Paddy: 125 books

Mrs. Paddy's Political ParodiesA Tea Party Songbook for the New Revolutionis a biting andsometimes irreverent look at politics in America, all set to familiar tunes. Mrs. Paddy swipes at our politicians and culture, using satire and humorwhile throwingpolitical correctness out the window. Personalities...

'He's the world's fittest man - it's official.' - The GuardianHe's gone 110 rounds with 10 opponents to win the World Kumite Karate Boxing Championships.He's got the world record for the number of press-ups done in a year, he did over 1.5 million - that's over 4,000 a day!He's got the fastest time...

When he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his father. Soon afterwards, in 1922, he and his fellow pupils were evacuated from Ireland, a land torn apart by civil war. Across...

The past they tried to hide. His mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old... Paddy Doyle's prize-winning bestseller,...

Paddy Crerand's eagerly-awaited autobiography recounts the previously untold story of one of post-war football's fieriest characters. As a defensive midfielder, famed for his tough tackling, for Scotland, Celtic and Manchester United from 1957 to 1972, he was the Roy Keane of his day and this book...

Since the spring of 2011 Syria has been a country intent on destroying itself. What began as peaceful demonstrations, against the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, soon became a national uprising to overthrow the dictator. With millions displaced, and hundreds of thousands dead, it is a humanitarian...

I entered the world in 1945, the middle of the twentieth century, but my family's way of life had not changed substantially for more than a hundred years. The area around our house is still known as Castlebarnagh, which is a small townland near Daingean in northeast County Offaly, in the midlands...

Collaboration between Paddy McMahon (Patrick Francis) and a highly evolved spirit being known to him as Shebaka resulted in a series of books originally published in five volumes entitled The Grand Design.This book contains selected excerpts from the five volumes, with each page of text faced by a...

From blue collar to billionaire … Hunter Valley mine electrician Nathan Tinkler borrowed big in 2005, made a fortune from several speculative coal plays, and by 2011 was a self-made billionaire. He had gambled and won, but his volatility and reluctance to pay his debts were making him enemies....

When journalist Paddy Agnew and his girlfriend Dympna touched down in Rome in 1985 in search of adventure, sunshine and the soul of Italian football (well, Paddy was looking for that), they were travelling into the uncharted terrain of a country they did not know and a language they did not speak. It...

'I fight hard and love strong. I'm a traveller.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school, he was bullied for being a gypsy boy. And beyond the gates of the camp he...

Since 1978 Paddy McMahon (Patrick Francis) has been aware that one of his spirit guides lived on Earth from 1829 to 1899 as Margaret Anna Cusack, who was internationally famous as The Nun of Kenmare - a prolific writer, a dogged and compassionate champion of the underprivileged and a pioneering spirit...

Belmarsh Bang-Up Inside Britain's Most Secure Prison Who is Paddy Kane? At the age of 52 with a previously unblemished record Paddy Kane was sentenced to serve a sentence inside Belmarsh prison. From living a "normal" suburban life as a Husband, Father and Grandfather he went...

圖文並茂、說理清晰，邊讀邊笑的經濟學！ 從期貨債券到經濟政策，關於「金融市場」你應該知道的都在這。 亞馬遜讀者4.5顆星評價，《出版人週刊》、《Kirkus Review》一致好評推薦！ 許多人覺得，金融體系彷彿是在另一個世界運作，和一般人過生活的世界不同，事實上，我們幾乎每天都與它打交道，可能是存錢、開支票、到自動提款機前提領現金、消費使用信用卡，甚至是貸款、投資股票或基金，金融體系跟你我的生活早就緊密結合。 經濟活動，其實就是人跟市場的互動糾葛，愛恨情仇，興衰勝敗，不管你懂不懂這些經濟學或金融的專有名詞，沒有人能置身其外。從大家熟知的股票、債券到複雜的衍生性金融商品，本書將會說明金融市場架上的每一種產品在幹什麼、如何創造以及怎麼操作，到大規模的總體經濟政策及當前的金融危機都有完整介紹。讓你更了解市場如何運作、誰會去買哪些東西以及背後的理由。你很快就能分辨哪些產品很安全，哪些產品有風險，也會懂得如何去分辨市場的缺失。 作者Paddy...