The enormous success of German football is envied around the world The national team won the 2014 World Cup in style while the Bundesliga offers an alternative model through its fan-friendly set-up terraces & low ticket prices In Matchdays The Hidden Story of the Bundesliga award-winning author Ronald Reng takes a unique approach to explain the history & peculiarities of German football He follows the tracks of a journeyman footballer Heinz Hoher who has been in the Bundesliga all his life from the first day of its existence in 1963 until now as a player manager sports director & youth coach We see through Hoher's story the wider picture of how German football & even German society developed from the ruins of the Nazi era to become the football & economic powerhouse of today Born in 1939 Hoher became the small-town hero of Bayer 04 Leverkusen a stylish winger & the first to let his hair grow like the Beatles He witnessed the big match-fixing affairs of the seventies fought in vain the temptations of so many managers
- alcohol & gambling
- & realised that even at 75 his real addiction is still the game Matchdays does for German football what David Winner's Brilliant Orangedid for Dutch football

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Matched is the first book in an utterly compelling series by Ally Condie On her seventeenth birthday Cassia meets her Match Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life Except he's not In Cassia's society Officials decide who people love How many children they have Where they work When they die But as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy she is determined to make some choices of her own And that's when her whole world begins to unravel ' Don't miss this gripping page turner'
- She'A must read'
- The Sun

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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 At the same time Marisa Hagen (Jacinda Barrett) discovers that her child (Tom Russell) is seriously ill she also finds out that her husband (Richard Roxburgh) has been unfaithful for years Marisa goes on a bizarre search in an attempt to turn her husband&s serial affairs into a positive
- an illegitimate child could save her son&s life A chance encounter with another parent Connor (James Nesbitt) & his son Finn (Kodi Smit-Mc Phee) leads them on an unpredictable journey of love & hope Actors Jacinda Barrett Richard Roxburgh Tom Russell James Nesbitt Kodi Smit-Mc Phee Yvonne Strahovski Colin Friels Julia Blake Marg Downey Daniela Farinacci Alexandra Schepisi Nicole Gulasekharam Krista Vendy & Jane Allsop Director Nadia Tass Certificate 12 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 43 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Tracklist A1 O Caroline A2 Instant Pussy A3 Signed Curtain A4 Part Of The Dance A5 Instant Kitten B1 Dedicated To Hugh But You Weren't Listening B2 Beer As In Braindeer B3 Immediate Curtain B4 Memories Membrane
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The game in which Prediction beats luck matchmaster is the funniest tactic card Game Predict how many tricks you can win depending on the cards in hand in order to win bonus points Predict how many tricks you can win The game takes place over 11 rounds Contains 52 cards & 50 matches! Part of the Matchbox collection from Helvetiq Suitable for 2-7 players aged 8 ...

Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) is a conman & trickster who has had to overcome enormous problems with obsessive-compulsive disorder in order to stay on top of his game His partner in crime Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell) helps him run a daily business conning housewives out of their money with telephone scams Frank is frustrated with their small-fry clientele however & urges Roy to look for bigger business ventures Roy resists Frank's urges & instead leads a bizarre existence in which he is completely dominated by his compulsions to clean eat canned tuna every night & open his front door three times before he can walk through it His world is turned upside down however when he starts seeing a shrink who helps Roy to get in touch with his missing 14-year-old daughter Angela (Alison Lohman) Angela soon becomes embroiled in Roy & Frank's scams pushing Roy to take on a grandiose scheme that could give them financial security for the rest of their lives Directed by Ridley Scott this fast-paced crime drama takes several twists & turns as it works its way towards a surprising conclusion Cage is perfectly cast as the con artist beset by neuroses & family problems & has an excellent foil in the younger more abrasive Rockwell Weaving a tale of trust family friendship & deceit director Scott utilises the talents of his actors to delve into complicated themes resulting in a breathtaking film in which nothing can be taken for granted ...

OK so & Cars& might be a virtual remake of Doc Hollywood with animation charm thrown in but it works & leaves you wanting more In fact we got more with a sequel & then the spin-off Planes What you might not know is that the merchandising of the Cars film was the biggest ever money spinner for a Pixar originated movie bringing in 10 Billion over 5 years Given that it&s high time there was a POP! range ...

Riches-to-rags story in which the spoiled daughters of a late cosmetics tycoon face losing everything their father worked so hard to build… & with it their cushy lives Their only chance of saving the failing company is for them to go back to basics & ditch the spas housekeepers personal chefs & bottomless credit cards ...

The third volume in this series is on packaging design & features carefully selected products that showcase the innovative use of a particular material The book focuses on specific categories of packaging sustainable packaging functional forms dispensing systems advanced protection interactive & mass craft Seven specially commissioned visual narratives are included The extensive illustrated materials directory contains detailed information on over 100 materials ...

Material Synthesis Fusing the Physical & the Computational Guest-edited by Achim Menges A new understanding of the material in architecture is fast emerging Designers are no longer conceiving of the digital realm as separate from the physical world Instead computation is being regarded as the key interface for material exploration & vice versa This represents a significant perceptual shift in which the materiality of architecture is no longer seen to be a fixed property & passive receptor of form but is transformed into an active generator of design & an adaptive agent of architectural performance In stark contrast to previous linear & mechanistic modes of fabrication & construction materialisation is now beginning to coexist with design as explorative robotic processes This represents a radical departure from both the trite modernist emphasis on 'truth to materials' & the dismissal of materials by the previous generation of digital architects The issue features designers researchers & thinkers that are at the forefront of exploring new modes of material enquiry & its deep interrelationship with technology biology & culture Through their work which unfolds from multifaceted alliances between the fields of design engineering & natural sciences it seeks to trace the emergence of a novel material culture in architecture Architectural & engineering contributors include Sean Ahlquist Martin Bechthold Philippe Block Karola Dierichs Jan Knippers Achim Menges Neri Oxman Steffen Reichert & Tobias Schwinn Scientific & philosophical perspectives provided by Mario Carpo Manuel De Landa Neil Gershenfeld & Thomas Speck Features the design research of Harvard's Material Processes & Systems Group MIT's Mediated Matter Group & Stuttgart University's Institute for Computational Design ...