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Michael Duffy, Nick Hordern

The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld. In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling and other activities that made colorful characters such as Lennie McPherson, Abe Saffron and George Freeman wealthy and, to many, folk heroes. In Sydney Noir Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern revisit this dark yet fascinating chapter o...

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Michael Duffy, Nick Hordern

A gritty true crime exposé of Sydney's dark underbelly during WWII.World War Noir reveals the hidden side of Sydney during World War II, where crime and corruption thrived amidst the global conflict. Authors Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern delve into the city's underworld, exposing the unpatriotic behaviors of some Australians who prioritized personal gain over national duty.Discover the illicit activities that flourished in the shadows of wartime S...

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Michael Duffy

In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in South Vietnam. The perimeter of the massive Saigon Airbase, Tan Son Nhut, was breached, and fighting raged all morning.Both gritty and intimate, From Chicago to Vietnam tells the powerful story of the ensuing epic battle, the Tet Offensive, from the perspective of one brave American soldier, Michael Duffy, whose life, like so ma...

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Michael Duffy

Strike Force Tuno and this investigation is soon to be the subject of the fifth Underbelly television series, Underbelly: BadnessWhen Terry Falconer's dismembered body turned up in the Hastings River in 2001, detective Gary Jubelin was given the investigation to lead. Falconer had been a violent criminal, a police informer, and possibly a murderer. The suspect list quickly grew to 70 of the state's most hardened criminals, all of whom had wanted him dead.After a ye...

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Michael Duffy

In the four months of their affair, Kylie Labouchardiere and Paul Wilkinson exchanged over 20,000 text messages. She was a trainee nurse; he worked in the New South Wales Police Force. Although Wilkinson eventually killed his lover to save his marriage, his main weapon was always words. He was a frighteningly convincing liar and left a trail of devastation across the lives of many he met.The victims of Wilkinson's stories included his own family and those of his wife and his lover....

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Brendan Behan

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Joseph Ayre, Ewan Bailey, Samuel James, Gerard McDermott, Michael Duffy, John Hewitt, Brendan Coyle, Jonny Holden, Leah Marks, Louis Rolston, Michael Baguley, Brian Kidd, Anne Kent, Ann Callanan, Full cast

A collection of some of the rockstar playwright’s finest workBrendan Behan is widely remembered as a hard-drinking, wise-cracking writer who turned up roaring drunk for interviews and cared little for authority. But he was more than just a hell-raising celebrity. His wit, expressive use of language and understanding of human nature made his writing famous around the world, and his masterpieces The Quare Fellow, Borstal Boy and The Hostage rank amo...

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Michael Duffy

An easy to follow guide with extensive examples to explain Puppet's reporting capabilities to facilitate effective implementation of Puppet in the real world as a reporting tool.If you are a Puppet developer or a system administrator using Puppet, and you want to extend your expertise to manage and optimize your server resources, then this book is for you.

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Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy

The New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents—the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief.The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its members are bound forever by the experience of the Oval Office and yet are eternal rivals for history’s fav...

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Michael Duffy

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Profiles In Power

The Younger Pitt was a phenomenon: dead at 46, he was not only Britain's youngest but also the second longest-serving Prime Minister to date, acting as premier for 19 of his 25 years in Parliament. In examining this astonishing career, this incisive Profile focuses on the means by which Pitt gained and maintained his hold on power. It provides new information on Pitt's relations with the strong-willed George III; on the nature of his ascendancy over his cabinet colleagues; his management o...

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Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, The Preachers and the Presidents reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, kn...

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Michael Duffy, Carol Graham, Lois Lorentzen, Todd Sayre, Erin Brigham, John Coleman, James Hanvey, Peter Henriot, Thomas Massaro, Keally McBride, Frank Turner, Dr. Kristin Heyer

The Church in the Modern World: Fifty Years after Gaudium et Spes commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Featuring scholars from the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, this book offers a future-orientated analysis by highlighting contemporary social issues through the lens of Gaudium et Spes. In part I, authors examine the historical, political, and social significance o...

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Michael Duffy, Paul Swartout, joakim verona

Learn to use some of the most exciting and powerful tools to deliver world-class quality software with continuous delivery and DevOps Key Features\[\*\] Get to know the background of DevOps so you understand the collaboration between different aspects of an IT organization and a software developer\[\*\] Deploy top-quality software and ensure software maintenance and release management with this practical guide\[\*\] This course covers some of t...