Author: Adam Shand
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459621387
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In 2003, Adam Shand naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families, and where a new generation was clashing with the criminal Establishment. Before long, he found himself counted as a friend by those who sometimes ended friendships with a hail of bullets. In this fully updated edition, taking in the events of 2010, including the murder of Carl Williams, Big Shots takes the reader into the heart of the city's multibillion-dollar 'disorganised crime' scene, as Shand meets the key figures and suspects, including Carl and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto and many others. He discovers the human drama behind the brutal slayings that were splashed across the front pages, and in the process comes to questions his objectivity.
Big Shots
Author: Adam Shand
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459621387
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In 2003, Adam Shand naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families, and where a new generation was clashing with the criminal Establishment. Before long, he found himself counted as a friend by those who sometimes ended friendships with a hail of bullets. In this fully updated edition, taking in the events of 2010, including the murder of Carl Williams, Big Shots takes the reader into the heart of the city's multibillion-dollar 'disorganised crime' scene, as Shand meets the key figures and suspects, including Carl and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto and many others. He discovers the human drama behind the brutal slayings that were splashed across the front pages, and in the process comes to questions his objectivity.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459621387
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In 2003, Adam Shand naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families, and where a new generation was clashing with the criminal Establishment. Before long, he found himself counted as a friend by those who sometimes ended friendships with a hail of bullets. In this fully updated edition, taking in the events of 2010, including the murder of Carl Williams, Big Shots takes the reader into the heart of the city's multibillion-dollar 'disorganised crime' scene, as Shand meets the key figures and suspects, including Carl and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto and many others. He discovers the human drama behind the brutal slayings that were splashed across the front pages, and in the process comes to questions his objectivity.
Bug Shots
Author: Alexandra Siy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823422869
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intriguing facts about several of the major categories of bugs are accompanied by micrographs that magnify insect parts from 10 to 300,000 times.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823422869
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intriguing facts about several of the major categories of bugs are accompanied by micrographs that magnify insect parts from 10 to 300,000 times.
The Gambler and the Bug Boy
Author: John Christgau
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803211228
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
An account of a dark chapter in American horse racing history documents the scandal that ensued in 1939 and 1940 Los Angeles when notorious L.A. bookmaker Bernard "Big" Mooney threatened young jockeys if they did not fix races, with the unwilling assistance of Albert Siler, a young apprentice rider manipulated by the criminal gambler.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803211228
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
An account of a dark chapter in American horse racing history documents the scandal that ensued in 1939 and 1940 Los Angeles when notorious L.A. bookmaker Bernard "Big" Mooney threatened young jockeys if they did not fix races, with the unwilling assistance of Albert Siler, a young apprentice rider manipulated by the criminal gambler.
A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786459956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786459956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Author: Keir Martin
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857458736
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857458736
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Through detailed ethnography of the transactions that a displaced people entered into in seeking to rebuild their lives, this book analyses how people re-make sociality in an era of post-colonial neoliberalism without taking either the transformative power of globalization or the resilience of indigenous culture as its starting point. It also contributes to the understanding of the problems of post-disaster reconstruction and development projects.
Kiss Upon the Brow
Author: Linda Neal Kinser
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456738143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
About Kiss Upon the Brow: The story takes place in the foothills of Kentucky on the appalachian line. The time is the 1950's into the early 1960's. Goosy was born into extreme poverty; however, she was nearing ten years of age before she realized that her family was destitute. Her vibrant personality and her innate ability to memorize lines led her to excell in school. Her hunger for mischef however, pointed her in the direction of trouble from time to time. ."I could hear Don hollering, 'Goosy's kilt, Goosy's Kilt!' " ."Eat it? I thougt to myself, so, that's what I did. I ate it. I was amazed that I had eaten the cup that a mere few moments ago had been filled with ice cream." .."huh, I've been referred to as fiesty, high-strung, silly and the word hyperactivity has been tossed around. I guess that means I have a pretty good case of hypersillitivity."
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456738143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
About Kiss Upon the Brow: The story takes place in the foothills of Kentucky on the appalachian line. The time is the 1950's into the early 1960's. Goosy was born into extreme poverty; however, she was nearing ten years of age before she realized that her family was destitute. Her vibrant personality and her innate ability to memorize lines led her to excell in school. Her hunger for mischef however, pointed her in the direction of trouble from time to time. ."I could hear Don hollering, 'Goosy's kilt, Goosy's Kilt!' " ."Eat it? I thougt to myself, so, that's what I did. I ate it. I was amazed that I had eaten the cup that a mere few moments ago had been filled with ice cream." .."huh, I've been referred to as fiesty, high-strung, silly and the word hyperactivity has been tossed around. I guess that means I have a pretty good case of hypersillitivity."
Extinction Machine
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 125002661X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
In Extinction Machine, the fifth Joe Ledger book by Jonathan Maberry, the DMS must go up against someone—or something—in search of new technology that could bring about world war The President of the United States vanishes from the White House. A top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. Witnesses on the ground say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds. All over the world reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate. And in a remote fossil dig in China dinosaur hunters have found something that is definitely not of this earth. There are rumors of alien-human hybrids living among us. Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences rush headlong into the heat of the world's strangest and deadliest arms race, because the global race to recover and retro-engineer alien technologies has just hit a snag. Someone—or something--wants that technology back.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 125002661X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
In Extinction Machine, the fifth Joe Ledger book by Jonathan Maberry, the DMS must go up against someone—or something—in search of new technology that could bring about world war The President of the United States vanishes from the White House. A top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. Witnesses on the ground say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds. All over the world reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate. And in a remote fossil dig in China dinosaur hunters have found something that is definitely not of this earth. There are rumors of alien-human hybrids living among us. Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences rush headlong into the heat of the world's strangest and deadliest arms race, because the global race to recover and retro-engineer alien technologies has just hit a snag. Someone—or something--wants that technology back.
Breakout at the Bug Lab
Author: Ruth Horowitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142302007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Max, a Madagascar cockroach, is as big as a bite-sized candy bar and hisses like a snake when he is mad. Leo and his brother are fascinated. Out of all of the bugs in their mother's bug lab, Max is definitely the best. But now, Max is on the loose in the lab! To make matters worse, there's a party there today. Leo and his brother have to find Max before he makes people scream-or worse. "A book in which everything is just right." (School Library Journal)
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142302007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Max, a Madagascar cockroach, is as big as a bite-sized candy bar and hisses like a snake when he is mad. Leo and his brother are fascinated. Out of all of the bugs in their mother's bug lab, Max is definitely the best. But now, Max is on the loose in the lab! To make matters worse, there's a party there today. Leo and his brother have to find Max before he makes people scream-or worse. "A book in which everything is just right." (School Library Journal)
SACAFIESTA
Author: Jack Espinosa
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329219112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
In Sacafiesta, Jack Espinosa recounts his experiences as a comedian and entertainer - as a child in Ybor City, as a young man touring clubs in post-War United States and pre-Castro Cuba, and later as a family man whose infectious humor helps him transition from janitor to high school social studies teacher overnight. Like his first memoir, Cuban Bread Crumbs, Espinosa weaves wry and witty tales of growing up as son of Spanish immigrants with keen observations about the rich cultural history of his beloved Tampa.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329219112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
In Sacafiesta, Jack Espinosa recounts his experiences as a comedian and entertainer - as a child in Ybor City, as a young man touring clubs in post-War United States and pre-Castro Cuba, and later as a family man whose infectious humor helps him transition from janitor to high school social studies teacher overnight. Like his first memoir, Cuban Bread Crumbs, Espinosa weaves wry and witty tales of growing up as son of Spanish immigrants with keen observations about the rich cultural history of his beloved Tampa.
Space Jumper
Author: Mark Rankin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984513605
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A saddened and broken-down young man on the edge of suicide wakes up one night to a crash in his backyard. Sent from the depths of space, a pair of shoes with special straps allow him to jump high in the air, walk on clouds, and breathe in space. Tired of the hardships of earth, Mark gathers some gear and is ready to hit the universe hard with good intent.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984513605
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A saddened and broken-down young man on the edge of suicide wakes up one night to a crash in his backyard. Sent from the depths of space, a pair of shoes with special straps allow him to jump high in the air, walk on clouds, and breathe in space. Tired of the hardships of earth, Mark gathers some gear and is ready to hit the universe hard with good intent.