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.

Cook, Roger

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

Roger Cook was the first and remains the best-known investigative journalist on UK radio and television, justly famous for his ground-breaking and hugely popular series The Cook Report. Roger Cook moved from the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the late sixties to a career in England with the BBC, where he prospered on Radio 4's The World At One. Then, in 1971, he suggested carrying out an in-depth investigation into a suspect mortgage company. The company proprietor was a violent former heavyweight wrestler, and Cook was armed only with a microphone. The public response to the memorable broadcast that followed led to the creation of Checkpoint, his iconic radio programme, and then to The Cook Report when he transferred to ITV a decade later. The Cook Report ran for twelve years, achieving near-legendary status and attracting huge audiences excited by Cook s unique and ground-breaking brand of investigative journalism. He has been much imitated, but never equalled. For more than twenty five years, Cook exposed a breadth of institutional incompetence, bad law, injustices and naked criminality. During this time he was knocked unconscious a dozen times, required hospital treatment on almost thirty occasions and had a score of bones broken by those who have resented his ruthless persistence - or just objected to the fact that he existed at all. Cook made physical and journalistic fearlessness his trademark. Organised crime, drug-smuggling, child pornography, the exploitation of endangered animals, people trafficking, the Russian Mafia and the IRA - in search of justice, Cook has targeted them all, and many like them, and won. Some of his investigations have been extraordinarily prescient, foretelling 9/11 by more than five years and the imminent threat of a 'dirty bomb' by ten. Many have been followed by major convictions or changes in the law. Full of hair-raising anecdotes and flavoured by Cook's inimitable style and humour,

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

Business & Money

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

From the very first recorded conthe Elizabethan-era "Spanish Prisoner Scam"to today’s hi-tech online swindles, grifters have become ever-more inventive in their scope, scale, and ambition. This enthralling collection surveys the men and women who invented the most extraordinary scams of all time. Their stories are remarkable, including the tale of Gregor McGregor, the man who invented a fictional South American country, raised international loans on its behalf, and sold much of its nonexistent land to would-be settlers in the 1820s. Also included are the tales of Eric Hebborn, the master forger who conned the art world into buying thousands of his fakes; Arthur Ferguson, who sold Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and the White House to gullible American investors; and Frank Abagnale Jr., the real-life Catch Me If You Can conman who successfully impersonated a pilot, a teacher, a lawyer, and a pediatrician while swindling $5 million across 26 countries. This insightful guide unveils how these professional swindlers fooled countless individuals into handing over their cash, and reveals the techniques developed by the police to bring them to justice.

Roger Cook's Ten Greatest Conmen: True Stories of the World's Most Outrageous Scams

Politics & Social Sciences

Tate, Tim

Social Sciences

John Blake

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