What’s Hollywood like behind the scenes? How does real life compare to reel life? Do the stars create more drama off-screen than on? Is the local social network really full of desperate housewives? How can an English writer find work? Setting up home in Los Angeles involved some real shocks, several of which registered really high on the Richter scale. Only in California would an entire school be taken outside on Halloween to dance to “Ghostbusters”. Only in LA would an 8 year-old know that the man at the carwash had three teardrops tattooed beneath his eye because he’d killed three rival gangmembers. Only in Hollywood would a woman have a sign at the end of her drive saying, “Honk if you’ve had me.” Only in this crazy city would they make it illegal for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church. In this refreshingly frank memoir, English screenwriter Tim John reveals how his family survived their seven year adventure living and working in LA-LA land.

Adventures in LA-LA Land

Arts & Photography

John, Tim

Photography & Video

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This book provides a highly readable account of police work. It builds upon Introduction to Police Work (Rogers and Lewis 2007) to provide a comprehensive, in depth and critical understanding of policing in today's diverse society.  Police Work: Principles and Practice meets the need for an increasingly sophisticated and professional approach to training within the police, whether this is carried out within police forces themselves or within higher education institutions. Written in an accessible style by current and former police practitioners and a nationally recognized expert on the National Intelligence Model, this book focuses – in line with the government's agenda for workforce modernization – on three key areas of policing: community, investigation and intelligence. It introduces readers to many important areas through the use of definition boxes, scenario boxes highlighting good practice, points to note boxes, flowcharts and diagrams as well as a wide range of questions and exercises to help apply their knowledge to different situations and scenarios. This book will be essential reading for those on probationer training programmes and a valuable resource for students taking courses in policing and criminology more generally where an advanced level of understanding of the nature of police work is required.

Police Work: Principles and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Rogers, Colin

Read, Tim

Lewis, Rhobert

Social Sciences

Willan

Fredrick J. Miller came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Germany 150 years ago and started a small brewery that would evolve into one of the world’s largest. In The Miller Beer Barons, author Tim John tells the complete story of the family that built a beer empire from the entrepreneurial days of brewers like Miller, Pabst and Best, through the struggles of Prohibition to the corporate modern era. 
A member of the Miller family, John introduces readers to quirky and controversial family members like Emil Miller, who smashed beer bottles of competitors with his cane when he discovered them at taverns, or John’s own father, Harry, who served a brief, but stormy, tenure as company president. Tim John spent several years researching the book, which is likely the most complete history of Miller Brewing ever done. 
"The Miller Beer Barons" arrives just in time to commemorate Miller’s 150th anniversry in 2005.

The Miller Beer Barons: The Frederick Miller Family and Its Brewery

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Badger Books

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