Can I Have My Ball Back?

Can I Have My Ball Back?
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Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Total Pages : 35
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ISBN-10 : 9781541550292
ISBN-13 : 1541550293
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Can I Have My Ball Back? by : Alice Hemming

What will the inventor do when some playful children interrupt his work? This charming, illustrated story helps young children learn to read with carefully leveled text and fun illustrations.

Last Night When I Was Young

Last Night When I Was Young
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Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781839758980
ISBN-13 : 1839758988
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Last Night When I Was Young by : Geoffrey Littlefield

Last Night When I Was Young saw me riding thoroughbred racehorses as if I were Doug Smith and Fred Winter. In the same vein, I played football as Jimmy Greaves did for Chelsea and I was a Test Match batsman emulating the great PBH May. I hit the biggest serve as Mike Sangster in the Davis Cup, as well as bobbing and weaving in the boxing ring exactly like my favourite Dick Tiger, the world middleweight champion. I was unstoppable behind the wheel of a racing car as Britain's first world champion Mike Hawthorn but on the speedway track I rode with stylish aplomb interpreting my hero, Ronnie "Mirac" Moore. Swinging a mashie niblick as Peter Alliss was no handicap. Rugby Union at Twickenham when my body swerve was very sharp - Richard Sharp. When the Olympics came around, I ran the race of my life both over long distances and over one lap hurdles respectively as Gordon Pirie and the great David Hemery. With eyes open, I loved watching the upright Dorothy Hyman dip and throw herself over the line whilst I fell in love with Mary Rand hitch-kicking her way into Olympic history. Fantasy is then mixed with fact. The jockeys' journeys from completing exacting apprenticeships to becoming champions on the Flat and the National Hunt. Smith riding two-year-olds on the edge in the One Thousand Guineas and the Two Thousand Guineas. Whereas Winter was jumping off the edge of the world in The Grand National. The trials and tribulations with the relative success of the 1960's Chelsea football team from Drake's ducklings morphing into Docherty's uncut diamonds. A fourteen-year-old boy from New Zealand leaves home to become the first speedway superstar. The fight of the week from the USA brings us a Nigerian boxer who confounds convention and fights his way to the top of two weight divisions. A classical English batsman, an amateur as such who set records as a captain and whose impact on Test cricket is second to one. Birdies and bogeys abound, yet our golfing hero is a true British legend. 152 miles per hour as a world record was a cannonball service that belonged to a British no.1 tennis star that left us far too early. The first British world motor racing champion whose play-boy antics on and off the track caused his untimely death. A brief yet scintillating career as England's fly-half sees a jaw-dropping piece of rugby played over and over - sixty years later. The hackles on the neck rise again through an Olympic television commentary that almost matches the magnitude of the performance and the world record that was set. All are sporting yesterday's, worthy of repeat, a young boy's memory listing every feat.

Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?

Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 571
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780141036168
ISBN-13 : 0141036168
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? by : Julian Norridge

Americans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades earlier). And the French might be proud of founding the modern Olympics (when, in fact, a Shropshire doctor beat them to it by forty years). BUT IT WAS THE BRITISH THAT GAVE SPORT TO THE WORLD. From the beginnings of 'the beautiful game' - raucous matches of folk football with hundreds of players on each side - to the original bowls - a thin excuse for drunkenness and gambling - games grew into sports here in Great Britain. And in Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? Julian Norridge tells their stories with wit and good humour. Including all the many sports we Brits have to be proud of - boxing, horse racing, cricket, football, rugby, hockey, lawn tennis (nearly called 'sphairistike') and more - and even those few that got away, this is everything you need to know about the very British love of sports and all the great games it's produced. Because, even if we rarely win them, it's good to know we invented them.

Can I Have My Ball Back?

Can I Have My Ball Back?
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Publisher : Sphere
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780751585759
ISBN-13 : 0751585750
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Can I Have My Ball Back? by : Richard Herring

'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some If we're brave, we're said to have huge ones If it's cold, they are liable to fall off - even if you're a brass monkey If we're in trouble, someone will threaten to break them If we have to work hard, we might very well bust them If we're in somebody's thrall, then they've got us by them About fifteen years ago, Richard Herring first took part in a campaign to encourage men to have a little (non-sexual) feel of their balls every now and again. But it was embarrassing and weird, and if there was something wrong, he didn't want to know about it. Anyway, that kind of stuff only happens to other people, doesn't it? At the start of 2021 Richard Herring was diagnosed with testicular cancer. For a man whose output includes a stand-up tour titled Talking Cock and who regularly interrogates our attitudes towards masculinity, it was a diagnosis that came with additional layers of complexity. Telling Rich's personal story alongside an exploration of what defines masculinity and 'maleness' in society, Can I Have My Ball Back? is not your typical cancer memoir. Whether they're nuts, bollocks, gonads or family jewels; from the phrase 'grow some balls' to infamous WWII songs about Hitler; Rich unpicks the tangle of emotions around his own testing times.

Mosquito Blood Diaries

Mosquito Blood Diaries
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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 441
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781848763777
ISBN-13 : 1848763778
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Mosquito Blood Diaries by : Adam Eldon Gill

Zanza is a mosquito and, being a Buddhist, believes she has lived through many thousands of short lifetimes, but she can’t recall a single one of them before she met Herbert. Not that Herbert is particularly memorable. On their first meeting, Zanza viewed this unexceptional human as nothing more than a quick snack opportunity.But then, having sipped from the cup of a Mayan demi-god, Zanza is blessed with a new and profound self-awareness and begins to see her host, not just as a ‘blood bag’, but as a distinct personality. From that point on, with every sip of his blood, with every small death, with every re-incarnation, Zanza learns something new about Herbert. She begins to understand what it is to be human, to feel something like love, to contemplate a chance for immortality.For his part, Herbert, a misanthropic cameraman on assignment in Guatemala, remains oblivious to his involvement in this blossoming relationship. His mind is gripped by a rapidly rising fever, and he is not sure if what he experiences in the dense forests around Tikal is real or a Malaria-induced hallucination. Vampire Monkeys, Zombie Accountants, Golden Warriors that walk through walls, it all starts getting far too weird. But this is a special moment in the world’s history and even the dull witted Herbert finally realises he has a role to play.It’s December 2012, the Mayan Calendar is about to reset to zero and the world is about to end.

The Philosopher's Table

The Philosopher's Table
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781101616000
ISBN-13 : 1101616008
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Philosopher's Table by : Marietta McCarty

"Talk doesn't cook rice." —Chinese Proverb According to Socrates, knowledge is "food for the soul." That's all well and good for the Socratic but, according to Maslow, food for the stomach is a far more pressing matter. But why can't you have your talk, and cook rice too? With The Philosopher's Table, Marietta McCarty shows you that you can. In this book, you will find all of the necessary ingredients to start a Philosophy Dinner Club, taking a monthly tour around the world with friends to sample hors d'oeuvres of succulent wisdom and fill your plate with food from each philosophers' home country. With recipes, theories, and insights both old and new—all peppered with McCarty's charming and informative prose—you and your friends will: —Enjoy fresh homemade lamb meatballs and tzatziki, and the simple pleasures of life in Epicurus's ancient Greek garden. —Practice nonviolence (in life and at the dinner table) while sharing tofu curry with Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi. —Learn the fundamentals of rational decision-making with a mouthful of bratwurst from Germany's Immanuel Kant —In the spirit of accepting change, ditch the familiar take-out containers and dine on homemade shrimp dumplings with China's Lao Tzu. —And so much more! Complete with McCarty's recommendations for ethnic music from each region to enjoy during your gatherings and discussion questions to prompt debate, The Philosopher's Table contains everything you need to leave your host's home brimming with both nutritional and mental satisfaction.

Behaviour Recovery

Behaviour Recovery
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Publisher : ACER Press
Total Pages : 201
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781417505296
ISBN-13 : 141750529X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Behaviour Recovery by : Bill Rogers

Behaviour Recovery, Second Edition, has been thoroughly revised with updated chapters on discipline and behaviour management, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and frustration tolerance management.

A Kinder City

A Kinder City
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Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 229
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781803138855
ISBN-13 : 1803138858
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis A Kinder City by : Peter Taylor-Gooby

The City is governed by the grim law of profit and loss. No exceptions, no place for compassion, pleasure, the warmth of friendship or the ardour of love.

Multiple-choice Comprehension

Multiple-choice Comprehension
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Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Total Pages : 38
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781864005660
ISBN-13 : 1864005661
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Multiple-choice Comprehension by : Carole Booth

super photocopiable series containing original fiction stories children will love excellent whole-class, group and individual Literacy Hour resource ideal preparation for SATs multiple choice questions require pupils to answer literally as well as with inference and deduction wide range of additional activities, including, true/false, sequencing, dictionary usage and word study curriculum links and answers provided

Playway to English Level 3 Pupil's Book

Playway to English Level 3 Pupil's Book
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 81
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780521131179
ISBN-13 : 0521131170
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Playway to English Level 3 Pupil's Book by : Günter Gerngross

Playway to English Second edition is a new version of the popular four-level course for teaching English to young children. Pupils acquire English through play, music and Total Physical Response, providing them with a fun and dynamic language learning experience. In the Pupil's Book: • Fantastic varied tasks keep children motivated • Cross-curricular activities take children's learning beyond the English language classroom • Self evaluation sections help children retain and recycle new language • Regular Word play sections encourage pupils to use the target language creatively