In 1982 Anthony Clare interviewed Spike Milligan for the radio series In The Psychiatrist's Chair & was so overwhelmed by ...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, ...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, ...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, ...

She'd defied him, lied to him... & had to be punished most severely. Belinda fears that her sixteen-year-old daughter may be falling for Tony, her handsome but cruel new neighbour, & resolves to do everything in her power to keep the two apart. She believes that by giving her body to Tony she'll be able to preserve her daughter's innocence, but she soon finds herself hooked on debased & perverted sexual acts as she plunges deeper & deeper into the pit of depravity. ...

From the decaying houses on the North Circular, to the faded glory of the Tidal Basin Tavern in Prince Regent Dock, via Battersea Power Station & the Hoxton cinema, this is an extraordinary record of often wonderful London landmarks that are now prey to neglect, vandalism & the developer's demolition crew.

Paul Talling has been recording ramshackle London for several years, & here he looks at the cream of the down-at-heel, blending photographs with accounts of how particular buildings & sights fell into disrepair & what is likely to happen to them. The Victorian Concrete House in East Dulwich, for example

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Julius Culdrose has spent over four decades delighting in every aspect of the female bottom
- the dirfferent shapes & sizes, the
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Julius Culdrose has spent over four decades delighting in every aspect of the female bottom
- the dirfferent shapes & sizes, the
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In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am, ' science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes' Error. Antonio Damasio challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions & rationality. In this wonderfully engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking & to normal social behaviour. ...