If you'd seen one Leaning Tower, you'd seen them all. Hetty had seen the leaning spire at Chesterfield: the tower of Pisa was nothing so special. She was in a picky mood and had been since the start of their trip in a made-over charabanc with time-expired tires, touring Tuscany with the Outhwaites and twenty-six Senior Citizen from the Blackburn/Darwen/Bolton area, all of whom already seemed to be confused by the persistent rain in sunny Italy.And what was happening to the Wainthro...

Will Lockwood isn’t a bad man, but he is a bad man. After meeting attorney Karen Thompson and her uncle Jack, a retired District Attorney and World War II veteran, Will learns about Karen’s sister, Heather, and it becomes personal. Will is a Vietnam vet with his own secrets. He knows sometimes going outside the law is the only path to justice and finding the truth. And sometimes the truth is worse than you imagine. When Will’s actions put the very people he’s trying to help in danger, ther...

Dr. Gary Spindel is struggling. Desperate for change, he signs up with a consulting group promoting the management teachings of prophetess Claire Winfield Kelly. Garys practice thrives. He is seduced into Claires mystery cult. Ecstasy by ecstasy, conscious-ness soars. But at what cost? The Anatomy of Blindness offers a profound exploration of skepticism, spirituality, and the high price of eternity.

A military history of the seventeenth century English Civil wars, including guides and pictures of historic battlefield sites.During the English Civil Wars the streets and fields of Yorkshire were fought over for the control of the county. In the bitter confrontation between king and Parliament, Yorkshire was the key to control of the North. This historical guide tells the story of this Yorkshire war, using contemporary accounts, early and modern maps and a wealth o...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring Sir Ian McKellen, written by David Cook as follow-up to his 1982 Channel 4 social commentary drama, ‘Walter’, about a man with learning difficulties. ‘Walter Now’ was originally broadcast as the ‘Saturday Play’ on 10 January 2009 and repeated on 25 September 2010. In November 1982, Channel 4 launched with David Cook’s ‘Walter’. Now, more than 25 years later, this award-winning writer brings us up to date with Walter's life and Sir Ian McKellen...

The Battle of Marston Moor was key in English history. It was the largest battle of the Civil Wars, and was decisive. This fresh study reconstructs the battle in graphic detail, and tells the story using the words of those who took part.

Throughout recorded history Yorkshire has been a setting for warfare of all kinds - marches, skirmishes and raids, pitched battles and sieges. And it is the sieges of the Civil War period - which often receive less attention than other forms of combat - that are the focus of David Cooke's new history. Hull, York, Pontefract, Knaresborough, Sandal, Scarborough, Helmsley, Bolton, Skipton - all witnessed notable sieges during the bloody uncertain years of the Civil Wars. His vivid reconstruct...

This book is the first translated and annotated edition of Ibn Naẓīf’s Al-Tā’rīkh al-Manṣūrī. Totalling 227 folios, the manuscript is a unique and valuable source full of historical accounts and anecdotes. The documents include two letters by the Emperor Frederick II in Arabic, as well as the only mention of the Albigensian Crusade in the Arabic language. Other notable material includes Ibn Naẓīf’s notes concerning the rivalries between the various Ayyūbids and the wars against Ja...

Can you imagine a world where corporations prioritise society's wellbeing alongside investor returns?In Kind Business Dr David Cooke journeys through the evolution of commerce, from its humble origins to the complex corporate structures of today. Kind Business scrutinises contemporary boardroom decisions, challenging the status quo and advocating for change.This book exposes the flaws of profit-driven business practices that are focused on short-term retur...

This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalāwūn (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant.Translated from the original Arabic, these chronicles detail the Mamluk perception of the Crusaders, the Mongol menace, how this menace was confronted, and a wealth of materials about the Mediterranean basin in the late thirteenth century. Treaties, battles, sieges and embassies are all reveale...

Ibn al-Furat (d. 1405) is an understudied Mamluk historian, whose materials for the period of the later Crusades is unique. While sections of his history for the period prior to 1277 have been translated, later sections have not. His text provides both an overview and a critique of earlier historians, and supplies us with a large number of unique documents, treaties, and intimate discussions that are not to be found elsewhere. This translation provides a continuous narrative from 1277 unti...

Imagine a corporate world where people and planet are at the heart of leadership decisions and businesses can still find long-term profitability and improved shareholder returns. In ‘Kind Business’ Dr David Cooke shows us that world.Kind Business is divided into three parts.Part 1 looks at traditional business where business behaving badly is highlighted with short-term profit seeking dominating decision making with little regard for negative impacts. These are the decision...