Download or read book Hey Didn t You Used to Be John Dawe written by John B. Dawe and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An older and mature readership will remember John Dawe although prompts may be necessary as it has been a decade and a half since he graced the airwaves. But when prompted to remember him for his journalism and charitable work memories take flight and people react normally with much joy. With the right publicity campaign the market for this book could be in the tens of thousands especially among people who enjoy going on real journeys of discovery involving familiar events, places and people. This project began as a legacy book for family to enjoy but took on a memoir persona as the stories began to flow. According to renowned entertainment lawyer Michael Levine, Dawe was never a television superstar but while his varied work brought him into contact with millions only a few would be familiar with Dawe’s extraordinary background. For example, readers will either cheer or jeer Dawe’s decision to refuse the sexual entreaties one of Britain’s renowned courtesans and become her friend rather than a lover. Or the time he disrupts a significant speech by Prime Minister Diefenbaker. Dawe’s life proves that chutzpah, curiosity and openness can lead to the most fascinating experiences involving larger than life characters, some of whom are or were household names in Canada and Europe. It’s a book that only Dawe could write because of his feel for fact, having been there, and his knack for telling stories. Although he was well travelled, Dawe’s book is not a travelogue, rather, he takes a cursory approach to describing most places he has visited. All of the people mentioned are real and most have their real names used, the exceptions only out of discretion. His accounts will make the sensitive reader laugh and cry and shake their head at his stupidity or audacity.
Download or read book Hey Didn t You Used to be John Dawe written by John B. Dawe and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An older and mature readership will remember John Dawe although prompts may be necessary as it has been a decade and a half since he graced the airwaves. But when prompted to remember him for his journalism and charitable work memories take flight and people react normally with much joy. With the right publicity campaign the market for this book could be in the tens of thousands especially among people who enjoy going on real journeys of discovery involving familiar events, places and people. This project began as a legacy book for family to enjoy but took on a memoir persona as the stories began to flow. According to renowned entertainment lawyer Michael Levine, Dawe was never a television superstar but while his varied work brought him into contact with millions only a few would be familiar with Dawe's extraordinary background. For example, readers will either cheer or jeer Dawe's decision to refuse the sexual entreaties one of Britain's renowned courtesans and become her friend rather than a lover. Or the time he disrupts a significant speech by Prime Minister Diefenbaker. Dawe's life proves that chutzpah, curiosity and openness can lead to the most fascinating experiences involving larger than life characters, some of whom are or were household names in Canada and Europe. It's a book that only Dawe could write because of his feel for fact, having been there, and his knack for telling stories. Although he was well travelled, Dawe's book is not a travelogue, rather, he takes a cursory approach to describing most places he has visited. All of the people mentioned are real and most have their real names used, the exceptions only out of discretion. His accounts will make the sensitive reader laugh and cry and shake their head at his stupidity or audacity....
Download or read book Margery Dawe written by Katharine Tynan and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Knot Garden written by Gabriel King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Absolutely magical... Always intriguing' Richard Adams author of Watership Down. Behind the realm of man lie the wild roads. Weaving through time and space, these hidden pathways carry the natural energies – the spirits, the dreams – of the world. No creature can slip into the shadows and travel the wild roads better than the cat. For millennia, cats have patrolled the tangled paths, maintaining balance and order, guarding against corruption and chaos. It is dangerous territory: for those who control the wild roads hold the key to the world. Amid the struggle between the purest good and the darkest evil, here are tales of duty and destiny, of courage and comradeship among the extraordinary creatures who brave the wild roads... The idyllic hamlet of ashmore lies at the intersection of several dream highways of the mythical wild roads. For Anna Prescott, retreating from a doomed love affair and a high-pressure career, it offers the perfect escape – pretty cottages, picturesque canal and intriguing inhabitants – Stella Herringe, enigmatic lady of the manor, feisty Alice at the Green Man, and handsome John Dawe. Anna finds herself adopting two tiny stray kittens, Vita and Orlando, after their mother dies, and Pond Cottage finally starts to feel like home, but her arrival has set in motion a nightmarish chain of events...
Download or read book Journeys to the Bandstand written by Chris Wong and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What I didn’t know [when starting to research and write this book]: I would become full-on, hopelessly obsessed with finding out every arcane detail about the artists gathered in these pages, whether they are living or long gone. Those myriad facts are puzzle pieces that—even though some pieces are missing—form portraits of extraordinary people with a hunger for jazz and other creative artforms, a determination to overcome struggles, and a deep joy for creating profound expression. —Chris Wong, from the Preface and Introduction to Journeys to the Bandstand. Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver chronicles the creative lives and musical journeys of thirty extraordinary artists who have helped shape the jazz scene in the west coast Canadian city, and further afield. Each chapter focuses on one remarkable artist, or a small group of impacful musicians, mostly based in Vancouver (Al Neil, Dave Quarin, Brad Turner, Cory Weeds, Jodi Proznick, Natasha D’Agostino, and others). The book also highlights some American musicians (Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Dr. Lonnie Smith, George Coleman, and others) who have made an indelible impression on the city’s jazz community. Weaving a first-person perspective—through the author’s experiences hearing the musicians perform and documenting oral history from in-depth interviews—with extensive written and audio-visual history gathered from articles, letters, recordings, films, and more, Journeys to the Bandstand is a compelling collection of long-form portraits. The unique life stories of each subject include challenges—addictions, anxiety and self-doubt, racism, abuse, and other hard realities—and triumphs when they succeeded in making expressive and memorable music. Each individual path forms a complex and fascinating passage—the journey to the bandstand.
Download or read book Obedience written by Will Lavender and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation.” —Kirkus Reviews When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly. If after being given a series of clues and details the class has not found her before the end of the term in six weeks, she will be murdered. At first the students are as intrigued by the premise of their puzzle as they are wary of the strange and slightly creepy Professor Williams. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they begin to wonder: Is the Polly story simply a logic exercise, designed to teach them rational thinking skills, or could it be something more sinister and dangerous? The mystery soon takes over the lives of three students as they find disturbing connections between Polly and themselves. Characters that were supposedly fictitious begin to emerge in reality. Soon, the boundary between the classroom assignment and the real world becomes blurred—and the students wonder if it is their own lives they are being asked to save. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-02-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Download or read book Live at The Cellar written by Marian Jago and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s and ’60s, co‐operative jazz clubs such as Vancouver’s Cellar, Edmonton’s Yardbird Suite, and Halifax’s 777 Barrington Street opened their doors in response to new forms of jazz expression emerging after the war and a lack of available performance spaces outside major urban centres. Operated on a not‐for-profit basis by the musicians themselves, these hip new clubs created spaces where young jazz musicians could practise their art close to home. Live at the Cellar looks at this unique period in the development of jazz in Canada. Centered on Vancouver’s legendary Cellar club, and including co-ops in four other cities, it explores the ways in which these clubs functioned as sites for the performance and exploration of jazz as well as magnets for countercultural expression in other arts, such as literature, theatre, and film. Marian Jago’s deft combination of new, original research with archival evidence, interviews, and photographs allows us to witness the beginnings of a pan-Canadian jazz scene as well as the emergence of key Canadian jazz figures, such as P.J. Perry, Don Thompson, and Terry Clarke, and the rise of jazz icons such as Paul Bley and Ornette Coleman. Although the Cellar and other jazz co-ops are long shuttered, in their day they created a new and infectious energy that still reverberates in Canada’s jazz scene today.
Download or read book Nonesuch written by Gabriel King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Absolutely magical... Always intriguing' Richard Adams author of Watership Down. Behind the realm of man lie the wild roads. Weaving through time and space, these hidden pathways carry the natural energies – the spirits, the dreams – of the world. No creature can slip into the shadows and travel the wild roads better than the cat. For millennia, cats have patrolled the tangled paths, maintaining balance and order, guarding against corruption and chaos. It is dangerous territory: for those who control the wild roads hold the key to the world. Amid the struggle between the purest good and the darkest evil, here are tales of duty and destiny, of courage and comradeship among the extraordinary creatures who brave the wild roads... After his cousin died in a fire that ravaged the house, John Dawe has inherited the old manor Nonesuch. John adores the crumbling house, but for his wife, Anna, the legacy is tainted, inextricably linked with John's cousin, known as the Witch of ashmore, who tried so hard to destroy Anna and the cats she holds dear. As John's obsession with rebuilding Nonesuch intensifies, their relationship disintegrates. And Eleanor, the baby that should have brought them together, drives them further apart, for along with John's family's disconcertingly green eyes, she has also inherited some unnerving characteristics. A house full of memories quickly becomes a family full of secrets. As Anna battles to throw off her growing sense of dread, the grim mystery at the heart of Nonesuch will be revealed.
Download or read book Singing the Sadness written by Reginald Hill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving a woman’s life puts British PI Joe Sixsmith’s own life in danger in this mystery by “a master of form and style . . . grace and wit” (The New York Times). Best known for his gritty Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill “could not have created a protagonist more different” than Joe Sixsmith, the laid-back British PI and church chorister of West Indian descent, who makes for an engaging addition to crime fiction in this winning mystery, available for the first time as an ebook (Publishers Weekly). It looks to be a melodious weekend for Joe Sixsmith and his chapel choir. They’re headed for the first annual choral festival in Llanffugiol, a village said to be the heart of musical life in rural Wales. But the locals are far from welcoming in this off-the-map hamlet where dread lingers as heavy as the mist. Never more so than when Joe comes to the rescue of a naked amnesiac screaming for her life in a burning cottage. No one claims to know her, or what she was doing on a stranger’s property, much less why anyone would want to set her ablaze. Secretly recruited by the owner of the cottage to investigate and, oddly enough, just as surreptitiously by the man’s wife, Joe soon discovers that arson is the least of the burning secrets in Llanffugiol.
Download or read book Jurassic Park The Ultimate Visual History written by James Mottram and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Jurassic Park! Discover the cinematic evolution of the Jurassic Park trilogy, with this deluxe book celebrating the saga’s massive impact on pop culture. Director Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park unleashed an island of awe-inspiring dinosaurs, captivating audiences worldwide. Grossing over $900 million worldwide, the film ushered in a whole new age of digital visual effects and would go on to enthrall generations of moviegoers. The most comprehensive book about the Jurassic Park trilogy to date, Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History begins with an in-depth account of the making of Spielberg’s original film, including rare and never-before-seen imagery and exclusive interviews with key creatives. Readers will then unearth the full history of the trilogy, from The Lost World: Jurassic Park to Jurassic Park III, through unprecedented access to the creative process behind the films. Fans will also find a fascinating look at the wider world of the saga, including video games, toys, comics, and more, exploring the lasting legacy of the movies and their influence on pop culture. Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History will be the last word on the most epic saga in movie history—the definitive behind-the-scenes book that fans have been waiting for.
Download or read book A Deadly Diversion written by David Barry and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weston and Turner, novice private detectives, are plunged into a nightmare world of murder when they are hired by a young millionairess to solve the triple murder of her family, a crime the police failed to solve more than eleven years ago. As they delve deeper into the case, they soon discover a hired assassin is always one step ahead of them and someone will do anything to stop them learning the terrible truth behind the crime, even if it means bumping off their witnesses. Not only does family man Freddie have to risk his life on behalf of their client, his personal problems are compounded by threats to his daughter's safety. And when he discovers the hired gunman's boss is the mysterious Eclipse, his investigations take him on a mad dash to Poland, and he becomes involved in a race against time to prevent another murder, one for which he is willing to risk everything, even his own life.
Download or read book The Motorman and Conductor written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 19- include the Proceedings of the association's 12-27th annual conventions.
Download or read book Motorman Conductor and Motor Coach Operator written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. include the Proceedings of the association's 12th-27th annual conventions.
Download or read book Ethical Cities written by Brendan F.D. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining elements of sustainable and resilient cities agendas, together with those from social justice studies, and incorporating concerns about good governance, transparency and accountability, the book presents a coherent conceptual framework for the ethical city, in which to embed existing and new activities within cities so as to guide local action. The authors’ observations are derived from city-specific surveys and urban case studies. These reveal how progressive cities are promoting a diverse range of ethically informed approaches to urbanism, such as community wealth building, basic income initiatives, participatory budgeting and citizen assemblies. The text argues that the ethical city is a logical next step for critical urbanism in the era of late capitalism, characterised by divisive politics, burgeoning inequality, widespread technology-induced disruptions to every aspect of modern life and existential threats posed by climate change, sustainability imperatives and pandemics. Engaging with their communities in meaningful ways and promoting positive transformative change, ethical cities are well placed to deliver liveable and sustainable places for all, rather than only for wealthy elites. Likewise, the aftermath of shocks such as the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic reveals that cities that are not purposeful in addressing inequalities, social problems, unsustainability and corruption face deepening difficulties. Readers from across physical and social sciences, humanities and arts, as well as across policy, business and civil society, will find that the application of ethical principles is key to the pursuit of socially inclusive urban futures and the potential for cities and their communities to emerge from or, at least, ameliorate a diverse range of local, national and global challenges.
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