Author: Glen Retief
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312590938
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A gay white South African recalls his coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s, describing his friend's activities as a death squad leader, his sister's victimization by their grandfather, and the brutality of his school.
The Jack Bank
Author: Glen Retief
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312590938
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A gay white South African recalls his coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s, describing his friend's activities as a death squad leader, his sister's victimization by their grandfather, and the brutality of his school.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312590938
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
A gay white South African recalls his coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s, describing his friend's activities as a death squad leader, his sister's victimization by their grandfather, and the brutality of his school.
The Jack Bank
Author: Glen Retief
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429960086
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s. Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a preserve of its own, against chaotic forces just outside its borders: a childhood friend whose uncle led a death squad, while his cultured grandfather quoted Shakespeare at barbecues and abused Glen's sister in an antique-filled, tobacco-scented living room. But it was when Retief was sent to boarding school that he was truly exposed to human cruelty and frailty. When the prefects were caught torturing younger boys, they invented "the jack bank," where underclassmen could save beatings, earn interest on their deposits, and draw on them later to atone for their supposed infractions. Retief writes movingly of the complicated emotions and politics in this punitive all-male world, and of how he navigated them, even as he began to realize that his sexuality was different than his peers'.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429960086
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s. Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve where his father worked, Retief's warm nuclear family was a preserve of its own, against chaotic forces just outside its borders: a childhood friend whose uncle led a death squad, while his cultured grandfather quoted Shakespeare at barbecues and abused Glen's sister in an antique-filled, tobacco-scented living room. But it was when Retief was sent to boarding school that he was truly exposed to human cruelty and frailty. When the prefects were caught torturing younger boys, they invented "the jack bank," where underclassmen could save beatings, earn interest on their deposits, and draw on them later to atone for their supposed infractions. Retief writes movingly of the complicated emotions and politics in this punitive all-male world, and of how he navigated them, even as he began to realize that his sexuality was different than his peers'.
Tin Can Cook
Author: Jack Monroe
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529015294
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Simple and affordable cooking, Tin Can Cook takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary and budget-friendly ingredients. Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award and a Sunday Times bestseller. Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients. Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them. Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas. 'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed' – Ruby Tandoh, The Great British Bake Off runner-up and author of Eat Up 'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious' – Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529015294
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Simple and affordable cooking, Tin Can Cook takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary and budget-friendly ingredients. Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award and a Sunday Times bestseller. Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients. Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them. Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas. 'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed' – Ruby Tandoh, The Great British Bake Off runner-up and author of Eat Up 'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious' – Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist
King Jack and the Dragon
Author: Peter Bently
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0723270929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Night is falling, bedtime is looming and playtime is nearly over . . . but brave King Jack is more than a match for dragons and terrible beasties. This magical make-believe adventure, illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is the perfect bedtime tale for little boys and brave children everywhere.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0723270929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Night is falling, bedtime is looming and playtime is nearly over . . . but brave King Jack is more than a match for dragons and terrible beasties. This magical make-believe adventure, illustrated by picture book star Helen Oxenbury, is the perfect bedtime tale for little boys and brave children everywhere.
Jack Goes West
Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593113888
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog. Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret. Welcome to the laugh-out-loud and irreverent world of Jack, a new early reader series by the New York Times bestselling and award-winning team of Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593113888
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog. Jack and the Lady take the train West to visit a dude ranch. One night, there's a bank robbery next door, and Jack is pegged as the bandit. But thanks to Jack's new rope tricks, the real robber is caught, and Jack leaves the Wild West a free rabbit with a big secret. Welcome to the laugh-out-loud and irreverent world of Jack, a new early reader series by the New York Times bestselling and award-winning team of Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli.
Central Bankers at the End of Their Rope?
Author: Jack Rasmus
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 0997287039
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
An historically unprecedented state subsidization of the US financial system has been implemented since 2010 via the Federal Reserve, the US central bank. Oiginally designed to serve as lender of last resort during banking crises, central banking globally has been transformed into the subsidization of the private banking system. Today that system is addicted to, and increasingly dependent on, continuing central bank infusions of significant amounts of liquidity. Rescinding this artificial subsidization would almost certainly lead to a financial and real collapse of the global economy. Central banks will not be able any time soon to retreat from their massive liquidity injections. Nor will they find it possible to raise their interest rates much beyond brief token adjustments. Truly, central bankers are at the end of their rope. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of this urgent dilemma and proposes how to revolutionize central banking in the public interest.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 0997287039
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
An historically unprecedented state subsidization of the US financial system has been implemented since 2010 via the Federal Reserve, the US central bank. Oiginally designed to serve as lender of last resort during banking crises, central banking globally has been transformed into the subsidization of the private banking system. Today that system is addicted to, and increasingly dependent on, continuing central bank infusions of significant amounts of liquidity. Rescinding this artificial subsidization would almost certainly lead to a financial and real collapse of the global economy. Central banks will not be able any time soon to retreat from their massive liquidity injections. Nor will they find it possible to raise their interest rates much beyond brief token adjustments. Truly, central bankers are at the end of their rope. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of this urgent dilemma and proposes how to revolutionize central banking in the public interest.
The Lost Bank
Author: Kirsten Grind
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451617933
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Based on reporting for which the author was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award, this book traces the rise and spectacular fall of Washington Mutual.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451617933
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Based on reporting for which the author was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award, this book traces the rise and spectacular fall of Washington Mutual.
Jack the Tripper
Author: Gene Barretta
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152061326
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A mysterious villain is tripping the poor, innocent students at Dizzie Day Elementary School.They're tripping; they're flipping; they're flying through the air! Worst of all, they're losing their homework as they fall.The whole town is in a frenzy searching for the boot-wearing culprit ...until one student makes a startling confession.With vivid illustrations-and plenty of clues for readers to do their own detective work-Gene Barretta has created a hilarious, creepy tale about the perils (and sometime rewards!) of following the crowd.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152061326
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A mysterious villain is tripping the poor, innocent students at Dizzie Day Elementary School.They're tripping; they're flipping; they're flying through the air! Worst of all, they're losing their homework as they fall.The whole town is in a frenzy searching for the boot-wearing culprit ...until one student makes a startling confession.With vivid illustrations-and plenty of clues for readers to do their own detective work-Gene Barretta has created a hilarious, creepy tale about the perils (and sometime rewards!) of following the crowd.
Jack of Clubs
Author: Barbara Metzger
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611871220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Years ago, Captain Jack Endicott's half-sister vanished after a carriage accident. He now sets out to honor his father's dying wish and find her. Jack plans to open a lavish gaming parlor and hire only beautiful ladies to deal cards, possibly finding his sister. All he needs is a little luck. Instead he finds prim schoolteacher Allie Silver, who needs a guardian for one of her most precocious pupils. With such an unlikely duo, all bets are off in a wild game of romance.
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611871220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Years ago, Captain Jack Endicott's half-sister vanished after a carriage accident. He now sets out to honor his father's dying wish and find her. Jack plans to open a lavish gaming parlor and hire only beautiful ladies to deal cards, possibly finding his sister. All he needs is a little luck. Instead he finds prim schoolteacher Allie Silver, who needs a guardian for one of her most precocious pupils. With such an unlikely duo, all bets are off in a wild game of romance.
Jack of Shadows
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613735278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering witches, vampires, and, finally, his worst enemy: the Lord of Bats. He consults his friend Morningstar, a great dark angel. He is pursued by a monstrous creature called the Borshin. But to reveal any more would be to spoil some of the mindboggling surprises Jack of Shadows has in store. First published in 1971 and long out-of-print, Jack of Shadows is one of fantasy master Roger Zelazny's most profound and mysterious books.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613735278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering witches, vampires, and, finally, his worst enemy: the Lord of Bats. He consults his friend Morningstar, a great dark angel. He is pursued by a monstrous creature called the Borshin. But to reveal any more would be to spoil some of the mindboggling surprises Jack of Shadows has in store. First published in 1971 and long out-of-print, Jack of Shadows is one of fantasy master Roger Zelazny's most profound and mysterious books.