Books published by Takahe Publishing Ltd

The authors of Poetic Symbiosis have written a second volume of poems on the theme of living with addiction and mental illness. The first book was well received and acknowledged to be a welcome support to those in recovery and the people around them. They have produced this volume in record time despite the prevailing pandemic and its adverse effect on the general positivity that many of us experience. This is a testimony to their determination towards their own recovery while providing an inspiration to us all. Once again, the authors have employed their talents to convey the hopes and means of recovery for those suffering from mental health and addiction problems. It is not an easy road but, through their well-constructed poems, they show that it can be done. They don't pull any punches but they do offer hope.This second volume retains the readable and engaging style of the first. It is informative and entertaining, despite the dark nature of its background. Once again, the authors show that there is hope in recovery and a better life to be discovered.This book is not just for those afflicted with these problems but it gives an insight to those who have never suffered. Take a look from a different perspective - you could learn a lot!

Coventry's coat of arms shows an eagle and a phoenix on either side of the famous "elephant and castle" - why?The eagle was the emblem of Lady Godiva's husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia. The earl and his countess are forever remembered in Coventry's distant past.The phoenix, a mythical bird which is born again from fire, has become the symbol of the new Coventry, rising from the ashes after so much of the city was destroyed by war.In The Eagle and the Phoenix you can witness some of the dramatic moments in the history of Coventry, through nine stories told by children who saw them: Marcus the young Roman, training horses at the Lunt Fort; Thomas and Anne, plotting with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots; Daniel and William, viewing a terrible hanging at Gibbet Hill; Tilly the weaver and Amit the Sky Blues fan.Take a journey into Coventry's past - and imagine yourself there.

Telegraph People celebrates the characters who produced a multi-edition evening newspaper in the large industrial Midlands city of Coventry across two decades. It reveals what went on behind the façade of the Coventry Evening Telegraph offices in Corporation Street. Read about the journalists who put this newspaper together - the dramas, the crises and the fun. This was before the digital revolution and… • Stories had to be by filed by phone • Reporters hammered out their words on typewriters • Breaking news from around the globe clattered into the office on tele-printers • The news was set in hot metal • Pages were torn up hourly to accommodate breaking news and great pictures • Copies were printed in their tens of thousands on giant, thundering presses • Vans roared all over the city and neighbouring towns, dropping off copies, including the Saturday night PINK sports edition • Tens of thousands of newspapers were delivered direct to homes These people arguably had the best job ever - journalism. Among them was a young man who embarked on an unlikely career in newspapers.This exclusive and true story is seen through the eyes of journalist JOHN LAMB, who gained an intimate insight into the Telegraph on three separate occasions - as office boy, deputy sports editor and assistant editor. He worked on the smallest and the largest newspapers in the UK, including the Kenilworth Weekly News, the Coventry Evening Telegraph (plus its PINK Saturday night sports edition), the Birmingham Evening Mail, the London Evening News, the News of the World, the Sun, the London Evening Standard and the Birmingham Post.

Following the successful reception of his first book, David Crossan-Bratt has created a second collection of poems and short stories. Some of these have been written specially for this book while others are older writings that were not included in the previous book. Those who enjoyed his first publication will be pleased to read his poetic reflections on a similarly wide variety of themes. This book finishes with three short stories written in David's gripping style. Another thought-provoking collection that is sure to engage and entertain.

Coventry is used to being written off. But it always makes a comeback. Forty years on from being labelled a 'Ghost Town', it is to be the next UK City of Culture. After Hull, as it happens, the place where Philip Larkin was head librarian at the university's Brynmor Jones Library. His love of libraries, of books, of poetry began in the city where he was born, went to school and spent his first 18 years. His childhood was not "unspent", as he claimed in I Remember, I Remember. He remembered it all too well, the good times as well as the bad, and was devastated by the Luftwaffe's prolonged bombardment of one of England's great mediaeval cities shortly after he had left for Oxford. Larkin About in Coventry goes behind the great poet's curmudgeonly facade and truffles out the places where he was content and even "happy" in his youth. It also takes a fresh look at a city that has two thriving universities and a burgeoning arts scene. Not a ghost town but a host town for cultures from around the globe. Chris Arnot has been a national freelance journalist and author since 1991. His last book, Small Island by Little Train, has been republished in paperback by the AA after being shortlisted for the Edward Stanford awards for outstanding travel-writing. He has written six other books, co-authored The Archers' Archives for the BBC and ghost-wrote eminent educationalist David Kershaw's autobiography Thanks Shanks, how Bill Shankly bought me an education, for Takahe Publishing.

This book introduces you to remote sensing and control projects using the Arduino Uno and the 433 MHz transmitter/receiver (Tx / Rx) modules. We have been quite specific in our coverage in an attempt to thoroughly explore the subject with particular reference to a pair of readily available and inexpensive remote control modules. These modules have a good transmission range and are simple to use - particularly with the library that we have created to simplify the sending and receiving of data.Assumed Level of Previous Knowledge While this book is intended to be an informative source for a broad range of experimenters, it has been written with a narrow focus on a particular topic (remote sensing and control) using a particular resource (the 433 MHz modules). We expect that the reader will have conducted at least a few basic Arduino experiments and will have gained some familiarity with the programming language. We provide program notes for most experiments where we attempt to outline the purpose and working of the code. While we don't explain the program code in every detail, the programs are internally documented to indicate the purpose of relevant lines of code.Why We Have Created this Book and How it Teaches YouThere were two main thoughts behind this book: to investigate various remote control projects, and to do this with reference to a specific component through a series of related projects each involving a short set of experiments in which the user could gradually build up their knowledge and that additional programming code could be introduced in a readily understandable way. We wanted the reader to feel that having completed the book, they would be confident in setting up any project using these modules.

This book enters a twilight world of intrigue, organisational politics, competing personalities and ideological assertiveness. This was a world where in some but by no means all cases, loyalty to the Conservative Party played second fiddle to the group and its agenda. Rivalries were intense, as were the platforms on which Conservative group politics were conducted. There were even cases where certain group zealots had few compunctions about subverting the party leadership and their principal lieutenants. Outwardly, Tory politics appeared so civil, but in reality was quite barbarous.Assessments of the modern British state beget the treatises of reputable historians, but those are incomplete without an informed evaluation of the full workings of Britain's most effective political force, the Conservative Party. It was to shed light on the latter that this workwas undertaken, and which the author has pursued thoroughly with the sole purpose of objective enquiry.

This book has been written for bright young people who want some extra material to add to their mathematical skills and to introduce some further topics of interest. It presents a range of topics in a friendly and informative way with examples and questions throughout, along with further questions and answers for each chapter. The mathematical content, along with the other topics, has been selected for intriguing aspects that are likely to appeal to students of all ages and will hopefully inspire them to seek further knowledge.The author, Steven Hodder, studied mathematics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and subsequently became a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Coventry University. He has extensive teaching experience in both mathematics and computer science - this book brings out some of the aspects that he found people enjoyed and is pitched at a level that is comprehensible to a wide range of ages and abilities.The book is meant to be fun and an incentive to find out more. There are easy bits as well as some more challenging content, but it will provide a great resource that can be referred to for many years. Apart from the mathematical content, there are also sections that include codes, philosophy, paradoxes, logic, computers, and navigation. The book finishes with a chapter on mathematical tricks which demonstrates various shortcuts and ways of impressing friends.

TEN stories that with tongue firmly in cheek romp along the border of fact and fantasy dipping into crime, romance, wistful adventure, celebrity spookery and hospital spoofery. Each tale is self contained but inhabits the same half-woken dreamscape. Where a Tudor Queen with a fatal attraction brings slaughter to a country wedding; Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison raise spirits in a Paris cemetery with a storming duet; Keef's pet puppy brings chaos to a Stones' concert during an escapade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' stroll; and a pill designed to perk up giant pandas is doing wonders for the love lives of folk festival fans. The trail continues with a stop off in London for a tour of Shakespeare's old haunts. Alas poor guide, they have been hijacked by musical hall turns. Then it's off to France to join in Reynard's retirement dream of busking, armed with a squeezebox and just one tune. An a la carte menu with a generous portion of humour and a sprinkling of parody. Those with a distaste for vain politicians, town planners, and profiteering hospital are also catered for. Ardent royalists, poetry purists, folkies with a finger in their ear, and local politicians who own white dinner jackets may find it unpalatable. Written by journalist Steve Chilton, the stories feature several locations in his native Midlands, including Coventry Cathedral and Kenilworth Castle.

"A Short History of Sunningdale" evolved from a series of articles in the local parish magazine following requests for information from inhabitants of the village. F.C.Hodder's carefully researched historical facts, along with his personal recollections from his long association with Sunningdale, beginning in the Victorian age, create a unique and captivating blend of anecdote and history. Informative chapters include the influence of nunneries and monasteries as well as the activities of local authoritarian figures with original references (old English) and some revealing financial accounts of the period. The concluding chapters trace the development of the schools, the parochial charities, and the connections between Sunningdale and the Royalty. The further foreword by Mr Hodder's granddaughter, Bridget Wade, contains previously unknown details concerning the character of the author and the circumstances under which he wrote this book.