The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Laurie's first novel. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MoD, beautiful women and fast motorcycles.
Hugh Laurie played Doctor House in the famous TV series :) The dry and blakish sense of humour is still there :) - stovokor
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How can you start speaking? If a kid learns to speak by listening and immitating its paprent, you can now teach your kid to learn English through this interactive material. With Flash, sounds and graphics are enabled and your kids will be amazed once they play it.
Phonics is the best way to get started. You learn to speak before you can read and write. Then, what are you waiting for?Learn phonics now!
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Sports have long played an important role in society. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport.
The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. The central theme running through the book is that sports are effectively modern morality plays: universal practices of moral education for the masses and - when coached, officiated and played properly - a valuable vehicle for ethical development.
Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O. J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal--Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore it is worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle- to upper-class white men for a share in "language rights."
World Drugs Report 2007 The World Drug Report presents the most comprehensive statistical view
of today's illicit drug situation. This year's edition reports signs of
long-term containment of the global problem. However, the overall trend
masks contrasting regional situations, which the report examines in
detail. For instance, while an impressive multi-year reduction in opium
poppy cultivation continued in South-East Asia, Afghanistan recorded a
large increase in 2006. More interceptions of cocaine and heroin
shipments across the world have played an important part in stabilizing
the market. However, as we witness successes in some areas, challenges
appear in others. Although drug abuse levels are stabilizing globally,
countries along major and new trafficking routes, such as those now
going through Africa, may face increasing levels of drug consumption.
The World Drug Report 2007 also discusses a possible method to better
assess and monitor the role played by organized crime in transnational
drug trafficking.
