Paul Thompson Bücher

Annotation. Lover luck and larceny: memoirs from Broome, by Cambridge scholar John Thompson-Gray, recounts lives shaped by the Battle at Broome. The narrative spans thrilling events such as flying under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, sinking submarines, enduring POW camps, and surviving cyclones. It highlights the love stories of figures like Aboriginal-European sea Captain Alfred Brown, whose paternal affection serves as a guiding example, and missionary surgeon Dr. Jean Davies, whose life reflects Divine Love. The dedication of Shibata to the Zero fighter and Lamade to the USS Houston showcases the valor of flying sailors. New research unveils untold tales of luck, love, and grand larceny, emphasizing the heroism of women alongside their partners in six love affairs. Jack Palmer's beachcomber life turns into a Grand Larceny mystery as thirty thousand diamonds vanish from a downed plane. Readers are invited to join the investigation. Background stories feature Captain Lester Brain of Qantas, U.S. military personnel, lifesavers at Roebuck Bay, and overland rescuers to Carnot Bay, alongside Zero pilots and those lost or saved by the sea, all woven together in a rich tapestry of history and adventure.

'Must be regarded as an important step in rescuing Edwardian history from what he rightly calls "an academic limbo" ... combines the qualities of readability, breadth of focus, willingness to explain.' - TES

Utilizing qualitative techniques like life stories and family case studies, this book explores the dynamics of mobility while addressing key sociological questions. By employing a case-study approach, it analyzes collective processes and their local effects, reconnecting with foundational concepts in sociological thought. This examination provides a nuanced understanding of how mobility influences social structures and individual experiences.

Fritz, a recent escapee from Ivanov's Home for Orphaned Boys, becomes an apprentice in a powerful Wizard consortium called The Order. As he delves into a decade-old murder mystery, he inadvertently attracts deadly attention from a mysterious foe determined to silence him. With the stakes rising, Fritz must navigate threats not only to himself but also to his friends and family, all while uncovering the truth behind the murder.

In the early 1970s, the author spoke to 500 Edwardians who had been born between 1872-1906: domestics, laborers, skilled and semi-skilled workers, professionals and socialites from all parts of Britain describe their work, their leisure, their political attitudes and their environments at a time of critical social change.

`[A] beautiful expose on the complicity of management and an insightful typology of managerial regimes, distinguishing between managerial obsession with control, managerial indulgency and managerial trust' - Organization Studies

"This book presents a systems thinking approach to sustainability by answering questions on the meaning of sustainability in business, ecology, environmental quality, and economic development. Systems approaches to social injustice are developed. The sustainability of governance processes and achieving larger sustainability goals requires integrating the activities of NGOs, businesses, citizen groups, and standard setting and monitoring activities with more conventional actions of governments. The book includes a discussion of how practices in the sciences, education, religion, and the arts are changing in response to the need for improving sustainability. It ends with an exploration of the roles that individuals can play both as consumers and through partnering with others in social and political action"

The author offers advice on designing an oral history project; discusses reliability of oral evidence; considers the context of the development of historical writing including its social function; and looks at memory, the self and the use of drama and therapy. schovat popis

A Captive Elven Princess . . .In a time of war, a princess of Qualinost and an elite band of warriors sail forth to rescue their contrymen from the collapsing Ergoth Empire. Their journey goes awry when a strange mist engulfs Princess Vixa's ship and transports them to a phantom island.Who are the mysterious masters who imprison them in their undersea city?No soul has encountered the fabled Dargonesti or visited the city of pearl marble that rises from the sea floor -- and lived to tell the tale. Princess Vixa and her companions meet the race of sea elves, experience a fantastical underwater world, face a foe counted among the legends of Krynn, and accept an impossible mission that will bring them back to the land they call home.The DargonestiThe Lost Histories Series probes the historical roots and epic struggles of the heretofore little-known peoples of Krynn.