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Dionysius Williams & Other South West Observations

By: Nick Ingram

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Dionysius Williams & Other South West Observations

By: Nick Ingram

Dionysius Williams & Other South West Observations is a snap shot of the South West of England, a place where landscape, history, reality, nature & myth collide. Here you will find the little known figure of Dionysius Williams, member of the Royal Society, mathematician & astrologer, who once lived in Sennen. Hope & Glory is the oral history of a family in Plymouth trying to live through the effects of both world wars. Taxonomy Of The Dragon recounts St George's deadly encounter with that deadly Worm. Also in strange corners, both urban and in the country, nature and the landscape exerts itself in strange ways on the human mind and thought. It is only here in the South West Of England where landscape, history, reality, nature & myth collide. This book is illustrated with the authors own photographs.

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Lulu.com

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147165608X

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9781471656088

Understanding Media Cultures

Social Theory and Mass Communication

By: Nick Stevenson

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Understanding Media Cultures

Social Theory and Mass Communication

By: Nick Stevenson

The Second Edition of this book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which social theory has attempted to theorize the importance of the media in contemporary society. Understanding Media Cultures is now fully revised and takes account of the recent theoretical developments associated with New Media and Information Society, as well as the audience and the public sphere.

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SAGE

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076197363X

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9780761973638

The Adventures of Charles Schenck

By: Nick Noonan

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The Adventures of Charles Schenck

By: Nick Noonan

Nick Noonan takes his readers on a journey that spans time, space and the imagination! Alien ships, space labs, dinosaurs, time machines and more make this a fast moving fun read for adventurers of all ages. This novel contains a series of 3 books tied together in a continued theme. A family's normal life becomes decidedly abnormal and quite exciting in a series of events that thrusts them into situations like fighting tribes, battling aliens, blowing up labs and running from dinosaurs. Nick Noonan, a member of Louisiana Young Artists, Young Authors, is a teen writer from Belle Chasse, La attending Holy Cross High School. This is his first published novel. Look for future works by Nick Noonan on the website at www.Layaya.org or at your local bookstore.

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Lulu.com

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130417140X

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9781304171405

Rock Obituaries: Knocking On Heaven's Door

By: Nick Talevski

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Rock Obituaries: Knocking On Heaven's Door

By: Nick Talevski

The fascination with tragedy and the subsequent theatre of voyeurism are part of human nature, especially when it involves our icons, celebrities and musicians. Knocking On Heaven's Door is the definitive book of rock 'n' roll, pop, R&B and blues deaths. Often, only the biggest selling artists are written about and sometimes it is the death of a personality that cements their iconic status. Knocking On Heaven's Door not only covers the rock legends who lived hard and died young, this detailed reference contains over 1,000 obituaries of music industry personalities, famous and obscure from mid-fifties to the present day. Alphabetical entries of all the important individuals, including: noteworthy producers, managers, songwriters, record company founders A&R men and even critics, puts all the information at your finger tips. Nick Talevski has spent a decade researching this comprehensive and authoritative reference book and it will be an indispensable and practical addition to every music library, full of irresistible and intriguing information.

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Omnibus Press

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0857121170

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9780857121172

Scoreboard, Baby

A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

By: Ken Armstrong,Nick Perry

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Scoreboard, Baby

A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

By: Ken Armstrong,Nick Perry

Now, in Scoreboard, Baby, Armstrong and Perry go behind the scenes of the Huskies' Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins. The authors unearth the true story from firsthand interviews and thousands of pages of documents: the forensic report on a bloody fingerprint; the notes of a detective investigating allegations of rape; confidential memoranda of prosecutors; and the criminal records of the dozen-plus players arrested that year with scant mention in the newspapers and minimal consequences in the courts. The statement of a judge, sentencing one player to thirty days in jail, says it all: "to be served after football season.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803233930

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9780803233935

Entrepreneurship and Institutions

The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Asymmetry

By: Nick Williams,Tim Vorley,Colin Williams

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Entrepreneurship and Institutions

The Causes and Consequences of Institutional Asymmetry

By: Nick Williams,Tim Vorley,Colin Williams

Entrepreneurship does not occur in a vacuum. The institutions which provide the framework for economic activity matter. As countries around the world strive for economic growth, this book examines how institutional arrangements are critical in fostering entrepreneurship. Through 12 case studies drawn from Asia, Europe and America the book demonstrates how different institutional arrangements impact the nature, scope and scale of entrepreneurial activity. Each chapter highlights how the prevailing formal and informal institutional arrangements interact, and how this has consequences for the development of more entrepreneurial economies. By synthesizing empirical and theoretical insights the book explores how fostering more entrepreneurial economies is as much a question of institutional alignment as it is the creation of more supportive formal and informal institutions.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783486929

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9781783486922

The Price of Slavery

Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean

By: Nick Nesbitt

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The Price of Slavery

Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean

By: Nick Nesbitt

The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx’s critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams in light of Marx’s key concept of the social forms of labor, wealth, and value. To do so, Nesbitt systematically reconstructs for the first time Marx’s analysis of capitalist slavery across the three volumes of Capital. The book then follows the legacy of Caribbean critique in its reflections on the social forms of labor, servitude, and freedom, as they culminate in the vehement call for the revolutionary transformation of an unjust colonial order into one of universal justice and equality.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813947103

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9780813947105

Singing in a Strange Land

C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America

By: Nick Salvatore

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Singing in a Strange Land

C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America

By: Nick Salvatore

A prizewinning historian pens this biography of C.L. Franklin, the greatest African-American preacher of his generation, father of Aretha, and civil rights pioneer.

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Little, Brown

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0316030775

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9780316030779

Africatown

America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

By: Nick Tabor

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Africatown

America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

By: Nick Tabor

An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates’ direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250766559

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9781250766557

Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom

By: Nick Stevenson

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Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom

By: Nick Stevenson

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global age growing numbers of citizens are less concerned with freedom than they are with security. Secondly, there is the presumption that freedom only refers to market freedom and consumerism, implying that the ideas of choice and consumption are interchangeable with ideas of freedom. Stevenson argues that while these arguments are significant, they are deeply misleading. More ‘authentic’ ideas of freedom such as self-realisation, participating in politics and seeking a meaningful life of self-reflection have not been entirely displaced but have instead become reinvented in our global times. The cries of freedom can still be heard in a multitude of places from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement and from the protests against European austerity to the current popularity of human rights. Stevenson also argues that the idea of freedom has become increasingly mobile in our interconnected and transnational society. The spaces and places of civil society are more complex in this global age, pushing ideas of freedom far beyond the usual arena of national politics. This volume brings together a diverse range of cultural interpretations in respect of freedom related to the idea of the commons, cosmopolitanism, contemporary documentary cinema and the history of jazz music. Exploring the ways in which notions of freedom are being re-made within the context of the present, and looking more precisely at the current threats to freedom, it will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, human rights and cultural sociology.

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Routledge

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1317585542

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The Great Train Robbery

Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account

By: Nick Russell-Pavier,Stewart Richards

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The Great Train Robbery

Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account

By: Nick Russell-Pavier,Stewart Richards

Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail train in a daring and brilliantly executed operation lasting just 46 minutes. Quickly dubbed the crime of the century, it has captured the imagination of the public and the world's media for 50 years, taking its place in British folklore and giving birth to the myths of The Great Train Robbery. Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds became household names. But what really happened? This is the story of four talented villains who took the criminal world by storm, of the 'perfect crime'. It is also the story of ruthless policemen, determined to hunt the robbers down and to make sure nobody slipped through the net, not even the innocent. It is the story of an Establishment under siege, and of one mistake which cost the robbers 307 years in prison. Fifty years later, here is the story set out in full for the first time, a true-life crime thriller, and also a vivid slice of British social history.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297864408

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9780297864400

Retreat from Injustice

Human Rights Law in Australia

By: Nick O'Neill,Simon Rice,Roger Douglas

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Retreat from Injustice

Human Rights Law in Australia

By: Nick O'Neill,Simon Rice,Roger Douglas

This new edition of Retreat from Injustice has the strengths and style of its predecessor: the account of human rights in Australia is firmly grounded in historical and international contexts; the availability and limitations of rights and freedoms are clearly detailed and illustrated with cases; and a particular spotlight is placed on key current human rights issues including terrorism, indigenous issues and asylum seekers.

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Federation Press

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186287414X

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9781862874145

100 Things Red Sox Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Nick Cafardo

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100 Things Red Sox Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By: Nick Cafardo

With 100-plus years of Red Sox history, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Boston fan should know. It contains crucial information such as important dates, player nicknames, memorable moments, singular achievements, and signature calls. This guide to all things Red Sox covers the tradition of singing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" at the stadium, the history of the Yawkey family, Wally the Green Monster, and the myth that lefties can't pitch at Fenway Park. Now updated through the 2013 World Series win, the book includes information about the signing of Shane Victorino and John Farrell taking over as manager.

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Triumph Books

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1623688892

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9781623688899

Country

The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

By: Nick Tosches

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Country

The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

By: Nick Tosches

Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

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Da Capo Press

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0786750987

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9780786750986

Mike Piazza

By: Nick Friedman,Brant James

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Mike Piazza

By: Nick Friedman,Brant James

An inviting portrait of the hard-hitting superstar who has already taken a place in the pantheon of catching greats.

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Infobase Publishing

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143810054X

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9781438100548

Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook

By: Nick Bollettieri

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Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook

By: Nick Bollettieri

As the most successful coach in tennis, Bollettieri has worked with Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Boris Becker and others. In this book he shares his wealth of knowledge and insight into the world of tennis, with discussions of strategies, stroke development and physical and mental conditioning. 400 illustrations.

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Human Kinetics

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0736040366

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9780736040365

Unconditional Success

Loving the Work We Were Born to Do

By: Nick Williams

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Unconditional Success

Loving the Work We Were Born to Do

By: Nick Williams

For some people the very mention of the word success brings to mind memories of challenges met and ambitions realized; for others, in contrast, this simple word can trigger feelings of inadequacy and failure, of wasted energy and missed opportunities. Here, business consultant Nick Williams offers advice on how we can all achieve our goals and turn those damaging nightmares into dreams come true. As he redefines the meaning of success, Williams shows us how to overcome the stumbling blocks that inhibit our progress; abandon our fear of failure that prevents us from pushing back the boundaries; achieve success without sacrifice - and self-believe without conceit; and tap into our innate creative spirit in order to achieve all we desire.

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Transworld Publishers

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0553814273

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9780553814279

Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder

By: Chip Zdarsky,Leah Williams,Nick Giovannetti,Paul Scheer

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Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder

By: Chip Zdarsky,Leah Williams,Nick Giovannetti,Paul Scheer

The bloody brilliance of 2020’s Harvey-nominated Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red deserved an encore!In this all-new collection, 18 short tales of Gotham’s most unpredictable antihero unspool in black, white, and red ink (because she’s never seen the world in just black and white). Watch in astonishment as Harley and Ivy dive deep into the heart of the Fortress of Solitude! Peer into Harley’s teenage past as a high-flying gymnast with vengeance on her mind! Be astonished as former Joker sidekicks Harley and Gaggy Gagsworthy embark on a harrowing heist that’s well worth the risk! All these plus oodles more madcap monochromatic misadventures!From superstar creators Chip Zdarsky, Leah Williams, Zoe Thorogood, Paul Scheer, Kelly Thompson, Gail Simone, Tini Howard, Justin Halpern, Kevin Maguire, Tom Reilly, Annie Wu, Juni Ba, Brandt & Stein, Babs Tarr, Bilquis Evely, Bruno Redondo and scores of others! Collects Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #1-6!

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DC Comics

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1799500136

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9781799500131

Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams

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Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

By: Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams

This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.

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Verso Books

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1784780987

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9781784780982

The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship

Dynamics and Development in Post-Conflict Economies

By: Nick Williams

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The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship

Dynamics and Development in Post-Conflict Economies

By: Nick Williams

With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant. Yet little is understood about the motivations and contribution of those who return to their homeland to undertake entrepreneurial activity. The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship analyzes the role that the diaspora play when returning as entrepreneurs to their homeland. Nick Williams investigates "returnee entrepreneurs," or people who have moved away from their home country, lived as part of the diaspora, and later returned home to live, invest, or both. Based on exhaustive research, this book examines the motivations and activities of these returnee entrepreneurs coming back to challenging homeland economies. Williams draws on evidence from the post-conflict economies of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro, all of which are characterized by relatively weak institutional environments. His analysis shows how return to complex environments is often not based on perceived profit opportunities but is due to an emotional attachment informing investment decisions. Exploring questions of isolation versus assimilation, institutional involvement, and personal networking, the book covers more than just the policy approaches that extract higher levels of remittances and studies broad and varied approaches being used by governments around the world, specifically those in post-conflict economies. Through an in-depth study of the dynamics of return and entrepreneurship, this book shows that concerted efforts need to be made to improve perceptions of state political institutions among the diaspora to secure further assimilation, investment, and prosperity. Williams proves that by understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with diaspora return entrepreneurship, more effective strategies can, and should, be put in place.

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Oxford University Press

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0190911883

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9780190911881

Crimes and Criminals

By: Nick Vandome

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Crimes and Criminals

By: Nick Vandome

Podroben prikaz kriminalnih dejanj v zgodovini (od tatvine, ponarejanja pa do kanibalizma, množičnih umorov, političnih škandalov /Watergate/ itd.) in njihovih storilcev, med drugimi naprimer Al Capone, Bonnie in Clyde, Oscar Wilde, Peter Sutcliffe, Nelson, Biggs, Moors itd. Vključena so glavna dejstva, izrečene kazni, metode, motivi in posledice kriminalne dejavnosti in miselnosti, pa tudi zabavne anekdote s tega področja.

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Larousse Kingfisher Chambers

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055017012X

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9780550170125

Out the Back with Bondi Rescue

True stories behind the hit TV show

By: Nick Carroll

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Out the Back with Bondi Rescue

True stories behind the hit TV show

By: Nick Carroll

In the land of sand castles, they're the kings. A million and a half of us watch them on TV every week as they save lives and win Logies. And all they're doing is their job - and what a job it is! This is the inside story of Bondi Rescue's lifeguards, that casual bunch of easy-going water-boys who look after Australia's most famous piece of sand and surf - who've somehow become famous as a result. As you'll find out between these pages, there's quite a bit more to the Bondi Rescue boy - and crew - than meets the eye . . . or the TV camera. Be a part of their incredible journey and discover the effect this has had on their lives. 'If you're ever lucky enough to paddle way out the back with the guys on the rescue boards, that's when the stories begin to flow. Not only are these men true Australian heroes, they can weave a great yarn too.' - Andrew G

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Allen & Unwin

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1741769167

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