Bøger af Mike Butler

A major history of British music, especially folk music, based around the life of iconic sound engineer Bill Leader. Based on extensive and exclusive interviews conducted over ten years with Bill and other major players. Each volume in this series is illustrated with rare, often unpublished images and original artwork by Peter Seal.

Since 1912 the city of Denver has owned parks in the mountains west of the city limits. Today there are 22 developed parks and 24 conservation parks comprising 14,141 acres in the Denver Mountain Parks system. From Genesee to Red Rocks to Echo Lake, parks large and small have invited urban visitors seeking relaxation in the mountains for over a century. Most visitors don't even realize these parks belong to Denver, but without these parks, many scenic mountain ridges would be covered with subdivisions today. Author Mike Butler has explored all 22 developed parks and created this guide to help visitors find the parks and enjoy the historic features of each park. With location maps and lists of activities provided for each park, travelers will want to carry this handy guide along with them on trips to Denver Mountain Parks.

Taos, New Mexico is one of the oldest settlements in what is now the United States. Taos Pueblo natives claim that their settlement dates back 1,000 years. Visitors to Taos today will find Taos Pueblo still standing, and the unique mountain town which developed around it dates to about 1760 a.d. Visitors today have a variety of scenic and historic sites to choose from when visiting Taos. The author has selected 24 of the major sites to help visitors on their journey. With 29 color photographs and a full page historic description of each site, visitors will find this to be a perfect guide and remembrance of their visit.

Bill Leader's big idea, to go where the music is playing and catch it on the wing, is comparable to the moment when technology freed film directors to shoot on location. It gets great results if you don't mind roughing it.

In the late 1800s, Denver and Rio Grande Railroad founder William Jackson Palmer had a dream of building a railroad from Denver south to Mexico City. While his dream ended at Santa Fe, New Mexico, greater profits were realized by extending his narrow-gauge railroad west across Colorado and New Mexico to Durango and the mines at Silverton. Rocky Mountain railfans and history buffs have long been familiar with the two remaining segments of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's narrow-gauge route: the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, and the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. These two railroads carry thousands of tourists every year. But what about the 111 miles between the two? What happened to the segment between Chama and Durango? Long since abandoned, travelers today can track this route along the highways and back roads of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. With maps and historic and contemporary photographs, this book points the way to rediscovering this lost trackage. Branch lines, including logging railroads and the Farmington Branch, are also included, so the traveler has a complete guide to finding this long-gone section of the narrow-gauge railroad.

The High Road to Taos, listed in the New Mexico Register of Cultural Properties in 1975, covers 52 miles from just north of Santa Fe to Ranchos de Taos at the southern boundary of the town of Taos. In addition to spectacular mountain scenery, the High Road contains Pueblo Indian settlements dating back to the 1300s and Hispanic settlements dating back to the 1600s. Historic adobe Catholic churches can be seen in each village, with the church at Las Trampas having been constructed in 1760. Today, artist communities have grown in and around the villages. Photographers from the federal Farm Security Administration extensively photographed the villages along the High Road in the 1930s and 1940s. These photographs provide an exceptional record of Hispanic village life in northern New Mexico and will be of interest to travelers along the High Road as a basis of comparison to what they are viewing today.

After describing the processes of history at work on ordinary people (i.e. Bill's immediate ancestors) in Glimpses of Far Off Things, the second volume finds Bill settling in at Topic Records and collaborating with Ewan MacColl and Bert Lloyd, the architects of the folk revival.

"Without Landlording on AutoPilot, I doubt I would have ever succeeded with rental properties. Mike's book guided my business every step of the way, and I owe a huge debt to his insights. This book is a MUST-READ for any current or future landlord." --Brandon Turner, Author of Rental Property Investing and Co-host of The BiggerPockets.com Podcast When Mike Butler was a fulltime undercover police detective, he created a side business for managing hundreds of rentals. In this book, you will discover his simple and highly effective approach to rental management. Butler gives you the tools needed to transform your headache-inducing rentals into problem-free sources of income. Butler walks you through his winning process beginning with the first step of screening a tenant through the move-out inspection when the tenant leaves. He then shows how to crank it up a notch and get more than 100% of the rents. Best of all, you can download a complete set of forms for the Landlording On AutoPilot system from the author's website. Landlording on AutoPilot explores Butler's fascinating and invaluable real-life experience as a property investor and landlord. He details the highly efficient techniques, streamlined systems, and necessary resources that created his rental property empire--an empire that Butler runs from his smartphone, tablet, and laptop. No matter if you are renting penthouse properties or Section 8 housing, Butler's foolproof system can help you become the happiest and most profitable landlord in town. "Thanks so much. I've been following Mike since the first edition of Landlording on AutoPilot and attribute most all of our success to his insights and techniques. New landlords MUST buy a copy if they want to have any hope for success in real estate investing." --Charlie, Charter Properties of Texas "If you manage real estate, you need to read this book. Mike is the real deal and you will learn ways to manage that will make you money and improve your life." --John Schaub, Author of Building Wealth One House At A Time "I've been representing real estate investors and investing myself for over 25 years. I read TONS of books and attend every seminar I can find. Mike's method is simply the best on the market, PERIOD. I recommend Mike's book to all my new clients and it's on my MUST RE-READ list every year." --Harry Borders, attorney