Download or read book The Home Counties Magazine written by William John Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Home Counties Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 3 Short Stories written by F. Ethan Repp and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three short stories that demonstrate the incompetence of government and the cruelty of politics that is on display. The End - The 1960's, Civil Unrest Reveals. A threatened and bigoted America demands a response. A secret government solution unfolds. Racial unrest is calmed. Unimaginable consequences are revealed 20 years later at the Center for Disease Control by a young probationary employee, Francis Trotter. Will anyone listen to him or will he be silenced? Where Satan Sits - Evil exists in every common place. Town Manager Cabot Anderson experiences the accumulation of that force through the actions of his employer, Town Supervisor April Buhler. A succinct Story of Evil and Tragedy. Public Administrator Cabot Anderson surrenders a promising Federal post to accept a Hometown government office. The good that he performs is swallowed by impending evil. The Town enjoys a new prosperity while Cabot is destroyed. The Land Of No, Where - You would not allow your tax accountant to perform cataract surgery, why would you want them in government? Beware if you commit a service provider only to be serviced by a profit motivator. This short story is centered in a small village which destroyed itself. This happened not because the supervising board was stupid, but because government was not their business. Keywords: Power, Government, Morality, Destruction, Civilization, Etiquette, Politics, Evil, Small Town, Tragedy, Federal, Business, Money, Evil, Public Service

Download or read book What is British written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2004 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently described as 'a place not a race; a vibe not a tribe', Britain is a more successful matrix for changing identities than almost any other European country. This makes it more, not less, difficult to understand what Britishness is all about; constantly renegotiated, it seems to be simply the state of play in an endless conversation.

Download or read book A Dinner Party in the Home Counties written by Reshma Ruia and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poetry collection explores the diasporic experience of leading a translated life, yearning to belong to a past that one no longer owns and a future that is murky and unclear. There is a sense of melancholic nostalgia in these poems but also a fierce kind of determination to embark on a new beginning and make the best of one's circumstances. The poems are particularly relevant to our times when there is a growing sense of parochialism and hostility towards 'the outsider.' They will resonate with all those who have portable roots and are at home everywhere and nowhere. The poems also portray the emotive minefield of relationships, questioning the ambiguity behind maternal or filial love. Society conditions us to love our parent or child or partner but my poems challenge this by describing the tug of war between a woman's sense of self and the roles she is expected to play. There is an undercurrent of mortality running through some of the poems. A sense of an ending and a reflection on what the passage of time can do to one's dreams and aspirations. * Comments by the judges of the Word Masala Debut Poet Award: There's a fierce energy in Reshma Ruia's poetry. Her incantatory and conversational tone belies her social and human concerns. Her rhythmic control is amazing, sustained in her assertive voice and language. This debut collection everyone should read--the sooner the better. Captivating! Cyril Dabydeen, a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa (1984-87) Reshma Ruia creates poignant vignettes of common folk dealing with the mundane business of life. Parmila Vankateswaran, a former poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15) You will be pleased with discovering award-winning poet Reshma Ruia. Her voice is intimate and confident. Her poetry shines bright. Reshma lures the reader into her world through a vivid imagination. From the empty bed of an accountant to the code of 1947, Reshma's skill is in how she paints pictures with words, which become whole landscapes and scenes in one's imagination. I feel I am reading someone whom everyone will be reading in future. Read her now! Lemn Sissay MBE

Download or read book Still Lives written by Reshma Ruia and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The glow of my cigarette picks out a dark shape lying on the ground. I bend down to take a closer look. It’s a dead sparrow. I wondered if I had become that bird, disoriented and lost.’ Young, handsome and contemptuous of his father’s traditional ways, PK Malik leaves Bombay to start a new life in America. Stopping in Manchester to visit an old friend, he thinks he sees a business opportunity, and decides to stay on. Now fifty-five, PK has fallen out of love with life. His business is struggling and his wife Geeta is lonely, pining for the India she’s left behind. One day PK crosses the path of Esther, the wife of his business competitor, and they launch into an affair conducted in shabby hotel rooms, with the fear of discovery forever hanging in the air. Still Lives is a tightly woven, haunting work that pulls apart the threads of a family and plays with notions of identity. Shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize

Download or read book 100 Voices written by Miranda Roszkowski and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkably brought together, heartwarming and uplifting . . . showing that despite differences in age and background, geography and lifestyle, there is so much that binds up, so much we share' Kit de Waal 'A stimulating collection of women's voices to help inspire us for the next 100 years' Elizabeth Day 100 Voices is an anthology of writing by women across the country on what achievement means for them, and how they have come to find their own voice. Featuring poetry, fiction and memoir, the pieces range from notes on making lemon curd, to tales of marathon running and riding motorbikes, to accounts of a refugee eating English food for the first time, a newlywed learning her mother tongue and a woman rebuilding her life after an abusive relationship. The poignant, funny and inspiring stories collected here are as varied and diverse as their authors, who include established names such as Louise Jensen, Sabrina Mahfouz, Yvonne Battle-Felton and Miranda Keeling alongside a host of exciting new writers. Taken together, they build a picture of what it’s really like to be a woman in the UK today.

Download or read book A Strange World written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Britain written by Claire Charlot and published by Editions OPHRYS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Founding Father written by Harlow Giles Unger and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near fatal wound at the Battle of Trenton, James Monroe (1751 1831) went on to become America's first fulltime politician, dedicating his life to securing America's national and international durability. Decorated by George Washington for his exploits as a soldier, Monroe became a congressman, a senator, U.S. minister to France and Britain, governor of Virginia, secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally America's fifth president. The country embraced Monroe's dreams of empire and elected him to two terms, the second time unanimously. Mentored by each of America's first four presidents, Monroe was unquestionably the best prepared president in our history. Like David McCullough's John Adams and Jon Meacham's recent book on Andrew Jackson, this new biography of Monroe is both a solid read and stellar scholarship history in the grand tradition.

Download or read book Fake Empires written by Marc Lindon and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends since infant school, Carl and Pete stay in touch through weekly poker nights and occasional bouts of vigilantism, but it's the deaths of their respective fathers that they most have have in common, although they have each reacted in a very different way.

Download or read book The Life of W B Yeats written by Terence Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-01-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.

Download or read book Inside the Rainbow written by Sandy Sinclair and published by Sandy Sinclair. This book was released on 2009 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Speaking of Universities written by Stefan Collini and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalisation forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have systematically imposed new procedures regulating funding, governance, and assessment. Universities are being forced to behave more like business enterprises in a commercial marketplace than centres of learning. In Speaking of Universities, historian and critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. Does "marketisation" threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this new era of "accountability" distort what it purports to measure; and who does the modern university "belong to"? Responding to recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call to "focus on what is actually happening and the cliches behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better".

Download or read book Wallis in Love written by Andrew Morton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance." -Wallis Simpson Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish and particular girl from Baltimore. At turns imaginative, ambitious, and spoiled, Wallis's first words as recalled by her family were "me, me." From that young age, she was in want of nothing but stability, status, and social acceptance as she fought to climb the social ladder and take her place in London society. As irony would have it, she would gain the love and devotion of a king, but only at the cost of his throne and her reputation. In WALLIS IN LOVE, acclaimed biographer Andrew Morton offers a fresh portrait of Wallis Simpson in all her vibrancy and brazenness as she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine. Using diary entries, letters, and other never-before-seen records, Morton takes us through Wallis's romantic adventures in Washington, China, and her entrance into the strange wonderland that is London society. During her journey, we meet an extraordinary array of characters, many of whom smoothed the way for her dalliance with the king of England, Edward VIII. WALLIS IN LOVE goes beyond Wallis's infamous persona and reveals a complex, domineering woman striving to determine her own fate and grapple with matters of the heart.

Download or read book Adlai Stevenson s Lasting Legacy written by A. Liebling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twice unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Adlai Stevenson played a key role in American politics throughout much of the middle of the Twentieth Century. This collection of essays from Senator Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Schlesinger, and others, looks at Stevenson's past and current societal significance.

Download or read book Applying the Lessons of UK National Politics to Everyday Office Life written by Richard Wills and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engagingly presents an intriguing account of many of the principles of UK government politics and how these have an important bearing on everyday office life as experienced by the working population. Here is a fascinating account of the findings of two former Cabinet ministers Lords Blunkett and Baker who were interviewed by the author. Oral testimony allows the reader to learn about the perspectives of political power brokers and provides data and insight not always apparent or revealed from historical records and archive material. The overriding aim is to analyse the nature of politicking in central government and to apply the techniques and lessons of national politics to everyday office life. The book offers a political framework, giving behavioural pointers to assist those who face challenging circumstances that could impinge on their well-being and business efficiency in the workplace. A back to basics methodology is advised, touching on a range of techniques, including, for example, that gossip is an effective way of getting back at someone. This touches upon Blunketts assertion that Michael Gove MP is a zealot and a politician having an ideological obsession. Applying the Lessons refers moreover to cases calling for bargaining and negotiation, also a part of the life of the whips in Parliament, and an essential tool for office business. As a seasoned historian and political analyst, Richard Willis revealingly unravels the nature of political power and control, and shows how Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair initially supposedly gave Baker and Blunkett considerable scope in introducing reform. He goes on to explain how the two peers give their critique on policy-making against a background which is of definite benefit to office managers and supervisors, executive assistants, PAs, administrators, and administrative/administration assistants.