Villiers

Author : A B de Villiers
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509851151
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AB de Villiers - The Autobiography written by A B de Villiers and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AB has become the most valuable cricketer on the planet' Adam Gilchrist AB de Villiers is one of the finest batsmen ever to play cricket, and yet his achievement extends beyond his outrageous armoury of drives, pulls, paddles, scoops and flicks. Whether he is delighting home crowds at the Wanderers or Newlands or setting new records in Bengaluru or Sydney, he plays the game in a whole-hearted manner that projects a positive image of his country around the world, and also makes millions of South Africans feel good about themselves. This is AB's story, in his own words. The story of the youngest of three talented, sports-mad brothers growing up in Warmbaths, of a boy who excelled at tennis, rugby and cricket, of a youngster who made his international debut at the age of twenty and was then selected in every single test played by South Africa for the next eleven seasons, of a batsman who has started to redefine the art, being ranked among the world's very best in test, ODI and T20. Through all the pyrotechnics and consistency, AB has remained a true sportsman - quick to deflect praise, swift to praise opponents, eager to work hard, to embrace the team's next challenge and to relish what he still regards as the huge privilege of representing his country. This is the story of a modern sporting phenomenon.

Author : Jill G. De Villiers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674509313
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Acquisition written by Jill G. De Villiers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind. The result is a windfall of new information about language, about learning, and about children themselves. In Language Acquisition Jill and Peter de Villiers provide a lively introduction to this fast-growing field. Their book deals centrally with the way the child acquires the sounds, meanings, and syntax of his language, and the way he learns to use his language to communicate with others. In discussing these issues, the de Villiers provide a clear and insightful treatment of the classic questions about language acquisition: Does the child show a genetic predisposition for speech, or grammar, or semantics which makes him uniquely able to learn human language? What kinds of learning are involved in acquiring language and what kinds of experience with a language are necessary to support such learning? Is there a critical period during the child's development which is optimal for language acquisition? And what kind of psychological disabilities underlie the failure to acquire language?

Author : Roger Swift
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351974688
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Pelham Villiers: Aristocratic Victorian Radical written by Roger Swift and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The making of a Radical -- 2 The Member for Wolverhampton -- 3 The young Parliamentarian -- 4 The campaign against the Corn Laws -- 5 Interlude -- 6 The Cabinet Minister -- 7 The view from the backbenches -- 8 Gladstone and the Home Rule crisis -- 9 The Father of the House -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Kate Lance
Publisher : Seabooks Press
ISBN 13 : 0987211331
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds written by Kate Lance and published by Seabooks Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Australian journalist Alan Villiers sailed on the last of the giant merchant windjammers in the 1920s and '30s, his writings and photographs made him famous. Villiers crewed on beautiful Herzogin Cecilie and tragic Grace Harwar, took tiny Joseph Conrad around the globe, sailed on Arabian dhows, led wartime landing craft, captained Mayflower II across the Atlantic, and inspired modern sail training and ship restoration projects. Drawn from his personal diaries, this award-winning biography of the author-adventurer reveals both his mythmaking and his achievements. It is a tribute to the greatest sailing ships ever launched – and to the extraordinary man who loved them. The book won the Mountbatten Maritime Award in 2009, and this Second Edition is fully revised. It contains over 100 photos, many of them new.

Author : Brian Garfield
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145323781X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Villiers Touch written by Brian Garfield and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unscrupulous businessman targets a family chemical company Though his business cards read “Mason Villiers,” that is not his name. His respectable lower-middle-class upbringing—with its innocent stories of hot rods and prom queens—is a lie. Though an expert on finance, he has no formal education. The man who calls himself Mason Villiers was raised on the streets of Chicago’s rough South Side, and once he clawed himself out of the gutter he decided no one should know where he came from. His past doesn’t matter. Villiers is headed for the top, no matter how many throats he must cut along the way. Having made a name for himself in swashbuckling business dealings, Villiers plans a hostile takeover of a family-owned chemical company. Although Melbard Chemical’s stock hovers at rock bottom, Villiers makes an astronomical offer. Melbard Chemical has a valuable secret, and there is no one more ready to exploit it than Villiers.

Author : A.T. Thomson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732629813
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham written by A.T. Thomson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Author : Mrs. A. T. Thomson
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736419384
Total Pages : 860 pages
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Download or read book Life and Times of George Villiers, The Duke of Buckingham written by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and published by anboco. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No complete life of this favourite of James I. and Charles I. has hitherto appeared, except the biographical sketch by Sir Henry Wotton. That interesting account deserves all credit, from the character of its author; yet coming from one who owed Buckingham great obligations, it is more of a eulogy than a memoir; and is evidently written with a view to silence those slanderous attacks which not only pursued the Duke during his life, but continued after his death. The "Disparity between the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham," by Clarendon, printed, as well as Sir Henry Wotton's Memoir in the "Reliquiæ Wottonianæ," bears, likewise, the impress of enthusiastic admiration. It is the tribute of a partisan rather than the memorial of an historian. viThe opinions expressed, nevertheless, in both these works, have been confirmed, in many points, by the letters in the State Paper Office, to which historical writers have not only now free access, but which have lately been arranged, whilst valuable Calendars have been published, so as to facilitate investigations which were formerly most laborious. In all that relates personally to George Villiers, the State Papers are especially important. The great Rebellion, amongst mightier devastations, swept away most of that domestic correspondence which might otherwise have been found in the three noble families who are collaterally descended from Buckingham; those of the Earls of Jersey and Clarendon, and of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, none of whom possess any letters of their unfortunate ancestor. Nor is this fact to be wondered at, when we consider not only the stormy period that succeeded Buckingham's death, but the extreme youth of his children at the time of his assassination, the second marriage of his widow, and the long years of exile which his heir, George, the second Duke of Buckingham of the house of Villiers, passed in wandering and indigence.

Author : Katherine Thomson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465614729
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Times of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: From Original and Authentic Sources (Complete) written by Katherine Thomson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historians who attribute the calamities of the Great Rebellion to the misrule of James the First, under the pernicious influence of his favourites, draw a lively parallel between the condition of England at the accession of that monarch and the state of peril and embarrassment with which his great predecessor had to contend. Elizabeth, whose inauguration, long celebrated, after her death, as a day of jubilee, was regarded as the commencement of national prosperity, came to the throne under very adverse circumstances. The functions of Government were clogged with debt. The miserable state of the navy required a constant vigilance to repel the chance of invasion, and to drive away pirates by whom the narrow seas were infested. The revenues of the Crown were insufficient to maintain its power and dignity; the country, moreover, was embroiled in religious dissensions; whilst the authority of the Queen was lessened by a disputed succession, and her mind harassed and embittered by the pretensions of the Dauphin of France to the Crown of England, in right of his wife, Mary Stuart. James, on the contrary, began his reign with every exterior advantage. His claim to the sovereignty was undoubted; and various causes had concurred to give great influence to the Crown. The subservient tributes of respect paid to its dignity were such as even to astonish the envoys of despotic France. Elizabeth had been served and addressed by her subjects on the knee; James, at all events for a time, continued that abject custom, which was a type of the prevailing national sentiment towards royalty. Commerce, in spite of monopolies, and of the injudicious interference of the Legislature with wages, was advancing; leases granted of large tracts of land had increased the opulence of the country; the improved prospects of the landholders acted on the prosperity of the manufacturing classes: whilst the general welfare was increased by emigration; the religious persecutions on the Continent, driving from foreign towns ingenious workmen, sent them into England, where they introduced arts hitherto unknown in this country. The Constitution, too, had been maintained; and, with the exception of the court of the Star Chamber, over which James presided in person, the principles of liberty had not been materially invaded. There was no standing army; the tenets of Protestantism were established; and the Presbyterian education of the King afforded a hope that certain traces of the faith which had been renounced would die away, and that ceremonials which were objectionable to many would be speedily discontinued. Thus, the first of the Stuart Kings enjoyed blessings not possessed by any of his predecessors; and, ascending the throne, opened a new era in the history of the country.

Author : Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
Publisher : London : W. Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Villiers de L'Isle Adam: His Life and Works written by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey and published by London : W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1894 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book The Romance of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and Some Man and Women of the Stuart Court written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: