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Paw Prints on My Heart
Molly Jean Rowe

July 26, 2015 Sarah

Shy, the traumatised Labrador rescued from a puppy farm, arrives on the brink of a breakdown. Several months after losing their German Shepherd, Molly and her husband John decide to look into re-homing an elderly dog or a dog with special needs. Along came Shy, a six year old Labrador, terrified of people and desperately in need of a loving home. It was never going to be easy taking on such a very needy dog.
Paw Prints on My Heart lets you share the first twelve months of the journey that turned this little dog’s life around. It’s a very personal and true story that has been written to encourage people who are thinking about adopting a rescue dog, to open their hearts and let a sorry little soul in.

Published:	June 2017
Paperback:	200 pages
Price:	£8.50
ISBN:	9-781911-175704

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Molly Jean Rowe is not a celebrity or a writer; she’s a housewife, a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who loves her family and has a great love of animals especially horses and dogs. At an early age in Molly’s life her father brought home a collie puppy. It was the runt of the litter and Molly fell in love. They were inseparable. This marked the beginning of her love for dogs. Throughout her life, Molly has had many dogs, most of them rescue dogs. She has given them a loving home for life. Molly was never able to own a horse until she was in her mid-forties but since that time she has owned six horses and has never sold one of them; just like her dogs, they have a home for life. She loves riding and showing her horses in hand and has many rosettes. Writing her first book was not easy but Molly wanted people to understand the ill treatment that takes place in some puppy farms and the trauma that many dogs suffer, in the hope that it will contribute in some way to their welfare.

Reader Reviews...

Front Page, Non-Fiction, Reference

Detailed survey of the Shropshire Botanical Society.
Alex Lockton & Sarah Whild

April 12, 2015 Sarah

The Shropshire Botanical Society is a not-for profit organization that is open to all botanists in the county and elsewhere, whatever their level of botanical skill. We hold field meetings, produce a bi-annual newsletter and hold indoor meetings with speakers. Our main remit is to provide a forum for recording the distribution of vascular plants, bryophytes and stoneworts within the vice-county, to provide botanical recording data for the conservation of plants and their habitats, and to provide training opportunities for botanists who wish to improve their identification or recording skills. All of our members and committee officers are volunteers and we always welcome new botanists. Many of our members also belong to the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, the national organization for all amateur and professional botanists.

Published:	1st March 2015
Hardback:	454 pages
Price:	£35.00
ISBN:	9-780953-093724

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To find out more, visit www.bsbi.org.uk – all of our field meetings and newsletters are on the Shropshire page of this site.

livesinprint, Non-Fiction, travel

Travels of a Hard-Rock Mining Engineer
Martin Stoakes

January 25, 2015 Sarah

Travels of a Hard-Rock Mining Engineer is a chronicle of the travels and experiences of a hard-rock mining engineer during the last half of the 20th century. It gives a vivid and an instructive insight into the generally little known subject of hard-rock mining, often in remote locations. Various mining projects are described in detail and provide a fascinating insight into the complexities of mine design and evaluation. Martin Stoakes worked on 125 mining projects in thirty-seven different countries over a forty-four year period. His graphic account of the sometimes nerve-racking conditions and locales that he experienced includes encounters with Shining Path guerrilla fighters in Peru, MNLF Islamic fundamentalists in the Philippines and the RPF guerrillas in Rwanda/Uganda. Hard rock mining was never for the faint-hearted.

Published:	1st Feb 2015
Paperback:	638 pages
Price:	£25.00
ISBN:	9-781909-644441

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Murderous fighters notwithstanding, the author's passion for narrow-boating, walking, cycling and his love of dogs give a tranquil balance and, from the early 1980s, there is a touching account of the trials and tribulations of first fostering, then adopting and raising a son into his family.

Front Page, Non-Fiction

A customer-centred approach to product design and services.
Amir Azizpour

January 19, 2015 Sarah Leave a comment

Outside-In Service Design is a User-Centred approach to designing products and services, aiming to give the customer a unique and memorable experience as well as optimising the business processes. Customers are the main influence on the design - the better the experience, the more chance you will have of customer retention and loyalty.
This book takes us on a practical journey to understand, appreciate and apply the Service Design approach:
* Seeing things from the customer perspective
* 14 Practical Stages of Outside-In Service Design
* How Service Design is used during business development.
* 17 Key Considerations during Service Design
* How conceptual design benefits business
* Groundbreaking theory of user expectations and experience

Publication:	30th Oct 2015
Paperback:	136 pages
Price:	£25
ISBN:	9-781909-644731

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Amir Azizpour has a background in business, technology and psychology with a passion for delivering unique and innovative solutions to ensure the highest levels of user satisfaction, experience and loyalty. He has more than 30 years experience in applying Service Design concepts to all aspects of business including Customer Services, Training, and Product Design as well as providing consultancy on Business Process, Management and Software Design.
His passion is to spread the Service Design model through training, assessment and consultancy.
I believe proper application of Service Design can seriously improve the quality of our lives. Conversely, poorly designed products and services cause stress and lower the quality of life for the users. My mission is to identify poorly-delivered products and services and help to improve them.
Amir Azizpour

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Inspiring

Front Page, Non-Fiction

Professor Dark of Illinois University was a hero of the raid on St. Nazaire during WW2
Prof Philip Dark

December 17, 2014 Sarah

Craftsmanship of Art is the culmination of a lifetime’s fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. It ranges around the world and through time with many references to stone-age and bronze-age culture in Europe and the Middle East as well as to more 'anthropological' research further afield. It makes particular reference to the Kilenge people of Papua New Guinea where the author spent many years on and off. The cumulative effect is of an exhaustive exploration of human art and craft and the search for a universal definition of what art actually is. Since anthropology seeks the humanitas in human beings, Professor Dark contends, a vital key to such an understanding of art lies in the genius of artists and craftsmen and in how their artifacts are appreciated and communicated in different cultures. The text is illustrated by over seven hundred illustrations by Mavis Dark and is followed by a full index and bibliography.

Hardback:	678 pages
Price:	£50.00
ISBN:	978-0954835156

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Professor Dark of Illinois University was a hero of the raid on St. Nazaire during World War II and became interested in anthropology while a prisoner of war in northern Germany. This is the last book to be published by Professor Dark before he died.

Front Page, Non-Fiction

Virtual Women
Dr Anne Beaumont

November 27, 2014 Sarah

Why do some people reject the sexed bodies they were born into and transform themselves into women? Are the brains of men and women different? Is gender identity fixed at birth, is it learned behaviour or is it socially constructed? In Virtual Women, social anthropologist Anne Beaumont shows us that the answers to these prickly questions lie as much in the sphere of cultural difference as in that of science, and she constructs a new framework for gendering the body – one that centres solely on the individual. Virtual Women takes us from England to Thailand, to the twilight zone of the bars where genders blend into a human hybrid - the Ladyboys (Kathoey) of Thailand who live betwixt and between in sex. Drawing on extensive empirical research and on interviews with Kathoey and with British transsexual women and with the surgeons and psychiatrists involved, Virtual Women brings a new understanding of the transgender phenomenon:

Published:	1st Sept 2014
Paperback:	198 pages
Price:	£11.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644236

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‘… no matter what the outer appearances, I never felt like a man…’
‘… in my heart I am a woman. One hundred per cent, I am a woman…’
‘…wearing male clothing made me feel physically sick…’
‘… No! We are not men, we are not women; we are Ladyboys, that’s what we are!’
‘… my papa told me, “you can do what you want with your body,
but you can’t change your heart. You have a good heart. Nothing can change that…”’

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Jennifer Nicholson-Morton
fascinating insight into the curious and often misunderstood world of the transgender ‘ladyboy’. Thoroughly researched by a knowledgeable and sympathetic academic ... we are led along the transitional journey of gender migration ... An interesting book which enlarges understanding of the human condition.

history, Non-Fiction, travel

Pounds and Pinfolds
Nigel Mills

November 26, 2014 Sarah

Ask most people about pounds and pinfolds and they look blank. They may not have noticed the small, round or rectangular building that likely stands at the edge of their village. And yet these modest structures, now often reduced to piles of stones, were once an essential part of rural life in what is now Cumbria. They were where stray stock, and any animal found grazing on land for which its owner had no proper grazing rights, were once confined - until the owner paid a fine imposed by the local court. For hill-farmers and others, pounds or pinfolds were indispensable for ensuring community harmony. In this scholarly and well-researched account, Nigel Mills provides us with a comprehensive and unique insight into a little-considered aspect of our rural heritage and into the way of life of the men and women who farmed our hills in days gone by. It will be of great interest to local historians and to all who take an interest in the social history of Cumbria.

Published:	28th Nov 2014
Paperback:	94 pages
Price:	£12.99
ISBN:	978-123456-44444

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EVENTS

Non-Fiction

Those were the days
David Corbett

October 23, 2014 Sarah

Those were the Days
by David Corbett
For nearly half a century from the dark days of World War II until the last decade of the Twentieth Century, BBC Radio featured programmes of old-time dance music. Those Were the Days with Harry Davidson and His Orchestra was first on the air in 1943, Sydney Thompson followed with Take Your Partners in 1948, and, in 1957, Sidney Bowman was engaged to play in a series soon titled Time for Old Time. When Harry Davidson retired in 1966, he had completed some 2,000 'live' broadcasts. Sidney Davey took on his mantle, and continued until 1976, the year that our final old-time maestro, Bryan Smith, stepped up to the conductor's rostrum with Sequence Time.

Published:	28th Nov 2014
Hardback:	160 pages
Price:	£39.99
ISBN:	9-781909-644120

Sunday Times
'Those Were the Days' is wonderful - it will give me great pleasure."
PAUL DONOVAN,
Radio critic

Daily Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph
A real work of broadcasting scholarship as well as being a useful piece of social history."
GILLIAN REYNOLDS,
Radio Critic

£39.99 (+ £5 postage)

This book is the only comprehensive survey of this unique form of radio entertainment. Not only does it describe, in detail, how the music changed but it also charts the development and decline of old-time dancing which is such an important part of our heritage, being the original form of ballroom dancing. Anyone who is interested in light orchestral music or melodies in a more popular vein from the music hall to popular standards, will find here a rich reserve. Those whose passion is for dancing will discover the original old-time dances and the names of the people and dances involved in the old-time revival as well as the interaction between old-time and modern sequence dancing.

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'YouCaxton Charity Ball - to launch Those Were The Days
Saturday, 28th February 2015, 7.30pm until midnight
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BILL BEBB, Producer, 'Those Were the Days' 1964
"I arrived home the other day to find a large wrapped paving slab leaning against my door. When I opened the package I couldn't believe the size and detailed contents there were within. What a magnificent undertaking, and I can't tell you how much I've already enjoyed reading about my early days at the BBC, and so many wonderful names from the past. I shall display the book with pride on my book shelves."

PETER ELSDON, Middlesbrough
What a magnus opus and labour of love

MICHAEL COLLIER, Sutton, Surrey
I knew that the book would be something special but this has surpassed all my expectations. It really is quite magnificent, and you should be very proud. It has rarely left my side this last couple of days, and I'm afraid it has also kept me from some of those post holiday chores! It has replaced my previous choice as my book to take on a desert island, and that's some achievement!"

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Category Archives: Non-Fiction

Paw Prints on My Heart
Molly Jean Rowe

Detailed survey of the Shropshire Botanical Society.
Alex Lockton & Sarah Whild

Travels of a Hard-Rock Mining Engineer
Martin Stoakes

A customer-centred approach to product design and services.
Amir Azizpour

Professor Dark of Illinois University was a hero of the raid on St. Nazaire during WW2
Prof Philip Dark

Virtual Women
Dr Anne Beaumont

Pounds and Pinfolds
Nigel Mills

Those were the days
David Corbett

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