Böcker av John Morton

This classic work of natural history details the flora and fauna of Northamptonshire, a county in the East Midlands of England. With its detailed observations and insightful commentary, it is an essential resource for anyone interested in the natural history of England's shires.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Sports and Life, an Olympian's View is a collection of 133 stories, essays and commentaries covering a wide variety of topics related to sports and life. For two decades, John Morton broadcast short commentaries on Vermont Public Radio and wrote a monthly column in the regional newspaper Vermont Sports Today. Morton was an Olympic biathlete (Sapporo '72 and Innsbruck '76) and a Nordic ski coach (Dartmouth College '78-'89). His stories related to skiing were published in 2020 as Celebrate Winter. Sports and Life contains stories and commentaries dealing with everything except skiing. The book is divided into three sections, the first contains personal experiences including an article recounting a pioneering Outward Bound project joining American Vietnam vets with younger, Soviet veterans of their conflict in Afghanistan. The second section is devoted to stories related to family, including three pieces dealing with the author and his daughter's adventures on Vermont's Long Trail. The third section contains observations on national sports issues like Lance Armstrong and Joe Paterno, gun violence and small town, Little League baseball. The book provides the unique perspective of a successful athlete and enthusiastic participant, a coach and sports advocate and finally, a keen observer and occasional critic of contemporary sports.

This is the second book in the Family of the Raj series. The first book covered the story of the O'Kinealy family from Co. Cavan in southern Ireland. James O'Kinealy emigrated to India arriving on 2nd February 1862 to join the Indian Civil Service. A graduate from Galway University where he had read science and engineering, he made his name as the prosecutor of the Wahabi Conspirators in 1869/70. He became a High Court Judge in the Bengal Judiciary. His eldest son Frederick studied medicine, joining the Indian Medical Service in 1891. He later became Surgeon General of Bengal and accompanied HRH Edward Prince of Wales as Chief Medical Officer to the tour party of 1921-22 to India and Burma. His detailed diaries of the tour are published for the first time.This second book is the biography of George Morton, the author's father. Born in 1893 of humble origin, he trained as an accountant with Deloitte, Plender and Griffiths, before enlisting in the 11th Royal Fusiliers in 1914. He fought his war in all the major battles of the Somme before being seriously wounded at the Battle of Boom Ravine on 17th February 1917. His letters to his sister tell the story of his experiences from the trenches; he survived 19 months when the average life of a subaltern was measured in weeks.After convalescing from his wounds, which included the loss of half of his right foot, he sailed to India in November 1919 to join Bird and Company in Calcutta, then the largest company in India employing over 100,000 people. His career progressed steadily, becoming chief accountant, before meeting and marrying, in September 1929, the author's mother and Frederick's daughter, Doreen O'Kinealy.Their life in India and the arrival of John and his two elder sisters are celebrated through a number of letters and photos including an account of three major treks into Sikkim and Tibet. George became senior partner in 1939 at the onset of war, becoming Chairman of the Bengal Chamber and Associated Chambers of Commerce, membership of the Indian Defence Council and most of the associated war production liaison groups. He served as Chairman of the Calcutta evacuees Committee, responsible for fielding, housing and feeding over 400,000 refugees from Burma during the first nine months of 1942. He was knighted in the February of that year.He retired in 1946 and was almost immediately recruited by the Foreign Office to serve General Clarke as a member of the Greek Economic Mission in Greece. Returning in April 1947 when the mission handed over its work to the US Porter Mission, he achieved his lifelong dream and established a farm in Ogbourne St. George. A director of several banks and firms in the city, he died of cancer on 13th April 1954, when the author was just seventeen. This book then, an account of his extraordinary life of service to India, completes the second part of a trilogy, A Family of the Raj. These two books cover almost the whole of the 99-year period of the RajA third book is under preparation covering the exploits of the author's father-in-law, Lieut. Colonel R.J.F.A. Lawder, a soldier and noted climber on the North West frontier, initially with the South Waziristan Scouts and later the Kumaon Rifles. It is programmed to be completed next year.

Ireland, 2048. Edel and Liam have been married for 37 years. They live in a small, isolated farmhouse at the foot of a mountain. The world is ending and we meet them in their final hour of life before everything is wiped out entirely.Their children have grown up and moved away and now they live together, alone. They take drugs, say goodbye to old friends and former lovers, air old grievances, argue, bicker and ultimately, try to reconcile their relationship.They will do this until the end of time. Flanked by his fellow Goons and bolstered by the efforts of irrepressible sound assistant Janet, Spike takes a flourishing nosedive off the cliffs of respectability and mashes up his haunted past to create the comedy of the future. His war with Hitler may be over, but his war with Auntie Beeb - and ultimately himself - has just begun. Will Spike's dogged obsession with finding the funny elevate The Goons to soaring new heights, or will the whole thing come crashing down with the stroke of a potato peeler?

A detailed guide to Eurocode 6 Design of Masonry Structures: Part 1-1 Common rules for reinforced and unreinforced masonry structures, dealing with the various sections in EN1996-1-1: 1 General Introduction and Terminology / 2 Basis of design / 3 Materials / 4 Durability / 5 Structural analysis / 6 Ultimate Limit State / 7 Serviceability Limit State / 8 Detailing / 9 Execution.