In If You're Proud to be a Leeds Fan... Tom Palmer tries to work out just why he claps; why, when he has to miss a home game for work, he feels so bad; & why, whatever day of the week Leeds are playing, he gets a sickly feeling in his stomach until he's in one of the bars near the station calming his nerves. Set in the 2001-02 Premiership season, the author follows David O' Leary's young Leeds United team at stadiums home & away; in bars watching satellite; listening to Radio Leeds & watching the pages of Ceefax. He also focuses as much on the fans as on the action on the pitch & tries to establish if Leeds fans are really so bad? The book examines the highs & lows of the club's recent history & their impact on the supporters
- from the Paris riots in 1975 to relegation in 1982 & the glory of the 1992 League win. Palmer discusses the Bowyer-Woodgate trial, the board's plans to take Leeds United away from Elland Road, the club's persistent hooliganism problems
- especially their unceasing hatred of Manchester United
- & the appointment of England legend Terry Venables as the successor to David O' Leary. If You're Proud to be a Leeds Fan... tries to explain why, in the face of so many reasons why you shouldn't, you still find yourself clapping.


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In addition to being a great composer, Igor Stravinsky was one of the most fascinating personalities of his time. His life spanned an amazing range of events & places
- pre-revolutionary Russia, Europe in the years between the wars, & the United States between 1941 & his death in 1971. Such masterworks as The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring & many others fixed his reputation as a leading composer; his friendships
- & often enmities
- with most of his great intellectual contemporaries were famous. His personal life, which involved a double life between his official family & his mistress, was seldom placid. Touchy, unpredictable, witty & unfailingly brilliant, he is an ideal subject for a deeply informed & sophisticated biography. The first volume of this definitive biography covers Stravinsky's life & work from his birth in 1882 through to 1934, with special focus on his Russian roots & his struggles to make his way in Switzerland & France. It draws upon a great deal of new material, including unpublished archival sources, to illuminate the genius of both the music & Stravinsky the man.


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Igor has a loud & distinctive voice, & he cannot sing in tune. He is drummed out of the Dawn Chorus for not being musical enough, so he takes singing lessons. But his teacher says that not only is he always out of tune, he has no rhythm either. Poor Igor. He goes off into the desert, where at least he can sing to himself without being asked to stop. He builds a nest on a big rock, & starts to sing. But the rock is in fact a gigantic bird
- a Dodo!
- who likes his music so much it wakes up in order to join in.

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When MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot to kill super-rich Nikita Brunovsky
- a man who openly
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Liz Carlyle has been transferred to Counter-Espionage, along with her research sidekick Peggy Kingsolving. Once the hub of MI5 operations, the department has been reduced in size since the end of the Cold War, & priority within the service is on counter-terrorism.

Yet there is plenty for Liz to do. In fact, there are more spies operating in London today than during the height of East-West hostilities. This

Includes:: Russian spies, who continue to operate in number. What



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Any newspaper anywhere in the world, any day, carries news about illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money, or counterfeit goods The intense media coverage devoted to the war on terrorism has helped to obscure the other new wars of globalisation. Illicit international trade pits governments against agile, well-financed networks of highly dedicated individuals. Religious zeal or political goals drive terrorists, but profit is no less a motivator for murder, mayhem, & global insecurity than religious fanaticism.

Illicit is the first book to reveal the full scale of this dark underground. It uncovers the connections between illegal industries & shows how they join forces to breed new lines of business, feed off political instability, foster violence & enable terrorism. How do pirated movies or CD's find their way to illegal markets worldwide even before they are released? & how, in our free, modern world, have over 30 million women & children

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Any newspaper anywhere in the world, any day, carries news about illegal migrants, drug busts, smuggled weapons, laundered money, or counterfeit goods The intense media coverage devoted to the war on terrorism has helped to obscure the other new wars of globalisation. Illicit international trade pits governments against agile, well-financed networks of highly dedicated individuals. Religious zeal or political goals drive terrorists, but profit is no less a motivator for murder, mayhem, & global insecurity than religious fanaticism.

Illicit is the first book to reveal the full scale of this dark underground. It uncovers the connections between illegal industries & shows how they join forces to breed new lines of business, feed off political instability, foster violence & enable terrorism. How do pirated movies or CD's find their way to illegal markets worldwide even before they are released? & how, in our free, modern world, have over 30 million women & children

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