Wright - Libros y biografía

An introducition to yoga and meditation techniques

'The only thing in life that you have 100 per cent control over are the thoughts in your head. When your thoughts are centred around the very essence of your purpose, and the meaning of your life, you...

This book demonstrates the many different modelling techniques used in the creation of realistic historical buildings and convincing imaginary or fantasy structures. Aimed at the railway and diorama modeller,...

As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go through...

A guide to headaches and migraines. It provides descriptions of mild and severe headaches, with symptoms, causes and treatments for the main types of headaches. With advice, treatment and prevention guidelines.

With one eye on social media and another on mental well-being, Luke Wright looks under the hood of a spluttering nation. Eschewing the formal verse structures of his previous two collections, Wright presents...

Patrick Wright's memoir opens on a diplomatic crisis. A growing number of countries are threatening to boycott the Commonwealth Games in protest of the British government's handling of South African apartheid....

A dose of sense from the voice of parliamentary reason.Throughout the expenses scandal and the lobbying scandal and all the other storms which have buffeted Parliament, Dr Tony Wright is the one MP who...

'Imagine sleeping in it,' said Johnny. He leaned forward. 'Imagine lighting a fire, and killing a deer and roasting it there. We could skin it and gut it and salt it. We could live there.' His eyes widened....

Brigid of Kildare, Ireland, is uniquely venerated as both a goddess and a saint throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. Often referred to as Mary of the Gael and considered the second most important saint...

A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher. With a Foreword by Toby Jones.Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For...

A moving portrait of the young Vincent van Gogh - a hit in the West End and on Broadway. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play.Brixton, 1873. A brash young Dutchman rents a room in the house of...

In 1939, John Wright, a four-year-old boy from a deprived but loving Middlesbrough home, was uprooted from his family and evacuated to a large house in North Yorkshire, requisitioned as a nursery school....

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the 1630s, when women's roles are still played by precocious...

The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his...

The American 'island-hopping' campaign in the Pacific during the Second World War was a crucial factor in the eventual defeat of Japan in 1945. The assault and capture of these islands meant US bombers...

A haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships, about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein .In 1934 the son of Melanie Klein, Britain's most admired psychoanalyst, was reported...

Undaunted is a collection of true stories about Irish men and women who travelled to Australia in search of a better life and battled against the odds in a remote and harsh world. From 1788 when the first...

Who were the men who commanded the British Army in the numerous small wars of the Victorian Empire? Today, many are all but forgotten, save the likes of Cardigan, Kitchener, Baden-Powell and Gordon of...

In 1882 the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than seventy years. William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought...

Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way...

"Esperei a vida inteira por uma explicação lúcida e fácil de ler sobre o budismo feita por uma mente cética e rigorosa. Aqui está. Esta é uma viagem científica e espiritual diferente de qualquer outra...

Un acteur de théâtre bien connu dans la région de Toronto, Alec Hunter, a été ligoté et poignardé au Days'R'Done, un motel sordide situé au bord du lac Ontario. Qu'allait donc faire dans un tel trou un...

Chaque été, Charlie Salter part, avec la famille, en vacances à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, province d'origine d'Annie, sa femme. D'habitude, Charlie passe le temps en jouant au golf, mais cet été, le meurtre...

Dans l'exercice de ses fonctions, l'inspecteur d'état-major Charlie Salter a souvent contemplé la mort de près. Pourtant, quand il se présente à l'urgence où son père, transporté en ambulance à la suite...

Le meurtre de Linda Thomas, une massothérapeuthe, pose de sérieux problèmes à la police de Toronto : la jeune femme comptait parmi sa clientèle de « grosses pointures » qui ne se gênent pas pour interférer...

« Femme séduisante, fin trentaine, aime le sport (tennis, ski), le bridge, le théâtre, la lecture, souhaite rencontrer homme partageant ses goûts pour amitié. » Un matin, pendant qu'il prépare sa liste...

Être consultant sur un plateau de tournage et chercher à y débusquer le plaisantin qui met des bâtons dans les roues à la production du film, voilà qui change Charlie Salter de sa routine. Après tout,...