The Goalkeeper's Revenge

The Goalkeeper's Revenge
Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448203848

The Goalkeeper's Revenge is comprised of stories of a Lancashire childhood: of football on the streets, fishing, fighting and school, of growing up and looking for work, and of characters such as Spit Nolan the champion trolley-rider, Sim Dalt the goalkeeper and Maggie Gregory the amazing reader.

Spit Nolan

Spit Nolan
Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher: Creative Education
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1992-10
Genre: Coaster cars
ISBN: 9780886821227

A race between two coaster car competitors in England ends tragically.

My Pal Spadger

My Pal Spadger
Author: Bill Naughton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1977
Genre: Boys
ISBN: 9780460027687

The story of Bill and Spadger's progress from school to work in mill and mine in the Lancashire of the twenties.

Striker Boy Kicks Out

Striker Boy Kicks Out
Author: Jonny Zucker
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1781010285

Hatton Rangers's new golden boy, Nat Dixon is still basking in the glow of his dramatic end to the last Premier League season when the team are invited to play in a mini-tournament in Spain. Nat is still on edge trying to hide the truth about his age from his team-mates and the outside world, especially when he fears it might have been leaked. And he soon discovers that his host family in Spain are covering up a secret of their own. Can Nat get to the bottom of it before something disastrous happens? And who is the mysterious man following him? Meanwhile, on the pitch Nat faces a brute of a Spanish defender, who is determined not to let Nat show him up. Packed with action on and off the field, this is a high-energy adventure story.

Games, Strategies and Decision Making

Games, Strategies and Decision Making
Author: Joseph Harrington
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780716766308

This book on game theory introduces and develops the key concepts with a minimum of mathematics. Students are presented with empirical evidence, anecdotes and strategic situations to help them apply theory and gain a genuine insight into human behaviour. The book provides a diverse collection of examples and scenarios from history, literature, sports, crime, theology, war, biology, and everyday life. These examples come with rich context that adds real-world meat to the skeleton of theory. Each chapter begins with a specific strategic situation and is followed with a systematic treatment that gradually builds understanding of the concept.

A Bend in the Road

A Bend in the Road
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2001-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 075952582X

Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances -- only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past. Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.

Storytelling in Northern Zambia

Storytelling in Northern Zambia
Author: Robert Cancel
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1909254592

Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives. Robert Cancel's thorough critical interpretation, combined with these newly digitalised audio and video materials, makes Storytelling in Northern Zambia a much needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies that deal with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, reflexive description and simple documentation and succeeds in bringing to the reader a set of performers and their performances that are vivid, varied and instructive. He illustrates this living narrative tradition with a wide range of examples, and highlights the social status of narrators and the complex local identities that are at play. Cancel's study tells us not only about storytelling but sheds light on the study of oral literatures throughout Africa and beyond. Its innovative format, meanwhile, explores new directions in the integration of primary source material into scholarly texts. This book is the third volume in the World Oral Literature Series, developed in conjunction with the World Oral Literature Project.