Download or read book Snookered written by Ishy Din and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snookered probes into the lives of young Muslim men and their fragile masculinity, burdened by cultural expectations yet charged with personal dreams. In a volatile political climate, Ishy Din opens a timely window into a strand of British Muslim life that often remains unseen. The plot follows four friends who, every year, meet on the anniversary of their mate's death for a game of pool and a few drinks. As they excavate the past and measure their own lives, secrets are revealed and allegiances shift as quickly as the drinks are downed. Can they put to rest their guilt over the untimely death of their friend? And will their friendship survive the final betrayal? One of the very few plays written both by and about British Muslims, Snookered explores their camaraderie, life decisions, and their self identity within their close-knit Muslim community of extended families and network of friends. The sharp, pace-filled dialogue captures the Punjabi-English urban patois that is currently developing in northern towns but is rarely seen onstage. The result is that the characters are both alive and relevant, and moments of sharp wit collide with emotionally searing exchanges. Developed by the theatre company Tamasha, whose manifesto is to explore British Asian perspectives and identities, Snookered is unafraid to feature difficult and significant themes such as religion, drug addiction, misogyny, poverty and racism. Against this backdrop, Snookered is first and foremost a psychologically detailed but razor-sharp depiction of young men finding their paths in life, whilst navigating what it means to be young, British and Muslim.
Download or read book Snookered written by Ishy Din and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snookered probes into the lives of young Muslim men and their fragile masculinity, burdened by cultural expectations yet charged with personal dreams. In a volatile political climate, Ishy Din opens a timely window into a strand of British Muslim life that often remains unseen. The plot follows four friends who, every year, meet on the anniversary of their mate's death for a game of pool and a few drinks. As they excavate the past and measure their own lives, secrets are revealed and allegiances shift as quickly as the drinks are downed. Can they put to rest their guilt over the untimely death of their friend? And will their friendship survive the final betrayal? One of the very few plays written both by and about British Muslims, Snookered explores their camaraderie, life decisions, and their self identity within their close-knit Muslim community of extended families and network of friends. The sharp, pace-filled dialogue captures the Punjabi-English urban patois that is currently developing in northern towns but is rarely seen onstage. The result is that the characters are both alive and relevant, and moments of sharp wit collide with emotionally searing exchanges. Developed by the theatre company Tamasha, whose manifesto is to explore British Asian perspectives and identities, Snookered is unafraid to feature difficult and significant themes such as religion, drug addiction, misogyny, poverty and racism. Against this backdrop, Snookered is first and foremost a psychologically detailed but razor-sharp depiction of young men finding their paths in life, whilst navigating what it means to be young, British and Muslim.
Download or read book How To Play Snooker written by Stanley Newman and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Reading Educational Research written by Gerald Watkins Bracey and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stats, stats, stats. It seems everything written about education today is full of stats. With this book, nimble-minded number cruncher and award-winning researcher Gerald Bracey takes your hand and walks you through the process of figuring out the meaning behind the figures. You don't need to be a math whiz to follow Bracey because he writes with clarity and humor, explicitly defining statistical terminology in easy-to-understand language and even offering you thirty-two specific principles for assessing the quality of research as you read it.
Download or read book DISTRACTIONS DISTORTIONS DECEPTIONS and Outright LIES written by Val Atkinson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Distractions is an updated copy of the original book written in 2018. Part I (Conservative Strategies) outlines how conservatives deal with the critical issues of communications, the economy, the electoral process, the law, and DEMOCRACY. Part II (The “G’s”) focuses on the issue areas used mainly by the GOP to gain acceptance in the eyes of the general public. An additional chapter has been added — “Gerrymandering”. With the advent of Citizens United, The Gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act with the ruling in the Shelby Co. v. Holder case, The Chiafalo v. Washington case, Heller, and Dobbs v. Jackson already decided, Gerrymandering became the cherry atop the sundae. Afterword has been revised and an appendix added which includes: A Timeline, An example of a Literacy Test, and a copy of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America with cited changes from the U.S. Constitution. Examples of the media gaslighting its reading audience for ratings and the profits they generate are included as well. Emphasis are placed on the future of the GOP after the Trump led fiasco of January 6th. There is also a great deal of attention placed on the lead-up to the 2024 General Election under the pending dispositions of the various Trump indictments. Conservatives’ immigration woes and their fear of the United States becoming a “Colored” country are discussed, and gun violence and the policing of the Black man in America is given added attention, and the Biographical section was expanded.
Download or read book The Complete Hoyle s Games written by Edmond Hoyle and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the middle of the Eighteenth Century, 'according to Hoyle' has been an expression of fair and rule-abiding play. In an age when more and more people are rejecting the inanities of electronic games and returning to the old, perennial favourites, the reissue of this great book will be welcomed by all games players of discernment. This edition of Hoyle's Games has been prepared by Lawrence Dawson, and covers more than fifty varieties of card game, as well as Backgammon, Draughts, Chess, Solitaire, Darts, Dominoes, Nine Men's Morris, Billiards, Pool, Snooker and many more.
Download or read book The Art of Practical Billiards for Amateurs written by Alfred Wilks Drayson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pool written by British Association of Pool Table Operators and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect introduction to pool - the rules, skills, scoring and equipment.
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Download or read book Dph Sports Series Snooker And Billiards written by Ashok Kumar and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In developing countries, sports development cooperation is still in the need of justification and steadfast arguments. Many people ask the question why invest in sports in developing countries for which water supply, health service and agriculture projects are much better suited? An apt reply to this question may be for many of the people of a developing country, Sports is the only Sweaty Leisure-time activity. Sports represents a moment of joy in the midst of hard poverty-stricken and dirty everyday life. Doing sports even makes one s work go more smoothly the next day. Contents: Introduction, Equipment, Playing to Win, Downturn and Revival, The Challenging Order, Cue Control and Cue Ball Control, Special Shots, The Inner Game, The Snooker Boom, Snooker Rules.
Download or read book Gobsmacked written by Ben Yagoda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms—for good or ill The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America—from French fries to Awesome, man!—are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Britishisms have been making their way into the American lexicon for more than 150 years, but the process has accelerated since the turn of the twenty-first century. From acclaimed writer and language commentator Ben Yagoda, Gobsmacked! is a witty, entertaining, and enlightening account of how and why scores of British words and phrases—such as one-off, go missing, curate, early days, kerfuffle, easy peasy, and cheeky—have been enthusiastically taken up by Yanks. After tracing Britishisms that entered the American vocabulary in the nineteenth century and during the world wars, Gobsmacked! discusses the most-used British terms in America today. It features chapters on the American embrace of British insults and curses, sports terms, and words about food and drinks. The book also explores the American adoption of British spellings, pronunciations, and grammar, and cases where Americans have misconstrued British expressions (for example, changing can’t be arsed to can’t be asked) or adopted faux-British usages, like pronouncing divisive as “divissive.” Finally, the book offers some guidance on just how many Britishisms an American can safely adopt without coming off like an arse. Rigorously researched and documented but written in a light, conversational style, this is a book that general readers and language obsessives will love. Its revealing account of a surprising and underrecognized language revolution might even leave them, well, gobsmacked.
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 15065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Download or read book Speak like an English native speaker written by Bridget Jones and published by 真源有限公司. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Speak like an english native speaker" is a comprehensive guide to the idioms and expressions that are commonly used in the English language. This book provides readers with a wealth of knowledge about the meanings and origins of idiomatic expressions, which are an important part of everyday communication in the UK. The book is divided into sections that cover different topics, such as animals, food and drink, sports and games, and emotions. Each section contains a large number of idioms that are arranged in alphabetical order for easy reference. The authors provide a clear explanation of the meaning of each idiom, as well as examples of how the idiom is used in context. In addition to the idioms themselves, the book also includes information about their origins and history. The authors provide interesting and informative background information about the idioms, which helps readers to understand their meaning and use. "Speak like an english native speaker" is an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in improving their understanding of the English language. It is particularly useful for students who are learning English as a second language, as well as for native English speakers who want to expand their vocabulary and improve their communication skills. "Speak like an english native speaker" is a well-written and comprehensive guide to the idiomatic expressions that are commonly used in the UK. It is an essential resource for anyone who wants to improve their understanding of the English language and communicate more effectively in everyday situations.
