Just as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute concludes New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler’s trio of breathtaking books celebrating George Lucas’s classic saga.
Once again, the author’s unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives has yielded a mother lode of fascinating & often unexpected revelations from behind the scenes of a blockbuster in the making. Brimming with previously unpublished photos, concept artwork, script excerpts, storyboards, on-set interviews & present-day commentary, The Making of Return of the Jedi chronicles ‘how George Lucas & his crew of extroverted artists, misfits & expert craftspeople roused themselves to great heights for a third time’ to create the next unforgettable chapter in one of the most beloved stories in movie history. Get up close to the action & feel like a studio insider as:

* George Lucas, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan & director Richard Marquand huddle in a script conference to debate the destinies of iconic Star Wars characters

* The artists & technicians at the ground-breaking Industrial Light & Magic facility surpass their own revolutionary innovations with boundary-pushing new visual effects

* A crack team of sculptors, puppeteers, actors & ‘monstermakers’ brings Jabba the Hutt & his unsavoury cohorts to startling, slobbering life

* Actors & crew race to the finish line at Elstree Studios, in a fiery desert & beneath the canopy of a dense redwood forest to provide answers to the questions that audiences had waited three years to find out: Is Darth Vader really Luke’s father? Who is the mysterious ‘other’? & who, or what, is the Emperor?

Star Wars luminaries from both sides of the camera, including Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, director R










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For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only through the fossil record. No longer. We can now also read the DNA record. As well as containing the operating instructions for everyday existence & for making the next generation, DNA contains a vast & detailed history of the three-billion-year development of life on Earth. It is a living chronicle of evolution, pinpointing the precise changes that have enabled Earth's marvelous creatures to inhabit the planet's shifting environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rainforest. Captivating & lucid, The Making of the Fittest delves deep into the DNA record to reveal not just how the fittest survive but also how they are made. ...

Lydia, Robyn & Dean don't know each other
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Details: Rosie Goodwin's dramatic addition to Catherine Cookson's series. Each & every generation of the Mallen family
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The Malvern Hills, an official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, have fired the imagination of painters, poets, writers, composers & scientists for many years. & the area has not lost any of its power to surprise, charm & thrill. The Malverns run almost directly north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, dipping into Gloucestershire at its southern most end. The special quality of the Malverns lies in the contrasts. They make up an easily identifiable narrow ridge that thrust above the patchwork farmland of the Severn Vale 600 million years ago, producing a mountain range in miniature. Mike Smart's collection of photographs capture the spirit of these hills. ...

If you're just intrigued or a lover of manga, The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga continues to break new ground with this latest volume. With award winning contributors such as Paul Duffield, Satanasov, Yishan Li & Niki Smith there's plenty for everyone. With 23 stand alone stories in every genre you can imagine including romantic mystery, action adventure, super spy sci fi & many more, this is the biggest & best collection of new manga. ...

A gripping collection of stories of human criminality at its most bizarre. These unusual, sensational murders recall not only gruesome historical crimes, but also touch on shocking & macabre modern murders. Included are details of ground-breaking advances in crime detection, law enforcement & forensic science. This is the top-secret report on the most grisly, & unusual, criminal activity of our time. ...

Bob Dylan's impact on popular music has been incalculable. Having transformed staid folk music into a vehicle for coruscating social commentary, he then swept away the romantic platitudes of rock 'n' roll with his searing intellect. From the zeitgeist-encapsulating protest of " Blowin' in the Wind" to the streetwise venom of " Like a Rolling Stone", & from the stunning mid-sixties trilogy of albums
- " Bringing It All Back Home", Highway 61 Revisited & " Blonde on Blonde"
- "to Time Out of Mind", his stunning if world-weary comeback at the age of 56, Dylan's genius has endured, underpinned by the dazzling turn of phrase that has made him the pre-eminent poet of popular music. Because Dylan's achievements have no equal, his career is the most chronicled in rock history. Here, Sean Egan presents a selection of the best writing on Dylan, both praise & criticism. Interviews, essays, features & reviews from Dylan intimates & scholars such as John Bauldie, Michael Gray, Nat Hentoff & Jules Siegel are interspersed with new narrative & reviews of every single album to create a comprehensive picture of the artist whose chimes of freedom still resound.

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Have you ever gone into a room & forgotten why you are there?

If so, you need to exercise your brain... & ALL of it,

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The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion, Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, Elvis Fluoridization, Martin Luther King’s murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone Files, John Paul I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Lockerbie bombing, Black helicopters...

In other words everything ‘they’ never wanted you to know & were afraid you might ask!

Jon E. Lewis explores the 100 most terrifying cover-ups of all time, from the invention of Jesus’ divinity (pace the Da Vinci Code) to Bush’s & Blair’s real agenda in invading Iraq.

Entertainingly written & closely documented, the book provides each cover-up with a plausibility rating. Uncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the sinister Vatican/ Mafia network that plotted the assassination of liberal John Paul, find out why NASA ‘lost’ its files on Mars, read why no-one enters Area 51, & consider why medical supplies were already on site at Edgware Road before the 7/7 bombs detonated.

Just because you are paranoid, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to conspire against you.

This paperback book has 542 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.3cm









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