The 10 Best of Everything

The 10 Best of Everything
Author: Nathaniel Lande
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2012
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1426208677

The ultimate travel guide offers an updated series of top-ten lists covering top sporting events, locations, hotels, restaurants, and Sunday afternoon excursions and more than thirty extraordinary trips and expeditions on every continent.

Right, Said Fred

Right, Said Fred
Author: Andrew Flintoff
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788703065

When social distancing is over, can people still keep their distance? I only do the things I like now, rather than the things I should - is that alright? And these days, why has everyone got an opinion on everything and insist on sharing it? Oh. Scratch that one. From one of Britain's most-loved national treasures, comes a much-needed Bible of straight-talking honesty and sharp observational humour: following an unprecedented time of collective global insanity, Freddie is ready to impart his effortless charm, wit and wisdom on a wild array of topics. From the significant: climate change - maybe it's our time to go? To the time-worn: what even is political correctness and has the world really gone mad? To the essential: just what do you get when you receive the coveted Toby Carvery Gold Card? In Right, Said Fred, Freddie takes you on a whirlwind tour of his brain as he ponders more of life's most unfathomable questions.

Lifted

Lifted
Author: Hilary Freeman
Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1848121482

Shoplifting and blogging . . . now Robyn's a celebrity. Robyn is a compulsive shoplifter - with a difference. Everything she steals, she donates to charity shops, then blogs about it anonymously. She doesn't need to steal, but shoplifting gives her a buzz like no other. Soon everybody's talking about the mystery blogger. At last Robyn has the fame she craves - only one person knows who she really is, and he's sworn to secrecy . . . Will Robyn risk everything by revealing her true identity - is fame worth any price?

Handbook on Crime

Handbook on Crime
Author: Fiona Brookman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1124
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317436741

The Handbook on Crime is a comprehensive edited volume that contains analysis and explanation of the nature, extent, patterns and causes of over 40 different forms of crime, in each case drawing attention to key contemporary debates and social and criminal justice responses to them. It also challenges many popular and official conceptions of crime. This book is one of the few criminological texts that takes as its starting point a range of specific types of criminal activity. It addresses not only 'conventional' offences such as shoplifting, burglary, robbery, and vehicle crime, but many other forms of criminal behaviour - often an amalgamation of different legal offences - which attract contemporary media, public and policy concern. These include crimes committed not only by individuals, but by organised criminal groups, corporations and governments. There are chapters on, for example, gang violence, hate crime, elder abuse, animal abuse, cyber crime, identity theft, money-laundering, eco crimes, drug trafficking, human trafficking, genocide, and global terrorism. Many of these topics receive surprisingly little attention in the criminological literature. The Handbook on Crime will be a unique text of lasting value to students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, journalists and all others involved in understanding and preventing criminal behaviour.

Shopping, Place and Identity

Shopping, Place and Identity
Author: Peter Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2005-09-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134733917

Engages in key debates in contemporary consumption and identity studies, yet presents a firmly grounded study that will complement the more speculative writing about shopping, place and identity that has developed in recent years.

Sister Beneath the Sheet

Sister Beneath the Sheet
Author: Gillian Linscott
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448300886

It’s springtime in Biarritz, France – and playtime for Edwardian society. But the fashionable crowd is shaken by the suicide of a high-class prostitute, Topaz Brown, who has left her fortune to England’s suffragette movement. Suffragette Nell Bray is sent to Biarritz to protect the money and keep its embarrassing source private. She gets more than she bargained for, however, when she learns that Topaz’s death may not have been suicide at all. She’s also busy tracking one of her wilder suffragette sisters, who arrives unexpectedly in town with a gun in her bag and her sights set on an MP. As her investigation takes her through Biarritz’s tawdry slums and elegant boulevards, Nell may have taken on more than she can handle.

Shopping

Shopping
Author: Jenny Shaw
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0745638627

This book enables readers to realize the significance of their shopping memories and milestones. From a cultural perspective, Jenny Shaw explores how shopping is viewed, the history behind its 'fall from grace', its part in the common culture, its role in helping us craft new identities, hold on to old ones, adjust to change, and generally 'hold us together' both as individuals and communities.--[book cover]

London Secrets

London Secrets
Author: Thomas Bruce Wheeler
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2003-04-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0595314759

London is the most popular international destination for North American travelers. However, its size and variety of sites and events can be daunting. "London Secrets" was written by a London expert to offer tips and "secrets" for the first time visitor. The book's chapters range from what to do before you leave home, to a dictionary of British words and phrases. In between, there are tips on: how to get from the airport, sightseeing, museums and galleries, churches, Roman and medieval sites, shopping, theater, and even where to go for afternoon tea or a romantic dinner. London has something for everyone, and "London Secrets" will help you find the places and events that match your interests. The book offers practical advice. To get the most out of it, read "London Secrets" before you leave home, and highlight the places and events you want to see. Next, buy a pocket magnifying glass. After you arrive in London, purchase a modern street guide (for which you will need the magnifying glass), and a TravelCard for unlimited travel on London's Underground and Red Buses. Then, enjoy--London awaits you! Thomas Bruce Wheeler is the owner of London Secrets, a company that produces custom-made London guidebooks from a 300,000-word computer database. He and his wife live in Memphis, TN, and have visited London once or twice a year, for over 25 years. If you are a Sherlock Holmes fan, read Mr. Wheeler's "Finding Sherlock's London," It will be a perfect companion to "London Secrets,"