Compelling, entertaining, and refreshingly honest, One in a Million is the autobiography of Trevor Francis, the subject of the first £1 million transfer fee in soccer history—a record for all time. As a 16-year-old, Francis set a record as the youngest player to score four goals in a match—and so his career journey began to unfold, encountering a seemingly endless succession of superlatives, larger-than-life characters, and astonishing events. Trevor played professionally in Engla...

Blues Insider is a collection of behind-the-scenes stories from Birmingham City over the past 25 years. With forewords from Trevor Francis and Barry Fry, it draws on the author's dealings with the likes of Karren Brady, David Gold, David Sullivan, Carson Yeung, and Trillion Trophy Asia as he brings a quarter of a century at St Andrew's to life.

ARE YOU A WRITER?Ever wondered how crime writers manage to enthrall and entice you into wanting to read their books? Ever wanted to do that yourself?In this collection of critiques and essays, Keith Dixon demonstrates how crime fiction writers put together their books, using a close analysis of the way they write - their tactics, their strategies, their actual prose. Focusing on a number of recent books by the famous and not-so-famous, his analysis will help new writers und...

Detective Inspector Walter Watts has always kept his emotions in check—until now.When the body of a young girl is discovered in a desolate wasteland, the weight of the case threatens to break through his carefully maintained defences. As the investigation unfolds, the lines between his personal history and professional duty blur, threatening his relationships and his job.Torn between solving the case and protecting his career, Watts knows there's only one r...

A brilliant debut novel about the power the dead exert on the living, the elusive nature of redemption, and the terrible accuracy with which we construct our own punishments.One man believes Linda Bascomb was murdered. A second believes she took her own life. The first is her husband, Warren, an aging surgeon who has lost his medical license because of his morphine addiction. The second is her son, Ben, a husband and father who struggles every day to remain sober a...

Most professional sociologists claim that sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues here that this claim is formulated in such a way that a proper evaluation of its status is extremely difficult, and that the contingent objections to the possibility of sociological theorizing are sufficiently strong for such activity to be labelled as pretence. He believes that pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of sociology proper. It devalues signi...

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freed...

Auld Years EveBy: M. Keith DixonEbenezer Scrooge had learned his lesson, that he must help the needy, love his neighbor, and keep Christmas in his heart all the year long. Years after his life-changing night, he finds himself heading to Edinburgh for his first holiday away from London and his counting house. He now seeks to find the long lost love of his life, Belle, before the New Year begins or lose her forever. Will Scrooge find her in time or will she pass on without eve...

A touching, insightful and uplifting memoir, complete with more than 40 recipes, that recounts a year in the life of a new parent learning to cook for three.Keith Dixon’s passion was cooking. For years, he sustained himself through difficult days by dreaming about the lavish recipes he was going to attempt when he got home—Thai curries, Indian raitas, Sichuan noodles. All that changed when his daughter, Gracie, was born five weeks early, at just four pounds. Keith ...

First published in 1980, this book presents a study of knowledge and the patterns of social and scientific thought. Keith Dixon argues that traditional and contemporary formulations of the sociology of knowledge involve a series of fallacies, and the claim to reduce knowledge to ideology devalues the role of reasoned inquiry. Chapters discuss such areas as the theories of Marx and Mannheim, the sociology of science and of religious belief. With a detailed conclusion analysing the foundatio...

My book is poetry based on friends, family, And our Lord and Savior. It has all different types of poems. There are serious, funny, family and most of all religious areas in my book. I hope you all enjoy my work. God bless you.

First published in 1973, this book is concerned with the question of whether Sociology is, or ought to be, a theoretical science. Keith Dixon argues that the pretence to the theoretical is a hindrance to the development of the field of Sociology, which devalues significant empirical work by giving status to research findings only in so far as they relate to often arbitrary theoretical concerns. Dixon addresses the historical dimension in the explanation of human nature and rational action....