for Horror. He...
by Mark Tufo, David Moody, Lisa Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
What happens when everything comes crumbling down? Some of today's best selling authors take you to the dark side in this collection of eleven deadly tales.
Zombie Fallout - Mark Tufo
Colony Lost: The Ghara Chronicles - Chris Philbrook
Strangers - David Moody
World-Mart By Leigh M. Lane
A New World:...
The Chronicles of Pirates – The Truth Behind the Legends: Complete History of Piracy & Biographies of the Most Famous Buccaneers (9 Books in One Volume)
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, The Book of Buried Treasure, Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean, The Pirate Gow, The King of Pirates…
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This carefully crafted collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates (Captain Charles Johnson) Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy (Howard Pyle) The Book of Buried Treasure:...