Download or read book Volvo Down Under written by Pedr Davis and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rumpalla written by Peter Lucas and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RUMPALLA, RUMMAGING THROUGH ALBANIA is a newspaperman's book. In it Lucas not only writes about his experiences traveling throughout the then-closed, tightly -controlled Communist country in the late 1980s, but he tells the story through the eyes of a reporter. In 1986 he became the first Americana reporter to be allowed into the country in thirty years. Returning again and again, Lucas chronicled the changes the country went through as it broke away from the hard line Communism of Joseph Stalin to join the rest of the nations of Europe as a fledging democracy. In between, the writer found time to search for the site of a World War II American plane crash, find his father's abandoned village, trace the High Albania footsteps of early English traveler Edith Durham, and help Kosovar refugees during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. In between, searching for the heart of Albania, he got to know and interview Albanian peasants and presidents.
Download or read book The Successor written by Paddy Manning and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert's stepped down. What now? The first major biography of Lachlan Murdoch, unauthorised and complete. After years of speculation about his succession plans, in 2023 Rupert Murdoch announced his retirement and the appointment of his eldest son, Lachlan, as sole chair of News Corp. The decision confirmed Lachlan's position as one of the world's most powerful people. Yet despite a lifetime in the spotlight, his personality, politics and business acumen remain enigmatic. What can we expect from his leadership of News Corp and Fox, and what will his ascension mean for politics and media around the world? In this riveting biography, acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning explores Lachlan Murdoch's upbringing, political beliefs and his track record as head of Fox Corporation -- the man ultimately responsible for Fox News. Manning follows Lachlan's trajectory from a privileged Manhattan childhood, through his college years at Princeton, his shock decision to walk away from the family business, and his ultimate return as the prodigal son. The portrait that emerges is one of intriguing contradictions. Is Lachlan a risk-loving adventurer or a dutiful son? Ultra-conservative or thoughtful libertarian? Scarred by a series of spectacular business failures, or an underrated leader who has shrewdly repositioned his family's assets? This is a book about the good, the bad and the ugly of the global media, and about America in the age of Trump and Biden. It is a book about power, apprenticeship, politics and succession. 'It's a brave man to take on an autobiography of one of the richest and most powerful men in global media.' --Crikey 'It is hard to think of a better time to write an account of the life and times of Lachlan Murdoch, heir-apparent to the News Corp throne -- or of a better writer to do it. Who Lachlan Murdoch is, how he thinks and what he does with his power is vital to Australian democracy. Paddy Manning has it all covered.' --Monica Attard, author of Russia: Which Way Paradise?
Download or read book Playing by the Rules written by John Wilson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sport, while it has its origins in the love of play and the desire to be entertained and diverted, is a social institution with important political, economic, and social consequences. Playing by the Rules describes how the relation between sport and the state has developed over the last one hundred years, and how, largely by indirection and accident, a public policy with respect to sport has emerged." "Apart from the debate as to whether sport and politics should mix in the first place, John Wilson considers the process whereby sport has become a public policy domain, just like energy, health, transportation and agriculture. He argues that while all modern societies have evolved both sports complexes and extensive states, Americans have developed their own unique kind of relationship. This relationship grants considerable freedom for commercialized sports to develop, at the expense of more state-administered forms. At the same time, this arrangement allows commercialized sports to benefit from state protection and guarantees, all in the interest of the public good - a system that is highly characteristic of public policy in liberal democratic societies, where individual freedom is a paramount value." "Wilson traces the impact of liberal democratic politics through a number of discrete but related fields, from the struggle to secure equality of opportunity for all individuals to participate in sport, to the evolution of contractual freedom for professional athletes and the role played by unions in securing these freedoms. He then examines the impact of state actions, mainly judicial, on the structure of the sports industry, principally the impact of the state on the relation between firms or "franchises" - ability to control players, entry into the league, movement of franchises, and relations with the mass media." "Playing by the Rules also defines the relation between sport and the state more broadly. Assuming that the state is interested in nation-building to legitimate its practices, Wilson explores the role sport has played in this nation-building in the United States, the perceived relation between sport and citizenship, the part sport has been asked to play in the national task of assimilating immigrants, and the efforts the state has made to control and regulate sport in the interest of promoting national and citizenship values." "Beyond that, Wilson addresses the impact on sport of the United States' participation in the emerging global order, the effect on amateur athletics of the state's need to protect national interests and secure defense in the United States, and the extent to which a global order of sport has emerged that now transcends national boundaries and weakens the control of the state over sport."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Madwoman in the Volvo My Year of Raging Hormones written by Sandra Tsing Loh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer, performer, and contributing editor to "The Atlantic" humorously chronicles her experiences going through menopause while dealing with the end of her marriage, her preteen daughters, and the hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old father.
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Download or read book American Silhouettes written by Christian Beres Calmejane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of two volumes. American Silhouettes is primarily a study in human character in its dealing with the adversity of life. The setting is America during the last quarter of the twentieth century. More specifically it focuses on the struggle of two generations of a small African American family whose destiny encounters more than its share of horrific tribulations. It is a window on life, love, happiness, suffering, and death of the members of this small vulnerable resilient family from the South, that moves to Washington, D.C. for a better life, only to find a very short interlude of happiness, followed by a deep plunge into another cycle of trauma and despair; not death though, that would be too easy; and when death finally does come, it is a liberation of the body and soul. The saga continues with the cycle of misfortune repeating itself in a new age, a new generation with the same finality as if their destiny had been wickedly predefined. From Bridgeville SC to Washington DC, and from Rome to Dakar, their saga brings to light the evil and virtuousness of man in its most natural occurrence, as a part of daily life. The story brings together various individuals of different and sometimes opposite background and describes either the passions of their encounters or the clashes resulting from their conflicts. It analyses the most wonderful passions of love, beauty and happiness, and juxtaposes the horrible ugliness of hate and abuse. It incorporates the duty and responsibility of man within the context of our society and dwells into the aberrations of its marginal sector. It is an interweaved matrix of emotional extremes. It demonstrates that evil has no color, no race, no religion, and that it transcends the social fabric of our society.
Download or read book Xaas Everything as a service The Lean And Agile Approach To Business Growth written by Shantanu Bhattacharya and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: XaaS: Everything-as-a-Service: The Lean and Agile Approach to Business Growth takes the reader into the bold new world of pay-per-use for a product or service. From the perspective of the customer, the servitization model yields multiple benefits: the consumer can try out the product/service at a relatively low cost, the risk is mitigated, capital expenses can be converted into operating expenses, it is not needed to forecast how often the product/service is used, and only parts of the product/service needed can be used. Similarly, a provider can benefit by having a larger market coverage, steadier stream of revenues, upgrades as and when needed, sharing of fixed assets across consumers, practicing of value-based pricing, and unbundling or bundling utility for consumers using appropriate pricing techniques. However, this 'nanoization' of products/services is tricky, and has to be designed carefully. This book provides a set of recipes to providers to adopt the XaaS model by changing the provider's mindset: dividing the product/service forces the provider to take a value-driven approach to his product/service, and consequently, eliminate all non-value added activities. The requirements of the XaaS model serve both as an objective to the innovation and internal processes of the provider, and as guide to understanding the customer's needs. The book also covers data acquisition, data analysis and synthesis, and data application needs of the XaaS model, with simple examples and case studies from the business world of firms that achieve these objectives successfully.
Download or read book Our Kinfolks written by Ed Krause and published by Parkway Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rick Queen, an investigative reporter based in New York, was forced to relocate to Monroe County in the Southern Appalachian mountains. The life of Queen family will never be the same again"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book True to the Blue written by D. E. Gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. E. Gray’s first book “The Warrior In Me” was a collective memoir of his 42 year career in Law enforcement, 28 years with the Los Angeles Police Department and 14 years with the Escondido Police Department in the North San Diego County. Even though author, D. E. Gray ́s new book titled “True to the Blue” is a work of fiction, it is based in part on a true story along with actual events that the author experienced or witnessed while on the job. Many of the characters in this story are patterned after real people who have worked or crossed paths with D. E. Gray during his 42 year career as a street cop. This story begins in early 1999 and follows the hardships of Sergio Ortega; a six-year veteran of the L.A.P.D. who is assigned to the elite C.R.A.S.H. gang unit of the Operations Central Bureau. It follows Ortega’s struggle to be the best at what he does, getting the bad guys off the streets, while staying true to his badge and the blue uniform that he wears and that represents cops in every city. With the infamous L.A.P.D. Rampart scandal about to break open and Chief Bernard Parks ́ hard-line approach with his officer accountability policy, Ortega eventually discovers that being a good cop is more than he had bargained for. When he is faced with protecting the identity of an “ELA Dukes” gang member who has turned confidential informant for an LAPD Hollenbeck division detective, he finds himself in trouble with the department. His hard work and dedication to the job would destroy his marriage and alienate his friends and partners who would abandon him in his time of need. Ortega would have to dig deep into his past to come to grips with his downward spiraling life to try to salvage it from the disaster it had come to be. Given one more chance to prove himself at the San Pasqual Police Department, Ortega would find himself investigating several murders that were made to look like drug overdoses. When his neighbors discover a large drug cache hidden in some Mexican Talavera pots they purchased, Ortega is tasked with finding the drug runner who lost the drugs to incompetence. When the neighbors are later found murdered, Ortega becomes obsessed with finding the killer who he believes may have also had a hand in the string of overdose murders as well as Sergio’s own ex-wife’s murder. Staying “True To The Blue” uniform leads Sergio on a journey that culminates into an unpredictable and shocking outcome.
Download or read book Boating written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fraudulent Intention written by Scott P. Hilsen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of a corporate deal gone bad and the internal investigation that exposed a shocking online fraud. For SouthPoint Bank, its purchase of Internet Connections, or ICon, was a risky way to boost its stock price, and the deal was rushed so that the Chairman of SouthPoint could stay in power. For ICon, being acquired by SouthPoint was its last chance to cash in on the Internet boom, but the President of ICon was looking for more than money - he needed a way to escape a secret that ICon had been concealing through a conspiracy of fraud. After an insider's tip, SouthPoint launched a surprise internal investigation of ICon. When the investigators found a connection between ICon and the Russian Mafia, the investigation suddenly turned into a dangerous race against the clock to expose the fraud and to save SouthPoint from financial ruin. From Andorra in the Pyrenees Mountains to Antigua in the Caribbean Sea, Fraudulent Intention$ twists and turns around the shadowy world of online adult entertainment.
Download or read book The Hemingway Caper written by Eric Wright and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he’s investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway. What is Tyler’s connection to the Hemingway papers? And why does Tyler’s wife insist that Barley stay on the case, long after he’s come up with the required evidence of Tyler’s infidelity? While these questions hang over Barley, his own life is complicated by academic politics, and challenges to his monogamous relationship with his longtime partner, Carole. Set in Toronto, The Hemingway Caper is the second book in the Joe Barley series. The first, The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn, won the prestigious Barry Award.
Download or read book The Coffee Shop written by Devon Baker and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe McDonald has found himself in a difficult position. Worries about job security and finances, made worse by the Covid pandemic, lead him to befriend others with similar worries as well as a homeless man who changes his life. As he finds comfort and security in a coffee shop that should be closed, he questions his own values while fending off danger on many fronts - both within the city and from his past.
Download or read book The Charlie Cobb Series written by Rob Aspinall and published by Rob Aspinall via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the villain be the hero? They call him Breaker. He enforces mob rule. The guy they send to scare the worst of the worst. He's promised his daughter he'll change his ways. But there's a witness to silence, the streetwise Danny. Which fate will he choose? Pull the trigger and kill young Danny? Or turn protector, going up against vicious crime boss, Ivan Rudenko? It rains a lot on the mean streets of Manchester. It's about to rain blood. You'll love this action-packed series because it's loaded with action - perfect for fans of James Patterson and Lee Child. Start the adventure now. About the series Say hello to an explosive new crime series, as ex-mafia fixer Charlie Cobb takes down the very same kind of people he used to work for. From the mean streets of Manchester and London's gritty ganglands, to the desert heat of Arizona and Hollywood's seedy underbelly, Charlie will stop at nothing to hand out justice. Breaker A ruthless Russian mob boss wants a young witness dead, Will Charlie pull the trigger or put himself in the firing line? Death & Back How far would you go to save a stranger? Charlie drives a truck to London for some fast money. But he never suspects what's in the back. Or the path of violence it will set him on. The Holdup A crashed car. Two dead passengers. A bag of stolen cash. Charlie remembers none of it. And he has no idea just how much trouble he's in. Burnout A Hollywood megastar dies. Everyone thinks it's an accident. Not Charlie. Soon he's digging up all kinds of corruption and painting a bullseye on his back. Walk Away When an old friend is murdered, Charlie returns to his old underworld haunt to track down the killer and exact revenge. But old mafia bosses have put a price on his head and then there's the victim's daughter to protect. Ready to meet Charlie? Grab the series boxset now.
Download or read book Death Back written by Rob Aspinall and published by Rob Aspinall via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to save a stranger? For Charlie Cobb, it may be all the way to the grave Meet the tough British antihero perfect for fans of Jon Mills, Mark Dawson or James P. Sumner. After burning his bridges in his native Manchester, UK, the ex-mafia fixer heads to London with a price on his head. A job driving a truck is a good way to lay low—and stay on the straight and narrow. Yet it soon lures Charlie into a deadly trap that leaves him fighting for his life. Amira is seeking a new start, too, travelling thousands of perilous miles, in search of a safe haven. But just like Charlie, she stumbles into a terrifying web of human crimes, run by a vicious mafia network with serious connections. In this hotly anticipated follow-up to BREAKER, Charlie's skills and courage will be tested to the extreme on a one-man suicide mission to save a stranger's life. Just don't get in his way. The Charlie Cobb series of action thrillers delivers a breathless blend of action, dark humour and vigilante justice. All with a gritty twist of suspense. Contains violence and some bad language.
Download or read book The First Six Books of Virgil s Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
