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The Hurricane: The Turbulent Life and Times of Alex Higgins

The Hurricane: The Turbulent Life and Times of Alex Higgins

Bill Borrows

Outrageous, gripping and ultimately emotionally wrenching, this is the definitive account of the one of the most charismatic and self-destructive figures ever to appear in British sport.
Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law

Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law

John Borrows

John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach.
Canada's Indigenous Constitution

Canada's Indigenous Constitution

John Borrows

With characteristic richness and eloquence, John Borrows explores legal traditions, the role of governments and courts, and the prospect of a multi-juridical legal culture, all with a view to understanding and improving legal processes in ...
Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism

Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism

John Borrows

Miigwech 1 An earlier version of the first chapter was published as John Borrows, 'Physical Philosophy: Mobility and the Future of Indigenous Rights,' in Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, ed. Shin Imai ...
The TalkSPORT Book of Premier League Legends

The TalkSPORT Book of Premier League Legends

Bill Borrows

DH QUOTE 'We love Jimmy Bullard. He's one of our favourite players, 'cos first and foremost it is quite clear that he just loves playing football. He loves everything about the game.' Helen Chamberlain, Soccer AM presenter, speaks for the ...
Snooker's World Champions: Masters of the Baize

Snooker's World Champions: Masters of the Baize

Luke Williams

Understandably, Reardon's irritation at sucha situationhas occasionally boiled to the surface:'Allyou [journalists] talk aboutis him, it'spathetic,' he complained toHiggins's biographer Bill Borrows. Forthemost part, though, he remains sanguine ...
The talkSPORT Book of Premier League Legends

The talkSPORT Book of Premier League Legends

Bill Borrows

In short, this book will not only provide great football memories of moments that won leagues, spared clubs from relegation, and drew stunned silence from watching crowds, but cause much controversy - just like talkSPORT itself.
Whose Side Are You On?

Whose Side Are You On?

Teddy Jamieson

3. Alex Higgins, quoted in Donald Trelford, Snookered (Faber & Faber, 1986). 4. For a full rundown on the highs and hells of Higgins's life you could do worse than read Bill Borrows's compellingbiography The Hurricane (Atlantic Books, 2002).
The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 Volume One

The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 Volume One

Michael Palin

TerryandI meet Bill Borrows of the ACTT – the film technicians' union – to ask about joining as directors (for our summer film). The union, which five years ago was all powerful, and held the crippling ITV strike in 1968, which got London ...
The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the ...

The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the ...

Trysh Travis

17. Sandage, Born Losers, 2. 18. The most thoughtful of the various Bill Wilson biographies is Matthew J. Raphael's Bill W. and Mr. Wilson. See also Cheever, My Name is Bill; Hartigan, Bill W.; and Thomsen, Bill W. 19. Raphael, Bill W., 61, ...
The Complete Michael Palin Diaries

The Complete Michael Palin Diaries

Michael Palin

Tuesday, April 11th Terry and I meet Bill Borrows of the ACTT – the film technicians' union – to ask about joining as directors (for our summer film). The union, which five years ago was all powerful, and held the crippling ITV strike in 1968, ...
Quicklet on Bill Bryson's Made in America: An Informal ...

Quicklet on Bill Bryson's Made in America: An Informal ...

Megan Yarnall

Megan Yarnall. Bryson worked in journalism before he started writing nonfiction ( Bill Bryson). Bryson has no published fiction works. Sources and Additional Reading Bill Bryson UK: Bill Bryson Biblio.com: Bill Bryson The Independent: Book ...
The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus

Brennan Manning

Grant Borrows' life has just taken a drastic left turn.
Passages Level 13 (reading Today And Tomorrow)

Passages Level 13 (reading Today And Tomorrow)

Isabel L. Beck

... out how the multi- talented Bill Cosby uses television as a teaching tool. Bill. Cosby. by Lynda Etkin Bill Cosby's appearance in "I Spy" was a breakthrough achievement. Television producer Sheldon Leonard saw Bill Cosby perform on a. 352.
Journal of Proceedings

Journal of Proceedings

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House bill to pay George M. France, 749, 800, 820. Senate bill to pay Henry C. Rawlings, 752, 829, 892, 1137. Senate bill making appropriation for Peninsula Horticultural Society, 754. House bill to pay claim of Oscar Paskell and others, 844.
National Geographic complete birds of North America

National Geographic complete birds of North America

Jonathan K. Alderfer

... L. Garrett BITTERNS, HERONS, AND ALLIES Bill Pranty Kurt Radamaker IBISE§ AND SPOONBILLS Bill Pranty, Kurt Radamaker STOR1
Good Afternoon Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner

Good Afternoon Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner

Bill Gardner

And many familiar faces have queued up to add their comments in this book which shows just what it is that makes Bill Gardner unique among the toughest and the greatest of them all.
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

Akhil Reed Amar

A professor of Constitutional law at Yale analyzes the history and meaning of each clause of the original Bill of Rights and shows how a later generation of abolitionists profoundly changed the Bill into the one Americans know today.
Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill ...

Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill ...

Francis Hartigan

Draws on interviews with Bill Wilson's wife to provide a close-up look at a man whose work transformed the lives of thousands of people but who led a complex, sometimes turbulent private life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Buffalo Bill Wanted!

Buffalo Bill Wanted!

Alex Simmons

But then a policeman is attacked and beaten—and the clues point to Buffalo Bill and one of his troupe, a Sioux warrior. As the plot thickens, Buffalo Bill turns to Sherlock Holmes for help, but the great detective is nowhere to be found.
Southern Pulp and Paper Manufacturer

Southern Pulp and Paper Manufacturer

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Second row, I to r: Mrs. R. E. Bell, Max Alvarez, Mr. & Mrs. H. W. Ramsey, Champion Papers Inc., Canton, N. C; Mrs. Tom Orr, Bill Shoemaker, Mrs. Bill Shoemaker, Bill Lloyd, Mrs. Bill Lloyd. Bottom row, I to r: Don Laduron, Mrs. Jack Vogelsang, ...
My Search for Bill W: Biography

My Search for Bill W: Biography

Mel B.

Mel B.'s search for Bill W. culminates in this book: a fascinating, in depth look at who Bill W. really was and how, from his own painful past and a strong bent for anonymity, he emerged as a powerful presence on the American scene.
The James Club And The Original A.A. Program'S Absolute ...

The James Club And The Original A.A. Program'S Absolute ...

Dick B.

(MN: Hazelden, 2001); Robert Fitzgerald, S. J., The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S.J. and Bill Wilson in Letters. (MN: Hazelden, 1995 ); Francis Hartigan, Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill  ...
The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

Arlie Hochschild

Before she made her decision, Nancy had claimed that Bill Beaumont, who lived two doors down the street, did half the housework without being reminded. Evan gave her Bill Beaumont, but said Bill was an exception. Compared to most men, ...
This Is the Book That I Borrowed

This Is the Book That I Borrowed

June Loves

A child borrows a book from the school library.
The Healing Power of Self Love: Enhance Your Chances of ...

The Healing Power of Self Love: Enhance Your Chances of ...

Oscar Bamwebaze Bamuhigire

Francis Hartigan, Lois Wilson's private secretary, revealed that by the time Ebby Thatcher, who was Bill's sponsor, died in 1966 from emphysema, Bill had tried to quit smoking for more than twenty years. Bill knew he had contracted ...
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out

Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out

Bill Graham

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

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