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A Load of Old Balls

Author : James Harkin

Publisher : Faber & Faber

Page : 267 pages

File Size : 32,25 MB

Release : 2024-07-02

Category : Humor

ISBN : 0571393993

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ' Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES 'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATOR Did you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls? A Load of Old Balls is the curious story of us and sport. It's about our mind-blowingly determined attempts to be the fastest, the strongest, the most skilful. In this endlessly entertaining tale of play and belonging, astonishing violence and jaw-dropping cheating, we learn what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed and discover why Michael Palin was disqualified from a conker tournament. Crossing millennia, continents and cultures, Harkin and Ptaszynski - the brainy researchers for BBC's QI and co-hosts of No Such Thing As A Fish -show us sport as we've never seen it before. ** Published in hardback as Everything to Play For. ** For more from the team behind QI's hit TV show, check out the QI FACTS series of books, @qikipedia, their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com or visit qi.com.



No Life for a Lady

Author : Hannah Dolby

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 31,42 MB

Release : 2023-03-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1804544345

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'Glorious... it's funny from the start.' – The Daily Mail 'Delightfully quirky, joyful and original... it will help you bounce exuberantly into spring' – Adele Parks 'If you loved Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, you'll love to snuggle up with this novel!' – Chat The most joyful book you will read this year! Violet Hamilton is a woman who knows her own mind. Which, in Victorian Hastings, can make things a little complicated... At 28, Violet's father is beginning to worry she will never find a husband. But every suitor he presents, Violet finds a new and inventive means of rebuffing. Because Violet does not want to marry. She wants to work, and make her own way in the world. But more than anything, she wants to find her mother Lily, who disappeared from Hastings Pier 10 years earlier. Finding the missing is no job for a lady, but when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off a chain of events that will put more than just her reputation at risk. Can Violet solve the mystery of Lily Hamilton's vanishing before it's too late? A delightfully joyful, funny and gripping historical novel, perfect for fans of The Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting and The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.



Bullshit!

Author : Michael Getz

Publisher : Summersdale

Page : 105 pages

File Size : 12,79 MB

Release : 2014-11-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1783722665

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This book brings together some of the most weird and wonderful true (and not-so-true) tales. Together with an amazing selection of unbelievable facts, Bullshit will inform you about the real colour of hippo’s milk (pink), the human–banana DNA split (50:50), and why a dismembered member caused a road closure in the UK.



Performing Women

Author : Alison Oddey

Publisher : Springer

Page : 365 pages

File Size : 26,6 MB

Release : 2016-04-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1349729930

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Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively. Stand-ups, 'classic' actresses, film and television personalities, experimental and 'alternative' practitioners discuss why they want to perform, what motivates them, and how their personal history has contributed to their desire to perform. Oddey's critical introductory and concluding chapters analyze both historical and cultural contexts and explore themes arising from the interviews. These include sense of identity, acting as playing (recapturing and revisiting childhood), displacement of roots, performing, motherhood and 'being', performing comedy, differences between theatre, film and television performance, attitudes towards and relationships with audiences, and working with directors. The prominent subtext of motherhood reveals a consciousness of split subjectives with and beyond performance. This new edition of the book includes three new interviews with actresses, and is useful primary resource material for undergraduate students on performance studies courses.



The Encyclopedia Americana

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Page : 836 pages

File Size : 22,95 MB

Release : 1922

Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries

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The Americana

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Page : 834 pages

File Size : 28,90 MB

Release : 1923

Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries

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Candide (Third Edition)

Author : Voltaire

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 39,18 MB

Release : 2016-04-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0393523063

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Candide has been delighting readers since 1759 with its satiric wit, provocations, and warnings. The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams’s superlative translation, accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · A full introduction by Nicholas Cronk. · Six background studies of Enlightenment ideas and themes (by Richard Holmes, Adam Gopnik, W. H. Barber, Dennis Fletcher, Haydn Mason, and Nicholas Cronk), five of these new to the Third Edition. · Seven critical essays—five of them new to this edition—representing a wide range of approaches to Candide. Contributors include J. G. Weightman, Robin Howells, James J. Lynch, Philip Stewart, Erich Auerbach, and Jean Starobinski. · A revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.



Out of Step

Author : Maggie Makepeace

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 13,20 MB

Release : 2011-12-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1448207304

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Nell is content with her life until she falls in love. From the moment she sees Bottom Cottage, deep in a west country valley, she knows she has to have it. But things become more complicated when she meets its owner, Rob, and falls for him as well. All her dreams seem to have come true, but there are disturbing undercurrents beneath the surface. Rob has two young children and an almost-ex wife, and as Nell struggles with her new role as stepmother she finds herself trapped by conflicting interests and undermined by uncertainty. Does Rob really want her, or are all his feelings for his children and the cottage? Did she fall in love with Rob because of his house, or do they have a genuine future together?



Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Author : Management Association, Information Resources

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 2005 pages

File Size : 43,81 MB

Release : 2012-04-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1466608803

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"This reference presents a vital compendium of research detailing the latest case studies, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and research on Grid and Cloud Computing"--



Because I Tell a Joke or Two

Author : Stephen Wagg

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 25,69 MB

Release : 2004-01-14

Category : Art

ISBN : 1134794320

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Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has been used to sustain, challenge and to change power relationships in society. The contributors, who include Stephen Wagg, Mark Simpson, Stephen Small, Paul Wells and Frances Williams, offer readings of comedy genres, texts and performers in Britain, the United States and Australia. The collection also includes an interview with the comedian Jo Brand. Topics addressed include: * women in British comedies such as Butterflies and Fawlty Towers * the life and times of Viz, from Billy the Fish to the Fat Slags * queer readings of Morecambe and Wise, the male double act * the Marx brothers and Jewish comedy in the United States * black radical comedy in Britain * The Golden Girls, Cheers, Friends and American society.