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Book Lions and Tigers  The Story of Football in Singapore and Malaysia

Download or read book Lions and Tigers The Story of Football in Singapore and Malaysia written by John Duerden and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through attending games and talking to players, coaches, media and fans from the past and the present, seasoned football correspondent John Duerden charts the history of the rivalry in the past, captures a snapshot of the rivalry as it is and casts a look at the future. It won't be just about the big games but about players from one country that played in another and the recent sojourn of Lions XII in Malaysia and Harimau Muda in the S-League. From meetings between the two national teams and clubs to tales from the times when they both sent teams to compete in the other’s league, Lions and Tigers describes how Singapore and Malaysia feel about each other and how it all looks to an outsider between the two countries with comments from both nations—from coaches, players and key stakeholders, and also journalists and fans of the beautiful game.

Book Lions and Tigers

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Duerden
  • Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
  • Release : 2018-01-04
  • ISBN : 9789814771719
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Lions and Tigers written by John Duerden and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran football correspondent John Duerden explores one of the world's big rivalries in the world of football--that between Singapore and Malaysia, and what it means for both nations. So the tiger that arrived in the Lion City was not a sleek predator full of hunger, confidence and menace but something of a scaredy-cat just looking to avoid defeat. And in the big rivalries that is sometimes what it is all about. Winning can be lovely but the prospect of standing--or these days sitting--in the stadium while watching rival fans celebrate wildly and lengthily is one of the worst feelings in football, despite how necessary it is from time to time. "I was told that whatever you must do, you must not lose to Malaysia," said Trevor Hartley when he arrived in 1976 to become Technical Director of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) and then the national team coach shortly after. "Losing to Malaysia was a huge no-no. It was not just the people at the association or those working in football. It was the media, of course, but also the people you saw on the street. When a game with Malaysia approached, people made it clear that defeat really was not an option. This is the one team you do not lose to. There was a lot of pride at stake." - From Chapter 1

Book The Publishers  Trade List Annual

Download or read book The Publishers Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Far Eastern Economic Review

Download or read book Far Eastern Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian the Lion

Download or read book Christian the Lion written by John Rendall and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story that captured the imagination of the world... In 1969 Harrods department store in London sold a three month old lion cub to two young Australians, John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke. They called him Christian. For a year Christian lived happily and safely with John and Ace and his human 'pride', initially in the World's End on the King's Road in Chelsea, where Derek Cattani first began photographing him. When Christian outgrew his London environment he was entrusted to the care of George Adamson in Kenya, who with his wife Joy, had successfully rehabilitated their lioness Elsa, the subject of Joy's Book Born Free. A year after Christian had been living in the wild John and Ace returned to Kenya to try and find him. The film clip of their emotional reunion has now been viewed by over 100 million people on YouTube. In 1973 Christian disappeared into the wild forever. George Adamson had uniquely rehabilitated a 5th generation zoo-bred lion. John and Ace's first book about Christian was a million seller in the 1970s, and enjoyed a huge resurgence of interest after their YouTube clip went viral in 2006. This brand new book from Bradt, collects Derek Cattani's never-before-seen pictures of Christian and updates the story to the present day, including the story of their YouTube sensation and a chapter on the murder of George Adamson. When John and Ace took Christian to Kenya in 1970 there were an estimated 300,00 lions in Africa. Today there are fewer than 25,000.

Book Malaysia  Singapore   Brunei

Download or read book Malaysia Singapore Brunei written by Chris Rowthorn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of Asia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei offer a travel experience unlike any other. Go fast, go slow, hit the streets or get off the beaten track - this insiders' guide shows you how. * more than 80 maps, including full-colour regional map * insights to light your way in deepest, darkest Borneo * climb high, dive deep, shop till you drop and eat till you pop * trains, planes and automobiles, buses, bicycles, boots and boats - we'll get you there and around * user-friendly Malay language chapter

Book Africa s Lions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Haroon Bhorat
  • Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
  • Release : 2016-11-08
  • ISBN : 0815729502
  • Pages : 133 pages

Download or read book Africa s Lions written by Haroon Bhorat and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future. Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa. Despite a growing body of research on African economies, very little has focused on the relationship between economic growth and employment outcomes at the detailed country level. A lack of empirical data has deprived policymakers of a robust evidence base on which to make informed decisions. By harnessing country-level household, firm, and national accounts data together with existing analytical country research—the authors have attempted to bridge this gap. The growth of the global working-age population to 2030 will be driven primarily by Africa, which means that the relationship between growth and employment should be understood within the context of each country’s projected demographic challenge and the associated implications for employment growth. A better understanding of the structure of each country’s workforce and the resulting implications for human capital development, the vulnerably employed, and the working poor, will be critical to informing the development policy agenda. As a group, the six countries profiled in Africa’s Lions will largely shape the continent's future. Each country chapter focuses on the complex interactions between economic growth and employment outcomes, within the individual Africa’s Lions context.

Book Sports Analytics and Data Science

Download or read book Sports Analytics and Data Science written by Thomas W. Miller and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. This up-to-the-minute reference will help you master all three facets of sports analytics — and use it to win! Sports Analytics and Data Science is the most accessible and practical guide to sports analytics for everyone who cares about winning and everyone who is interested in data science. You’ll discover how successful sports analytics blends business and sports savvy, modern information technology, and sophisticated modeling techniques. You’ll master the discipline through realistic sports vignettes and intuitive data visualizations–not complex math. Every chapter focuses on one key sports analytics application. Miller guides you through assessing players and teams, predicting scores and making game-day decisions, crafting brands and marketing messages, increasing revenue and profitability, and much more. Step by step, you’ll learn how analysts transform raw data and analytical models into wins: both on the field and in any sports business.

Book Planting Empire  Cultivating Subjects

Download or read book Planting Empire Cultivating Subjects written by Lynn Hollen Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Book Little Red Dot  The  Reflections Of Foreign Ambassadors On Singapore   Volume Iii

Download or read book Little Red Dot The Reflections Of Foreign Ambassadors On Singapore Volume Iii written by Tommy Koh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two volumes of The Little Red Dot series covered a wide range of views about Singapore's diplomacy by Singaporean diplomats. This new addition to the series offers a complementary perspective of Singapore and its bilateral relations, through the eyes of past heads of missions from foreign countries who have served as ambassadors to Singapore. The reader will be able to glean insights from the foreign diplomats who took an active role in getting to know Singapore, and at the same time, also worked hard to promote their respective countries' interests. As seen from their perspectives, the reader can learn more about what was unique about Singapore, what they learnt and what made their postings to Singapore memorable. These candid reflections will allow Singaporean readers to understand how different elements of our country are often seen as a whole, and how that in turn contributes to the impressions that our foreign friends have of Singapore. Often cited by the contributors are the success of Singapore's economic development, our cohesive multi-cultural and multi-religious society, our good governance, our education system and opportunities for the young. These aspects that are highlighted, among others, are what makes Singapore unique and they are also important to Singapore's future. There were, of course, some critical comments on some aspects of our culture and political arrangements. We should evaluate them with an open mind, always willing to learn from our friends.

Book When China Rules the World

Download or read book When China Rules the World written by Martin Jacques and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.

Book Tisket  Tasket  Lots and Lots of Baskets

Download or read book Tisket Tasket Lots and Lots of Baskets written by Sandra Arthur and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book teaching suggested stitches to create the baskets on needleworks of all kinds.

Book Stitches to Go

    Book Details:
  • Author : Suzanne Howren
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-07
  • ISBN : 9780966302431
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Stitches to Go written by Suzanne Howren and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STITCHES TO GOJust the stitches, in a format for use when you're "on the go." It contains all the stitch diagrams from the 3 Stitches For Effect books plus Stitch Journal pages to use for recording projects, plans or ideas. This little book is a necessary addition to your traveling stitching supplies.

Book Post Colonial and African American Women s Writing

Download or read book Post Colonial and African American Women s Writing written by Gina Wisker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Book From Third World to First  The Singapore Story  1965 2000

Download or read book From Third World to First The Singapore Story 1965 2000 written by Lee Kuan Yew and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when independence was thrust upon it in 1965. Today the former British trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with one of the world’s highest per capita income. The story of that transformation is told here by Singapore’s charismatic, controversial founding father Lee Kuan Yew. From Third World To First continues where the best-selling first volume, The Singapore Story, left off, and brings up to date the story of Singapore’s dramatic rise. It was first published in 2000. Delving deep into his own meticulous notes and previously unpublished papers and cabinet records, Lee details the extraordinary efforts it took for an island city-state in Southeast Asia to survive, with just “a razor’s edge” to manoeuvre in, as Albert Winsemius, Singapore’s economic advisor in the 1960s, put it.We read how a young man of 42 and his cabinet colleagues finished off the communist threat to the fledging state’s security, and began the long, hard work of building a nation: creating an army from scratch, stamping out corruption, providing mass public housing, and masterminding a national airline and airport. Lee writes frankly about his trenchant approach to political opponents and his often unorthodox views on human rights, democracy and inherited intelligence, aiming always “to be correct, not politically correct”. Nothing about Singapore escaped his watchful eye: whether choosing shrubs for roadsides, restoring the romance of historic Raffles Hotel of persuading young men to marry women as well-educated as themselves. Today’s safe, tidy Singapore certainly bears his stamp, but as he writes, “If this is a nanny state, I am proud to have fostered one.”

Book A Shot at History

    Book Details:
  • Author : ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATH
  • Publisher : Harper Sport India
  • Release : 2017-07-19
  • ISBN : 9789352645756
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book A Shot at History written by ABHINAV BINDRA. ROHIT BRIJNATH and published by Harper Sport India. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhinav Bindra's journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold is an example of a single-minded quest for perfection. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics, he changed as a shooter: he became an athlete bent on redemp

Book A Lion Called Christian

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Bourke
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2009-03-10
  • ISBN : 0767932331
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book A Lion Called Christian written by Anthony Bourke and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stirring tale of a rare bond formed between humans and an animal.”—Time Two men. One baby lion. What could go wrong? A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought a boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of the “father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions. A video of this reunion has become a YouTube classic. Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.