SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALICE DAVIS HITCHCOCK AWARD' Brilliant' Elain Harwood' Part history part aesthetic autobiography wholly engaging & liable to convince those procrastinators sitting (uncomfortably) on the concrete fence' Jonathan Meades'A learned & passionate book' Simon Bradley author of The Railways A compelling & evocative read meticulously researched & filled with insight & passion' Kate Goodwin Head of Architecture Royal Academy of Arts The raw concrete buildings of the 1960s constitute the greatest flowering of architecture the world has ever seen The biggest construction boom in history promoted unprecedented technological innovation & an explosion of competitive creativity amongst architects engineers & concrete-workers The Brutalist style was the result Today after several decades in the shadows attitudes towards Brutalism are slowly changing but it is a movement that is still overlooked & grossly underrated Raw Concrete overturns the perception of Brutalist buildings as the penny-pinching utilitarian products of dutiful social concern Instead it looks a little closer uncovering the luxuriously skilled craft & daring engineering with which the best buildings of the 1960s came into being magnificent architectural visions serving clients rich & poor radical & conservative Beginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast & ending up backstage at the National Theatre Raw Concrete embarks on a wide-ranging journey through Britain over the past sixty years stopping to examine how eight extraordinary buildings were made
- from commission to construction
- why they have been so vilified & why they are beginning to be loved In it Barnabas Calder puts forward a powerful case Brutalism is the best architecture there has ever been & perhaps the best there ever will be

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Award-winning titles Raw Data & Sprint Vector The VR Power Pack features two of the most ground-breaking VR games ever released In Raw Data become the adrenaline-charged hero of your own futuristic shooter as you put your wits & endurance to the test In Sprint Vector run jump climb & fly across interdimensional race courses & challenge maps Raw Data VR Awards 2017 Game of the Year Packed with active VR combat Be transported into the future of Neo-Shinjuku 2271 as a Syndik 8 operativeinfiltrate the Eden Tower to steal as much raw data as possible & get out alive Wield pistols hack & slash with katanas & take on groups of enemies with pump-action shotguns Sprint Vector Gaming Trends Best VR Game Highly competitive adrenaline-fueled VR racer that pits players against each other in an extreme sports competition Master 12 challenging race tracks loaded with obstacles & shortcuts strategically placed Play solo or are looking to jump online against up to 7 other players Sprint Vector is a thrilling heart-racing dash to the finish line ...

Raw Data presents work by seventy-three of the worlds most innovative information graphics designers Now that huge amounts of information can be gathered & processed with ever-greater speed graphic designers & illustrators are playing a crucial role in explaining what all the collected data really means & how we can make sense of it to improve our personal & professional lives More than just a survey of finished work Raw Data gets behind the final image to reveal how a stack of numbers can be transformed into a beautiful image rich with meaning & explanation Among the international practices included are those who have been leading the way in the infographics revolution (Nigel Holmes The New York Times ) along with a new generation of designers only just emerging from university (Fernando Hernandez Tim Hucklesby) ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play Three FBI agents are guarding a key witness whose testimony will end the Chicago crime organisation Led by Luigi Patrovita (Sam Wanamaker) When the witness & the bodyguards are brutally murdered in an early morning raid FBI agent Harry Shannon (Darren Mc Gavin) seeks out the service of former agent Mark Kaminsky (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Kaminsky forced to leave the Bureau due to his excessive violence & brutality is asked to assume a second identity with the intention of infiltrating the Patrovita organisation & destroying it from the inside Informed that the reward for a successful mission is reinstatement with the FBI Kaminsky agrees to undertake the task Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger Ed Lauter Kathryn Harrold Darren Mc Gavin Sam Wanamaker & Steven Hill Director John Irvin Certificate 18 years & over Year 1986 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 41 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Featuring & winning at Cannes Toronto & London Film Festivals (to name a few) Raw is the film that has shocked & delighted audiences & critics alike Raw follows Justine a brilliant & promising student When she starts at veterinary school she enters a decadent merciless & dangerously seductive world During the first week of hazing rituals desperate to fit in whatever the cost she strays from her family principles when she eats raw meat for the first time Justine will soon face the terrible & unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge ...

As a native of Scotland bestselling author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland in a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt Visiting some of the world's most famous distilleries & also some of its smallest & most obscure ones Banks embarks on a journey of discovery which educates him about the places people & products surrounding the centuries-old tradition of whisky production Using various modes of transport
- ferries to the islands cars across the highlands even bicycles between bus stops
- Banks' tour of Scotland combines history literature & landscape in an entertaining & informative account of an exploration in which the arrival is by no means the most important part of the journey

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The Wu-Tang Clan is American hip-hop royalty Rolling Stone called them the 'best rap group ever' & their debut album is considered one of the greatest of all time Since 1992 they have released seven gold & platinum studio albums with sales of more than 40 million copies So how did nine kids from the Brownsville projects go from nothing to global icons? Remarkably no one has told their story-until now Raw is the incredible first-person account of one boy's journey from the Staten Island projects to international stardom Part social history part confessional memoir U-God's intimate portrait of his life
- & those of his Wu-Tang brothers
- is a brave & unfiltered account of escaping poverty to transform the New York hip-hop scene forever

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Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016 She comes in the night She looks into your eyes One by one she has taken us all For generations they have died young & now fifteen-year-old Iris & her father are the last of the Villarca line Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor they suffer their disease in isolation But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world & dares to fall in love It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night leaving death in her wake' With a ghostly face at the window inexplicable events & a sense of menace hanging over every page this is one chilling gothic novel' Daily Mail ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Head em up & move em out! Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood is back in the saddle as ramrod Rowdy Yates in the third action packed series of classic TV Western Rawhide Hit the Sedalia Trail with Gil Favor (Eric Fleming) Rowdy & their hard-driving gang of drovers as they take on murderous outlaws crooked ranchers & renegade soldiers in this rousing eight-disc DVD set jam-packed with whip-cracking thrills adventure & danger! A collection no true Clint Eastwood fan can afford to miss Get those doggies rollin! CONTAINS ENGLISH SUBTITLES ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Get rollin rollin rollin with Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood in Rawhide the trail-blazing western series that jump-started his illustrious movie career! This 6 disc set contains all 22 episodes from Series One plus a bonus episode from Series Two to get you back in the saddle with everybody s favourite cowhand Rowdy Yates; his tough-minded trail boss Gil Favor (Eric Fleming); & a whole herd of legendary guest stars With villains who will rob you blind & heroes who will steal your heart the wild west has never been so much fun! 1992 Best Director & Best Picture Unforgiven; 2004 Best Director & Best Picture Million Dollar Baby ...