Download or read book Kingdom of Fife Storycuts written by Irvine Welsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Jason King ever charm the young rider Jenni Cahill and gain long-anticipated access to her jodhpurs? Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection If You Liked School, You'll Love Work.

Download or read book If You Liked School You ll Love Work written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, is up to his old tricks with his new work of transgressive short fiction. Irvine Welsh's first short-story collection since his debut work The Acid House presents five extraordinary stories, which remind us that he is a master of the short form, a brilliant storyteller, and—unarguably—one of today's funniest and most subversive writers. In "Rattlesnakes" three young Americans, lost in the desert, are accosted by two armed Mexicans. A Korean chef and a Chicago socialite find themselves connected through the disappearance of a pooch named Toto in "The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park." And in the title story, Mickey Baker—an ex-pat English bar owner living on the Costa Brava—tries to keep all of his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid's weight at the sexual maximum, attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his ex-wife and Spanish gangsters. In typically Welshian fashion, the characters and settings are anything but typical. These stories will make you laugh and gasp.

Download or read book Giblin s Platoon written by William Coleman and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of four men - L.F.Giblin, J.B. Brigden, D.B.Copland, and Roland Wilson - who, in 1920s Tasmania, formed a personal and intellectual bond that was to prove a pivot of economic thought, policy-making and institution-building in mid-century Australia."--p. ix.

Download or read book Celebrities Culture and Cyberspace written by McKenzie Wark and published by Pluto Press (Australia). This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of entertaining essays, this wide-ranging book looks at the impact of the media on Australian life and politics, and anlyses key images and stories that shape our perceptions at century's end. Topics include Americanisation, feminism, pop, pay TV, the Internet, political correctness, Mabo, and the republican convention.

Download or read book People Politics and Pop written by Craig McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Confessions of Nat Turner written by William Styron and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.

Download or read book Everything s Fine written by Helen Razer and published by Random House (Australia). This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything's Fucked. Anyone alive today can tell you that. But not as sublimely, sumptuosly or seductively as Triple J's gorgeous postmodern Goddess of Nihilism, the disenchanted, permanently adolescent and just plain cross HELEN RAZER. And why is everything fucked? Because of Deepak Chopra, that's why. He and the rest of the execrable New Age movement have just gone too far. Incense, chakras, yurts, rattan shopping bags, angel therapists, John Gray, Louise Hay ... none of them are a path to lasting peace. All that namby-pamby self-discovery and New Age Orthodoxy be buggered. Have you ever considered the possibility that the multibillion dollar self-help industry is actually a plot hatched somewhere in a dank, humourless corner of the Pentagon, designed entirely to keep you dirt poor, overburdened with doubt and stupid enough to actually enjoy programs such as 'Hey! Hey! It's Saturday?'? Well, darn it, it's occurred to me! And that is why, in a perverse spirit of generousity, I have decided to rake the detritus from the crazy paving we recognise as human endevour and forge a trajectory toward the One Truth: everything's fucked. Petulance and hate are the only antidote in this postmodern world. All things are shithouse, and thankfully we have the curvaceously cranky Helen Razer to provide us with a starter kit of fucked things to think about to ease our way forward to embittered recovery. Hate can be deeply rewarding. Especially when directed at gaudy prepubescent female frock-shop attendants. Or crypto-fascist computer store Billy Gates wannabes. All you need is Helen's Never Fail Five Point Plan for Twarting Shitheads: Hate. Read. Flounce. Recount your hates. And never trust a hippie. If you've been overcome by the cloying synthetic honey-love of the New Age and hate doesn't come as naturally to you as it once did, Helen is on had with a few suggestions for recognising dissonance, vacuity and scum. Like Demi Moore. Alcoholic soft drinks. Gourmet pizza. And of course 'Hey! Hey! It's Saturday.' Once you've got the hang of karmically imbalanced hate, it's time to acquire Protracted Adolescence Disorder. This dysfunction publicly evinced by such luminaries as Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld and Courtney Love, is virulent and may be financially perilous. Malapert owners of factory-fresh newborns may naively expect to extricate themselves from toxic parental bondage in, perhaps, twenty years. PAD ensures beyond doubt that in the year 2029 you'll have a wingeing, procrastinating, shop-soiled thirty-two year old still begging you for money and leaving their (Mambo) clothes on the bathroom floor. To be the perfect postmodern princess, you must of course abandon gender to the revolution. And if you churlishly refuse to follow any of Helen's other extravagantly researched paradigms for self-awareness and change, well, you must, you simply cannot afford not to, crossdress. For those few of you needing them, tips on exacting extreme gender travesty are forthcoming. For gentlemen: Cry. Experience PMT. Depilate. Meddle. Envelop. For ladies: Fiddle. Nudity. Let fluffy off the chain. Drink beer. Gamble. Ladies, you must learn to fiddle. Do not fiddle with the frustrated, poignant desire of a convent girl who knows what she's doing is wrong in the eyes of the Lord. As much as it may be an exhibitionist pleasure to masturbate in the presence of an important deity, stop it at once. Be more nonchalant. Remember that an ill-gotten climax is not your objective. Perform irresolute origami with your nether folds. Disrobe not with the urgency of a motley Kings Cross fan dancer but the the comic integrity of an ample, gangling male sports-ground streaker. Fart not with the repressed denial and pain of a Tory politician who is paddled by a buxom madam in cloying weekly privacy. Fart with the loud avuncular dignity of an adipose publican. Drink beer not with the tentative chagrin of a shandy-sipping befrocked matron. Imbibe it instead with the gusto

Download or read book Virtual Geography written by McKenzie Wark and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author's capacity to grasp and interpret these [world media] events is astounding, and her ability to provide insights into a world where unbounded information is circling the earth with the speed of light is startling." -- Choice "... a wide-ranging, quirky and dextrous mix of description, theory and analysis, that documents the perils of the global telecommunications network... " -- Times Literary Supplement "... this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today." -- Lawrence Grossberg McKenzie Wark writes about the experience of everyday life under the impact of increasingly global media vectors. We no longer have roots, we have aerials. We no longer have origins, we have terminals.

Download or read book The Virtual Republic written by McKenzie Wark and published by Allen & Unwin Academic. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McKenzie Wark, one of Australia's most exciting cultural commentators, takes a fresh look at recent debates about gender, race, culture and the media and suggests that our sense of national identity no longer resides in our past but is continually being reinvented.

Download or read book The Slave Community written by John W. Blassingame and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Game of Ju Jitsu written by Taro Miyake and published by Budoworks. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1906, "The Game of Ju-Jitsu" is an accomplished work by two of the great Judoka of all time. In simple, precise, and declarative descriptions, the key elements of Ju-Jitsu are explained as well as the many improper applications (Faults), that can take place in a common match. Along with over 90 illustrations and photographs many current techniques as well as techniques no longer used in traditional Judo matches are covered. Falling exercises, Standing work, Simple and Advanced Throws, Groundwork, Hold-downs, and a variety of Locking techniques are covered. Both of the authors (Taro(Taruji) Miyake & Yukio Tani) were early proponents of teaching Jujutsu techniques to Western students. Miyaki started his training under Fusen-ryu Jujutsu ground-fighting Newaza master Mataemon Tanabe, as well as Osaka master Yataro Handa and is credited for helping establish Judo in the United Kingdom at the start of the 20th century. Miyake toured through spectacles and music halls, defeating many of the best wrestlers of the time and engaging in open all-comers challenge matches. Tani was a pioneering Japanese Jujutsu and Judo instructor and professional challenge wrestler, notable for being one of the very first Jujutsu stylists to teach and compete outside of Japan. On stage Tani was known as the "pocket Hercules" and was famous throughout all levels of London society. In 1904, Tani and Miyake opened the Japanese School of Jujutsu that was located at 305, Oxford Street W, London.

Download or read book The Moral Sciences Tripos written by University of Cambridge and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Menzies Era written by John Howard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, by John Howard, Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, this is a significant, unique and fascinating history of the Menzies era - a time that laid the foundations for modern Australia. 'Engaging and revealing ... like a torchlight shone from an unexpected angle' Geoffrey Blainey, Weekend Australian Fresh from the success of his phenomenal bestselling memoir, LAZARUS RISING, which has sold over 100,000 copies, John Howard now turns his attention to one of the most extraordinary periods in Australian history, the Menzies era, canvassing the longest unbroken period of government for one side of politics in Australia's history. The monumental Sir Robert Menzies held power for a total of over 18 years, making him the longest-serving Australian Prime Minister. During his second term as Prime Minister, a term of over sixteen years - by far the longest unbroken tenure in that office - Menzies dominated Australian politics like no one else has ever done before or since, and these years laid the foundations for modern Australia. The Menzies era saw huge economic growth, social change and considerable political turmoil. Covering the impact of the great Labor split of 1955 as well as the recovery of the Labor Party under Whitlam's leadership in the late 1960s and the impact of the Vietnam War on Australian politics, this magisterial book offers a comprehensive assessment of the importance of the Menzies era in Australian life, history and politics. John Howard, only ten when Menzies rose to power, and in young adulthood when the Menzies era came to an end, saw Menzies as an inspiration and a role model. His unique insights and thoughtful analysis into Menzies the man, the politician, and his legacy make this a fascinating, highly significant book. 'This important book' Clive James, Times Literary Supplement

Download or read book The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs written by Irvine Welsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threatens to throw his mission off course. Consumed by loathing for his nemesis, Skinner enacts a curse, and when Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that their destinies are supernaturally bound, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma.

Download or read book The Long Knives written by Irvine Welsh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story." Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political opponents, the countless groups he's offended. And the vulnerable and marginalised, who bore the brunt of his cruelty - those without a voice, without a choice, without a chance. As Detective Ray Lennox unravels the truth, and the list of brutal attacks grows, he must put his personal feelings aside. But one question refuses to go away... Who are the real victims here? *A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in the Evening Standard*