A multimedia guide for parents on childcare & development from newborn through one year of age. Written & produced by a pediatrician, the book offers parents the basic information that they need in a well-organized format. Each book comes with a DVD that complements the book's chapters on infant ...

Jamie Bell plays Chris, a troubled teenager with a bizarre eating disorder, in this dark & lyrical thriller. Chris has moved with his little brother to his father John's (Dermot Mulroney) cabin in backwoods Georgia following their mother's death. Lookin ...

Five deadly forces, four turbulent episodes, one powerful surge of entertainment. Welcome to the ocean's dark side. Building on HISTORY's successful Underwater Universe special, this new series goes deep to explore undersea forces that have brought terror & destruction to our planet throughout history. Beneath the surface of our oceans, tides & currents, predators, lethal pressure & killer shockwaves create ongoing & ominous threats. CGI animation, heart-stopping cinematography & submersible expedition footage shed new light on hard science, dramatic historical stories & riveting first-person accounts. ...

Alexander Shannon escaped a shady past to enjoy a glittering career in the army, only to end up back in the thick of criminal activity. This title explains how Shannon managed to combine a successful army career with dangerous gangland dealings for so long & how he finally broke free for good. ...

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking in beheadings & brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime, cutpurses & con-men, through to the Gordon Riots & Highway robbery of the 18th century & the rise of prisons, the police & the Victorian era of incarceration. As well as the crimes, Arnold also looks at the grotesque punishments meted out to those who transgressed the law throughout London's history
- from the hangings, drawings & quarterings at Tyburn over 500 years to being boiled in oil at Smithfield. This popular historian also investigates the influence of London's criminal classes on the literature of the 19th & 20th centuries, & ends up with our old favourites, the Krays & Soho gangs of the 50s & 60s. London's crimes have changed over the centuries, both in method & execution. Underworld London traces these developments, from the highway robberies of the eighteenth century, made possible by the constant traffic of wealthy merchants in & out of the city, to the beatings, slashings & poisonings of the Victorian era.
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History in Dundee is not a visible thing as it is in other cities such as Edinburgh or York. This title presents an anthology of this lost civic inheritance. It tells the story of forgotten disasters & buried heritage, of harmless eccentrics & brutal murderers, of heroes & villains, of strange events & everyday landmarks. ...

Love him or loathe him, ? Iron? Mike Tyson is an icon & one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons & tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell & back again In this, his first, autobiography, ? Iron? Mike Tyson pulls no punches & lays bare the story of his remarkable life & career. Co-written with Larry Sloman, author of Antony Keidiss best-selling memoir scar Tissue?, this is a visceral, & unputdown-able story of a man born & raised to brutality, who reached the heights of stardom before falling to crime, substance abuse & infamy. Full of all the controversy & complexity that you would expect from a man who delighted as much as he shocked, this is a book that will surprise people & reveal a fascinating character beneath the exterior of violence. If you think you know all about Mike Tyson, read this book & think again. ...

Details: Bursting with astounding facts & striking photographs, this gripping series, produced in association with Discovery
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1910. Among the sand dunes of the Northumberland coast a young lad, James Kinghorn, discovers an ancient ceremonial archway that transports him to another world. He has stumbled upon the magical & arcane world of Eldaterra. Hidden by the deep magic of Creation, Eldaterra has desperate need of James. ...

The six-volume UNESCO history of the Caribbean attempts to integrate the historical experience of its peoples & societies from the earliest times to the present. The work is organized thematically, but chronology has been taken into account both in determining limits & ordering the volumes. ...