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  Aces High Volume 2 - A Further...

  Christopher Shores

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  Second in the Aces High series—an updated military reference of the fighter pilots who had five or more confirmed victories while serving in the RAF. This volume updates the information in the first volume and adds some new names. Information has been added on the pilots who gained success against the V-1 flying bombs during 1944-45. Detail is also provided on those units in which virtually all the fighter pilots served at some time or another—the fighter Operational Training Units—and of specialist units such as the Central Gunnery School, Fighter Leader’s School and Fighter Experimental Units. There is also coverage of the only other conflicts in which British pilots have been able to claim victories since 1945—Korea and the Falklands Conflict. “There are some authors whose name alone is sufficient reason to but a book, and Christopher Shores is surely one of these . . . By profession a chartered surveyor, he served in the Royal Air Force in the 1950s so his writing bears the stamp of authenticity.” —HistoryNet

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  Biscuit Days - A Business...

  Chew Soo Beng

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  Thirty years ago, a fully operational biscuit factory was available in China as a joint venture at a fraction of the cost of building a new one. My two brothers and a sister thought the prospect exciting and, above all, a bargain. Within a few months we were China-bound. A band of siblings embarking on an enterprise with only the skimpiest of business plan, but full of determination and enthusiasm. Together, we faced the travails of biscuit making and the guile of business ways.

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  Life and Times of Frederick...

  Frederick Douglass

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  "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" is the third and last autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In this finial memoir Douglas gives more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery than he did in his two previous autobiographies. 
  Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
  Contents: 
  Author's Birth
  Removal From Grandmother's
  Troubles of Childhood
  A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
  A Slaveholder's Character
  A Child's Reasoning
  Luxuries at the Great House
  Characteristics of Overseers
  Change of Location
  Learning to Read
  Growing in Knowledge
  Religious Nature Awakened
  The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
  Experience in St. Michaels
  Covey, the Negro Breaker
  Another Pressure of the Tyrant's Vise
  The Last Flogging
  New Relations and Duties
  The Runaway Plot
  Escape From Slavery
  Life as a Freeman
  Introduced to the Abolitionists
  Recollections of Old Friends
  One Hundred Conventions
  Impressions Abroad
  Triumphs and Trials
  John Brown and Mrs. Stowe
  Increasing Demands of the Slave Power
  The Beginning of the End
  Secession and War
  Hope for the Nation
  Vast Changes
  Living and Learning
  Weighed in the Balance
  "Time Makes All Things Even"
  Incidents and Events
  "Honor to Whom Honor"
  Retrospection
  Later Life
  A Grand Occasion
  Doubts as to Garfield's Course
  Recorder of Deeds
  President Cleveland's Administration
  The Supreme Court Decision
  Defeat of James G. Blaine
  European Tour
  Continuation of European Tour
  The Campaign of 1888
  Administration of President Harrison
  Minister to Haïti
  Continued Negotiations for the Môle St. Nicolas

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  Last Man Standing - Hurling...

  Christy O'Connor

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  'Goalkeepers walk a tightrope between triumph and disaster...'
  The hurling goalkeeper must surely occupy the most precarious position on the pitch -- glorified as a saviour if their team succeeds and damned if they fail. For this book Christy O'Connor has had unique and continuous access to twelve goalkeepers over one season and tracked their experiences through the highs and lows, the celebrations and rejections, the saves and the misses, resulting in an inside story never told before. The players talk frankly about the pressures, the passion, the trauma, the disappointments and glories, the utter despair at being dropped from the team and the long road back to re-selection. The brotherhood of goalies forms a kind of inner club within the hurling community -- here we are taken into its heart and spirit as never before.
  Includes: Donal Óg Cusack (Cork); James McGarry (Kilkenny); Liam O'Donoghue (Galway); Brendan Cummins (Tipperary); Stevie Brenner (Waterford); Brian Mullins (Offaly); Timmy Houlihan (Limerick); Brendan McLoughlin (Dublin); Davy Fitzgerald (Clare); Graham Clarke (Down); DD Quinn (Antrim); Damien Fitzhenry (Wexford), as well as a wealth of stories and anecdotes about famous past teams and players.

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  Anger Is an Energy - My Life...

  John Lydon

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  John Lydon is an icon-one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with songs such as "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen." So incendiary was their impact at the time that in their native England, the Houses of Parliament questioned whether they violated the Traitors and Treasons Act, a crime that carries the death penalty to this day. The Pistols would inspire the formation of numerous other groundbreaking groups, and Lydon would become the unlikely champion of a generation clamoring for change.Following on the heels of the Pistols, Lydon formed Public Image Ltd (PiL), expressing an equally urgent impulse in his character: the constant need to reinvent himself. From their beginnings in 1978, PiL set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive to this day, while also recording one of the eighties most powerful anthems, "Rise."John Lydon remains a captivating and dynamic figure to this day-both as a musician, and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, and from-the-hip opinions, as a cultural commentator. In Anger Is an Energy, he looks back on a life full of incident, from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents growing up in postwar London to his present status as a vibrant, alternative hero.

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  Red Top - Being a Reporter -...

  Bill Coles

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  ‘Bill Coles brings newspapers to life and injects an infectious energy, warmth and passion. We are in the business of entertaining and Bill is the master of ceremonies.’ Donald Martin, Editor-in-Chief at DC Thomson Newspapers 
  
  
  ‘Red Top is tremendously entertaining, insightful and a must-read for all aspiring reporters; it is also an excellent guide for practising journalists.’ Ingo Capraro 
  
  
   Red Top has everything an aspiring reporter needs to know about newspaper journalism. Written in easily digestible bite-size chapters, the book is packed with extraordinary stories that explain what it’s really like to be a front-line reporter. 
  
  
   Included is a full breakdown on the two key skills of how to interview and how to dig up exclusives. Plus tips on dealing with the mad-masters, the editors; writing a news story; and what the hell to do when a libel writ comes thudding onto your desk.
   
  
  
  Bill Coles has been a journalist for 25 years and was The Sun’s New York Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Royal Reporter. He has written for a huge variety of papers from The Wall Street Journal to the Mail, the Scotsman and Prima Baby Magazine. 
  
  
  
  He has also covered some of the world’s biggest news stories – as well as some of the most bizarre  – 
  
  -	Bill Clinton’s year-long sex scandal with his intern Monica Lewinsky. 
  -	The Boston murder trial of the British nanny Louise Woodward (with five Sun front pages in a row). 
  -	Buying $10,000 of lottery tickets in Miami
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   A blind-date with Ivana Trump – in a stretch limo. 
  -	Becoming one of Company magazine’s Bachelors of the Year.
  -	Flying from New York to the Inca trail in Peru – to eat a giant guinea-pig.
   -	Posing naked for a Sun centrefold - with nothing but a copy of The Sun to hide his modesty.

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