Bøger af Michael Newman

No pressure but these alien invaders Max and Bowie are invading (oops) I mean visiting Cleveland, Ohio and the fate of the Galaxy might depend on what they think about this great city. Is the city worthy enough to persuade these intergalactic travelers to detour the total destruction of the planet and save humanity? Let's find out?!

"Disenchanted with his strained marriage and desperately delaying the overdue mortgage payments on his struggling car repair shop, expert mechanic Jude Layden has got more issues than Hot Rod. If only his stalled business had a jumpstart it could run on all cylinders. The wheels of fortune turn in Jude's favor when Miami millionaire Paco Roman shows interest in purchasing his pristine Chevy Bel Air, a family heirloom that could fetch a hefty sum, put his business back in the black, and give his wife, Margarita, and daughter, Chloe, a better life. Although he's reluctant to sell, Jude puts his Baltimore hometown in the Bel Air's rearview mirror and sets out for South Beach to seal the deal. But upon Jude's arrival with his shop sidekick, Hector, Paco throws a monkey wrench in the plans by curiously making his purchase contingent upon the Bel Air participating in two upcoming car shows-the first in South Beach, the other in Fort Myers. Jude's confusion and anger rises like the oppressive SoBe heat. He is anxious to get home to salvage the scraps of his marriage from the junkyard, but he desperately needs the money and commits to one last trip. He is clueless as to the arduous calamity and life-changing moment that await him." FLORIDA SUNBURN is a classic novel about how a hard-working American man, who is just trying to get ahead, experiences a fall from grace. Then, upon finding himself and his place in this world once again, commits to Christ and recommits to his family. Author, Teacher, and Mentor Michael W. Newman - "Newmie" - takes life freely with both hands and shares it generously with all others, as a gift given to him personally by Our Supreme Creator. With due respect always to Heaven above, as well as to other peeps still thankfully with us here on Earth below, Michael seeks to promote and live out the Scripture verse universally known and seen at many a sporting event: "For God so loved the world..." (John 3:16). Never relying on himself, yet being fully reliable and available to others as a fit, gentleman scholar, he expounds openly that the conundrums and confusions experienced by all the living are solvable by Faith & Good Deeds. Now, with enough grey hair to knit a fine Persian rug, he makes his home in Falls Church, Virginia with his lovely Peruvian wife, The Contessa Julia, their two omniscient (never obsequious) teens Emmannuela and Mikey, and the blessed presence of an un-pedigreed, untrainable, crazy dawg, Jack Daniels, which his family has in infinite wisdom happily chosen to crown supremely and place forthwith upon the family throne forever. Pax Dominus, Soldatos Christi! -mwn

This book describes highlights, and the occasional lowlight, of Michael Newman's life. It will make you laugh, shudder and reflect. Newman takes you to far-flung places - Jamaica, America, South Africa, France and England - with a witty mind and a cross-cultural vision of the world. This is a personal memoir delighting in the inconsistencies of life. Among the highlights, he talks his way out of a mugging in Kingston, Jamaica, tells the world's longest joke in Covent Garden, joins a picket line of a clothing workers' strike in Johannesburg, and finds himself in Paris during the riots that swept across France in May 1968. Among the lowlights, he flies a car in north Pakistan and comes a social cropper in Dallas.

A week in Cannes can be murder. The action plunges through the famous hotels and bars of the French Riviera during the summer festival season as Andy Carrick - an ex-soldier still doing battle with himself - hunts for the cut-throat razor killer of a decadent advertising guru murdered during a long lunch. Is it really the crime of passion it's been made to look, he wonders? Or is it actually big business related? Or maybe, just maybe, it's a brazen art forgery scam? At first the murder seems a real life-saver to Carrick, he aches to get back to the centre of things. But suddenly he's not so sure. The investigation is leading him straight back to his own messy past, a dark and lonely place he's in no hurry to revisit. Memories of Afghanistan, the failure of his marriage, the death of his mentor, all his insecurities and lack of certainty threaten to engulf the investigation. When his own alibi crumbles, he starts wondering one more thing: can he survive seven days and nights in a town full of liars for hire? Want vivid characters and tight plotting shot through with dry wit? An intense psychological struggle against time, the French police, Marseille gangsters, traitorous friends and Carrick's own demons? Strap yourself in. It's John Buchan meets Ian Rankin. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL NEWMAN FROM AMAZON READERS: "Newman engages the reader from the first page . . . a smart and compelling book" - Sarah A. Schaffer "Absolutely wonderful, well written and very unique . . . I totally love it. It will stay in my personal library. (No, I won't be selling it on Amazon like I do most of my books.) It will get read again and again" - Susanna Hutcheson "He knows how to get attention . . . Read it for the asides, the tangents . . . the rambles. We recommend you read it for pleasure" - Rolf Dobelli "It is these captivating interludes that make the book really valuable . . . an engaging repast . . . anybody reading this book is sure to find in it a delightful book worth possessing" - Mind Mapper PRAISE FOR MICHAEL NEWMAN FROM REVIEWERS: "Aims straight at the core ... confronting and provocative, stimulating and engaging ... Michael Newman shows us what it's all about" - Neil Stagoll "An absolutely compelling read for anyone ..." - Jim Aitchison "A rich soup of insight and inspiration" - Jack Vaughan "This is certainly an easy and readable book - a must ... " - Florence Oh "In all this is a wonderful book, enjoyable, revealing and ultimately educational ..." - Mark Gabbott "His interesting and well written book will go a long way ..." - Al Ries

Considers the following classic writers: Victor Serge in Stalinist Russia, Albert Camus in Vichy France, Jorge Semprun in Spain under Franco, Ngugi wa Thiong'o in colonial and post-colonial Kenya, Ariel Dorfman in Chile under Pinochet, and Nadine Gordimer in apartheid South Africa

Harold Laski (1893-1950) was perhaps the best known socialist intellectual of his era, influential in the USA, India and mainland Europe as well as Britain. A controversial figure, he was attacked in the Cold War years for his continued defence of socialist principles.This biography argues that Laski has been misrepresented. It maintains that he dedicated his life to the quest for a just society, and that his thought remains highly relevant for our own times. This first paperback edition includes a new preface assessing the relevance of Laski's legacy today. Some Reviews of the hardback edition:'In this beautifully written, minutely researched and very thoughtful book, Professor Newman has at last provided Laski with the biography that he so manifestly deserves.' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 'Mr Newman's brilliant book is eminently worthy of his subject'.Jewish Chronicle 'Justice has now been done in Michael Newman's excellent, well-researched and eloquent biography. It has the supreme merit of bringing together Laski's roles as theorist and activist'. New Statesman and Society'a closely argued book which offers an intelligent and spirited defence of Laski'. The Guardian

New York City English is one of the most recognizable of US dialects, and research on it launched modern sociolinguistics. Yet the city's speech has never before received a comprehensive description and analysis. In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the NY dialect region. He uses data from a variety of sources including older dialectological accounts, classic and recent variationist studies, and original research on speakers from around the dialect region. All levels of language are explored including phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon, and discourse along with a history of English in the region. But this book provides far more than a dialectological and historical inventory of linguistic features. The forms used by different groups of New Yorkers are discussed in terms of their complex social meanings. Furthermore, Newman illustrates the varied forms of sociolinguistic significance with examples from the personal experiences of a variety of New Yorkers and includes links to sound files on the publisher's site and videos on YouTube. The result is a rigorous but accessible and compelling account of the English spoken in this great city.

This book is for activist adult educators who want to help people make up their own minds and take control of their own lives. At its heart this book is about choice. It examines how activist educators can help people understand that they do have choices and then help those people learn how to make effective choices.

To move content from source to target they used four operations. These include exposure (making themselves conscious of the information), extraction (a process of selecting information), manipulation (changing or synthesizing information), and display (showing the information).

Critiques international policies by examining their impact on developing and transitional countries. This book argues that military interventions have had limited success in building sustainable peace. It endorses the notion of a 'responsibility to protect'.

A year after Richard Prince's Untitled (cowboy) photograph set a record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction, a study of a work from Richard Prince's series of Untitled (couples) considers the long history of the image and Prince as a pioneer of the approproated image.