Imagine if your club, the love of your life, was about to play its last ever game. The club you've cheered on as a child, which your family has supported for generations, whose colours you have dressed in every Saturday. How would you feel? This is his story of Heart of Midlothian, Edinburgh's oldest football club, and the 8,000 heroic fans (or Jambos, as they're affectionately known), who donated their own money to help rescue 'the boys in maroon'. Former Chair of the Foundation of Hearts Ian Murray here chronicles the unprecedented story of the turmoil and uncertainty that the club battled in the fight against liquidation. This book honours Hearts fans and their sheer determination to rescue their beloved club from the brink of extinction and raise it back up to the top of Scottish football. This is our story, this is our song...
After a radical plan of world domination is uncovered, an elite intelligence team must attempt to stop the jihadist threat before western civilization is destroyed forever. It is 1966, and Commander Trent McStuart has just landed inside the area known as the Golden Triangle, Southeast Asias most prolific source of opiates. He has no idea that he is about to uncover a secret microfilm containing the key to radical Islams hundred-year plan to dominate the world. Once the shocking scheme is revealed, it commands the immediate attention of the US and British governments. As both countries mobilize intelligence forces to track down its source, they call on the elusive Black Orchid, a covert, London- based agency, to lead in the endeavor. In turn, the Black Orchid recruits members from MI5, MI6, the CIA and the NSA to devise a means to combat the plans initial phase, setting its sights on one of radical Islams primary sources of funding the opium fields of Afghanistan. In this riveting tale based on actual people and events, only time will tell if the Black Orchid can eliminate the forces determined to destroy western civilizationbefore it is too late.
Imagine if your club, the love of your life, was about to play its last ever game. This is the story of the Heart of Midlothian - Edinburgh's oldest football club first formed in 1874 - and its heroic 8000 fans, or Jambos as they're affectionately known, who in 2014 donated their own money to help save Hearts from ruin. Ian Murray chronicles how in 2014 after a 13 month turmoil for fans and a media firestorm, Heart of Midlothian F.C. was finally saved from liquidation. Murray's new title commemorates Hearts fans and their sheer determination - unprecedented in footballing history - to rescue their beloved club from disaster and raise it up to the top of Scottish football.
Travel Reflections is an anthology of short stories, poems and comments about everyday life. They are variously funny, light happy, reflective, intense, thought provoking or mad. Space is included under a variety of headings for the reader's own travel notes and reflections. --Back cover.
The adventures of Team One continue in the sequel to The Legends of the Black Orchid... Germany's invasion of Austria in 1938 creates conflict throughout Europe, and Hitler's unyielding aggression gains the attention of a powerful group of bankers and industrialists seeking to change the balance of world power. Determined to quell the ongoing threat of the Nazi regime, they develop a plan for U.S. entry into the war as members of the Black Orchid work with Heads of State to infiltrate the upper ranks of the Third Reich's secret service. The story that unfolds outlines the actual events leading up to the attack at Pearl Harbor and America's official entry into the Second World War. The Power Unseen exposes the true forces behind the scenes at the start of World War II in Europe, and uncovers facts and events never before revealed...
In the spring of 1914, two college friends, Thomas Tiggy McStuart and Hans von Gotha, one British and the other German, find themselves on opposite sides of the impending war. Tiggys dream of becoming a barrister and Hans plan to receive his doctorate are quickly fading. As Hans leaves for Germany after being conscripted, he realizes their friendship might never be the same. Tiggy, feeling compelled to defend the crown, joins the London Light Infantry where he excels as a sniper in World War I and is eventually captured by the Germans. Meanwhile, Hans completes express doctorate training and is sent to serve at a field hospital in France. The lives of the two friends reconnect in a way neither of them thought possible. Based on real-life events, Legends of the Black Orchid follows Tiggy and Hans through World War I and the start of World War II. It depicts how circumstances and the influences of the Black Orchid, a society formed by the royal families of Europe, bring them together as one, ultimately making them part of an exclusive intelligence unit that becomes the platform on which the British and American governments form a cooperative base for espionage.
‘She was a good sleeper, rarely troubled by anything as confusing as a dream. But this one had a peculiar flavour. It’s just a pity that she didn’t remember it till much later.’ Tucked away in a remote corner of Wales, a research project into the furthest fringes of quantum physics is nearing completion. Unfortunately the scientists are playing with fire and are about to bring about the end of Time itself, and consequently the end of the universe as we know it. The Gods (a coalition government these days) are unable to interfere under the terms and conditions of their own existence. They decide to send an envoy to the dream world, more commonly known as Astralia, to ask for help. The Astralians offer to send agents to our world, although when they arrive they usually have no recollection of why they were sent. In the ‘real’ world, lead scientist Tom meets Lucy, the girl of his dreams. They fall in love, but do they really know who they are? As reality disintegrates, is there still time to save the universe? Is the answer always yes – and no? Written in a tongue-in-cheek style, A Stitch in Time explores the nature of reality and consciousness. This book will appeal to fans of fantasy novels, as well as those with a particular interest in quantum physics, contemporary arts and culture.
In this book the authors present many unpublished place names from Upper Deeside and from counties in the Highlands beyond. These were heard from indigenous folk back to 1941. Names are given with phonetic spellings, so that readers can pronounce them accurately, and in most cases with translations from Gaelic, Norse, Scots or Pictish into English. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of places and informants. Of interest to residents and visitors, it should help preserve for the future an important aspect of local identity and language.
The book is aimed at junior and intermediate lawyers who appear in appeals in the District Court, High Court and to a lesser degree the Court of Appeal. It will provide practical guidance on preparation for and appearing at criminal appeals. It will include chapters about: reviewing files; meeting the client; preparing and filing the notice of appeal; rules for different types of appeal; fresh evidence and trial counsel error appeals; miscellaneous motions; developing the argument; preparing the submissions; preparing the oral submissions; appearing at the hearing; and, reviewing the decision and further appeals
Teacher education in times of change offers a critical examination of teacher education policy in the UK and Ireland over the past three decades. Written by a research group from five countries, it makes international comparisons, and covers broader developments in professional learning, to place these key issues and lessons in a wider context.
One of a series aimed at the less experienced gardener, this book focuses on pruning, a skill which depends on a wide range of knowledge and technique. The book offers the beginner a course in the basics, a season-by-season guide and an A-Z of plants, with tips on their individual needs.
Gives guidance on the risks of failure of sloping glazing and the assessment and management of those risks. It describes the main types of sloping glazing and the factors associated with failures.
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