Music is an abstract force that flows through the heart of the World, for most people, an essential ingredient creating a soundtrack to their lives, but even more than that, bringing peace, meaning, harmony, to a sometimes fractious existence.Yet music also causes great conflict; each person carries a belief that ‘their’ music is the standard by which everything should be judged, no-one else’s music has that strength, that vitality, that meaning – wrong, ...

BEYOND GOLD there is only grey is the story of a fraud on a massive scale, involving credit cards, property and banking. As the recent Banking crisis shows, the World is vulnerable to these forces that surround us, using the instant responses of the internet to destabilise the whole system, and through it, us. The governments of the World explained it all away as just market forces, but then, they would say that, wouldn’t they? In reality, as shocking as it was, one man or...

She was getting ready for bed, sitting at her dressing table in the half light. Softly, she hummed a tune to herself as she brushed her long hair, her slender fingers carefully gathering the strands of golden tresses containing just a hint of subtle red. Distractedly, she fiddled with her earring, trying to loosen it so she could place it on the table surface. She glanced up at the mirror.It was then she saw the face. Impossibly high above her shoulder, looking down on her at an od...

THE GREATEST BAND YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF follows the fortunes and failings of a late 60s Rock group, through the highs and lows of the music business ........... This book is based on true events......... all persons appearing in this work are who they are said to be. any resemblance to real famous people, living or dead, is entirely intentional, so brace yourselves for a ride through Rocky territory, encountering escapades with DAV...

THE LEGEND OF CLOUDS follows the fortunes and failings of a late 60s Rock group, through the highs and lows of the music business ........... This book is based on true events......... all persons appearing in this work are who they are said to be. any resemblance to real famous people, living or dead, is entirely intentional, so brace yourselves for a ride through Rocky territory, encountering escapades with DAVID BOWIE, PAUL McCA...

WHAT MAKETH A MAN?To the external observer, there was nothing extraordinary about him; he had lived what would seem, to the disinterested, a very normal, almost boring life, a steady job, an unremarkable upbringing in a non-descript town by almost-invisible parents, brothers, and sisters. He had gone to school without creating, or even leaving any kind of impression upon his fellow students, indeed, any of those he had known would have great difficulty in rememberi...

CLOUDS are now acknowledged as having a major influence on what became of music in the 1970s. Yet the band disappeared without trace in history, only to surface decades later, in circumstances that Mojo Magazine described as "Archaeology" .The man behind it all, Billy Ritchie, somehow vanished from the radar and from the music business completely, going out with a bang, refusing interviews or contact with anything to do with it - Until now.In typically forthright fashion, h...

1-2-3 are now acknowledged as having a major influence on what became of music in the 1970s. Yet the band disappeared without trace in history, only to surface decades later, in circumstances that Mojo Magazine described as "Archaeology". The man behind it all, Billy Ritchie, somehow vanished from the radar, and from the music business completely, going out with a bang, refusing interviews or contact with anything to do with it - Until now.In typically forthright fashion, he tells ...

THE DAY THE MONEY DIED is the story of a fraud on a massive scale, involving credit cards, property and banking. As the recent Banking crisis shows, the World is vulnerable to these forces that surround us, using the instant responses of the internet to destabilise the whole system, and through it, us. The governments of the World explained it all away as just market forces, but then, they would say that, wouldn’t they? In reality, as shocking as it was, one man orchestrat...

These Poems are visual as well as literate; they can be read in many ways. Some can also be read down as well as across, some verses are totally interchangeable. This is a journey through a World of colour and imagination.

The most complete account of ancient man in the New York area ever published in one volume, this book traces a rich, 8000-year story of human prehistory. Beginning with the first known inhabitants, Paleo-Indian hunters who lived approximately 7000 B.C., the author gives a detailed chronological account of the complex of cultural units that have existed in the area, culminating in the Iroquois tribes encountered by the European colonists at the dawn of the seventeenth century.All of ...

Genetic Analysis of Complex DiseasesAn up-to-date and complete treatment of the strategies, designs and analysis methods for studying complex genetic disease in human beingsIn the newly revised Third Edition of Genetic Analysis of Complex Diseases, a team of distinguished geneticists delivers a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant strategies, designs and methods of analysis for the study of complex genetic disease in hum...