McNiven

McNiven

Author: PETER SHIP

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-08-28

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1499018800

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Set in the near future, 2037, McNiven provides the personal security for the reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom, a position his family have fulfilled for 500 years. Following a devastating terrorist attack on London that leaves almost 400,000 people dead, Queen Penelope secretly unleashes McNiven to track down the terrorists and destroy their plans for additional attacks. The Queen becomes a target for the terrorists and is betrayed by members of her family and staff. There is nonstop action stretching from Hastings in the south to the highlands of Scotland and across the channel into Europe. Unexpected twists and events are bound together by the twin threads of romance and loyalty as McNiven hunts those responsible for the destruction and deaths that were a smokescreen for an even more sinister plot to make London the capital of Western Europe. McNiven races against time to unmask the terrorists and save the lives of the Queen and the G8 leaders and avert a war.


Hope McNiven Family, 1736-2007

Hope McNiven Family, 1736-2007

Author: Winifred B. Schumann

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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Hope McNiven was born 19 March 1803 in Glasgow, Scotland. He married Agnes Woodrow (d. 1849) in 1832. They had five children. They immigrated to Canada in 1837. He married Catherine Fraser in 1854 in St. Catherines, Ontario. They had two children. He died in 1888. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Scotland, Ontario and Tennessee.


Coastal Themes

Coastal Themes

Author: Sean Ulm

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1920942963

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Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia.


The American Soccer League

The American Soccer League

Author: Colin Jose

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1998-06-25

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1461716128

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It was the " American Menace" according to the Scottish and English newspapers of the 1920s. The best players in the Scottish leagues were being drawn to American companies that offered good jobs in return for playing on the company soccer team. The resulting squads, many of them ethnic, beat the best teams in the world at that time. This period from 1921 to 1931 were the "Golden Years of American Soccer." With the skyrocketing economic prosperity of the United States and its corollary flood of new immigrants to America's shores, came interest in soccer as a new form of sports entertainment. It grew rapidly around Northeastern industrial towns like Fall River, Massachusetts, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As with the popular North American Soccer League of the 1970s and 80s and its imported stars like Pele, the American Soccer League of the 1920s bid for the best soccer players in the world, creating a competitive, fertile environment for the growth of soccer. Unfortunately, few detailed records remain about these great teams and players. League records were lost after W.W. II and newspaper coverage was concentrated in smaller cities. Many of the League's heretofore unknown players possess no first name in print, and the unfortunate losers of matches and league championship games often went unreported altogether. During the later, tougher years of the Depression, many of the foreign players hunkered down in jobs or returned to their native countries. The disbanded American Soccer League was revived under the same name but very different circumstances in 1933, but never reached the same level of skill as during the 1920s. American Soccer League 1921-1931 is the result of Colin Jose's tireless determination to provide accurate history of soccer's evolution in the United States. Soccer was one of the most popular sports in the United States during the 1920s, often drawing huge crowds in relatively small towns to see the world's best players compete. Documented through thousands of newspaper clipp


Concise Guide to Value Investing

Concise Guide to Value Investing

Author: Brian McNiven

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1118320344

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The business performance creates the value -- the price creates the OPPORTUNITY. No-one likes to pay too much for something. We all like to thing that what we buy is ' good value'. It's not different when we purchase a share in company listed on the stock market. In the Concise Guide to Value Investing, Brian McNiven reveals how to calculate the true value of a company to find out whether you are paying a fair price. This fascinating book explores: value investing versus speculation the difference between price and value variable values of a dollar of earnings accounting misrepresentation the characteristics of a wonderful business the StockVal® valuation formula. Two of the world's most successful investors, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, are self-confessed value investors. McNiven often draws on their wisdom to support his approach to value investing,which he defines as buying a share at a price lower than its calculated value. Only investors who have the ability to calculate value can call themselves 'value investors'.


A Yankee Spy in Richmond

A Yankee Spy in Richmond

Author: David D. Ryan

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0811766365

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She walked the streets of Richmond dressed in farm woman’s clothing, singing and mumbling to herself. Soon her suspicious and condescending neighbors began referring to her as “Crazy Bet.” But she wasn’t mad; she had purpose in her doings. She wanted people to think she was insane so that they would be less likely to ask her questions and possibly discover her goal: to defeat the South and to end slavery. Elizabeth Van Lew, of Crazy Bet, was General Ulysses S. Grant’s spy in the capital city of the Confederacy.


Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture

Nicholas Love's Mirror and Late Medieval Devotio-Literary Culture

Author: David J. Falls

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1317087550

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Surviving in 59 complete manuscript versions, few English texts of the late medieval period seem to have achieved the popularity of Nicholas Love's fifteenth-century translation and adaptation of the Latin Meditationes Vitae Christi - The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. The Mirror has received surprisingly little scholarly attention and is often contextualized in terms of its role in the theological conflict between English ecclesiastical orthodoxy and the teachings of heresiarch John Wycliff. David Falls presents a new account of the text's history which de-centralises, but does not disregard, the influence of the Wycliffite controversy. Falls interrogates preconceptions and investigates new possibilities for understanding the composition, circulation, function and use of Love's Mirror by examining both the textual modifications and additions made by Love in his adaptation of the Latin, and places these alterations in context by examining individual copies of the Mirror. The manuscript copies are read as both sites of literary consumption and nexuses of textual transition, demonstrating that it was Love's ability to inscribe his work with "functional diversity" which explains the Mirror's popularity. This book presents a nuanced picture not only of the Mirror's production, circulation and function, but also the dynamic and flourishing devotio-literary culture of late medieval England in which Love's text operated.