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Thompsons Solicitors have been working for the TUC and fighting for
workers' rights since their inception. They are the biggest trade
union law firm specialising in claims for compensation in cases
involving workplace injuries and disputes. The firm has branches
all over the UK and employs over 1000 people. This book presents
stories, events and campaigns: for compensation, for workers'
entitlements and political cases: the Poplar Borough Council case,
the Meerut Trials of 1929, and others from the 1920s and '30s, many
involving members of the Labour and Communist parties. It
chronicles the development of the firm into the present and
witnesses to Thompsons' involvement with the Labour Research
Department and the NCCL - now Liberty. 'Fundamentally, Thompson
believed in using his great skill and knowledge and courage as a
lawyer in the interests of the oppressed against the rich and
powerful, on behalf of injured workmen against insurance companies,
on behalf of tenants against landlords, on behalf of trade unions
and trade unionists against employers, on behalf of political
demonstrators against the police, on behalf of the citizen against
the bureaucrat, in short, on behalf of the poor against the
wealthy, on behalf of the mass of people against those who sought
to govern and control them.' O.H. Parsons
Compelling, sometimes-unbelievable life experiences lead to
prayer, the Bible, and salvation. This captivating variety of the
personal includes; accounts of his early years growing up in an
area of toxic hexavalent chromium exposure, experiences in
missionary basketball, and finding true love while walking with his
youngest daughter through her encounters with autism and
schizophrenia. The author's commentary reveals the earnest heart of
a father who longs to share all the greater things of life with his
grown children. Steve Bruce's A Father's List provides surprisingly
honest snapshots of how Bruce has approached forgiveness, fear,
spiritual war, and sin--through restoration by grace, mercy, faith,
humility, longsuffering, obedience, miracles, and love.Have you
ever- loved someone so much that "you" simply disappear and they
are the only one in the room?- wished you could roll back the hands
of time and get a "do-over"?- had something or someone teach you
about humility?- had someone in your life who has hurt you deeply
that you need to forgive?- sat bedside with a loved one who is
suffering? - experienced a miracle, something that you know could
have only come from God? - experienced grace and peace in your
heart when you knew you should be falling apart? - experienced
God's mercy in your life, and are so grateful it takes you to your
knees?
The man who invented the television talk show surpassed even
himself when he created Meeting of Minds, the award-winning series
that captured America's imagination. These four volumes offer the
original scripts from the series, including material edited from
the broadcast versions that ran from 1977 to 1981 on PBS stations
nationwide. Many believe that Meeting of Minds is the most
brilliant series ever to be written for television. The show
provides a groundbreaking opportunity to be exposed to ideas by way
of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Indeed,
Meeting of Minds grew out of Allen's frustration with the
mediocrity of the average network program. He envisioned the show
as a stimulating round-table discussion conducted like any other
talk show - except that the participants would be actors portraying
some of the greatest minds and most prominent figures of history.
Accordingly, such characters as Aristotle, Catherine the Great,
Oliver Cromwell, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Sanger, Gandhi, Thomas
Paine, Cleopatra, Theodore Roosevelt, and St. Thomas Aquinas appear
in startlingly effective juxtaposition, their characters revealed
through brilliantly conceived dialogue. This first volume features
appearances by President Theodore Roosevelt, Queen Cleopatra,
Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Paine, President Ulysses S. Grant, Queen
Marie Antoinette, Sir Thomas More, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Emily
Dickinson, Galileo Galilei, and Attila the Hun. The scripts for
Meeting of Minds make for excellent reading, distilling an enormous
amount of research into a lively format that has the undeniable
veracity of historical fact. The result is unfailingly witty,
thought-provoking, and geniunely entertaining. Steve Allen's
lucidity and fertile intelligence are evident on every page.
Meeting of Minds remains one of the freshest, most delightful ways
of gaining historical perspective ever devised, an incomparable
tour de force with the power to make history come alive.
Norman Cousins once wrote that "In any inventory of the natural
resources on this planet", Steve Allen's conscience is "high on the
list". It is this wonderfully prolific, highly educated conscience
which prompted each of the articles included in But Seriously ...
Steve Allen Speaks His Mind. Such a dynamic, energetic conscience
has encouraged Allen throughout his career as an author and
entertainer to examine the innumerable facets of modern American
society, identifying the many problems which desperately need to be
corrected and developing provocative new solutions to do so.
Allen's razor-sharp insights always cut to the core of the issue,
whether the topic involves labor relations, the atomic bomb, gifted
education, or the lessons to be learned from the nomination of
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. This collection of speeches,
articles, personal correspondence, and other writings constitutes a
well-reasoned anthology filled with good humor, irony, and a deep
concern for the human condition. Allen's devotion to common sense
and serious social involvement carves a path for others to follow.
We're pleased to report that long-time friend of Speakeasy, Steve
Allen, has just had his first poetry collection published Called
Tasting The Fruit, the 70-page book ranges across Steve's styles
that many of us are familiar with: love with a sensitive touch,
travel with a warped humour twist, and a penchant for the
risque.Having had many poems published individually, and success in
poetry competitions, including first prize in our annual
competition, Steve's next step was to hit the streets with a
collection. In summer 2009, he was a winner of Indigo Dreams
Publishing competition, the prize being publication of Tasting The
Fruit."
Actor, comedian, song writer, and author, the versatile Steve Allen
has shared his very special brand of entertainment with audiences
the world over. His penetrating wit and wisdom allows us to laugh
at ourselves while thinking about some of the serious issues of our
time. Drawn from life's raw materials and his own fertile
imagination, "The Man Who Turned Back the Clock" is a delightful
yet provocative collection of short stories as only Steve Allen
could write them. This wide-ranging assemblage includes 31
tantalising tales. In addition to the title story, readers will
find: "The Humor Strike"; "It's Nice to See You Again"; "The Day
the Jews Disappeared", (addressing anti-Semitism); "The Sunday
Morning Shift" (focusing on the scandals of money-grubbing
evangelists); "The Jensen Theory" (which takes a look at racism);
"The Girls on the Tenth Floor"; "Point of View"; and many more.
Readers will find in some the surprising twists and turns of an 'O
Henry' yarn. This collection is funny, it's thoughtful, it's
vintage Steve Allen!
The nation's television critics voted Steve Allen's "Meeting of
Minds" scripts as the 'Best TV Writing of 1976-1977', together with
James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin". Subsequently the series
won the Peabody Award, an Encyclopaedia Britannica Award, the Film
Advisory Board Award, and an official endorsement by the National
Education Association. This volume contains the second Series of
six scripts. The first two programs bring together Margaret Sanger,
Mohandas Gandhi, and Adam Smith; the second two include Niccolo
Paganini, William Blake, and Leonardo da Vinci; and the final two
feature Oliver Cromwell, the nineteenth-century Irish nationalist
leader Daniel O'Connell, and Catherine the Great. This is the
second of four volumes of scripts from the First through the Fourth
Series of "Meeting of Minds".
1 Introduction 1. 1 Wnts and Development The f amily of Wnt genes
consists of at least 19 members in vertebrates. Wnts ha v e
multiple roles during normal development and aetiology of diseases
(Wodarz and Nusse 1998; Moon et al. 2002, 2004). These genes encode
for glycoproteins that are released in the intercellular space,
acting as intercellular mediators (Moon et al. 1997). By binding to
their special receptors, the Frizzled (Fz) receptors, they are able
to activate at least three different pathways: the canonical, the
non-canonical and the Ca 2+ pathway (Fig. 1 ). The Wnt family has
been subdivided, using functional assays, into at least two
subclasses. In Xenopus , Wnt1, Wnt3a and Wnt8 are able to induce
axis duplication in embryos, whereas Wnt4, Wnt5a and Wnt11 cannot
(Du et al. 1995). Those Wnts that are able to induce axis
duplication are thought to act canonically; those who cannot are
thought to act non-canonically. In the literature, therefore, some
Wnts are called canonical Wnts while others are called n- cano
nical Wnts, suggesting that a special Wnt always activates the same
signalling pathway. It is unlikely that the specificity dictating
cellular responses resides solely in the Wnt ligands because no one
has reported sequence or structural motifs in Wnts that predict
their activities in these cellular and embryonic assays.
Compelling, sometimes-unbelievable life experiences lead to
prayer, the Bible, and salvation. This captivating variety of the
personal includes; accounts of his early years growing up in an
area of toxic hexavalent chromium exposure, experiences in
missionary basketball, and finding true love while walking with his
youngest daughter through her encounters with autism and
schizophrenia. The author's commentary reveals the earnest heart of
a father who longs to share all the greater things of life with his
grown children. Steve Bruce's A Father's List provides surprisingly
honest snapshots of how Bruce has approached forgiveness, fear,
spiritual war, and sin--through restoration by grace, mercy, faith,
humility, longsuffering, obedience, miracles, and love.Have you
ever- loved someone so much that "you" simply disappear and they
are the only one in the room?- wished you could roll back the hands
of time and get a "do-over"?- had something or someone teach you
about humility?- had someone in your life who has hurt you deeply
that you need to forgive?- sat bedside with a loved one who is
suffering? - experienced a miracle, something that you know could
have only come from God? - experienced grace and peace in your
heart when you knew you should be falling apart? - experienced
God's mercy in your life, and are so grateful it takes you to your
knees?
Utah's Canyon Country Place Names documents more than 4,000 place
name derivations and place name changes over time. It also includes
stories and early descriptions about those places, often told by
the first explorers or the early pioneers who settled there.
Details are provided about hundreds of historic roads, trails,
railroads, and highways, as well as major cowboy line camps, towns
that have disappeared, and water sources used by the early
settlers. Today, we use those names, often without a thought about
the stories they tell and the history they document. Taken in
aggregate, the information in these two volumes literally tells the
story of the exploration and settlement of southern Utah. The book
is designed not only for the serious historian, but for all those
interested in knowing about the land: canyoneers, hikers, river
runners, rock climbers, photographers, writers, and the casual
tourist This book is unique and complete and is incredibly
detailed. It is a standard reference for all those who love the
canyon country of Utah.
No one knows more about comedy than Steve Allen. For more than five
decades as a writer, performer, and keen observer of the social
scene, he has looked into every aspect of who's funny, what's
funny, and why. Allen shares his discoveries in How to Be Funny,
the book designed to help everyone develop their special talent for
funniness.
Now reissued in paperback, How to Be Funny covers all the basics,
including joke telling, ad-libbing, writing humorously, performing
comedy, emceeing, and much more. Allen takes you inside the world
of comedy, from the early writings of Mark Twain, to the more
contemporary work of Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Maher. Allen even
provides homework assignments for the budding comic
Yet How to Be Funny is far more than just a book for aspiring
comedians it will help anyone who wants to be a more amusing
conversationalist, a more effective public speaker, and everyone
who just wants to be the life of the party.
The success of Steve Allen's How To Be Funny led first to the
republication of that book, and now occasioned a companion volume,
Make 'Em Laugh. This new how-to book about the art of comedy
includes an even richer assortment of examples of the author's
unique humor.
In Make 'Em Laugh, Allen laces his formal instruction with
hilarious ad-libs, written jokes, TV comedy sketches, satires, song
parodies, humorous essays, amusing autobiographical reminiscences,
one-act plays, witty speeches, and stand-up monologues from his
comedy concerts.
Noel Coward called Steve Allen the most talented man in America,
and he is probably the most borrowed-from comedian of all time. The
perceptive reader will recognize many of the comic ideas that Allen
originated during the "Golden Age" of television comedy - ideas
that are still influential in the 1990's.
If there were a college course in creating and performing comedy,
Make 'Em Laugh would be the ideal textbook.
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