Böcker av Graham Andrews

This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based on a real-life counterpart, appeared in his novel The Spy in 1821. While Harvey Birch's British rivals dominated spy fiction from the late 1800s until the mid-1930s, American spy fiction came of age shortly thereafter. The spy boom in novels and films during the 1960s, spearheaded by Bond, heavily influenced the espionage genre in the United States for years to come, including series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Matt Helm. The author demonstrates that, while American authors currently dominate the international spy fiction market, James Bond has cast a very long shadow, for a very long time.

This is a guide to writing essays for university or college. With proper guidance that this little book provides, you will realise that the work involved in writing a winning essay is not much more involved that writing a bad essay, except the marks you get will be much, much better.

A guide to writing and publishing in peer-reviewed scientific and technical journals. Publish or perish! That's the war cry of many principals of academic and research facilities.There's so much competition for researchers to advance in their careers that each one is looking for that advantage. Career advancement is often dependent on having articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and a good portfolio of published works to reflect credibility and prominence in a particular field.Learn how to plan and construct your articles. How do all the major sections of an article relate to the whole? What's the role of the editor? What's the role of the reviewers who will be asked to consider the suitability of your article?There is a comprehensive checklist to ensure your article will be that much closer to being accepted for publication in a journal.This guide book is recommended for anyone who has to write scientific or technical articles for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Have I got a story to tell! How many times have your heard that claim? What is creative writing? It's about writing something fresh, original, right from the heart. Become a story teller, because that is what creative writing is about - telling a story you feel passionate about, with its interesting characters, a unique plot, and a setting that could even be out of this world. How do you develop your talent and become a good writer? Learn the art of story telling. Learn how to weave your characters and their situation together. An ordinary story won't have any impact, and probably won't be published because it will be boring. Creative writing is more than writing about the ordinary, mundane events of life.

A boy's father takes up backyard beekeeping, but things begin to go wrong with disastrous results. Follow a young boy as he travels around meeting interesting folks in the country, and working with beehives.

All the basics of arc welding are covered in this book. Get started in welding with the right advice, and information about buying the right equipment and working safely with your welder. Learn how to weld all types of steel, and to carry out lasting repairs on steel items.Learn how to work with mesh, and to repair items made from cast iron. Detailed instructions for 23 projects to make are included in this book.

Four friends are dismal students at most things they try - schoolwork, and particularly sports. When they all entered a race in the swimming carnival at the beginning of the year, the rest of the children criticised their poor performance. They went to their favourite spot by the river to get away from the rest of the school. It was there that they heard a dog barking on the island in the middle of the river where the water was the widest. They swam with great difficulty to the island to find out what was going on. They had to care for the dog and feed it. That meant swimming across the river to the island twice a day, every day, even in winter.

This book is about visualisation, or creative imagery. Develop the self-confidence to increase your levels of achievement in a wide range of activities and remove obstacles to reaching those goals. Visualisation can help us believe in ourselves - the path to many great personal achievements. Many people want to learn a new skill or improve their sports ability. They would like to change the way they see themselves, or how they believe others perceive them. Perhaps they want to feel more confident at work, or in social situations. In Your New Image will guide you through the changes you want to achieve in your own life.

Writing is many things to many people. It is an expression of their thoughts, it is developing those special skills they posses as a storyteller. Whatever the motives of writers, most, if not all, write because it's that one thing that is so important to them at the time. That's all they want to do. That's all they want to be-a writer.How many reasons does a writer have to give to justify writing? Writing is individual, and it is unique. This book covers many different genera of writing, including writing the short story, writing a novel, a detective story, romance, and even writing for community radio and for the web.If you are just starting out in writing, this book covers so many different types of writing. If you are an experienced writer, this book will help you expand your writing fields.