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by . Karen Karbo
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
The Oregon Book Awards presented the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction to Karen Karbo for The Stuff of Life.
When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the...
by Michael Peppiatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes...
Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon...
The Existential Englishman
Paris Among the Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
A love letter to Paris and a memoir of a life spent at its bohemian heart, rich with adventures, misadventures and the beauty of one of the most enduringly romantic cities in the world
The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris – a city that can enchant,...
Not Born Digital
Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized...
Popkiss
The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as "indie-pop,†? "C86,†? "cutie†?...
Futebol
Soccer, The Brazilian Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A new and updated edition of bestselling author Alex Bellos's classic book on soccer, unforgettably capturing the game at the heart of the Brazilian national identity.
Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians...
Lady Unknown
The Life of Angela Burdett-Coutts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 1837, at the age of twenty-three, Angela Burdett-Coutts inherited a vast fortune from her banker grandfather, making her one of the richest and thus potentially powerful women in Victorian England. She moved in the highest social circles: entertaining the rising stars of the political scene, Disraeli...
Risk Management in an Uncertain World
Strategies for Crisis Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
In an increasingly uncertain world, the pace of change is swift and quickening. Risk management is more important than ever before, and adaptability is key. Not every negative event can be mitigated, but the right approaches will allow a company to respond effectively and even to thrive in crisis...
Corporate Fraud
The Human Factor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Corporate fraud is unlike any other risk that an organisation has to manage. It requires us to believe that we can be deceived by individuals that we know, trust and do business with – one of life's 'inconvenient truths'. So, we often choose to believe many of the myths that prevail: 'our people...
Cobra in the Bath
Adventures in Less Travelled Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Miles Morland is an adventurer. He was born in India to a naval father and a dangerously glamorous mother. When his parents divorced, Miles followed his mother to Tehran, which they had to leave in a hurry, and on to Baghdad, which they also had to leave in a hurry after the 1958 revolution. His early...
by Sarah Crossan, Brian Conaghan
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
YA rising stars Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan join forces to break readers' hearts in this contemporary story of star-cross'd lovers.
Jess would never have looked twice at Nicu if her friends hadn't left her in the lurch. Nicu is all big eyes and ill-fitting clothes, eager as a puppy, even...
The End of the Road
The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs....
The Billionaires Club
The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners WINNER FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want...
Do You Speak Football?
A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny.'
Paul Hayward, Daily Telegraph
**''Amusing and informative in equal measure.'
Oliver Kay, The Times
An expertly compiled and utterly fascinating compendium of the weird and wonderful words...