Can We Have Our Ball Back Please

Author : Alan Gibbons
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1444003682
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Act of Love written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood friends Chris and Imran celebrate the Millenium as inseparable blood brothers, they are both seven years old. But by 2011 their lives have taken very different paths. One has joined the Army and served in Afghanistan, the other is a potential jihad recruit. They are no longer friends, and there are bitter wounds between them which remain unhealed. Will their childhood bond be strong enough to overcome an extremist plot? In a highly-charged, honest and life affirming story, told in flashback from both Chris and Imran's viewpoint, Alan Gibbon's cleverly explores the very real issue of terrorism that affects everyone today.

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317411552
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football and Accelerated Culture written by Steve Redhead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Football and Accelerated Culture, Steve Redhead offers a new and challenging theorisation of global football culture, exploring the relationship between sport and culture in a rapidly shifting world. Incorporating cutting-edge concepts, from accelerated culture and claustropolitanism to non-postmodernity, he reflects on the demise of working class football cultures and the rapid media globalisation of ‘the people’s game’. Drawing on international empirical research and a unique and ground-breaking study of football hooligan memoirs, the book delves into a wide array of disciplines, examining fascinating topics such as the relationship between music and football; hooligans and ultras; the rise of social media and anti-modern football movements; and ultra-realist criminology. Football and Accelerated Culture offers a new way of thinking about sporting cultures that expands the boundaries of physical cultural studies. As such, it is important reading for anybody with an interest in the culture of sport and leisure, social theory, communication studies, criminology or socio-legal studies.

Author : Günter Gerngross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521131223
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playway to English Level 3 Teacher's Book written by Günter Gerngross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playway to English Second edition is a new version of the popular four-level course for teaching English to young children. Pupils acquire English through play, music and Total Physical Response, providing them with a fun and dynamic language learning experience. In the Teacher's Book: • Clear, comprehensive lesson plans with valuable suggestions for mixed-ability classes • Useful photocopiable resources to supplement lesson plans

Author : Neil Baverstock
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847532888
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back in the Game written by Neil Baverstock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chronicles of one lapsed football fan's return to life and the game in England after a decade of living in the land of soccer.

Author : Penny Freedman
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800466250
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of the Time written by Penny Freedman and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March 2020. Gina Gray returns to the Lake District to share COVID isolation with her oldest friend, Eve. They are joined by Gina’s teenage granddaughter, Freda, who is finding her own home too crowded for comfort.

Author : Graham Masterton
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780105991
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figures of Fear written by Graham Masterton and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you brave enough to discover what figures of fear haunt the imagination of the “master of modern horror” (Library Journal)? From the beginning of history, men and women have been haunted by figures of fear—and now, in his latest short story collection, award-winning horror writer Graham Masterton reveals the figures that haunt his own imagination and keep him awake at night. Figures of Fear presents eleven stories, introducing eleven new evils, guaranteed to unsettle and disturb. Meet the little girl whose mother is keeping something important from her, with fearful results . . . Tremble at the artist who can see the future and prevent it, at a price . . . Beware of the dark, and the evil that lurks within it . . . Tremble, and hide, at the sound of the jingle-bells . . . Do figures of fear really bring bad luck? Or are they nothing more than stories? Only you can figure out how fearful you are . . .

Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496219120
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies Built for Game written by Natalie Diaz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens’s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because they are allowed to be unified as one energy. Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich, Toni Jensen, Ada Limón, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning its games.

Author : Alan Johnson
Publisher : Wildfire
ISBN 13 : 1472286243
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Of Our Ministers Is Missing written by Alan Johnson and published by Wildfire. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Richard Osman, here's a bullet with your name on it' Times A government minister has vanished into thin air. The local police in the isolated island of Crete have no leads, save for a mobile phone discarded on a cliff edge. Assistant Commissioner Louise Mangan of the Met Police is sent to assist in the investigation but soon discovers that there is more to this case than the local police realise. Lady Bellingham is less than forthcoming, and the family nanny has a secret she will do anything to keep hidden. With a scandal brewing back in London, can Louise find the missing minister before his reputation is destroyed for good, or will she discover something much more sinister at play? More praise for Alan Johnson's novels: 'A punchy thriller' Irish Independent 'More layers than a filo pastry' The Sun 'A fast-paced who-done-what' SAGA Magazine 'Featuring espionage, the Russian Mafia and a gorgeous female on a train with a deadly secret, the tantalising plot has set Alan up for dominance of the bestseller charts for years to come' Fiona Phillips 'Is there no limit to his talents? . . . I absolutely loved Alan's new thriller, it's brilliant.' Hunter Davies 'Johnson's writing style is easy, relaxed, self-deprecating . . . impressive' Observer 'Johnson writes wonderfully' Telegraph 'This boy can write . . .' The Spectator

Author : Bill Oddie
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1844568717
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg written by Bill Oddie and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose first records were produced by George Martin, and who had two singles banned by the BBC? Who earned rare reviews on Broadway for his dancing? Who rode on the back seat of the Goodies’ trandem? Who has been called ‘Britain’s best-known birdwatcher’? Who had his first clinical depression in his 60th year, and has only just discovered why? Who has written an autobiography that is as witty, candid and unconventional as the man himself? Answer to all of the above – Bill Oddie Bill Oddie is best known for the wacky humour of the Goodies, and the irrepressible enthusiasm of his nature programmes, off screen there has been a darker side. Bill has suffered from bouts of depression which have more than once taken him to the brink. Now he is back in control and wiser about the causes and the cure. Here he describes the childhood blighted by the absence of his mother who had been committed to a mental asylum when he was small. It was a lonely and difficult start to life, but there were to be happier times. Touring with the Cambridge Footlights in the l960s saw him alongside the greatest comic talents of his generation – John Cleese and of course fellow Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. Soon the Goodies were to become on of the biggest comedy hits of the 70s – bringing a new brand of surreal humour to our screens. Now as Britain’s favourite birdwatcher Bill has turned his private passion into his most public role and presented more than 20 nature programmes for the BBC. He has also become a fervent and outspoken campaigner for the environment. It has been an extraordinary and far from straightforward journey. Bill Oddie takes us along with him in a memoir which is as witty, candid, curious and unconventional as the man himself.

Author : Richard Herring
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0751585750
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can I Have My Ball Back? written by Richard Herring and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some If we're brave, we're said to have huge ones If it's cold, they are liable to fall off - even if you're a brass monkey If we're in trouble, someone will threaten to break them If we have to work hard, we might very well bust them If we're in somebody's thrall, then they've got us by them About fifteen years ago, Richard Herring first took part in a campaign to encourage men to have a little (non-sexual) feel of their balls every now and again. But it was embarrassing and weird, and if there was something wrong, he didn't want to know about it. Anyway, that kind of stuff only happens to other people, doesn't it? At the start of 2021 Richard Herring was diagnosed with testicular cancer. For a man whose output includes a stand-up tour titled Talking Cock and who regularly interrogates our attitudes towards masculinity, it was a diagnosis that came with additional layers of complexity. Telling Rich's personal story alongside an exploration of what defines masculinity and 'maleness' in society, Can I Have My Ball Back? is not your typical cancer memoir. Whether they're nuts, bollocks, gonads or family jewels; from the phrase 'grow some balls' to infamous WWII songs about Hitler; Rich unpicks the tangle of emotions around his own testing times.