Böcker av John Lennon

John Lennon's literary debut back in print to mark its 50th Anniversary

The definitive exploration of John Lennon's first major solo album after the break-up of the Beatles.

Lennon's life in his own words - this is an insightful book showing John as he really was.

The first-ever collection of the letters of John Lennon, now available in paperback.

Do you have a modern or a modernised house with central heating and good windows, yet you still feel cold? Are your energy bills rising year on year? Do you have a tool bag and some spare weekends? If the answer is, 'Yes', then this is the book for you! Written for the DIY enthusiast, this jargon-free manual gives practical instructions on how to bring any home up to 21st-century insulation standards. This book explains how to insulate the areas that housebuilders of a previous era neglected. It tells us the latest thinking about moisture and ventilation and shows us how to avoid common DIY lining pitfalls, of which weak mountings and moisture traps are two common mistakes. This book is in two parts. Part I shows in detail how to insulate and line the insides of our walls. This is probably the most effective insulation task we can do in a house. Yet, wall insulation is often overlooked in favour of a better heating system or window replacement: "How can it be," we ask, "that I have a modern, well-insulated home, yet it is still cold?" The answer is in the walls. Part II of this book adds methods for adding insulation below floors, onto ceilings and ways of improving the performance of existing windows. It also discusses the sealing of draughts and the opposite issue, ensuring adequate ventilation. Like the other books in the DIY HOME INSULATION series, Walls, Windows Floors and Ventilation uses the author's own house in England as a case study, with accompanying photographs from his insulation work.

We all know from our school science days that heat rises. By insulating our roof spaces, we can stop heat leakage and literally put a lid on our energy bills. The materials required are available in most DIY shops and the costs are not excessive. In an era of rising energy prices, the incentive to stop wasting heat from the top of our houses is a strong one. Attics and Lofts is written for the DIY enthusiast. It explains in jargon-free detail, with illustrations, how to do tasks unique to a home's roof space. For example, how to make an attic access hatch, how to remove ceiling downlights and how to avoid moisture traps caused by rising air entering a cold space. This book is in two parts - Part I is about insulating unconverted attics and Part II concerns the relining of existing loft conversions. It uses the author's house in England as a case study, with accompanying photographs from his insulation work.

"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Russia/The Soviet Union, The USA, Finland, Sweden, The UK, and Mexico. Together they give a complex and comparative - albeit far from comprehensive - picture of working-class literature(s) from an international perspective, without losing sight of national specificities. By capturing a wide range of definitions and literatures, this collection gives a broad and rich picture of the many-facetted phenomenon of working-class literature(s), disrupts narrow understandings of the concept and phenomenon, as well as identifies and discusses some of the most important theoretical and historical questions brought to the fore by the study of this literature. If read as stand-alone chapters, each contribution gives an overview of the history and research of a particular nation's working-class literature. If read as an edited collection (which we hope you do), they contribute toward a more complex understanding of the global phenomenon of working-class literature(s)." This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

The definitive exploration--told in revelatory detail--of the writing, recording, and release of John Lennon's celebrated and magical fourth solo album Mind Games, and the era that inspired it.

A birthday gift book, featuring quotations by John Lennon

The description for this book, Lennon-isms, will be forthcoming.

John Lennon wrote "Skywriting by Word of Mouth," an impressive collection of writings and drawings, while Yoko was pregnant with Sean, and always planned to have it published. It was a wish that seemed to end with his assassination in 1980 and the subsequent theft of the manuscript from the Lennons' home in 1982. When it was recovered and first published in 1986, "Skywriting" received immediate critical and popular acclaim. Written in Lennon's extraordinary voice, and lavishly illustrated with his own drawings, the collection reveals his fertile creative spirit up close and in full force. Included in "Skywriting" is "Two Virgins," written when the public learned that John and Yoko were living together as husband and wife, and John's only autobiography. In addition there are notes on his falling in love with Yoko, the breakup of the Beatles, his persecution by the U.S. authorities and his withdrawal from public life. This is a book with John Lennon's spirit on every page -- a spirit the world needs to remember. "Candid and scathing....It's no wonder Lennon's fans grow more in love with him as time goes by... his great influence on popular music makes him impossible to forget; so does this book ."" --Houston Chronicle" "Marvelous, delightful reading, and for Lennon fans a must." -- "Publishers Weekly"Candid and scathing...A reflection of its author's creativity and enduring appeal." "--People" "It is no wonder John Lennon's fans grow more in love with him as time goes by...His great influence on popular music makes him impossible to forget, so does this book." "--Houston Chronicle" "Marvelous, delightful reading and for John Lennon fans a must." "--Publishers Weekly"

Lennons bok Skywriting By Word Of Mouth i dubbelspråkig svensk-engelsk utgåva. Med 3-minuters bonus-cd: utdrag från John Lennons allra sista intervju, som gjordes bara timmar innan han sköts till döds den 8 december 1980. Skywriting By Word Of Mouth är en rik och rolig bok, här finns Lennons enda självbiografi, en kompakt redogörelse över 16 sidor om barndomen, om kvinnorna i hans liv, om åren med Beatles och uppbrottet från Beatles ("Jag startade bandet. Jag löste upp bandet. Så enkelt är det."), om att skilsmässan från Beatles var värre än skilsmässan från första frun, men det var nödvändigt, Beatles hade gått i stå och blivit en bandslinga, Yoko fick honom att bryta sig loss. Om John & Yokos bed-in, när de inbjöd världspressen till sitt sovrum för att snacka fred. Om flytten till USA och tiden med undergrounden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale. Om Allen Ginsberg. Om kampen att ta sig ur heroinmissbruket. Om svårigheten att få stanna i USA. FBI avlyssnade John och Yoko för att hitta en konkret anledning att kasta ut dem och under tiden förhalades Johns ansökan om att få stanna i USA. Om åren i New York när han beskylldes för att vara improduktiv, men i själva verket gjorde massor. Och mycket annat, allt med John Lennons oefterhärmliga klang i de rappa formuleringarna.

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY YOKO ONO AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHORJohn Lennon wrote the material collected in Skywriting by Word of Mouth during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean Lennon.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SIR PAUL MCCARTNEYFirst published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat collection of John Lennon's stories, drawings and poems.