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The Bowler's Holding, the Batsman's Willey: The Greatest ...

The Bowler's Holding, the Batsman's Willey: The Greatest ...

Geoff Tibballs

The Bowler's Holding, The Batsman's Willey provides the definitive collection of sporting wit, from participants and observers alike.
Danny Blanchflower: A Biography

Danny Blanchflower: A Biography

Dave Bowler

Drawing on extensive interviews with family, friends and colleagues (including Jackie Blanchflower, Sir Stanley Matthews, Johnny Haynes, Geoff Hurst, Pat Jennings and Derek Dougan), Dave Bowler skilfully recounts the story of one of ...
Winning Isn't Everything: A Biography of Sir Alf Ramsey

Winning Isn't Everything: A Biography of Sir Alf Ramsey

Dave Bowler

Thoughtful and incisive, Dave Bowler's biography features extensive interviews with Geoff Hurst, Walter Winterbottom, Mick Channon, Tom Finney, Ray Wilson and Jimmy Armfield, among others, and reassesses Ramsey's contribution to the English ...
Shadows

Shadows

Tim Bowler

He has to come out of the shadows and face up to his father,whatever the cost. * Winner of the Angus Book Prize and the Lancashire Children's Book Award. * Major prize-winning author: Tim Bowler won the Carnegie Medal with "River Boy". * ...
Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform

Democracy in the States: Experiments in Election Reform

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Bowler, Shaun, David Brockington, and Todd Donovan. 2001. “Election Systems and Voter Turnout: Experiments in the U.S.”Journal of Politics 63:902–15. Bowler, Shaun, and Todd Donovan. 1998. Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and ...
Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy

Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy

Shaun Bowler

Shaun, and Todd Donovan. 1995. "Popular Responsiveness to Taxation." Political Research Quarterly 48:79-100. Bowler, Shaun, Todd Donovan, Dave Broughton, and Joe Snipp. 1992. "The Informed Electorate? Voter Responsiveness to ...
Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in ...

Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in ...

Peter J. Bowler

Contentio Veritatis: Essays on Constructive Theology by Six Oxford Tutors. London: John Murray, 1902. Raven, Charles E. In Praise of Birds: Pictures of Bird Life. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1925. . The Eternal Spirit: An Account of the Church ...
The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories ...

The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories ...

Peter J. Bowler

Ronald Rainger, Keith R. Bensen, and Jane Maienschein, eds., The American Development of Biology (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988). 11. Ronald Rainger, "Vertebrate Paleontology as Biology: Henry Fairfield Osborn  ...
Playing Dead

Playing Dead

Tim Bowler

Not quite sure why I'm talking to you at all.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Aerosmith: What it Takes

Aerosmith: What it Takes

Dave Bowler

Traces the rise, fall, and comeback of the 1970s heavy-metal band
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Frozen Fire

Frozen Fire

Tim Bowler

Fifteen-year-old Dusty gets a mysterious call from a boy who says he is going to kill himself, and while he claims to have called her randomly, he seems to know her intimately.
Storm Catchers

Storm Catchers

Tim Bowler

Filled with guilt over his younger sister's kidnapping, teenaged Fin tries to rescue her and in the process learns about a dark family secret.
Apocalypse

Apocalypse

Tim Bowler

Fifteen-year-old Kit and his parents must ground their sinking sailboat on a rocky island inhabited by a primitive sect who believe the stranded family has been sent by the devil.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Fast Bowler's Bible

Fast Bowler's Bible

Ian Pont

This fascinating book reveals the secrets of fast bowling and explains how it is possible to simultaneously bowl fast, straight and accurately.
Night Runner

Night Runner

Tim Bowler

TimBowler is one of the UK's most compelling and original writersfor teenagers. Hewas born in LeighonSea and after studying Swedishat university, heworked in forestry, the timber trade, teaching,and translating before becoming a fulltime ...
Game Changer

Game Changer

Tim Bowler

TimBowler is one of the UK's most compelling and original writersfor teenagers. Hewas born in LeighonSea and after studying Swedishat university, heworked in forestry, the timber trade, teaching,and translating before becoming a fulltime ...

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