75 MILLION FANS.AN ANNUAL INCOME OF MORE THAN £500 MILLION.AND A STORY THAT HAS NEVER FULLY BEEN TOLD - UNTIL NOW.'A wonderfully entertaining history' Sunday Telegraph'When historians 1,000 years from now try to fathom the cult of Manchester United Football Club, White will be a good place to start' Financial Times

Stress is part and parcel of life. We all get it. Think of blood pressure. If you are alive, you have blood pressure. If you are alive, you have stress. If your blood pressure gets too high, you should do something about it. The same is true with stress and this book will help you to control it.Stress can be a mixture of anxiety, depression, panic feelings, poor sleep, low self-confidence, low self-esteem and a poor sense of wellbeing. It is one of the most common problems in the w...

Tens of millions follow it.It attracts the finest global talent to play in what is almost a weekly World Cup.In just 20 years it has transformed football from national embarrassment to Britain's leading cultural export.It offers dreams and drama, pride and passion, triumph and tears.It is the most popular sporting contest on Earth.It is the PREMIER LEAGUE.Celebrating 21 years of football's most popular and prestigious competition told through...

On Sunday mornings Jim White has the following choice: visit the supermarket, buy trellising at B'n'Q, or stand on the sidelines of a muddy municipal football pitch, his trouser cuffs wetter than a weekend in Llandudno, shoulder-to-shoulder with a motley crew of mums, dads, step-parents and same-sex life partners all screaming at their beleaguered offspring. You'll find Jim in the same place every week, failing to organise a bunch of lads into something resembling a team while on the far s...

On Sunday 5 October 2014, the 75,000 strong crowd at Old Trafford for Manchester United's game against Everton joined in with an extended version of a chant which echoed around the stadium. 'We all live in a Georgie Best world,' it went. Eleven years after his death, forty years after he walked out of the club for the last time as a player, Best remains a Giant – extraordinary given that his star shone for such a brief time. He was at the top of the game for no more than h...

In the year England failed to qualify for the World Cup, it seemed Manchester United were destined to carry all before them, hoovering up domestic football trophies with the enthusiasm of a kleptomaniac.Jim White followed the colossi of English football through a campaign of stratospheric highs and catastrophic lows. From Istanbul to Ipswich, Budapest to the Boleyn Road, he travelled with the team and with the fans, getting to the heart of the most formidable football machine this ...

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH takes the sayings of the great and the good – not to mention the lovers and the loathers – of the beautiful game as starting points for an informal, freewheeling and entertainingly opinionated history of football.Exploring themes as diverse as the language of football, the role of the media, the role of money, and the careers of gilded geniuses from Pele to Ronaldo and maverick managers from Clough to Mourinho, and generously sprinkled with anecdotes and ...

Looking through the branches of a cedar tree,an infinite number of faces are revealed.Within each face is a story.The poems and stories in this book are life experiences filtered through the cedars.From the author of Nowhere to Hide & Other Stories comes a poetic expression that allows deep immersion in the gritty emotional landscapes of modern life. Surprising at every turn, stretching the boundaries of human depravation and climbing to heights of hilarity, T...

Nowhere to Hide & other stories presents a unique set of characters dealing with an all too common set of out of control circumstances. The stories are set amidst a backdrop of love, hate, humor & survival. Each story will leave you breathless wanting more. Jim's stories stretch the boundaries of what is real & throw a mirror on what is imagined. Powerful stories which explore the depths of human emotion, passion & intrigue mixed with just the right amount of stupidity, humility & humor.

This is the Second Book of a Two Book Paperback set that documents twelve generations of our Buckner Family. Several of them immigrated to America landing in Virginia in the mid 1600s, and we trace our Buckner heritage in England and America. We start with the birth of our Progenitor in 1436 following descendants in several nations side by side. We could not publish our research in a single book, the historical record as is requires 1304 pages. Book I documents the First Eleven Generations...

This is a new approach for us to publish the genealogical history of a particular family in that, we opted to include key Allied and Collateral families along with the primary family immigrants. We define Allied families as being of a different surname that directly married a member of the primary family. We define Collateral families as being of a surname of persons that directly married into an Allied family. Immigrant surnames included in this book: Cathey, Buckner, Tidwell, Villard (Wi...

This is the First Book of a Two Book Paperback set that documents twelve generations of our Buckner Family. Several of them immigrated to America landing in Virginia in the mid 1600s, and we trace our Buckner heritage in England and America. We start with the birth of our Progenitor in 1436 following descendants in several nations side by side. Book I documents the First Eleven Generations, it ends with page 628; Book II begins on page 629, and pertains to Generation Twelve. The page numbe...