Impartial Remarks On The Subject Of An Union In Answer To Arguments In Favour Of That Measure I E To Arguments For And Against An Union Between Great Britain And Ireland Considered By Edward Cooke In Which The Sentiments Of The Catholic Body Are Vindicated From The Charge Of Favouring The Project With A Reply To Mr Mckenna S Memoire I E A Memoir On Some Questions Respecting The Projected Union Of Great Britain And Ireland By Theobald Mackenna By A Farmer

Author : Jonathan Coe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141918334

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What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe Pdf

What a Carve Up! - a hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance. . . This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out 'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Rotters' Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Circle, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.

Author : Rigby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1418914215

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Fresh from the Farm 6pk by Rigby Pdf

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726563887

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Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London Pdf

We’ve all taken a dislike to someone for no real reason. But few of us nurture this hatred like the narrator of "Moon-Face". The target of his irrational malice is a man named John Claverhouse. With cold precision, the narrator sets to planning the man’s downfall. Why he has this urge, he can’t explain. But he knows he’ll feel immense satisfaction when John Claverhouse is made to suffer. In this macabre little tale, Jack London pinpoints a very common but unpleasant human trait. And then takes it to a horrifying extreme. This short story collection also includes "All Gold Canyon", which was adapted as part of the Netflix anthology movie "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". Jack London (1876–1916) was one of the first American writers to achieve worldwide celebrity. He did so with rugged adventure stories set in forbidding landscapes. And heroes who survive by embracing their most primal instincts. His breakthrough best seller was "The Call of the Wild". Inspired by his time in the Klondike Gold Rush, this hard-hitting novel is told from the perspective of a sled dog named Buck. It’s inspired many adaptations, including a big-budget movie starring Harrison Ford. Among London’s other notable works are "White Fang", also featuring a canine protagonist, as well as "The Sea-Wolf", "Martin Eden" and "The Iron Heel".

Author : Taylor Downing
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306921735

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1983 by Taylor Downing Pdf

A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983--the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one--more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United States, President Reagan vastly increased defense spending, described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," and launched the "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative to shield the country from incoming missiles. Seeing all this, Yuri Andropov, the paranoid Soviet leader, became convinced that the US really meant to attack the Soviet Union and he put the KGB on high alert, looking for signs of an imminent nuclear attack. When a Soviet plane shot down a Korean civilian jet, Reagan described it as "a crime against humanity." And Moscow grew increasingly concerned about America's language and behavior. Would they attack? The temperature rose fast. In November the West launched a wargame exercise, codenamed "Abel Archer," that looked to the Soviets like the real thing. With Andropov's finger inching ever closer to the nuclear button, the world was truly on the brink. This is an extraordinary and largely unknown Cold War story of spies and double agents, of missiles being readied, intelligence failures, misunderstandings, and the panic of world leaders. With access to hundreds of astonishing new documents, Taylor Downing tells for the first time the gripping but true story of how near the world came to nuclear war in 1983.

Author : Michael Arnheim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437122193630

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The Principles of the Common Law by Michael Arnheim Pdf

This unique book identifies, explains, analyses and discusses some of the most important and controversial principles of the Common Law of England, including some comparisons with United States law and that of Australia. Are logic and reason still principles of the law or should judges just be allowed to make up the law as they go along? Is the ancient principle of obedience to the law still valid today? Does the concept of Higher Law have any application to English law in relation either to European law or human rights law? What is meant by the Rule of Law: is there really such a thing? With the great emphasis today placed on rights, does the old principle still hold true that 'Where there's a right, there's a remedy'? What has happened to the doctrine 'Nobody shall profit from his own wrongdoing'? And what about the human rights supposedly guaranteed by the European Convention? This book focuses on two: individual liberty and freedom of expression. Michael Arnheim addresses these questions and also examines practical principles which can make all the difference to, for example, the validity of a will, the interpretation of a contract, or the outcome of a claim in negligence or ad

Author : Thomas Riggs
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1558628479

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St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by Thomas Riggs Pdf

The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition. It includes 3,036 signed essays (300 of them new), alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance). The entries analyze each topic or person's significance in and relevance to American popular culture; in addition to basic factual information, readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance.

Author : Anju Gattani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1953100090

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Duty and Desire Book Club Edition by Anju Gattani Pdf

To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy. On her wedding night, however, Sheetal quickly learns that the stranger she married is as cold as the marble floors of the Dhanraj mansion. Forced to smile at family members and cameras and pretend there's nothing wrong with her marriage, Sheetal begins to discover that the family she married into harbors secrets, lies and deceptions powerful enough to tear apart her world. With no one to rely on and no escape, Sheetal must ally with her husband in an attempt to protect her infant son from the tyranny of his family.sion.

Author : Sampson Ejike Odum
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781663205049

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Kumba Africa by Sampson Ejike Odum Pdf

‘KUMBA AFRICA’, is a compilation of African Short Stories written as fiction by Sampson Ejike Odum, nostalgically taking our memory back several thousands of years ago in Africa, reminding us about our past heritage. It digs deep into the traditional life style of the Africans of old, their beliefs, their leadership, their courage, their culture, their wars, their defeat and their victories long before the emergence of the white man on the soil of Africa. As a talented writer of rich resource and superior creativity, armed with in-depth knowledge of different cultures and traditions in Africa, the Author throws light on the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa when civilization was yet unknown to the people. The book reminds the readers that the Africans of old kept their pride and still enjoyed their own lives. They celebrated victories when wars were won, enjoyed their New yam festivals and villages engaged themselves in seasonal wrestling contest etc; Early morning during harmattan season, they gathered firewood and made fire inside their small huts to hit up their bodies from the chilling cold of the harmattan. That was the Africa of old we will always remember. In Africa today, the story have changed. The people now enjoy civilized cultures made possible by the influence of the white man through his scientific and technological process. Yet there are some uncivilized places in Africa whose people haven’t tested or felt the impact of civilization. These people still maintain their ancient traditions and culture. In everything, we believe that days when people paraded barefooted in Africa to the swarmp to tap palm wine and fetch firewood from there farms are almost fading away. The huts are now gradually been replaced with houses built of blocks and beautiful roofs. Thanks to modern civilization. Donkeys and camels are no longer used for carrying heavy loads for merchants. They are now been replaced by heavy trucks and lorries. African traditional methods of healing are now been substituted by hospitals. In all these, I will always love and remember Africa, the home of my birth and must respect her cultures and traditions as an AFRICAN AUTHOR.

Author : Iain Gordon Brown
Publisher : Scala Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Library materials
ISBN : 1857596382

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Rax Me that Buik by Iain Gordon Brown Pdf

A Celebration of the National Library of Scotland's Scottish collections, providing a history of the institution and an examination of some of its most interesting, unusual and exciting items.

Author : Chretien de Troyes,Chrétien (de Troyes)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780300038385

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Yvain by Chretien de Troyes,Chrétien (de Troyes) Pdf

A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 168460026X

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2020 Beaches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nicholas Brooks
Publisher : Leicester University
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015008254602

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Latin and the Vernacular Languages in Early Medieval Britain by Nicholas Brooks Pdf

Author : Raymond Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1580420087

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Keene on Chess by Raymond Keene Pdf

A complete step-by-step course which shows you how to play and deepen your understanding of chess.