The horrific murders of Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman shocked & sickened the nation. The man found guilty of their murders is now one of the most reviled men in the country. As if his crime was not dreadful enough he has recently admitted that he lied under oath about the circumstances of one of the murders. This in-depth book is written by investigative journalist Nathan Yates who witnessed the murder hunt first-hand & even interviewed Huntley & former girlfriend Maxine Carr. Yates also has an exclusive source for contact with Ian Huntley & will have further revelations about how far Huntley has lied about what happened that tragic day. ...

Sporadic news reports indicate chaos & violence spreading through US cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are rising to claim the earth as the new dominant species in the food chain. Day by Day Armageddon & its sequel Beyond Exile are the handwritten journals of one desperate survivor as he battles in the face of global disaster. Zombie fiction at its finest these books will take you to a whole new level of terror. ...

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good & evil. Always provocative the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good & Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist & philosopher-seer passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights & uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential Nietzschean topics such as the origins & nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism & beginning of perspectivism; the questionable virtues of science & scholarship; liberal democracy nationalism & womens emancipation. Written in his most masterful style full of irreverence & brio Nietzsche dissects self-deluding human behaviour bankrupt intellectual traditions & the symptoms of social decadence while at the same time advancing an extra-moral wisdom to be shared by those kindred soul who think beyond good & evil. This new translation of Beyond Good & Evil provides readers with a true classic of modernity that sums up those forces & counterforces in nineteenth-century Western Civilisation that to an astonishing degree have also determined & continue to inform the course of our own century. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

In this book the author attempts to open out the discussion between Buddhist thought & psychotherapy & the new findings of neuroscience in the context of our search for wellbeing. Buddhist teachings are concerned with a way of living & engage most resonantly with practice rather than with theory thus the conversation between Buddhism & psychotherapy has been a particularly fruitful one for as long as dialogue has existed between Buddhist & Western disciplines. In search of a way to happiness Buddha set out to explore our experience & in so doing presented what may well be called the earliest psychology an experiential exploration of subjectivity. In the West for much of the twentieth century psychology (science) & psychotherapy (practice) had little to say to one another. Despite Sigmund Freuds early wish to consider psychoanalysis as a science academic psychology had scant time for what it considered at best an art form while psychotherapy found little of interest in psychologys lack of concern with subjective experience. All this has changed since the growth of the interdisciplinary fields of cognitive science neuroscience & consciousness studies & the development of new technology. Today ideas arising from Buddhism & from contemporary cognitive science may encourage us to engage anew with our experience our embodiment & our relationships. ...

The second volume of Woodruffs memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel foundry & luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in Bow where he has to share a single bed (head to toe) with their mentally retarded son. Life in the foundry is grim but William is indomitable. For recreation one day he cycles (then in the days before inflatable tyres) to Berkhamstead to try & track down an old girlfriend. Shes not there & he has to return in a snowstorm
- it takes him eight hours to get back to Poplar & then he has to get up three hours later to work at the foundry. Eventually he decides to get some leernin & his first white collar job starts for the water board in.. . Brettenham House! He continues to pursue his studies finally winning a place at Ruskin College Oxford. How the ex-steel worker became an Oxford academic
- & Williams concluding description of returning from the war to meet the son hes never seen
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The perfect guide to speaking real Japanese Beyond Polite Japanese offers more than 500 words & phrases for those who want to take a step beyond Japanese textbooks & speak like a native without spending decades in the country. Many of the entries cover traditional slang while other entries take up more contemporary usage. Slang-forming prefixes & suffixes are also presented as well as phrases that are commonly slurred proving elusive to the foreign ear. Literal meanings notes on usage & etymology are included for greater understanding. Outgrowing polite Japanese is not easy but with the help of Beyond Polite Japanese it can be attained. The helpful guide is also a welcome break from the standard fare found in Japanese textbooks. ...

Past midnight a horribly mutilated body is discovered on a road in Portsmouth evidently killed in a hit & run. There are no witnesses
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Estranged from his family for most of his adult life Chris Napier is persuaded to return home for his nieces wedding. At the reception he is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon whose presence is a chilling reminder of a murder & subsequent trial that Chris has tried hard to forget. When Nicky hangs himself Chris is compelled to revisit the tragic events of 34 years ago & the apparent justice that was served. But as present day mysteries begin to shadow his footsteps into the past his search for the truth soon becomes a desperate struggle for his own survival. ...

Heinrich Harrer traveller explorer & mountaineer led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. He famously spent Seven Years in Tibet (made into the film starring Brad Pitt) & was tutor mentor & a lifelong friend of the Dalai Lama. He made the first ascent of the notorious North Face of the Eiger (told in his book The White Spider") & summited unclimbed peaks in Alaska the Himalaya & South America. In this dramatic autobiography he brings to life all of his adventures from the early days of climbing in the Alps through his time in Tibet to his later expeditions including exploring the Congo with the King of Belgium & travels to remote parts of Asia South America & Africa." ...

From Connie Bennett author of Sugar Shock!"
- the book that Mehmet Oz said spills the beans on the shocking impact of sugar
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