Böcker av John McDonald

Haiku in this collection reveal true feelings of the poet composed in the colloquial diction. We do not find in these haiku any type of mannerism, artificialities of emotion and phrases. Some of these haiku with fervent feelings, written with profound imaginative power, are intense lyrics of immediate personal response.

In this cookbook, you will find lots of salad recipes, mouthwatering and delicious that can help you to stay healthy and have a controlled balanced diet. Every human being needs vitamins proteins and nutrients to maintain a good health. These dishes can be made from vegetables, which are easily available at any kind of market. The preparation is also very simple and unique, so that you cannot only prepare the salad perfectly but also make the salad taste better. Every recipe is tested and can be cooked at home without any high technical methods.The recipes are written in an easy way so that you can understand the exact way to prepare the delicious dishes. The book is written with the exact picture of the dishes. The ingredients are also given with exact measurements to give you the perfect amount of dish to prepare. 

This fascinating study uses Domesday book data and Management Science methods to examine manorial production efficiency in Medieval Essex in 1086. This book reveals unexpected facts about economic history.

The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.

Aims to change the way Americans think about their cities. This book provides an economic and social history of urban America, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. It draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer an explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth.

118 haiku in Scots by haiku master John McDonald with transcreations in Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. Raw, real, disturbing and beautiful, these haiku are "...an invitation to see more clearly, to hear more sharply, to feel more soulfully. If we have at all those eyes to see and those ears to hear they wake us up, not only to taste the language, but to hear the music of wonder. These verbal explosions echo in the chambers of wisdom". Alan Titley (Writer & scholar, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish, UCC)

In Dinky Dau, the third novel in this Vietnam trilogy, Mac's exploits continure to trigger our tears and laughter.Sergeant Youngblood's rogue Ranger team goes on a rampage. They ambush, rape, kill, steal, smuggle goods, and hole up at an old Frenchman's villa near the Cambodian border. On their way home form Reporter Tex Payne's party, nurses Susan and Dawn, Captain Garibaldi, and CIA agent Hart are in a car crash with an Army truck stolen by Blood's team. The mavericks kill the driver, kidnap the captain and nurses, then take them back to their hideout where they brutalize and repeatedly rape the nurses.With their Ranger teams and tracker-dog Airborne, sustaining characters Mac and Sergeant "Flash" Gordon are sent to the field to track Blood and his men.Later, using his incredible abilities to improvise, economize the truth, and manipulate, Mac arranges for former VC Billy and Airborne to take a most unusual trip.McDonald once again takes us into the lives of the grunt in Nam, giving us a grin one minute and a look at evil the next.

John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Here''s a new round of classic stories brimming with half truths, stretched truths, and wry observations about life in Maine.

Whether your primary interest is to improve your card game or put together a political coalition, here you will be enjoyably instructed in an approach to strategy that has caught the imagination of a generation of readers.