The Cockroach King

Author : Andrew Cull
Publisher : Vermillion2one Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0648731553

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The Cockroach King by Andrew Cull Pdf

"We'd been in the house two weeks when Tommy pulled the first bones from the garden."When Cassie Baker buys the house on Cedar Street, it's partly because it reminds her of the house she grew up in in the '80s. It reminds her of happier times, when her Mom was still alive, before the cancer had taken her. It seems like the perfect place to raise her baby boy, Sam.That is, until a friend unearths the remains of a dog, buried in a shallow grave in the backyard. After the bones come the cockroaches...THE COCKROACH KING is a new novella written by Andrew Cull, the award-winning author of REMAINS and BONES.

Author : Bob Mortimer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398505308

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And Away... by Bob Mortimer Pdf

The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer. ‘The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year’ - Sunday Times ‘Winningly heartfelt’ – The Guardian ‘A triumph’ – Daily Mail Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away… Although his childhood in Middlesbrough was normal on the surface, it was tinged by the loss of his dad, and his own various misadventures (now infamous from his appearances on Would I Lie to You?), from burning down the family home to starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt. As an adult, he trained as a solicitor and moved to London. Though he was doing pretty well (the South London Press once crowned him ‘The Cockroach King’ after a successful verdict), a chance encounter in a pub in the 1980s with a young comedian going by the name Vic Reeves set his life on a different track. And now, six years on, the heart condition that once threatened his career has instead led to new success on BBC2’s Gone Fishing. Warm, profound, and irrepressibly funny, And Away… is Bob’s full life story (with a few lies thrown in for good measure.)

Author : Daniel Evan Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Apartment houses
ISBN : 1852427469

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The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss Pdf

"Dark and erotic in addition to being clever and charming."--New York Times Book Review

Author : William M. Hutchins
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0894108859

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Tawfiq Al-Hakim by William M. Hutchins Pdf

The book also includes plot summaries, a chronology of Al-Hakim's life, and a comprehensive annotated bibliography of his oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Marion Copeland
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861894854

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Cockroach by Marion Copeland Pdf

The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years – some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved – unless it was doing something right. It would be fascinating as well as instructive to have access to the cockroach’s own record of its life on earth, to know its point of view on evolution and species domination over the millennia. Such chronicles would perhaps radically alter our perceptions of the dinosaur’s span and importance – and that of our own development and significance. We might learn that throughout all these aeons, the dominant life form has been, if not the cockroach itself, then certainly the insect. Attempts to chronicle the cockroach’s intellectual and emotional life have been made only within the last century when a scientist titled his essay on the cockroach "The Intellectual and Emotional World of the Cockroach", and artists as radically different as Franz Kafka and Don Marquis created equally memorable cockroach protagonists. At least since Classical Greece, authors have brought cockroach characters into the foreground to speak for the weak and downtrodden, the outsiders, those forced to survive on the underside of dominant human cultures. Cockroaches have become the subjects of songs (La Cucaracha), have competed in "roachraces" and have even ended up in recipes. In this accessible, sympathetic and often humorous book, Marion Copeland examines the natural history, symbolism and cultural significance of this poorly understood and much-maligned insect.

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735280489

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The Cockroach by Ian McEwan Pdf

Kafka meets the world of Brexit in a bitingly funny political satire from Ian McEwan That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous six-legged existence he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he has woken up to discover he is the most powerful man in Britain: the Prime Minister. His mission: a nationalist revival, with or without Europe. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny, Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humour a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.

Author : Rawi Hage
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887848506

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Cockroach by Rawi Hage Pdf

Cockroach is as urgent, unsettling, and brilliant as Rawi Hage's bestselling and critically acclaimed first book, De Niro's Game. The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described thief has just tried but failed to commit suicide. Rescued against his will, the narrator is obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned but naive therapist. This sets the story in motion, leading us back to the narrator's violent childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where everyone has a tale, and out into the frozen night-time streets of Montreal, where the thief survives on the edge, imagining himself to be a cockroach invading the lives of the privileged, but wilfully blind, citizens who surround him. In 2008, Cockroach was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, presented by the Quebec Writers' Federation.

Author : Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521242226

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Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt by Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī Pdf

This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his successors, Mahmud Taymur, Bakathir and Fathi Radwan.

Author : Sushil Kumar
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Archives
ISBN : 8182055237

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Archives Principles & Practices by Sushil Kumar Pdf

Author : P. J. Neri
Publisher : Bess Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1573060453

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Killer Cockroaches by P. J. Neri Pdf

Can Drew, Corey, and Da Gang stop mutant cockroaches from taking over Hawaai?

Author : Joseph Granda-padron
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411656857

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Abstraction by Joseph Granda-padron Pdf

Carlos has survived a childhood of both physical and mental abuse. Working for the New York Board of Education he has become a drug addict searching for an outlet to his life. Meeting his twin little brother he is thrust through a realm of rape, sex, drugs, masturbation, madness, and murder. No longer able to tell reality from dreams, he must come to terms with who he is and what he has done, he must decide what he will sacrifice to be set free of the demons haunting his existence.

Author : Nicholas Lawson
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781839473074

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Digital Library Preservation Strategies by Nicholas Lawson Pdf

Special libraries are facing increasing challenges today. The bigfgest challenge before them is how to demonstrate that they are the best source of specialized information despite reliance on the web for information. Special libraries therefore need to change in terms of their collections, roles, services and evolve strategies for managing the change. Preservation refers to the set of activities that aims to prolong the life of a record and relevant metadata, or enhance its value, or improve access to it through noninterventive means. This includes actions taken to influence records creators prior to selection and acquisition. The purpose of preservation is to ensure protection of information of enduring value for access by present and future generations. Libraries and archives have served as the central institutional focus for preservation, and both types of institutions include preservation as one of their core functions. In recent decades, many major libraries and archives have established formal preservation programs for traditional materials which include regular allocation of resources for preservation, preventive measures to arrest deterioration of materials, remedial measures to restore the usability of selected materials, and the incorporation of preservation needs and requirements into overall program planning. This book attempts to provide all basic aspects of digital library in an authentic but simple style. It describes the revolutionary changes brought out by digital libraries in the entire concept of library organisation, managements and operations. It also discusses the challenges emerging due to the adoption of newer technologies.

Author : Richard F. Lockey,Dennis K. Ledford
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781842145746

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Allergens and Allergen Immunotherapy by Richard F. Lockey,Dennis K. Ledford Pdf

This fifth edition of the bestselling Allergens and Allergen Immunotherapy is now completely updated and revised to include subcutaneous, sublingual, and oral immunomodulator treatments of allergic disease. The redesigned book continues to provide comprehensive coverage of all types of allergens and allergen vaccines, giving clinicians the essential information they need to accurately make a diagnosis and offer the best possible treatments. The fifth edition contains many new and revised chapters—particularly in the fields of skin testing—and extensive updates to the sublingual and oral immunotherapy chapters. Key Features: Comprehensive – covers a vast range of allergens and allergen immunotherapies, providing all the necessary information in one volume Synoptic – supplies the essential information using figures and tables for instant access Up-to-date – includes the very latest information on subcutaneous, sublingual and oral allergen immunotherapies to offer the best possible treatments Reliable – provides basic information that all clinicians need to know about cross-reactivity among allergens and how it influences diagnosis and treatment, as well as the key information necessary to carry out any form of immunotherapy in a safe and effective manner Supplemental forms – contains template forms that can be used by the clinician in daily practice The fifth edition of this classic text continues to be an essential touchstone for any practitioner who conducts skin tests and prescribes subcutaneous, sublingual, and oral immunotherapies.

Author : Brian Yanish
Publisher : Random House Graphic
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593173404

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Shark and Bot #2: Sleepaway Champs by Brian Yanish Pdf

Two besties on a brave new adventure... sleeping away from home for the first time! Friendship, hilarity, and superhero donuts await! It's Summer vacation and Shark and Bot have a new adventure-- at sleepaway camp! Shark (always the anxious one!) quickly starts feeling homesick. Can he make it through the week? With his best friend by his side, of course he will... Unless Bot short circuits at the lake! This funny and fresh graphic series has new readers laughing and longing for more!

Author : Mats Alvesson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191636721

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The Triumph of Emptiness by Mats Alvesson Pdf

In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of grandiosity is leading to numerous inflated claims. We no longer talk about plans but strategies. Supervisors have been replaced by managers. Goods have become brands. Wealthy countries try to show that they are knowledge societies through mass higher education but with limited effect on real qualifications or qualified job opportunities for graduates. The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and other institutions increasingly assign talent, energy, and resources to rhetoric, image, branding, reputation, and visibility. Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole.