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Close Up is John Fraser's sometimes outrageous, often hilarious, and always rigorously honest account of an extraordinary life. It is a remarkably candid memoir, relating his affairs, friendships and working relationships with some of the biggest stars of the stage and screen. Rudolf Nureyev, Dirk Bogarde, Bette Davis and many others feature in one of the most revealing and entertaining autobiographies in years. John Fraser starred in over 30 films, including El Cid and Tunes of Glory. He was nominated for a British Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance, opposite Peter Finch, as Bosie in The Trials of Oscar Wilde.
Essential insights on the various aspects of enterprise risk management If you want to understand enterprise risk management from some of the leading academics and practitioners of this exciting new methodology, Enterprise Risk Management is the book for you. Through in-depth insights into what practitioners of this evolving business practice are actually doing as well as anticipating what needs to be taught on the topic, John Fraser and Betty Simkins have sought out the leading experts in this field to clearly explain what enterprise risk management is and how you can teach, learn, and implement these leading practices within the context of your business activities. In this book, the author...
AS A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TORONTO "GLOBE AND MAIL", FRASER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET A WIDE RANGE OF CHINESE PEOPLE AND TO LEARN OF THEIR CULTURE AND GOVERNMENT.
A creak of the floorboard. The wind whistling in the eaves. The rustle of some small creature—a mouse, maybe—scurrying in the basement. These are all sounds you might expect to hear in an old house. But what if they were signs of something more? Paranormal investigator Dawn J. Schofield knows from experience that not all strange phenomena have a rational explanation. In her thirty years of ghost hunting, she’s seen, heard, and even smelled things she couldn’t debunk—and now she’s here to show you how to capture your own evidence of specters and spirits. In this guide, she shares her approach to paranormal investigation, gives tips for location sourcing, explains the tools of the trade, and much more. Along the way, she tells true, spine-tingling tales of ghostly encounters from her own life, from unexplained apparitions to disembodied voices to terrifying contact with spirits through a Ouija board. By the end of this book, you’ll know all about the equipment, techniques, and unwritten rules you need to start exploring the supernatural. Now the only thing left to do is muster the courage to face the unknown.
First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
This unique and lavishly illustrated volume is the only intimate behind-the-scenes book about Mikhail Baryshnikov's leadership of one of the world's premier dance companies. Fraser provides insight into the spirit and mood of the company during Mikhail's directorship and the reasons for his sudden resignation.
From the acclaimed landscape historian and geographer, a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In this book, John Fraser Hart offers a comprehensive handbook to understanding the elements that make up the rural landscape—those regions that lie at or beyond the fringes of modern metropolitan life. Though the last two centuries have seen an inversion in the portion of people living on farms to those in cities, the land still beckons, whether traversed in a car or train, scanned from far above, or as the locus of our food supply or leisure. The Rural Landscape provides a deceptively s...
Have you ever wondered why Minnesota's forests grow in the north and not in the West? Why gaming casinos are prospering? Why producers raise chickens instead of cows? Why some towns grow while others fail? Minnesota's natural wonders have had an effect on and been changed by the people who call this complex mosaic of lakes and forests, rivers and fields home. Through engaging, in-depth text and copious illustrations, John Fraser Hart and Susy Svatek Ziegler explore the human and environmental characteristics that define the state in Landscapes of Minnesota. Illustrated with hundreds of maps and color photographs that reveal the changing character of Minnesota, this stunning geography traces ...