Nigel Quinnin's Books

The Coming Storm

Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two

By: Nigel McCrery

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The Coming Storm

Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two

By: Nigel McCrery

The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season. Hitler permitted us almost to complete an exceptionally interesting season, Sir Home Gordon, wrote in the Cricketer magazine, When shall we see the stumps pitched again?As the West Indies touring team canceled their last five matches and sailed home before the U-boat threat developed, the treasures at Lords, including the Ashes, were sent to a secret location for safekeeping. The Marylebone Cricket Club cancelled its tour to India - England played under the MCC banner then.During the ensuing conflict twelve test cricketers (five English, two South Africans, one Australian and one New Zealander) perished together with 130 first class players. In this superbly researched sequel to Final Wicket, covering cricketing fatalities during The Great War, this book reveals each mans career details, including cricketing statistics, and the circumstances of death. There is also a brief history of the game during the War. Arguably the period between the two world wars was the golden age of cricket, and this book honors those who made it so only to die serving their countries in a different way.

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Casemate Publishers

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1526706970

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9781526706973

The History of Australian Crime

By: Nigel Cawthorne

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The History of Australian Crime

By: Nigel Cawthorne

The criminal history of Australia from bushrangers who robbed, raped and murdered their way across the Outback in the late 18th and 19th centuries to today's breed of celebrity villain, from Ned Kelly and Jack the Rammer to Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read and Alan Bond.

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Arcturus Publishing

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1782127046

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9781782127048

Tears of laughter

Comedy-drama in 1990s British cinema

By: Nigel Mather

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Tears of laughter

Comedy-drama in 1990s British cinema

By: Nigel Mather

Tears of laughter' examines the interactions of comedy and drama in three vital thematic strands of British cinema during the 1990s: comedies exploring issues of class, culture and community in British society, 'ethnic' comedy-dramas engaging with complex issues of identity and allegiance in modern Britain, and romantic comedies featuring characters searching (somewhat desperately or frantically) for a suitable and desirable long-term or short-term partner. Films to be discussed in detail include 'Brassed Off' (1996), 'The Full Monty' (1997), 'East is East' (1999), 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' (1994), 'Notting Hill' (1999) and a post-1990s romantic comedy, 'Love Actually' (2003). The study discusses these specific films and a range of other 1990s British comedy-drama films within the context of community-orientated Ealing comedy classics, contentious situation comedies treating race relations as both a laughing matter and a site of conflict ('Till Death Us Do Part' and 'Love Thy Neighbour'), and romantic comedies set and produced in Britain. It is aimed at film studies academics, students and film enthusiasts.

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222

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Manchester University Press

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1526141795

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9781526141798

Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies

By: Nigel Quinnin

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Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies

By: Nigel Quinnin

Generated by top CodeGuru.com members, the best of the site's code and commentary is now available as a book and CD-ROM. The title includes topics like C and C++, user interface design, COM, controls, database programming, graphics, DLL, plus much more.

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628

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Que Publishing

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0789727773

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9780789727770

The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

Empire of Light

By: Nigel Morris

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The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

Empire of Light

By: Nigel Morris

Cinema's most successful director is a commercial and cultural force demanding serious consideration. Not just triumphant marketing, this international popularity is partly a function of the movies themselves. Polarised critical attitudes largely overlook this, and evidence either unquestioning adulation or vilification often vitriolic for epitomising contemporary Hollywood. Detailed textual analyses reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, Spielberg's movies function consistently as a self-reflexive commentary on cinema. Rather than straightforwardly consumed realism or fantasy, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies. Exercising powerful emotional appeal, their ambiguities are profitably advantageous in maximising audiences and generating media attention.

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445

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Columbia University Press

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0231503458

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9780231503457

Book's by Nigel Quinnin

The Coming Storm

The Coming Storm

The History of Australian Crime

The History of Australian Crime

Tears of laughter

Tears of laughter

Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies

Codeguru.com Visual C++ Goodies

The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

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