John R Waller

Einstein's Luck: The Truth behind Some of the Greatest Scientific Discoveries

As John Waller shows in Einstein's Luck, many of our greatest scientists were less than honest about their experimental data. Some were not above using friends in high places to help get their ideas accepted. And some owe their immortality not to any unique discovery but to a combination of astonish...

The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-opt...

Berta and Elmer Hader: A Lifetime of Art

Berta and Elmer Hader were incredibly talented. They married in 1919 and together forged a fifty-year-long career that produced thousands of pieces of art, scores of children's books, and hundreds of paintings and sketches. They enjoyed winning a Caldecott award, international acclaim, and a huge fo...

Two Ships

World War II started in Europe with Germany attacking Poland on 1 September 1939. Britain and France gave Germany two days to withdraw from Poland, but she did not. The two countries then declared war on Germany. For a while not much happened till Germany launched a blitzkrieg against the west of Eu...

Selected Poems of Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller, and John Oldham (Penguin Classics)

The works of three seventeenth century poets, Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller and John Edmund, brought together in one volume.

Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before. Gregor Mendel, the supposed 'founder of genetics' never grasped the fundamental principles of 'Mendelian' ...

A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

In July 1518 a mysterious and terrifying epidemic struck the city of Strasbourg. Hundreds of men and women began dancing wildly, day after day, in the punishing summer heat. They did not want to dance, but could not stop themselves. Throughout August and into September more were seized by the same c...

Sword Fighting: A Manual for Actors & Directors

(Applause Books). SWORD FIGHTING; A MANUAL FOR ACTORS AND DIRECTORS is a comprehensive new work on the art of creating realistic and exciting fight sequences for theatre, film and TV. This book is the product of thirty years research and experimentation into traditional European martial arts by accl...

John Waller (musician)

John Waller (born December 12, 1970) is an American Contemporary Christian musician, ... John was the lead singer for the late-1990s band According to John.

Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War

Beyond the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War

The Devil's Doctor: Felix Kersten and the Secret Plot to Turn Himmler Against Hitler

The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War

Drawings of Monumental Brasses and Incised Slabs by the Waller Brothers 1837-44

Monitoring for Government Agencies

A Circle of Friends: The Tennysons and the Lushingtons of Park House

Macmillan School Atlas