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In 2009, cabin crew in the BASSA union embarked on a historic,
two-year battle against British Airways which was seeking to impose
reduced crew levels and to transform working conditions. In the
face of employer hostility, legal obstruction, government
opposition and adverse media coverage, this workforce, diverse in
terms of gender, sexuality, race and nationality undertook
determined resistance against this offensive. Notably, their action
included twenty-two days of strike action that saw mass
participation in rallies and on picket lines. The dispute cost
British Airways 150 million in lost revenue and its main outcome
was the cabin crew's successful defence of their union and core
conditions. Here, in their own words, Cabin Crew Conflict tells the
strikers' story, focusing on cabin crew responses, perceptions of
events, and their lived experiences of taking industrial action in
a hostile climate. Foregrounding questions of class, gender and
identity, and how these were manifest in the course of the dispute,
the authors highlight the strike's significance for contemporary
employment relations in and beyond the aviation industry. Lively
and insightful, Cabin Crew Conflict explores the organisational and
ideological role of the trade union, and shows how a
'non-traditional' workforce can organise and take effective action.
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Lucas Blalock: Oar or Ore (Hardcover)
Lucas Blalock; Text written by Russell Ferguson, Susanne Figner, Jamillah James, Phil Taylor
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R1,097
Discovery Miles 10 970
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'The Power' is back. King of the oche and a legend in the game,
Phil Taylor is largely responsible for taking darts into the 21st
century. Recently crowned world champion for an unprecedented
eleventh time, Taylor is a complete one-off - the Tiger Woods of
his sport - and the most phenomenal player ever to throw a dart.
Brought up in the back streets of the Potteries, where his Dad
tried to turn him into a boxer, Taylor's first job saw him earning
GBP75 a week in a factory making ceramic toilet handles - and by
the age of 25 he had hardly thrown a dart in anger. Then he
attended an Eric Bristow darts exhibition, and the 'Crafty Cockney'
became his mentor and friend and loaned him GBP10,000 to play the
pro circuit. Within five years Taylor had won the first of his
eleven world titles ... In his book, Taylor describes how Bristow
coaxed, bullied, humiliated and often literally punched him into
making it as a pro. He is candid about the booze culture of the
game, while revisiting the memorable matches and recalling vivid
stories featuring the likes of Bristow, Cliff Lazarenko (who once
had 20 cans of lager before a match), John Lowe and the legendary
Jocky Wilson. A dispute between the professional players and the
British Darts Organisation in 1992 almost led to a dispirited
Taylor giving up the game for good. And he retraces the worst six
months of his life, during which time he was convicted of sexually
assaulting two female fans and had his MBE rescinded. The pain for
his family was hard to bear. This is a story of a man having to
come to terms with unparalleled success in his professional life
after a career setback that would have destroyed many others; a
unique sportsman whose steely-eyed determination won him an
unprecedented eleventh world title in 2004 in what many observers
described as the best professional darts match in living memory.
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The Sneaker Tree (Paperback)
Cynthia Shepp; Illustrated by Rene Folsom; Phil Taylor
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R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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Remember when you were a kid and you had that one magical summer
that seemed to last a lifetime? Cooper, Gooby, Chuck, Cliff and
Bolo don't know it, but they are in the midst of a summer they will
never forget. Their small town is paralyzed with fear as a serial
killer preys upon children and The Golden Boys seem to be the only
ones who have a chance to stop him. A life-long bond is forged
between them as they confront each other, their worst fears and a
killer that is more than anyone could possibly imagine. Filled with
suspense, heart and humor, The Sneaker Tree has something for
everyone.
A group of friends with a penchant for goofy nicknames return to
their hometown for a funeral and what had been a pleasant, albeit
melancholy, reunion quickly escalates into a fight for their lives
with an enemy they didn't know they had. Putting up with each
others quirks with good humor they must unravel a mystery that may
have started thirty years ago. They unwittingly stumble and fumble
their way into a life or death showdown that could kill them all.
The question is not whether they will survive the bad guys, but
will they survive each other? One reader likened the characters to
"the kids from Stephen King's classic 'Stand By Me' but grown up."
This story will make you miss those goofy high school friends from
years ago.
Phil 'The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts, his
sixteen world championship titles between 1990 and 2013 far
outclassing anything else the game has seen. He started out as a
protege of Eric Bristow, the Crafty Cockney, having wandered into
his Burslem pub with a set of darts his wife had given him for his
birthday. At that time Taylor was earning GBP52 a week working in a
ceramics factory and hardly played. But jaws dropped and pint mugs
tipped over as this newcomer suddenly unleashed a gift for flight
that had soon eclipsed even the Crafty Cockney himself, and amassed
Phil a haul of over 200 professional tournament victories. Staying
Power is a year in the life of a legend, twice nominated for BBC
Sports Personality of the Year, a man who made darts look a doddle
to British pub-goers everywhere and set his seal on the game as the
bloke to beat. A year of triumph and disaster, in which Taylor
crashed out of the world championship in the second round to young
outsider Michael Smith and fell asleep at home on Christmas day,
exhausted from the strain of constant winning. A year when he
played arguably the greatest ever game of darts, in the Grand Slam
semi-final against recent world champion Adrian Lewis the two
slugging it out to the wire. A year in which Taylor rocked
Australia, feted like royalty. A year of spats and hecklers,
clashes on stage and off, of head-to-heads with the Dutch superstar
Michael van Gerwen. But most of all this is a year in which Phil
Taylor, one of sport's greatest champions, has looked hard at his
life in his determination to stay in power.
Riffs, revisions, knockoffs, and homages: artists pay tribute to Ed
Ruscha's famous photo-conceptual small books. In the 1960s and
1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small
photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations,
Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour
Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees.
Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with
idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought
after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists.
Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that
appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout
the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects,
showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a
description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's
books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These
small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form,
content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour
Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation:
Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various
Small Fires, with a glass of milk), Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine
photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some say something different:
None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. Some reach for a connection
with Ruscha himself: 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along
Pacific Coast Highway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's. With his
books, Ruscha expanded the artist's field of permissible subjects,
approaches, and methods. With VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS, various artists
pay tribute to Ed Ruscha and extend the legacy of his books.
Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali,
Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighboring Congo with
his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year
voyage of survival during which they travelled thousands of miles
on foot from one refugee camp to another. Lacking food and water,
they were often robbed, sometimes raped, and constantly pursued and
bombed by shadowy armed soldiers with sophisticated weapons and
aerial surveillance information. This brilliant and touching book
is the story of one family among the more than 300,000
refugees--many of whom did not survive. For those wishing to
understand the war in the Congo, this must-read will restore the
humanity and the right to mourn for hundreds of thousands of
Rwandans dispersed throughout the world.
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