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Game for Anything

Game for Anything

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh. Copyright. First published in Great Britain 2005 by Aurum Press Ltd, 7 Greenland Street, London NW1 0ND This eBook edition first publishedin2012 All rights reserved © Gideon Haigh, 2004 The right of Gideon Haigh to be ...
Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture

Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture

Gideon Haigh

This is cricket not only as it is played, but as it is seen, run, commercialised, codified, promoted, politicised and also written about by others, with a detailed introduction to the distinguished literary traditions of which Gideon Haigh ...
The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal In Australia

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal In Australia

Gideon Haigh

With forensic skill and psychological subtlety, Gideon Haigh brings to life a story of corruption in high places and human suffering in low, of murder, suicide, courtroom drama, political machinations, and of the abortionists themselves: ...
Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed ...

Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed ...

Gideon Haigh

Now, in Gideon Haigh's brilliant new book, Stroke of Genius, we learn not only about the man in the picture but also the iconography of Trumper's powerful position in cricket's mythology.
The Office: A Hardworking History

The Office: A Hardworking History

Gideon Haigh

In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ...
Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and its Discontents

Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and its Discontents

Gideon Haigh

This insightful collection brings the struggle to save cricket's soul into sharp and disturbing focus.
Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History

Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History

Gideon Haigh

' In this panoramic collection of his writings, Australia's leading cricket writer ranges over 250 years of cricket history, picking out those events, characters and even objects that have mattered - sometimes far more than we know.
Gideon: From Weakling to Warrior

Gideon: From Weakling to Warrior

Matt Morton

Gideon seemed insignificant, not someone others considered to be leadership material. The story of how God used Gideon is a powerful example for today’s students who want to be bold, faithful followers of Christ.
Blind Judgment: A Gideon Page Novel

Blind Judgment: A Gideon Page Novel

Grif Stockley

Like the south where he was born, Gideon Page is haunted by the past.
Gideon's Night: (Writing as JJ Marric)

Gideon's Night: (Writing as JJ Marric)

John Creasey

On this particular night Commander George Gideon has to deal with a couple of psychopaths, who trail pain and blood in their wake.
Gideon's Fire: (Writing as JJ Marric)

Gideon's Fire: (Writing as JJ Marric)

John Creasey

Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard has to deal successively with news of a mass murderer, a depraved maniac, and the deaths of a family in an arson attack on an old building south of the river.
Scandal

Scandal

Heather Cullman

Desperate to avoid a ruinous scandal, Lord Stanwell buys Gideon’s silence by offering the one thing that will guarantee Gideon’s entry into the beau monde’s inner sanctum: his daughter, Julia.
Gideon: Number 2 in series

Gideon: Number 2 in series

Jacquelyn Frank

For a thousand years, Gideon's wisdom has always been respected without question, but he knows that even he is vulnerable to the powerful, primitive desires that befall his kind during Hallowed moons - as nine years ago he found himself ...
Fortunato: An Opera in Three Scenes (1958)

Fortunato: An Opera in Three Scenes (1958)

Miriam Gideon

An Opera in Three Scenes (1958) Miriam Gideon Stephanie Jensen-Moulton. Recent Researches in American Music, 75 (Supplement) Miriam Gideon Fortunato Orchestration of Scene 1 Edited by Stephanie Jensen-Moulton A-R Editions, Inc.
The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow

The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow

Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes

Commonly portrayed in Civil War literature as a bungling general who disgraced himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-78) is one of the most controversial military figures of nineteenth-century America.
Law and Government in Israel

Law and Government in Israel

Gideon Doron

Kenneth Shepsle and Mark Bonchek, Analyzing Politics, New York, 1997; Gideon Doron and Itai Sened, Political Bargaining, London, 2001. Robert Aumann and Michael Maschler, Repeated Games with Incomplete Information, Cambridge, ...
Ethics and Urban Design: Culture, Form, and Environment

Ethics and Urban Design: Culture, Form, and Environment

Gideon Golany

In this stimulating book, urban design scholar Gideon Golany offers architects, designers, and planners both an in-depth analysis of the fundamental issues of urban design and practical options for the design of the future city.
Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl

David Barnett

David Barnett's Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl is a fantastical steampunk fable set against an alternate historical backdrop: the ultimate Victoriana/steampunk mash-up!
Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper

Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper

David Barnett

Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper is the latest in David Barnett's riproaring steampunk adventures about a Britain that never was...but should have been.
Birth of an Empire

Birth of an Empire

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Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Robin D.S. Yates. General Introduction Qin History Revisited Yuri Pines with Lothar von Falkenhausen, Gideon Shelach, and Robin D. S. Yates In the long history of what is now known as ...
Taking Chances: Winning with Probability

Taking Chances: Winning with Probability

John Haigh

This new edition has been fully updated, and includes information on top television shows, plus a new chapter on Probability for Lawyers."--BOOK JACKET.
Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, C. 1560-1660

Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, C. 1560-1660

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Peter Lake, Michael C. Questier. astoundingly of all it enables Haigh, by the end of his account of the English 'Reformations', to present as a sign of Catholicism a determined adherence and use of Cranmer's really rather Reformed prayer ...

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