Roller derby is now the fastest growing sport in the world. The revival of this fast-paced female-dominated sport has seen over 1, 000 leagues established internationally since it began in 2001. Roller derby is a tough, sexy & stylish contact sport that is taking the world by storm. How many other sports can you name that feature players decked out in fishnet tights & miniskirts, gold hotpants & warpaint as well as a showcase of tattoos? Flat Track Fashion is the very first book to feature stunning fashion photographs documenting the visual feast of fiesty fashions from leagues all over the world & capture the spirit & style of the roller derby revival. Complete with Foreword written by veteran skater Virginia ' Cheap Trixie' Evans of the Texas Rollergirls, this book

Includes:: everything from the history & origin of the sport to uniforms & logos, personal styles & fashions from leagues around the world, protective gear & skates to menswear, referees, make up & tattoos. Flat Track Fashion is an exceptional publication, perfectly timed to capture the revival of the world's hottest sport.

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' Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two

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An American football pitch as a skateboard ramp & the Aya Sofia as a rollercoaster: the images by Turkish photographer Aydin Buyuktas are literally mind-bending. After going viral, they are now finally also available in book format, including entirely new images & a making-of, which shows the photographer's working methods with drone technology. His brainchild Flatland is named after Edwin Abbott Abbott's satire book about a two-dimensional world populated by geometric figures, from which certain parts have been included in this book. ...

Steeped in the imagery of windswept fenland & the smoke of the roundhouse, Flatlands unearths a living world from a time before Britain's recorded history. Set in what is now East Anglia, this sequence of prize-winning poems takes us on a panoramic journey from the flint miners & hunters of four thousand years ago to the harsh existence of Bronze Age villagers, Celtic tribal warriors & Boudica's army rebelling against Roman rule. Written in a stripped language with stark, sculpted forms, the poems evoke voices whose haunting rhythms & echoes arise in a landscape where a wooden idol, buried in river mud for millennia, tells us: ' Find me in your own face'. In this deep past, we see a reflection of ourselves. Through their often bleak symbolism & metaphorical associations, the poems explore universal themes: love & infidelity, ageing & bereavement, tenderness, political suppression &, ultimately, the eruption of murderous hatreds. As eastern England becomes an early cultural crossing point with the European mainl&, sea-trade develops, but Rome's influence destabilises the local population. Regional kings mint currencies to reinforce their power, villagers are captured by neighbours & sold as slaves to foreign masters, tribes fight for territory & resources, & refugees from Gaul flee across the Channel as the legions' grip tightens. The narrative thread that runs through " Flatlands", reminiscent of the ancient trackways where early farmers drove their animals, leads to a bloody climax, until the ancestral voices fade back into the sacred streams & pastures. ...

In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human & deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical & commercial flop. Flaubert was devastated. ...

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health & obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important & shocking details about Geoffrey himself. ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears & railways; with our sense of the past & our sense of abroad; with France & Engl&, life & art, sex & death, George Sand & Louise Colet, aesthetics & redcurrant jam; & with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life & secrets are slowly revealed. A compelling weave of fiction & imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving & entertaining, witty & scholarly, & a tour de force of seductive originality. ...

Flaubert's Parrot, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984, concerns the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist & the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters blends fact & fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. One of the author's most inventive works, it was praised by Salman Rushdie as 'frequently brilliant, funny, thoughtful, iconoclastic & a delight to read'. ...

At the age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette, beautiful & charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles. Frivolous & reckless, she flouts the strict & demanding etiquette of the glittering court, & discovers the true nature of love, hate & jealousy. But the clouds of revolution are overhead, & Marie Antoinette, who only wishes to enjoy life, learns too late that the price of her enjoyment is very high...' One of our best historical novelists brings to life wayward, capricious Marie Antoinette'
- News Chronicle. ' Flaunting Extravagant Queen has the colour, liveliness, & sensitivity with which one has come to associate this author's historical novels'
- Scotsman.

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Why does everyone love burgers & pizza? When Adam Fleischman investigated, he discovered what they
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