Links

Links
Title Links PDF eBook
Author Nuruddin Farah
Publisher Penguin
Pages 353
Release 2005-03-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101548479

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From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip—his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother’s grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend’s family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.

Missing Links

Missing Links
Title Missing Links PDF eBook
Author Rick Reilly
Publisher Anchor
Pages 290
Release 2011-05-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307793893

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When a group of middle-class buddies obsessed with golf set up a bet to see who can finagle their way onto the nearby private course, their friendship is tested in ways they had never expected in this humorous novel from Rick Reilly, one of America’s most popular sportswriters. Missing Links is the story of four middle class buddies who live outside of Boston and for years have been 1) utterly obsessed with golf and 2) a regular foursome at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky, the single worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to these municipal links lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston and a major needle in their collective sides. Frustrated by the Mayflower's finely manicured greens and snooty members, three of Ponky's finest and most courageous—Two Down, Dannie, and Stick—set up a bet: $1,000.00 apiece, and the first man to somehow finagle his way on to the Mayflower course takes all. Lying, cheating, and forgery are encouraged, to put it mildly, and with the constant heckling and rare aid of Chunkin' Charlie, Hoover, and Bluto--a few more of Ponky's elite--the games begin. One of the three will eventually play the Mayflower's course, but their friendships--and everything else--will change as various truths unravel and the old Ponky starts looking like the home they never should have left.

True Links

True Links
Title True Links PDF eBook
Author George Peper
Publisher Artisan Books
Pages 321
Release 2010-01-01
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1579653952

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The most challenging, most invigorating holes a golfer can tackle. In this beautiful book, Peper and Campbell, two writers who know golf inside and out, provide a concise and entertaining tour of the world's best links courses. Full color.

The Missing Links

The Missing Links
Title The Missing Links PDF eBook
Author Phillip Meade
Publisher Leaders Press
Pages 288
Release 2021-09-07
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781637350881

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The Links

The Links
Title The Links PDF eBook
Author Robert Hunter
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1926
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN

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Weak Links

Weak Links
Title Weak Links PDF eBook
Author Stewart Patrick
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 354
Release 2011-05-23
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 019975151X

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Conventional wisdom among policymakers in both the US and Europe holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats today. However, as this book shows, our assumptions about the threats posed by failed and failing states are based on false premises.

Weak Links

Weak Links
Title Weak Links PDF eBook
Author Peter Csermely
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 422
Release 2009-06-11
Genre Science
ISBN 3540311572

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How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis? Why can we enjoy and understand Shakespeare? Why are fruitflies uniform? How do omnivorous eating habits aid our survival? What makes the Mona Lisa’s smile beautiful? How do women keep our social structures intact? – Could there possibly be a single answer to all these questions? This book shows that the statement: "weak links stabilize complex systems" provides the key to understanding each of these intriguing puzzles, and many more besides. The author, a recipient of several distinguished science communication prizes, explains weak or low probability interactions, and uses them as connecting threads in a vast variety of networks from proteins to ecosystems. This unique book and the ideas it develops will have a significant impact on diverse, seemingly unrelated fields of study.