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Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century. In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis 'everymen': Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On Definitely Maybe, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping. Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as "Live Forever," "Supersonic," and "Cigarettes & Alcohol." In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.

So, after a lifetime of sparkling adventures with animals... personal and professional, the series of Dr Alex' and wife Theresa' memoirs climax in this volume. With more family orientated stories than in the previous four volumes, the highlight is our wedding. The fabulous day when Theresa Mulvenna: the catch of Dumbarton, exchanged vows with Alex.

A modern approach to animal treatment using Veterinary Homoeopathy with a detailed Materia Medica and Simple Repertory by experienced veterinarian, homoeopath and author Dr Alex Niven.Note improved and successful treatment with cancer nosodes.Use of a modified Korsakovian system with 1000 succussions offers great hope.

From Dumbarton in Scotland to Kentucky in the USA, and South Africa, follow adventures and disasters of the Cairns family from birth of three infants in Overtoun Maternity Hospital, Dumbarton to adulthood as veterinarians. Absorb this medical, crime drama as events changes lives wrought by anxiety.Enthrall at happiness engendered by romance until this causes unexpected twists and turns.From volume one swapping infants in a maternity home to killing horses to claim insurance then breathe with relief when the vets foil a plot to poach rhino in South Africa.

Volume three entitled Goats and Girls includes additional stories of Niven family life in Scotland, England, and South Africa. Dr Niven's life is loaded with fascinating illustrations of his life dealing with animals and their owners. Often asks the question of which is most difficult to manage. His thrilling description of Brandy, the family pet giving birth to her puppies in his bedroom, brings out the basic humanity vets need to carry on their vocation. The scary frisky ride he took in a wayward car draws on imagination and realisation of how important motor vehicles were for country vets in the seventies and eighties.When a foxhound involved in a fight lost a testicle it serves as an introduction to how much work aggressive dogs cause.For a presentation to a Young Farmer's Club his efforts to collect photographs of a cow giving birth on the coldest day of the year bring out how the vagaries of weather affect country life.But it is in Goats and Girls that Sarah's adventures and misadventures with animals offer pointers to the enormous variety of problems he faced.

After their successful ventures when killing horses in England, the fraudulent vets travel to Kentucky in the USA. Commissioned by Paulo, a wealthy owner and drug baron, they prepare to target the prized stallion, Senor Angelo. The introduction of another two vets in the USA finds these two using horses to smuggle diamonds on behalf of a Chinese connection. Niall's successful work on HIV saves the life of their first trial patient... an unexpected one.

A study of place, identity, music, politics and regionalism which calls for a radical restructuring of the British Isles.