Paul Carter Bücher

"At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was he f**k! With his manic life left far behind and the perfect opportunity to take it easy stretched before him what else would a middle-aged, bike obsessed, man want? Yes, that's right, he'd want to be the first guy to ride around Australia on an underpowered experimental motorcycle that runs on used chip fat, wouldn't he? (Preferably without getting hit by an articulated lorry full of bridge parts along the way - ) Is he out of his mind? Quite possibly - Embark on a rollickingly funny, downright dangerous and often unhinged quest that starts on an environmentally friendly motorcycle built on a shoestring budget by students, and ends with a plan to land speed record for biofuel-powered motorcycle. Carter is at his balls-to-the-wall best: prepare to laugh out loud"--Publisher's description.

A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia; lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. And that's just his day job. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions, not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet, Paul has worked, got into trouble, and been given serious talkings to, in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatra, Vietnam and Thailand, and as flat-out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet.

Albert Einstein ist in den Augen der Öffentlichkeit längst zu einem Idol und überragenden Genie geworden. Doch bisher geschickt verheimlichte und erst in den letzten Jahren ans Licht gekommene Quellen aus dem Privatleben des wohl berühmtesten aller Wissenschaftler zwingen zu einer Revision des gängigen Einstein-Bildes. Es wird deutlich, dass Einsteins Leben nicht nur von der Wissenschaft geprägt war, sondern in hohem Maße auch von Frauen, auf die er eine geradezu magische Anziehungskraft ausübte. Die Autoren lüften den Schleier der Geheimhaltung und Mystifizierung, der Albert Einstein immer umgab, und liefern so das Porträt eines faszinierenden Mannes, der trotz mancher Fehlbarkeiten nichts von seiner Großartigkeit verliert.

Reminiscences of the Queen Mother and her life during a two-year stint, 1994-1996 as by an officer of the Irish Guards who was an equerry in her household.

Highly illustrated, with images drawn from a wide range of cultures, historical periods and media, this book offers a roller-coaster ride through parrots in literature, jokes, folklore, mythology, film, TV and children's stories worldwide, as well as an examination of parrot conservation, talking bird experiments and parrot portraiture.

Focusing on the politics and poetics of renaming colonial placenames to Indigenous ones, this practice-based exploration draws on case studies from Western Australia. It engages with international critical toponymy theory and traditional etymological methods, highlighting the complexities of meaning, reference, and cultural equivalence involved in the renaming process. The author emphasizes how these changes provoke essential discussions about identity and representation within the context of post-colonial discourse.

Focusing on the overlooked cultural and intellectual histories of the archipelago, this volume explores the evolving dynamics between governance and democracy. It engages with marginalized perspectives to enhance current discussions, shedding light on how these histories inform contemporary political landscapes.

Exploring the intersections of colonial anthropology, creative practice, and migrant ethnography, this work offers a deeply personal and candid autoethnography. Paul Carter's narrative provides insights into identity and cultural translation, blending scholarly analysis with artistic expression to reveal the complexities of migration and belonging.

Kniha obsahuje doplňkové aktivity, hry, křížovky, přesmyčky pro zpestření výuky angličtiny nebo pro zábavu doma. Součástí knihy je klíč správných řešení. - 3. díl