I Can Fly

Author: Dr Zizz
Publisher: Digital on Demand
ISBN: 0620959525
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Written by a child psychologist and illustrated by one of the talented Zip Zap kids, this is the true story of how a circus school in Cape Town saved the lives of thousands of children. It carries a message of hope, personal empowerment and joy. An uplifting read-aloud picture book for children ages 0-100 with a special colouring-in page for the young at heart. Showcases gorgeous illustrations with lots of tiny Where’s Wally-like detail to explore and discuss. Teach your children that they are magic.

Break Point

Author: Ollie Ollerton
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1788702085
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
DON'T MISS OLLIE OLLERTON'S MUST-HAVE SURVIVAL GUIDE, HOW TO SURVIVE (ALMOST) ANYTHING! PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OLLIE OLLERTON CO-HOSTS SAS: WHO DARES WINS ALONGSIDE ANT MIDDLETON, JASON FOX and MARK BILLINGHAM. THIS IS HIS INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY Where is your break point? Is it here? Facing the gruelling SAS selection process on one leg, with a busted ankle and the finish line nowhere in sight? Or here? Under heavy fire from armed kidnappers while protecting journalists en route to Baghdad. Or is it here? At the bottom of a bottle, with a family in pieces, unable to adapt to a civilian lifestyle, yearning for a warzone? Ex-Special Forces soldier and star of TV's SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton has faced many break points in his life and now he tells us the vital lessons he has learnt. His incredible story features hardened criminals, high-speed car chases, counter-terrorism and humanitarian heroics - freeing children from a trafficking ring in Thailand. Ollie has faced break points in his personal life too, surviving a freak childhood attack, run-ins with the law as a teenager rebelling against a broken home, his self-destructive battles with alcohol and drug addiction, and his struggles with anxiety and depression. His final redemption as an entrepreneur and mental health charity ambassador has seen him overcome adversity to build a new and better life. 'Everyone has the capacity for incredible achievement, because it's only when it's crunch time, when you're down to your last bullet - when you're at break point - that you find out who you really are.'

Not the Costello Memoirs

Author: Walter Slurry
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1742732275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
Praise for NOT THE COSTELLO MEMOIRS 'This is one of the hardest reviews I will write. John Howard has been the finest prime minister Australia has ever had ... but this is a brilliant, lucid and powerful historical portrait ... compelling and accurate insight into the man who should have been PM.' Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian. 'Uninspiring ... perhaps the subject matter betrayed the author, for this is a vapid, dull affair ... It lacks the big picture and vision ... A squandered opportunity, full of promise that never delivers ...' Malcolm Turnbull. 'Fact is stranger than fiction here ... Imagine a deputy PM aspiring to the top job? Hilarious and witty ... I laughed so much my hair turned red.' Julia Gillard. 'Arguably the finest and most honest memoir that I've ever had read to me.' Pauline Hanson. 'This is the way history should be re-written ... An important addition to revisionist autobiography ... a first rate piece of denialism.' Keith Windschuttle. 'I'll be buggered if I'm going to dignify this adolescent puerile filth ... This type of low-level, back-door jiggery pokery will smear the good name of the Howard Government ...' Alan Jones. 'What makes this book so important is its breadth and depth ... sprightly written, often insightful in its judgements, and studded with nuggets that enhance the Costello saga.' Bindi Irwin. 'Sweetie ... it's just gorgeous. I read it in my PJs and just giggled like a little girlie.' Caroline Overington.

Vodka-Cola Cowboy, The: Trucking Russia 1990 - 1995

Author: Mick Twemlow
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1910456772
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
The Vodka-Cola Cowboy describes life trucking in what is possibly the harshest environment, in the world - Russia. Between 1990 and 1995 British owner driver Mick Twemlow worked to transport goods to, from and within Russia and the wider Soviet Union. Living in Moscow with his future wife, Elena and their daughter, Margarita, who was born there, in 1992, Mick learned the language and fully immersed himself in Russian society, giving him an insider's view of this time of massive upheaval in the Soviet Union. The book vividly illustrates the conditions that British truck drivers encountered, such as the atrocious winter weather in a wild and unforgiving landscape, police harassment and the dangers that came with the dissolution of the USSR. Mick was the only British truck driver, in Moscow, throughout the whole of the anti-Gorbachev coup, of 1991 and so the book offers a unique perspective, of that historical event. The incidents described in the book range from the humorous, to the serious, to the potentially life threatening. This book will primarily be of interest to truck drivers, and those with an interest in road transport and the haulage industry, in general.Russia is still an unknown quantity, all around the globe, with regards to people's understanding of it and its people and so The Vodka-Cola Cowboy will also be of interest to anyone who has a fascination with the country, particularly during this tumultuous time in the region's socio-political history.

The Harvard Lampoon

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 674

Book Description

Bringing War to Book

Author: Rachel Woodward
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137570105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
This book explores how military memoirs come to be written and published. Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about service with the British armed forces, and on interviews with published military memoirists who talk in detail about the writing and production of their books. A range of themes are explored including: the nature of the military memoir; motivations for writing; authors’ reflections on their readerships; inclusions and exclusions within the text; the memories and materials that authors draw on; the collaborations that make the production and publication of military memoirs possible; and the issues around the design of military memoirs' distinctive covers. Written by two leading commentators on the sociology of the military, Bringing War to Book offers a new and original argument about the representations of war and the military experience as a process of social production. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including sociology, history, and cultural studies.

WHO DARES GRINS.

Author: LOFTY. WISEMAN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785451201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Who Dares Win

Author: Tony Geraghty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description

The White Queen

Author: Philippa Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476735484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

He Who Dares

Author: Michael Paul Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671795818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Here is the astonishing true story of an 18-year-old veteran of one of the world's fiercest counterterrorist forces, the SAS. Crawl inside the mind of this legendary British rogue warrior, and live the kind of adventures most can only dream about. 8-page insert.