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"From the crudest of firewaters such as Owen McShanes "Chained lightning" to Southland's famous Hokonui which gained a solid reputation in the hands of "Chief" Murdoch McRae and others, the history of illegal whisky distillation in New Zealand is as much a part of our folklore as the tales of American moonshine. Government approved distillation is also part of Stuart Perry's story as he traces the history of legitemate whisky from the days of Howden's in Dunedin and Cawkwells in Auckland in the 1870s (An Auckland whisky actually won a medal at a Vienna International Exhibition of that period). Prohibition and its rise and decline also makes an important and often humorous contribution to the story of New Zealand whisky, and the book culminates with the establishment of two brands of excellent home grown whisky on the market in this country ..." -- Inside front cover.
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For eight weeks in early 1994 the author played blackjack in Las Vegas for stakes of up to two hands of $200. This book describes what happens at every one of the 269 sessions that he played. Perry describes the cover he used, the heat he received, dealer and player interactions, and the mental and financial ups and downs which he experienced.
Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz--it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down. After studying structural engineering in Africa, he worked on hospitals and theaters in London, and later headed the team that designed University of Qatar. He went on to design Embankment Place, a massive office complex built over London's Charing Cross railway station. Turning from building to rebuilding, he explored construction opportunities for British firms during the Gulf War, in Kuwait's still-burning oil fields. Following the 1999 bombing of Serbia and Kosovo, he led a reconstruction task force in Kosovo at the request of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, for which he was knighted. Thompson's memoir details his long career in architectural design and construction, and in restorative development.
This memoir of Everett M. Rogers, the pioneer of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory, contains stories of his boyhood days on the family farm in the 1930s, a way of life that has now disappeared. The stories are mixed with anecdotes from his education and academic career as well as a poignant account of his battle with cancer.
A Premier League bad-boy murdered at his newly refurbished home; a teenage runaway’s corpse uncovered on a construction site; a gunman shoots up the premises of the local gangland boss – all of them projects run by beleaguered builder Mark Poynter. Can he fix it? Things seem to be on the up for builder, Mark Poynter. Mark’s got himself a nice little earner taking care of the sizeable property portfolio built up from the career earnings of former Premier League bad-boy and local celebrity, Danny Kidd. But when Danny Kidd puts an interested party’s nose out of joint by using his star status to gazump them on a development site – the derelict Admiral Guthrie pub — things turn ugly a...
In The New Left, National Identity, and the Break-Up of Britain Wade Matthews charts the nexus between socialism and national identity in the work of key New Left intellectuals, E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Perry Anderson, and Tom Nairn. Matthews considers these New Left thinkers’ response to Britain’s various national questions, including decolonization and the End of Empire, the rise of European integration and separatist nationalisms in Scotland and Wales, and to the national and nationalist implications of Thatcherism, Cold War and the fall of communism. Matthews establishes a contestatory dialogue around these issues throughout the book based around different New Left perspectives on what has been called “the break-up of Britain.” He demonstrates that national questions where crucial to New Left debates.
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Jim Davidson is a Christian businessman and a native of Gould in Southeast Arkansas. His career as a public speaker, author and motivational consultant has spanned almost 50 years. Some of his many awards and achievements include: Arkansas Salesman of the Year, Chairman of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce's Diamond Club sales organization, Justice of the Peace in Pulaski County, Chairman of the Speakers Bureau of the Pulaski County United Way, Leadership Gavel recipient as voted by members of his Dale Carnegie Class, and honorary member of the DECA & GCE Clubs of Arkansas. He has been presented with the "Good Neighbor Award" by the Conway Chamber of Commerce and is the 2010 "Distinguished...
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