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A gripping and eye-opening insight into life as a forensic psychiatrist, from one of the most experienced doctors in the field

The first book that exclusively chronicles all the solo albums from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. All albums are explored with a song-by-song analysis of each album with Taylor ranking each album as he explores them in-depth.

The book takes 45 chart toppers and writes their story. The music, the lyrics, the artists, producers and writers are all discussed, as well as any side or back stories to do with the single.

A light-hearted look at Jethro Tull. Each chapter is a musical journey through the song, looking at what was happening with the band at that time. There is also time to recognise the musician's intrinsic and fantastic contributions to the musical world of Jethro Tull.

These poems seek out the intimate stranger in ourselves and each other, finding as well the sense of absence alive in the midst of all deeper experience. That may be beyond our rationale understanding, but it is opportune, even compelling, for the imagination and for love, its scars the beauty marks of a joy fleeting and universal. These poems report that oldest and latest news.

"True to his title there are many fathers (along with a few prominent women) celebrated here, foremost his own father Joe Howard "Buzz" Taylor, as well as ancestors like Reuben Taylor, first of his Kentucky line, surrogate fathers including his Uncle Louis and best friend David Orr, and his son, now a father himself, continuing the generational saga. But recalling that the child is father of the man, the chief reason to welcome this book is for the insights it affords into Taylor's early life story, including nostalgic accounts of his childhood in and around Louisville, Kentucky, vivid portraits of the people who shaped his development, and his reckoning with the fraught history of the Civil War and his legacy as a southerner. Taylor says this may be as close to an autobiography as he is apt to write, which is all the more reason to cherish these sketches from the life of a true Kentucky literary treasure."-Larry W. Moore, publisher, Broadstone Books

Master the theory and practice of using color to bring paintings to life, with this unique visual reference guide by respected artist Richard Taylor. Explore color through the medium of watercolor paints - what their properties are, how they work together and how they can be used to make your paintings shine.

In this, the third volume in his comprehensive, highly illustrated three-volume history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army, Dick Taylor covers the post-war period, up to the present day.

This second volume in the three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army covers the period of the Second World War, in which the tank came of age and developed into the principal land weapon of decision.

In this fresh evaluation of Western ethics, noted philosopher Richard Taylor argues that philosophy must return to the classical notion of virtue as the basis of ethics. To ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, ethics was chiefly the study of how individuals attain personal excellence, or "virtue," defined as intellectual sophistication, wisdom, strength of character, and creativity. With the ascendancy of the Judeo-Christian ethic, says Taylor, this emphasis on pride of personal worth was lost. Instead, philosophy became preoccupied with defining right and wrong in terms of a divine lawgiver, and the concept of virtue was debased to mean mere obedience to divine law. Even today, in the absence of religious belief, modern thinkers unwittingly continue this legacy by creating hairsplitting definitions of good and evil.Taylor points out that the ancients rightly understood the ultimate concern of ethics to be the search for happiness, a concept that seems to have eluded contemporary society despite unprecedented prosperity and convenience. Extolling Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Taylor urges us to reread this brilliant and still relevant treatise, especially its emphasis on an ethic of aspiration.

, A Thousand Fates explores the afterlife of medieval monasticism in England and Wales, a thousand years monasticism in England and Wales came to an abrupt end in the mid-sixteenth century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At its peak two hundred years earlier, many people chose the contemplative life, while the rich sought salvation through the foundation or embellishment of religious houses. Much of the nation's wealth was locked into these complexes through elaborate rebuilding, gifts of precious objects, property donations and flourishing libraries of rare books. Then in just four years all of the eight hundred plus houses were closed and ten thousand people dispersed with the monastic fortune liquidated and passed to the crown. Today we are left with echoes of a time dominated by an enclosed elite, their homes repurposed or derelict or obliterated. Some of these foundations still thrive as churches, schools, homes or tourist attractions. Others though have left little physical trace, the casual viewer ignorant of their existence. This book is not an account of why the monasteries closed or what happened to the people displaced. Instead it focuses on the monastic buildings and their numerous fates and brings life to their stories,

A former Kentucky poet laureate presents an evocative look of the economic, social, and cultural transformation of Kentucky from wilderness to early settlement by examining the regional primary watershed.

Fully illustrated complete history of British armoured warfare from the pioneering tanks for the First World War through to the start of the Second World War.

Richard Taylor gives an overview of the current state of the hoplite debate and sets the hoplite and the Greek phalanx in the context of contemporary military developments outside Greece, asking whether the hoplite was really so unique.