The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr AKA Houdini by Peter JohnsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.4 MBOverview: For fans of Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee, Gary D. Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars, and Jack Gantos’s Joey Pigza Books comes a hilarious and poignant slice-of-life novel from critically acclaimed author and poet Peter Johnson.When an author comes to speak […]
Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter GuralnickRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MbOverview: Robert Johnson, while probably the most influential of all blues guitarists, is also one of the most obscure. Recognized as an influence on musicians like Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband in 1938–at the age of twenty-seven. […]
Collingwood’s The Idea of History: A Reader’s Guide by Peter JohnsonRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.2MBOverview: The Idea of History is the best known work of the Oxford philosopher and historian RG Collingwood. Published posthumously in 1946 it is, in effect, two books: a historiography and a philosophy of history. Students look to Collingwood for a […]
Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson by Peter Martin (editor)Requirements: PDF Reader, 1.54mbOverview: Thanks to Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, we remember Dr. Johnson today as a great wit and conversationalist, the rationalist epitome and the sage of the Enlightenment. He is more often quoted than read, his name invoked in party conversation on such […]
Festiniog Railway. Volume 2: From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 – 2014 (Narrow Gauge Railways) by Peter JohnsonRequirements: ePUB Reader, 22.8 MBOverview: Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high […]