The island is divided but one mans love will never be compromised... Its Cyprus 1955
- a guerrilla war is raging & four Greek brothers
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APIL Guide to RTA Liability now in its second edition is written by a team of specialist PI lawyers & provides detailed practical guidance on every aspect of this core area of PI practice. The work is broken down into 26 accessible chapters each focusing on a particular aspect of RTA liability &

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Includes:: coverage of the liability of each participant; the particular rules that apply to local authorities children & schools public service vehicles etc; the liability of cyclists & motor cyclists; the specific rules that apply in a range of different circumstances such as low velocity crashes accidents abroad etc; & practical guidance on the liability of insures & the MIB. This new edition has been thoroughly updated &

Includes:: coverage of developments in law & practice including: Claims made in the UK arising from foreign accidents New EC directive consolidating all old RTA Directives Pedestrians run down when drunk Failure to wear a seat belt. What is a motor vehicle? Trail bikes & electric trikes As well as a new section containing draft model pleadings APIL Guide to RTA Liability is an indispensable book for all PI practitioners.





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Tripping & slipping cases form a large part of the personal injury lawyers practice. Not all cases are straight-forward many involve complex questions of law engaging various legal disciplines. The APIL Guide to Tripping & Slipping Cases" is intended as a one-stop text covering all the legal disciplines that can come into play in a trip or slip case. It covers all the relevant areas of law
- Local Government Landlord & Tenant Occupier's Liability Highways Factories & Health & Safety at Work
- & gives detailed guidance on the applicable procedure together with precedent material. This work (previously published as " Tripping & Slipping: A Practtitioner's Guide") will take account of important changes principally to the substantive law especially in relation to the Highways Act 1980 such as Jones v Rhondda Taff Cynon County Borough Council (on reasonable foreseeability under s 41 HA 1980); DTER v Mott Mac Donald (on accumulation of water); & Atkins v Ealing LBC (on statutory defence)."

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The future has changed its course. In the notorious Bermuda Triangle a private jet vanishes without trace taking with it scientists working for world-famous philanthropist Joaquin Abell. In Miami Captain Kyle Sears is called to a murder scene. A woman & her daughter have both been shot through the head. But within moments of arriving Sears receives a phone call from the womans husband physicist Charles Purcell. I did not kill my wife & daughter. In less than twenty-four hours I too will be murdered & I know the man who will kill me. My murderer does not yet know that he will commit the act. With uncanny accuracy Charles goes on to predict the immediate future just as it unfolds around Sears & leaves clues for a man hes never met before: Ethan Warner. The hunt is on to find Purcell & Ethan Warner is summoned by the Defense Intelligence Agency to head up the search. But this is no ordinary case as Warner & his partner Nicola Lopez are about to discover & time is literally everything. ...

This is a fearlessly feminist roadtrip novel packed with atmosphere & romance. Valentine the troubled daughter of a well-off but dysfunctional Parisian family vanishes on her way to school. Inexperienced private detective Lucie Toledo is hired to find the missing teenager & enlists the help of a formidable agent with a past known to her friends as the Hyena. Their quest from Paris to Barcelona & back uncovers a rich cast of characters whose paths have crossed Valentine's leading to an alarming climax. Part political thriller part road-movie part romance the latest novel by subversive writer & film-maker Virginie Despentes won the Prix Renaudot 2010 for the pitiless gaze it directs at society in the age of the internet. ...

When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britains animals into sneezing bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation. Abattoir worker Terry Borders love life is crippled by the stench of death that clings to his skin from his days spent slaughtering cows; teenage vegan Geldof Scabby Peters alternates between scratching furiously at his rash & baiting his overbearing New Age mother; & inept journalist Lesley Mc Brien struggles forlornly in the shadow of her famous war correspondent father & the star journalist at the Glasgow Tribune. When Britain begins a rapid descent into chaos & ministers cynically attempt to blame al-Qaeda Lesley stumbles upon proof that the government is behind the outbreak. During her bumbling quest to unveil the truth she crosses paths with Terry & Geldof & together they set out to escape a quarantined Britain with the evidence & vital data that could unlock a cure for the virus. Standing in the way are rampaging hordes of animals a ruthless security agent & an army ready to shoot anybody with a case of the sniffles on the off-chance the virus has mutated. Three losers. Overwhelming odds. A single outcome: the world is screwed. ...

Something is very wrong with the 2012 Plan. Is it really on course to save the planet from the gigantic Electro-Magnetic Pulse thats due to shatter civilisation at the end of the year? After a narrow escape from US government agents Josh decides to risk his own life on a daring mission
- a leap forward in time to discover the truth about 2012. Hes jumped ahead far enough to glimpse a post-apocalyptic world in collapse. & to realise
- it could be his destiny to stay.

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Will the world end in 2012? Find out in the final instalment of this nail-biting adventure. Something is very wrong with the 2012 Plan. Is it really on course to save the planet from the gigantic Electro-Magnetic Pulse that's due to shatter civilisation at the end of the year? Josh decides to risk his own life on a daring mission
- a leap forward in time to discover the truth about 2012. He's jumped ahead far enough to glimpse a post-apocalyptic world in collapse. & to realise
- it could be his destiny to stay.

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On 20 July 1969 US astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. This is the story of the Apollo 11 mission & the space hardware that made it all possible. This manual looks at the evolution & design of the mighty Saturn V rocket the Command & Service Modules & the Lunar Module. It describes the space suits worn by the crew & their special life support systems. We learn about how the Apollo 11 mission was flown
- from launch procedures to flying the Saturn V & the LEM & from moon walking to the earth re-entry procedure.
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Apollos Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette & a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century through to our own time from Italy & France to Britain Denmark Russia & contemporary America. The reader learns how ballet reflected political & cultural upheavals how dance & dancers were influenced by the Renaissance & French Classicism by Revolution & Romanticism by Expressionism & Bolshevism Modernism & the Cold War. Homans shows how & why the steps were never just the steps: they were a set of beliefs & a way of life. She takes the reader into the lives of dancers & traces the formal evolution of technique choreography & performance. Her book ends by looking at the contemporary crisis in ballet now that the masters are dead & gone & offers a passionate plea for the centrality of classical dance in our civilization. Apollos Angels is a book with broad popular appeal: beautifully written & illustrated it is essential reading for anyone interested in history culture & art. ...