Trevor QueenzFlip Robinson is a Rapper who got in the Game young, and experienced more in a few short years than most do in a lifetime. This book offers his no-holds-barred opinions on what makes a relationship work, why they don't work, and how you can fix them. It's also a guide to pinpoint specific issues that people from all walks of life have to cope with every day in our hectic and often crazy world. Trevor offers down to earth, no-nonsense advice showing you how to overcome all of the stress that comes your way when life starts taking its toll on you. Hey, here's the good news: there are solutions. There are answers. Now you just have to read the book....
An intimate and evocative account of an era when farmers worked closely with nature and the rhythm of the seasons. In Working with the Curlew, Trevor Robinson tells the story of his life as a shepherd on the moor at Great Whernside in Yorkshire and later as a farmhand near Leominster in Hereford. Trevor celebrates the intricate details of traditional farm life, from the village hop, cheese and bread making and trout-tickling, to muck spreading, lambing and sheep shearing. During one severe Yorkshire winter six hundred sheep were lost, and he had to leave the job he loved; 'the call of the curlew was still over two months away, when it came I was not there to hear it'. His new job in Herefordshire brought different skills: hedge laying, ploughing matches, haymaking, chain harrowing and crop rotation, and inevitably, the arrival of tractor and combine harvester. Before factory farming, smallholdings sustained entire families and there were enough small farms for a shepherd to climb the ladder to ownership. Working with the Curlew beautifully honours those peaceful yet lively times.
Trevor Robinson has worked as a shephered on the moor at Great Whernside in Yorkshire, and as a farmhand on a very different kind of farm near Leominster in Hereford. His book celebrates the details of traditional farm life: sheep shearing, lambing, the village hop, cheese and bread making, and trout tickling. This is an intimate and evocative account of an era before factory farming, when farmers worked closely with nature and the rhythm of the seasons, a smallholding could sustain a family, and there were enough small farms for a farmhand to climb the ladder to ownership.
The alkaloids were of great importance to mankind for centuries, long before they were recognized as a chemical class. The influence they have had on literature is hinted at by some of the quotations I have used as chapter headings. Their in fluence on folklore and on medicine has been even greater. The scientific study of alkaloids may be said to have begun with the isolation of morphine by SERTURNER in 1804. Since that time they have remained of great interest to chemists, and now in any month there appear dozens of publications dealing with the isolation of new alkaloids or the determination of the structures of previously known ones. The area of alkaloid biochemistry, in comparison, has received little attention, and today is much less developed. There is a certain amount of personal arbitrariness in defining "biochemistry", as there is in defining "alkaloid", and this arbitrariness is doubtless compounded by the combination. Nevertheless, it seems to me that in any consideration of the bio chemistry of a group of compounds three aspects are always worthy of attention pathways of biosynthesis, function or activity, and pathways of degradation. For the alkaloids, treatment of these three aspects is necessarily lopsided. Much has been learned about routes of biosynthesis, but information on the other aspects is very scanty. It would be possible to enter into some speculation regarding the biosyn thesis of all the more than 1,000 known alkaloids.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Trouble in the workplace - whether it is bullying, harassment or stress - is always in the headlines. Yet, in many discussions, the research and statistics that are cited prove unreliable. This book summarizes the largest specialist research programme on ill-treatment in the workplace so far undertaken. It provides a powerful antidote to half-truths and misinformation and offers a new way of conceptualizing trouble at work, moving the discussion away from individualized explanations - and talk of 'bullies' and 'victims' - towards the workplace characteristics that cause trouble at work. The biggest problems arise where organisations fail to create a workplace culture in which individuals really matter. Paradoxically, these are often the organizations which are well-versed in modern management practices.
Owen Arthur remains one of the makers of the modern Caribbean and builders of the new Barbados.... The speeches and official statements are therefore rich and thought provoking. They provide relevance to today's discourse on subjects which are still under active discussion such as the ongoing Caribbean regional experiment, the role of small states in the global arena as well as the viability of their financial service sectors, and the scope and content of the yearly budgetary exercise.
Four years ago, after the author self published is book "In Salting The Gravy" he offered to work on a book with 93 year-old long-time radio listener Trevor Watson and celebrate both the golden era of early NZ radio and Radio Pacific. To record the era in print has been a dream for two people separated by two generations. Talkback Toast is written from two perspectives, that of a young woman producing husband Barry Crump's popular Bush Telegraph show, and Trevor, a caller who has stuck with radio, and like many of his generation, has witnessed the beginning of a brand new media. The 240 page book covers several themes. The first six chapters deal with the pioneer era and contain familiar names like Aunt Daisy, Uncle Scrim and Selwyn Toogood, and is peppered throughout with black and white photos. The historical portion ends with Gordon Dryden, founder of Radio Pacific. The bulk of the book is written through my viewpoint. It includes working in talkback in the early 1980's, and also covers the authpr's life with Barry Crump, much of it in bush settings, prior to and following their short stint in radio. The final portion contains submissions from the public and radio staff, beginning with a story written by Merv Smith who still hosts a radio show on Sunday morning through Radio BSport.
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