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The Little Book of Oxfordshire is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed
compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange
information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out
about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric
inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of
wacky facts (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historic
trivia). Combining essential facts with little-known, weird and
often hilarious trivia, it is an essential purchase for all lovers
of the county. Colourful characters and the general mayhem of
Oxford history flow through the pages like the iconic Thames, Isis
and Cherwell rivers. Dip in and celebrate!
Willy Cockhead had to live with his name. So too did countless
others lumbered with ridiculous monikers, safely hidden away in
Oxford's records and censuses - until now. And what names! Some
rhyme (Dick Thick), a few are odd (Silly Waters), others you have
to say out loud (Rhoda Turtle) and some are just groan-worthy
(Blenda Belcher). Uncovered by local author Paul Sullivan and
accompanied with strange-but-true anecdotes, this entertaining
volume of baffling, ill-thought-out and just plain rude examples
champions the people and places of Oxfordshire that got saddled
with the daftest of names.
The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an
off-the-beaten-track tour of the city's landmarks and streets.
Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the
amusing, unlikely and downright wonderful stories hidden beneath
the surface. Some, such as the fact that the founder of Oxford was
eaten by wolves, will be known; many others, such as the fact that
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, stole a piece of New College's
unicorn horn, that one of the Fellows of Christ Church was a bear
or that Oxford Castle has England's most frequently sighted ghost,
are much less widely known - and some of these stories have not
appeared in print for hundreds of years. With rare photographs and
intriguing information on the people, eras and events that defined
the city's history, this book lets the flying cats out of the bags,
rattles the dragons' cages and reveals all the skeletons in the
city's cupboards.
The Weight Lifted collects Chicago Tribune sportswriter Paul
Sullivan's coverage of the Chicago Cubs' historic 2016 championship
season. The 16-article collection traces the arc of the Cubs'
groundbreaking year, from their spring training in Arizona all the
way to their rousing Game Seven victory against the Cleveland
Indians. Through interviews with players, fans, team manager Joe
Maddon and other key figures, as well as in-depth reporting of the
games as they happened, Sullivan details how the Cubs-once deemed
"the lovable losers"-overcame the odds to end the longest
championship drought in sports history. The Weight Lifted allows
Chicago fans to relive the 2016 season from start to incredible
finish-a dream that was 108 years in the making.
In this important new text, Paul Sullivan introduces readers to a
qualitative methodology rooted in the analysis of dialogue and
subjectivity: the dialogical approach. Sullivan unpacks the theory
behind a dialogical approach to qualitative research, and relates
issues of philosophy and methodology to the practical process of
actually doing qualitative research. Sullivan's book foregrounds
the role of atmosphere, subjectivity and authorial reflection
within texts. His work also enables the researcher to attend to the
conflicts, judgments and interpretive activities that take place in
language use. Practically speaking, the dialogical approach enables
analysis of direct and indirect discourse, speech genres,
hesitations, irony and a variety of other conditions that shape our
understanding of dialogue in context. As well as exploring the
theory behind this innovative method, Sullivan provides sound
practical advice that recognises the everyday analytic needs of the
reader. Topics include: * The theoretical foundations of the
approach * The role of subjectivity in qualitative research * Data
preparation and analysis * The future of the approach Theoretical
discussion is consistently accompanied by research examples and
suggestions as to how the dialogical approach could be used in the
reader's own research. This important and timely book is ideal for
any reader who wants to do research with dialogue and who is keen
to attend to the full nuances and complexities of discourse.
Think you can tell a killer from a king, a pirate from a pope?
There's only one way to find out! This amazing little quiz contains
sixty different 'odd one outs'. Featuring royals and reprobates,
palaces and poorhouses, take it today and find out just how much
you really know about British history...
This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it
before. The first historical record of Oxford laments that the city
has been burnt to the ground by Vikings. Its religious houses were
founded by a woman who blinded her would-be attacker. Its students
were poverty-stricken desperados in perpetual armed conflict with
the townsmen. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as
a slaughterhouse--and its richest streets and university edifices
backed on to some of the most pestilential slums in England. With a
mangled skeleton in every cupboard, this is the real story of the
Oxford. Read it if you dare
Which Prime Minister holds an Oxford beer drinking record? Which
Oxford academic ate the heart of King Louis IV? Which Pope came
from Oxford? From the momentous to the outlandish, this book is
packed full of fun facts about Oxford. With photographs, drawings
and cartoons, intriguing information and little-known, weird and
often hilarious trivia, it is a highly entertaining guide to where
you are, what to look out for now you're here, and how on earth all
this came to be. Dip in and celebrate! From famous quotes about the
city to local people's likes and dislikes, it's all here in this
addictive little book.
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and
pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred
years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the
opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber,
sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found death.
In 1875 an American plantation manager named Robert Stephens and a
number of his workers were murdered by a band of Maya rebels. To
this day, no one knows why. Was it the result of feuding between
aristocratic families for greater power and wealth? Was it the
foreseeable consequence of years of oppression and abuse of Maya
plantation workers? Was a rebel leader seeking money and fame--or
perhaps retribution for the loss of the woman he loved?
For whites, the events that took place at Xuxub, Stephens's
plantation, are virtually unknown, even though they engendered a
diplomatic and legal dispute that vexed Mexican-U.S. relations for
over six decades. The construction of "official" histories allowed
the very name of Xuxub to die, much as the plantation itself was
subsumed by the jungle. For the Maya, however, what happened at
Xuxub is more than a story they pass down through generations--it
is a defining moment in how they see themselves.
Sullivan masterfully weaves the intricately tangled threads of this
story into a fascinating account of human accomplishments and
failings, in which good and evil are never quite what they seem at
first, and truth proves to be elusive. "Xuxub Must Die" seeks not
only to fathom a mystery, but also to explore the nature of guilt,
blame, and understanding.
Francis Hall was a Victorian man of the British empire who sailed
from England to Mombassa in 1892 to work for the Imperial British
East African Company. He wrote a series of letters to his immediate
family, which were recently discovered in the Kenya National
Archive. The letters are published here in their original form,
along with supplementary information from the Royal Geographical
Society in London, and material gleaned from the Francis Hall
archive in Oxford on the early days of colonial settlement.
In Remixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora Paul Sullivan explores the
evolution of Dub; the avant-garde verso of Reggae. Dub as a set of
studio strategies and techniques was among the first forms of
popular music to turn the idea of song inside out, and is still far
from being fully explored. With a unique grip on dance, electronic,
and popular music, dub-born notions of remix and re-interpretation
set the stage for the music of the twenty-first century. This book
explores the origins of dub in '70s Kingston, Jamaica and traces
its evolution as a genre, approach and attitude to music to the
present day. Stopping off in the cities where it has made most
impact - London, Berlin, Toronto, Kingston, Bristol, New York,
Sullivan's study spans a range of genres, from post-punk to
dub-techno, jungle to the now ubiquitous dubstep. Along the way he
speaks to a host of international musicians, DJs and luminaries of
the dub world including Scientist, Adrian Sherwood, Channel, U Roy,
Clive Chin, Dennis Bovell, Shut Up And Dance, DJ Spooky, Francois
Kevorkian, Mala and Roots Manuva. This wide-ranging and lucid book
follows several parallel threads, including the evolution of the
MC, the birth of sound system culture and the broader story of the
post-war Jamaican diaspora itself. One of the few books to be
written specifically on dub and its global influence, Remixology is
also one of the first to look at the specific relationship between
dub and the concept that cuts across all postmodern creative
disciplines today: the Remix.
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Clutch (Paperback)
Paul Sullivan
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Sooner or later everyone encounters a situation in which the stakes
are high and the outcome is vital. And even top performers can
crumble when faced with such extreme pressure. But then there are
the performers who thrive under such conditions. In "Clutch",
you'll meet: a skinny sergeant who saved his battalion in Iraq; a
rookie baseball player who pitched his team into its first World
Series; and, a lawyer who struggled in school but became one of the
top litigators in America. According to Sullivan, clutch
performance does not stem from an innate ability. It's a learned
skill - the art of operating in high-stress situations as if they
were everyday conditions. Even some of the most experienced and
talented performers lack this skill - but Sullivan shows that
anyone can develop it.
You'll find no pretty parades of princes or benevolent
industrialists here. This is Deadly Derby, caught red handed - a
city built by the Romans over the dead bodies of Britons; trashed,
burnt and reinvented by the Vikings; bludgeoned into a Dark Age den
of vice by the Saxons; razed once again by the Normans; and
simmering with murder, slavery, wickedness and profanity ever
since. Heretics roasted throughout the sixteenth century; plague
decimated the population at whim in the seventeenth century; and in
the eighteenth a new form of malevolence arrived with
slave-devouring factories and industrialists. Invading Scottish
Jacobites in 1745 were the least of Derby's worries - murder and
violent crime were riding high from the outset, and the city slums
bred all imaginable forms of vice and desperation. All rounded off
with heavy bombing in World War II. Welcome to the real Derby!
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