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An exploration of the boxing world, focusing on Brendan Ingle's famous Sheffield gym which has produced such fighters as Bomber Graham and Prince Naseem Hamed. Based on the author's own experiences in the gym, the book provides an account of the hopes, experiences and lifestyles of the boxers.
The modern coastal city of Muscat provides a gateway to scuba diving, dhow cruising and turtle watching, whilst the ancient inner regions provide ideal terrain to take a 4WD through wadis or desert. Some of the most luxurious hotels in the Middle East are in Oman, so this guide is suitable for up-market travellers and backpackers alike.
On a June morning in 1918, Ginny’s mother age 13 gave birth to twin girls. Just after Ginny’s birth, her twin sister was stillborn. Ginny’s undeserved future began that day because she was rejected by her mother. Ginny’s determination and will to live, helped her to overcome the 18 years of torture she endured. After Ginny’s marriage to Geoff Bryan, she hoped she would have the perfect life she had always dreamed. Behind Ginny’s smiles were constant thoughts of her rejection throughout her life. Parents can make unreasonable choices for their children that will alter their life’s destiny.
Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory, social history, criminology and sociology. In particular, his work has had a huge impact upon studies of youth, youth culture and drugs. This collection is made up of contributions from scholars producing empirical work on some of the key areas upon which Geoff Pearson established his reputation. All of the writers in this collection have been profoundly influenced by his scholarship. This collection focuses on urban ethnography, race and ethnicity, youth, and drugs. It includes chapters on: women working in male boxing gyms; understa...
When Geoffrey Logan, a Special Operations Police Officer is advised that his father has been seriously injured in a car accident his life too takes a turn for the worst. He finds out he is under review by his superiors, he is torn between an attraction for a fellow female police officer and a dangerous attraction to his own stepmother and he has to wrestle with the task of helping rehabilitate his father. All this becomes even more complicated when there is a huge explosion at Melbourne Airport and he is drawn into the dangerous world of international terrorism. Whilst still fighting his demons he becomes involved in the hunt for a group of deadly extremists who are threatening the success o...
Geoff Pilling’s work shows that Marxist theory is relevant to those struggling to understand the problems of capitalist society today, and that the work not only of Marx and Engels but that of later Marxist theorists, including Lenin is worth studying. It also shows that to understand the problems of today’s society needs more than narrow specialist economic analysis, but a deep awareness of current developments in society.
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Greece was a poor country in turmoil and pain during the 1940s. A military dictatorship was followed by invasion and terrifying occupation by Germany and its allies, starvation, civil war, political unrest and mutiny in its free military armed forces. New Zealand entered this arena and found a bond with a people that it still celebrates to this day. Absent from the New Zealand national storytelling is the complex, divisive and sometimes violent and surreal relationship between the two countries and the inescapable influence of Britain. The New Zealand-Greek story stretches from the mountains and open country of Greece and Crete to Middle East deserts, autumn-swept plains of Italy, and the blood-splattered streets of post-liberated Athens. New Zealand official state memory emphasizes some things and ignores the unpalatable. It also conceals its assertiveness with Britain over the latter’s Greek policies.