The life story of one of the most physically distinctive presences in English football, looking back and laughing about episodes during his time at Barnsley, Hartlepool, York and many others.
With 19 spells at various clubs in the Football League, Jon Parkin has cut an instantly recognisable figure in English football for the past 20 years. At 6" 4' and weighing in as one of football's heavyweights, Parkin hasplayed more than 600 games during his time, to York where he is currently top scorer. This is his no-holds barred life story.
Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged to be the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes’, s political and religious ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years, Jon Parkin follows the fate of Hobbes’, s texts (particularly Leviathan) and the development of his controversial reputation during the seve...
