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Author : Eric Jackson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2012-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1300398019

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Eric Jackson, otherwise known as Marathon Man, drove for Ford Motor Company in the 50s, 60s and 70s.Monte Carlo Rally, East African Safari Rally, Tulip Rally ... all the classic greats. He was British Rally Champion in 1964. Eric's rallying career has taken him all around the world - literally. He drove round the world in 43 days with his long-time co-driver, Ken Chambers in 1967. He also found the time to build up a successful business and raise a family. He has met movie stars, gangsters, prime ministers, musicians and of course, counted racing legends amongst his best friends. This book is Eric's autobiographical story. Eric travelled the world on epic driving trips, winning rallies, breaking records and generally causing mayhem. Travel with him on his adventures, meet fascinating characters and discover why he is nicknamed Lucky Jacko as he uses up another of his nine lives.

Author : Chris Gooderham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1291512934

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Sequel to the hilarious I Will Stand in my House Forever, Chris Gooderham returns from his intrepid journey desperately craving more. Will you please slow down? is the comedy sequel, where Gooderham finds himself a new cycling partner; Endurance Bunny. A man who is physically fit, primed to perfection, who runs a marathon before breakfast and chops down trees with his bare hands. But Gooderham doesn't cope well with being the unfit one, especially when he's forced to watch his superhuman colleague make everything look so easy. Will you please slow down? is the real story behind the fictional Endurance Bunny and the small shrivelled organ. Much of the text is similar to the original, but is written purely as a diary of the cycle tour for the purest amongst you. Will you please slow down? is a must read for anyone who has already cycled, or is contemplating a cycle challenge and includes daily maps, road and traffic conditions as well as the contour of the route.

Author : Michael T. Klare
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429900571

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From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T. Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-Cold War world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates on a single precious commodity, petroleum, while issuing a warning to the United States-its most powerful, and most dependent, global consumer. Since September 11th and the commencement of the "war on terror," the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude oil that lie beneath the region's soil. Klare traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. He shows how America's own wells are drying up as our demand increases; by 2010, the United States will need to import 60 percent of its oil. And since most of this supply will have to come from chronically unstable, often violently anti-American zones-the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Latin America, and Africa-our dependency is bound to lead to recurrent military involvement. With clarity and urgency, Blood and Oil delineates the United States' predicament and cautions that it is time to change our energy policies, before we spend the next decades paying for oil with blood.

Author : Paula Serafini
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826504574

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Honorable Mention, Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies, Latin American Studies Association–Visual Culture Studies Section, 2023 Extractivism has increasingly become the ground on which activists and scholars in Latin America frame the dynamics of ecological devastation, accumulation of wealth, and erosion of rights. These maladies are the direct consequences of long-standing extraction-oriented economies, and more recently from the expansion of the extractive frontier and the implementation of new technologies in the extraction of fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture. But the fields of sociology, political ecology, anthropology, and geography have largely ignored the role of art and cultural practices in studies of extractivism and post-extractivism. The field of art theory, on the other hand, has offered a number of texts that put forward insightful analyses of artwork addressing extraction, environmental devastation, and the climate crisis. However, an art theory perspective that does not engage firsthand and in depth with collective action remains limited and fails to provide an account of the role, processes, and politics of art in anti- and post-extractivist movements. Creating Worlds Otherwise examines the narratives that subaltern groups generate around extractivism, and how they develop, communicate, and mobilize these narratives through art and cultural practices. It reports on a six-year project on creative resistance to extractivism in Argentina and builds on long-term engagement working on environmental justice projects and campaigns in Argentina and the UK. It is an innovative contribution to the fields of Latin American studies, political ecology, cultural studies, and art theory, and addresses pressing questions regarding what post-extractivist worlds might look like as well as how such visions are put into practice.

Author : Mr Allie Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1491894598

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The poems contained in this book are simply a reflection of some of our nexus socio-political and socio-economic factors that informed our societies by ways of our life experiences and developments in our respective walks of life over the past and present times indeed. Hence, this book is a mix of issues that were and are pertinent to the admitted and rejected questions and answers for the form and the process of our alleged democratic societies by the specific reasons that informed the subject matter or substance of the written English Language of the poems it sought to pass on to the end user of it. Since, I wrote the poems contained in this book by my academic studies and experiences in Sierra Leone and London between 1980 and 2013. So, I dont intend any harm to anyone or our societies by the poems as alluded in this book. Accordingly, I hope you enjoy reading this book.

Author : Tommy Muncie
Publisher : Tommy Muncie
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Shadow Hatcher is determined to change his life. Despite his unusually high aptitude for his dream career as an astronaut, Shadow’s lowly status in 23rd century England makes it nearly impossible to attain. This changes when Shadow witnesses a murder near his family’s farm. His daring witness testimony earns him the attention and respect of society’s most powerful people, the Talented, whose links to the ruling class can make Shadow’s dream come true. When his testimony results in the collapse of an illegal Dream Morphine racket, Shadow is thrown into a strange new world with dangers that he can barely begin to fathom. As he becomes more deeply involved in the world of the Talented, he must live with dark secrets and face constant dangers to prevent his family from paying the ultimate price for his success. A price someone now seems intent on making them pay...

Author : Hugh Thomson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0297857622

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'Try this tequila oil, Hugito. Just as the alcohol hits your stomach, the chilli will as well and blow it back into your brain. It will take your head off.' Explorer Hugh Thomson takes on Mexico. It's 1979, Hugh Thomson is eighteen, far from home, with time to kill - and on his way to Mexico. When a stranger tells him there's money to be made by driving a car over the US border to sell on the black market in Central America, Hugh decides to give it a go. Throwing himself on the mercy of Mexicans he meets or crashes into, Hugh and his Oldsmobile 98 journey through the region, meeting their fate in the slums of Belize City. Thirty years on, Hugh returns - older but not necessarily wiser - to complete his journey.