The Backroom Boy

Author : Mandla Mathebula
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776140893

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The Backroom Boy opens dramatically in China, 1962. Andrew Mlangeni is one of a small select group undergoing military training there. The unannounced visitor is Mao Tse-Tung or Chairman Mao as he was known, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Mlangeni was selected as one of the first-ever six members who received military training in China before the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. He seems to have been chosen because he was a dedicated, intelligent and dependable operative, rather than a leader. Even after his release after 25 years on Robben Island, Mlangeni was not given a senior position in the post-apartheid democratic government. ‘I was always the backroom boy,’ says Andrew Mlangeni about himself. Andrew Mlangeni, is a struggle stalwart, Rivonia Trialist, and Robben Island prisoner 467/64 who was next door inmate to Nelson Mandela’s acclaimed 466/64 prison number. Released after 26 years of incarceration, he served as Member of Parliament, and is Chairman of the ANC’s Integrity Commission and Founder of the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation. With the passing of Ahmed Kathrada (March 2017), Mlangeni (91) is one of only two Rivonia Trialist still alive with Denis Goldberg. While still at school, Andrew Mlangeni joined the Communist Party of South Africa and also the ANC Youth League. These were the organisations that shaped his values. Decades of resourceful activism were to lead to his arrest and life sentence in the Rivonia trial. Mlangeni’s lifelong commitment to the struggle for liberation reverberates with other biographies and memoirs of leading figures, such as Rusty Bernstein’s Memory Against Forgetting and Albie Sachs’ We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge. This story of an ANC elder is a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal refl ections which intersect with the political narrative. Above all, it is one man’s story, set in the maelstrom of the liberation struggle. This biographical project has been developed for, and published in conjunction with, the June and Andrew Mlangeni Foundation.

Author : Graeme Sligo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922132543

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The Backroom Boys is the remarkable, but little known, story of how a varied group of talented intellectuals, drafted into the Australian Army in the dark days of 1942, provided high-level policy advice to Australia’s most senior soldier, General Blamey, and through him to the Government for the remainder of the war and beyond. This band of academics, lawyers and New Guinea patrol officers formed a unique military unit, the Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, under the command of an eccentric and masterful string-puller, Alf Conlon. The Directorate has been depicted as a haven for underemployed poets or meddlesome soldier-politicians. Based on wide-ranging research, this book reveals a fuller and more fascinating picture. The fierce conflicts in the wartime bureaucracy between public servants and soldiers, in which the Directorate provided critical support to Blamey, went to the heart of military command, accountability and the profession of arms. The Directorate was a pioneer in developing approaches to military government in areas liberated by the combat troops, as demonstrated by the Australian Army in New Guinea, and Borneo in 1945-46. It is an issue of enduring importance. The Directorate established the Australian School of Pacific Administration, and had an important role in founding the Australian National University. Its influence extended into post war Australia. The Backroom Boys emphasises the personality of Colonel Alf Conlon, as well as the talented men and women he recruited. Above all, this book shows how, unexpectedly, the Australian Army fostered a group of men and women who made a lasting contribution to the development of Australia in the decades after the war.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000055109601

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Author : Marika Ray
Publisher : Marika Ray Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950141292

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Backroom Boy by Marika Ray Pdf

Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780571266449

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Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford Pdf

A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others. Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, 'Backroom Boys' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars. 'Backroom Boys' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.

Author : Nigel Rees
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849942898

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Don't You Know There's A War On? by Nigel Rees Pdf

Nigel Rees presents a nostalgic and witty guide to wartime catchphrases, from the now ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' to lesser-known gems such as 'lions led by donkeys'. Following his hugely popular survey of domestic sayings, More Tea Vicar?, Rees returns with a witty and fascinating examination of the catchphrases that saw us through wartime Britain and are still relevant in times of crisis today. Including domestic phrases of the time, propaganda, and slang developed by soldiers abroad, the book describes the provenance and development of these intriguing, quirky and sometimes crude phrases that were born out of times of conflict and have in many cases become part of our language.

Author : Jim Diamond
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803813806

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The Legal Extortion Racket by Jim Diamond Pdf

JIM has had a 40 years career in the law. During that period, he worked as an outdoor clerk for Weightman's, a small legal firm in Liverpool, at the end of the 1970s and moved to London in the early 1980s. He worked in-house for Clifford Turner (now Clifford Chance) during the 1980s and Allen & Overy during the 1990s. With Clifford Turner and Allen & Overy being two of the top five City of London law firms, he spent most of my time working on some of the highest legal costs, disputes, and budgets over a two-decade period. Throughout the last two decades, he has worked independently. With a client base ranged from individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to billionaires and corporate clients such as Goldman Sachs. He has worked on many legal costs dispute cases throughout the UK. The different systems across England, Wales, Scotland and the Channel Islands all suffer, from his view, the same problems, including a lack of transparency and a lack of regulatory controls and protocols to protect the client from overcharging. The book also looks at Jim's life journey from a comprehensive school education in inner city Liverpool in 70s to publishing stats on the UK legal market place which have over two decades been published worldwide. The book looks at specific cases and his fights with the legal regulators in the UK. Some cases are absolutely shocking and bring shame on the legal profession and legal regulators. To balance the book, he has added chapters which give a personal account of why/who he is.

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316513200

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Prosthetic Agency by Gill Plain Pdf

This book addresses the legacy of World War II on male identity and reinvention. It considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCSC:32106019841862

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament Pdf

Author : E. Stina Lyon,Lydia Morris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349245437

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Gender Relations in Public and Private by E. Stina Lyon,Lydia Morris Pdf

This collection of papers from the 1993 BSA `Research Imaginations' conference explores the interpenetration of the public and private spheres. The book comprises two sections, one dealing with aspects of employment and finance, the other with domesticity and intimacy. Topics covered include the changing emotional geography of workplace and home, the gendering of aspects of employment and organisation, marital finance and gendered inheritance, the management of food and domestic labour, researching the emotions, and understanding intimate violence.

Author : Emily Herbert
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783230501

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Bruno Mars by Emily Herbert Pdf

Bruno Mars conquered the music industry with far-reaching flair, selling over 115 million records worldwide as a singer, producer and as a songwriter. Bruno Mars, the book, documents his childhood in Honolulu and how he found fame from the age of four, before spreading his wings and scaling the seemingly unassailable stronghold of the music industry.

Author : Charles L. Parks
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412051729

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Exceptions to Silence by Charles L. Parks Pdf

Have gender inequalities always existed? Did inequality occur instantaneously, or gradually over centuries? How responsible were women for their subordination. Why was there no women's movement in ancient times?

Author : Alice Mills
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042017085

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Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake by Alice Mills Pdf

Mervyn Peake has been acclaimed as an author of fantasy and as an illustrator, but as yet has received little attention from literary critics. This book is the first to analyse all of Peake's works of fiction, including his two picture story books and novella as well as the Gormenghast series and Mr Pye. Alice Mills pinpoints the fictional quirks that render Mervyn Peake such a memorable fantasy writer, examining his literary works from Jungian, Freudian, Kristevan and post-Jungian perspectives. Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake will be of interest to fantasy lovers and students of fantasy as a genre, as well as those exploring the psychoanalysis of literary texts.

Author : Mandla Mathebula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1776140877

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The Backroom Boy by Mandla Mathebula Pdf

Author : R. W. Holder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199235179

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Dictionary of Euphemisms by R. W. Holder Pdf

This is a study of the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery and deceit. It dissects the human tendency to prefer vague, roundabout expressions rather than use words which are precise and disagreeably true.