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Jackaroo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Jackaroo

From choirboy to cowboy . . . In 1967, fresh from boarding school humiliations, and having lost his father to alcoholism, gangly teen Michael Thornton was packed off to a tough sheep and cattle station to work as a jackaroo. He was to learn the wool trade from the lamb up, under a boss legendary for working his farmhands in an almost military regimen. Tasked with the dirty, disgusting and downright dangerous jobs, jackaroos are the dogsbodies of our farms. But at Habbies Howe, in central Victoria, somewhere between castrating lambs with his teeth and hauling backbreaking sacks of fertiliser for no obvious purpose, Michael discovered inner strength, and the friendship and male role models he'd craved. He also earned respect – enough to later walk into a job with the nation's most famous farmer, the Defence Minister and future PM Malcolm Fraser. In Jackaroo, Thornton recalls his years learning the ropes in an era when farm work was still done on horseback. Engaging, candid and often funny, his memoir reveals the hard working lives of the unsung all-rounders of the country. 'Engaging and energetic' The Australian

Big Mama Thornton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Big Mama Thornton

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-05
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  • Publisher: McFarland

You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis Presley and who wrote "Ball & Chain," the song that catapulted Janis Joplin to sudden fame? The story begins with her first musical attempts in the Hot Harlem Revue as a girl of 14. Then the book follows her journey into the Mecca of Texas Blues, Houston, where Big Mama Thornton met Johnny Otis, with whom she recorded her greatest success--"Hound Dog." With the slowdown of the blues in the early sixties this book follows Big Mama Thornton's way to California, discusses her struggle to survive and celebrates her impressive musical comeback in the course of the blues revival and the hippie movement. With the end of the sixties, facing a declining interest in the old school blues, the book shows how Big Mama Thornton found her niche in clubs and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. The book then follows Big Mama Thornton through the seventies and eighties until her untimely death.

Pissed Off
  • Language: en

Pissed Off

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-03-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Australia has five million baby boomers. Seventy-one-year-old Michael Thornton is one of them. He is so pissed off about the state of things, he's listed 3,300 gripes. Among them:?otherwise bright folk, from the PM down, who say 'amount' of people instead of 'number'?Australia's richest person is said to earn $33,000 per minute?being beaten at Scrabble by his Filipina mother-in-law, ?English being her second language ?leaf blowers?lowlife who put needles in fruit to try and kill us?greed?when the pathology nurse says, with a deep sigh, ?'Let's try your other arm!'?Michelangelo didn't endow David a little more generously?the link between his dentist's fees to extract his teeth, and the dentis...

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Macroeconomics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 627

Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Macroeconomics

This comprehensive Handbook presents the current state of art in the theory and methodology of macroeconomic data analysis. It is intended as a reference for graduate students and researchers interested in exploring new methodologies, but can also be employed as a graduate text. The Handbook concentrates on the most important issues, models and techniques for research in macroeconomics, and highlights the core methodologies and their empirical application in an accessible manner. Each chapter is largely self-contained, whilst the comprehensive introduction provides an overview of the key statistical concepts and methods. All of the chapters include the essential references for each topic and...

Royal Feud
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Royal Feud

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Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan

This book examines early modern Mito, today an ordinary provincial capital on the outskirts of the Tokyo commuter belt, but once the headquarters of Mito Domain, one of the most consequential places in all of Japan. As one of just three senior branches of the Tokugawa family—which ruled over Japan for 260 years—Mito’s ruling family enjoyed unparalleled status and exerted enormous influence throughout its history. In the seventeenth century, its scholars produced some of early modern Japan’s most important historical scholarship. In the eighteenth century, it developed a robust and pragmatic program of reform to confront depopulation and foreign threats. In the nineteenth century, it ...

Robert Thornton and His Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Robert Thornton and His Books

Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.

Fire in the Carolinas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Fire in the Carolinas

The author takes a look at two very influential Pentecostal Holiness revivalists from Sampson County, North Carolina in the early 20th century. Both rose in their churches, founded new churches, and then fell away from their churches, but left a profound impact on the the role of Christianity in overcoming racial inequalities.

The Institutional Logics Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The Institutional Logics Perspective

The book analyzes, synthesizes, and further develops theoretical and methodological tools in the rising new school in institutional analysis, the institutional logics perspective, which offers opportunities to examine how individual and organizational actors are a product of multiple social locations in an inter-institutional system.

SEAL Warrior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

SEAL Warrior

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-07-07
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  • Publisher: Macmillan

SEAL Warrior is a vivid, action-packed account of Thomas H. Keith's Vietnam tour of duty--a highly decorated Navy SEAL. During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air, Land commandos) never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severely wounded. Thomas H. Keith, Master Chief, SEAL Team 2, is living proof. He carries a piece of shrapnel behind one lung, a reminder of the day he called in 40 mm mortar fire on the enemy that was trying to catch up to his crew as the crew hauled ass out of the bush. Not only did he never report it, it was never removed---it just wasn't serious enough. SEAL Warrior is the vivid, gritty, transporting memoir of a man destined for combat, a third-...