Brown Dog: 93 books

This is the true life of a taxi driver, a fly-on-the-wall insight covering my 35 years in the trade. It's humorous, thrilling and exciting, with many interesting tales that will surprise! It give an honest account of my life on the road, day and night as a cabby.

Great Men at Bad Moments centres on the indignities and brutalities inflicted on young pupils during the reigns of some twenty-five headmasters, many of them Church of England clergymen. A major source for the book is the revelations of individual pupils who suffered under the cruel regimes. Many...

The book is based on the diaries of one of the principal protagonists in the Victorian handmade glass industry, Samuel Cox Williams - the Dynasty Builder. Samuel lived near Stourbridge for forty years, founding Stevens & Williams in 1846 and building it into the most important Art Glass manufacturer...

This is the first of an intended eight volume series dedicated to the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff and his student prodigy, P.D. Ouspensky. Volume One is mainly concerned with esoteric psychology according to Gurdjieff; with a few elements added from elsewhere. Most of what we see on our bookshelves...

Childhood friends, Hugo and Laura, meet again as adults amid the merger of Laura's company with a larger rival that has engaged a rapacious financier for the project. In addition to exploiting the merger for himself, the financier, as a master of financial manipulation, encourages others unknowingly...

Joe Shennan was a wonderful story teller. It was a skill which sustained him throughout his professional life, and which entertained his whole family over many years at home. He loved to tell tales of his life growing up in Liverpool, of the year in Paris when he and Margaret lived on the breadline and...

With the plight of refugees constantly in the news this gripping story of the exile of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Britain is both timely and intriguing. He had to take refuge in the spa city of Bath in the 1930s after fleeing his country to escape the invading armies of the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

This book provides a unique guide to open book cost management in the construction industry and step-by-step experience and advice in the implementation of open book in the live environment. Whilst it is drawn from the Author's experience predominantly in the affordable housing sector, it provides a useful reference document for open book in other sectors where the same basic principles apply.

For today's business owners, the idea of selling and retiring is an increasingly unattractive one; the uncertainty of selling, the financial and emotional upheaval, and the loss of long-term income are huge drawbacks to overcome. Recognising this in his own business, Andrew Gray developed a new approach...

We all want to get the best out of any relationship we have be it at work or at home. Just trying hard does not guarantee results. To be successful we need to clear approach and plan. This book uses a unique relationship MAP that helps you identify the current state of your relationship and then offers...

Being chosen by your peers to represent their views and opinions is a great compliment for anyone. Doing a first class job as a representative can be difficult without training and proper guidance. This handbook will help new and established representatives to add positive value to their input and...

The chapters in this book have all been written by staff of the School of Education, Theology and Leadership at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. St Mary's has been educating teachers since 1850 and has always sought to locate teaching and learning in the broader context of developing the full...

This book is the first in a series. It focuses on how people can fulfil their responsibility to live as fully as possible the values that give their lives and work meaning and purpose, and that contribute to the flourishing of humanity and their own development. The importance of researching one s...

Meet the cosmopolitan customers of the many cafes of south Devon's alternative town of Totnes. Discover Dartmoor and dragonflies, fish cakes and yummy mummies; humanity and nature described in haikus and Dadaesque free verse. See the world through the philosophical eyes of Amitrajit Raajan in this eclectic first collection of poems.