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Author: Tony Wilson
Publisher: Slattery Media Group
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780958528689
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Absolutely Bleeding Green
Author: David Headon
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1760872636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is no team that gives pleasure to the sporting public like the Canberra Raiders.' - Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia The Canberra Raiders' spectacular grand final win against the Balmain Tigers in 1989 is widely regarded as Australian Rugby League's greatest ever decider. For a fledgling club this was an extraordinary and unexpected achievement, heralding a sequence of years that produced two more premierships and two near misses. The Raiders' trademark adventurous style of play was welcomed by all lovers of the game. Attacking football was back in vogue. David Headon tells the story of a unique football team that entered the Sydney competition in 1982 with little fanfare and plenty of pessimism, despite the fact that league had been an integral part of communities across the Limestone Plains for nearly a century. From this firm base, the Raiders emerged to make their mark. Absolutely Bleeding Green recounts the big wins and heart-wrenching losses as it follows the players through their Raider careers, revealing how the club was able to build exceptional team spirit, even in difficult times. It includes interviews with players past and present, with coaches and administrators, as well as with families and supporters who are so proud of the distinctive lime green jersey. 'This terrific book tells the story of a unique club that changed my life forever, just as the Raiders changed Rugby League forever.' - Mal Meninga, Rugby League Immortal, Canberra Raiders Hall of Fame 'Dave Headon's history of the Canberra Raiders explores the club's origins, why it was able to defy the odds and be so successful, so quickly, and how it fought its way through more troubled times. In the process of the highs and lows, a special culture of camaraderie was created. The Raiders family has a big story, and for me it's personal. I'm honoured to be a part of it.' - Ricky Stuart, Rugby League Legend, Canberra Raiders Hall of Fame
On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Indian Novel
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1628721596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
Geek Love
Author: Katherine Dunn
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-05-25
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0307794482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 1266
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0307576183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
Modern Sports around the World
Author: David Asa Schwartz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-06-14
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Sports around the World focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of 50 sports played from India to Ireland. Sports have become an international spectacle that influences nations' foreign policy, world economies, and regional morale. Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake as governments and multinational corporations rush to make sure they have a place at the table. And yet, sports come from humble beginnings. We are fascinated by who can run the fastest, lift the most weight, jump the highest, swim the farthest, and act with the most precision. The history of sports is the history of the world. Modern Sports around the World examines 50 of the world's most popular sports. Each chapter features one sport and details that sport's origins, global migration, economic forces, media influences, political environment, pop-culture inspirations, scandalous moments, and key individuals. Sports history is a tapestry of sociological variables; Modern Sports around the World weaves them together to create a unique history book that explains not only where humanity has been, but where it might be going.
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1989-10-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780802804266
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The Winter Game
Author: Rob Pascoe
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew edition of a guide to Australian football, first published in 1995. Presents a history of the game, discussing the Anzac heritage and football during the Depression as well as outlining rules, strategies and positions. Includes references, a bibliography and an index. The author is foundation dean of arts at VUT. He has written widely on local history, sport and popular culture.
