Roars from the Back of the Bus

Author: Stewart McKinney
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780571488
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game, showing that relationships forged through experiences on a Lions tour last a lifetime. From the first Tour in 1888, it showcases characters with immense personality who fought together in wars or on rugby pitches in foreign lands, and who shared a bond developed through touring as representatives of the home nations. Despite the changes to the game after the advent of professionalism, the experiences of Jamie Heaslip, Brian O’Driscoll and Joe Worsley are still similar in some ways to those of earlier intrepid tourists like Blair Mayne, Lewis Jones, Sir Carl Aarvold or David Rollo. Containing defining memories and private insights from across the tours and the decades, Roars from the Back of the Bus shows that the Lions ethos remains strong at the heart of every team.

The Dragon Roars Back

Author: Suisheng Zhao
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503634159
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests. What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.

Between Borders and Buses

Author: Darren Assey
Publisher: Between Borders and Buses
ISBN: 0980414202
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
What happens when you take a clumsy Australian of Anglo Indian descent, a backpack, stick him on a bus in Europe and close the door? A good question, the answer to which Darren was eager to discover. After spending an eternity behind bars serving beer to red-faced Poms, Darren is allowed to escape and decides to make the most of it. Relying on nothing but his wits and a rough plan, he leaves the UK for an eye-opening, sometimes annoying, but always memorable experience around Europe. From space cakes in Amsterdam, motor scooter mishaps in the Greek Islands, a severe lack of direction in Sicily and a stubborn tent in Portugal, Darren realises he needs more than his wits to survive Europe - he needs a bloody miracle!Informative enough to make you go "Oh really? I didn't know that" and entertaining enough to make you sit up and giggle, Between Borders and Buses is guaranteed to ignite your desire to pack your bags, hop on the next flight out of the country and discover Europe for yourself.

The Goddamn Bus of Happiness

Author: Stefan Laszczuk
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1862549796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
This novel is at once hilarious and deeply moving. It sets a cracking pace and pins you to the page with its outrageous episodes, intriguing characters and provocative observations. Yet there is tenderness in the writing.

Gus the Bus

Author: Olga Cossi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590416146
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
When a schoolbus has extra air put into his new tires, he begins behaving most uncharacteristically.

Never to Return

Author: Sandy Reid
Publisher: Black & White Publishing
ISBN: 1845023935
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Book Description
'I'd never been given a cuddle in my life, been read a bedtime story or called anyone mum or dad.'In the dead of night, the authorities swooped on the tinker camp. It was the middle of winter but the tents were still warm. This time they took Sandy Reid and his sister Maggie into care. Sandy was just one year old and he would never see his mother again."Sandy Boy" is the true story of what happened to Sandy Reid and to many other tinker children. Removed from his family and their way of life, Sandy was put into care for the rest of his childhood and denied access to his mother, his father and his family. This is also the story of the abuse he suffered - regular beatings at his foster family, cruelty at a children's home and, later, systematic abuse. Without any love or affection, Sandy became uncontrollable and at the age of eight he was sent to a psychiatric unit and separated from his sister, the last link he had with his family. Soon after, a chance meeting led to the discovery that his mother had died. It would be another six years before he got the letters from his mother that proved that she had never stopped looking for him.Letters that had been opened and read by the authorities but deliberately kept from him.This is the shocking story of how a child's life was destroyed and of a stolen generation, snatched in the night and forbidden from seeing their families. It's also the story of how one boy endured terrible hardship and deprivation and how he survived against all odds.

TO HULL and BACK

Author: Dr Raymond Edwards
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312158271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Memoirs of the youngest child of a family of ten, borne in Barmston Street, Hull, East Yorkshire, England. These are memoirs which span 1942 to the 1970's. No it is not primarily another book about the Second World War. It starts there but moves through the whole life of my family and I until now I am the last one standing, but I now have a new family, my children, the grand children and great-grandchildren of my family. My journey is back to find the Hull I once knew and cherished dearly as a child and young man. The Hull where I experienced terror, fear, happiness, joy and love, and learned responsibility and to be proud of my background and family history. I wanted to leave a record of my family that brought me through my early life, and pass on to 'my family' the importance of a family. Dr. Raymond Edwards

The Flicker

Author: H.E. Edgmon
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250873983
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
Perfect for fans of The Marrow Thieves, Hatchet and The City of Ember, H.E. Edgmon's middle grade debut offers a bittersweet tale of hope and survival, a modern classic for the climate change generation. One year ago, a solar flare scorched the Earth and destroyed life as we know it. With their parents gone and supplies running dangerously low, step-sisters Millie and Rose only have one chance at survival: leave home with their infant half-brother and loyal dog Corncob in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder. As they navigate the burning land with a group of fellow survivors, dodging The Hive, a villainous group that has spent the last year hoarding supplies and living in luxury, the siblings have to learn to rely on each other more than ever, and discover how to build a new life from the ashes. Expertly balancing heartbreak and hope, The Flicker is both a thrilling survival story and a tender exploration of Indigenous ideas of identity and found family.

An Inherited Past: The Forgotten Darkness

Author: Demas Huckaba
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483453456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
After years of hard work and secrecy, Allen and a group of rogue scientists are ready to test the new development. It's time to make history. They're prepared to flip the switch and activate the ancient artifact. But something goes horribly wrong and the artifact cannot be shut down. Instead of a reactor, they have opened a portal from which spews multitudes of demon-like creatures. The portal leads to a new planet called Prison World, and once opened the portal cannot be closed for five years. Diligence is needed by the military and others to ensure the creatures, called Prisoners, don't infiltrate the world and raise even more havoc. A team of special forces consisting of Damien, JD, and Peter are prepared to go on the offensive and get the problem under control. They understand that by entering the portal their lives could change forever. The first book in The Forgotten Darkness Series, An Inherited Past offers a science fiction story of a war on a planet far from home.

The Rain Stomper

Author: Addie K. Boswell
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761453932
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
A baton twirler fights the rain to save her neighborhood parade