Download or read book Roars from the Back of the Bus written by Stewart McKinney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game, showing that relationships forged through experiences on a Lions tour last a lifetime. From the first Tour in 1888, it showcases characters with immense personality who fought together in wars or on rugby pitches in foreign lands, and who shared a bond developed through touring as representatives of the home nations. Despite the changes to the game after the advent of professionalism, the experiences of Jamie Heaslip, Brian O’Driscoll and Joe Worsley are still similar in some ways to those of earlier intrepid tourists like Blair Mayne, Lewis Jones, Sir Carl Aarvold or David Rollo. Containing defining memories and private insights from across the tours and the decades, Roars from the Back of the Bus shows that the Lions ethos remains strong at the heart of every team.
Download or read book The Dragon Roars Back written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests. What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.
Download or read book Between Borders and Buses written by Darren Assey and published by Between Borders and Buses. This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you take a clumsy Australian of Anglo Indian descent, a backpack, stick him on a bus in Europe and close the door? A good question, the answer to which Darren was eager to discover. After spending an eternity behind bars serving beer to red-faced Poms, Darren is allowed to escape and decides to make the most of it. Relying on nothing but his wits and a rough plan, he leaves the UK for an eye-opening, sometimes annoying, but always memorable experience around Europe. From space cakes in Amsterdam, motor scooter mishaps in the Greek Islands, a severe lack of direction in Sicily and a stubborn tent in Portugal, Darren realises he needs more than his wits to survive Europe - he needs a bloody miracle!Informative enough to make you go "Oh really? I didn't know that" and entertaining enough to make you sit up and giggle, Between Borders and Buses is guaranteed to ignite your desire to pack your bags, hop on the next flight out of the country and discover Europe for yourself.
Download or read book Gus the Bus written by Olga Cossi and published by . This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a schoolbus has extra air put into his new tires, he begins behaving most uncharacteristically.
Download or read book The Wheels on the Bus written by Jane Cabrera and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wheels on the bus go round and round on the way to the watering hole. But who's on the bus? A lion roars, flamingos flap, and a hyena laughs a big ha-ho-hee as they travel on the bus with their animal friends. Don't forget to watch out for the crocodile too, whose jaws go snap! Together, a simple trip becomes a raucous adventure that young readers can sing and move along with at any story hour, family reading time, or energy-filled morning. Jane Cabrera's Story Time celebrates children's best-loved read along nursery rhymes and songs. These interactive favorites are given a new twist by award-winning artist Jane Cabrera and feature her bold, bright, kid-friendly illustrations. Other titles in the series include Ten in the Bed, Old Mother Hubbard, and Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
Download or read book The Goddamn Bus of Happiness written by Stefan Laszczuk and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is at once hilarious and deeply moving. It sets a cracking pace and pins you to the page with its outrageous episodes, intriguing characters and provocative observations. Yet there is tenderness in the writing.
Download or read book TO HULL and BACK written by Dr Raymond Edwards and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the youngest child of a family of ten, borne in Barmston Street, Hull, East Yorkshire, England. These are memoirs which span 1942 to the 1970's. No it is not primarily another book about the Second World War. It starts there but moves through the whole life of my family and I until now I am the last one standing, but I now have a new family, my children, the grand children and great-grandchildren of my family. My journey is back to find the Hull I once knew and cherished dearly as a child and young man. The Hull where I experienced terror, fear, happiness, joy and love, and learned responsibility and to be proud of my background and family history. I wanted to leave a record of my family that brought me through my early life, and pass on to 'my family' the importance of a family. Dr. Raymond Edwards
Download or read book Voices from the Back of the Bus written by Stewart McKinney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period. Recounted with genuine warmth and much humour, over a hundred players recall the scrapes, the games, the laughs, the glory and the gritty reality of the pre-professional game. Packed with true rugby tales from the days when men played purely for the love of the game and of their nation, and multimillion-pound contracts and sponsorship deals were unheard of, this refreshing, revealing and often hilarious collection will inspire sports fans of all generations.
Download or read book Never to Return written by Sandy Reid and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'd never been given a cuddle in my life, been read a bedtime story or called anyone mum or dad.'In the dead of night, the authorities swooped on the tinker camp. It was the middle of winter but the tents were still warm. This time they took Sandy Reid and his sister Maggie into care. Sandy was just one year old and he would never see his mother again."Sandy Boy" is the true story of what happened to Sandy Reid and to many other tinker children. Removed from his family and their way of life, Sandy was put into care for the rest of his childhood and denied access to his mother, his father and his family. This is also the story of the abuse he suffered - regular beatings at his foster family, cruelty at a children's home and, later, systematic abuse. Without any love or affection, Sandy became uncontrollable and at the age of eight he was sent to a psychiatric unit and separated from his sister, the last link he had with his family. Soon after, a chance meeting led to the discovery that his mother had died. It would be another six years before he got the letters from his mother that proved that she had never stopped looking for him.Letters that had been opened and read by the authorities but deliberately kept from him.This is the shocking story of how a child's life was destroyed and of a stolen generation, snatched in the night and forbidden from seeing their families. It's also the story of how one boy endured terrible hardship and deprivation and how he survived against all odds.
Download or read book Search Graves for Ghosts written by Nan Tang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a corpse sealer, a profession known in the profession as the "Ergonomist." In this line of work, there were corpses that were raped, humiliated, and frequently happened. That day, a plump and naked female corpse was brought to me ...
Download or read book Travels of a Pink Slouch Hat written by SuzyP. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just a travel book, but a delightful and humorous account of a journey taken by a retired couple from Australia. The trip starts with 5 days in Singapore, then 18 nights on a Holland America cruise, starting from Singapore. The ship visited ports in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki and finished in Kobe, Japan. Then covers another week spent in Japan. This account describes their experiences on the cruise boat and with the local people in each country, also describing some history and points of interest that a prospective traveller would enjoy reading before embarking on a similar trip. The book was written by Stephen Kendall, except for the last chapter on Japan, as Stephen, sadly passed away a year later, before being able to complete it. His wife Lynn, completed and published the book in his memory.
Download or read book The Quantum Quandary written by Rick Barba and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-05-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Team Spy Gear tries to track down a computer hacker who has made a computer which is a billion times faster than any other in existence.
Download or read book An Inherited Past The Forgotten Darkness written by Demas Huckaba and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of hard work and secrecy, Allen and a group of rogue scientists are ready to test the new development. It's time to make history. They're prepared to flip the switch and activate the ancient artifact. But something goes horribly wrong and the artifact cannot be shut down. Instead of a reactor, they have opened a portal from which spews multitudes of demon-like creatures. The portal leads to a new planet called Prison World, and once opened the portal cannot be closed for five years. Diligence is needed by the military and others to ensure the creatures, called Prisoners, don't infiltrate the world and raise even more havoc. A team of special forces consisting of Damien, JD, and Peter are prepared to go on the offensive and get the problem under control. They understand that by entering the portal their lives could change forever. The first book in The Forgotten Darkness Series, An Inherited Past offers a science fiction story of a war on a planet far from home.
Download or read book That s What Dinosaurs Do written by Jory John and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Bad Seed and The Good Egg creators, Jory John and Pete Oswald, comes a story about a dinosaur who loves to ROAR. William the dinosaur likes to roar. At the park?“ROAR.” At the bus stop?“ROAR!” At the farm? You bet. ROARRR! William never lets the chance to roar pass him by, even if others find it rather bothersome. That's until William gets a sore throat and the doctor warns him not to roar for a WHOLE week. But can this overexcited, boisterous, giant lizard not do what dinosaurs are meant to do?! In his humorous and insightful style, Jory John creates an epic story about unapologetically and happily being yourself, no matter the cost. Another side-splitting combination of John’s brilliant text and Pete Oswald’s expressive and lively illustrations, That’s What Dinosaurs Do is a read-aloud that young readers will roar for again and again.
Download or read book The Faceless written by Simon Bestwick and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Lancashire town of Kempforth, people are vanishing. Mist hangs heavy in the streets, and in those mists move the masked figures the local kids call the Spindly Men. When two year old Roseanne Trevor disappears, Detective Chief Inspector Renwick vows to stop at nothing until she finds her. In Manchester, terrifying visions summon TV psychic Allen Cowell and his sister Vera back to the town they swore they?d left forever. And local historian Anna Mason pieces together a history of cruelty and exploitation almost beyond belief, born out of the horrors of war ? while in the decaying corridors and lightless rooms of a long-abandoned hospital, something terrible is waiting for them all. The Faceless is a breath-taking tale of the supernatural, which will stay with you long after the last page has been turned.
Download or read book Dead Lions Don t Roar written by Tolu' A. Akinyemi and published by The Roaring Lion Newcastle LTD. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Lion’s Don’t Roar is a collection of inspiring and motivating modern-day verses. Addressing many issues close to home and also many taboo subjects, the poetry is reflective of today’s struggles, and lights the way to a positive future. The uplifting book will appeal to all age groups and anyone going through change, building or enjoying a career, and facing day to day struggles. Many of the short verses will resonate with readers, leaving a sense of peace and wellbeing.
Download or read book RHYME OF THE CENTURY written by Kaushik Ganguli and published by Booksclinic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book is an anthology of 52 poems. The title ‘Rhyme of the Century’ is a takeoff from a progressive rock album by the British Band ‘Supertramp’ called Crime of the Century (1974), which was hailed globally on release. Even today after almost 50 years of release, the album is widely hailed as one of the top 200 albums of all time. The book contains 3 sections, Places/ People and Thoughts. The places have mostly been visited by the author and the people are all real, with fictitious names. Thoughts are emotions felt by the author at various times, more so after his training as a qualified personal counsellor and dealing with clients/ groups. The book is thus structured in a manner so that the reader reads one poem a week, absorbs the contents and is made to think about the topic. This way, reading the complete book would take one full year. "