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Punching Above their Weight

Author : Sean McGoldrick
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847178073
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Punching Above their Weight written by Sean McGoldrick and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland's amateur boxing story is one of blood, sweat and tears – and not just in the ring. Ireland is one of the world's leading nations in the sport. This is the inside story of a great tradition – a story of physical prowess, gritty determination, devastating defeats, sheer bad luck, infamous 'he was robbed' judging decisions, and the ultimate goal of Olympic glory. The boxers' lives play out against a backdrop of the economic woes of the 1950s, the Northern Ireland Troubles, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the Soviet Union. Sean McGoldrick shines a spotlight on Ireland's 'Medal Factory', the sometimes-contentious High Performance Unit, which has nurtured Irish boxers on the road to winning seven Olympic medals. Punching Above Their Weight captures the rollercoaster ride of such legendary boxers and coaches as John McNally, Fred Tiedt, Barry McGuigan, Hugh Russell, Billy Walsh, Michael Carruth, Zaur Antia, Wayne McCullough, Paddy Barnes, Kenny Egan, Darren Sutherland, John Joe Nevin, and Katie Taylor, among many others. A countback of over seventy years of Ireland's 'sweet science'.

Punching Above Its Weight

Author : Adli Jacobs
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496989953
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Punching Above Its Weight written by Adli Jacobs and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Call of Islam, in many ways, was my youth. the year 1984, when the organization was founded, was also my matric year. Some of the first recruits for the organization came from my very own matric class; others were then recruited from my fellow first-year students at the University of Cape Town. Besides me, the other three founding members of the Call of Islam were Ebrahim Rasool, Shamiel Manie, and Farid Esack. Rasool was not just a fellow founding member; we grew up together, and our parents served on the same mosque committee. Esack was my principal from the As Salaam College in KwaZulu Natal, where I studied Islam in 1983. Manie and I were fellow members of the Muslim Student Association that gave us our grounding in seeing Islam broader than just religious rituals. Our circle before the founding of the Call of Islam met in the back rooms of our different family homes and when Esack hosted our get-togethers in his apartment. So we shared space, we shared money, and we even shared each other and rsquo;s clothes. It was no coincidence that our first rally should be at Primrose Park mosque, Masjidus Sabireen, as Primrose Park (in the Western Cape, South Africa) is where Rasool and I lived. We grew up in that mosque, and we knew all its successive imams and, of course, the mosque committee. Later, our first headquarters (for many years) would be the outbuildings of my parents and rsquo; home in Primrose Park, where we held our executive meetings, conducted our adult classes, and even made our banners. Allie Parker, our reliable and indulgent printer, had his printing works in a neighboring suburb in Greenhaven. It was therefore tempting to write a story of the Call of Islam, which is a personal account.

Punching Above Your Weight

Author : Glenn Twiddle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925728019
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Punching Above Your Weight written by Glenn Twiddle and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Always at War

Author : Thomas Colley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131443
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Always at War written by Thomas Colley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling narratives are integral to successful foreign policy, military strategy, and international relations. Yet often narrative is conceived so broadly it can be hard to identify. The formation of strategic narratives is informed by the stories governments think their people tell, rather than those they actually tell. This book examines the stories told by a broad cross-section of British society about their country’s past, present, and future role in war, using in-depth interviews with 67 diverse citizens. It brings to the fore the voices of ordinary people in ways typically absent in public opinion research. Always at War complements a significant body of quantitative research into British attitudes to war, and presents an alternative case in a field dominated by US public opinion research. Rather than perceiving distinct periods between war and peace, British citizens see their nation as so frequently involved in conflict that they consider the country to be continuously at war. At present, public opinion appears to be a stronger constraint on Western defense policy than ever.

Super Thinking

Author : Gabriel Weinberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533591
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Super Thinking written by Gabriel Weinberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! "You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've got to have models in your head." - Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models, and you can find them in dense textbooks on psychology, physics, economics, and more. Or, you can just read Super Thinking, a fun, illustrated guide to every mental model you could possibly need. How can mental models help you? Well, here are just a few examples... • If you've ever been overwhelmed by a to-do list that's grown too long, maybe you need the Eisenhower Decision Matrix to help you prioritize. • Use the 5 Whys model to better understand people's motivations or get to the root cause of a problem. • Before concluding that your colleague who messes up your projects is out to sabotage you, consider Hanlon's Razor for an alternative explanation. • Ever sat through a bad movie just because you paid a lot for the ticket? You might be falling prey to Sunk Cost Fallacy. • Set up Forcing Functions, like standing meeting or deadlines, to help grease the wheels for changes you want to occur. So, the next time you find yourself faced with a difficult decision or just trying to understand a complex situation, let Super Thinking upgrade your brain with mental models.

Sports Talk

Author : Colin McNairn
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525501534
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Sports Talk written by Colin McNairn and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's game on in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions, sayings and images that populate our everyday language! That's the challenge that this book takes on, using a playbook for each sport. It kicks off with an opening run through the game of football, then it's out of the gate with wire-to-wire coverage of horse racing. After going for the fences and covering all the bases in the sport of baseball, the ball is kept rolling, despite many a sticky wicket, through the long-running game of cricket. A blow-by-blow account of the sweet science of boxing is followed by play-by-play accounts of 35 more sports that have been added to the roster. At the finish line, the top three sports, are scored on their relative contributions to everyday language, and declared win, place and show. The discussion is enlivened by lots of sports humour and anecdotes along with quotations from sports personalities some of which may sound quite familiar, much like déjà vu all over again....

Fighting Talk

Author : Bob Jones
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775534391
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Talk written by Bob Jones and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 'A Low Blow' to 'Went the Distance', a fascinating and lively examination of the regular use of terms from the boxing ring in our everyday language. Have you ever stopped to notice how often your local newspaper or favourite magazine uses the terms 'On the Ropes', 'The Gloves Are Off' and 'Knockout Punch'? How often TV newsreaders will say that a politician has "Thrown His hat in the Ring', is a 'Big Hitter', is 'Taking it on the Chin', is 'Down for the Count' or has the 'Killer Instinct'? Knight of the realm, leading businessman, colourful and controversial commentator, and boxing aficionado Sir Robert — Bob —Jones certainly has. Over a period of years he made careful note of how often terms cropped up and then retraced their etymological origins in boxing history. The result is a lively, entertaining, and thought-provoking miscellany of boxing terms that are now part of our everyday English language. Some have strayed far from their original meanings, others are more frequently in use now than at any other time. Jones asks why that might be, and his answers are, well, a knockout.

Healthcare and Economic Restructuring

Author : Philip C. Aka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811695431
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Healthcare and Economic Restructuring written by Philip C. Aka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world. Specifically, the issue this book tackles revolves around how to repair Nigeria’s dysfunctional healthcare system through the medium of a healthier economy that provides sufficient revenue to meet the healthcare needs of citizens.

CRICKET IN CYBERSPACE

Author : DAVID ONGLEY
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book CRICKET IN CYBERSPACE written by DAVID ONGLEY and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket in Cyberspace covers the years 2002 to 2009 using selected works from the dongles.org blog. The author, pen name Dongles, is Australian but this book is not by any means restricted to Australian cricket. The blog covered on-field events but was far more than that. It explores major changes such as IPL as well as controversy, scandal, deaths, retirements and the significant players of the era. The blog was written for the love or cricket, not for payment. The author was no beholden to any publisher or employer and was free to write freely, as he saw it. The book combines humour with fresh and insightful interpretations of cricket in the 2000s. The book features 25 original illustrations to enrich the humour and meaning of the posts.

Leadership in Regional Community-Building

Author : Siti Darwinda Mohamed Pero
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811379769
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Leadership in Regional Community-Building written by Siti Darwinda Mohamed Pero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of political leadership as a driver in the process of regional community-building in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU). It considers under which conditions political leadership constitutes a driver of regional community-building and reconceptualises the very idea of political leadership in order to examine its role in a regional context. The book concludes that a comprehensive approach that incorporates political will, the capacity of individual leaders, state capacity, legitimacy, and summitry yields a deeper understanding of political leadership in regional bodies.

British Foreign Policy since 1945

Author : Mark Garnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317588991
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book British Foreign Policy since 1945 written by Mark Garnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Foreign Policy since 1945 brings a chronological approach to the study of British foreign policy since the Second World War in order to make the principal events and dynamics accessible within a broader historical and cultural context. The key features included in this book: a detailed chronological survey of developments in post-war British politics; an integrated discussion of foreign and domestic policy developments indicating connections and interlocking themes; illustrations of British foreign policy drawn from popular culture; analysis of Britain’s role in the world, particularly in regards to the UK’s 'special relationship' with the US and its decision to leave the EU; a range of in-text features including essay questions and seminar/discussion topics. This timely book will be essential reading for anyone interested in British politics, foreign policy analysis and British history.

European Air Power

Author : JOHN ANDREAS OLSEN
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346820
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book European Air Power written by JOHN ANDREAS OLSEN and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Air Power examines the current state of eight separate European air forces and their prospective air power capabilities in a manner that will appeal to a wide audience of air force enthusiasts. Included are perspectives from independent air power experts reviewing the air forces of France, Germany, Turkey, and Great Britain as well as from the leaders of the air forces of the Nordic nations, including Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Within the national security framework of threats and challenges, and against the seemingly universal backdrop of lower budgets for defense, the contributors present varying views on the types of air power capability a state should have and those it does not need. The contributors consider each air force separately and how each is structured to remain sustainable and efficient in accordance with its national strategic infrastructure.

Recalculating, 97+ Experts on Driving Small Business Growth

Author : JoAnn Laing
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 189969465X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Recalculating, 97+ Experts on Driving Small Business Growth written by JoAnn Laing and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECALCULATING, 97 EXPERTS ON DRIVING SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH offers strategic, tactical, tested solutions to a variety of problems and from a multitude of expert sources. These senior-level contributors are sector stakeholders, advisors, and practitioners. Their chosen topics address the most common issues, problems, and opportunities identified, continuously requested by readers to the editors of Small Business Digest during the past 15+ years. Many of the solutions have come from experts who have appeared in SBD’s publications, radio programs, and conferences. They were asked to write special 1000-word contributions for the book based on their expertise. Among the companies represented by senior level contributors are HP, Yellow Pages, Staples, GoDaddy, and Intuit. Topics covered range from better sales management to moving to the cloud to better financing options. Space is also devoted to management problems, benefits needs, and leadership issues. Each contributor brings a unique slant to common and not so common questions involving finance, sales, marketing, operation, technology, personnel management, and benefits maximization.

Peace Support Operations

Author : Eli Stamnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155064
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Peace Support Operations written by Eli Stamnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace Support Operations: Nordic Perspectives brings together Nordic academics working in the field of peace support operations broadly defined. It contains a collection of articles that present different theoretical approaches to the study of peace support operations and contribute to enhance the knowledge of the Nordic countries’ participation in such operations. Its case studies describe the development of peacekeeping forces from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland in the face of evolving threats to world security over the past sixty years, and how each country's reaction has differed. The conflicts covered in this study include the Cold War, the Balkan conflict, the first Gulf War and the Malawian ethnic conflict. Thus, it constitutes a contribution to the academic field in both a theoretical and an empirical sense. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Peacekeeping

Pushing the Envelope

Author : Caroline Taggart
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1843177714
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Pushing the Envelope written by Caroline Taggart and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing the Envelope, takes a wry and witty look at office jargon, uncovering the origins and meanings of many useful - and some not so useful - phrases that can be heard in the workplace and in everyday life.

The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement

Author : Colin Picker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509915400
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement written by Colin Picker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to learn about one of the new regional trade agreements (RTAs), the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), that has been operational since December 2015 and is now at the forefront of the field. This new agreement reflects many of the modern and up-to-date approaches within the international economic legal order that must now exist within a very different environment than that of the late eighties and early nineties, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created. The book, therefore, explores many new features that were not present when the WTO or early RTAs were negotiated. It provides insights and lessons about new and important trade issues for the twenty-first century, such as the latest approaches to the regulation of investment, twenty-first century services and the emerging digital/knowledge economy. In addition, this book provides new understandings of the latest RTA approaches of China and Australia. The book's contributors, all foremost experts on their subject matter within this field, explore the inclusion of many traditional trade and investment agreement features in the ChAFTA, showing their continuing relevance in modern contexts.

Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799824675
Total Pages : 1697 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the rise of big data and the internet of things, terrorist organizations have been freed from geographic and logistical confines and now have more power than ever before to strike the average citizen directly at home. This, coupled with the inherently asymmetrical nature of cyberwarfare, which grants great advantage to the attacker, has created an unprecedented national security risk that both governments and their citizens are woefully ill-prepared to face. Examining cyber warfare and terrorism through a critical and academic perspective can lead to a better understanding of its foundations and implications. Cyber Warfare and Terrorism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an essential reference for the latest research on the utilization of online tools by terrorist organizations to communicate with and recruit potential extremists and examines effective countermeasures employed by law enforcement agencies to defend against such threats. Highlighting a range of topics such as cyber threats, digital intelligence, and counterterrorism, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for law enforcement, government officials, lawmakers, security analysts, IT specialists, software developers, intelligence and security practitioners, students, educators, and researchers.