Anything Is Possible is the inside story of Bournemouth's remarkable Championship winning season and tells how the smallest club in the division defied bookmakers, pundits and the Football League to emerge triumphant from a fiercely fought promotion contest and gate-crashed the richest league in the world.But that is just the end of the story! Only six years earlier, the club was on the brink of liquidation following a series of financial crises and points ...

Harry Redknapp spent 15 years at AFC Bournemouth, longer than at any other club in his colourful career. Yet his days at Dean Court have featured only fleetingly in his biographies to date. Now, with co-operation from Harry himself, the tale of his rise from washed-up winger to the country's brightest young manager is told for the first time.

The musical has been called "the most popular form of entertainment in the world." This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals through their long popularity, placing each show in historical and political context and analyzing it in detail.A chapter is devoted to how Golddiggers of 1933 (1933) and Stand Up and Cheer (1934) deal with the economic crises of the Depressions. Another addresses race issues by examining the p...

Standard Shipping Vessel (SSV) Forger is in orbit around Ossirius Minor, awaiting its latest cargo delivery. Pilot and captain, Don Creighton, is the only person on board.When the planet-side delivery vessel turns out to be an Ossirian intelligence ship, Creighton gets curious...and discovers his cargo isn't at all what he expected. Someone is out to get him; but who is it? And why? Is it because he recently became part-owner of the Forger?The Shareholder, a five-thousand w...

Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century. Calvinist doctrine views mankind as fallen, apt to engage in any number of imperfect behaviors. Calvinist humor, Dunne explains, consists in the perception of this imperfection. When we perceive that o...

Dizzy Pollen is at the top of his game as a jazz bandleader and trumpet player in 1930s San Francisco. When his group is booked for a multi-country tour of Europe, he sets out on what he knows will be the trip of a lifetime. The tour takes them to Romania, where Dizzy realizes he is just a few hours from his ancestral home in Moldova. Knowing little of his family history, he decides to investigate, and borrows a car in search of adventure.After bribing a drunken border guard, his c...

Two fractured musical souls meet amongst the perverse privilege of an English boarding school. Through rebellion, by forming a Rock band in the uniquely 'classical' musical environment they found themselves in, and by pursuing a life-long search for a lost autonomy, they take a mutual journey through tragedy, despair, hope, and hilarity to an eventual discovery of the consequences of a childhood stripped of the basic human emotional requirements of love, security, and a sense of identity. ...

Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been perceived by outsiders, the features that color their "national character," and how th...

Michael Sloan, co-creator of the classic 1980s TV show The Equalizer—now reimagined in a series starring Queen Latifah—presents an original story of the mysterious, former covert intelligence officer who helps desperate people who are in need of his unique and deadly skills."Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer."Robert McCall is a former covert operations officer for the CIA who tries to atone for past sins by offering, free o...

Con una población cada vez más longeva y un abanico de posibilidades más amplio para intervenir en nuestra biología, los problemas éticos que entraña la práctica médica han dejado de interesar solo a los profesionales de la salud y han pasado a ser objeto de inquietud y debate para la opinión pública. Esta breve introducción explora las cuestiones morales más controvertidas relacionadas con la atención sanitaria. Algunas de ellas, como la eutanasia, son muy antiguas, mientras que otras han...

The thrilling sequel to The Sword of Attila: "History buffs will admire the author's research as he recounts the final bloody decades of the Roman Empire." — Publishers Weekly476 A.D.: The Roman Empire, riddled with corruption and staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts, now faces its greatest challenge—not only to its wealth and prestige, but to its very existence.In his riveting novel The Sword of Attila, Michael Curtis For...

Dear flappable reader:Do you bristle at a handshake that resembles a limp fish? Do oblivious pedestrians bring you to the brink? What about museum gift shops, superfluous courtesy (do we need a gas pump to show us gratitude?), behemoth SUVS, or inexplicable operating manuals? Have you had it with screeching leaf blowers, beseeching telemarketers, escalating movie-ticket prices, or proliferating celebrity magazines? Is it children's choirs or karaoke singers, waiters bearing pepper g...