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Odd-Shaped Balls: Mischief-Makers, Miscreants and Mad-Hatters of Rugby (Mainstream Sport)
Odd-Shaped Balls captures the humor, the agony, and the ecstasy of one of the world's most popular sports, rugby. The book is no less than a who's who of the game, with both old and young getting the opportunity to have their say. It looks at players such as Max Boyce, Keith Wood, Sean Fitzpatrick, Austin Healy, and Bill Beaumont and his streaker. All exponents of surrealism, comic genius, and savage wit, they offer a quirky insight into the sporting psyche as well as provide some riotous good laughs. With hundreds of funny stories, Odd-Shaped Balls is a light-hearted romp through decades of rugby tomfoolery that is guaranteed to put a smile on the face of all sports fans. .
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With Christmas in Honduras: Men, Myths, and Miscreants in Modern Central America
Over the last twenty years, Lucius Shepard has carved out a unique place for himself in American literature, a hard-to-classify territory between fantasy and literature that is infused at once with a strong political sensibility, a sense of history, and elements of fantasy. His first work of nonfiction, With Christmas in Honduras revolves around Shepard's time spent in Central America over the last thirty years and his fascination with Lee Christmas, a real-life soldier of fortune instrumental in establishing the United Fruit Company. Christmas, a Louisiana railroad engineer who wrecked his train in the United States, fled south to Honduras to find work and wound up becoming a general in the Honduran army. he and his asstant, "Machine Gun" Guy Malony, were tremendously influential in Central America and the United States, together becoming major players in the fruit company's transition from business enterprise to murderous oppressor. The twisted legacy of Christmas in today's Central America is recounted here as well — drug dealers, stranded American veterans of the contra war, and failed American businessmen who came to exploit the country. Interweaving these many threads with his own story, Shepard has created a classic of narrative nonfiction. .
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Miscreants: Poems
"A wonderful, fresh, and striking collection" (Eavan Boland) from the winner of the 2001 Gerald Cable Book Award.At the heart of this collection is an intense rendering of a young boy's murder and the lives of those who endured it. Reminiscent of the work of B. H. Fairchild and Larry Levis, Miscreants investigates memory, family, violence, and the transition from boyhood to adolescence in the decaying, working-class towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania..
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Guided Miscreants: Liberalism, Myopias, and the Politics of Representation [An article from: World Development]
This digital document is a journal article from World Development, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: This paper reviews the political representation of the chronically poor within political liberalism. It highlights the problem caused by the theoretical expectation of formal institutional inclusion found in models of good governance and political development, and the widespread exclusion of the chronically poor from political institutions in practice. Moreover, the paper reviews how the discursive representation of the chronically poor in political liberalism undermines their agency and leads to flawed poverty reduction policy. The paper then offers an alternative approach to political development which proceeds from the reflexive subjectivity of ''the politics of everyday life'' in urban Zimbabwe. .
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