Bøger af Luke Johnson

The ultimate guide to hosting parties, with practical advice for mastering the art of entertaining.

A tortured and extraordinarily gifted veteran (Black Cloud) reluctantly teams up with an Agent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (John Hernadez) to solve a string of kidnappings of Native American women. After having to deal with the tragic results of his actions and loss of life while on tour, Black Cloud offers his astounding forensic skills to Agent Hernadez. As they dive deeper into the wormhole which are the abductions they find out that a nefarious organization, human trafficking and big money interests are at play. A contemporary and exciting spin on the classic detective/mystery novel!

Martial Arts in movies is often made up of a variety of styles and all put together using fight choreographers and action directors, this introduction to whats behind the cameras gives insight on the styles used on camera and the differences between the American and Hong Kong style martial arts action genre.

The justice system fails us almost on a daily basis, that means someone else must act as the sword of the law. Pedophiles walk free, murderers continue taking innocent souls. This visceral, violent, action packed story about night guard, Jason Stiles, that is fed up with the system failing those it should protect. The calculating, logical anti-hero takes justice into his own hands, becoming the protector of the weak and the terror of the evil. He enacts violent bloody justice upon those that deserve it. Enjoy this fast paced, exciting tale of vigilante justice.

Dwight D Eisenhower is somebody that could get lost in the pages of history if you weren't paying attention. How that could happen is hard to believe because he was actually an amazing man and leader. Long before he was president, he was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Can you imagine the kind of responsibility on his shoulders? And that's only the beginning of his career. He would later go on to win the office of the US Presidency. Not only that, but there are several things we as the population have now because he initiated its creation. For example, did you know that he was the one who started NASA? He was also responsible for initiating the Interstate Highway Act. Yep, those roads we travel on now are thanks in large part to President Eisenhower.

The people of Siwale village in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, were still celebrating independence from Britain when Robert Mugabe's government, unhappy that they had voted for a rival political party, sent soldiers to crack down on them. The government claimed that it was dealing with dissidents. More than 20 000 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were killed. Thousands more were displaced. The operation is widely known as gukurahundi. The killings only ended in December 1987 when a Unity Accord was signed between the ruling party, ZANU and the opposition party, ZAPU. Years later, in 1997, Mugabe would characterise the killings as a 'moment of madness'. But how were ordinary people in the villages affected? This is the account of one man.

"Quiver is a book of reckoning, a book of ghosts, a book of lineal fracture and generational fatherlesness. It's a visceral guide through boyhood into fatherhood. One that yields witness to trauma, erotic shames, brutalities and toxic masculinity, and in so doing, emerges with a speaker beginning to free himself. Patricia Smith said it best: "Quiver will change the way you see.""--

For eight years between 1998 and 2006, Luke Johnson wrote a regular column as "The Maverick" in "The Sunday Telegraph". "The Maverick" quickly developed a cult following among readers who wanted to understand the blunt truth about investment, entrepreneurs, business history, and corporate life. This book brings together 84 of the best articles.

Luke Johnson is the man behind the growth of PizzaExpress and as a host of other leading brands; one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs with an estimated personal fortune of 120 million. In Start It Up he compresses two decades of success to reveal the realities of running your own business and bust some key myths along the way. Learn how to find the right idea or buy someone else's; source capital from all sorts of places you never expected; get the best from everyone you meet on the way - chiefly yourself; and stay sane while you do it.Start It Up is that all-too-rare thing: a how-to book by someone who actually has.