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

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'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 ... Read more

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'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
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Parrot

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Series Book 9 - Animal
Highly illustrated, with images drawn from a wide range of cultures, historical periods and media, Paul Carter’s Parrot is a roller-coaster ride through parrots in literature, jokes, folklore, mythology, film, TV and children’s stories worldwide, as well as an examination of parrot conservation, talking bird experiments and parrot portraiture.Parrot is a fascinating natural and cultural history. ... Read more

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Highly illustrated, with images drawn from a wide range of cultures, historical periods and media, Paul Carter’s Parrot is a roller-coaster ride through parrots in literature, jokes, folklore, mythology, film, TV and children’s stories worldwide, as well as an examination of parrot conservation, talking bird experiments and parrot portraiture.Parrot is a fascinating natural and cultural history.
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This is Not a Drill

Just another glorious day in the oilfield

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Is That Thing Diesel?

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

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

Detours into mayhem

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Tales of a Country Doctor

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

by Paul Carter ...

Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book FestShortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand PrizeModern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as ... Read more

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Gold Winner for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon AwardWinner of the 2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book AwardWinner of the 2024 Best Book Award from American Book FestShortlisted for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand PrizeModern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as
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Petty Tyranny and Oppression

Workhouse Lives Under the Long Nineteenth-Century Poor Laws

by Paul Carter, Steven King ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

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Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California's native son, the only U.S. president born and raised in California. By shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon's deep, defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common conceptions of the thirty-seventh president ... Read more

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Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California's native son, the only U.S. president born and raised in California. By shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon's deep, defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common conceptions of the thirty-seventh president
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Meeting Place

The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Neo-observation of Life

by Paul Carter ...

Before giving you a glimpse of the book, let me give you an insight into the life of mine, one who does not mind calling himself a maverick. In the course of my life, I have experienced the ebbs and flows of life like very few people do. I have watched closely how hypocritical and narcissistic people can be, especially in the developing world. This book consists of eye-opening poems that not only ... Read more

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Before giving you a glimpse of the book, let me give you an insight into the life of mine, one who does not mind calling himself a maverick. In the course of my life, I have experienced the ebbs and flows of life like very few people do. I have watched closely how hypocritical and narcissistic people can be, especially in the developing world. This book consists of eye-opening poems that not only
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The Narrow Way

by Paul Carter ...

There is no person so lost as the person falsely assured that he is saved. The devil knows his Bible and recalls that Jesus said: On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then will I declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." (Matthew 7:22-23, ... Read more

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There is no person so lost as the person falsely assured that he is saved. The devil knows his Bible and recalls that Jesus said: On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then will I declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." (Matthew 7:22-23,
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