New Releases by Dan Jones

The Color of Time spans more than one hundred years of world history—from the reign of Queen Victoria and the American Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industrial developments, the arts, the tragedies of war, the politics of peace, and the lives of men and women who made history.This illustrated narrative is a collaboration between a gifted Brazilian artist and a New York Times bestselling British historian. Marina Amaral has created two hundred stunning images, using rare photographs as the basis for her full-color digital renditions. Dan Jones has written a narrative that anchors each image in its context and weaves them into a vivid account of the world that we live in today.A fusion of amazing pictures and well-chosen words, The Color of Time offers a unique—and often beautiful—perspective on the past.

I cavalieri templari furono il più ricco, il più potente e il più segreto degli ordini militari che fi orirono nel periodo delle crociate. La loro storia, che ebbe una rapida ascesa seguita da una sanguinosa e umiliante caduta, ha lasciato uno strascico di mistero che continua ad affascinare e a ispirare storici e scrittori. Dan Jones ripercorre ogni passo della storia dei templari, lunga almeno 200 anni: la loro fondazione come ordine caritatevole a protezione dei pellegrini che visitavano la Terra Santa, la loro trasformazione in corpo militare scelto che combatteva nelle battaglie crociate, la loro evoluzione in fi nanzieri sofi sticati che godevano di esenzione dalle tasse e di un privilegiato accesso a papi, imperatori e re. A partire da fonti storiche originali e rigorose, I templari racconta in modo appassionante una storia in cui si contrappongono cristiani e musulmani, papi e imperatori, ricchi e poveri, fedeli e infedeli: dalla guerra apparentemente senza fine in Palestina, Siria ed Egitto, allo scontro di sunniti e sciiti con gli invasori cristiani, dal rogo che mise fine all''ordine alla rinascita di un mito che continua fino a oggi.

Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups is a collection of 20 bedtime stories for adults from the ''Dan Jones Hypnosis'' YouTube channel. The bedtime stories have been created in a way that encourages sleep and promotes wellbeing, helping with stress, anxiety and worry, three of the main areas behind many sleep problems, so, these bedtime stories are ideal for stressed out adults or those who find they worry or overthink when they should be falling asleep. These sleep stories for adults can be read by the person who wants to fall asleep, or read to someone to help them fall asleep, or audio recorded for personal use to help you fall asleep. Each bedtime story is a transcript of a 20-35 minute long hypnotic healing bedtime story. For most of human history storytelling helped people to share knowledge and wisdom while inspiring change and creativity. Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of verbal hypnosis. Stories stimulate and access the dreaming brain allowing people to update their neurology with new learning to change thinking, behaviours and responses to life events. Somewhere along the way storytelling became associated with children, it was seen as odd if you were an adult who said you liked listening to stories. This has now started to change, adults listening to stories and reading bedtime stories is on the rise. Dan Jones has over 20 years experience using storytelling as a form of therapy and to help people sleep, he also has a successful YouTube channel ''Dan Jones Hypnosis'' with over 100 hypnotic healing bedtime stories for adults and over 20 sleep stories for children.

“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger" – Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem A faltering war in the middle east. A band of elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect Christianity’s holiest sites. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies. Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Dan Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors whose heroism and alleged depravity have been shrouded in myth. The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Experts at channeling money across borders, they established the medieval world’s largest and most innovative banking network and waged private wars against anyone who threatened their interests. Then, as they faced setbacks at the hands of the ruthless Mamluk sultan Baybars and were forced to retreat to their stronghold in Cyprus, a vindictive and cash-strapped King of France set his sights on their fortune. His administrators quietly mounted a damning case against the Templars, built on deliberate lies and false testimony. On Friday October 13, 1307, hundreds of brothers were arrested, imprisoned and tortured, and the order was disbanded amid lurid accusations of sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Pope in secret proceedings and their last master was brutally tortured and burned at the stake. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state? Dan Jones goes back to the sources tobring their dramatic tale, so relevant to our own times, to life in a book that is at once authoritative and compulsively readable.

This book offers a revolutionary way to tell bedtime stories helping to make bedtime a time of peace, calm and sleep for your child. Based on psychological principles and techniques, these stories will help to guide your child comfortably asleep. They are to be read to your child at bedtime, rather than with or by your child. These bedtime stories are written to be read to 4-7 year old''s (they can be read to children as young as two) as they rest in bed with their eyes shut listening along. Each of the stories takes about 10-15 minutes to read. The sleepy bedtime story approach has been taught to many parents and used by professionals working in care homes to help children fall asleep at night. This approach can be used with any story, but this is the first time that stories have been written specifically to optimise the effectiveness of the techniques. If you are after a scientific, calming, relaxing approach to getting your child to sleep, then this is definitely the bedtime stories book for you.

''Hypnotherapy'' is the definitive text if you want to learn all you need to know about hypnotherapy, from how to do hypnosis, how to work therapeutically, how to set up and run your own practice, and how to generate alternative income streams. Hypnotherapy covers: How problems are formed, What trance is, The SET model, How to do hypnosis, What to do before and after you have hypnotised clients, Emotional needs, Innate skills and abilities, Observation skills, The RIGAAR model, Self-hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis, Ideo-dynamic healing, Strategies and treatment ideas for many problems hypnotherapists work with, Setting up in practice, and Alternative income streams to make additional income. There are also two annotated session transcripts so that you can see all that you will have learnt being applied and follow along to see how it all works in live sessions (One session is an improving a clients artistic abilities, the other is helping a client that feels they can''t say ''no'' to people)

With the rise of perfectly-preened sports stars, online dating and the dreaded selfie-stick, every man worth his salt wants to looks his best. Male grooming is no longer about being vain: it''s essential. A real man has a stylish haircut, conditions his beard, maniscapes, moisturizes, wears decent shoes, takes the right vitamins, and is probably hitting the gym right now to hone his physique. Feeling confused? Fear not, because Dan Jones is here to guide you through everything you ever needed to know about personal grooming. From man-buns and moustaches, to eye cream, facials and buying a decent suit, this is a dapper DIY guide for all men, from teens to dads, who want to look their best year round.

The author of Powers and Thrones and presenter of Netflix’s Secrets of Great British Castles offers a vivid account of the events that inspired Game of Thrones and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard III Discover the real history behind The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, the PBS Great Performance series of Shakespeare''s plays, starring Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sofie Okenedo and Hugh Bonneville. The crown of England changed hands five times over the course of the fifteenth century, as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought to the death for the right to rule. In this riveting follow-up to The Plantagenets, celebrated historian Dan Jones describes how the longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains of history were thrown together in these turbulent times, from Joan of Arc and Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt marked the high point of the medieval monarchy, to Richard III, who murdered his own nephews in a desperate bid to secure his stolen crown. This was a period when headstrong queens and consorts seized power and bent men to their will. With vivid descriptions of the battles of Towton and Bosworth, where the last Plantagenet king was slain, this dramatic narrative history revels in bedlam and intrigue. It also offers a long-overdue corrective to Tudor propaganda, dismantling their self-serving account of what they called the Wars of the Roses. “If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones or The Tudors then Dan Jones’ swashbucklingly entertaining slice of medieval history will be right up your alley… Every bit as entertaining and readable as his previous blockbuster The Plantagenets.” – Daily Express

''The Hollow Crown is exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history . . . Jones''s material is thrilling . . . There is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of the grand narrative; it is a supremely skilful piece of storytelling.'' Sunday Telegraph The fifteenth century saw the crown of England change hands seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. The Hollow Crown completes Dan Jones'' epic history of medieval England, and describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart to be finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in British history were thrown together in these turbulent times: Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule at home marked the high point of the medieval monarchy; Edward IV, who was handed his crown by the scheming soldier Warwick the Kingmaker, before their alliance collapsed into a fight to the death; and the last Plantagenet, Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Finally, the Tudors arrived - but even their rule was only made certain in the 1520s, when Henry VIII ruthlessly hunted down his family''s last remaining enemies. In the midst this tumult, chivalry was reborn, the printing press arrived and the Renaissance began to flourish. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, at which Richard III was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare''s famous history plays.

The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal) The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England’s best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years’ War, when England’s national identity was forged by the sword.

In this groundbreaking sequel to The Gold Mine, authors Michael and Freddy Ballé present a compelling story that teaches readers the most important lean lesson of all: how to transform themselves and their workers through the discipline of learning the lean system.The Lean Manager: A Novel of Lean Transformation reveals how individuals can go beyond the short-term gains from tools, and realize a deeper, sustainable path of improvement. Full of human moments that capture the excitement and drama of lean implementation, as well as clear explanations of how tools and systems go hand-in-hand, this book will teach and inspire every person working to make lean a reality in their organization today.

At that point in his life Dan didnt do church stuff but God was about to demonstrate that you dont have to be a preacher to experience how God encounters ordinary people in mighty ways. God gave an ordinary person a message that moves many to tears and all to action. An amazing journey from disbelief to experiencing supernatural workings in a mighty way. Walk side by side with a mysterious lady during the middle of the night in a downpour. Angels walk among us. Witness the miraculous healing of a young boy and the dramatic conversion of a non believer birthed as a result of this truly amazing event. An unconventional approach to salvation leads to an all consuming desire for salvation. Spared from death to share a fresh message of hope, inspiration, and answers to dealing with lifes many challenges...if only you would.... GO FIND OUT.

The ONLY book on the psychology of the big brother TV show When you watch Big Brother, do you have a feeling about which housemates like each other? Do you wish you knew what the housemates dreams meant? Would you like to be able to understand the housemates behaviours and interactions more like psychologist do? If the answer to these questions is YES, then this book is for you Learn to watch the Big Brother TV show in the same way that psychologists watch the show. Throughout this book the reader will learn to: - Be able to ''read'' the unconscious information that the Big Brother housemates give off verbally and non-verbally - Notice whether housemates are likely to be lying or telling the truth - Notice whether housemates are being manipulative - Know who is likely to do well and who is not - and much more... You will also learn what impact being in the Big Brother house is likely to have psychologically on the housemates and who is likely to cope best under the conditions set by Big Brother. The reader will learn about flirt signals, bullying in the house and interpreting the housemate''s dreams. Throughout this book I have used examples from UK Celebrity Big Brother 2007 to illustrate the points that I am covering. "As a fan of Big Brother I watch it in a different way to most people. Due to my training and experience as a psychological interpreter when I watch Big Brother I observe how the different contestants behave and interact with each other. I don''t make interpretations in quite the same way as most other psychologists and psychotherapists do. For example: Many psychologists look for specific behaviours and then make interpretations based on isolated behaviours. One common behaviour is that crossing your arms or legs means that you are being defensive. This may be true but if you see this behaviour you shouldn''t take it in isolation to other behaviours. It could equally be that it is cold or that the person is more comfortable by crossing their arms or legs. The key point that I would make is that you should keep in mind to watch out for PATTERNS. If someone, for example, covers their mouth and you think they were lying then look for other behaviours that were done at the same time and then check these in future situations. Poker players do this often to notice the behaviours of other players that give away whether they have a good hand or not. I had a client that when talking about her problem subtly dug her heals into the ground. I changed the subject then after a few minutes talked about it again and saw her dig her heals in again. I knew then that a suspected pattern occurred. She wanted to get better but it turned out she was getting something out of being ill (attention from her husband). After thousands of hours of watching people you get used to quickly picking up on people''s patterns of behaviour and on ways you can test those patterns. There is so much that I could cover for you to look out for when watching Big Brother that I have to cut down to what I think are the key points."

Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian. ''Summer of Blood'' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381.

Heroes is a selection of the ultimate heroes and heroines from world history. Informing, entertaining and inspiring these are texts that are suitable for readers of all ages. A treasure trove of the greatest stories of courage and achievement ever recorded, a collection of lives, deeds and events that everyone should know -and no one should forget. [back cover].

"Inside a seemingly-normal family is Simon Gates, a father and husband secretly plagued by his compulsive, adulterous lifestyle. While attempting to turn his life around, a horrifying event pushes him further into a state of secrecy and deception. Simon''s adolescent son, Sean, is growing tired of his childhood friends and searching for adventure, even trouble. He finds it in an unsettling discovery, leading to a morbid obsession. Little does he know what he has uncovered is a direct result of his father''s bizarre behavior"--Page 4 of cover

If you are seeking publicity for your good cause, then this is the book for you. Distilled from decades of famous Amnesty International campaigning initiatives, it is a wonderfully illustrated collection of eye-catching ideas and practical ''how-to-do-it'' techniques. From giant puppets to school assemblies, floating candles to organising a clubnight, these are breath-taking ways of making your good cause visible. What''s more, they are great fun. Do you need to be a Michelangelo or Damien Hirst to hog the limelight? Absolutely not!