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CONFESSIONS OF A HORSE DEALER. CHAP. I. RoguesandFools Tricks of Horse Copers Swindling Practices The Advertising Dodge The Respectable Groom Buying a Secret A Regular Muff A Deal on the Bustle The Raffle The Sportsmans Wife The Eighth Hussars- Poor Old Jocko The False Tail . page 1 CHAP. II. The Marquis of Waterfords Horse Shewing the Paces A perfect Fencer Jump up, Sir Cash on Delivery The Spavin The Veterinary Surgeon An Ill-used Horse- Dealer The Acceptance The Switch Glandered Horses A Horrible Death The Switch Copers The Police Chace The Agent in Advance A Cruel Fraud . 18 CHAP. III. Making up Horses Bishoping A Methuselah The Age of Horses Marking the Teeth Puffing the Glims- Gypping The Fig An Impudent Trick Jerusalem Lamented The Chuck-Backed Horse The Deal The Piper and the Roarer The Clever Groom A Fool and his Money . 30 CHAP. IV. The Farmers Story Old Boxer Chesterfield Fair A Fine Horse The Home Road A Spirited Nag The Horse Grows White A very Old Friend Smashers Dealers in Soft- uns Passing the Notes Injured Innocence Coming the Bounce The Country Inn The Trainers Confederates A Coping Repository Pretended Bidders Old Roby Four Pounds for the Bargain A Sell ... 49 CHAP. V. Another Swindle Knowledge got by Reading An Awkward Discovery Beaning a Horse No Remedy The Fast Trotter A Race for a Tenner Old Blazeaway The Disappointment The Trotting Doctor An Irish Horse-coper The Manchester Sale The Great Horse Auction Swindle A Clever Trick A Set of Screws Judging of Horses A Fine Haul Hiding the Trail .... 68 CHAP. VI. Patrick Dunlevy The Queen of Hearts The Manchester September Meeting The Griffin The Twins False Imprisonment HeavyDamages Mr Double-Shuffle A Green Hand TheLetter Diplomacy Diamond Cut Diamond No Effects The Brewers Traveller The Manager Very Dear Hay A Narrow Escape Dusty Bob The Wager A Neat Trick The Traveller Done ... 90 -3 IV CONTENTS. CHAP. VII. Captain B .The Advertisement The Doctors Horse A Bog Spavin The Horse Returned An Honest Dealer A Coper Frightened A Handsome Pair of Carriage Horses Another Swindle Other Modes of Trickery The Salt Trick The Welsh Farmer A Nerved Horse The Roarer- The Mayor of Chester His Lordships Bailiff A clever Takein The Biter Bit Change out of Seventy Pounds, page 115 HORSE TALK. CHAP. I. Horse Breeding Hunters and their Riders, page 143 CHAP. II. The Scarcity of Good Horses its Causes and Proposed Remedy . . . . 151 -CHAP. III. The Form and Action of Good Saddle Horses 161 CHAP. IV. The Zehra at the Zoological Gardens. Regents Park 174 CHAP. V. Savage Race-Horses 181 CHAP. VI. Temperate Hunters ... 187 CHAP. VII. How to Detect Imperfect Vision or Blindness in Horses ..... 193 CHAP. VIII. Balls and Drenches 202 CHAP. IX. Runaway Horses 208 CHAP. X. Our Cavalry Horses . . . 217 CHAP. XI. The Character of the Horse . . 225 CHAP. XII. Street Driving . 235 243 CHAP. XV. Our Horses and their Bridles . . 248 CHAP. XVI. Taking up from Grass and Conditioning 255 CHAP. XVII. Food of Horses ... 264 CHAP. XVIII. Mr. Rareys System ofTaming Horses CHAP. XIX. Why are not Race-horses Bred with a combi- 270 CHAP.XIII. Treatment of Mares in Foal . . 240 CHAP. XIV. Twenty things which a bad Groom or Coachman will do ..... nation of usefurQualities, . . 278 CHAP.XX. The Selection and Training of Shooting Cobs 282 CHAP.XXI. Horsemanship for Gentlemen 285 CHAP.XXII. Early Working of Cart Colts. 294 CONFESSIONS OF A HOBSEDEALEB. CHAPTER I. BOGUES AND FOOLS. TRICKS OF HORSE COPERS. SWIND- LING PRACTICES. THE ADVERTISING DODGE...

The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East-West crisis, which lasted until the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on 9 November 1989. Weaving together history, original archive research and personal stories, The Berlin Wall, now published in fifteen languages, is the definitive account of a divided city and its people in a time when humanity seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.

At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been dropped on the unprotected city. At least 25,000 inhabitants died in the terrifying firestorm and thirteen square miles of the city's historic centre, including incalculable quantities of treasure and works of art, lay in ruins. In this portrait of the city, its people, and its still-controversial destruction, Frederick Taylor has drawn on archives and sources only accessible since the fall of the East German regime, and talked to Allied aircrew and survivors, from members of the German armed services and refugees fleeing the Russian advance to ordinary citizens of Dresden.

The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison, breached it on the historic night of 9 November 1989. The Berlin Wall reveals the strange and chilling story of how the initial barrier system was conceived, then systematically extended, adapted and strengthened over almost thirty years. Patrolled by vicious dogs and by guards on shoot-to-kill orders, the Wall, with its more than 300 towers, became a wired and lethally booby-trapped monument to a world torn apart by fiercely antagonistic ideologies. The Wall had tragic consequences in personal and political terms, affecting the lives of Germans and non-Germans alike in a myriad of cruel, inhuman and occasionally absurd ways. The Berlin Wall is the definitive account of a divided city and its people.

‘Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.’ - Roland Philipps, author of A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe to war, a war that would have a profound and lasting impact on millions.

Bestselling historian Frederick Taylor focuses on the day-to-day experiences of British and German people trapped in this disastrous chain of events and not, as is so often the case, the elite. Drawn from original sources, their voices, concerns and experiences reveal a marked disconnect between government and people; few ordinary citizens in either country wanted war.

1939: A People’s History is not only a vivid account of that turbulent year but also an interrogation of our capacity to go to war again. In many ways it serves as a warning; an opportunity for us to learn from our history and a reminder that we must never take peace for granted.

The first major history of what happened in Germany immediately after the Second World War 'Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today.' Newsweek 'Taylor's book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Nazis and wants to know what happened next.' New Statesman Germany had entered the twentieth century united, prosperous, and strong, admired by almost all humanity for its remarkable achievements. By 1945 it was a broken shell: its great cities lay in ruins and its shattered industries and cultural heritage seemed utterly beyond saving. The Germans themselves had come to be regarded as evil monsters. After six years of warfare how were the exhausted victors to handle the end of a horror that to most people seemed without precedent? In Exorcising Hitler, Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's year zero and what came after. As he describes the final Allied campaign, the hunting down of the Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of peoples in central and eastern Europe, the attitudes of the conquerors, the competition between Soviet Russia and the West, the hunger and near starvation of a once proud people, the initially naive attempt at expunging Nazism from all aspects of German life and the later more pragmatic approach, we begin to understand that despite almost total destruction, a combination of conservatism, enterprise and pragmatism in relation to former Nazis enabled the economic miracle of the 1950s. And we see how it was only when the '60s generation (the children of the Nazi era) began to question their parents with increasing violence that Germany began to awake from its 'sleep cure'.

Read the American classic that inspired Shigeo Shingo! Frederick W. Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Managementwas a mental revolution that spawned the very ideas of process improvement, equity and efficiency between workers and management, and the attainability of high production with low labor costs. Taylor discusses eliminating waste by using the system he developed over the course of his career and how it applies to individual, as well as collective, improvement initiatives. As the basis of modern organizational efficiency, this instrumental book has motivated managers and engineers for almost 100 years.

2014 Reprint of 1911 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. This influential monograph, which laid out the principles of scientific management, is a seminal text of modern organization and decision theory and has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique. Taylor was an American manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and then a management consultant in his later years. He is often called "The Father of Scientific Management." His approach is also often referred to, as Taylor's Principles, or Taylorism.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!