The Pearly Prince of St Pancras
Alf Dole and Jeff Hudson
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Pearly Kings and Queens are one of the quintessential icons of 'old London', originally invented to...
The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
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Long-haul trucks have been described as sweatshops on wheels. The typical long-haul trucker works...
The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
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The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding...
Women, Horseracing and Gender: Becoming 'One of the Lads'
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How do the class and gender inequalities found in horse-racing affect the working practices of women...
Java in 21 Days, Sams Teach Yourself (Covering Java 8)
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In just 21 days you can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop applications on your...
Biflavanoids
Shabir Hussain Lone and Mohd Akbar Khuroo
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Biflavanoids are an important class of plant metabolites offering a range of activities, good...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Get Your Sh*t Together in Books
Sep 18, 2017
That being said, some of the advice is useful such as time management and prioritizing - however this sounds like a lot of other self help books and she doesn't seem like the 'anti-guru' she claims to be. It's a little pretentious, constantly talking about her Caribbean housing, when many don't even have disposable income.
She briefly mentions half way through that this book is not intended for such working-class people. That should have been at the front of the book.
Ross (3284 KP) rated Downsizing (2017) in Movies
Oct 18, 2018
While the film managed to show that some facets of humanity will still carry on post-shrinking (we need working class people to run the utopia so we have tiny shanty towns) and add an element of satire, it was not a cohesive film.
Ray Davies: A Complicated Life
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NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE. In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to...