John Taylor: 200 books

In 1540, Francisco Coronado led a band of soldiers, treasure-seekers, and Franciscan priests and friars into New Mexico, changing the lives of the Native Americans forever. In 1680, less than 100 years after the first Spanish colony imposed disease, serfdom, and zealous religious oversight on the indigenous...

When Jefferson Davis commissioned Henry H. Sibley a brigadier general in the Confederate army in the summer of 1861, he gave him a daring mission: to capture the gold fields of Colorado and California for the South. Their grand scheme, premised on crushing the Union forces in New Mexico and then moving...

Pocket Guide for Young Men Without Fathers is designed to give ten-year-old and up boys without dads self-confidence and teach them what fathers teach their sons. Divided into four main sections—Being a Man, Respecting Yourself, Your Future, and Other Important Lessons—it consists of twenty-eight...

The First World War had innumerable consequences for all aspects of society; universities and education being no exception. This book details the myriad impacts of the war on British universities: telling how universities survived the war, their contribution to the war effort and the changes that...

In Part 2, a smattering of the novellas are a young Irishman’s escapades as he experiences that the local legend isn’t really a legend in The Washerwoman; help a young orphan find her biological parents and unearth her family’s secrets in Looking for Home; experience the lives of a prisoner...

In 1992, I kept a notebook observing other people and situations for a twelve month period. It is not only observations, but my own philosophies I used the format from Hugh Prathers book, Notes to Myself, because I liked the thought-provoking comments that were shared in Hughs book.

 Together Forever is the touching story of a young girl's sadness over the death of her brother. Full of grief, she dreams of her brother. In the dream her brother helps her to know that heaven is more beautiful and more wonderful than any place on earth. Her brother assures her that he is happy...

In this thesis, the author develops numerical techniques for tracking and characterising the convoluted nodal lines in three-dimensional space, analysing their geometry on the small scale, as well as their global fractality and topological complexity---including knotting---on the large scale.  The...

This is a useful collection of 120 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students at GCSE and A level. The first half contains twenty adapted passages building up to GCSE level, thirty lightly adapted ones for AS, and ten easy unadapted passages to introduce the translation of verse. The second half...

Planned as a companion volume to Writing Latin by Richard Ashdowne and James Morwood, this accessible guide to writing Greek is useful for anyone starting Greek prose composition. Part 1 deals with the constituent elements of the simple sentence, and in Part 2 all major constructions are covered,...

Joe Washington owns a travel agency and is accused of several counts of theft. Joe is innocent and is given the choice between 30 days of house arrest if he pleads guilty or the possibility of spending five to seven years in prison if he goes to trial. For Joe to go to trial means committing Social...

This story of forgiveness tells of a little boy who does something "bad" for which he thinks he cannot be forgiven. He does a number of "good" things, but every time someone thanks him and says that he is "good," he feels "bad." His mother assures him that she...

The Camp Follower recounts the life of the author John Reilly Taylor, who grew up in the aftermath of World War II as the son of a US Army Officer. In his travels, he witnessed the reconstruction effort in post-war Europe, and the US support of pre-war South Vietnam. His father retained his position...

John Taylor is one of the foremost economists of our generation. His ideas were implemented in central banks across the world during the period of price stability, economic growth and financial stability that followed the 1980s. Of course, this period culminated in the financial crisis of 2008, which...