Alex is the strip cartoon which appears daily in "The Independent" and is about to be syndicated in "The Observer" colour magazine.

The Unabashed Alex

Charles Peattie

Russell Taylor

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner is one comparatively unfit 39-year old Londoner's humorous account of his attempt to run the New York marathon from scratch. (He chose the pre-Thanksgiving race in the Big Apple to avoid adding to his ordeal by having to train during the British winter.) Inspired by the charity running of friends, Russell Taylor set himself the challenge of doing what Pheidippides first had done. But to spare himself the post-event trauma of trying to extract money from the reluctant grasp of his sponsors, he decided to write a book about his experiences and donate the royalties to charity instead. This book follows our intrepid road-runner from the treadmills of a north London gymnasium via his first tentative fun run to the mean streets of the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Along the way, we encounter indescribably tasteless isotonic drinks, sweaty singlets, sports injuries, personal bests, split times, anxious queuing for the public toilets and an unfeasibly large quantity of bananas. We also discover what lurks within the breast of the endurance athlete: an unreasonable hatred of his fellow runner (except the nubile females of the species), a contempt for the idiocy of stadium announcers and a strange fear of spectators who line the route inanely shouting "Keep Going!" by way of encouragement. The narrative is interspersed by jocular reviews of films about running - not least The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - and a tongue-in-cheek description of the history of the marathon from its Ancient Greek origins to its modern-day revival as an Olympic event. Written with considerable panache and a self-deprecating sense of humour, this illuminating tale of obsessive and foolhardy sporting endeavour will make entertaining reading for (in descending order of athletic accomplishment) manic ultra-marathon runners, dedicated pavement pounders, occasional joggers and the simply curious alike.

The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner: An Unfit Londoner's Attempt to Run the New York City Marathon from Scratch

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Gerald The Germ

Jasmine 'Jaszy' Smith

Self-published

This text pinpoints the excesses that make the rest of us laugh at the financiers' expense and which no doubt cause them to wince in recognition. It offers appropriate Alex cartoons showing the anti-hero in any number of tight corners from which he manages to escape with practiced charm.

The Alex Technique: On Jobs in the City

Comics & Graphic Novels

Headline Hardbacks

Customized book for Larry A. Smith, Ph.D., PMP Florida International University (FIU) MAN 4504

Operations Management Creating Value Along The Supply Chain (Seventh Edition) 2011

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The Looniness of the Long Distance Runner

This book charts the attempts of a totally unfit 39-year-old Londoner to run the ulitmate distance: the 26.2 miles of the New YOrk Marathon.

The Looniness Of The Long Distance Runner

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Carlton Books Ltd.

The Best of Alex 1998-2001

Alex, the cartoon investment banker who resides on the business pages of the Daily Telegraph, emerges into a new Millennium just as arrogant and unpleasant as he was in the old. It's been the toughest year so far in Alex's fifteen-year career. His world is rocked by financial scandals, he discovers his boss is having an affair with the head of human resources and Alex must fight to retain his job as many of his colleagues are made redundant around him. Regardless of the chaos of his daily life, the irrepressible Alex still manages to humiliate his trainee Robin, ski, play golf and experience very odd dreams where he finds himself a pupil of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Alex has a huge following in the City of London and also in the Shires when the Telegraph reading parents of brokers, bankers and lawyers must sit and wonder what their highly paid offspring really get up to during working hours.

The Best of Alex 2002

charles-peattie-russell-taylor

Comic Strips

Operations Management

Historic Homes of Bellingham Coloring Book (Historic Home Coloring Books)

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Independently published

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