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AN
INDIAN IN MY BED is a fascinating and upfront
true-life account of a 60-year-old Englishwoman’s love affair
with an Indian waiter half her age. The author met him during
a trip to Southern India undertaken with more spiritual objectives
in mind. The book’s frankness, its romantic spirit, and the
light it throws on sexual relations between middle-class western
travellers and young opportunist Asian men—is not always as
clear-cut as one might imagine, as witness the crucial part
played in this story by the waiter’s dying mother.
One reads with increasing curiosity about what becomes of this
unlikely couple. Like Jane Juska’s A Round-Heeled Woman, Gylda
Thomas writes openly and sympathetically about the sort of relationship—crossing
age, race, nationality and class barriers—that’s still considered
taboo in some quarters.
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The
Law of Labour and Employment Disputes in Trinidad and Tobago
By
Addison Khan, M.A., L.L.M.
Trinidad
and Tobago has a very advanced system for the settlement of unresolved
labour and employment disputes between employers and trade unions
on behalf of workers by judicial process instead of by strike
and lockout. The system has generated both condemnation and praise,
but it remains nevertheless an acceptable workable method for
the peaceful resolution of such disputes.
The Law of Labour and Employment Disputes in Trinidad
and Tobago provides an important assessment of this
unique system and gives useful guidance on the operation of the
Industrial Relations Act, Chap. 88:01 and the practice and procedures
of the Industrial Court, a superior court of record, which is
responsible for the adjudication of such disputes. The book gives
an insight into the unsatisfactory industrial relations climate
that existed prior to the implementation of the new system and
discusses the multifarious provisions of the Industrial Relations
Act, Chap. 88:01 and judgments of the Industrial Court on a variety
of cases determined by it from 1965-2006. It contains chapters
on the historical background to the introduction of legislation
for the compulsory determination of unresolved labour and employment
disputes, the beneficial effects of the legislation, the original
defect in the Act concerning the power of the Industrial Court
to make orders of reinstatement, the constitution, jurisdiction
and powers of the Industrial Court, the provisions for recognition
of trade unions as bargaining agents, collective bargaining and
the binding nature of registered collective agreements, the constitution
and jurisdiction of the Registration, Recognition and Certification
Board, trade dispute procedures, disciplinary action, industrial
action, offences and penalties, summary of relevant decisions
of the Court of Appeal and a general appraisal of the system.
Industrial Court judges, Legal practitioners, industrial relations
consultants, trade unions, employers, workers and all others engaged
in the complex and difficult tasks of settling industrial disputes
will find this book of considerable assistance to them, since
it is the only publication of its kind in existence.
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THE
GOAL GOURMET
The Peter Kitchen Story
By
Neilson Kaufman
Doncaster
Rovers and Leyton Orient as one of their greatest ever players.
In more recent polls conducted by BBC’s Football Focus,
FourFourTwo Magazine and other popular fanzines, he was voted
as one of their best players—some of these polls taking
place more than twenty years after he played for them, and is
today still considered a cult hero by both sets of fans.
Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire in 1952, Peter Kitchen attended
Mexborough Grammar School and represented Yorkshire Senior Schools
and England 'B' teams. He was spotted by Doncaster Rovers manager,
Lawrie McMenamy, and signed up in June 1970, beating Leeds United
to his signature. He made his league debut at Shrewsbury Town
on 27 November 1970, scoring after just ninety seconds.
Between 1970 and 1985, Peter Kitchen went onto play for five different
League clubs and scored a total of 210 senior goals from 545 appearances,
even after his retirement from the professional game, he turned
out for Corinthian Casuals Vets and knocked-in 280 goals from
228 appearances.
In this book about one of the greatest goal scorers from the lower
divisions, author Neilson Kaufman captures the life and times
of Peter Kitchen's career. The book also features many previously
unpublished photographs from Peter's own collection, and there
is a full statistical record on one of the great players ever
to put on a Doncaster Rovers and Leyton Orient shirt.
This book is a must for the bookshelves of any football fan with
an interest on the men who shaped the beautiful game and in particular
for the fans of the clubs for which Peter Kitchen played.
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