The Return of John Macnab

Author: Andrew Greig
Publisher: riverrun
ISBN: 178206270X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
'Highly Engaging' - Sunday Herald 'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - Scotsman The wager To poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates. The challengers Three men in a mid-life crisis who should know better. The wild card A flirtatious female journalist who won't take no for an answer. Striding over the Scottish Highlands with a poet's eye on the wilderness and a firm grip on the adventure, Andrew Greig re-imagines John Buchan's classic novel with a little less tweed, a little more sex, and just the right measure of whisky.

Sick Heart River

Author: John Buchan
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755117174
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Sir Edward Leithen is given a year to live and decides to devote his last months to seeking out and restoring to health Galliard, a young Canadian banker, who is searching for the 'River of the Sick Heart'. Braving an Arctic winter, Leithen finds the banker and then his own health returns, yet only one of the men will return to civilization ....

A Nice Ride

Author: John McNabb
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734238501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
John McNabb's autobiographical book is filled with meaningful stories that will capture the imagination and interest of anyone interested in leadership qualities that ultimately lead to success. Readers don't have to have a business degree to enjoy the brilliant anecdotes that capture the essence of timeless lessons that he learned in so many different places throughout the globe. McNabb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to hard-working, patriotic Americans. He earned All-America football honors in both high school and college. He attended Duke University, earning both undergraduate and MBA degrees. He had two combat flying tours in Vietnam, including 137 combat missions, and was awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross. McNabb started and sold what became a well-known and profitable merchant bank. He has served as Lead Director of two Fortune 500-size companies and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a Fortune 1000 international energy firm. With Harold Hamm, he co-founded the Trump Leadership Council. He is married to Darlene McNabb, and they have four children and six grandchildren. The McNabbs live in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Macnab's Backache

Author: Ensor Transfeldt
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780781760850
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
Macnab's Backache, Fourth Edition is an enhancement and update of Ian Macnab's classic principles of spinal anatomy and pathology, which form the cornerstones of clinical evaluation and treatment of spinal disorders. This edition is geared to practitioners in a wide variety of specialties and emphasizes the initial evaluation and treatment of patients with back pain and/or sciatica. The book thoroughly describes and illustrates the pathoanatomy of various spinal disorders and its correlation with clinical symptoms. Also included are chapters on history taking, examination of the back, differential diagnosis of low back pain, pain management, and a new chapter on injections.

Design by Nature

Author: Maggie Macnab
Publisher: New Riders
ISBN: 0132622416
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 683

Book Description
In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature’s ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you through a series of unexpected a-ha! moments that describe relationships among nature, art, science, technology, and design. Through explanation and example, you will learn about natural processes, consisting of everyday patterns and shapes that are often taken for granted, but that can be used effectively in visual messaging. Explore the principles all human beings intuitively use to understand the world and learn to incorporate nature’s patterns and shapes into your work for more meaningful design. By recognizing and appreciating a broad range of relationships, you can create more aesthetic and effective design, building communications that encompass the universal experience of being part of nature, and that are relevant to a worldwide audience. Teaches how to understand and integrate the essential processes of nature’s patterns and shapes in design Includes key concepts, learning objectives, definitions, and exercises to help you put what you learn into practice Features a foreword by Debbie Millman and reviews and discussions of practice and process by some of the world’s leading designers, including Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, and Ellen Lupton Includes profiles of street artist Banksy, creative director and author Kenya Hara, and typographical designer Erik Spiekermann

Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner)

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316333506
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.

The Legend of John Macnab

Author: James Christie
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1909183954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
John Sandiman is a librarian at a run-down Glasgow college full of feckless students and overseen by hopeless jobsworths. Fed up with his job, still mourning the cowardly way that Jessica, his ex-girlfriend, dumped him and bemoaning the apathy of the Scots, Sandiman dreams of the time when Caledonia was led by kings. So when Natalie, his colleague and drinking buddy, mentions something called The Book of Deer, he takes no notice. After all, there's little a librarian can do to change the world. Or is there? What Sandiman did not anticipate was that a fictional character from Scotland's past would come vibrantly to life, hurling him into a quest to face his own past and change his country’s future. Spanning two millennia from the sea kingdom of Dalriada to the Scottish referendum of 1997, The Legend of John Macnab takes readers behind events they thought they knew and brings them face-to-face with a forgotten icon more splendid than the Stone of Destiny.

The Middler

Author: Kirsty Applebaum
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250317347
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Beyond the mysterious boundary of eleven-year-old Maggie’s town, the Quiet War rages and the dirty, dangerous wanderers roam--a gripping debut for fans of The Giver, Pax, and Orphan Island “The Middler held one marvelous surprise after another every time I turned a page, leading to a most unexpected ending! Readers are going to love this book!” —Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times–bestselling author of The False Prince and A Night Divided Maggie lives in orderly Fennis Wick, protected from the outside world by a boundary. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special, a hero who will soon go off to fight in the war. But Maggie’s just a middle child, a middler, often invisible and ignored, even by her own family. When she chances upon a wanderer girl in hiding, she decides she wants to be a hero like her brother and sets out to capture the intruder. But once Maggie peeks past the hedges of the boundary for the first time, suddenly everything she’s ever known about her isolated town gets turned on its head. . . In her debut novel for young readers, Kirsty Applebaum crafts a gripping story of resistance, forbidden friendship, loyalty, and betrayal. "I thought I'd almost reached my fill of dystopian novels, but Kirsty Applebaum has rebooted the genre. The plot pulls you along . . . [and] there is a touch of Harper Lee's Scout [in Maggie]." —The Times

Midwinter

Author: John Buchan
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755117093
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
It is 1745 and the Jacobite Rebels are marching south into England. In 'Midwinter' John Buchan tells the thrilling tale of Alastair Maclean, close confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, as he sets out on a dangerous and secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the west of England.

The Three Hostages

Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473373646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.