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English Football has over 92 fully professional clubs. Players in the Premier League teams now earn an average salary of £2.3 million per annum. Meanwhile, on the bottom rung, entire squads make less in a year than Wayne Rooney takes home in a month. An army of young players sacrifice their education and prospects outside of sport for the dream of football success, despite that fact that 85% will be released from their contracts within five years. Simon Akam's book shows what the...
| Автор | Simon Akam |
Why do so many men choose to die? Across Europe, men are four times more likely than women to die by suicide, a disparity that is increasing. More British men die by suicide each year than have British soldiers died in all wars since 1945. Yet suicide is a killer that too often remains obscured beneath a layer of shame and innuendo, its causes misunderstood and ignored. In his latest ebook, Finlay Young lifts the lid on this quiet killer of thousands, taking the reader on a twisting journey...
| Автор | Finlay Young |
“The only reason I can write about any of this – how cocaine smuggling is ruining an area of Africa the size of Western Europe – is because I have agreed to identify almost no one who spoke to me.” In Cocaine Highway, Alex Perry lifts the lid on a problem few are willing to talk about: direct connections between the recreational drug habits of the relatively rich and privileged in Europe, and the Islamists who fund their war against the west by smuggling narcotics. He concludes that foreign...
| Автор | Alex Perry |
English grammar and punctuation are how we make ourselves understood in a clearer way. Using proper grammar makes sure that everyone reading a text or listening to you speak understands your meaning. Punctuation helps us distinguish between parts of a sentence, such as a side thought in commas, and tells us when one thought ends and another begins. Without punctuation, how would we know when a question was a question? Grammar and punctuation work together to make everything clearly organized and...
| Автор | Speedy Publishing |
No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated'<br /> <br />Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms, ten Preston woodcuts and fourteen colour plates.<br /> <br />No53: 'A lemon can be an inspiration as well as a fruit'
| Автор | Margaret Preston |
Ray Bradbury was one of the first science fiction writers to achieve both popular success and critical acclaim. His books have not only sold millions of copies, but have been accepted as serious literature in an age when science fiction is still burdened by the stigma of being «pulp literature.» This book, a revised and expanded Second Edition of the 1990 chapbook, examines the Ray Bradbury phenomenon through a structuralist reading of five stories from his major collection, The Illustrated Man,...
| Автор | James Arthur Anderson |
The civil war in Australia has got nasty. After the UN had removed the vulnerable from the city the war got very hot on both sides. The government of President Philip Dent expels all known rebel families. Concerted and lethal military action is used to move on entrenched rebel communities. Others even suspected of supporting the rebels are also banished from the harbor city. Rebel enclaves suddenly spring up near major Australian cities. The National Security Directorate is tasked with tracking...
| Автор | Greg Pius |
Australia has a long tradition of weird fiction, stretching back to colonial times. The stories in this anthology showcase the richness and variety of Australia horror and supernatural stories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the authors included are: Mary Fortune, Lionel Sparrow, Marcus Clarke, Guy Boothby, B. L. Farjeon, J. E. P. Muddock, Ernest Favenc, Hume Nisbet, Rosa («Mrs. Campbell») Praed, Fergus Hume, James Francis Dwyer, and Dulcie Deamer. Editor James Doig has...
| Автор | Marcus Clarke |
In this collection of shorter pieces, Victor J. Banis demonstrates once again the astonishing breadth of his talent, covering virtually every facet of the human experience with astonishing brevity and clarity. Here are pathos and heartache, love and horror, irony – and humor, especially humor, dry and wry and roll-on-the-floor-clutching-your-sides funny. It would be a hard man indeed who could read the adventures of his Underground Diner – which take up much of the last half of the book and...
| Автор | Victor J. Banis |
Here’s a potpourri of original stories and poems from up-and-coming West Virginia writers, edited by well-known author Victor J. Banis. The anthology includes: “The Reckoning,” “Metamorphosis,” and “The Thief” by Bev Rees; “Rosie and Mac” by Sally Brinkmann; “Dear Ann Landers: Excerpts from a Novel in Progress,” by Craig Tucker; “AIDS Diaries—Francel,” “Day Lights, Night Lights,” and “Hob Knobbin’” by Eve Birch; “Pappy’s Angels,” “Big Easys,” and “A Wildwood Flounder” by Leigh Horne; “The Azalea...
| Автор | Craig Tucker S. |
