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Do Spies Win Olympic Medals?: Sports, Games and Gambling : ...
Peter RydingThis volume looks at the impact of evergreen activities - sports, games and gambling - upon the way we talk and the things we say. Peter Ryding takes us from cricket to roulette via some very tricky and diverting tangents.
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and ...
More editionsAgainst Alice Weedow, widow, Thomas Tickle and Ellen his wife, John Johnson and Elizabeth his wife, Richard Johnson and Mary his wife, Robert Ryding and Anne his wife, Nicholas Blundell and Margery his wife, Peter Ryding and Anne his ...
The Primitive Church Magazine
ReadThe sentence passed upon Peter and Adolph Monster (after the first had heen in prison nine months, and the other three), and upon Peter Ryding, " for assemhling in an organised congregation, without having ohtained supreme permission," ...
Did Romans Design the Space Shuttle?: The Roman Empire, ...
Peter RydingAn amusing, fascinating and intriguing description of the origins of everyday phrases, the titles in the 'Well I Never Knew That ' series reveals how many of our common expressions and sayings came to be.
Did Noah invent tennis?: an historic miscellany : ...
Peter RydingThe author presents a humorous journey through the English language, exploring the fascinating facts and phrases that make English so rich and exciting.
Delivering IT and E-business Value
Leslie WillcocksAccording to Peter Ryding, Managing Director of Unipart Information Technology: For a business application, we use cash flow and payback (for investment evaluation) . . . virtually all IT project investments have to be signed off by customers ...
Who put the 'great' in Great Britain?: the history of Great ...
Peter RydingThis volume looks at the legacy of British history in the way we talk and the things we say. It takes us from the departure of the Romans from Britain up to and including the Middle Ages.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom 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
Laurence J. PeterFrom 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 Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty 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
Lisa JewellPeter 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
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith 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 ...
Paul Dickson280 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 ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis
Peter TurchinMany people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac
Laurence J. PeterProviding support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
The Irish landed gentry
O''Hart JohnLord Lieutenant of Irelaan William* Ryding, b. at Charley, Lancashire, England, on 2nd January,. IV. Francis: the fourth son of John, No. 134; d. unmV. Walter, who d. nnm. VI. Gregory? who was a Lientenant in the Duke of Berwich''s Regiment. 1VII. Daniel. VIII. Joseph, who entered the Geman Service. The five daughters of John O''Byrne, No. 184, were: I. Mary,who m.Walter Blahney, Esq., of Ballycormaek, in the co. Gal-low. II. Frances, who m. Edward Master-son, Esq.. of Gatlctown ...
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time
Willie M. GrahamPeter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...
Jack J. GibsonJohn Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective
Peter HujarPeter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...
Josh FrankMaybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions
PreviewThe author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History
Christopher V. Hill... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics
PreviewBoettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
Haunted London
Peter UnderwoodPeter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...
Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...
PreviewBoettke, Peter, and Peter Leeson. 2004. “Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy.” Journal of Markets & Morality 7(1): 99–111. Boettke, Peter. 2009. “Institutional Transition and the Problem of Credible Commitment,” The Annual ...
Peter Hujar: night : [exhibition] Fraenkel Gallery, Matthew ...
Peter HujarIn the tradition of Brassai's Paris at Night, Peter Hujar's Nightbrings together 43 hauntingly beautiful images of New York City.
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