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To obtain any of the free things, click on the appropriate "Free download" link to get what you want. 1. LATEST BOOK! Going to University: the Secrets of Success. If you want help in writing your essays, score better marks in exams, and improve your chances of going to the university of your choice then this is the book for you. It will also teach you valuable skills that later on can help you get a better job and be promoted; these are benefits that will last you all your life. The valuable life-skills include some to help you to cope with stress and relax when you are working hard; and others can help you to make good presentations that influence people to your views. The Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) likes it and is now distributing it in the UK. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS: The first review, written by a student, said in part "... Bucknall's engaging writing style and genuine belief that 'life is beautiful' shine through...As a well-constructed and concise offering, you can dip into the chapters on oral presentations and end of year exams, for example, at the appropriate times of the year..." To read the full review please click here. To read more about it - and to take a look at what people have said about my study-guides click here. You can also download an excerpt and read it at your leisure. A 5-Star Amazon review says: "It is jam-packed with useful hints and tips to make not just study easier and more enjoyable, but the whole uni experience. It is simply written and also quite funny which aids readability." Read more. The book is full of valuable information and advice for the 5th-6th form (11-12th grade) student, as well as for the first or second-year college student (freshman or sophomore). To buy it from Amazon (UK) or use their "search inside" click here or from Amazon (USA) click here. The recommended price is £9.99 ($17.99). Or you can buy it direct from the author for that price and receive a free bonus CD containing several valuable articles on things like how to improve your study methods, and do better in exams. 2. How to Succeed as a Student - a FREE BOOK - true value there! Improve your learning and writing skill, study efficiently, save time for a better social life, improve your results in exams and score higher grades in college and university. Help for the university student doing a degree and those in grades 11-12. It is 140 pages long. I wrote this for my Uni students and we sold it at cost. Now free online for everybody, it is an early version of list item 9 below, and is the work that in the end led to item 1, Going to University. Free download. 3. NOW IN PAPERBACK: Japan: Doing Business in a Unique Culture. The book deals with Japanese culture and the approach focuses on getting along with the Japanese, with emphasis on negotiation. In more formal terms, it covers cross-cultural issues and the use of proper business etiquette. The book was published in electronic format in January 2005 and is available online from several book sellers, including Amazon.com. It is most suitable for business people in the Asian market, government officials, students taking Asian studies, grad students undertaking cross-cultural communication or management courses or going for a straight MBA degree. Chambers of Commerce and resident expats could benefit, as might tourists, as they would understand more of what is going on about them. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS: "5 Stars - Very informative and well written....it is clear the author has a real and deep understanding of his subject and I would recommend anyone entering in business relationships with Japan to read this book carefully." (Johnny Zeven, Belgium) To read the rest of the review, please click here. Read the Contents Page and a sample of Chapter 1 by clicking here, or read more about it by clicking here, The paperback edition (228 pages) came out in May, 2006, ISBN 1-932482-32-6, and can be ordered in your favorite bookshop or from the usual online booksellers. To buy now from Amazon.com (USA) click here; or to buy from Amazon.co.uk click here. The list price in the States is $19.95 and the recommended retail price in the UK is £9. It is now being translated into Italian. 4. Chinese Business Etiquette and Culture. This book could have the title "Doing Business with China". Valuable for business people trading with China or investing there, as well as public servants dealing with economic issues, and students studying cross-cultural issues or Asian management, perhaps for the MBA. 267 pages. Second edition 2002, ISBN 0-917990-44-7. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS: "Invaluable!! If you ever need to do business in China then don't start anything until you've read this book. It will save you time, money and your sanity! After reading this book we took advice from it and saved a valuable business deal..." (Shanghai Expat) Read more reviews. Check out other information about it and see the Contents page, the Preface and Chapter 1. To buy now in paperback from Amazon.com (USA) click here or from Amazon UK click here, Also available as an E-book from Mobipocket, Cyberread and elsewhere - Google it and make your choice!. 5. FREE! - An Introduction to Economics: Economic Notes for the GCE A-Level in the UK. 266 pages. I was going to publish these notes as a book, but decided that I would probably never get around to finishing it. The book covers an entire course, both microeconomics and macroeconomics, and was prepared for the GCE Advanced Level in Economics papers. This exam is designed for university entrance in the UK and the course is normally taken in the last two years of high school. The notes might also be useful for first year college work or business economics if you (or your students) are just starting out. These notes could help you to pass your exams or improve your exam results. You can take the entire book or just the parts of the course that interest you. Click for your free download. 6. FREE! Tips for the Graduate Student. Help for all those starting research, students doing independent study courses, or those in their final year of university. 8 pages. Free download. 7. FREE! Microeconomics Notes . Revision notes - strictly for beginners. 14 pages. Free download. 8. China and the Open Door Policy. Allen & Unwin, 1989. 169 pages. Out of print. I am thinking of republishing it myself as people keep borrowing it from libraries and I get occasional requests for a copy (none left now) now that Going to University is published (see item 1 above). 9. Studying at University: how to make a success of your academic course. How-To Books, 1996, 136 pages. Out of print in English but it is available in Chinese (China Youth Publishing, Beijing, 2001 as Zou Jin Da Xue) ; trust me, it takes quite a while to learn to read the language, but this version will at least fit into your pocket. Stop Press! How-To Books have now made it available again, this time in E-book form via NetLibrary. 10. The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China, CUP, 2001. I wrote Chapter 6, "China's economy". 11. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004. I did the entry on Derek Bentley who was hanged in 1953 for a murder that he did not commit and which occurred while Bentley was actually in police custody, a fact known to the court. Bentley was feeble-minded with an IQ of only 66. Lord Chief Justice Goddard is now officially blamed for running a grossly unfair trial and misdirecting the jury, causing Bentley to be hanged. The case is one of the more infamous miscarriages of justice in the UK. Bentley was finally given a posthumous pardon in 1998 and Goddard was heavily criticised. Posthumous pardons may be nice but they do not bring people back to life. 12. FREE! "A List of Words Commonly Used in Exam Questions and What They Mean." Words and phrases like "account for","evaluate", or "trace" in exam questions can suggest your best approach to the question.Check out this free list by clicking here. It may improve your answer and gain you better marks. 13. FREE! "Mature Students - University Certainly is for You" An article that reveals your strengths, shows you what adjustments you may have to make, and encourages you to go to college; and it's free. Download now - in RTF format that all word processors should be able to read. 14. FREE! "The Most Imortant Elements in Japanese Culture" An article that was originally written for business people working with or in Japan, and public servants working in the sphere of negotiating across cultures, it would be relevant for an MBA student studying management, especially Asian. It is also of general interest. Click here. 15. FREE! "How to Increase Your Motivation and Tackle Procrastination: A Practical Guide for Students" Tips and advice to help you do better at university or high school. Many of the suggestions could help you, even if you are not a student. Click here. Less than fascinating personal stuff Who am I? An ancient academic, born in Yorkshire, England, but spent most of my life in Australia and Asia. Trained in economics, worked for the UN and various universities, speak Chinese - but slowly forgetting it (sadly!) and know enough French to survive without actually starving to death. Now retired to Primrose Hill in London, an area of actors, artists, drunkards, musicians, writers and similar sundry bohemians. Oscar winner 2000 Sam Mendes lives locally, as does Jamie Oliver, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Alan Bennett, Ewan McGregor, Robert Plant, Joan Bakewell.... Fay Weldon lived here for many years but eventually moved out. I was at university with Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, was invited to go and hear him play in a pub on the Thames in 1961 when he was totally unknown, but felt I was too busy. What an idiot I was, a google curses; I could have drunk beer with Sir Mick! Still driving an old Ford Fiesta with the (for England) luxury of airconditioning. Recent reading: Indra Sinha, Animal's People; Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Fury. I like on TV: "24" (great Kiefer Sutherland); "House" (Go Hugh Laurie!); and (don't wince) "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (funny script, nice martial arts and acting, although my friend John Pocklington suggests that Freud would have something to say about my passion for Buffy. Actually, I have not told him but Spike is actually my favourite). Oh! And I enjoyed "GBH" an under-rated 1990s political TV drama from the UK - I recommend it!. Came across a nice statement recently "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Not bad, hey what? I was the Press Officer for a book Primrose Hill Remembered, a history of the area in which I live, based on peoples reminiscences. It came out in 2001 and sold out in 9 months. I was one of a gang of four who put together In Primrose Hill (a "What's Where" booklet) in 2003. Back in Feb.- Mar. 2006, I appeared in an exhibition by Tino Sehgal at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; he designs situations that are based on movement and the spoken word - you're right, I moved about and spoke. Man, did my legs ache after going up and down all those stairs! Happily married to Sieska for nineteen years now, but who wouldn't be? Why are many of the books and files free? Why not? One should contribute something to the world, to mark one's passage through it. I prefer to leave some trace of myself, however insignificant. But I think that Woody Allen had a point when he said he preferred to achieve immortality by living for ever, rather than through his works. My Greatest Contribution? The invention of Simulcast, you know, that way of watching TV and listening to stereo sound on FM radio. I came up with the concept in the 1960s and gave it to the BBC in London who ran radio & TV separately until then. They developed the idea and now it is in use round the world. Honest I did! (They never paid me anything for it either, curses, curses). I thought of it as a way of solving the problem of subtitled foreign films when the white words appear over snow and thus disappear - but the Beeb did not pick up on that element. It would have involved paying actors - the Beeb no doubt felt lunches for the top brass were more important than keeping actors from starving. Actually, it is hard to say where the Beeb spends its money.....do you know that even Parliament cannot examine the BBC's financial accounts despite it being funded by the tax payers? At last they are talking about eventually allowing this, which I guess is a start. What do I look like? Despite my strong inner feeling that I bear a fascinating resemblance to the younger Tom Cruise, my friends and the mirror assure me that this is untrue. So that you can judge for yourself, here are a couple of photographs. |
Some of my books and articles (And a wee bit of information about me) |
Then - when a musician in Malaysia and Singapore, in 1958 aged 20. Here I am playhing clarinet and alto sax in C.N. and Tony Lim's nightclub band at the Kinta Swimming Club in Ipoh. A truly huge spider lived on the bandstand --- darn thing crawled across my music once as I was playing; and I suddenly discovered that I could swivel my thighs at 90 degrees to my trunk and still not miss a note....now that's what I call practical yoga! |
Now that age has taken its toll - although the alternative to ageing definitely seems worse to me..... |
To obtain any of the free things, click on the appropriate "Free download" link to get what you want. 1. LATEST BOOK! Going to University: the Secrets of Success. If you want help in writing your essays, score better marks in exams, and improve your chances of going to the university of your choice then this is the book for you. It will also teach you valuable skills that later on can help you get a better job and be promoted; these are benefits that will last you all your life. The valuable life-skills include some to help you to cope with stress and relax when you are working hard; and others can help you to make good presentations that influence people to your views. The Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) likes it and is now distributing it in the UK. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS: The first review, written by a student, said in part "... Bucknall's engaging writing style and genuine belief that 'life is beautiful' shine through...As a well-constructed and concise offering, you can dip into the chapters on oral presentations and end of year exams, for example, at the appropriate times of the year..." To read the full review please click here. To read more about it - and to take a look at what people have said about my study-guides click here. You can also download an excerpt and read it at your leisure. A 5-Star Amazon review says: "It is jam-packed with useful hints and tips to make not just study easier and more enjoyable, but the whole uni experience. It is simply written and also quite funny which aids readability." Read more. The book is full of valuable information and advice for the 5th-6th form (11-12th grade) student, as well as for the first or second-year college student (freshman or sophomore). To buy it from Amazon (UK) or use their "search inside" click here or from Amazon (USA) click here. The recommended price is £9.99 ($17.99). Or you can buy it direct from the author for that price and receive a free bonus CD containing several valuable articles on things like how to improve your study methods, and do better in exams. 2. How to Succeed as a Student - a FREE BOOK - true value there! Improve your learning and writing skill, study efficiently, save time for a better social life, improve your results in exams and score higher grades in college and university. Help for the university student doing a degree and those in grades 11-12. It is 140 pages long. I wrote this for my Uni students and we sold it at cost. Now free online for everybody, it is an early version of list item 9 below, and is the work that in the end led to item 1, Going to University. Free download. 3. NOW IN PAPERBACK: Japan: Doing Business in a Unique Culture. The book deals with Japanese culture and the approach focuses on getting along with the Japanese, with emphasis on negotiation. In more formal terms, it covers cross-cultural issues and the use of proper business etiquette. The book was published in electronic format in January 2005 and is available online from several book sellers, including Amazon.com. It is most suitable for business people in the Asian market, government officials, students taking Asian studies, grad students undertaking cross-cultural communication or management courses or going for a straight MBA degree. Chambers of Commerce and resident expats could benefit, as might tourists, as they would understand more of what is going on about them. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS: "5 Stars - Very informative and well written....it is clear the author has a real and deep understanding of his subject and I would recommend anyone entering in business relationships with Japan to read this book carefully." (Johnny Zeven, Belgium) To read the rest of the review, please click here. Read the Contents Page and a sample of Chapter 1 by clicking here, or read more about it by clicking here, The paperback edition (228 pages) came out in May, 2006, ISBN 1-932482-32-6, and can be ordered in your favorite bookshop or from the usual online booksellers. To buy now from Amazon.com (USA) click here; or to buy from Amazon.co.uk click here. The list price in the States is $19.95 and the recommended retail price in the UK is £9. It is now being translated into Italian. 4. Chinese Business Etiquette and Culture. This book could have the title "Doing Business with China". Valuable for business people trading with China or investing there, as well as public servants dealing with economic issues, and students studying cross-cultural issues or Asian management, perhaps for the MBA. 267 pages. Second edition 2002, ISBN 0-917990-44-7. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS: "Invaluable!! If you ever need to do business in China then don't start anything until you've read this book. It will save you time, money and your sanity! After reading this book we took advice from it and saved a valuable business deal..." (Shanghai Expat) Read more reviews. Check out other information about it and see the Contents page, the Preface and Chapter 1. To buy now in paperback from Amazon.com (USA) click here or from Amazon UK click here, Also available as an E-book from Mobipocket, Cyberread and elsewhere - Google it and make your choice!. 5. FREE! - An Introduction to Economics: Economic Notes for the GCE A-Level in the UK. 266 pages. I was going to publish these notes as a book, but decided that I would probably never get around to finishing it. The book covers an entire course, both microeconomics and macroeconomics, and was prepared for the GCE Advanced Level in Economics papers. This exam is designed for university entrance in the UK and the course is normally taken in the last two years of high school. The notes might also be useful for first year college work or business economics if you (or your students) are just starting out. These notes could help you to pass your exams or improve your exam results. You can take the entire book or just the parts of the course that interest you. Click for your free download. 6. FREE! Tips for the Graduate Student. Help for all those starting research, students doing independent study courses, or those in their final year of university. 8 pages. Free download. 7. FREE! Microeconomics Notes . Revision notes - strictly for beginners. 14 pages. Free download. 8. China and the Open Door Policy. Allen & Unwin, 1989. 169 pages. Out of print. I am thinking of republishing it myself as people keep borrowing it from libraries and I get occasional requests for a copy (none left now) now that Going to University is published (see item 1 above). 9. Studying at University: how to make a success of your academic course. How-To Books, 1996, 136 pages. Out of print in English but it is available in Chinese (China Youth Publishing, Beijing, 2001 as Zou Jin Da Xue) ; trust me, it takes quite a while to learn to read the language, but this version will at least fit into your pocket. Stop Press! How-To Books have now made it available again, this time in E-book form via NetLibrary. 10. The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China, CUP, 2001. I wrote Chapter 6, "China's economy". 11. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004. I did the entry on Derek Bentley who was hanged in 1953 for a murder that he did not commit and which occurred while Bentley was actually in police custody, a fact known to the court. Bentley was feeble-minded with an IQ of only 66. Lord Chief Justice Goddard is now officially blamed for running a grossly unfair trial and misdirecting the jury, causing Bentley to be hanged. The case is one of the more infamous miscarriages of justice in the UK. Bentley was finally given a posthumous pardon in 1998 and Goddard was heavily criticised. Posthumous pardons may be nice but they do not bring people back to life. 12. FREE! "A List of Words Commonly Used in Exam Questions and What They Mean." Words and phrases like "account for","evaluate", or "trace" in exam questions can suggest your best approach to the question.Check out this free list by clicking here. It may improve your answer and gain you better marks. 13. FREE! "Mature Students - University Certainly is for You" An article that reveals your strengths, shows you what adjustments you may have to make, and encourages you to go to college; and it's free. Download now - in RTF format that all word processors should be able to read. 14. FREE! "The Most Imortant Elements in Japanese Culture" An article that was originally written for business people working with or in Japan, and public servants working in the sphere of negotiating across cultures, it would be relevant for an MBA student studying management, especially Asian. It is also of general interest. Click here. 15. FREE! "How to Increase Your Motivation and Tackle Procrastination: A Practical Guide for Students" Tips and advice to help you do better at university or high school. Many of the suggestions could help you, even if you are not a student. Click here. Less than fascinating personal stuff Who am I? An ancient academic, born in Yorkshire, England, but spent most of my life in Australia and Asia. Trained in economics, worked for the UN and various universities, speak Chinese - but slowly forgetting it (sadly!) and know enough French to survive without actually starving to death. Now retired to Primrose Hill in London, an area of actors, artists, drunkards, musicians, writers and similar sundry bohemians. Oscar winner 2000 Sam Mendes lives locally, as does Jamie Oliver, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Alan Bennett, Ewan McGregor, Robert Plant, Joan Bakewell.... Fay Weldon lived here for many years but eventually moved out. I was at university with Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, was invited to go and hear him play in a pub on the Thames in 1961 when he was totally unknown, but felt I was too busy. What an idiot I was, a google curses; I could have drunk beer with Sir Mick! Still driving an old Ford Fiesta with the (for England) luxury of airconditioning. Recent reading: Indra Sinha, Animal's People; Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Fury. I like on TV: "24" (great Kiefer Sutherland); "House" (Go Hugh Laurie!); and (don't wince) "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (funny script, nice martial arts and acting, although my friend John Pocklington suggests that Freud would have something to say about my passion for Buffy. Actually, I have not told him but Spike is actually my favourite). Oh! And I enjoyed "GBH" an under-rated 1990s political TV drama from the UK - I recommend it!. Came across a nice statement recently "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Not bad, hey what? I was the Press Officer for a book Primrose Hill Remembered, a history of the area in which I live, based on peoples reminiscences. It came out in 2001 and sold out in 9 months. I was one of a gang of four who put together In Primrose Hill (a "What's Where" booklet) in 2003. Back in Feb.- Mar. 2006, I appeared in an exhibition by Tino Sehgal at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; he designs situations that are based on movement and the spoken word - you're right, I moved about and spoke. Man, did my legs ache after going up and down all those stairs! Happily married to Sieska for nineteen years now, but who wouldn't be? Why are many of the books and files free? Why not? One should contribute something to the world, to mark one's passage through it. I prefer to leave some trace of myself, however insignificant. But I think that Woody Allen had a point when he said he preferred to achieve immortality by living for ever, rather than through his works. My Greatest Contribution? The invention of Simulcast, you know, that way of watching TV and listening to stereo sound on FM radio. I came up with the concept in the 1960s and gave it to the BBC in London who ran radio & TV separately until then. They developed the idea and now it is in use round the world. Honest I did! (They never paid me anything for it either, curses, curses). I thought of it as a way of solving the problem of subtitled foreign films when the white words appear over snow and thus disappear - but the Beeb did not pick up on that element. It would have involved paying actors - the Beeb no doubt felt lunches for the top brass were more important than keeping actors from starving. Actually, it is hard to say where the Beeb spends its money.....do you know that even Parliament cannot examine the BBC's financial accounts despite it being funded by the tax payers? At last they are talking about eventually allowing this, which I guess is a start. What do I look like? Despite my strong inner feeling that I bear a fascinating resemblance to the younger Tom Cruise, my friends and the mirror assure me that this is untrue. So that you can judge for yourself, here are a couple of photographs. |
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But in the words of William Butler Yeats..... "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." Actually, I rather think that Yeat's words might sound better as "Tread softly, for you tread upon my dreams". But I must be wrong - Yeats WAS good! And while we're at it, given that millions of people seem to remember the words: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well" and not as the play actually says: "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio" Should we perhaps wonder if Shakespeare, the master, might have got it wrong? |
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