John Major: 55 books
by John Major
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion...
Farokh Engineer
From the Far Pavilion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Born in Bombay in 1938, Farokh Engineer quickly displayed a prodigious talent with both bat and gloves. Selected to play for the India Starlets in the late 1950s, by 1967 he was signed with Lancashire. Farokh was instrumental in both the renaissance of the Red Rose County's fortunes and in the forging...
The Mystery Of 2012
Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Are we coming to the end of a cosmic cycle? Will there be an age of awakening, or even an end to the world we know? For the first time, the leading authorities on the 2012 phenomenon are all given voice in a single book: The Mystery of 2012 . From the prophecies of the Mayan astronomers to modern...
by John Major
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
The former Prime Minister examines the early history of one of the great loves of his life in a book that sheds new light on the summer game’s social origins. All his life John Major has loved cricket. In ‘More Than a Game’ he examines it from its origins up to the coming of the First World...
Pyramid of Fire: The Lost Aztec Codex
Spiritual Ascent at the End of Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
The first translation of a previously unknown Aztec codex and its initiatory teachings for 2012
• Discloses the potential for great spiritual awakening offered at the end of the Aztec calendar cycle
• Presents the only existing English-language transcription of the Aztec codex, with...
The 2012 Story
The Myths, Fallacies, and Truth Behind the Most Intriguing Date in History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
On December 21, 2012, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a 5,125-year cycle calendar system pioneered by the Maya, will come to an end. At the same time, the earth, the sun, and the center of the galaxy will come together in an extremely rare cosmic alignment. More and more people believe that...
After Prisons?
Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
As recently as five years ago mass incarceration was widely considered to be a central, permanent feature of the political and social landscape. The number of people in U.S. prisons is still without historic parallel anywhere in the world or in U.S. history. But in the last few years, the population...
From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde
The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer Sir George Edwards OM
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
For a quarter of a century from 1950, George Edwards was the dominant figure in British aviation, both civil and military. His name is synonymous with the Vickers Viscount, the world's first turboprop airliner, and the Concorde, for which he led the British team throughout its formative period to...
Galactic Alignment
The Transformation of Consciousness According to Mayan, Egyptian, and Vedic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Explores the central role played by the galaxy in both ancient and modern times in the transformation of the human spirit.
• Extends Jenkins' groundbreaking research in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012.
• Reveals how the coming Galactic Alignment of era-2012 promises a renewal of human consciousness.
•...
by Major-General John Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The last words of Major General John Sedgwick as he strode in front of his men in the open at Spotsylvania were, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."...
by Major Victor Cornwall, Major Arthur St. John Trevelyan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Spanning much of the 20th Century, and revolving around the infamous gentlemen’s club of London, SCOUNDRELS is the jaw-dropping memoirs of the disreputable spies, Major Cornwall and Major Trevelyan.
The Majors recount scandalous tales of murder on Everest, panda hunting with the last Chinese...
by Major Victor Cornwall, Major Arthur St. John Trevelyan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Revolving around the infamous gentlemen's club of London, SCOUNDRELS: THE HUNT FOR HANSCLAPP continues the combative joint memoirs of adventurer-spies, Major Cornwall and Major Trevelyan.
In this second volume, the Majors recount tales of kidnapping in the Congo, manslaughter on the Orient...
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by Major-General John Ruggles
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
“John Ruggles was born at Lewisham, Kent, on 21 July 1827, the son of William Henry Ruggles, a local schoolmaster. He was educated at New Propriety School, Blackheath,...
100 One-Night Reads
A Book Lover's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Readers everywhere know that nothing soothes the spirit like sinking into a really good book. If you're one of that happy band, you'll quickly recognize the authors of this inspired reading guide as kindred spirits. Here David and John Major have chosen one hundred books that can each be delightfully...