David Burke

Oh, la vache! Le voleur s'est fait epingler par le flic! (translation:) Wow! That thief got nabbed by the cop! (literal:) Oh, the cow! That thief got stapled by the cop! Sacre bleu! Even after years of trying to learn French, you still have trouble conversing with a native speaker. Why? Because everyday French is filled with slang and colloquialisms. Street French 1 is the first in a series of slang/idiom books that teach you how to speak and understand the real language used daily on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends. Entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, word searches, and "inside" tips will have you sounding like a native in no time at all.

The Best of French Slang

Street French 1

Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Heart of darkness

No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their lives, were shaped by this enchanting place. From natives such as Molire, Genet, and Anas Nin to expats like Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and Gertrude Stein, author David Burke follows hundreds of writers through Paris' labyrinthine streets, inviting readers on his grand tour. Unique in scope and approach, Writers in Paris crosses from the Right Bank to the Left and on to the Ile de la Cite as it explores the alleyways and haunts frequented by the world's most storied writers. Burke focuses not only on their writing, but on their passions, ecstasies, obsessions, and betrayals. Equally appealing to Francophiles and serious readers, this engaging book includes maps and more than 100 evocative photographs.

Literary Lives in the City of Light (Large Print 16pt)

Writers in Paris

The remarkable story of the Kuczynskis, a family of Soviet spies under cover in Britain

Agent Sonya, MI5 and the Kuczynski Network

Family Betrayal

You Know How To Survive A Disaster? If the answer is "NO," then the Disaster Survival Handbook is a MUST-HAVE! Proven Survival Medicine In a Post-Disaster World, You Can Worth Your Weight in Gold! As the Only Survivor of Medical Knowledge After a Disaster World, There is only one vital skill that very few survivors will have. Fighters and builders are significant, but there is no survivor as valuable and sought after as one who can aid in the event of illness or injury. As any good prepper knows, thinking ahead and planning ahead would make it possible for you to live a healthy and healthy life completely off the grid. The ability to take care of the sick and injured? This is one of the most essential plans you can make. I've spent my life honing my own skills as a survivor, and now I'm here to show you how you can keep your precious ONES HEALTHY AND ALIVE Hello, I'm David Burke. I'm an expert survivor, and I've had a lot of practice living off the beaten track, making my way with nothing but a set of basic tools and my own experience to sustain me. I've studied the terrain and learned to do it, and now I'm here to put that experience to good use: to show you how to be an emergency response that you and your loved ones will need after a disaster. Give me one day and I'll DOUBLE Your Chances of Survival Give me a week and you'll have a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the crises you're likely to encounter in the post-disaster world. If you are searching for a comprehensive guide to all kinds of home remedies and survival-based medicine — look no further! Because you've already found it! Here in this book we cover everything from a minor headache to the treatment of critical conditions such as strokes and seizures! In this troubled world, we can't always rely on prompt emergency services. But this book gives you and your loved ones the extra edge you may need to survive. This comprehensive medical guide goes through major symptoms of illness and walks you through how to treat these diseases step by step. The book also lists vital essential oils and other home remedies that are sure to alleviate disease and improve recovery. Even if the power goes out, the hurricane hits, or you get caught in a blizzard, the information presented here can help to bring you back to health. You should get this book if you care about your health!

The Ultimate First Aid Manual To Survive Any Medical Emergency

Survival Medicine Guide

In the early 1970s, Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service, MI6, embarked upon a decade-long campaign to derail the political career of Charles Haughey. The English spymaster believed Haughey was a Provisional IRA godfather, therefore, a threat to Britain. Oldfield was assisted by unscrupulous British agents and by a shadowy group of conspirators inside the Irish state’s security apparatus, all sharing his distrust of Haughey. Escaping scrutiny for their actions until now, Enemy of the Crown examines more than a dozen instances of their activities. Oldfield was conspiratorial by nature and lacked a moral compass. Involved in regime change plots and torture in the Middle East, in the Republic of Ireland he engaged with convicted criminals as agent provocateurs as well as the exploitation of pedophile rings in Northern Ireland. He and his spies engaged in dirty tricks as they ran vicious smear campaigns in Ireland, Britain and the US. MI6 and IRD intrigues were deployed to impede Haughey's bid to secure a position on Fianna Fáil’s front bench and any return to respectability. London’s hateful drive against Haughey saw no let-up after Fianna Fáil’s triumphal return to power in 1977 which saw them win a large majority of seats in the Dáil. When Haughey sought a place at Cabinet, Oldfield and his spies devised more dirty tricks to impede him. While Haughey was suspicious of MI6 interference, he had no inkling of the full extent of London’s clandestine efforts to destroy him. By circulating lurid stories about him, they played a major part in trying to prevent him succeed Jack Lynch as Taoiseach in 1979. This book attempts to shed light on some of the anti-Haughey conspiracies which took place during the period of the late 1960s right through to the early 1980s.

The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey

An Enemy of the Crown

Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) is a new IETF protocol, providing a key enabling technology that eases the integration of speech technologies into network equipment and accelerates their adoption resulting in exciting and compelling interactive services to be delivered over the telephone. MRCP leverages IP telephony and Web technologies such as SIP, HTTP, and XML (Extensible Markup Language) to deliver an open standard, vendor-independent, and versatile interface to speech engines. Speech Processing for IP Networks brings these technologies together into a single volume, giving the reader a solid technical understanding of the principles of MRCP, how it leverages other protocols and specifications for its operation, and how it is applied in modern IP-based telecommunication networks. Focusing on the MRCPv2 standard developed by the IETF SpeechSC Working Group, this book will also provide an overview of its precursor, MRCPv1. Speech Processing for IP Networks: Gives a complete background on the technologies required by MRCP to function, including SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol), and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). Covers relevant W3C data representation formats including Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS), Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR), and Pronunciation Lexicon Specification (PLS). Describes VoiceXML - the leading approach for programming cutting-edge speech applications and a key driver to the development of many of MRCP’s features. Explains advanced topics such as VoiceXML and MRCP interworking. This text will be an invaluable resource for technical managers, product managers, software developers, and technical marketing professionals working for network equipment manufacturers, speech engine vendors, and network operators. Advanced students on computer science and engineering courses will also find this to be a useful guide.

Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP)

Speech Processing for IP Networks

Explores the popular expletives and obscenities used throughout France

The Best of Naughty French

Street French 3

Emmanuel Pierrot-Deseilligny

Studies of human movement have proliferated in recent years, and there have been many studies of spinal pathways in humans, their role in movement, and their dysfunction in neurological disorders. This comprehensive reference surveys the literature related to the control of spinal cord circuits in human subjects, showing how they can be studied, their role in normal movement, and how they malfunction in disease states. Chapters are highly illustrated and consistently organised, reviewing, for each pathway, the experimental background, methodology, organisation and control, role during motor tasks, and changes in patients with CNS lesions. Each chapter concludes with a helpful resume that can be used independently of the main text to provide practical guidance for clinical studies. This will be essential reading for research workers and clinicians involved in the study, treatment and rehabilitation of movement disorders.

Its Role in Motor Control and Movement Disorders

The Circuitry of the Human Spinal Cord

How many times you tried a natural remedy to cure some illness I bet, a lot! And not always with good results because of bad informations or prescriptions, but those that are effective seem to work like magic! And many of them can give you almost immediate relief from your symptoms. Herbal remedies have carved their own niche in today's medical world because they have been found to be as effective as pharmaceutical remedies; probably even better. Moreover, herbal remedies are relatively affordable compared to pharmaceuticals. It is also good to know some of the best herbal remedies for common illnesses. We Live In The Internet Age, Where It's Easy For Just About Anyone To Give You Two Cents On How To Live A Healthier Life. After researching 1,000 natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies and testing my findings on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of natural "cures" are completely false. But those that are effective seem to work like magic! And many of them can give you almost immediate relief from your symptoms. Now, you can get access to my vault of natural cures and home remedies that you can find in your own kitchen cupboard-supported by thousands of hours of scientific research... For the past 18 years, I've seen the power of all natural home remedies and treatments at work in my own natural healing clinic. I believe that everyone deserves the ability to heal themselves in a safe, cost-effective manner-something that is increasingly difficult to do with modern medicine's drug-saturated philosophy. I have set up this book so that you can make informed choices about the best way to treat your illness using safe and effective natural home remedies. Why trust me now? Not only are all my remedies guaranteed, but I have the experience and training that you can feel confident about... What You Will Learn: Introduction To Herbal Medicine Herbal Medicine History How To Grow Your Own Herbs Herbal Remedies For Anxiety, Depression, And Stress Herbal Remedies For Pain Relief Herbal Remedies For Weight Loss Herbal Remedies For Common Ailments Herbal Remedies For Skin Conditions And many more.... This book discusses some of the best remedies on the market and describes how to prepare some of those remedies at home. Among the remedies discussed are ginkgo, garlic, ginseng and chamomile. There are more herbal remedies discussed in this book that would have been of great benefit to you. It also includes how to survive in the wild by knowing which plants are to be eaten.

The Complete Guide to Know, Grow and Use Organic Healing Herbs for Meditation, Self-healing Techniques, Holistic Self-care and Other Natural Remedies for the Entire Family.

Herbal Medicine Guide

Richard Brown

Qaiser Julius

Theological education is at a global crossroads. Although many traditional programmes struggle to maintain student enrolment, today’s environment gives exciting opportunities to serve the global church in ways that are multi-level, accessible, and educationally effective. TEE for the 21st Century utilizes missiological, educational, and sociological perspectives to explore theological education by extension (TEE) as a powerful contemporary tool for equipping the global church for its global mission. Multi-authored by a global team of discipline experts, brought together by the Increase Association, this book speaks to the real-life training needs of today’s church. Addressed to leaders, teachers, and practitioners, it offers a robust framework for critically evaluating the impact of TEE on the formation of whole-life disciples in a wide variety of contexts and locations. With a proven track record across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, TEE has a role to play in the future of the church, empowering every member to fulfil their God-given calling to ministry and mission.

Tools to Equip and Empower God’s People for His Mission

TEE for the 21st Century

This guidebook to Mediterranean France is a thorough trip planner with excellent and practical on-the-road tools, and memorable vacation mementos packed with all the photos you missed.

Mediterranean France

In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for the rest of his life. Fianna Fail endured decades of splits, turmoil and leadership heaves. Until now, no one has revealed the pivotal role of an IRA informer in the affair. The part he played became the best-kept State secret of the last half-century. The book also reveals a dirty tricks campaign by Britain’s Foreign Office to conceal the ancillary role of a British agent called Capt. Markham-Randall in the murder of Garda Richard Fallon on the eve of the eruption of the Arms Crisis.

The Hidden History of the Arms Crisis

Deception and Lies

If a French native told you that the new movie is a "turnip" (un navet), should you go see it? Or if a passerby calls you a "sausage" (une andouille), should you respond by saying thank you? The answer to both questions is an indisputable, "No!" But how would a nonnative speaker know this? Thanks to David Burke's newest book, there's no need "to hit your biscuit" (se frapper le biscuit; "to worry") any longer! The Street French Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus offers English equivalents and usage tips for over one thousand French terms, including slang words, idioms, proverbs, colloquialisms, and vulgarities. It also offers an extensive thesaurus featuring over one thousand French slang synonyms for common English words and phrases -- all destined to make you feel like an insider in no time.

Street French Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus

This important book will teach you how to make fire in the wild and find the food you need to survive. You're going to be able to fight for yourself and support any others you can come across! Bushcraft is a concept that many are becoming more acquainted with, as the need for people to learn the art of survival without modern conveniences grows. Our world is in chaos, and there always seems to be a threat of something big going on that will forever change the world as we know it. Those who have taken the time and effort to practice bushcraft will be the ones who will succeed in the new world. Those who are skilled in bushcraft will have a sense of self-confidence that those who have no idea how to live in the wilderness will not have. Experienced bushcraft people will know that they can handle whatever comes in their way and will not live in fear of the unknown and uncertain future. Those who know how to survive and thrive in the wild will be able to take care of their families and do what is necessary to ensure that their children have food in their stomachs and a good place to sleep at night. Studying bushcraft doesn't require any capital. It's something you can do just by going out in nature on a weekend. Reading, studying and practicing the skills you're going to need to survive doesn't cost a thing, but satisfaction and trust are priceless. What You Will Learn: Introduction What's The Distinction In Between Survival & Bushcraft? Bushcraft Water 15 Ways To Start A Fire Without Matches Foods Do You Know Which Poisonous Snakes Dwell In Your Area? How To Quest, Chef, And Eat Bears For Survival What To Do If There's Nobody To Find For You Survival: How To Find Real North Without A Compass Leading Survival Tools For The Wild And More….

Bushcraft 101 Basic Guide To Survive In The Wilderness Like An Expert! Kindle Edition

Bushcraft

The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 continues the book series with even more popular slang and idioms that will help you understand any American!The 3rd book in the series introduces you to popular slang and idioms used in a variety of situations including dating ¿ everything from the pick up (¿beginning of a relationship¿) to the break up (¿end of a relationship¿) and everything in between!Once you learn all the slang used in dating, you¿ll definitely know if someone is either hitting on (¿flirting with¿) you or just not into (¿not interested in¿) you!The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 3 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:Dating & RelationshipsEmergency SituationsTelevision & EntertainmentTeens & Students (Jr. High through University)Being Politically CorrectSports (Popular Terms Used in Daily Conversations)Foreign Words that Americans Use Every DayAlliterations & Repeating WordsThe Slangman Files ¿ a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories

The Complete Course in American Slang & Idioms

The Slangman Guide to Street Speak 3

Michael Frayn

In a brilliant coda to the play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn receives mysterious letters that take him back to the theme of his bestselling novel, Headlong -- human folly, this time his own. Michael Frayn's Copenhagen has established itself as one of the finest pieces of drama to grace the stage in recent years. The subject of the Tony-winning play is the strange visit the German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg made to his former mentor, scientist Niels Bohr, in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen and the quarrel that ensued. Heisenberg's intentions on that visit, for good or for evil, have long intrigued and baffled historians and scientists. One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, Frayn received a curious package from a suburban housewife, which contained a few faded pages of barely legible German writings. These pages, which she claimed to have found concealed beneath her floorboards, seemed to cast a remarkable new light on the mystery at the heart of play. As more material emerged -- specifically notes that appeared to give instructions on how to put up a table-tennis table but perhaps containing important encoded information -- actor David Burke, who was playing Niels Bohr, began to display extreme, even suspicious interest in Frayn's growing obsession with cracking the riddle of the papers. And Frayn, for his part, lost all sense of certainty. Was he the victim of an elaborate hoax? By turns comic and profound, The Copenhagen Papers explores the conundrum that is always at the heart of Frayn's work -- human gullibility and the eternal difficulty of knowing why we do what we do.

An Intrigue

The Copenhagen Papers

The British government has taken steps to halt the prosecution of soldiers responsible for the deaths of civilians in Northern Ireland, most of whom had no connection to paramilitary activities. These killings were part of a ruthless dirty war that commenced in 1970 when Brigadier Frank Kitson, a counter-insurgency specialist, was sent to Northern Ireland. Kitson had spent decades in Britain’s colonies refining old, and developing new, techniques which he applied in Northern Ireland. He became the architect of a clandestine war, waged against Nationalists while ignoring Loyalist atrocities. Kitson and his colleagues were responsible for: • The establishment of the clandestine Military Reaction Force (MRF) which carried out assassinations on the streets of Belfast of suspected IRA members; • They unleashed the most violent elements of the Parachute Regiment [1 Para] to terrorise Nationalist communities which, they adjudged, were providing support for the Official and Provisional IRA; • Spreading black propaganda designed to undermine Republican but not Loyalist paramilitary groups; • Deployed psychological warfare techniques, involving the torture of internees; • Sent Kitson’s ‘Private Army’ – Support Company of 1 Para - to Derry where they perpetrated the Bloody Sunday massacre. The British Widgery and Saville inquiries did not hold Kitson and his elite troops accountable for Bloody Sunday. Kitson’s Irish War lays bare the evidence they discounted: Kitson’s role in the events leading up to and surrounding that massacre; evidence from a deserter from 1 Para who joined the IRA; a deceitful MI5 agent; a courageous whistle blower whom the British state tried to discredit, and much more, all of which points to a motive for the attack on the Bogside. This book unlocks the some of the key secrets of the Dirty War that the British government is still determined to cover-up.

Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland

Kitson’s Irish War

Sophisticated travelers know it is impossible to really speak French without some guide to the subtle nuances of idiomatic expressions. Here is a book filled with expressions heard everyday in taxicabs, offices, in movies or on the streets.

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