Product Description: Paul Woods spent 1972 as a VSO teacher of English at a government secondary school in Kaltungo, in north-east Nigeria. Based on letters he wrote, interspersed with flashbacks to the days of the early missionaries in Kaltungo and fast-forwarding to the present day, he describes the trials and tribulations of a volunteer teacher, including linguistic and cultural misunderstandings, a farcical public execution, tribal warfare at a school football match, supervising exams, catching cheats and preparing lesson plans retrospectively for a government inspection...read more

Product Description: This book offers practical suggestions for applying accepted principles of justice in resolving problems of violence and other discipline problems within schools. This book helps the reader develop a sound rationale for making policy and taking actions that reduce all kinds of discipline problems...read more

Product Description: Volume IV by the author of "When You Can't See The Trees For The Wood", "Swimming With A School Of Fish On 34th Street", and "Our Veteran Daze", offers new prose and poetry plus two short fiction pieces as a preview to an upcoming novel in progress.

Product Description: For three decades the Toronto Argonauts were a national joke: a team that not only lost most of the time, but usually did so in embarrassing fashion. The franchise bottomed out in 1981 with just two wins. But 1981 was not a complete disaster because, even while finding new and more creative ways to lose, the Argos were assembling many of the key components that helped the franchise return to excitement in 1982 and Grey Cup glory in 1983...read more

Product Description: Selected works from "When You Can't See The Trees For The Wood" and "Swimming With A School Of Fish On 34th Street", together with new poems and prose about veterans, the culture and counterculture surrounding military conflicts in this world...read more

Product Description: More prose and poems from the author of "When You Can't See The Trees For The Wood" continues to explore themes familiar to those who lived through the cold war years, the wall of sound, and America's involvement in Vietnam.

Product Description: Vlad the Impaler: Son of the Devil, Hero of the People not only brings to life one of history’s most compelling and brutal characters, but traces his bizarre afterlife. A hero to his countrymen, Vlad Dracula became a byword for dread...read more

Product Description: Terrorism - the imposition of, or opposition to, government with the threat or fear of force - is mostly regarded as a modern horror, implemented by bombs, hijackings and assassinations. But the origins of terrorism occur far back in the Middle Ages, when the forefathers of the modern world's most uncompromising terrorists - al-Qaeda and the Palestinian suicide bombers, laid down their murderous creed...read more

Product Description: Do you know how your government operates? What is your responsibility as a United States citizen? Author Paul Woods contributes his opinion on the current state of the US Government and its leadership, outlining a necessary, probable amendment to the United States Constitution that would curb the excess of Congress...read more

Product Description: This showcase of poems by Paul Woods offers a trip to the edge of the mind, and beyond. Sailing past life’s revolving stage, we experience the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of a fifteen-year-old in “Oh, Danny Boy”. We have a backstage pass to the dressing room of the mysterious Dr...read more

Product Description: One of the world's most versatile and engaging vehicles is celebrated in this Ludvigsen Library book. Conceived by Maurice Wilks of the Rover Motor Company as Britain's answer to the ubiquitous Jeep, the Land-Rover made its bow in 1948...read more

Product Description: This well-rounded collection brings together the best writing about Kurt Cobain’s life and music as well as the most revealing interviews made by Cobain during his brief career. The book also examines all the facts surrounding Cobain’s mysterious death, with each commentator offering a different take on the possible motivation behind his suicide...read more

Product Description: In the words of both the perpetrators of terrorism and their victims, God's Assassins explores what happens when a state turns on its citizens. Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta...read more

Product Description: This anthology presents the story of modern cinema’s most dynamic brotherhood duo, from their debut neo-noir Blood Simple through the lowlife comedy The Big Lebowski. What all these films show is that the Coen brothers deliver visually and verbally inventive and exciting films that keep their fans on tenterhooks waiting for their next movie...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This freewheeling study charts the controversial success of Tarantino's self-directed films (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown) and his notable screenplays (True Romance, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Till Dawn). The illustrated anthology includes interviews, essays, and reviews of Tarantino's career along with commentary by the director himself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The baby from hell is feared by everyone. Its sole mission in life is to create havoc, with exploding nappies, projectile vomiting, deafening screams and sobbing mothers among its specialities. This book takes a humorous look at the worst aspects of looking after a baby.

Product Description: The words and phrases in this revised text correspond with those used in Lonely Planet's "Indonesian Audio Pack". The phrasebook includes cultural background notes, extensive vocabulary and index, and a section on Indonesian cuisine.