Kirjailija
Steve Harris
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 21 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2001-2025, suosituimpien joukossa Kingsteignton Through Time. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
21 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuhaarukka 2001-2025.
Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams
Steve Harris; Bruce Dickinson; Iron Maiden
THAMES HUDSON LTD
2025
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Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this magnificent visual book, incorporating commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography from the Iron Maiden archives, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most prestigious band. Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of a new wave of British heavy metal in the 80s, the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence and ferocious dedication to their fans that has won them a huge following around the world and across the generations. Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams traces the creative evolution of heavy metal’s most influential and enthralling band, from 1975 to 2025. Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin and John McMurtrie, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is the definitive legacy volume, celebrating the band’s creativity, dedication, personality and success.
The limitless dimensions of the love that Jesus has for His bride cannot even begin to be expressed in human language. And He longs for His bride to be all that He has created and called her to be in all Her glorious victory. He draws her with His increasing Presence, and the promise of even greater fruitfulness and manifestations of His Glory as the end of days approaches. The Ekklesia is not just called to win the lost. It has been raised up by God to transform nations from grassroots to Government. "One Net, Many Boats" is an in depth study of the potential of the end times Ekklesia. It contains blueprints for revival at personal, corporate, and national levels, and the role of the Ekklesia as a vehicle to enable this is examined in detail. 21st century paradigms such as apostolic centres, hubs and networks, as well as Kingdom worship and resource centres are explored; as are the relationships between the transformation of individuals, Ekklesias, spheres of society, and nations. It documents working examples of the concepts that are discussed. The book is filled with testimonies of Heavenly encounters and of meetings filled with miraculous fruit that spills over into the surrounding regions. This REVISED EDITION expands on the content of the original work, and also includes new testimonies from the field of the miraculous goodness of God.
Rock And Roll Survivor charts all the ups and downs of Del Bromham - guitarist, singer and songwriter for the rock band Stray. Del's story takes you back on his 'Time Machine' to share recollections of his life. Born, and growing up in the 1950s. Becoming a teenager in London during the 'swinging 60s'. Forming his first band and learning his musical apprenticeship playing the clubs at the age of fourteen years in his brothers group. Constantly on tour with Stray he recalls tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister and touring with Kiss and Rush to name but a few. Meeting the Mafia Boss Joe Pagano. His associations with Wilf Pine and Charles Kray (elder brother of the infamous Kray twins) at the offices of the equally infamous Don Arden, along with Arden's daughter Sharon (who became Osbourne). Charting the ups and many downs of being a musician over fifty years in the music business. With forewords by life-long Stray fans, The Damned's Captain Sensible and Iron Maiden's Steve Harris, this is a true rollercoaster ride.
A true and gripping story of what happened when a head on car accident led to a powerful supernatural encounter - one with dramatic, life and death implications. At the end of the book, the reader is shown the steps that are needed to make their own peace with God.
A Divine Encounter documents a powerful Open Heaven experience that took the author to the Throne Room of heaven and back. This was a destiny-defining Divine encounter that changed the author forever. Solidly backed by Scripture, it will speak deeply to anyone who takes the call of God seriously. At the end of the book, the reader will be walked through the steps needed to make their own peace with God.
This is a simple but powerful devotional that will especially speak to anyone who is experiencing the calling and/or choosing process of God.It highlights both the costliness and also the rewards of the Divine call upon a person's life and includes testimonies.At the end of the book, the reader will be walked through the steps needed to make their own peace with God.
The limitless dimensions of the love that Jesus has for His bride cannot even begin to be expressed in human language. And He longs for His bride to be all that He has created and called her to be in all Her glorious victory. He draws her with His increasing Presence, and the promise of even greater fruitfulness and manifestations of His Glory as the end of days approaches. The Ekklesia is not just called to win the lost. It has been raised up by God to transform nations from grassroots to Government. "One Net, Many Boats" is an in depth study of the potential of the end times Ekklesia. It contains blueprints for revival at personal, corporate, and national levels, and the role of the Ekklesia as a vehicle to enable this is examined in detail. 21st century paradigms such as apostolic centres, hubs and networks, as well as Kingdom worship and resource centres are explored; as are the relationships between the transformation of individuals, Ekklesias, spheres of society, and nations. It documents working examples of the concepts that are discussed. The book is filled with testimonies of Heavenly encounters and of meetings filled with miraculous fruit that spills over into the surrounding regions.
The Truth Behind the Stories They Don’t Want You to Know America’s Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States beginning from the enactment of the Constitution. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that disprove America’s history books been brought together in a cohesive historical context, all based on verifiable information. Among dozens of revelations, America’s Secret History ties together a wealth of historical facts from highly credible sources to create a cohesive narrative of uncharted American history that lead us to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Consider: Utilizing the House of Representative’s little-known 1953 Reece Committee revelations, the Carnegie, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Ford foundations have systematically controlled education and the high-level appointees to the US State Department for the last century with the full knowledge and approval of the United States government.Conclusive proof that Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was actually an attempted coup d’état, and President Garfield’s assassination was the first successful coup. JFK’s and the combined assassinations of RFK and MLK—just two months apart—were the third successful coup d’état. All were Deep State initiatives to mold the government into its intended purposes.In 1971, Americans woke up to what the New York Times called “Nixon Shock,” which completely eliminated the gold standard from American currency. Removing gold backing from America’s money, combined with the soon-to-come rise of globalism, led directly to what the Oxfam charity organization recently announced: 26 people now own the same wealth as the poorest 50 percent of the world (almost four billion people). Not another conspiracy theory book, America’s Secret History reveals many more hidden truths and the undisclosed context that drove them, weaving all of them together to explain just how we find ourselves in Donald Trump’s America.
The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens: How the British Empire turned artful dodgers into child killers
Steve Harris
Melbourne Books
2019
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This is the gripping real-life story of two young boys sent by the British Government as impoverished and unwanted juveniles to exile in the worlds first prison built exclusively for children.Some 3000 boys doing their best to survive on the streets of 19th century Great Britain were forcibly removed from their Oliver Twist lives, a stolen generation to be saved from a life of crime by being transported to the other side of the world to endure seven or 14 year sentences in the extraordinary colony of Van Diemens Land.Prejudice, moral panic, harsh justice and expedience saw unwanted boys condemned to severe isolation, solitary confinement, hard labour in chains and thrashings in a juvenile version of notorious Port Arthur, a ground-breaking chapter in the history of juvenile crime and punishment.Some quietly endured in the hope of salvation through rudimentary trade and Biblical instruction, but others became relentlessly defiant and mutinous in a brotherhood of resistance and bullying, inexorably slipping from hope to hell.It culminated on a winters day in 1843 when the infant colony was shocked to hear that two young boys had bashed an overseer to death, facing a trial and a walk to the scaffold.As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the worlds mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another time but implicitly raises questions which remain with us today.
The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest. The British Empire's youngest and most distant outpost found itself at the epicentre of a new crime and empirical fears about the first inter-continental terrorist group, a conspiracy and a 'lone wolf'. In a resulting 'reign of terror' extraordinary steps were taken to safeguard security with laws on treason and sedition which even the Queen felt went too far, and the would-be assassin was hastily executed in a miscarriage of justice led by opportunistic politicians. This is an extraordinary and atmospheric weaving of the stories -- some detailed for the first time -- of royal intrigue, sexual appetite, religious bigotry, patriotic vengeance, naked ambition, national security and moral panic. They are stories of royals, immigrants, archbishops, republicans and the founding fathers of Australia and issues that remain with us today. Drawing on Royal, British and Australian archives, the compelling narrative embraces a pivotal time in the evolution of Australia, and on the 150th anniversary reveals how a minute of madness rocked the country to its foundations, with a legacy which helped shape Australia's history and continues to influence and challenge us today. Revelations' & insights in The Prince and the Assassin: Prince Alfred's spare heir upbringing as 'the chosen one' and prospective King of Australia; Sexually decadent royal behaviour - An historic tour which became the model for 50 subsequent royal tours to Aust; Religious bigotry, violence and death in early Aust; How a young migrant trained and destined to be a priest became an assassin; How the biggest crime in Australia shocked, shamed, terrorised and divided the country; How Henry Parkes, 'founder of federation', suppressed and doctored evidence, hired private spies and criminals for political advantage; Australia suppressing civil liberties, even making it a crime of treason to discuss republicanism and to not drink a toast to the Queen; Australian Catholics accused of disloyalty and an Archbishop conspiring against the Government; Australia's most sensational trial, one of injustice and vengeance for a crime not on the Empire's capital list; Alfred appealing for his would-be killer to not be executed; An Australian Government accused of promoting fear for political advantage and committing treason and fraud.
The Prince and the Assassin: Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror
Steve Harris
Melbourne Books
2017
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The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to 'survive'; all in the context of the great struggles of good-evil, life-death, hope-despair, which drew the attention of Darwin, Twain, Trollope and Dickens as Van Diemans Land evolved from a Hades of Evil to sow the seeds of nationhood. The book paints a vivid picture of the society and poverty from which Blays character was forged in England and the desperate, brutal nature of being a convict in Van Diemens Land. Solomons Noose is an important book in exposing the dark underbelly in the formation of modern Australia.
South Africa is trapped in a titanic clash between black anger and white fear. A self-righteous government hangs on to power in the name of God and on the pretext of containing communist expansion. Fervent freedom fight-ers try to de-stabilise the government and wrestle power from the white minority. 1950-1976, the golden era of apartheid, provides the context in which an Eastern Cape boy grapples with mean-ing in an environment of superstition, religion, tradi-tion, war, racism, broken relationships and betrayal. November 15, 1976, five months after the ANC-initiated Soweto uprising, and a week after the government-spon-sored massacre in Maseru, a private investigator is the target of a bomb at his premises ... This compelling tale echoes our contemporary world, where morality and justice continue to be corrupted by cultural zealots and religious extremists; love is still blind and betrayal remains omnipresent. The book is a work of fiction. It is inspired by events that occurred during the specified period and by some of the author's experiences during that era.
In recent decades, few communities in Devon have experienced such a rapid growth in population as Kingsteignton. Former country lanes are now busy highways and once green fields have given way to housing as the face of Kingsteignton has changed forever. Founded as a key settlement of the Anglo-Saxon conquest in the early eighth century, Kingsteignton became something of a backwater during the Middle Ages, quietly nestled on the north bank of the Teign Estuary. The development of the vast reserves of ball clay on the western side of the parish in the early nineteenth century, accelerated by the building of two canals, saw workers from all parts of Devon move to Kingsteignton in search of jobs. Population movement was facilitated by the expansion of the railways and improvements in the road network. Today two main road routes and a nearby rail link make Kingsteignton easily accessible, bringing ever more growth and change.
ASP .NET plays a core role in the .NET architecture and strategy, including providing the underlying support for Web Services, and allows developers to exploit many of their current skills and experience, but gives them a brand new programming model to work with. It is streamlined, robust, flexible, and powerful - all of the things needed for real-world applications. "Moving to ASP .NET" provides focused and thorough guidance on creating Web applications using ASP .NET, including both Web Form applications and Web Services. Steve Harris and Rob Macdonald have worked extensively with .NET throughout the Beta program, and have gained real-world experience of creating and implementing ASP .NET applications. This book is targeted at current developers rather than novices, and assumes that readers will gain an understanding of companion technologies (such as VB .NET and ADO .NET) from other sources. However, appendices have been included that provide a brief review or introduction to each of these. "Moving to ASP .NET" provides in-depth discussion and examination of the topics that are of interest to current developers, and shows them how to make immediate use of ASP .NET. Topics covered include Web Forms, server-side controls, mobile controls, data access and data binding, XML integration, .NET architecture and configuration, security, state and session management, designing for scalability, and Web Services. Extensive examples are shown throughout the book, and are also available via the Web for readers to access and download.