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Never Say Goodbye

By: Quentin Rowan

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A powerful coming-of-age story as well as an in-depth examination of a long period of transgression, Never Say Goodbye is simultaneously a memoir and an unflinching confession. Beginning with his earliest memories of childhood theft and cheating, the author traces his path through juvenile delinquency and adolescent drug addiction to the solace he initially found in writing and other creative outlets. When he achieves sobriety at the age of twenty, however, insecurity about his early writing success begins to cloud his judgment and Rowan turns more and more frequently to stealing words from other authors. The narrative follows Rowan’s attempts to navigate life in his early twenties, while he is simultaneously trying to become a well-known writer and not get found out. It describes the difficulty of leading a normal and honest life while keeping such a huge secret from friends and family, and culminates with the author’s descent into infamy. Five days after the publication of his debut novel, the book is withdrawn by publisher Little, Brown after a barrage of media reports that large parts of it have been plagiarized from the work of other writers, The entire cancer of Rowan’s deception is revealed, and he is left to pick up the pieces and find a way to go on. Ultimately, the writing of this book - and the rediscovery of his own creative gifts - proves to be Quentin Rowan’s redemption.

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1891241915

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Never Say Goodbye

By: Quentin Rowan

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Never Say Goodbye

By: Quentin Rowan

In Never Say Goodbye, Quentin Rowan, the most flagrant plagiarist in recent history, recounts his story. Rowan's debut thriller generated a media hailstorm in 2011 after it was exposed as a patchwork of other author's work. Now he explains why and how he penned the infamous work, tracing a path from delinquency and addiction to the solace he found in writing. At the climax of his memoirs, his novel is withdrawn amid a barrage of accusations. The full scale of his plagiarism is revealed and Rowan faces a choice: pick up the pieces and start writing, or go home.

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1891241583

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Covid, Cancer, and Calling

A Memoir of Faith and Healing

By: Quentin W. Goodwin

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Covid, Cancer, and Calling

A Memoir of Faith and Healing

By: Quentin W. Goodwin

Over a three year period, I experienced three life-changing events. In 2019, I finally answered God's call and began the process of ministry candidacy in the United Methodist Church. In 2020, COVID touched the lives of everyone--affecting the way we work, learn, and interact with others. In 2021, I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a rare cancer that affects the white blood cells and weakens the immune system. These three events, though being separate occurrences, will forever be connected in my life through the valuable lessons learned through the three year period. My experiences with my calling, COVID, and Cancer has nurtured me into becoming a better Christian and family man--and will prepare me for whatever life has in store in the future. This book presents insight on five lessons learned through my calling, COVID and cancer experiences. It is my prayer that these five lessons minister and empower those going through similiar experiences in life.

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166556962X

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Patronising Bastards

How the Elites Betrayed Britain

By: Quentin Letts

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Patronising Bastards

How the Elites Betrayed Britain

By: Quentin Letts

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain, Quentin Letts, comes his blistering new book on how Britain's out-of-touch, illiberal elite fills its boots. 'HILARIOUS' Daily Mail 'With its vicious takedowns, Quentin Letts' laugh-out-loud Patronising Bastards will have the lefty-elite running scared' The Sun Not since Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake' have the peasants been so revolting. Western capitalism's elites are bemused: Brexit, Trump, and maybe more eruptions to follow. But their rulers were so good to them! Hillary Clinton called the ingrates 'a basket of deplorables', Bob Geldof flicked them a V sign, Tony Blair thought voters too thick to understand the question. Wigged judges stared down their legalistic noses at a surging, pongy populous. These people who know best, these snooterati with their faux-liberal ways, are the 'Patronising Bastards'. Their downfall is largely of their own making - their Sybaritic excesses, an obsession with political correctness, the prolonged rape of reason and rite. You'll find these self-indulgent show-ponys not just in politics and the cloistered old institutions but also in high fashion, football, among the clean-eating foodies and at the Baftas and Oscars, where celebritydom hires PR smoothies to massage reputations and mislead, distort, twist. Political columnist and bestselling author Quentin Letts identifies these condescending creeps and their networks, their methods and their dubious morals. Letts kebabs them like mutton. It's baaaahd. It's juicy. Richard Branson, Emma Thompson, Shami Chakrabarti, Jean-Claude Juncker and any head waiter who calls you 'young man' - this one's for you!

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147212734X

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States and the Masters of Capital

Sovereign Lending, Old and New

By: Quentin Bruneau

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States and the Masters of Capital

Sovereign Lending, Old and New

By: Quentin Bruneau

Today, states’ ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long been the case, Quentin Bruneau argues that it is a surprisingly recent phenomenon—the outcome of a pivotal shift in the social composition of financial markets. Investigating the financiers involved in lending capital to sovereigns over the past two centuries, Bruneau identifies profound changes in their identities, goals, and forms of knowledge. He shows how an old world made up of merchant banking families pursuing both profit and status gradually gave way to a new one dominated by large companies, such as joint stock banks and credit rating agencies, exclusively pursuing profit. Lacking the web of personal ties to sovereigns across the world that their established rivals possessed, these financial institutions began relying on a different form of knowledge created to describe and compare states through quantifiable data: statistics. Over the course of this epochal shift, which only came to an end a few decades ago, financial markets thus reconceptualized states. Instead of a set of individuals to be known in person, they became numbers on a page. Raising new questions about the history of sovereign lending, this book illuminates the nature of the relationship between states and financial markets today—and suggests that it may be on the cusp of another major transformation.

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Columbia University Press

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0231555644

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9780231555647

From Humanism to Hobbes

Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

By: Quentin Skinner

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From Humanism to Hobbes

Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

By: Quentin Skinner

Offers new insights into the works of Machiavelli, Shakespeare and especially Hobbes by focusing on their use of rhetoric.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107128854

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9781107128859

Letts Rip!

By: Quentin Letts

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Letts Rip!

By: Quentin Letts

Throughout the New Labour years - that decade of deceit, that era of wretched wriggle - the Daily Mail's Quentin Letts has maintained a lonely, vehement vigil. Like a lone clay pigeon shot squinting through his sights at a sky black with targets, he has fired his daily bullets at the poseurs and pooh-bahs of British public life. John Prescott? BANG! Alan Sugar? BANG BANG! Peter Mandelson, Harriet Harman, and the Commons Speaker Letts nicknamed 'Gorbals Mick'? Bullseyes - every single one. In this collection of anguished and often snortingly funny political sketches and journalism, Letts lets off more steam than a Chinese laundry. The modern Establishment won't like it. They tried to gag him. Smear him. Even tried to get him fired. Quentin Letts: The man they could not silence. As his wife will be the first to tell you. Praise for Quentin's previous books: 'I salute Mr Letts's one-man stand against the ugly and brainless Bog-Folk.' Daily Mail '[Quentin Letts] discharges his duty with flair and tracer precision...an angry book, beautifully written.' The Spectator

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1780335040

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9781780335049

American Baseball

From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age

By: David Quentin Voigt

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American Baseball

From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age

By: David Quentin Voigt

How did "America's National Game" evolve from a gentlemen's pastime in the 1850s to a national obsession in the Roaring Twenties? What really happened at Cooperstown in 1839, and why does the "Doubleday legend" persist? How did the commissioner system develop, and what was the impact of the "Black Sox" scandal? These questions and many others are answered in this book, with colorful details about early big league stars such as Mike "King" Kelly and pious Billy Sunday, Charles Comiskey and Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie and "Cy" (Cyclone) Young. The author explores historically the four major periods of transformation of the game: the Gentlemen's Era, the Golden Age, the Feudal Age, and the incipient Silver Age. Attention is given to the changing face of the major league spectacle, the evolving style of the game, and the changing interests of players, fans, and owners, along with influential innovators and their innovations. There are a number of surprises in the book. For instance, several black players made the big leagues in the 1880s, only to be driven out by a rising tide of Jim Crowism. For three generations black players were to be confined to their own clubs and leagues. American baseball history reflects the nation's economic and social history, as author Voigt graphically demonstrates. On the fans' side, mass attendance at ball games reflects the rise of cities and the dilution of a work ethic with pursuit of leisure; on the owners' and players' side, organized baseball reflects the developing tension between big business and skilled employees. The result--despite ups and downs--is a typical American success story." --

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Penn State Press

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0271038306

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9780271038308

Dear Quentin

Letters of a Governor-General

By: Quentin Bryce

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Dear Quentin

Letters of a Governor-General

By: Quentin Bryce

As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even more letters from every corner of the country. Generous, witty and always heartfelt, her letter-writing skills were honed at boarding school, from where she would write to her parents every Sunday. Dear Quentin is a rich collection of the letters the Governor-General wrote and received during her six-year term to prime ministers Rudd and Gillard, VC Mark Donaldson, pals Anne Summers and Wendy McCarthy, Indigenous elders, war vets, Girl Guides, grandchildren, as well as the proud owner of a calf called Quentin. Royalties from this book will be donated to Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, making a real difference to child health through world-leading research and disease prevention.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522871178

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9780522871173

Charles Crichton

By: Quentin Falk

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Charles Crichton

By: Quentin Falk

Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old. But the most significant part of his career was spent at Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s, working on such beloved comedies as Hue and Cry, The Lavender Hill Mob and The Titfield Thunderbolt. Nonetheless, as this pioneering study of Crichton’s work reveals, his filmmaking skills extended way beyond comedy to wartime dramas and film noir, and his adaptability served him well when he made the transition into primetime television, working on popular shows such as The Avengers, Space: 1999 and The Adventures of Black Beauty. Featuring first-hand testimony from colleagues ranging from Dame Judi Dench and Petula Clark to John Cleese and Sir Michael Palin, this riveting account of Crichton’s fascinating life in film will appeal to film scholars and general readers alike.

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Manchester University Press

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152614994X

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9781526149947

Plant Invaders

The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

By: Quentin C.B. Cronk,Janice L. Fuller

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Plant Invaders

The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

By: Quentin C.B. Cronk,Janice L. Fuller

A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species. The authors seek to offer an accessible account of the subject and how to protect natural habitats. The majority of countries suffer from invasive plants and there are case studies from North America, Europe, Australia, South and South East Asia and the Pacific and Atlantic islands. There is also a list of invasive species, with their countries of origin and regions of introduction.

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Routledge

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1134203659

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9781134203659

The Carnegie Boys

The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

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The Carnegie Boys

The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America

By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles. By 1925, these Carnegie lieutenants controlled more than 60 percent of the country's industrial assets. Haunted by their past with Carnegie Steel, they demanded a new ethical relationship with labor and adopted a philanthropic philosophy of paternal capitalism, building libraries, churches, schools, and hospitals. Ultimately, their experiments in industrial democracy and "progressive industrialism" failed, but their efforts formed the root of future cooperative management and employee participation. This chronicle of the evolution and legacy of this influential association offers a new, more complex perspective on Carnegie and demonstrates how he and his lieutenants helped to shape America's view of capitalism.

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McFarland

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0786464550

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9780786464555

Henry Clay and the War of 1812

By: Quentin Scott King

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Henry Clay and the War of 1812

By: Quentin Scott King

Any biography of Henry Clay's 46 year political career quickly becomes entangled with his monumental, though youthful, political leadership of the War Hawks in urging the Madison Administration to arm the United States for war with Great Britain. He continued to advise in the war's progress and ended by being one of the five distinguished Americans to treat for peace with a difficult team of mediocre British envoys. There has been no detailed treatment of his major role in this early American war until this present work.

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1476613907

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9781476613901

Television's Strangest Moments

Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of TV

By: Quentin Falk,Ben Falk

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Television's Strangest Moments

Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of TV

By: Quentin Falk,Ben Falk

Ever since John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated this now all-pervasive medium in his small Soho laboratory, the history of television has been littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected. Ranging from bizarre stories of actors’ shenanigans to strange but true executive and marketing decisions, and covering over one hundred shows, series and episodes from both behind and in front of the camera in British and American television studios, 'Television's Strangest Moments' is the ultimate tome of TV trivia. Why did the quintessential English sleuth The Saint drive a Swedish car? What happened when Michael Aspel met Nora Batty on the set of the 1960s drama-documentary 'The War Game'? Why is the Halloween chiller 'Ghostwatch' still unofficially banned by the BBC? From live TV suicide to Ricky Martin's disastrous candid camera-style episode involving a young female fan and several cans of dog food, 'Television's Strangest Moments' will keep you hooked when there's nothing worth watching on the box.

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Portico

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1849941831

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9781849941839

Canadian Oxford World Atlas

By: Oxford University Press (Canada),Quentin H. Stanford

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Canadian Oxford World Atlas

By: Oxford University Press (Canada),Quentin H. Stanford

This new fifth edition of Canada's bestselling atlas is truly outstanding. Completely up-to-date, it features a new cleaner fou-colour design that improves readability, and results in greater accuracy and more vibrant maps. many of the standard maps that proved popular in earlier editions havebeen retained, and many exciting new maps have been added. New thematic maps include such topical subjects as cyberspace, travel and tourism, and world climatic hazards. In addition easy-to-read political maps have been added to introduce each continental section. With forty-seven pages of Canadianmaps and ninety pages of maps covering regions other than Canada, and over thirty-five pages of statistical charts and graphs, the Canadian Oxford World Atlas is a comprehensive, yet affordable, choice. Of course, any changes to country names and boundries have been incorporated, and statisticalmaterial now reflects the most up-to-date data available from the 2001 Canadian census.

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Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

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0195418980

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9780195418989

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Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

Never Say Goodbye

Covid, Cancer, and Calling

Covid, Cancer, and Calling

Patronising Bastards

Patronising Bastards

States and the Masters of Capital

States and the Masters of Capital

From Humanism to Hobbes

From Humanism to Hobbes

Letts Rip!

Letts Rip!

American Baseball

American Baseball

Dear Quentin

Dear Quentin

Charles Crichton

Charles Crichton

Plant Invaders

Plant Invaders

The Carnegie Boys

The Carnegie Boys

Henry Clay and the War of 1812

Henry Clay and the War of 1812

Television's Strangest Moments

Television's Strangest Moments

Canadian Oxford World Atlas

Canadian Oxford World Atlas

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