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Sailing Through Life...

By: Nick Ardley

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When Nick Ardley asked for a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, the aftershocks of a prostate cancer diagnosis were momentous. Frightened, he said he was too young to die. Petrified, he understandably broke down. But all was not lost: his family and the boat shared with his wife were soon at work repairing his life. A life-long sailor, the salt marsh fringed waters of the greater Thames estuary had always enthralled, and it was to them he went for healing. It’s a place where in the free flow of a saline breeze his mind cleared, and he began treating it all as just another little illness. Like a cold, he said, knowing full well it wasn’t! Sailing up the River Thames, he announced to his wife his choice of the medical directions offered. Later, after mooring off Gravesend, both cried together. Ardley’s treatment overlapped the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the serious stuff was done and dusted. The pandemic brought new trials. The couple were frighteningly threatened by a fellow yachtsman who disliked an Ardley web blog ... the horror of that summer has remained fresh. Throughout the telling of Ardley’s tales, his story, sailing with family and friends, country walking and living life, he has maintained a normality. Perhaps a familiar story, but it comes with a warning: Men, get yourselves tested before it’s too late! So, onwards he goes, sailing through life...

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1398481351

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Salt Marsh & Mud

A Year's Sailing on the Thames Estuary

By: Nick Ardley

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A Year's Sailing on the Thames Estuary

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A year's sailing on the Thames estuary.

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1445610973

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Mudlarking

Thames Estuary Cruising Yarns

By: Nick Ardley

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Mudlarking

Thames Estuary Cruising Yarns

By: Nick Ardley

A compilation of tales of the Thames Estuary.

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1445623757

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The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

By: Nick Ardley

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The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

By: Nick Ardley

A compilation of tales of the Thames Estuary.

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1445624206

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Swinging the Lamp

Thames Estuary Tidal Tales

By: Nick Ardley

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Swinging the Lamp

Thames Estuary Tidal Tales

By: Nick Ardley

Pure salt water courses through Nick Ardley's veins: he was brought up on a Thames spritsail barge and 'sailed' the high seas on ocean going ships. For many years he weaved his way through the Thames estuary's tidal creeks and rivers, mostly aboard his clinker sloop, exploring, noting and investigating, with his mate beside him. The estuary of the Thames is a world of constant flux. It is an artery of modern commerce and archaeology of past industry peppers its rivers and creeks. Flooded islands have become the domain of myriad of birds, nesting on hummocks of saltings and feeding on mud flats. Rotting wharves festooned with bladder wrack alive with life, the time worn ribs of barges the perch for cormorants. Around all of that, man has created new uses for disused lime, cement and brick docks. Boatyards, marinas and waterside housing have emerged like a water born phoenix from industrial ashes. Wending in and out of this, Nick Ardley weaves his magic, commenting. Beneath Whimbrel's swinging lamp he muses about old souls, the relationship of humble spritsail barge and shoal draft yachts, but all along he is alive with enthusiasm for the environment in this little corner of England.

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1781554986

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Rochester to Richmond

A Thames Estuary Sailor's View

By: Nick Ardley

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Rochester to Richmond

A Thames Estuary Sailor's View

By: Nick Ardley

Many people say that Nick Ardley is a bit of an eccentric, or an anachronism from a simpler age, for the way he sails his clinker sloop around the Thames estuary, wending among the tide-riddled marshes to drop anchor where the fancy takes him, his trusty mate at his side. In this volume, he has a clear unabashed plan: a reflective journey between the Pools of Rochester and London, a path once of commerce, but now pleasure. Rochester was once of immense importance to Britain's past trading richness, but, even if the belching chimneys pouring acrid fumes and cement dust have evaporated, and oil refineries have slipped away; the wharves lining the banks remain alive. As a distraction, he wanders a little above Rochester and then again, a little above the Pool of London towards Richmond. Between, he lands amongst the marsh and mud, finding graves, the ribs of old sailors and farmsteads enveloped in purslane and lavender. Many towns sailed past were part of this heritage, supplying building materials, food and fodder carried by the tan sailed barge to London. Nick Ardley dips and dabbles into these communities and explores how they have metamorphosed.

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1781556202

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Geographies of Peace

New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

By: Fiona McConnell,Nick Megoran,Philippa Williams

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Geographies of Peace

New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

By: Fiona McConnell,Nick Megoran,Philippa Williams

From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. And it is war and violence that have been so compellingly studied within critical geography in recent years. This volume offers an attempt to redress that balance, and to think more expansively and critically about what peace means and what geographies of peace may entail. The editors begin with an examination of critical approaches to peace in other disciplines and a helpful genealogy of peace studies within geography. The book is then divided into three sections. The opening section examines how the idea of peace may be variously constructed and interpreted according to different sites and scales. The chapters in the second section explore a remarkably wide range of techniques of peacemaking.This widens the discussion from the archetypical image of top-down, diplomatic state-led initiatives to imperial boundary making practices, grassroots cultural identity assertion, boycotts, self-immolation, ex-paramilitary community activism, and 'protective accompaniment'. The final section shifts the scale and focus to everyday personal relations and a range of practices around the concept of coexistence. In their concluding chapter the editors spell out some of the key questions that they believe a geography of peace must address: What spatial factors have facilitated the success or precipitated the failure of some peace movements or diplomatic negotiations? Why are some ideologies productive of violence in some places but co-operation in others? How have some communities been better able to deal with religious, racial, cultural and class conflict than others? How have creative approaches to sharing sovereignty mitigated or transformed territorial disputes that once seemed intractable? Geographies of Peace is the first book wholly devoted to exploring the geography of peace.Drawing on both recent advances in social and political theory and detailed empirical research covering four continents, it makes a significant intervention into current debates about peace and violence.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085773492X

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The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

By: Nick Ardley

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The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

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A compilation of tales of the Thames Estuary.

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True or Poo?

The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Falsehoods

By: Nick Caruso,Dani Rabaiotti

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True or Poo?

The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and Falsehoods

By: Nick Caruso,Dani Rabaiotti

From the scientist duo behind the New York Times bestselling sensation Does It Fart? comes a new illustrated compendium of animal facts and falsehoods, from the head-scratching to the repulsive! After Does It Fart? comes Number Two...a fully illustrated compendium of animal facts and falsehoods -- the more repulsive the better. Do komodo dragons have toxic slobber? Is it true that a scorpion that sheds its tail dies of constipation? Speaking of poo, do rabbits really have a habit of, err, eating their own? And can you really get high from licking toads, or is that...fake newts? The answers to all these questions and more can be found in True or Poo?, a manual for disgusting and one-upping your friends and enemies for years to come.

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0316528099

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Sport and the Christian Religion

A Systematic Review of Literature

By: Andrew Parker,Nick J. Watson

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Sport and the Christian Religion

A Systematic Review of Literature

By: Andrew Parker,Nick J. Watson

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the published literature and practical initiatives on the sports-Christianity interface from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. Within the context of this relatively new and rapidly expanding area of inquiry, this text offers an original contribution to the current literature for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and serves as a point of reference for academics from a wide range of related fields including theology and religious studies, psychology, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, health-religion studies, and sports studies. The book will also be of interest to sports chaplains, those involved in sports ministry organizations, physical educators and sports coaches who wish to adopt a more critical and ‘holistic’ approach to their work. As modern-day sports are often entwined with commercial and political agendas, the book also provides an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ and business orientated philosophy, which characterises much of contemporary sport practice, yet which cannot always be fully understood through secular inquiry.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443859257

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Mudlarking

Thames Estuary Cruising Yarns

By: Nick Ardley

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Thames Estuary Cruising Yarns

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A compilation of tales of the Thames Estuary.

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Salt Marsh & Mud

A Year's Sailing on the Thames Estuary

By: Nick Ardley

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A Year's Sailing on the Thames Estuary

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A year's sailing on the Thames estuary.

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The May Flower

A Barging Childhood

By: Nick Ardley

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The May Flower

A Barging Childhood

By: Nick Ardley

In this evocative story of his unusual upbringing on the May Flower, Nick Ardley gives us a colourful account of life on the water. He tells tales of places visited, techniques learned and characters met that combine to give a real sense of what sailing can teach us. The skills learned on the water have proved to be highly beneficial for many people in their later careers, while the self-reliance and resourcefulness that often characterises sailors are much-valued attributes anywhere. Weaving his wealth of barging knowledge into the story of his family's life aboard the May Flower and their great resilience in keeping their barge on the water, Nick Ardley has given us a book that will appeal both to barging enthusiasts and those interested in childhood development.

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0752442252

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Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

By: Nicholas Carter

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Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

By: Nicholas Carter

IT had rained in torrents all the way down from Schenectady, so when Jack Duane glimpsed the lights of what looked to be a big house through the trees, he braked his battered, convertible sedan to a stop at the side of the road. Mud lay along the fenders and running boards; mud and water had spumed up and freckled Duane’s face and hat. He pulled off the latter—it was soggy—and slapped it on the seat beside him, leaning out and squinting through the darkness and falling water. He was on the last lap of a two weeks’ journey from San Francisco, his objective being New York City. There he hoped to wangle a job as foreign correspondent from an old crony, J. J. Molloy, now editor of the New York Globe. Adventurer, journalist, globetrotter, Duane was of the type that is always on the move. “It’s a place, anyway, Moses,” he said to the large black man beside him, his servitor and bodyguard, who had accompanied him everywhere for the past three years. “Somebody lives there; they ought to have some gas.” “Yasah,” said Moses, staring past Duane’s shoulder, “it’s a funny-looking place, suh.” Duane agreed. Considering that they were seventy miles from New York, in the foothills of the Catskills, with woods all around them and the rain pouring down, the thing they saw through the trees, some three hundred yards from the country road, was indeed peculiar. It looked more like a couple of Pullman cars coupled together and lighted, than like a farmer’s dwelling. “Fenced in, too,” said Duane, pointing to the high steel fence that bordered the road, separating them from the object of their vision. “And look there—” A fitful flash of lightning in the east, illuminating the distant treetops, showed up the towering steel and network of a high-voltage electric line’s tower. The roving journalist muttered something to express his puzzlement, and got out of the car. Moses followed him. “Well,” said Duane presently, when they had stared a moment longer, “whatever it is, I’m barging in. We’ve got to have some gas or we’ll never make New York tonight.” MOSES agreed. The two men started across the road—the big Negro hatless and wearing a slicker—the reporter in a belted trench coat, his brown felt hat pulled out of shape on his head. “It’s a big thing,” Duane said as he and Moses halted at the fence and peered through. Distantly, he could see now that the mysterious structure in the woods was at least a hundred yards long, flat-topped and black as coal except from narrow shafts of light that came from its windows. “And look at the light coming out of the roof.” That was, indeed, the most peculiar feature of this place they had discovered. From a section of the roof near the center, as though through a skylight, a great white light came out, illuminating the slanting rain and the bending trees.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465536493

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Dribble For Kids: The Lord of the Sweaters

By: Nick Nitro

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Dribble For Kids: The Lord of the Sweaters

By: Nick Nitro

Dribble For Kids makes it's print-debut with THE LORD OF THE SWEATERS! Collecting the entire six-issue run of D4K's first major storyling found originally online (www.dribbleforkids.com), THE LORD OF THE SWEATERS tells the story of a small group of friends as they fend together to fight an unstoppable evil- -A Turtleneck Sweater. Featuring an introduction by creator Nick Nitro & Forward by DETECTIVE FORK's Kevin J. Guhl, DRIBBLE FOR KIDS: LORD OF THE SWEATERS comes out swinging in this 160 page plus trade paperback!

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061517986X

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Sailing Through Life...

Sailing Through Life...

Salt Marsh & Mud

Salt Marsh & Mud

Mudlarking

Mudlarking

The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

Swinging the Lamp

Swinging the Lamp

Rochester to Richmond

Rochester to Richmond

Geographies of Peace

Geographies of Peace

The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

The Jottings of a Thames Estuary Ditch-Crawler

True or Poo?

True or Poo?

Sport and the Christian Religion

Sport and the Christian Religion

Mudlarking

Mudlarking

Salt Marsh & Mud

Salt Marsh & Mud

The May Flower

The May Flower

Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

Dribble For Kids: The Lord of the Sweaters

Dribble For Kids: The Lord of the Sweaters

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