Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male film star of the twenty-first century. This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of his work across a variety of media, including film, television, video games and music videos. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Statham’s career, from his distinctive screen presence to his style, branding and celebrity. Accessibly written, and featuring a contribution from Hollywood director Paul Feig, who worked with Statham on the 2015 action-comedy Spy, the collection will appeal to a wide audience of scholars, students and fans.

Do you own your own business? Are you happy with the growth profit? Are you profits sliding? Is it time to crank up your business from successful to very successful and lose the frustration? You Have a Once in a Lifetime Opportunity to Assist Your Own Wealth Creation. Acquisition is one of the most powerful ways to grow your business - faster and more cost effective than organic growth alone. A strategy long employed by large companies, rewards can be large and immediate for small to mid-size companies if done strategically, and by avoiding common pitfalls. Crank It UP simplifies the process of successful acquisition into 5 easy steps so that businesses can grow through acquisition whilst still running the day-to-day business. From understanding your purpose & goals, developing a strategy, identifying quality and strategic targets, financing, negotiating, finalizing and integrating to maximum benefit Crank it UP steps you through all you need to know to maximize the potential of your already successful business. Enhance your lifestyle, free up your time to spend with those you love, and develop a legacy for future generations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Warren Otter is a successful and award winning company owner with a Business Degree in Accounting, is qualified as a CPA, and holds a Masters in Business Administration.Warren utilised the power of acquisition to grow his manufacturing business, fivefold, whilst in a low growth sector. This has lead to the development of a proven strategy which assists private businesses grow profitably in a short period of time.Warren believes so strongly in the benefits of this strategy that he now works alongside other businesses owners & CEO's who are forward thinking, energetic to take their company to the next level of growth, profit and professionalism.

This compilation of American slang contains more than 5,000 common slang terms with easy-to-understand definitions and sample sentences. The book's unique classification of slang terms under key words makes it easy to search for and discover any term. By organising terms this way, slang terms that share a common key word can be classified together for easy reference. For example, under the key word 'Chip,' the following terms are alphabetically listed: bargaining chip, blue chip, cash in one's chips, chip in, chip off the old block, chip on one's shoulder, in the chips, let the chips fall where they may, and when the chips are down. Slang terms with more than one key word are also cross-referenced, and sample sentences lend meaning to the slang terms by showing their applications in writing and in conversation.

With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results

Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.

In this riveting and startling companion to "Impulse," northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.

Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written. Will spins the reader from Self’s childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, and, finally, a surreal turn in rehab. Echoing the great Modernist writers of the early twentieth century in its psychedelic stream of consciousness, Will is vividly imagistic and mordantly witty. It is both kunstlerroman and confessional, a tale of excess and degradation, a karmic cycle that leads back to the author’s own lack of . . . will.