Welcome to London

Welcome to London
Author: Marcos Farina
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017-06
Genre: London (England)
ISBN: 9781908985811

Young visitors to London will discover the excitements this vibrant capital city has to offer through these beautiful, intricate illustrations. Playfully combining information about what to look for during your visit with magical unexpected twists, the images in this book bring the city to life in the most unexpected ways. Is that a bear riding in a taxi? Where is Sherlock Holmes going on that bus? As well as providing endless surprises, this delightful book features lots of fun activities to keep young travellers entertained as they explore their surroundings.

Moon Living Abroad London

Moon Living Abroad London
Author: Karen White
Publisher: Moon Travel
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1631211625

Writer and adoptive Londoner Karen White knows what it takes to make the move to London. In Moon Living Abroad London, she shares her seasoned advice on transplanting to this bustling English city. From obtaining visas and arranging your finances to finding employment and choosing schools for your kids, White uses her firsthand knowledge of London to ensure that you have all the tools you need to navigate the ins and outs of the relocation process. Packed with essential information and must-have details on setting up daily life, plus extensive color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps, Moon Living Abroad London will help you find your bearings as you settle into your new home and life abroad.

Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Author: Vassil Girginov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2013-11-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1136456341

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, the post-Games period and legacy. Written by a world-class team of international Olympic scholars, the book offers critical analysis of the social, cultural, political, historical, economic and sporting context of the Games. From the political, commercial and structural complexities of organising an event on such a scale, to the sporting action that holds the attention of the world, this book illuminates the key aspects of the 2012 Games, helping us to better understand the vital role that sport and culture play in contemporary global society. The book is divided into two volumes: Volume Two - Celebrating the Games, examines the period of competition and immediately afterwards, covering key topics such as: London welcomes the world - hospitality and the look of the games Experiencing the games -spectators, tourists, volunteers, shoppers, viewers Media and communications Running the games Creating Olympic celebrities Protesting the games Commerce, retail and consumption Documenting London 2012 in films and books The legacy of the 2012 Games for London, the UK and the Olympic Movement Richly illustrated with the personal accounts of key stakeholders, from sports administrators and politicians to athletes and spectators, and including essential data and evocative visual material, this book is essential reading for anybody with a personal or professional interest in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, global culture or the development of sport.

Welcome to Nowhere

Welcome to Nowhere
Author: Elizabeth Laird
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1509840486

Welcome to Nowhere is a powerful and beautifully written story about the life of one family caught up in civil war by the award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, shortlisted for the Scottish Teen Book Award and winner of the UKLA Book Award. Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm. But when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up with some young political activists, everything changes . . . Before long, bombs are falling, people are dying, and Omar and his family have no choice but to flee their home with only what they can carry. Yet no matter how far they run, the shadow of war follows them - until they have no other choice than to attempt the dangerous journey to escape their homeland altogether. But where do you go when you can't go home? '[Sings] with truth' - The Times 'A muscular, moving, thought-provoking book' - Guardian 'Humane and empathetic . . . an effective call to action' - The Sunday Times 'Powerful, heart-breaking and compelling' - Scotsman

Welcome to Everytown

Welcome to Everytown
Author: Julian Baggini
Publisher: Granta Publications
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1847089194

This study of an ordinary town in Northern England is “a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life…essential reading” (Guardian). What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define England’s national character, what might be called the nation's philosophy has remained largely unexamined until now. Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the outskirts of Rotherham as England in microcosm—an area that reflected most accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, its most typical mix of urban and rural, old and young, married and single. He then spent six months living there, immersing himself in this typical English Everytown, in order to get to know the mind of a people. It sees the world as full of patterns and order, a view manifest in its enjoyment of gambling. It has a functional, puritanical streak, evident in its notoriously bad cuisine. In the English mind, men should be men and women should be women (but it's not sure what children should be). Sympathetic but critical, serious yet witty, Baggini's account of the English as represented by this particular spot on its map is both a portrait of its people and a personal story about being an alien in your own land. “Baggini turns out to be a sensitive observer who takes people and places on their own terms. He is also good at examining his own prejudices and fears.”—Independent “An insightful and often amusing investigation of what it means to be English.”—London Review of Books

Welcome to the club

Welcome to the club
Author: DJ Paulette
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1526166895

In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda’s first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman’s perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.

Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Author: Christopher Redmond
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 237
Release: 1987-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0889241848

Christopher Redmond's fascinating account of Doyle's first trip to America has been reconstructed from newspaper accounts describing the places Doyle visited, from the Adirondacks to New York, Chicago, and Toronto. Despite the gruelling tour schedule, Doyle met dozens of the most important literary and social lights of America. Everywhere he went he was mobbed by public hungry for news of the man he had "killed off" a year earlier â?? Sherlock Holmes, who was front page news. In Redmond's lively narrative, which is based on letters, newspaper reports, and other newly unearthed sources, you will discover, as Doyle himself put it, "the romance of America."

Welcome to Our World

Welcome to Our World
Author: David Gairns
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2017-04-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1524520411

Yet I knew even then that this whole Melbourne to London thing was over the top. It was quite outrageous. Utterly preposterous. But I was a gonertotally, hopelessly bitten. Having an adventure is easy. Step 1drive down ones street. Step 2keep driving. Step 3stop at London! Welcome to Our World is about a comfortably settled David Gairns and his teenage son Will on one extraordinary drive from Melbourne, Australia to London, England through Asia in 2010. The spark that started it, their hopes, their dreams, their doubts and stresses are all here. It tells of Wills girlfriend Lauren who just kept on popping up and of father and son bonding or not bonding at all, as so happens. It is about a real journey and a life journey, of acting the fool and finding a life. Of the highs and the lows and of the joy of being alive, of so many generous strangers who helped along the way. They hope you enjoy the drive, the experience, the journey and the adventures they encountered everywhere.

Welcome to the Idiots

Welcome to the Idiots
Author: Phil Davies
Publisher: Vivlia Limited
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0995466211

A Business Memoir including 236 insights into the mistakes pitfalls and pratfalls of building a business

WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE

WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE
Author: Lee Kerr
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2016-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 132635633X

Have you ever wondered how it will all end? When the time comes and a shadow falls across our busy earth, where will you be and what will you be doing? When Armageddon interrupts your weekend shopping, and hell freezes over during your dinner party, who will you be with and will you be doing what matters most? This book isn't about the monsters that lurk in the night or a fatal dust cloud, or even what strikes from the skies above. No one knows for sure what has happened, but the masses that some might call the unprepared whisper about many horrors. As countries across the globe start to go dark, join those who are in the middle of their routine lives, as they suddenly find that their individual hopes and dreams mean very little - or do they now mean everything? As our modern world reaches the brink of collapse, experience ten different stories of survival, bold escapes, unspoken love and much more. Each of us get there differently but we all find one inevitable end.