In rowing races are often won in spite of not because of technique & many misconceptions still preoccupy both rowers & coaches This book explains the facts about rowing technique & will help you to find the right way to achieve your best performance The Biomechanics of Rowing offers a unique insight into the technical & tactical aspects of rowing based on over twenty-five years experience of working with the best rowers & coaches all round the globe a careful analysis of millions of data samples & comprehensive biomechanical modelling with the aim of finding an optimal balance of variables ...

Steve Austin & Jaime Sommers the iconic heroes of The Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman are together again & at each other's throats! The FBI recruits Austin to investigate a rash of brutal murders & the Bionic Man discovers that those slain were all accident survivors whose limbs & organs were replaced by cybernetics Enter Trench a serial killer whose very life depends on butchering victims & harvesting their bionic parts! Soon after Austin disappears & only his former lover Jaime Sommers
- herself a cyborg with uncanny abilities
- has any hope of tracking him down When their paths cross will their tragic past & different tactics towards Trench's defeat pit them against one another?

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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 The complete three series of the 1970s spin-off from & The Six Million Dollar Man& starring Lindsay Wagner as a woman who is fitted with bionic parts after a serious accident Jaime Sommers (Wagner) a tennis professional is holidaying with her childhood sweetheart Steve Austin (Lee Majors) when she is involved in a near-fatal sky-diving accident Steve the & Six-Million Dollar Man& begs his bosses to perform bionic surgery on Jaime & they oblige leaving her with much the same abilities & responsibilities as her lover The episodes are & Welcome Home Jaime (Parts 1 & 2)& & Angel of Mercy& &A Thing of the Past& & Claws& & The Deadly Missiles& & Bionic Beauty& & Jaime&s Mother& & Winning Is Everything& & Canyon of Death& & Fly Jaime& & The Jailing of Jaime& & Mirror Image& & The Ghost Hunter& & In This Corner Jaime Sommers& & Assault On the Princess& & Road to Nashville& & Kill Oscar Part 1& & Kill Oscar Part 2& & Kill Oscar Part 3& & Black Magic& & Sister Jaime& & The Vega Influence& & Jaime&s Shield Part 1& & Jaime&s Shield Part 2& & Biofeedback& & Doomsday Is Tomorrow Part 1& & Doomsday Is Tomorrow Part 2& & Deadly Ringer Part 1& & Deadly Ringer Part 2& & Jaime & the King& & Beyond the Call& & The De Jon Caper& & The Night Demon& & Iron Ships & Dead Men& & Once a Thief& & The Bionic Dog Part 1& & The Bionic Dog Part 2& & Fembots in Las Vegas Part 1& & Fembots in Las Vegas Part 2& & Rodeo& & African Connection& & Motorcycle Boogie& & Brain Wash& & Escape to Love& & Max& & Over the Hill Spy& & All for One& & The Pyramid& & The Antidote& & The Martians Are Coming& & Sanctuary Earth& & Deadly Music& & Which One Is Jaime?& & Out of Body& & Long Live the King& & Rancho Outcast& & & On the Run& ...

Just because they could rebuild her doesn't mean her life isn't a wreck! After Jaime Sommers suffers a horrific parachute accident her then-boyfriend Steve Austin convinces his superiors to save her life using similar bionic parts to the ones that made him the Bionic Man The doctors scientists replace both Jaime's legs Her right arm Her ear & a few other surprises! Now she's the Bionic Woman & her body is faster & stronger but much of the memory of her past life is missing But old lives have a way of popping back up again & when the recipients of the earliest bionic prototypes are being killed across the globe horribly murdered with their bionic parts stolen Jaime has to put her new life in Paris on hold Especially since it now looks like the mysterious killers are done with the small fry They want the upgrade They want the Bionic Woman! It's bullets bionics & baguettes in the city of love in this trade paperback collecting issues 1-6 of The Bionic Woman series complete with a cover gallery ...

2014 The Commonwealth Games are coming to Glasgow & security is extra tight particularly after a mysterious bomb explodes in nearby rural Stirlingshire As the opening ceremony for the Games draws ever closer the police desperately seek the culprits But Detective Superintendent Lorimer has other concerns on his mind One is a beautiful red-haired woman from his past whose husband dies suddenly on his watch Then there is the body of a young woman found dumped in countryside just south of the city who is proving impossible to identify Elsewhere in Glasgow people prepare for the events in their own way whether for financial gain or to welcome home visitors from overseas & hiding behind false identities are those who pose a terrible threat not just to the Games but to the very fabric of society Alex Gray's stunning new Lorimer novel set against the backdrop of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games brings the vibrant city to life in a race to stop the greatest threat the city has ever known ...

The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness from the author of The Haunting of Hill House & We Have Always Lived at the Castle ' An amazing writer' Neil Gaiman Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed with no friends no parents & a job that leaves her strangely unnoticed But soon she starts to behave in ways she can neither control nor understand to the increasing horror of her doctor & the humiliation of her self-centred aunt As a tormented Elizabeth becomes two people then three then four each wilder & more wicked than the last a battle of wills threatens to destroy the girl & all who surround her The Bird's Nest is a macabre journey into who we are & how close we sometimes come to the brink of madness Shirley Jackson's chilling tales of creeping unease & casual cruelty have the power to unsettle & terrify unlike any other She was born in California in 1916 When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948 readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in the same year & was followed by five more Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House & We Have Always Lived in the Castle widely seen as her masterpiece Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48 ' The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie & unforgettable It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny & clear there is always the threat of darkness looming of things taking a turn for the worse'
- A M Homes Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written quiet cumulative shudders'
- Dorothy Parker ' Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic inimitable writers whose work exerts an enduring spell'
- Joyce Carol Oates


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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play An American re-make of the 1978 film French film & La Cage aux Folles& Armand (Robin Williams) runs the Birdcage nightclub in Miami South Beach where his partner Albert (Nathan Lane) is the star drag act When Armand&s son announces his intention to marry the daughter of a right wing senator (Gene Hackman) & the in-laws arrive expecting to meet Armand & his wife a grand farce ensues ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robin Williams delivers his funniest performance since Mrs Doubtfire in this non-stop hilarious comedy audiences & critics adore Williams stars as Armand the outlandish owner of a wild Miami Beach nightclub whose partner Albert is also the star attraction at the club Gene Hackman (Crimson Tide) is the ultra conservative US Senator Keeley who faces political problems when his closest political ally dies in bed with a prostitute When Armand&s son Val announces his engagement with Keeley&s daughter the scene is set for a riotous comedy of errors Keeley sees the wedding as the opportunity to restore political fortunes by promoting "traditional family values" If he only knew what sort of family&s his daughter was marrying into! Put the two families together & watch the sparks fly ...

How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened & then withdrew 'A classic of alienation & horror ' The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation & mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world The mountain paradise of ' Monte Verita' promises immortality but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera & into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; & a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd ...

An important tool of a birdwatcher is a good identification guide Most cover the birds of Europe & few deal exclusively with Ireland This first photographic identification guide to the birds of Ireland has over 1600 photos of more than 260 species in an easy quick-reference format With eight to fifteen images per species the key identification features of each bird are shown with concise descriptions & pointers to indicate important features This guide is produced in association with Bird Watch Ireland Ireland's leading bird-conservation organisation The purchase of this guide contributes funds to Bird Watch Ireland's conservation & education initiatives to help protect & promote Ireland's wild birds & habitats similar to Ireland's Garden Birds by Jim Wilson & Oran O' Sullivan ...