This is no hagiography. Irreverent, hilarious & surprising, Rooney s Gold is a tarts-&-all biography of England s most famous sportsman & the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh. This is the story of a boy from the mean streets of broken Britain few streets meaner than Croxteth in Liverpool lifted out of poverty by his footballing genius to play for Manchester United & Engl&. Wayne Rooney can be bad-tempered & he can use bad language, but there s no doubting his passion for the beautiful game
- & a basic, street-level sense of fair play. Rough, working class, surrounded by an unlikely crew including a controversial agent, a crooked lawyer, tarts & gangsters
- Rooney s Gold looks at the characters who have been attracted to the fabulous money Rooney gets for kicking a pig s bladder around a field. Some of them have tainted his gold. However, in the wake of a disastrous World Cup 2010, further tabloid revelations of his paying prostitutes for sex, & the comically unedifying spectacle of his grotesque contract negotiations with Manchester United in October 2010, that Rooney is perfectly capable of tarnishing his own gold.

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Art has changed. Those reassuringly familiar styles & movements that characterised art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. This book provides six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa a clean slate & a fresh mind. ...

Seeing comes before words. The child looks & recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see & what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages. ...

When Sir Henry Maxted falls from the roof of his mistress's apartment building in unexplained circumstances, their first instinct is to suppress all suspicious aspects of the event. But Sir Henry's son, ex Royal Flying Corps ace James ' Max' Maxted, has other ideas. He resolves to find out how & why his father died. ...

Education does not always need to take place behind a desk, in a classroom or with a teacher.

Family time is just as

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Imagine a sisterhood
- across all creeds & cultures. An unspoken agreement that we, as women, will support & encourage one another.
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In the English village of Heathcote the temperature
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It started with small things
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Meet Stewart. He’s geeky, gifted & sees things a bit differently to most people. His mum has died & he misses her all the more now he & Dad have moved in with Ashley & her mum. Meet Ashley. She’s popular, cool & sees things very differently to her new family. Her dad has come out & moved out – but not far enough. & now she has to live with a freakazoid step-brother. Stewart can’t quite fit in at his new school, & Ashley can’t quite get used to her totally awkward home, which is now filled with some rather questionable decor. & things are about to get a whole lot more mixed up when these two very different people attract the attention of school hunk Jared... Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781783443765 •†Author:   Susin Nielsen •†Publisher:   Andersen Press •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 336 •†Dimensions:†12.3 x 2.2 x 19.3 cm ...

In We Are Celtic Supporters Richard Purden examines what created the culture, ideas & beliefs around Celtic football club. In new & exclusive interviews with supporters, he explores the Celtic way of life & the rich traditions that give context to much of the support while deconstructing some myths along the way. As a travelling supporter he visits a variety of fans in locations such as New York, Spain, Germany, Italy & various parts of the UK. He talks to well-known Celtic supporters such as James Mac Millan about the often misrepresented Catholic roots, to Pat Nevin about why he fell out of love with the club & to a number of well-known rock 'n' rollers such as Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie & Johnny Marr. We Are Celtic Supporters gives the inside story of how major events in Celtic's history have shaped the identity of the fans, & what it really means to follow this unique football club. ...

This groundbreaking book demonstrates that between the results of the 1976 Viking I lander & the latest scientific discoveries
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