Very Tough Men
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Very Tough Men
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Author : Tony Loxley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08
Very Tough Men written by Tony Loxley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with categories.
Hard-bound book of 298-pages covering the great days of rugby league during the Winfield Cup. Over 1000 lavish images of the greats teams, players and fans who supported rugby league during the era of the 'Greatest Game of All'. Foreword by Peter V'landys AM and Les Davidson.
Tall Trees Tough Men
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Author : Robert E. Pike
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1999-07-17
Tall Trees Tough Men written by Robert E. Pike and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-17 with History categories.
In this robust, informal book, Robert E. Pike tells the colorful story of logging and log-driving in New England. The New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the United States. The daily life of the loggers was hard — working in deep icy water fourteen hours a day, sleeping in wet blankets, eating coarse food, and constantly risking their lives. Their pay was very low, yet they were proud to call themselves loggers. When they came out of the woods after the spring drives, they ebulliently spent their pay carousing in the staid New England towns. Robert E. Pike, who as a youth worked in the woods and on the rivers, writes affectionately and knowingly, with humorous anecdotes, of every detail of lumbering. He describes the daily life of the logging camps, giving a picture of the different specialist jobs: the camp boss, the choppers, the sawyers and filers, the scaler, the teamsters, the river men, the railroaders, and the lumber kings. His descriptions bring the reader vividly into the woods, smelling the tangy, newly cut timber, hearing the boom of the falling trees. "The author's lively prose matches the temper of his subject. . . . This is basic history, geography, psychology, economics, and folklore all rolled into one top-quality volume." — R. S. Monahan, New York Times Book Review
Hard Men Of Rugby
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Author : Luke Upton
language : en
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Release Date : 2020-10-23
Hard Men Of Rugby written by Luke Upton and has been published by Y Lolfa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The gruesome stories of the hardest, most ruthless rugby players from around the world since World War I. As talented as they were fiery, many were just as lively off the pitch as on it. In our era of citing commissioners, super slow-motion replays and trial by social media, some of their actions are quite hard to believe! Foreword by Nigel Owens.
Respectable Mothers Tough Men And Good Daughters
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Author : Salo, Elaine R.
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2018-08-08
Respectable Mothers Tough Men And Good Daughters written by Salo, Elaine R. and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-08 with Social Science categories.
The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town’s inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerational and gendered process that is messy and uneven, involves the expression of often-brutal physical and social exclusion of individuals through embodied and social violence. Theoretically, the narrative makes visible the careful, painstaking processes of place making and claiming dignity by men and women in a place represented as a wasteland in the dominant discourse of grand apartheid and in the contemporary neo-liberal turn in Cape Town.
A Handful Of Hard Men
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Author : Hannes Wessels
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2015-10-19
A Handful Of Hard Men written by Hannes Wessels and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-19 with History categories.
During the WestÕs great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper governance. During this long war many heroes emerged, but none more skillful and courageous than Captain Darrell Watt of the Rhodesian SAS, who placed himself at the tip of the spear in the deadly battle to resist the forces of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. It is difficult to find another soldierÕs story to equal WattÕs in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced. Even by the lofty standards of the SAS and Special Forces, one has to look far to find anyone who can match his record of resilience and valor in the face of such daunting odds and with resources so paltry. In the fight he showed himself to be a military maestro. A bush-lore genius, blessed with uncanny instincts and an unbridled determination to close with the enemy, he had no peers as a combat-tracker (and there was plenty of competition). But the Rhodesian theater was a fluid and volatile one in which he performed in almost every imaginable fighting role; as an airborne shock-trooper leading camp attacks, long range reconnaissance operator, covert urban operator, sniper, saboteur, seek-and-strike expert, and in the final stages as a key figure in mobilizing an allied army in neighboring Mozambique. After 12 years in the cauldron of war his cause slipped from beneath him, however, and Rhodesia gave way to Zimbabwe. When the guns went quiet Watt had won all his battles but lost the war. In this fascinating biography we learn that in his twilight years he is now concerned with saving wildlife on a continent where they are in continued danger, devoting himself to both the fauna and African people he has cared so deeply about.
The Bombay Beat
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Author : James Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-08-04
The Bombay Beat written by James Phillips and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-04 with Fiction categories.
Superintendent Grant in the first book is a British Senior Policeman running The Bombay Police and in particular The Murder Squad. In the first book of the series, he has a serial killer loose on The Bombay Railway Network; who is getting very good at killing young 16 year old girls coming home from work. He must be caught at all costs.Superintendent Grant goes to and meets in Madrid Spain on his visit as part of the investigation; The Third Reich's Ambassador to Spain and is offered a transfer to Germany's Third Reich in Berlin to set up a new Forensics Service.Possibly in a later book he may go there and assist British Intelligence assess the Nazis.
Tough Men In Hard Places
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Author : Esther Greenfield
language : en
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Tough Men In Hard Places written by Esther Greenfield and has been published by Graphic Arts Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with History categories.
The mines in southwestern Colorado were in trouble and needed cheap, reliable electric power to keep running. This is the story of innovative solutions to solve the problem using alternating current electricity and the incredible effort, tenacity, and toughness of the men who overcame formidable obstacles to bring electrification to the mines, ranches, homes, and businesses in the remote and rugged areas of southwestern Colorado. Here is their story in 150 intriguing historic photos from the Center of Southwest Studies. Tough men peer from the pages with attitude to spare next to gargantuan equipment in unforgiving terrain. Many of the photographs were taken by Philip “P. C.” Schools, power plant superintendent with the Western Colorado Power Co., whose turn-of-the-century photographs documented the coming of electricity to Southwest Colorado and from which his legacy glows.
The Strong Man
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Author : Grant Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-07-22
The Strong Man written by Grant Edwards and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A powerful story of life under fire and one man's journey back from the brink Grant Edwards was once an elite athlete, Olympics qualifier and Australia’s strongest man. His Guinness Book of Records feats of strength were acclaimed internationally, and as a high ranking police officer he spent decades protecting vulnerable people around the world. But nothing could shield him from catastrophic harm in the line of duty. Rising above his tough beginnings in 1970s suburbia, where he was bullied for his father’s decision to live as a gay man, Edwards found sanctuary in sport. But he found his true calling with the Australian Federal Police, rising swiftly through the ranks to Commander and personally establishing cybercrime units to fight child exploitation and human trafficking. A highly sought after and disciplined security advisor for governments around the world such as East Timor, Afghanistan and the Americas, Edwards was considered the last person to ‘crack’ – but a narrow escape from a deadly attack in Kabul pushed him to breaking point. This is the story of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary battle back from the brink.
The Para State
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Author : Aldo Civico
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-11-24
The Para State written by Aldo Civico and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with Social Science categories.
Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State,ÊAldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the countryÕs history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of ColombiaÕs most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.
Oh Oh Canada
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Author : William D. Gairdner
language : en
Publisher: BPS Books
Release Date : 2012-05-04
Oh Oh Canada written by William D. Gairdner and has been published by BPS Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Political Science categories.
For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books The Trouble with Canada . . . Still, The War Against the Family, and The Trouble with Democracy. Now, in this new book, his passionate, probing, and provocative intellect is hard at work, ranging over hot button issues of the day in the spheres of culture, the family, politics, and science. His quick-hit, entertaining, and rousing chapters include "Late Night Thoughts on Equality," "Baby Seals and Babies," "Mourning Marriage," and "Six Types of Freedom." Here's what the famous conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr. said about Gairdner's original publication of The Trouble with Canada: "His mobilizing passion wonderfully animates an analytical precision that should be the reason for a national -- binational -- celebration."