Author: Clive Nixon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483682633
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
From aspiring Miss Hong Kong beauty contestants and predatory menacing butterflies, to addressing an empty quad and concealing a provocative Marilyn Monroe tie, enter the hilarious world of teaching English in Hong Kong - with all its charms and frustrations!
Shakespeare Was a Gweilo
Author: Clive Nixon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483682633
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
From aspiring Miss Hong Kong beauty contestants and predatory menacing butterflies, to addressing an empty quad and concealing a provocative Marilyn Monroe tie, enter the hilarious world of teaching English in Hong Kong - with all its charms and frustrations!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483682633
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
From aspiring Miss Hong Kong beauty contestants and predatory menacing butterflies, to addressing an empty quad and concealing a provocative Marilyn Monroe tie, enter the hilarious world of teaching English in Hong Kong - with all its charms and frustrations!
Fresh Air Fiend
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618126934
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618126934
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel.
Princess Margaret
Author: Tim Heald
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 139960564X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day 'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS 'She was a witty, intelligent, stimulating companion - happily Tim Heald captures all these qualities in his admirably well-balanced biography' LITERARY REVIEW The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret (1930-2002) was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring - even more so than Princess Diana, years later - and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. The mythology is that Margaret's life was 'ruined' by her not being allowed to marry the one true love of her life - Group Captain Peter Townsend - and that therefore her marriage to Lord Snowdon and her well-attested relationships with Roddy Llewellyn and others were mere consolation prizes. Margaret's often exotic personal life in places like Mustique is a key part of her story. The author has had extraordinary help from those closest to Princess Margaret, including her family (Lord Snowdon and her son, Lord Linley), as well as three of her private secretaries and many of her ladies in waiting. These individuals have not talked to any previous biographer. He has also had the Queen's permission to use the royal archives. Heald asks why one of the most famous and loved little girls in the world, who became a juvenile wartime sweetheart, ended her life a sad wheelchair-bound figure, publicly reviled and ignored. This is a story of a life in which the private and the public seemed permanently in conflict. The biography is packed with good stories. Princess Margaret was never ignored; what she said and did has been remembered and recounted to Tim Heald.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 139960564X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day 'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS 'She was a witty, intelligent, stimulating companion - happily Tim Heald captures all these qualities in his admirably well-balanced biography' LITERARY REVIEW The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret (1930-2002) was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring - even more so than Princess Diana, years later - and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. The mythology is that Margaret's life was 'ruined' by her not being allowed to marry the one true love of her life - Group Captain Peter Townsend - and that therefore her marriage to Lord Snowdon and her well-attested relationships with Roddy Llewellyn and others were mere consolation prizes. Margaret's often exotic personal life in places like Mustique is a key part of her story. The author has had extraordinary help from those closest to Princess Margaret, including her family (Lord Snowdon and her son, Lord Linley), as well as three of her private secretaries and many of her ladies in waiting. These individuals have not talked to any previous biographer. He has also had the Queen's permission to use the royal archives. Heald asks why one of the most famous and loved little girls in the world, who became a juvenile wartime sweetheart, ended her life a sad wheelchair-bound figure, publicly reviled and ignored. This is a story of a life in which the private and the public seemed permanently in conflict. The biography is packed with good stories. Princess Margaret was never ignored; what she said and did has been remembered and recounted to Tim Heald.
Hong Kong
Author: Michael Anthony Ingham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195314972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Explores the culture and history of Hong Kong.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195314972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Explores the culture and history of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong
Author: Michael Ingham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199886245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia's World Cities, taking in its stride the territory's 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's clichéd self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199886245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia's World Cities, taking in its stride the territory's 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's clichéd self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity.
Engaging with Policy, Practice and Publics
Author: Sarah M Hall
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447350375
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Engagement with non-academic groups and actors – such as policy-makers, industry, charities and activist groups, communities, and the public – in the co-production of knowledge and real-world impact is increasingly important in academic research. Drawing on empirical research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and broad international perspectives, this collection offers a critical examination of the liminal space of interactions between policy and research as spaces of difference and engagement, showing them to be far from apolitical. The authors consider what, and who, are present in these encounter spaces and examine how pre-existing perceptions about differences in social identity, positionality and knowledge can affect engagement, equity and research outcomes.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447350375
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Engagement with non-academic groups and actors – such as policy-makers, industry, charities and activist groups, communities, and the public – in the co-production of knowledge and real-world impact is increasingly important in academic research. Drawing on empirical research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and broad international perspectives, this collection offers a critical examination of the liminal space of interactions between policy and research as spaces of difference and engagement, showing them to be far from apolitical. The authors consider what, and who, are present in these encounter spaces and examine how pre-existing perceptions about differences in social identity, positionality and knowledge can affect engagement, equity and research outcomes.
Last One In
Author: Nicholas Kulish
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061871672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Jimmy Stephens makes the worst mistake of his career as a gossip columnist when he wrongly accuses a big star of cheating on his wife. With lawsuits pending, Jimmy's imperious new editor blackmails him into taking the place of the paper's injured front-line war correspondent. Shipped off to the desert and embedded with a group of foulmouthed but fraternal Marines, Jimmy provides a bewildered but unfiltered view of the invasion of Iraq that is alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heartbreaking.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061871672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Jimmy Stephens makes the worst mistake of his career as a gossip columnist when he wrongly accuses a big star of cheating on his wife. With lawsuits pending, Jimmy's imperious new editor blackmails him into taking the place of the paper's injured front-line war correspondent. Shipped off to the desert and embedded with a group of foulmouthed but fraternal Marines, Jimmy provides a bewildered but unfiltered view of the invasion of Iraq that is alternately hair-raising, hilarious, and heartbreaking.
Surrender, New York
Author: Caleb Carr
Publisher:
ISBN: 0679455698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're called "throwaways" because their parents have abandoned them, and the official response to their deaths seems equally callous. Trajan and Mike, armed only with their instincts and the help of a precocious neighborhood boy, fight for justice on behalf of the victims, but it soon puts them in a merciless killer's crosshairs"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 0679455698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
"Many dedicated years working for the NYPD didn't mean much when criminal psychologist Trajan Jones was fired from the force. Now living in exile on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Trajan is reduced to teaching an online course in criminal investigation, along with his partner Mike Li, an expert in DNA evidence. But Trajan is called back to duty when a friend in county law enforcement consults him on the suspicious death of several local kids. They're called "throwaways" because their parents have abandoned them, and the official response to their deaths seems equally callous. Trajan and Mike, armed only with their instincts and the help of a precocious neighborhood boy, fight for justice on behalf of the victims, but it soon puts them in a merciless killer's crosshairs"--
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1884
Book Description
Brooklyn Gladiator
Author: Dan Fogler
Publisher: Heavy Metal Entertainment
ISBN: 9781947784307
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
It's 2033, New Yorkers survive on scraps in a despoiled Americ and John Miller is the action hero for the ages! Description: It's 2033, New Yorkers survive on scraps in a despoiled America. John Miller is an action hero for the ages, a rough and ready badass who could drink Han Solo, Jack Burton, and John McClane under the table. Brooklyn Gladiator is a tribute to the comics, films, and experiences that have inspired author Dan Fogler.
Publisher: Heavy Metal Entertainment
ISBN: 9781947784307
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
It's 2033, New Yorkers survive on scraps in a despoiled Americ and John Miller is the action hero for the ages! Description: It's 2033, New Yorkers survive on scraps in a despoiled America. John Miller is an action hero for the ages, a rough and ready badass who could drink Han Solo, Jack Burton, and John McClane under the table. Brooklyn Gladiator is a tribute to the comics, films, and experiences that have inspired author Dan Fogler.