Download or read book Why the Cocks Fight written by Michele Wucker and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.
Download or read book Cocktastic Colourful Cocks written by Ella Cotton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JINGLE BALLS! 'Chestnuts roasting on a...' Looking for a fun colouring book or a gift for someone who might appreciate a book full of artistic willies? 'Yule Knob' - Need a silly secret Santa, saucy stocking filler or hilarious hen night gift? Then Ella Cottons hilarious 'Cocktastic! Colourful Cocks' could be the book for you. Each beautifully designed black & white illustration depicts a famous male member taken from the world of Art ready for colouring. This is extreme mindfulness! Cocks found inside the book include:Michelangelo's David Medieval Nuns harvesting from the cock tree Roman winged penises Flower cocks Bhutanese knob dragons And many more! Ward off the 'Evil Eye' with these wonderful willies and their illuminating descriptions. Feel relaxed and amused while carefully colouring cock. Please note: Rubbing this book will not make it bigger. To see more of Ella's illustrations please visit: retroinc.co.uk
Download or read book Spoiled written by Heather Cocks and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You say Spoiled like it's a bad thing. Sixteen-year-old Molly Dix has just discovered that her biological father is Brick Berlin, world-famous movie star and red-carpet regular. Intrigued (and a little) terrified by her Hollywood lineage, Molly moves to Los Angeles and plunges headfirst into the deep of Beverly Hills celebrity life. Just as Molly thinks her life couldn't get any stranger, she meets Brooke Berlin, her gorgeous, spoiled half sister, who welcomes Molly to la-la land with a smothering dose "sisterly love"...but in this town, nothing is ever what it seems. Set against a world of Redbull-fuelled stylists, tiny tanned girls, popped-collar guys, and Blackberry-wielding publicists, Spoiled is a sparkling debut from the writers behind the viciously funny celebrity blog GoFugYourself.com.
Download or read book The Breeding and Management of Fighting Cocks written by Everard Simpson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF FIGHTING COCKS BY EVERARD SIMPSON (1781) This fascinating reprint of a rare Eighteenth century 'cocking' manuscript will prove of great interest to all with an interest in game fowl. Its nine comprehensive chapters give the reader a valuable insight into the breeding and amnagement of fighting birds, over 200 years ago. Contents: The choice of successful cocks Of the sufficency of good hens Breeding out of old fought cocks Breeding out of tainted fowl A description of true game stock Types of cocks and their fighting methods The attainment of good fowl Breeding and management Rules of cocking in sumatra The book's seventy pages remain an enduring testament to the once popular pastime of cockfighting.
Download or read book Creatures with Cocks written by Monty Savage and published by Summersdale. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outrageous book of cute cartoon creatures boasting larger-than-life proportions is guaranteed to make you guffaw. A unique and inexcusable glimpse of nature’s lesser-known creations, this menagerie will show you a side of the animal kingdom you’ll find it hard to forget.
Download or read book Diary of Richard Cocks Cape merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615 1622 written by Richard Cocks and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Directions for breeding Game Cocks with the methods of treating them Calculations for betting etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Pastime of Cock fighting The art ighting and curing cocks of the game written by R. H R. H and published by anboco. This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published purely for the good, and benefit of all such as take delight in that royal, and warlike sport, to which is prefixed, a short treatise, wherein cocking is proved not only ancient and honourable, but also useful, and profitable.
Download or read book Directions for breeding Game Cocks A new edition improved written by DIRECTIONS. and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fighting Cocks written by Jimmy Beedle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1916, a group of early aviators gathered in the fields beneath the crags and ramparts of Stirling Castle to form what was to become one of the Royal Air Forces most distinguished fighter squadrons. Few squadrons can match the history of 43 Squadron which has included being the first to undertake ground attack operations during the First World War, shooting down the first enemy aircraft over England in the Second World War, and achieving the remarkable double of shooting down 6 enemy aircraft in one day in both World Wars. Its distinctive emblem of the Fighting Cock embodies the spirit and resilience of a fighter squadron that has been in the vanguard of RAF operations for almost a century. Perhaps the Fighting Cocks finest period occurred during the Battle of Britain when its Hurricanes destroyed 60 enemy aircraft with a further thirteen probables and twenty-five more damaged. With the advent of the jet age, 43 Squadron became the first unit to fly the Hunter, seeing operational duties in Aden, before re-equipping with the Phantom until the end of the Cold War. This new edition of the Fighting Cocks history brings the story up to date and covers its 20 years of service with the Tornado F3, including the Gulf War, NATO operations over Bosnia, and the Iraq War. * This new edition of the Fighting Cocks history brings the story up to date * Few squadrons can match the history of 43 Squadron * Fighting Cock embodies the spirit and resilience of a fighter squadron that has been in the vanguard of RAF operations for almost a century
Download or read book The Heir Affair written by Heather Cocks and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it up the aisle was the easy part: Rebecca "Bex" Porter must survive her own scandals and adjust to royal British life in this "positively delicious" follow-up to The Royal We that's "just as fun, charming, and delightful as the first" (Taylor Jenkins Reid). After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is salivating. Cutting themselves off from friends and family, and escaping the world's judgmental eyes, feels like the best way to protect their fragile, all-consuming romance. But when a crisis forces the new Duke and Duchess back to London, the Band-Aid they'd placed over their problems starts to peel at the edges. Now, as old family secrets and new ones threaten to derail her new royal life, Bex has to face the emotional wreckage she and Nick left behind: with the Queen, with the world, and with Nick's brother Freddie, whose sins may not be so easily forgotten—nor forgiven.
Download or read book Diary of Richard Cocks Cape Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615 1622 with Correspondence written by Edward Maunde Thompson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ends December 1617. Continued to 1622 in the following volume (First Series 67). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.
Download or read book Messy written by Heather Cocks and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes life gets Messy. When sixteen-year-old Brooke Berlin catches a taste of fame and her movie-star father's attention, she decides it's time to take her career to the next level--by launching a blog that will position her as a Hollywood "It Girl" who tells it like it is. But between schoolwork, shopping, and spray-tan appointments, she hardly has the time to write it herself... Enter green-haired outsider Max McCormack, an aspiring author with a terrible after-school job pushing faux meat on the macrobiotic masses. Max loathes the celebrity scene almost as much as she dislikes Brooke, but wooed by an impressive salary, Max reluctantly agrees to play Brooke's ghost-blogger -- and the site takes off. How long will their lie last? Can the girls work together to stay on top, or will the truth come out and ruin everything they've built? Along with an entourage of fame-hungry starlets, scruffy rocker wannabes, and sushi-scarfing socialites, the case of Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan's dazzling debut, Spoiled, are back for another adventure in Tinseltown.
Download or read book A Classified Catalogue of School College and General Educational Works in Use in the United Kingdom and Its Dependencies in 1876 Etc written by Catalogues and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Just Cocks Coloring Book for Adults written by Coloring People and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our best selling Just Cocks Coloring Book For Adults is back, bigger and better than ever with our new Extended Edition. You'll have 45 hilarious dick images to color until you can't laugh anymore. With over 45 different Funny and Snarky Cock coloring pages. Whether it's for you or a gift for a friend, a Birthday, Mother's Day, Christmas present or just something for yourself this book is sure to keep you and your friends laughing, giggling and coloring for hours.... Features of this Book: All Professionally illustrated Designs Suitable for Coloring Pens, Markers, Pencils and Crayons. Single side printing and bordered for framing 45 hilarious and naughty coloring pages.. The new extended edition of our Just Cocks Coloring Book contains 45 single sided coloring pages filled with various hilarious, funny and snarky, cock images. This book has a range of different coloring pages for you to choose from whether you like complex designs or prefer a simpler style our cock coloring book is sure to have something for you. We have chosen the funniest cock illustrations to ensure that you get hours of coloring entertainment, laughter and relaxation. All pages are bordered and single sided for easy removal and framing, this also stops your colors from bleeding through onto other pages. So sit back relax and enjoy our Cocks Coloring Book for Adults.
Download or read book Worcester County Records Kalendar of the sessions rolls 1591 1643 written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doing the Town written by Catherine Cocks and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity.".
