Xlibris uk jun 2020 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eleven stories of the adventures of three cheeky children who are friends and also their siblings in the 1960s who get up to mischief in and around their homes. Will make parents and teachers laugh and hopefully the capture the reader's interest.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sammy has been sick with a virus that has all but destroyed society as we know it. He awakes one morning to discover he is an orphan. Hisonly living relative being his grandfather, who lives two hundred miles away in Wales. With no trains, buses or cars running how is he to get there He packs essentials and, in a highly traumatised state, sets out on his bicycle, having to sleep in woods and fields and eat whatever food nature is able to provide. But soon that journey has to be made on foot. Meeting various characters on the way, he discovers that other people, far from offering him help, need help themselves. Young or old, everyone has their own needs and agendas which they try to embroil him in. Every chapter of the journey presents him with a hurdle he must overcome. Will one of those hurdles prove just too much Will he reach his grandfather in Wales or will he fail.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Literary flare passions from the roots of rejuvenation with regeneration as side, which, rather than being supernaturally constituted, shows semantic drift towards a somatic of colloquial derivations. For that brush of jacket collars in the side street you thigh on waste whilst twisting to the pub, for the old bars of money that cool your hips for auditory sprinkles songs drumming the tune of your cognitive motor to transmute chemistry up from your cells. In the dialects and runs from payment rows at the end of a hard days work where new derision philologies created connective benignity disputes, perhaps with other cities and ruralities to blanket universal pay by reward, proportional. Entries. For the thrush, the jaguar threading grass stems, the master sparrow thatcher, the strong organisational lion of the jungle animals, the horse of the war. Seeing waves sweep over the land in national assertions that economic change has determined. Once just a shout, but now the game is being sold. Although evolution steps up sometimes when our brows merely need to be caressed by another, it's scientific enzymes define every part of our lives. Genetic inheritance glints the tinder and shakes the hinds, and it is the case that where strongly or quietly, and secretly is allowed, we all believe that evolutionary biology renders our wit, or most of us do. I believe in the sensual.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Storytelling at its best. O'Brien continues her down-to-earth exploration of other realms to shed light on dark corners of the human condition. She weaves many colourful threads into a beguiling yarn, seeking to solve an abiding, historical conundrum. Well researched. Thoroughly enjoyable.' Stephen Warrilow- Archaeologist. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Terry returned from Saudi Arabia in the May of 1978 after a year in the Kingdom, with a spring in his step and over flowing with enthusiasm, feeling that he could secure a job using the experience he had gained during his time in operations engineering in the Eastern Province of Saudi. Having cut his teeth in a demanding environment and coming out the other end full of ambition to move on in the Petroleum industry and how soon he was to discover it was not to be as easy as he first thought.Experiencing an educational system of the 50's and the inadequacies of that system made Terry realise at an early age that things don't come simple and if you really want something then you had better be prepared to work hard to get it. Coming back from Saudi Arabia after soaking up so much experience in the petroleum industry he expected to walk into employment without any problems. When that was not the case, it was like another wakeup call and reasserted what Terry had previously experienced, that nothing comes without an inner drive from yourself to make it happen. Originally his wife and himself had agreed that he would work in Saudi Arabia for two years but at the end of the first year and in the fifth week of his six weeks leave period after which Terry was supposed to return, they realised that neither relished the idea of being apart from each other and Terry being away from his family for another year. He was only too willing to agree that he needed to seek work nearer home and so the search began in July 1978. After many interviews and rejected contracts he finally found his dream job in the North Sea Petroleum industry and his career takes off with an engineering construction company he remained with for over thirty years. The book tells of the projects and people he was engaged with including many adventures and events that transpired over the span of his career.…