Download or read book The Illustrated Boggo Road Dictionary of Prison Language Slang Flash written by Christopher Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dirty Dozen written by Christopher Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at capital punishment during the convict era at Moreton Bay, and what happened to the men convicted of capital crimes there.
Download or read book Last Prison Standing written by Christopher Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is intended as a brief introduction and guide to one of the most fascinating historical sites in Australia.
Download or read book The American Language written by H. L. Mencken and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing characteristics of American English. Cigar-chomping newspaperman H. L. Mencken succeeds not only in providing a lucid description of the American language but also in making his readers laugh, wince, and nod in agreement. It's a readable and fascinating study on why you say "tomayto" and I say "tomahto." A must read for anyone who loves words.
Download or read book Chopper Unchopped written by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read and published by Pan. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 3024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All eleven volumes of Chopper's original memoirs ... unchopped Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read is Australia's most famous standover man and one of its most prolific authors. Now, for the very first time, all eleven volumes of Chopper's memoirs are together in this special collector's edition. From his criminal youth to his time in prison to his life as a reformed man, the entire journey is here. This omnibus edition contains the following complete and unabridged books: From the Inside: Chopper 1 Hits and Memories: Chopper 2 How to Shoot Friends and Influence People: Chopper 3 For the Term of His Unnatural Life: Chopper 4 Pulp Faction: Chopper 5 No Tears for a Tough Guy: Chopper 6 The Singing Defective: Chopper 7 The Sicilian Defence: Chopper 8 The Final Cut: Chopper 9 The Popcorn Gangster: Chopper 10.5 Last Man Standing: Chopper 11 Chopper is an icon in popular Australian culture and in the criminal underworld. Find out why in Chopper's own words.
Download or read book Sunshine and Rainbows written by Clive Moore and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of homosexuality as an Australian subculture. Proceeding chronologically from the 1820s through to the vibrant alternative culture that exists in 2000, this book argues that the manner in which gay and lesbian identity has been constructed in Queensland is typical of Australia generally.
Download or read book Brisbane Beginnings written by Christopher Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Absolute Fairyland written by Christopher Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical look at the Dutton Park recreation reserve. The arrival of the electric tramway during the 1900s turned a neglected riverside reserve called 'Dutton's Park' into 'the most picturesque and charming open-air resort in Australia'. Weekly variety shows with live performers and silent movies drew 5,000 people per night to the park. By the time of the Great Depression, however, the park had fallen into disrepair, and hundreds of homeless relief workers camped under the trees there. Absolute Fairyland recalls the surprising history of the rise and fall of a suburban park.
Download or read book Slang and Sociability written by Connie Eble and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slang is often seen as a lesser form of language, one that is simply not as meaningful or important as its 'regular' counterpart. Connie Eble refutes this notion as she reveals the sources, poetry, symbolism, and subtlety of informal slang expressions. In Slang and Sociability, Eble explores the words and phrases that American college students use casually among themselves. Based on more than 10,000 examples submitted by Eble's students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over the last twenty years, the book shows that slang is dynamic vocabulary that cannot be dismissed as deviant or marginal. Like more formal words and phrases, slang is created, modified, and transmitted by its users to serve their own purposes. In the case of college students, these purposes include cementing group identity and opposing authority. The book includes a glossary of the more than 1,000 slang words and phrases discussed in the text, as well as a list of the 40 most enduring terms since 1972. Examples from the glossary: group gropes -- encounter groups squirrel kisser -- environmentalist Goth -- student who dresses in black and listens to avant-garde music bad bongos -- situation in which things do not go well triangle -- person who is stupid or not up on the latest za -- pizza smoke -- to perform well dead soldier -- empty beer container toast -- in big trouble, the victim of misfortune parental units -- parents
Download or read book Cook Islands Culture written by R. G. Crocombe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible guide to Cook Islands' culture features contributions providing an insider's perspective on various aspects of culture. The evolution of Cook Islands' culture is also examined.
Download or read book In Search of Steele Rudd written by Richard Fotheringham and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 Arthur Hoey Davis, a young Brisbane public servant who dabbled in journalism, sat down to devise a nom de plume for his rowing column in the local newspaper. The by-line he chose was Steele Rudd. The Sydney Bulletin began to publish his stories in 1895 and four years later his first book, On Our Selection, appeared. A comic writer of genius, he became Queensland's best known and most popular writer. His works were as widely read as those of Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson and C. J. Dennis. The man behind the Rudd legend, however, has been largely hidden for over a century. Richard Fotheringham's biography provides startling new insights into Steele Rudd's life: about his determination to earn his living as a writer after his career in the public service came to an end, his troubled marriage, the poverty of his last years and, after his death in 1935, the appropriation of his work as Dad and Dave on radio and film, in cartoons and jokes.
Download or read book Challenge to Mars written by Peter Brock and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays in Part I look at the interwar years, which gave rise to an array of pacifist organizations, both religious and humanist, throughout Europe and North America. Twelve essays in Part II deal with the brutal challenge to pacifist ideals posed by the Second World War and include a look at the fate of those courageous Germans who refused to fight for Hitler.
Download or read book An English Prison from Within written by Stephen Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hits and Memories Chopper 2 written by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was just after dawn on Thursday, November 14, 1991. The hatch on the cell door slid back. I could see the screw's face through the slit. I've seen better heads on a pig dog, but this time I could have kissed him.' Underworld standover man and executioner Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991, vowing never to return. He became an instant celebrity when his autobiography Chopper: From the Inside hit the bestseller lists (it also holds the record as Australia's most shop-lifted book). Six months later, he was back in jail charged with the shooting of a biker, and busy writing his second volume of memoirs. In this sequel, Chopper gives us more stories of crime and criminals that made his first book an international publishing sensation, from bookie robberies to hitmen, slavery and kidnapping. Written with dark humour and an intimate knowledge of some of Australia's most notorious criminals and crimes, Hits and Memories is a unique look at Australia's underbelly.
Download or read book The Book of Dave written by Will Self and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And what if Dave had indeed made a mistake? Shuttling between the recent past and a far-off future where England is terribly altered, The Book of Dave is a strange and troubling mirror held up to our times: disturbing, satirizing and vilifying who and what we think we are. At once a meditation upon the nature of received religion, a love story, a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future - this compulsive novel will be enjoyed by readers everywhere, including fans of Martin Amis and Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. 'Vivid, visceral and breathtakingly ambitious, this is Self's best yet' GQ 'Mindboggling ... darkly hilarious ... A fascinating book' Evening Standard Will Self is the author of nine novels including Cock and Bull; My Idea of Fun; Great Apes; How the Dead Live; Dorian, an Imitation; The Book of Dave; The Butt; Walking to Hollywood and Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has written five collections of shorter fiction and three novellas: The Quantity Theory of Insanity; Grey Area; License to Hug; The Sweet Smell of Psychosis; Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo; Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys; Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe and Liver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes. Self has also compiled a number of nonfiction works, including The Undivided Self: Selected Stories; Junk Mail; Perfidious Man; Sore Sites; Feeding Frenzy; Psychogeography; Psycho Too and The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker.
Download or read book Shovelnose written by Christopher Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brisbane River has been home to sharks for thousands of years. This book recalls the days when the people of Brisbane and Ipswich swam, bathed, washed and travelled in the river, and what happened when they and their dogs met with bull sharks, then known as 'shovel-nose sharks'. After reading of several horrific attacks and three tragic deaths, you (and your dog) may never go for a summer dip in the river again! -- back cover.
Download or read book Comrades in Conscience written by Cyril Pearce and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
