Crank it up

Crank it up
Author: Steven Gerrard
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526142791

Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male film star of the twenty-first century. This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of his work across a variety of media, including film, television, video games and music videos. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Statham’s career, from his distinctive screen presence to his style, branding and celebrity. Accessibly written, and featuring a contribution from Hollywood director Paul Feig, who worked with Statham on the 2015 action-comedy Spy, the collection will appeal to a wide audience of scholars, students and fans.

Crank It Up

Crank It Up
Author: Warren Otter
Publisher: Michael Hanrahan Publishing
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2013
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9780992328351

Do you own your own business? Are you happy with the growth profit? Are you profits sliding? Is it time to crank up your business from successful to very successful and lose the frustration? You Have a Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to Assist Your Own Wealth Creation. Acquisition is one of the most powerful ways to grow your business - faster and more cost effective than organic growth alone. A strategy long employed by large companies, rewards can be large and immediate for small to mid-size companies if done strategically, and by avoiding common pitfalls. Crank It UP simplifies the process of successful acquisition into 5 easy steps so that businesses can grow through acquisition whilst still running the day-to-day business. From understanding your purpose & goals, developing a strategy, identifying quality and strategic targets, financing, negotiating, finalizing and integrating to maximum benefit Crank it UP steps you through all you need to know to maximize the potential of your already successful business. Enhance your lifestyle, free up your time to spend with those you love, and develop a legacy for future generations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Warren Otter is a successful and award winning company owner with a Business Degree in Accounting, is qualified as a CPA, and holds a Masters in Business Administration.Warren utilised the power of acquisition to grow his manufacturing business, fivefold, whilst in a low growth sector. This has lead to the development of a proven strategy which assists private businesses grow profitably in a short period of time.Warren believes so strongly in the benefits of this strategy that he now works alongside other businesses owners & CEO's who are forward thinking, energetic to take their company to the next level of growth, profit and professionalism.

American Slang

American Slang
Author: Joseph Melillo
Publisher: Mottobene Inc
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2005
Genre: Americanisms
ISBN: 1594040176

This compilation of American slang contains more than 5,000 common slang terms with easy-to-understand definitions and sample sentences. The book's unique classification of slang terms under key words makes it easy to search for and discover any term. By organising terms this way, slang terms that share a common key word can be classified together for easy reference. For example, under the key word 'Chip,' the following terms are alphabetically listed: bargaining chip, blue chip, cash in one's chips, chip in, chip off the old block, chip on one's shoulder, in the chips, let the chips fall where they may, and when the chips are down. Slang terms with more than one key word are also cross-referenced, and sample sentences lend meaning to the slang terms by showing their applications in writing and in conversation.

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang

Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780304366361

With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Fallout

Fallout
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442471808

Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.

Will

Will
Author: Will Self
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802146422

Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written. Will spins the reader from Self’s childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, and, finally, a surreal turn in rehab. Echoing the great Modernist writers of the early twentieth century in its psychedelic stream of consciousness, Will is vividly imagistic and mordantly witty. It is both kunstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author’s own lack of . . . will.

Crank

Crank
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1442471816

Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into addiction.

Perfect

Perfect
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416983252

In this riveting and startling companion to "Impulse," northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 1001
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0393073491

The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.

Crank Palace: A Maze Runner Novella

Crank Palace: A Maze Runner Novella
Author: James Dashner
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books/Quest Imprint
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

"Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the other, the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined."--Publisher's description.