Every city has a stadium & every stadium has a story. In Sightlines author & self-confessed stadium addict Simon Inglis has pursued his obsession to bring us the weird & wonderful worlds of usherettes at the Houston Astrodome, competing architects in Australia, angry neighbours in Auckland & wistful groundsmen in Bombay. Watching live sport as a regular spectator is all very well, reckons Inglis. But stadiums are far more interesting because in a stadium, whether it be a cathedral of sport or a collection of sheds in the back end of town, you can tune in to the mood of a nation or a community. Starting out at Olympia, where it all began, & ending up in Sydney, venue for the 2000 Games, along the way Inglis encounters anarchic bacchanalia in Pamplona's bull-ring, meets priests at a Gaelic Football final in Dublin & Palestinian refugees living within a few metres of a British-built stadium in Beirut. & in an attempt to come to terms with his obsession he tries aversion therapy by visiting 26 Argentinian football grounds in one week, in the company of a football mad psychotherapist. It doesn't work. He has a great time. The perfect companion volume to his popular books on football grounds. Sightlines is full of insight, wit, anecdotes & characters from a world beyond the view of the ordinary spectator. Read it & you'll never look at a stadium the same way again ...

On a dark, wet London morning in 1857, Chester Ludlow, an American engineer, arrives on the muddy banks of the Isle of Dogs to witness the launch of the largest steamship ever built, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's The Great Eastern. Ludlow, propelled by fierce ambition, is a key member of a small consortium whose ambition is to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable. He has abandoned his fragile wife, Franny, on their estate in Maine. The couple are still in deep mourning for their daughter who died in a tragic accident, aged only four. The charismatic Ludlow meets a woman who will exert the most powerful influence on his life & work
- the beautiful & enigmatic Katerina Lindt. As both Ludlow & Franny's lives start to unravel, they find themselves caught up in a relentless tide of change crashing across both continents & blurring the boundaries between the physical & the spiritual worlds.
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When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron & prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours of a massive French armada & of the latest type of artillery
- & Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy & to discover the intentions of his growing force.

Without any British bases in the Mediterranean, & unable to show favour to old friends, Bolitho is well aware that there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy
- & during the weeks & months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather & French broadsides alike, Bolitho knows that far more than his own future is at stake. A fleet, even a nation, could depend on his decisions &, when he places his squadron between the Nile & the power of France, he must accept the price of the challenge.





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When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron & prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility. There are rumours of a massive French armada & of the latest type of artillery
- & Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy & to discover the intentions of his growing force.

Without any British bases in the Mediterranean, & unable to show favour to old friends, Bolitho is well aware that there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy
- & during the weeks & months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather & French broadsides alike, Bolitho knows that far more than his own future is at stake. A fleet, even a nation, could depend on his decisions &, when he places his squadron between the Nile & the power of France, he must accept the price of the challenge.





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The answers are hidden among the grisly evidence, the common threads that link each devastating act. Sparked by a growing concern over the steady rise of signature murders, Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions & depraved motives of this breed of killer. From The Lonely Hearts Killer who haunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America, to the savage Midtown Torso Murders that stunned the NYPD, to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, & John Gacy, these are the cases-horrifying, graphic & unforgettable-that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind. ...

Significant Others, the fifth self-contained chronicle in the Tales of the City saga, is a cunningly observed class ...

Caroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma Goldman Significant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, & suffragists. Each forced her own particular brand of feminism, yet all fought bravely to make real, lasting difference to women's lives, & make us redefine our own notions of feminism today. ...

Whether we are conscious of it or not, the universe is communicating to us through signs. Native peoples have always known how to interpret these powerful messages, but with the development of technology & the increasing stress of our modern lives, we have become more & more removed from our connection to the earth & from our inner wisdom. We have lost our ability to decipher the signs that surround us & are largely unable to tap in to our innate intuition. Drawing on her Cherokee Indian heritage & her experience with the native tribes of Africa, Australia & New Zeal&, international healer Denise Linn helps us to reconnect with the magic of our inner selves so that we may properly interpret these signs
- & make the right decisions & choices in our lives. Including a comprehensive dictionary of signs for ease of reference, SIGNPOSTS is essential reading for anyone who wishes to truly hear the `whispers of the universe'.
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Whether we are conscious of it or not, the universe is communicating to us through signs. Native peoples have always known how to interpret these powerful messages, but with the development of technology & the increasing stress of our modern lives, we have become more & more removed from our connection to the earth & from our inner wisdom. We have lost our ability to decipher the signs that surround us & are largely unable to tap in to our innate intuition. Drawing on her Cherokee Indian heritage & her experience with the native tribes of Africa, Australia & New Zeal&, international healer Denise Linn helps us to reconnect with the magic of our inner selves so that we may properly interpret these signs
- & make the right decisions & choices in our lives. Including a comprehensive dictionary of signs for ease of reference, SIGNPOSTS is essential reading for anyone who wishes to truly hear the `whispers of the universe'.
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