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Boundaries: Real life can be stranger than fiction

Boundaries: Real life can be stranger than fiction

Gavin McChristie

Independently Published
2019
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From an Inspiring new Author Amazon Reviewers Feedback - Powerful and emotional read, will have you laughing out loud and nearly crying. Pacey short chapters make the story, based on true events, vivid main characters, captivating and difficult to put down. What hope do you have when no one believes in you?Tough-talking and ready with his fists, Mickie didn't exactly have the best start in life. Growing up in the 80s in a rough Glaswegian suburb where no one's heard of dyslexia, his teachers view him as a lost cause, while his parents despair. When the only available entertainment is breaking into cake vans and hotwiring construction vehicles, Mickie's future looks bleak.The only shining light in his life is his best friend, Angus. Struggling just as much with literacy, Angus manages to rise above his disability to prove you can achieve against the odds. Angus is an inspiration, but can Mickie follow his example and build a better life, or will he lose himself in a world of drugs, gang violence, and crime?Boundaries: Real Life can be Stranger than Fiction, is perfect for those who love reading heart-breaking biographies with a hint of Trainspotting, The Breakfast Club, and The Godfather. In this crime fiction based on real events, Gavin McChristie takes you on a whirlwind journey of emotion and self-discovery that will leave you breathless.Order your copy today and lose yourself in this incredible story of one man's fight against all odds to save himself for the sake of his son.
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The Comfort of Stone

The Comfort of Stone

Gavin G Dillard

IngramSpark
2023
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"The Comfort of Stone-field notes on a course in life" is the sixteenth book from Gavin Geoffrey Dillard - poet, playwright, songwriter, librettist, and comedy writer to the stars. Though the book is in poetic form, including free verse, koans, haiku, and traditional waka form, "The Comfort of Stone" also is a journal of three years on the poet's small tea farm in Southern Appalachia, capturing the seasons and their foibles, the dramas of the woods and field and their critters, and life with seven obstreperous kitties. Once a gay icon and noted romantic poet, Dillard now turns to paganism, naturism, and Taoism for emotional content, spiritual edification, and poetic flavor. Having been described as a cross between Rumi and Gary Larson, Gavin sets his noetic wits on the tribulations, myths and magic of forest and farm life. From the author of "In the Flesh-Undressing for Success," and the award-winning opera, "When Adonis Calls," come more tales of flesh and spirit in rural America.
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Long John Silver and the Lemurian Gold

Long John Silver and the Lemurian Gold

Gavin Chappell

Independently Published
2019
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No overgrown devilfish gets between Long John Silver and his booty John Silver has retired to a pirate paradise in Madagascar, renouncing his adventurous life on the high seas. The appearance of a ship from England changes his plans. Lady Arabella Smythe is searching for her missing husband, last heard of in the Indian Ocean, seeking the lost continent of Lemuria. The only clue to Lord Smythe's current location is the name of a man he previously encountered-Long John Silver Silver only agrees to guide her ladyship when he learns of the priceless treasure in the temple of the Lemurian squid god. Can Lady Arabella trust this rascally old seafaring man? What horrors will they encounter on the lost isle? And what is the destiny of the mysterious savage who accompanies them, the man the pirates call Tattoo?
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The Patch: Our life in Missouri

The Patch: Our life in Missouri

Gavin Gene McKinley

Independently Published
2019
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This book tells a story of one family's home, (not just a house) the building of a family in the face of impossible difficulties. It explains how life can be difficult, but difficulty does not exclude good relationships.
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Time: : A Collection of Moments and Memories

Time: : A Collection of Moments and Memories

Gavin J. Herber

Independently Published
2019
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A collection of Moments and Memories; a shared time we have all had. We all have memories of what we have done in our past and we all have moments we reflect on regarding they are good or bad. We live this life to share these moments and to create these memories. As time passes us by and after all we have done and been through, we don't have much to off of to remember what we have done. Moments and Memories are what we have. No pictures, no letters, no recordings can shed light on what we have done. All are wonderful ways of capturing our lives, but our minds are the ones that we hold onto. No matter who took the picture or recorded the event or wrote a story about it... only our minds will be able to show just exactly how alive we were. This book is not only about me shedding light on my life by the stories I wrote, but also it is to show how precious our minds are and how grateful we are to have this mind. It gives us purpose and allows us to relive the moments we have shared and to relive through our memories we have created. Time is precious. Time is rare. Time is reliving. Time is life.
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Twinning Tales

Twinning Tales

Gavin Thomson

Independently Published
2019
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Part of a series of short stories for children ages 4-8 based on reduplication phrases. Twinning endearing animal characters, these stories are imaginatively written by Gavin and beautifully illustrated by roSS to example each phrase and appeal to both old and young alike...this story twins a kiwi and a kakepo - Dingle & Dangle
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The Age of Annoyance: Managing Our Frustrations with Information Overload

The Age of Annoyance: Managing Our Frustrations with Information Overload

Gavin Jocius

Lulu.com
2011
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Like it or not, we live in the age of annoyance. Technology, electronic communications, gadgets, airline travel - as it all gets easier, it also seems to get exponentially more annoying. Annoyance is described as an unpleasant mental state that can lead to emotions such as frustration and anger. Sound familiar? When was the last time you yelled at your "stupid computer" or got frustrated that your smartphone could not find a signal? The Age of Annoyance is designed to help people make sense of the crazy world we now live in and better understand why we seem to lose control so easily when dealing with technology.
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Understanding the Archaeological Record

Understanding the Archaeological Record

Gavin Lucas

Cambridge University Press
2012
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This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become both too fragmented and disconnected from the particular nature of archaeological evidence. The book examines three ways of understanding the archaeological record - as historical sources, through formation theory and as material culture - then reveals ways to connect these three domains through a reconsideration of archaeological entities and archaeological practice. Ultimately, Lucas calls for a rethinking of the nature of the archaeological record and the kind of history and narratives written from it.
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Failure and the American Writer

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

Cambridge University Press
2014
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If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the culture at large. Through Jones's treatment, these American writers emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge and negative feelings.
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Failure and the American Writer

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

Cambridge University Press
2014
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If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the culture at large. Through Jones's treatment, these American writers emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge and negative feelings.
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The Law of the List

The Law of the List

Gavin Sullivan

Cambridge University Press
2020
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The spread of violent extremism, 9/11, the rise of ISIL and movement of 'foreign terrorist fighters' are dramatically expanding the powers of the UN Security Council to govern risky cross-border flows and threats by non-state actors. New security measures and data infrastructures are being built that threaten to erode human rights and transform the world order in far-reaching ways. The Law of the List is an interdisciplinary study of global security law in motion. It follows the ISIL and Al-Qaida sanctions list, created by the UN Security Council to counter global terrorism, to different sites around the world mapping its effects as an assemblage. Drawing on interviews with Council officials, diplomats, security experts, judges, secret diplomatic cables and the author's experiences as a lawyer representing listed people, The Law of the List shows how governing through the list is reconfiguring global security, international law and the powers of international organisations.
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Hindu Monotheism

Hindu Monotheism

Gavin Dennis Flood

Cambridge University Press
2020
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If by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo), as in the Abrahamic religions, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, sustains it and ultimately destroys it before causing it to emerge once again, who is the ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this idea does develop within that history. It is a Hindu monotheism and its nature that is the topic of this Element.
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The Law of the List

The Law of the List

Gavin Sullivan

Cambridge University Press
2021
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The spread of violent extremism, 9/11, the rise of ISIL and movement of 'foreign terrorist fighters' are dramatically expanding the powers of the UN Security Council to govern risky cross-border flows and threats by non-state actors. New security measures and data infrastructures are being built that threaten to erode human rights and transform the world order in far-reaching ways. The Law of the List is an interdisciplinary study of global security law in motion. It follows the ISIL and Al-Qaida sanctions list, created by the UN Security Council to counter global terrorism, to different sites around the world mapping its effects as an assemblage. Drawing on interviews with Council officials, diplomats, security experts, judges, secret diplomatic cables and the author's experiences as a lawyer representing listed people, The Law of the List shows how governing through the list is reconfiguring global security, international law and the powers of international organisations.
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Storm and Sack

Storm and Sack

Gavin Daly

Cambridge University Press
2024
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During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in the siege warfare of the Napoleonic era. Using soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs, Gavin Daly compares and contrasts military practices and attitudes across British sieges spanning three continents, from the Peninsular War in Spain to India and South America. He focuses on siege rituals and laws of war, and uncovering the cultural and emotional history of the storm and sack of towns. This book challenges conventional understandings of the place and nature of sieges in the Napoleonic Wars. It encourages a rethinking of the notorious reputations of the British sacks of this period and their place within the long-term history of customary laws of war and siege violence. Daly reveals a multifaceted story not only of rage, enmity, plunder and atrocity but also of mercy, honour, humanity and moral outrage.
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