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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs...She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781741153811

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'Great two-fisted writing from the far side of hell.' - John Birmingham, bestselling author of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand 'A unique look at a gritty game. Relentlessly funny and obsessively readable.' - Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American and Clear and Present Danger Paul Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage. He's almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia, watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia, lost a lot of money backing a mouse against a scorpion in a fight to the death, and been served cocktails by an orang-utan on an ocean freighter. And that's just his day job. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions, not to mention some of the roughest oil rigs on the planet, Paul has worked, gotten into trouble and been given serious talkings to in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatera, Vietnam and Thailand, and as flat out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet. Strap yourself in for an exhilarating, crazed, sometimes terrifying, usually bloody funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade. When not getting into trouble on the rigs Paul lives a quiet life in Sydney.

This is Not a Drill

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781741761450

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He's back on the rigs and back in trouble. Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with action and mayhem galore This Is Not A Drillsets an unrelenting pace that just doesn't let up, as Paul almost drowns when the Russian rig he's working on begins to capsize; is reunited with his Dad - another adrenaline junkie; gets married; hangs out with his rig pig buddies in exotic locations; gets hammered on vodka in Sakhalin; and spends a couple of interesting weeks in Afghanistan with some mates who run an outfit that just happens to contract out mercenaries for hire . . . This is the next fast, furious and very funny book from Paul Carter, the author of the best selling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.

Under One Roof

Author : Barry Martin,Philip Lerman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466839137

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Sometimes people aren't who you think they are. Everyone knew what was going on in Ballard, Washington: developers were building a giant shopping mall, but a house belonging to a feisty octogenarian named Edith Wilson Macefield was in the way. They offered her a million dollars. She told them to take a hike. Everyone knew that Barry Martin, head of the construction project, was involved in the push to get her out of the house so that the project could proceed without further delay. Everyone was wrong. When Barry took the job as construction supervisor for the shopping mall that was being erected around Edith's little house, he determined to make things as easy for her as he could. He didn't expect that she'd ask him to drive her to a hair appointment—but he did offer to help, after all. And it was in that one small gesture that an unlikely friendship was sparked, one that changed them both forever. The story of Barry Martin and Edith Macefield is a tale of balance and compassion, of giving enough without giving too much, of helping our elderly loved ones through the tough times without taking away their dignity. In the end, Under One Roof is a tale of grace, and one from which all of us can take solace and strength. From Barry and Edith we have much to learn about love and letting go and, just possibly, about seeing through fading light to find great joy.

Not Now Honey I'm Watching the Game

Author : Kevin Quirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780684834474

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Is he hooked on sports? Does she feel left out when the game is on? How can women and men get along in our sports-crazed society?

The Rapture of the Nerds

Author : Cory Doctorow,Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429944915

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Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun. The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander...and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple. So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Eat Beat Sleep Repeat

Author : Amos O'Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649696906

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This book describes my life and experiences as a Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) worker in the oil and gas industry, from trainee to fifteen-year veteran. My career - so far - has included stints on four offshore facilities and one major onshore LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) project. I currently work on the World's largest floating object which I helped build in South Korea over a three year period. These experiences have been unique in many ways, but are conveyed in a very human way; I was not interested in writing a technical book, a history of the industry, or an environmental tome of monumental importance. This is just a story of my life as a FIFO worker during one of the busiest and most interesting times in the industry, particularly Australia. For example, my current facility was the first floating LNG plant ever designed, and is a game changer for the industry, but the process is described in laymen's terms, easy to understand. We have also seen major upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic; border restrictions, enforced separation and isolation, falls in oil prices and increased Unionism. In short, this is a description of a unique way of working and living. It involves a cast of hundreds of characters, places and events, most of them amusing, some of them sad or possibly even exciting, a lot of them are things that are small in their own way but have never been presented in a book, with the possible exception of "Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse ". It is what we do on a day-to-day basis when we are at work, and I believe that a large amount of "normal" people are very interested in this lifestyle, apart from the 150,000 plus FIFO workers based in Australia, Canada and elsewhere. It also openly and honestly describes my descent into depression, sometimes so bad I wanted to suicide. FIFO can be hard. FIFO is a different life altogether, it comes with its own issues and problems, from distances travelled, the method of getting there, fatigue, dangerous conditions, depression, anxiety, separation from family and The World, huge relationship hurdles, as well as the concept of being trapped by the lifestyle and the large salaries, the Golden Handcuffs as we call it. In fact, this book is a study of Australian working culture in many ways with all its blemishes. The lifestyle is not for everyone, especially offshore, and many people have crashed and burned in the time I have been in the job. We do a minimum of 12 hour days, 7 days a week, up to 28 days straight, sometimes longer when storms hit or choppers fail. At the same time a lot of us get paid well and we get decent breaks where we spend that money we earn. And we work with some of the best people on the planet, even if the Companies and their management structures leave a lot to be desired. I hope you enjoy it and find it interesting.

Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743431917

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Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing with life's more sober moments like the birth of a son or the loss of a father, Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and the nicest alpha male you'll ever meet as he risks all for the sake of a good story. So strap yourself in and brace yourself for his fourth book - we all remain hopeful that he will not be institutionalised before completing his fifth.

I'm Not OK, You're Not OK (Fill-In Book)

Author : Coree Spencer,Emily Niland
Publisher : Abrams Noterie
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1419740466

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An activity book that offers laughs for days when you are anxious, depressed, or feeling down I'm Not OK, You're Not OK is an activity book for days when you feel anxious, depressed, or insecure. Conceived by an author and illustrator who have come to rely on laughter and other drugs to cope with their mental health issues, this book is like being with a hilarious friend who has no good advice but totally gets what you are going through. Use a bingo board to track signs that things may be off. Consult a list of conversation enders and excuses for staying home when social anxiety creeps in, and track the number of times you've canceled plans with a handy punch card. I'm Not OK, You're Not OK is brightly illustrated throughout but unafraid of the dark side. We've all been there, and that's OK.

Girl, I'm Not Tripping, I'm Depressed

Author : Chanita Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0998521027

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Transparency is a gift that we often fail to unwrap. Girl, I'm Not Tripping, I'm Depressed offers an insightful look into the heart of depression, and offers up a robust, inspiring look at triumph through walking in truth.

The Spider King's Daughter

Author : Chibundu Onuzo
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571268900

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Winner of a Betty Trask Award Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. But being her father's favourite comes with uncomfortable duties, and she is often lonely behind the high walls of her house. A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slums, lives a seventeen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. His family lost everything after his father's death and now he runs after cars on the roadside selling ice cream to support his mother and sister. When Abike buys ice cream from the hawker one day, they strike up an unlikely and tentative romance, defying the prejudices of Nigerian society. But as they grow closer, revelations from the past threaten their relationship and both Abike and the hawker must decide where their loyalties lie.

Is That Thing Diesel?

Author : Paul Carter
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781741767353

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Is That Thing Diesel? by Paul Carter Pdf

The next eagerly awaited, high octane, seat-of-your-pants adventure from the author of the bestselling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse) sees (the surely a bit bonkers) Paul Carter circumnavigating Australia on a bio-diesel motorcycle.

The Buddy Plan

Author : Don L. McCorkle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-23
Category : Lancaster (S.C.)
ISBN : 1539632210

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The Buddy Plan by Don L. McCorkle Pdf

Stories of soldiers; heartwarming, incredible, and the truly amazing account of one young solider pronounced dead twice in Vietnam, but lives today to tell of the many miracles of his recovery.

Soldier Boy

Author : Anthony Hill
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781742283128

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On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima – bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old. Soldier Boy is Jim's extraordinary true story, the story of a young and enthusiastic school boy who became Australia's youngest known Anzac. Four months after leaving his home country he would be numbered among the dead, just one of so many soldier boys who travelled halfway around the world for the chance of adventure. This is, however, just as much the story of Jim's mother, Amelia Martin. It is the heartbreaking tale of the mother who had to let him go, of his family who lost a son, a brother, an uncle, a friend. It is about Amelia's boy who, like so many others, just wanted to be in on the action.

The Last Paradise

Author : Tom Cole
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-11
Category : Coffee industry
ISBN : 0207190399

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Tom Cole hunted crocodiles and buffalo, was a horse-breaker, brumby runner and drover, owned and managed cattle stations and a coffee plantation.The Last Paradise is the sequel to Tom Cole's bestselling autobiography Hell West and Crooked andRecounts his story of thirty years in New Guinea amongst "crocodiles, cannibals and coffee".Operating as the first professional crocodile shooter in New Guinea, Tom Cole risked life and limb hunting from frail canoes in wild and sometimes unexplored country, working with everyone from cannibals to missionaries to government officials, and the larger-than-life characters still drifting around the Pacific after the war.

The Boss Drover and His Mates

Author : Anne Marie Ingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1920831592

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Follows the story of Clarrie Pankhurst who left home at the age of twelve with his older brother to make his way in the world. Brings to life the hardships and deprivations along the stock routes. As road trains replace men and horses this captures the spirit of the outback in the life story of a boss drover.