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Let Me Take You Down
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Let Me Take You Down

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-23
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  • Publisher: Villard

A top crime journalist reveals precisely how the world-shattering murder of John Lennon happened—and why In Let Me Take You Down, Jack Jones penetrates the borderline world of dangerous fantasy in which Mark David Chapman stalked and killed Lennon: Mark David Chapman rose early on the morning of December 8 to make final preparations. . . . Chapman had neatly arranged and left behind a curious assortment of personal items on top of the hotel dresser. In an orderly semicircle, he had laid out his passport, an eight-track tape of the music of Todd Rundgren, his little Bible, open to The Gospel According to John (Lennon). He left a letter from a former YMCA supervisor at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas...

The Catcher in the Rye
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye," written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951, is a classic American novel that explores the themes of adolescence, alienation, and identity through the eyes of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield. The novel is set in the 1950s and follows Holden, a 16-year-old who has just been expelled from his prep school, Pencey Prep. Disillusioned with the world around him, Holden decides to leave Pencey early and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning home. Over the course of these days, Holden interacts with various people, including old friends, a former teacher, and strangers, all the while grappling with his feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Holde...

Wild about Cornwall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Wild about Cornwall

This publication is a celebration of the natural history of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, featuring 40 sites where flora and fauna may be seen in a variety of habitats, suggested walks, and some 580 species.

Sandow the Magnificent
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Sandow the Magnificent

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was Eugen Sandow, a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. The German-born Sandow (1867-1925) established a worldwide string of gyms, published a popular magazine, sold exercise equipment, and pioneered the use of food supplements. He even marketed a patented health corset for his female followers. Among the colorful figures who played a part in Sandow's life are Bernarr Macfadden, Florenz Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell, and others in sports and the theater. Sandow the Magnificent is the story of this first showman to emphasize physique display rather tha...

Exploring the Cornish Coast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Exploring the Cornish Coast

Cornwall is almost surrounded by sea. Some 300 miles of coast includes majestic cliffs, sheltered harbours, creeks and estuaries, and magnificent beaches. This book focuses on the different types of coastal habitat - their geography, geology and wildlife.

Walking in Penwith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Walking in Penwith

This guide offers 12 walks in the far West of Cornwall, chosen to show the diversity of the region.

Photographing Cornwall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 118

Photographing Cornwall

Landscape photographs of Cornwall by one of the county's most respected photographers. Cornwall is pictured through the seasons and revealed in all its moods. Also included are technical details for the images, and hints on taking landscape photographs.

Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion

Rev. version of the author's thesis (Ph.D) -- University of Cambridge, 2000.

The Lazy Student's Revision Guide
  • Language: en

The Lazy Student's Revision Guide

Are your exams fast approaching? Are you starting to panic that you're never going to be ready for them? You're not alone. It's an unfortunate truth that good study technique is rarely taught in schools, colleges or universities. Which is where The Lazy Student's Revision Guide comes in. This book is packed full of study hacks that take you through the revision process in a concise and easy-to-read manner. I understand that you don't have time to sit and read a 300 page manual on how to pass your exams. Let's face it; if you did, then you could make a start on that pile of textbooks in front of you... This book is for students looking for a no-nonsense, step-by-step guide to revision that ha...

Death of a Dreamer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Death of a Dreamer

New York, December 8, 1980: The announcement shocked the world. Beatles founder and legendary musician John Lennon had been murdered in front of his New York home. With no warning, a lone gunman opened fire, shooting Lennon in the back just as Lennon returned from a recording session with his wife, Yoko Ono. Husband, father of two, cultural icon, and hero to millions, Lennon was dead. Around the globe, people mourned the loss of a man who had stood for peace, a man who had given so much joy to the world through his gift of music. No one had seen it coming...except one man—Mark David Chapman, Lennon's assassin. What drove this former Beatles fan to commit such a terrible act? Follow the lives of both Lennon and Chapman, learn about the political and cultural settings in which both grew up, and trace—step by excruciating step—the final moments of John Lennon's life.