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The Real Top Boys

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1787395707
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Real Top Boys written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of London's toughest, deadliest street gangs: the events, the rules and the real top boys. Are the streets of London some of the deadliest in the world? What's the truth behind the headlines? And who are the real top boys? Looking beyond the hit TV series, The Real Top Boys reveals the lives of the street gangs who have taken over, and now rule, dozens of corners of the UK's capital. Bestselling true crime author Wensley Clarkson takes us on a tour of the housing estates and volatile neighbourhoods where pride, rivalry and revenge are the codes people live and die by. He talks to the criminals who have helped create this chilling modern-day underworld and recounts the vicious turf wars that changed the map, unravels the rules and rights of the streets, and charts the rise and fall of many of the game's key players over the decades that have transformed the city. Featuring interviews with real-life gangsters and told in a gripping story that lays bare the hard life in this world, The Real Top Boys is the ultimate account of gang life in London and a jaw-dropping look at who really runs the streets.

Kieron Smith, boy

Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141919396
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Kieron Smith, boy written by James Kelman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing scheme on the outskirts of the city, a world away from the close community of the tenements, Kieron struggles to find a way to adapt to his new life. Warm, funny, with searing insight and astonishing empathy, in Kieron Smith, James Kelman has created an unforgettable boy.

Black Boys

Author : Clive Chijioke Nwonka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501352830
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Black Boys written by Clive Chijioke Nwonka and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British Urban Film, Nwonka offers the first dedicated analysis of Black British urban cinematic and televisual representation as a textual encounter with Blackness, masculinity and urban identity where the generic construction of images and narratives of Black urbanity is informed by the (un)knowable allure of Black urban Otherness. Foregrounding the textual Black urban identity as a historical formation, and drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks that allow for an examination of the emergence and continued social, cultural and industrial investment in the fictitious and non-fictitious images of Black urban identities and geographies, Nwonka convenes a dialogue between the disciplines of Film and Television Studies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Black Studies, Sociology and Criminology. Here, Nwonka ventures beyond what can be understood as the perennial and simplistic optic of racial stereotype in order to advance a more expansive reading of the Black British urban text as the outcome of a complex conjunctural interaction between social phenomena, cultural policy, political discourse and the continuously shifting politics of Black representation. Through the analysis of a number of texts and political and socio-cultural moments, Nwonka identifies Black urban textuality as conditioned by a bidirectionality rooted in historical and contemporary questions of race, racism and anti-Blackness but equally attentive to the social dynamics that render the screen as a site of Black recognition, authorship and authenticity. Analysed in the context of realism, social and political allegory, urban multiculture, Black corporeality and racial, gender and sexual politics, in integrating such considerations into the fabrics of a thematic reading of the Black urban text and through the writings of Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Judith Butler and Derrida, Black Boys presents a critical rethinking of the contextual and aesthetic factors in the visual constructions of Black urban identity.

Jaq, A Top Boy Story

Author : Ronan Bennett
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1805300717
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Jaq, A Top Boy Story written by Ronan Bennett and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR I’m going to tell you everything. I’m gonna tell you the whole story. Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought you’d get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything. Jaq’s worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringing in money to keep her broken family afloat. Now she’s built a good life near the top of the Summerhouse crew, with a beautiful home she shares with her girlfriend Becks and her heavily pregnant older sister Lauryn. But messages are coming in — good and bad — and Jaq has to make a choice: step back from the road and start a life she’s never even considered. Or seize her opportunities and risk everything for life-changing money. Either way, Jaq will make enemies. And those enemies aren’t going to let her go easily . . .

Best Boy: A Novel

Author : Eli Gottlieb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490486
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Best Boy: A Novel written by Eli Gottlieb and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and Library Reads A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection An IndieNext Selection A People Magazine Pick of the Week Winner of the Rome Prize Winner of the American Initiative for Italian Culture “The Bridge” Book Award Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence (Fiction) "Raw and beautiful. . . . What rises and shines from the page is Todd Aaron, a hero of such singular character and clear spirit that you will follow him anywhere. You won’t just root for him, you will fight and push and pray for him to wrest control of his future. You will read this book in one sitting or maybe two, and, I promise, you will miss this man deeply when you are done.” —Ann Bauer, Washington Post Sent to a “therapeutic community” for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the “Old Fox” of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new staffer and a disruptive, brain-injured roommate. His equilibrium is further worsened by Martine, a one-eyed new resident who has romantic intentions and convinces him to go off his meds to feel “normal” again. Undone by these pressures, Todd attempts an escape to return “home” to his younger brother and to a childhood that now inhabits only his dreams. Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic, adult man, Best Boy—with its unforgettable portraits of Todd’s beloved mother, whose sweet voice still sings from the grave, and a staffer named Raykene, who says that Todd “reflects the beauty of His creation”—is a piercing, achingly funny, finally shattering novel no reader can ever forget.

Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century

Author : Caroline Lusin
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823301357
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Community, Seriality, and the State of the Nation: British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century written by Caroline Lusin and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the 21st century, the television series has rivalled cinema as the paradigmatic filmic medium. Like few other genres, it lends itself to exploring society in its different layers. In the case of Great Britain and Ireland, it functions as a key medium in depicting the state of the nation. Focussing on questions of genre, narrative form, and serialisation, this volume examines the variety of ways in which popular recent British and Irish television series negotiate the concept of community as a key component of the state of the nation.

Screen Deep

Author : Ellen E. Jones
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057136943X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Screen Deep written by Ellen E. Jones and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life. In Screen Deep Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask - and answer - several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western? Is race comedy 'cancelled'? Where are all the films for white people? And most importantly: Can you still fight the good fight with a mouthful of popcorn?

Living My Best Life, Hun

Author : London Hughes
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538722453
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Living My Best Life, Hun written by London Hughes and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stand-up comedian, actress, and host of The Netflix Afterparty, London Hughes, comes an uplifting and raucously funny memoir to show you how to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving, and engage with your inner winner. London Hughes has come a long way from secretly writing Frasier fan fiction alone in her bedroom. Between her breakout Netflix comedy special, To Catch a D*ck, her dating podcast “London, Actually,” and her award-winning TV performances, London the South Londoner has taken the entertainment world by storm. And now, in this sassy, brash, fearless, and funny memoir, London is ready to inspire women of all ages and races with her story—because London is absolutely the best person in the whole wide world to take you on a wild journey of self-discovery. As she herself puts it: “I’ve always been funny. I’ve always been cute. I’ve always been confident. I was born to do this shit.” All her life, London longed to be a badass—an awesome bullet-proof woman who nobody could mess with. At a young age, she made sure she was ready to become a star, developing her own living-room popstar training regimen to prepare for her future life. But London also had her fair share of disastrous experiences in terms of friendships, relationships, and career choices. Each of the fiascos in London’s life has, with hindsight, proved to be a formative life lesson, and helped her grow into the fearless person she is today. You'll definitely be grateful these setbacks happened to her and not you, but you'll also learn that however bad things get, you can always build your self-worth, think long-term, and emerge triumphant, no matter what the world throws at you. From starring in a school sex education video called “Swings and Roundabouts” to being gushed over by a fan while standing next to the Renee Zellweger, London leaves no stone unturned in Living My Best Life, Hun. It took London some time to find her voice and her people, but now that she has, she's mentally high-fiving her 14-year-old self every day.

Phys Ed and Kids

Author : Phil Peirce
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
ISBN 13 : 1863111670
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Phys Ed and Kids written by Phil Peirce and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is written by a practising teacher for teachers, who will find it a useful resource, not only in programming lessons but also in the organisation of athletic carnivals, camps and outdoor education activities and the development of adventure playgrounds and fitness trails". - Foreword.

Two Worlds

Author : David Daiches
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847675247
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Two Worlds written by David Daiches and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by David Daiches with an additional essay, ‘Promised Lands’. In this captivating autobiography of his childhood and student years David Daiches recalls a unique period between the two world wars. There was something very special about the Scottish-Jewish interchange in those years. It has had its counterparts in other cultures yet few have been captured so vividly or with such insight peculiar to the very young. Daiches was one of the sons of Edinburgh’s chief Rabbi. In their home, a quiet dark hub of foreign faith, memories of light and festivity predominated. Illustrious visitors from every corner of the globe would call on the distinguished Rabbi and the sons of the house would argue cheerfully with these itinerant scholars and diplomats. School was Scottish, Presbyterian, with its characteristics smell of wood, chalk, ink and schoolbag leather. Daiches did not play games, sing hymns, wear the ubiquitous school shorts or socialise after school yet not only did he survive these tribulations, he excelled. ‘The two cultures of my childhood . . . I was equally at home in both. That was my good fortune and I have never ceased to be grateful for it.’ ‘Promised Lands’ is a moving memoir of the author’s father and a timely meditation on exile, pluralism and synthesis, and on the need to welcome and also to balance the vital cultural differences which show us what we are and how we all belong to the imagined community of Scotland.

I Wanted to Quit Too

Author : Hussain Manawer
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1399705814
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book I Wanted to Quit Too written by Hussain Manawer and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** An instant Sunday Times bestseller! ** The new book from two-time Sunday Times bestselling poet, Hussain Manawer, I WANTED TO QUIT TOO. Split into five parts - Health, Hustle, Help, Hope and Healing - and featuring exclusive poetry throughout from award-winning creative, Manawer, this groundbreaking anthology includes short stories and conversations from global household names and hometown heroes including photographer Greg Williams, actress Courteney Cox, actors Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Jay Ellis, YouTuber KSI, rugby union player Maro Itoje, singer-songwriter Sinead Harnett, amongst many others. The book is centred around powerful life lessons, where contributors share their experiences navigating difficult personal circumstances and how when weathering even the toughest storms, instead of giving up they have found the strength to move forwards. It is a powerful celebration of human resilience and love and will offer a vehicle for hope - for readers to create a better ecosystem for preserving their mental health and wellbeing.

Once a Week

Author : Eneas Sweetland Dallas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complementation

Author : Kaoru Horie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027299730
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Complementation written by Kaoru Horie and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementation, i.e. predication encoded in argument slots, is well-renowned for its syntactic and semantic variability across languages. As such, it poses a tantalizing descriptive/explanatory challenge to linguists of any theoretical persuasion. Recent developments in Cognitive and Functional-typological linguistics have enabled researchers to address various unexplored research questions on complementation phenomena. The seven papers included in this volume represent the most recent endeavors to explore cognitive-functional foundations of complementation phenomena from various theoretical perspectives (Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Typology, Discourse-functional linguistics, Cognitive Science). The seven papers are prefaced by an introductory chapter (Kaoru Horie and Bernard Comrie) which situates the current volume within the major complementation studies of the past forty years. This work presents a new theoretical venue of complementation studies and enhances our understanding of this complex yet intriguing syntactic and semantic phenomenon.

Swine Record

Author : American Hampshire Swine Record Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swine Record written by American Hampshire Swine Record Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Duroc-Jersey Swine Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Duroc-Jersey Swine Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scots at School

Author : Northcroft David Northcroft
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471374
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Scots at School written by Northcroft David Northcroft and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the defining Scottish experience? The Kirk, Scots Law, Hampden Park? There are several contenders, but school is the universal and enduring one. Stories and myths have clustered around its chief features:*Pupils as lads o' pairts.*Teachers as dominies.*The democratic intellect.*The village skweel.*Hard work, getting on and the power of the tawse.*Academic excellence and 'sticking in'.Telling the tale of Scotland's educational experience over the past 250 years, this book draws on the first-hand testimony of pupils, teachers and parents - with extracts taken from biography, local history, journal and oral interview, along with fascinating contemporary photographs.The anthologised material is accompanied by David Northcroft's narrative outlining the history of the distinctive Scottish school system. By drawing out key themes of identity, nationalism and 'democracy', he sets the claims that have traditionally been made for the system's excellence and independent spirit against the accounts of people's actual experiences.This history, enhanced by the personal stories of those involved, offers the reader a vivid account of the experience of Scottish schooling.Key Features:*Strong 'nostalgia' market for books of this kind.*Draws on broad range of personal testimony.*Includes extracts from Tom Devine, John Galt, Hugh Miller, Magnus Magnusson, Neil Munro, Alan Spence and T. C. Smout.*Each section is prefaced with an editorial introduction - taken together, they trace the Scottish educational experience over the past 250 years.

The Retirement of A.J. Wentworth

Author : H.F. Ellis
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 1788421817
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Retirement of A.J. Wentworth written by H.F. Ellis and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless schoolmaster. A. J. Wentworth, formerly teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passes his retirement years in a typically English rural village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble. Wentworth lurches from mishap to misunderstanding, whether at the Conservative Association or the local dramatic society, the cricket club dinner or the vicarage Christmas Party. His pièce de résistance proves to be the escorting of two schoolboys on a trip to Switzerland that unexpectedly detours into Italy. A comic study in blinkered English manners, the Wentworth Papers will delight fans of P.G. Wodehouse or Grossmiths' Mr Pooter. First introduced to readers in the pages of Punch magazine, it was later dramatized for both BBC Radio and ITV drama. Editorial reviews: ‘A splendid comic hero ... cannot fail to engage the sympathy of everyone who has ever sat in a classroom either as master or pupil ... Few books have made me laugh out loud quite so often.’ Evening Standard ‘I was often helpless with laughter. Not a book to be read in public.’ The Oldie ‘A truly comic invention.’ The Guardian ‘Masterly caricature.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Wentworth turns out to be the hero of a work certain to be pigeon-holed as a minor classic by which people usually mean a classic more readable than the major kind ... a man Mr Pooter would regard with awe but nevertheless recognise as a brother.’ Spectator ‘A book of such hilarious nature that I had to give up reading it in public.’ New Statesman ‘One of the funniest books ever.’ Sunday Express