The complexities of war are only truly known when you’ve experienced it.From 1992 to 1994, Jonathan Jones, an ex-serviceman of the Gloucestershire Regiment, found himself in the depths of chaos while providing humanitarian aid as a civilian truck driver in the former Yugoslavia.As part of the British Convoy Team, Jones, along with other civilian truck drivers, were able to access areas cut off to the military; allowing much-needed supplies to reach those who were affected b...

Terry able is young and has everything ahead of him until terrible things happen to him. And the woman he loves is murdered.

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day.As a young woman Artemisia was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was shamed in a culture where honour was everything. Y...

A man makes a terrible mistake at 13 years old and is sentenced to 30 years in prison. When he gets out, the world around him has completely changed. Can he adapt, or will he finally understand that the world has entered its own apocalyptic era?

This is a story about a world that coexists with werewolves, vampires, and humans. A young man named Julius Grace is a normal guy who has lost his parents but remains human and is trying to coexist with the supernatural world around him. There are rules, and there is good. But where there is good, there is also evil!Join Julius on the first adventure of this trilogy as he is led toward his unknown destiny!

A man has everything—billions of dollars, real estate, cars, you name it—but he doesn't have anyone to leave it to. Join this man as he goes on one last journey.This is a loving story that shows you why you should never assume a person's goodness, just as much as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. This is also the story mentioned in The Death of Marretta Willer. I couldn't help but make it real.So, I hope you enjoy this great story about love, mistakes, and s...

You picked up this book because you come home tired and still lose the evening to the phone, the glow of the screen replacing the glow of the room, and the hour after dinner vanishing without you ever deciding to lose it. You have heard the slow evening is a luxury you cannot afford, and you have tried to rest and watched the scroll eat the quiet anyway. You may be the parent whose evenings belong to everyone else until the children sleep, or the couple sitting on the same couch scrolling ...

Outdoor coaching combines all the benefits of a reflective goal-based conversation, while engaging in a low-impact exercise and gaining all the benefits of being in a natural environment, from birdsong to sunshine. This book explains the why, what and how of Outdoor Coaching in this definitive practical guide.Jonathan and Ellie draw on their experiences of their epic Source to Sea journey along the River Thames. If you are a facilitator, trainer, coach or a manager, this book will g...

Education through poetry expresses my thoughts and education on numerous different topics and ideas. I expressed my knowledge and wisdom through lines that rhyme most of the time. You can say that it’s wisdom that rhymes. Among my favorites are the topics that address values including honor and integrity. Most of the values included have shaped me and made me the many have become. The different activities that are included are things I like to do or would like to do on the future. For exam...

From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his ...

During the Civil War, the utility and widespread availability of opium and morphine made opiates essential to wartime medicine. After the war ended, thousands of ailing soldiers became addicted, or “enslaved,” as nineteenth-century Americans phrased it. Veterans, their families, and communities struggled to cope with addiction’s health and social consequences. Medical and government authorities compounded veterans' suffering and imbued the epidemic with cultural meaning by branding addicti...

The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the “shot heard ‘round the world” to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington & Concord were the products of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses. From 1764-1775...