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  • Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs...She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

    de Paul Carter ...
    'Great two-fisted writing from the far side of hell.' - John Birmingham, bestselling author of He Died with a Felafel in his Hand'A unique look at a gritty game. Relentlessly funny and obsessively readable.' - Phillip Noyce, director of The Quiet American and Clear and Present DangerPaul Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage.He's almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • This is Not a Drill

    Just another glorious day in the oilfield

    de Paul Carter ...
    Carter writes as if he has ADD, careering through his life on oil rigs in exotic locations. He won't win the Booker, but his yarns burn with anarchic energy ... in a word, irrepressible.' - Herald SunHe's back on the rigs and back in trouble.Picking up right where he left off, Paul Carter pulls out more tall tales of a mad, bad and dangerous life in the international oil trade. Starting with ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

    Detours into mayhem

    de Paul Carter ...
    More of Paul Carter's hugely entertaining stories of his seriously crazy, sometimes terrifying, always hilarious adventures.Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name.Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • Is That Thing Diesel?

    One man, one bike and the first lap around Australia on used cooking oil

    de Paul Carter ...
    The next eagerly awaited, high octane, seat-of-your-pants adventure from the author of the bestselling Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse) sees (the surely a bit bonkers) Paul Carter circumnavigating Australia on a bio-diesel motorcycle.At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • This Is Not A Drill

    Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield

    de Paul Carter ...
    The outrageous sequel to Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far side of civilization - hilarious, full of humour, colourful characters and dramatic action! Just another glorious day in the oilfield for Paul Carter! He s stuck in the middle of the Russian sea on a rig staffed by a crew from Azerbaijan. The choppers ... Leer más

    $198 MXN

  • Is that Bike Diesel, Mate?

    One Man, One Bike, and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil

    de Paul Carter ...
    Oi, mate, is that monstrosity diesel? From the author of the bestsellers Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse and This Is Not a Drill, this is the eagerly awaited next installment of Paul Carter's rollicking life.Take one mad adventurer and a motorbike that runs on bio fuel (cooking oil i.e. chip fat to you and me) and send them with one filmmaker on a ... Leer más

    $235 MXN

  • Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs

    (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)

    de Paul Carter ...
    A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the ... Leer más

    $198 MXN

  • Beyond the Tree

    Beyond The Tree, #1

    de Paul Carter ...
    Series Libro 1 - Beyond The Tree
    Beyond the Tree explores how place, people, and structured data can transform family history into a deeper, richer journey. Drawing on years of experience and the development of the software Name & Place, Paul Carter shares the principles that help researchers move from names on a tree to meaningful stories rooted in time and place. With practical examples, clear thinking, and a deep respect for ... Leer más

    $130 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Naming No Man’s Land

    Postcolonial Toponymies

    de Paul Carter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case-studies in Western Australia, the study develops a lively dialogue with international critical toponymy theory and with older etymological approaches to place renaming and legitimation. The author shows how renaming raises fundamental questions of ... Leer más

    $2,538 MXN

  • Meeting Place

    The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence

    de Paul Carter ...
    In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting. While disciplines such as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

  • Tales of a Country Doctor

    de Paul Carter ...
    One cold winter night, on my way to have dinner with friends, I got stuck in traffic. There had been an accident at the lights ahead. As I sat there in the dark and the wet, waiting for the mess to be cleared, I glanced across the road. There on a noticeboard outside a rundown weatherboard church was a message Unless you change direction you will end up where you are going. Its a sign, I said, Ha ... Leer más

    $78 MXN

  • Petty Tyranny and Oppression

    Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws

    This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in 1834, the loosening of the 'principles of 1834' in the 1890s, and on past the early-twentieth ... Leer más

    $467 MXN