Böcker av William Hay

This is a detailed history of the temperance movement in Saratoga County, New York, and the lives of several prominent figures who were instrumental in its development. Hay's exhaustive research and lively prose style make this an engaging and informative read for anyone interested in American history and the social reform movements of the 19th century.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.

David doesn't realise it, but he looks similar to a British movie star who is all the rage at the moment. When the star suddenly pulls out of a tour of Australia to promote his latest movie, David gets hired to be pretend to be him at a few public events. The luxurious life of a star is fantastic for David until he see that there are big responsibilities that come with fame. He does the right thing, which is not really up to him because he is pretending to be someone else. His actions put him in all sort of danger.

David is successful. His carpeting cleaning business is earning him much more than the pocket money of other kids in his Year 6 class. But cleaning isn't his calling. After inheriting his grandfather's practice, being a private investigator is what he really wants to be. His first assignment is simple. Catch a school lunch thief. That leads to a contract to protect Vanessa Wu, the daughter of a very rich Chinese businesswoman. All Dave has to do is be Vanessa's partner at a birthday party to collect a very big pay packet. It is an easy assignment until Chinese gangsters attempt to kidnap Vanessa. David, with the help of a schoolmate, Romeo, spends the weekend outwitting the would-be kidnappers by showing Vanessa around their town, and having fun in the process.

David's investigation work expands into finding lost pets for family. One day by chance, he realises his neighbour's new constantly barking dog is a friend's beagle that has been taken from its home in Canberra, 1,000 kilometres away. While spending a weekend in Canberra after returning the dog, he notices a lot of advertisements for missing beagles in the town where he is staying. He follows his instincts and comes upon an organised operation that catches and breeds beagles for animal product testing. In a moment where his life is in danger, he is saved by an unexpected hero.

The Rugby Ball tells the story of two young Japanese boys, Kenta Yamaguchi and Hiroki Ogawa, talented rugby players from Kamaishi on the northeast coast of Japan. Both compete for a place at an international training camp in Canberra, Australia but only Kenta is selected.On 11 March 2010, while Kenta is in Australia, a tsunami strikes their hometown. He is spared from witnessing the horrors of that day, but the tsunami has a devastating effect on his life. Both of his parents are missing, presumed dead, his home and everything he owned is washed away, including a treasured autographed rugby ball. Fortunately for Kenta, Jack and Liz Nash, his homestay family, take him in and raise him in Canberra, giving him a much more comfortable life than he would ever have in Japan. After a few years, Kenta returns to Kamaishi to try to pick up where he left off. He meets up with Hiroki, now a sixteen year old. Hiroki has stopped playing rugby, hates his town and is bitter towards Kenta for being so lucky. It makes Kenta realise he can't stay, because he doesn't share the trauma and personal damage the people of Kamaishi had endured over the years. He returns to Canberra to forge a reputation as a rugby player of the future. In the meantime, his rugby ball, which was swept away by the tsunami, has been found by a group of research students on an island off Alaska. It eventually makes its way back to Japan and is recovered by Hiroki, of all people. The ball reunites Kenta and Hiroki as twenty-year-olds and is helps to repair their friendship and Kenta's ties to his city.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins his memoirs with a rare account, he was first commissioned into the crack 52nd Light Infantry and served with that regiment in the campaigns of 1810 and 1811. Promotion then took him into the 12th Light Dragoons and, after a spell at home due to illness, he joined his new regiment in the field just as Wellington¿s army began its retreat from Burgos. Thereafter, Hay served with the 12th for the remainder of the Peninsular War and again during the Waterloo campaign. A well-connected young man, he spent some of his time away from the regiment on staff duties, serving as an aide to Lord Dalhousie in the Peninsula and later to the same officer again during his tenure as Governor General of British North America. Hay¿s recollections are very much those of a dashing young officer, and, if not quite rivalling Marbot for imagination, there is no denying that he is the hero of his own epic. But these are more than just tales of derring-do, for Hay¿s stories of the lighter side of military life do much to illuminate the character and attitudes of Britain¿s Napoleonic officer corps. There is also no question but that Hay was a competent and effective officer who did good service in a number of important campaigns, and an old soldier¿s tendency to polish his recollections should take nothing from that. However, in order to help the reader better judge when Hay is remembering events with advantage, this edition of his memoirs is introduced and annotated by historian Andrew Bamford and includes additional information to identify places, people, and events and to otherwise add context to the original narrative.