Mike Walker's thrilling saga of the Habsburg dynasty, who ruled most of Europe - and much of the New World - for almost 600 yearsFor almost six centuries, the House of Habsburg was one of the most powerful royal families in Europe - and beyond. They established an empire that began with a castle on a crag, and ended up extending over four continents. In these riveting dramas, Mike Walker traces their rise and fall.Hawk Rising -...

Reality TV has never been juicier! Gossip columnist, Howard Stern radio show personality, and National Enquirer reporter Mike Walker dishes all the gossip on TV land's reality shows and stars in this exposé . Riveting and explosive, the "Guru of Gossip" shares the behind-the-scenes drama of television's most popular shows of the 21st century such as American Idol, The Apprentice, and Survivor. Here is the real, inside scoop on all the "heroes" and "villa...

The Bristol Omnibus Company can trace its origins to 1875, when Sir George White formed the Bristol Tramways Company. The company operated its first city bus service, a horse-bus to Clifton, in 1887 and first introduced motor buses in 1906. Not satisfied with the vehicles that it had bought, in 1908 the company began to manufacture its own buses and soon began to sell them to other operators as well, Bristol buses being built for use both in Britain and abroad for 75 years. Bristol buses c...

Chicago Shorts is a series of short stories that define the authors childhood, growing up in suburban Dolton, Illinois, not far from Chicago. Its themes include the pleasures of small town America and discovery of the big city, teenage mischief and boyhood hijinks, youthful rebellion and self-destruction, racism, childhood friendships ending in tragedy, the wonderment of working in an animal hospital, the story of a factory worker turned millionaire and the experience of a family contending w...

Eleven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of Mary Queen of Scots and the Stuart royalsUnder the Stuarts, Britain entered the modern world. But with great change came turmoil, and for 111 years, the Stuart monarchs faced dynastic struggles, religious conflict, the rise of parliamentary democracy – and civil war. These dramas chart that turbulent epoch through its royal family, from Mary, Queen of Scots to the ‘last Stuart’, Bonnie Prince Charlie’s daug...

Nine BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas by Mike Walker, chronicling Rome’s greatest rulersDrawing on historical sources including Suetonius’s ‘Lives of the Caesars’, Mike Walker’s compelling drama cycle follows the story of the leaders of Rome, from Julius Caesar’s ascension to power to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West in AD 475.Meeting at Formiae – Julius Caesar secretly seeks senate leaders Cicero ...

Mike Walker’s gripping BBC Radio drama about money, art, religion, politics and powerFlorence, 1415. Banker Cosimo Medici is looked down upon as a jumped up money-changer. Then he marries the noble Contessina de Bardi and becomes the richest man in Europe. But his wealth and power threaten the Florentine elite, who are determined to bring him down...However, the House of Medici cannot be crushed that easily. Sixty years and many violent deaths later, the fa...

In the early hours of 5 June 1944, Captain Rob Collins, who is languishing in hospital, receives a call that will take him on a journey through England that will change his life.Mike Walker's play is an epic journey across England poised on the edge of a historical moment: D-Day. It is set on June 5th, the day before the invasion that will change the course of history - but an invasion only a very few know is about happen...Starring Benedict Cumberbatch,

The question is not, “Do you have the Right Stuff?” You do. What you want the answer to is, “What is the Right Stuff and how do I use it?” The book, told in short stories and without jargon, shows you how to control your mind and body to survive disasters: shots fired at the mall, an explosion at a restaurant, terrorist bombing at a sporting event or your church. You learn how to switch your mind and body from the primitive reaction of Fight, Flight, Freeze to reasoned decision making. No ...

A BBC Radio 4 science fiction adventure by Mike WalkerWhen five lost souls, recruited by a company to travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are there to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. However, their task becomes considerably more complicated when one of the five has a close encounter with the indigenous plant life which seems to have some very odd, very powerful properties. Soon they are battling...

This introductory textbook introduces the basics of dating, the range of techniques available and the strengths and limitations of each of the principal methods.Coverage includes:the concept of time in Quaternary Science and related fieldsthe history of dating from lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphythe development and application of radiometric methodsdifferent methods in dating: radiometric dating, incremental dating, relative dating ...

Like everyone around the globe, the Dewey family was impacted by Covid in many ways. While the pandemic era altered theirlandscapes, they pushed through and found strength and love to help overcome illness andtragedy. Inspired by real-lifecircumstances, these are thestories of triumph for a family on the coast that will make you laugh and cry, and will lift your spirit and renew your confidence in the human condition.