As heard on Radcliffe & Maconie Danny Baker & Simon Mayo Fascinating from start to finish' Simon Mayo Radio 2 The age of the rock star like the age of the cowboy has passed Like the cowboy the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations What did we see in them? Swagger Recklessness Sexual charisma Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief A certain way of carrying themselves Good hair Interesting shoes Talent we wished we had What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us To live out their songs To stay young forever No wonder many didn't stay the course In Uncommon People David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995 taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies they also shaped us our real lives & our fantasies Uncommon People isn't just their story It's ours as well ...

The age of the rock star like the age of the cowboy has passed Like the cowboy the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations What did we see in them? Swagger Recklessness Sexual charisma Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief A certain way of carrying themselves Good hair Interesting shoes Talent we wished we had What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us To live out their songs To stay young forever No wonder many didn't stay the course In Uncommon People David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments & turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995 taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths & create a hundred more As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies they also shaped us our real lives & our fantasies Uncommon People isn't just their story It's ours as well ...

This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom & whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense
- thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense
- is the secret to competitive success For those who want to succeed & stand out from the herd this book is a beacon of uncommon sense & a timely antidote to managerial humbug

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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor A hectic funny sexual affair between two best friends A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional & physical scars A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom & a whirlwind press junket A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce Four friends going to the moon & back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life These are just some of the people & situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction a collection of stories that dissects with great affection humour & insight the human condition & all its foibles The stories are linked by one thing in each of them a typewriter plays a part sometimes minor sometimes central To many typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship beauty & individuality that is harder & harder to find in the modern world In his stories Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level Known for his honesty & sensitivity as an actor Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing Alternatingly whimsical moving & occasionally melancholy Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans It also establishes him as a welcome & wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships families love & normal everyday behaviour ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA collection of seventeen wonderful short stories which show that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor A hectic funny sexual affair between two best friends 416 pages Hanks Tom ...

Unconditional Surrender! World War 2 in Europe (USE) is a strategic level game covering the World War II European Theater Players make the political decisions & control the military forces of the three major factions that struggled for European dominance & survival With its emphasis on force projection & decision making players remain focused on the big picture of managing their front lines & political opportunities Through simple mechanics & low on-map counter density players easily handle the strategic action without a myriad of complicated subsystems or tall stacks of counters As one gamer put it " It is a delight to be spending my limited brain power on making (or agonizing over) operational decisions that are as dependent upon guts as they are gray matter This game is not a series of arithmetic exercises & the only variable in these algorithms is nerve" Though the focus is on the big picture Unconditional Surrender! still delivers historical detail Each country has an historical army level order of battle & its relative economic strength & national will to fight are effectively & simply modeled Also represented are such World War II events as airdrops Free Forces jets naval evacuation partisans radar railroad artillery guns & ULTRA; all neatly woven into the game&s core mechanics for ease of play The game has many scenarios ranging from quick playing individual campaigns to longer ones covering up to the entire war Design Highlights Scale army fleet or air wing level units; 30-60 miles per hex; monthly turns Players 2-4 Playing Time 30 minutes to 50 hours depending on the scenario Low On-Map Counter Density The number of counters on the map is relatively low Simple Stacking No more than one air ground convoy or warship unit per hex No Factors on Counters There are no combat or movement factors on counters Single Combat System One combat resolution sequence & Combat Results Table covers all types of combat yet the results differ for airnaval ground or strategic combat Integrated Movement Combat System Units move & fight in a combined activation " Use it or Lose it" Economic System Simple math with minimal record keeping Historical or Variable Entry Units & events can enter play using an historical or variable time line Variable Politics Most countries’ belligerence & faction alliance is not predetermined Solitaire Friendly Though not designed with solitaire rules the mechanics easily allow one player to play the game PBEM Capable The game can be played using PBEM software but its mechanics require frequent exchanges ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a man (Wes Bentley Interstellar The Hunger Games) wakes up strapped to a bed confused & with no memory he is greeted by a mysterious & sinister woman (Kate Bosworth Still Alice Superman Returns) claiming to be his wife Venturing around the derelict household he finds traces of blood unexplained unusual objects & grows increasingly suspicious & afraid of the enigmatic woman Stumbling across the cold corpse of another man bound & locked in the basement he realises how deep & dangerous the web of lies & deceit go but suddenly all is black & when he awakes again he is a prisoner trapped & unable to move It is only then that the electric shocks begin & the true nature of his wife is revealed ...

Lexi Angelo has grown up helping her dad with his events business She likes to stay behind the scenes planning & organizinguntil author Aidan Green
- messy haired & annoyingly arrogant
- arrives unannounced at the first event of the year Then Lexi's life is thrown into disarray In a flurry of late-night conversations mixed messages & butterflies Lexi discovers that some things can't be planned Things like falling in love

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Discover the inside story behind the creative process of ground-breaking magazine covers 256 pages More than 150 full colour images Birch Ian ...

' This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring & collecting expedition This was a military expedition into hostile territory' In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains & into the Rockies It was completely uncharted territory; a wild vast land ruled by the Indians Charismatic & brave Lewis was the perfect choice & he experienced the savage North American continent before any other white man UNDAUNTED COURAGE is the tale of a hero but it is also a tragedy Lewis may have received a hero's welcome on his return to Washington in 1806 but his discoveries did not match the president's fantasies of sweeping fertile plains ripe for the taking Feeling the expedition had been a failure Lewis took to drink & piled up debts Full of colourful characters
- Jefferson the president obsessed with conquering the west; William Clark the rugged frontiersman; Sacagawea the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition; Drouillard the French-Indian hunter
- this is one of the great adventure stories of all time & it shot to the top of the US bestseller charts Drama suspense danger & diplomacy combine with romance & personal tragedy making UNDAUNTED COURAGE an outstanding work of scholarship & a thrilling adventure

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