The Scrapper

The Scrapper
Author: Brendan O'Carroll
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847174485

Dublin boxer Sparrow McCabe has the Spanish contender on the floor. The World Featherweight title is his for the taking. But something stops Sparrow from throwing that final punch and suddenly it's all over. Fifteen years later Sparrow is working as a driver for the gangster Simon Williams, trying to turn a blind eye to the scams, the extortion rackets and the rough justice handed out by Williams and his heavies. Then murder enters the picture and Sparrow decides to take a stand. This is one fight he cannot lose. From Brendan O'Carroll, author of the bestselling Mrs Brown trilogy and the BAFTA-nominated TV series Mrs Brown's Boys.

The Scrapper's Way

The Scrapper's Way
Author: Damodar Padhi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2024-01-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9356999872

So, you were not born with a silver spoon? You did not study in a 'well-known' school? You could not afford to go to a great college? You were not privileged enough to secure your dream job? Like it or not, but we live in an unequal world; life here does not promise fair treatment to every individual. If you were born lucky and could afford it all, this book can at best intrigue you a bit, but it is not really meant for you. If not, this is exactly the book you need. Welcome to the Scrapper's club. The only two things you need to be here are a dream to succeed and an urge to face life as it appears before you without whining. This book does not promise you the moon (and neither will it deliver any). For more than three decades, Damodar Padhi has used this time-tested and all weather resistant (read resilient) approach with great success. If you are someone who equates success to only money and power, keep the book back on the shelf and browse on. But if you are looking for success that includes financial freedom, happiness, and purpose, we are ON. The Scrapper's Way will take you through life's many crossroads and teach you the art of making sensible personal choices both at work and in personal life, and above all purpose to enrich every aspect of it. One part in every story as a behind-the-scenes memoir, the other part as the fuel to make you think; this book will lay out your own path to success in an unequal world.

Scrapper

Scrapper
Author: Matt Bell
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015
Genre: Criminal investigation
ISBN: 161695521X

Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in a part of Detroit known as "the zone," an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he's come to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly takes on the responsibility of avenging the boy's unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a confrontation with his own past, his long-buried trauma, memories made dangerous again.

Scrapper

Scrapper
Author: C.A. Bryers
Publisher: C.A. Bryers Books
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2015-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1508707022

Salla Saar was a promising explorer once, living a whirlwind life of adventure alongside his partner, Natke Orino. However, one bad day was all it took to shatter that life to pieces. Now, he’s a scrapper—a pirate riding the wild seas of the Odyssan Archipelago. His crew’s latest job is simple: escort members of a shadow syndicate called Gargazant Ikahn to a clandestine meeting, no questions asked. However, that simple job turns out to be but the opening gambit in a long-dead empire’s return to glory…and Salla has unwittingly played a part. There’s only one path to redemption, and that road leads him back into the past, to Natke. If he can’t set things right and stop the syndicate from reaching a lost city of untold power, there is only one outcome: WAR.

Transactions

Transactions
Author: Iron and Steel Institute
Publisher:
Total Pages: 858
Release: 1908
Genre: Iron industry and trade
ISBN:

The Anthropology of Precious Minerals

The Anthropology of Precious Minerals
Author: Elizabeth Ferry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-11-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1487517343

Why do people single out gold, sapphires, diamonds, and other minerals as particularly “precious”? What makes precious minerals “precious”? Drawing from ethnographic and cross-cultural research, this collection of anthropological essays and case studies answers these questions by exploring humans’ multifaceted relationships with the minerals they deem “precious.” The Anthropology of Precious Minerals addresses the entanglement of humans and minerals, with a particular focus on the practices of scrappers, miners, and hunters as they work to extract value. The editors draw from history, archaeology, and ethnography, and remind us that “preciousness” must always be understood in relation to complex cultural, political-economic, and semiotic systems of value.

Scrapper John

Scrapper John
Author: Paul Bagdon
Publisher: Avon Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1992-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780380764167

The Indians speak of the Valley of the Spotted Horses in hushed tones. It is said no man can capture a wild horse and leave the canyon alive. But Scrapper John, orphaned son of a rugged mountain man and an Indian woman, is in need of a horse.

Iron Age

Iron Age
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 870
Release: 1908
Genre: Hardware
ISBN:

Theory of the Atheist

Theory of the Atheist
Author: J. Devau
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1478765992

"Perfection doesn't come in a human shell. The Calibration will tell you that. The Calibration will tell you what you are is less—that you are flawed. But I know they're wrong. I can prove it. The only question is whether I can do it before my time runs out, and I no longer remember what it is to be human…" Enter a dystopian world where humans are given the opportunity to perfect one innate skill-set, a process known as calibration, and in so doing, they trade more and more of their humanity in their quest for perfection. This mass perfection is supposed to institute equality and eliminate conflict, concern, and judgment. But the system is far from equal. Citizens are given the "option" to assimilate within 22 years, or they are scrapped—scalped and uploaded—with the whole of their knowledge streamed into the collective and redistributed. No matter what, everyone will contribute. However, those rare few who remain uncalibrated cause uproar and chaos in the system, and while she'd like to think of herself as insignificant as she fights just to remain human, Noel Cambrian quickly becomes the spark that ignites utopia.