Daniel Gray

Where has the joy and relaxation gone from our daily lives? "Scribbles in the Margins"offers a glorious antidote to the relentless modern-day information churn. It is here to remind you that books and bookshops can still sing to your heart. Fifty warm and witty short essays of prose poetry are dedicated to the simple joy to be found in reading and the rituals around it: impromptu bookmarks, reading in bed and visiting someone's home and inspecting the bookshelves. "Scribbles in the Margins"is an attempt to fondly weigh up what makes a book so much more than paper and ink.

50 Eternal Delights of Books

Scribbles in the Margins

John Kuramoto

Gary Leib

The Art of Cartooning with FLASH (With CD-ROM)

Empezar un nuevo libro. Visitar otras casas y cotillear entre las estanterías. Recordar una lectura de la infancia. Dedicar una tarde a organizar la biblioteca. Leer en la cama. Esperar con impaciencia el siguiente de la serie... Existen innumerables pequeños y grandes placeres en el ritual de la lectura y todo lo que lo rodea. Y aunque a veces nos parecer complicado hallar ese momento para nosotros - cada vez estamos más saturados de información y acelerados -, sabemos lo mucho que obtenemos al parar y (re)encontrarnos con un buen libro, porque leer es mucho más que un pasatiempo. No hay nada mejor que descubrir en el tren a alguien leyendo tu libro preferido, o encontrar un objeto olvidado entre las páginas de esa vieja novela, o leer esa dedicatoria escrita sólo para ti. Esta obra es una carta de amor dirigida a los libros y a las librerías, a los amantes de los libros, a las muchas y a la vez universales formas de leer y a todas las delicias que sólo los buenos lectores conocen. Cincuenta momentos de felicidad relacionados con la lectura para celebrar el placer que nos une, para perderse y encontrarse.

Este libro te alegrará la vida : 50 placeres íntimos de la lectura

A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to club shops, floodlights, outfield players in goal and 47 other reminders of why we love football.

50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football

Saturday, 3pm

The practical book/disk introduction to computer-aided graphic design. Details what users need for excellent results and includes dozens of hands-on examples and tutorials to get users productive--fast. The book is highlighted by expert electronic art tips and advice.

The Practical Guide to Computer-aided Graphic Design

Inside CorelDRAW!

'A paean to football before the days of big money and soulless stadia.' - The i Goalkeepers in trousers, proper division names, turf patterns, pixelated scoreboards and, of course, Saturday evening pink newspapers... They were the gritty stardust that made football sparkle. Here, 50 such wonders are drawn together with evocative charm before they slip from memory forever. Dedicating a chapter to each wonder, Daniel Gray's pieces read more like love letters than essays. Here is a sentimental meander beneath main-stand clocks and through streets where children still play football. Written in the same wistful and whimsical style as Gray's much-admired previous book, Saturday, 3pm, the unashamedly nostalgic Black Boots and Football Pinks will warm the heart and prompt fond sighs of recognition. Gray's words preserve on paper the relics and minutiae of a shared obsession and identity. They make yesterday's football feel within touching distance, and offer cosy refuge from a boisterous game and world.

50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game

Black Boots and Football Pinks

Alan McCredie

Ally Palmer

Scenes and Stories from the Heartlands of Scottish Football

Snapshot!

John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of late-industrial and post-industrial Scotland. His collection is a remarkable portrait of a way of life that has now all but vanished. His drive to act as a witness to Scotland's industrial empire, and its steady disintegration, took him to every corner of the country.John's photography produces an exhaustive and objective record. Yet it also reveals remarkable and poignant glimpses of domestic life - children playing in factory ruins, high-rises emerging on the city skylines, working men and women dwarfed by the incredible scale of an already crumbling industrial infrastructure.In A Life of Industry, author Daniel Gray tells John's story, and the story of what has been lost - and preserved.

The Photography of John R Hume

A Life of Industry

David Walker

Elliott Johnson

The Historical Dictionary of Marxism includes a chronology, introductory essay, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary provides over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, political parties and movements, and major communist or ex-communist countries. This book is an excellent access point for students and researchers.

Historical Dictionary of Marxism

Linda Chavez

A critical assessment of today's labor union activities reveals how union leaders spend billions of dollars in mandatory membership dues to further their own interests, identifying labor leaders and politicians who support the unions' legislative programs in exchange for campaign contributions. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics

Betrayal

Marxism, one of the few philosophies that turned into an effective movement, was not so long ago the official ideology (in one form or another) of much of humanity. It was initially promulgated by the Soviet Union, then imposed on Central and Eastern Europe, later emerged in the People's Republic of China, and gradually spread to other parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Although declining in popularity, the movement still remains in power in several countries and is supported by numerous parties and countless individuals around the world. The A to Z of Marxism covers, in a comprehensive manner, the history of Marxism and its philosophers and schools of thought. It contains a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on basic terms and concepts as well as significant people, parties, and countries.

The A to Z of Marxism

Empezar un nuevo libro, visitar otras casas y cotillear entre las estanterías, recordar una lectura de la infancia, el olor de los libros, dedicar una tarde a organizar la biblioteca, leer en la cama, esperar con impaciencia el siguiente de la trilogía... Existen innumerables pequeños —y grandes— placeres en el ritual de la lectura y todo lo que lo rodea. Pues aunque quizás cada vez nos parezca más difícil encontrar ese momento para nosotros —cada vez estamos más distraídos y "conectados", más saturados de información y acelerados—, sabemos lo mucho que obtenemos al parar y (re)encontrarnos con un buen libro, el pequeño paraíso que supone en nuestro día a día. Porque leer es mucho más que un pasatiempo. No hay nada mejor que descubrir en el tren a alguien leyendo tu libro preferido, o encontrar un objeto olvidado entre las páginas de esa vieja novela, o leer esa dedicatoria escrita sólo para ti. Esta obra es una carta de amor dirigida a los libros y a las librerías, a los amantes de los libros, a las muchas y a la vez universales formas de leer y a todas las delicias que sólo los buenos lectores conocen. 50 momentos de felicidad relacio- nados con la lectura para celebrar el placer que nos une, para perderse y encontrarse.

50 placeres íntimos de la lectura

Este libro te alegrará la vida

Noire Est la Couleur

Steve Bain

Steve Bain is a contributing editor to Online Design. Looking Good Online gives step-by-step instructions on making ordinary Web designs extraordinary and avoiding typical pitfalls. The CD-ROM includes a toolkit for blossoming online designers and samples from online professionals.

The Ultimate Resource for Creating Effective Web Designs

Looking Good Online

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La part des ténèbres

A charming ode to footballing years gone by.

Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football. Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. He discovers how the provinces made the England we know, from Teesside's role in the Empire to Luton's in our mongrel DNA. Moments in the histories of his teams come together to form football's narrative, starting with Sheffield pioneers and ending with fan ownership at Chester, and Gray shows how the modern game unifies an England in flux and dominates the places in which it is played. Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is a wry and affectionate ramble through the wonderful towns and teams that make the country and capture its very essence. It is part-football book, part-travelogue and part-love letter to the bits of England that often get forgotten, celebrated here in all their blessed eccentricity.

Travels through England’s Football Provinces

Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters

“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.” Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the foremost authorities on America’s labor unions. Now, in the explosive new book Betrayal, she and fellow union expert Daniel Gray expose the corrupt bargain between the labor movement and the Democratic Party. Committed to a far-left political agenda—and to enhancing their own power—union bosses funnel at least half a billion dollars into Democratic coffers every year. And they do it, illegally, by using dues money that workers are forced to pay as a condition of their employment—dues money that each year brings the unions $17 billion, all of it tax-free. What do labor bosses get in return? The power to call the shots in Democratic campaigns and on party policy, extraordinary influence at all levels of government, billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal grants, and special legal privileges that leave them free to act as they please, no matter the consequences for the American people. The cycle of corruption is seemingly endless. Chavez and Gray name names, exposing the many politicians who are in Big Labor’s pocket—including the leading lights of the Democratic Party. Betrayal also reveals: • Big Labor’s all-out efforts in the 2004 election, including how just one local union has launched a $35-million campaign to unseat President Bush • How corrupt union officials use members’ hard-earned money to fund lavish lifestyles—and how their Democratic supporters let them get away with it • How unions flout the law by failing to report any of their political spending to the IRS • How a government report uncovered the Democrats’ sellout to Big Labor—but how the unions and the Democrats sued to keep the report from going public • How the U.S. government lets unions practice legalized terrorism against American citizens • How public-employee unions extort concessions from the government and put Americans at risk by refusing to provide vital services like policing and firefighting • How Americans now live under a system of legal apartheid—one set of rules for labor bosses, another for the rest of us All of us foot the bill for this corrupt system. Now it’s up to us to do something about it.

The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, 'Homage to Caledonia' examines Scotland's role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so profound. The book moves chronologically through events and places, firstly surveying the landscape in contemporary Scotland before describing volunteers' journeys to Spain, and then tracing their every involvement from arrival to homecoming (or not). There is also an account of the non-combative role, from fundraising for Spain and medical aid, to political manoeuvrings within the volatile Scottish left. Using a wealth of previously-unpublished letters sent back from the front as well as other archival items, Daniel Gray is able to tell little known stories of courage in conflict, and to call into question accepted versions of events such as the 'murder' of Bob Smillie, or the heroism of 'The Scots Scarlet Pimpernel'. Homage to Caledonia offers a very human take on events in Spain: for every tale of abject distress in a time of war, there is a tale of a Scottish volunteer urinating in his general's boots, knocking back a dram with Errol Flynn or appalling Spanish comrades with his pipe playing. For the first time, read the fascinating story of Caledonia's role in this seminal conflict.REVIEWS: As seen on STV Documentary 'The Scots Who Fought Franco''Daniel Gray has done a marvellous job in bringing together the stories of Scots volunteers - in [this] many-voiced, multi-layered book' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY'...moving and thought-provoking.' THE HERALD'A new and fascinating contribution' SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS'Book of the week - Gray deserves applause for shining a light on a lesser-known aspect of the nation's character of which we should all be proud. 'PRESS &p; JOURNALBACK COVER: Thirty-five thousand people from across the world volunteered to join the armed resistance in a war on fascism. More people, proportionately, went from Scotland than any other country, and the entire nation was gripped by the conflict. What drove so many ordinary Scots to volunreer in a foreign war? Their stories are powerfully and honestly told, often in their own words: the ordinary men and women who made their way to Spain over the Pyrenees when the UK government banned anyone from going to support either side; the nuses and ambulance personnel who discovered for themselves the horrors of modern warfare; and the people back home who defied their poverty to give generously to the Spanish republican cause. Even in war there are light-hearted moments: a Scottish volunteer drunkenly urinating in his general's boots, enduring the dark comedy of learning to shoot with sticks amidst a scarcity of rifles, or enjoying the surreal experience of raising a dram with Errol Flynn. They went from all over the country: Glasgow, Edinburgh. Aberdeen, Dundee, Fife and the Highlands, and they fought to save Scotland, and the world, from the growing threat of fascism.

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