“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long. A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean’s story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service. Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.
The Compendium of Nosh is all about the weird and wonderful things we put in our mouths. From A through to Z it gives wickedly funny, informative insights into foods, flavours, produce, etiquettes and observances. With it you'll know your Baked Alaska from your Blueberry Grunt, your Capiscums from Cardoons, even your Fadge from your Fufu. You can discover the odd hobbies of J.H.Kellogg, the cornflake king, or the plutocratic origins of baked beans and why coffee and tea have caused wars, revolutions, and draconian punishments in every continent. Besides informing in abundance, The Compendium is wickedly funny and liberally peppered with the author's prejudices. Jack McLean is opinionated, idiosyncratic and - like his best-loved food - completely unreconstructed. The Compendium of Nosh is an extraordinary confection and a must-have for foodies.
This autobiography of Jack McLean chronicles the business of growing up in Glasgow in the immediate post-war years, the rock'n'roll era of the Fifties, his time in London at the height of flower power, the days of student revolution in the course of which he was sometimes confidant to the then Labour Front Bench, and not a few government people as well. He courses through politics, education, literary days, sex and drugs and playing the blues.
Dirty Noir is ten stories of the riptide in human affairs, for those of us who are magnetically drawn to the passionate, strange and dreadful. Get ready to meet the honeymoon couple who encounter grief in Mexico; Zack, the schoolboy assassin in love with a circus beauty; Miguel, who proves to be unexpectedly dangerous; the Giant Rat of Sumatra, cruellest contract-killer in the business, and Phoebe, perhaps the strangest, and surely the sharpest, woman in fiction. These and many other mad, bad and too-dangerous-to-know individuals await you in Dirty Noir, a collection of short stories from authors Martin Mulligan and Jack D. McLean. This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.
In Celebrity Chef Zombie Apocalypse, Professor Ted Forsyth created the Lazarus Engine, which could bring the dead back to life. Now, Wally Pratt - a distant relative of Professor Forsyth - has inherited his house and the Lazarus Engine. A member of an extreme right-wing political party and desperate for advancement, he puts together a creature from recycled body parts who looks very much like Margaret Thatcher. The former great leader is reborn, but now she's known as Thatchenstein. The third and final book in this unique horror - comedy - parody trilogy by Jack Strange is the best yet, and ends with a powerful climax. This is the large print edition of Thatchenstein, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Floyd Rampant is ready to cook - and humanity is on the menu. After the celebrity chef rises from his grave, he aims to create a zombie army of chefs who will rule the world, using the human species as the main ingredient in their cordon bleu meals. Can Floyd be stopped before it's too late, or will we all end up roasted, then drizzled in a rich chasseur sauce? Part horror story, part social satire, this novel gives you a fast-paced entrée of dread, followed by a main course of panic and a dessert of distress. This is the large print edition of Celebrity Chef Zombie Apocalypse, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Floyd Rampant is ready to cook - and humanity is on the menu. After the celebrity chef rises from his grave, he aims to create a zombie army of chefs who will rule the world, using the human species as the main ingredient in their cordon bleu meals. Can Floyd be stopped before it's too late, or will we all end up roasted, then drizzled in a rich chasseur sauce? Part horror story, part social satire, this novel gives you a fast-paced entrée of dread, followed by a main course of panic and a dessert of distress. This is the large print edition of Celebrity Chef Zombie Apocalypse, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Cats and their humans have always lived peacefully together: ancient Egyptians worshiped them, musicals have been written about them, the internet goes gaga for them. Zomcats! dumps all that into the litter tray of life. This ain't no cute, cuddly kitten zombie story. Jack D. McLean's Zomcats! does for cuddly felines what James Herbert's horror classic, The Rats, did for rodents. It's violent, horror-laced mayhem with savage satire and devilish dark humor. The action starts on the first page and doesn't stop till the shocking climax in the end. And when the Zomcats' 9 lives are up, they come back from the dead. This is the large print edition of Zomcats!, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Cats and their humans have always lived peacefully together: ancient Egyptians worshiped them, musicals have been written about them, the internet goes gaga for them. Zomcats! dumps all that into the litter tray of life. This ain't no cute, cuddly kitten zombie story. Jack D. McLean's Zomcats! does for cuddly felines what James Herbert's horror classic, The Rats, did for rodents. It's violent, horror-laced mayhem with savage satire and devilish dark humor. The action starts on the first page and doesn't stop till the shocking climax in the end. And when the Zomcats' 9 lives are up, they come back from the dead. This is the large print edition of Zomcats!, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Floyd Rampant is ready to cook - and humanity is on the menu. After the celebrity chef rises from his grave, he aims to create a zombie army of chefs who will rule the world, using the human species as the main ingredient in their cordon bleu meals. Can Floyd be stopped before it's too late, or will we all end up roasted, then drizzled in a rich chasseur sauce? Part horror story, part social satire, this novel gives you a fast-paced entrée of dread, followed by a main course of panic and a dessert of distress. This is the large print edition of Celebrity Chef Zombie Apocalypse, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Cats and their humans have always lived peacefully together: ancient Egyptians worshiped them, musicals have been written about them, the internet goes gaga for them. Zomcats! dumps all that into the litter tray of life. This ain't no cute, cuddly kitten zombie story. Jack D. McLean's Zomcats! does for cuddly felines what James Herbert's horror classic, The Rats, did for rodents. It's violent, horror-laced mayhem with savage satire and devilish dark humor. The action starts on the first page and doesn't stop till the shocking climax in the end. And when the Zomcats' 9 lives are up, they come back from the dead. This is the large print edition of Zomcats!, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
Now in its second edition, Managing Employee Performance and Reward continues to offer comprehensive coverage of employee performance and reward, presenting the material in a conceptually integrated way. This new edition has been substantially updated and revised by a team of specialist contributors, and includes: • An increased focus on employee engagement and the alignment between the organisation's goals and the personal goals of employees • Expanded coverage of coaching, now a leading-edge performance enhancement practice • Extensive updates reflecting the major changes in employee benefits in recent years, as organisations strive to attract and retain talent • Updated coverage of executive salaries and incentives in the contemporary post-GFC environment. This popular text is an indispensable resource for both students and managers alike. Written for a global readership, the book will continue to have particular appeal to those studying and practising people management in the Asia-Pacific region.
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