A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones nonfiction Book of the Month (June) A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The political book of the year' Sunday Times You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate & personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans The decline of this group a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years has been reported on with growing frequency & alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside J D Vance tells the true story of what a social regional & class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck The Vance family story begins hopefully in post-war America J D's grandparents were dirt poor & in love & moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them They raised a middle-class family & eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out we learn that this is only the short superficial version Vance's grandparents aunt uncle sister & most of all his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life & were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse alcoholism poverty & trauma so characteristic of their part of America Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history A deeply moving memoir with its share of humour & vividly colourful figures Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels & it is an urgent & troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country ...

Eric Powell&s Appalachian Mountain fantasy epic that tells the story of Rondel A lonely figure who wanders the wooded hills among witches & magical creatures as a folktale hero to those who dwell in this gritty dream world Contains the first four issues & the Comi Xology short along with bonus sketch material! ...

This new edition has been updated & has undergone a full-colour revision featuring new photos & illustrations to engage those keen to learn the fundamentals of automotive electronics & enhance their understanding of the core concepts whilst keeping the straightforward approach that is much admired in this authoritative manual ...

This edition of Hillier's has been updated & undergone a full-colour revision featuring new photos & illustrations to engage those keen to learn the fundamentals of MVT & enhance their understanding of the core concepts whilst keeping the straightforward approach that is much admired in this authoritative manual ...

After a group of hapless National Guard troops fails a training exercise their commanding officer orders them to deliver supplies to some scientists in Yuma Flats New Mexico The mutants from the first film have returned to terrorise a group of Department of Defence researchers The unlucky soldiers happen upon the remains of their camp (and its denizens) & the horrors begin ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play With his 2006 remake of Wes Craven&s 1977 slasher & The Hills Have Eyes& French director Alexandre Aja manages to accomplish what many directors fail to do by making his film a definite improvement over the original With Craven on board as producer Aja sticks pretty closely to the first film&s script & storyline but with the help of a larger budget special effects better actors & slick cinematography creates a much scarier story While the film&s setting is contemporary it maintains a 1970s feel in parts paying tribute to the decade in which the slasher subgenre was born With an interesting opening-credit sequence consisting of actual nuclear testing footage we are told that the film&s desert setting was the site of nuclear testing during the 1950s & &60s Warned to vacate the miners that lived there refused to leave thus subjecting themselves to high levels of toxic radiation & breeding mutant babies as a result It is this generation of now-grown mutants that the poor Carter family has the misfortune to encounter while driving through New Mexico on their way to California When their vehicle breaks down in the desert the Carters are too busy bickering with one another to realise they have entered enemy territory But it doesn&t take long for the demented creatures living in the hills to make their presence known The gore fest that follows is packed with terribly frightening scenes of the deformed killers delighting in the torment & intended kill of each family member young mothers teen girls & babies included Much of the film is set in a government-created test city in which deteriorating mannequins take the place of actual humans Posing lifelessly alongside their mutant neighbours these waxy figures provide a chilling backdrop for the graphic war between the mutants & their victims ...

This is the definitive unique account of the disaster in which 96 men women & children were killed hundreds injured & thousands traumatised It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved & survivors in the immediate aftermath the inhumanity of the identification process & the vilification of fans in the national & international media In 2012 Phil Scraton was primary author of the ground-breaking report published by the Hillsborough Independent Panel following its new research into thousands of documents disclosed by all agencies involved Against a backdrop of almost three decades of persistent struggle by bereaved families & survivors in this new edition he reflects on the Panel's in-depth work its revelatory findings & their unprecedented impact
- an unreserved apology from the Prime Minister; new criminal investigations; the Independent Police Complaints Commission's largest-ever inquiry; the quashing of 96 inquest verdicts; a review of all health & pathology policies Paving the way for truth recovery & institutional accountability in other controversial cases he details the process & considers the impact of the longest ever inquests from the preliminary hearings to their comprehensive devastating verdicts Powerful disturbing & harrowing Hillsborough The Truth exposes the institutional complacency that led to the unlawful killing of the 96 revealing how the interests of ordinary people are marginalised when those in authority sacrifice truth & accountability to protect their reputations
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Moving fictionalised account that tells through the stories of three families the events of the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in which 96 fans lost their lives On 15th April 1989 96 fans attending the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool & Nottingham Forest at Sheffield United&s Hillsborough Stadium were crushed to death when police monitoring the crowd outside allowed supporters to enter an already heavily packed terracing This award-winning drama starring Christopher Eccleston & Ricky Tomlinson reconstructs the tragic chain of events with clarity & compassion making damning indictments against those particularly the media it sees as being culpable ...

On 15 April 1989 the world witnessed one of the worst football disasters in history occur at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield 96 people were crushed to death & another 766 injured in a tragedy that was later admitted to have been exacerbated by police failures Hillsborough Voices does justice to the memory of all those who died & for all those left behind From the tragic events of the day to what unfolded in the hours days & eventually years that followed the book will interweave the voices of those who were there with the families & friends of those who died & all those who have played key roles in the long search for the truth The author Kevin Sampson has a long history with Hillsborough Not only was he there as a fan to witness the horror first-hand he also helped organise the Hillsborough benefit concert at Anfield & has close connections with the justice campaign He has conducted exhaustive & exclusive interviews both with people who have become familiar public figures & those who will be telling their heart-rending personal stories for the first time
- to bring us the full story The book will be fully endorsed & promoted by the Hillsborough Justice Campaign & will carry the official HJC logo
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Yahweh DVD features all of the songs from the popular CD as live video recordings On DVD you can realise just how much passion & vibrant energy is put into the performances Yahweh DVD

Includes:: 13 intimate recordings including Yahweh Mighty To Save Saviour King Salvation Is Here & many more incredible songs from the Hillsong team!

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