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Simon Marshall, former champion jockey, is a young man on the move. He is 38 years old, cocky, confident, full of charm and goodwill. He comes across as a loveable larrikin. He is brash but he gives no offence. Men relate to his sporting prowess and his directness. Women think he is cute. He rode effectively for only 11 years but chalked up more achievements than most jockeys do in a lifetime. He has since become a commentator for Channel 7 and worked for Radio SEN. In the corporate world he is the front man for BC3 Thoroughbreds, a company that buys yearlings, educates and develops them before on-selling them as two-year-olds. He is an ambassador for the Cancer Foundation and a willing contributor to charitable organizations such as the Doxa Foundation for under- privileged children. In this book Simon tells how he became a jockey, the thrill of winning, the tortures of wasting, his clashes with the stewards, the happy times, the low times, and the funny times.
The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. You don’t have one brainyou have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer brain that accesses your memories and runs your habits (good and bad). They fight for control all the time and that’s when bad things happen; you get crazy nervous before a race, you choke under pressure, you quit when the going gets tough, you make dumb mistakes, you worry about how you look. What if you could stop the thoughts and feelings you don’t want? What if you could feel confident, suffer like a ...
In the tumultuous aftermath of the First World War the Wilson brothers head in opposite directions: Richard, interned in Austria throughout the conflict, returns to England; Edward, a junior officer, is dispatched from Italy to Vienna as part of the British Army’s relief mission. For Edward, it will be a return to the city and to love. But it will not be the same city: Vienna is no longer the administrative heart of an Empire, merely a provincial capital ravaged by starvation, and paralysed by the winter snows. Will it be the same love? In London, Richard is employed in the ministerial heart of government, and soon dazzled by the Under Secretary’s vision for a new, federal Europe. But for the new to exist the old must be replaced; and the Habsburg Emperor, on his estate near the Czech border, revolution all around, refuses to go. One man is sent to make sure that he does. With the brothers estranged by distance and time, their lives become unknowingly entwined in a shadowy plot – and it seems the end of the war is only the beginning of their struggle.
At first Marshall thinks he's just lost his old sneakers. But then his homework, his model kit, the papers from his paper route, even the gum from under his desk at school. all his stuff starts disappearing into thin air!
This book shows how Marshall's distinctive contributions to modern economics grew out of his early development of a neo-Hegelian social philosophy.
"First Published in 2004, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
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What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - Michael Marshall Smith For Michael Marshall Smith, this was one of those stories that dropped straight into his head, but the problem was that he didn't want it: "It wasn't an idea I liked. It was clearly some part of my brain serving up a notion simply because it could, and because it knew it could frighten me with it. "It did frighten me, and so I did what I always do when that happens - which is write it down, in the hope it will go away." Respects - Ramsey Campbell "'Respects' was suggested by a local incident in which a car thief in his early teens killed himself while fleeing the police," recalls Campbell. "A lamp standard at the site of his...