Dangerous Ground

Cook, Roger

Business & Money

HarperCollins, Publishers

Dangerous Ground: The Inside Story of Britain's Leading Investigative Journalist

In 25 years of investigative reporting, Roger Cook has been knocked unconscious a dozen times, hospitalized on almost thirty occasions, and has had 23 bones broken by those who have resented his ruthless persistence - or just objected to the fact that he exists at all. He was born 6 April 1943 in New Zealand. His father - a timid man afraid of attack from Japanese submarines rumoured to have been sighted in Auckland harbour - soon found refuge and a new start for his family in Sydney, Australia. If anything was going to prepare Roger Cook for what he was to become, it was growing up in the Australia of the 1950s - a melting-pot of different nationalities, scarred by the war, and with an unsophisticated and sometimes brutal education system. After school and college he found his broadcasting feet at a Sydney commercial radion station, moving on to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He then emigrated to Britain to tackle BBC radio, where he prospered at "The World at One". his brainchild however was "Checkpoint", which became the most popular programme on Radio 4 after "Today". Cook and his team exposed a breadth of institutional incompetencies, bad law, injustices and naked criminalty. This is his life story.

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

In 25 years of investigative reporting, Roger Cook has been knocked unconscious a dozen times, hospitalized on almost 30 occasions, and has had 23 bones broken by those who have resented his ruthless persistence - or just objected to the fact that he exists at all.

Dangerous Ground: The Inside Story of Britain’s Leading Investigative Journalist

Professionals & Academics

Harpercollins Entertainment

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Describes the mythological background of the tree of life, shows examples of this motif in art, and discusses the symbolic meanings associated with trees

Tree of Life: Image for the Cosmos (Art and Imagination)

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Thames&Hudson

Host plant resistance is one of the cornerstones upon which integrated pest management is based. Improved pest management is an essential element of sustainable agriculture. Resistance to nematodes is currently under utilized, particularly in developing countries. This practically orientated book describes methods for evaluating the resistance and tolerance of plant cultivars to parasitic nematodes, and provides specific instructions on all phases of resistance screening. With the current emphasis on decreasing the use of chemical nematicides, this book is a timely addition to the subject.

Plant Resistance to Parasitic Nematodes

Science & Math

Bridge, John

Starr, James L

Biological Sciences

CABI

More Dangerous Ground

Bed and Bolster Publishing

The purpose of the essays in this book is to aid students in understanding the rhetorical principles underlying the composition and delivery of each speech.

Great Speeches: 001

Rohler, Lloyd E.

Educational Video Group

Second revised edition of this classic history of the Western Maryland Railway. Fascinating and engaging history of the railroad that tells the whole story from the beginning (although with some emphasis on the 1954-1992 era). Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With Centennial Roster (1952) and All-Time diesel roster. Includes maps, timetables, gradient profiles, and bibliography. Decorative end papers show system map over 2-page spread. 332 pages with index.

The Western Maryland Railway: Fireballs and Black Diamonds

Zimmermann, Karl

Garrigues House Pub

Magnetic North is an inspiring chronicle of the brief, bright moment when steam locomotives ran their final miles in Eastern Canada, a time when the certainty of their demise made their presence all the sweeter. From the moment Karl Zimmermann and Roger Cook packed their bags in May of 1958 and boarded a sleeper for Montreal, they were hooked on Canadian steam. They arrived just in time to see and record the end of an era. In a sense, Zimmermann and Cook have been collaborating on this book for 40 years. In carefully wrought essays and in photographs selected from among many hundreds made by the authors and other outstanding railway photographers, this book is a vision of classic steam railroading rendered with first-person immediacy. 
 Exerpt from Magnetic North "With armstrong turntable, bucket coaling station, and two-stall enginehouse, La Malbaie reeked of small-time, steam-powered style; it was the epitome of old-fashioned railroading, still rich in humanity. It was labor-intensive to a fault, with stations sprouting train-order boards (and, inside, the operators or station agents to set them) and engine terminals where locomotives sometimes were turned by men with strong backs and strong arms and sometimes were fueled using derricks to wrestle hulking buckets to tender-top. If labor-intensive, it was also irresistible."

Magnetic North: Canadian Steam in Twilight

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Boston Mills Press

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