John Porter

Fifty years later, the book retains vast significance both for its powerful critique of social exclusivity in a country that prides itself on equality and diversity and for its influence on generations of sociological researchers.

An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition

Vertical Mosaic

Frederick Hockley

A Book of the Offices of Spirits

Donald Omand

The Flagstone Industry of Caithness

A book full of ingenious characters who speak their names in riddles-a bookworm, an iceberg, an oyster, the sun and moon and a one-eyed garlic seller are just a few that bear witness to the every-day life and imagination of the Anglo-Saxons. Their sense of the awesome power of creation goes hand in hand with a frank delight in obscenity, a fascination with disguise and with the mysterious processes by which the natural world is yurned to human use. Contains all 95 Exeter Book riddles.

Anglo-Saxon Riddles

History of the Fylde of Lancashire

Peter Baldwin

Ron Bridle

Robert C. D. Baldwin

This volume presents detailed and comprehensive accounts of the construction of the motorway network, associated structures and who was involved. Each of the ten chapters focuses on a specific region of the UK, providing a background history of the area and its roads.

The Motorway Achievement: Frontiers of knowledge and practice

With an introduction by Dacia Maraini Yoï is the first biography of Edith Cornelia Crosse, a remarkable woman more commonly known as Yoï. Born in Hungary to an English father and a Hungarian/Polish mother, Yoï later moved to England to live with her grandmother. She then settled down to marriage and children, until her life was altered forever by a major scandal. Yoï’s love of travelling took her as far afield as Tehran, before she settled in Italy, first in Rome and then Florence, with her second husband, the well-known sculptor Antonio Maraini. Embarking on a new career as a writer and publishing several successful books about her travels, Yoï’s social circle included many of the leading literary and artistic figures of the day. She also regularly contributed many articles to newspapers and journals in England, including an interview with Mussolini. Yoï lived through turbulent times, with the rise of fascism and two world wars disrupting her tranquil existence. Yet through it all she remained, according to those who knew her, an extremely fascinating woman – cultured, ironical and refined. John Porter recounts this compelling life in his debut biography.

Yoï

'The wall was the ambition, the style became the obsession.' In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents. Although only twenty-eight years old, Alex was already one of the leading figures of British mountaineering's most successful era. His ascents included hard new routes on Himalayan giants like Dhaulagiri and Changabang and a glittering record of firsts in the Alps and Andes. Yet how Alex climbed was as important as what he climbed. He was a mountaineering prophet, sharing with a handful of contemporaries - including his climbing partner Voytek Kurtyka - the vision of a purer form of alpinism on the world's highest peaks. One Day As A Tiger, John Porter's revelatory and poignant memoir of his friend Alex MacIntyre, shows mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst - and draws an unforgettable picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant legend.

Alex MacIntyre and the birth of light and fast alpinism

One Day as a Tiger

One of the very few books in print which explains why and how psionics (the mechanics of psi) works. Written by two masters of the art, Dr. John Porter and Soke Rob Williams wrote and compiled this book for the beginner and intermediate Psion, hoping to create a strong foundation for further practice. Both of these authors have been extensively trained in many esoteric areas of the martial, healing, and meditation arts and hold seminars annually across the United States. You can find us at www.hoshin.us

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