I swore by Elvis & all the saints that this last teenage year of mine was going to be a real rave. Yes man come whatever this last year of the teenage dream I was out for kicks & fantasy London 1958. A new phenomenon is causing a stir: the teenager. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho & the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young & the restless
- the absolute beginners
- are revolutionising youth culture & forging a new carefree lifestyle of sex drugs & rocknroll. Moving in the midst of this world of mods & rockers Teddy gangs & trads. & snapping every scene with his trusty Rolleiflex is Mac Innes young photographer whose unique wit & honest views remain the definitive account of London life in the 1950s & what it means to be a teenager. In this twentieth century cult classic Mac Innes captures the spirit of a generation & creates the style bible for anyone interested in Mod culture & the changing face of London in the era of the first race riots & the lead up to the swinging Sixties...

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The complete Absolute Beginners method
- all in one book! Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing whole
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The complete absolute beginners guitar method
- all in one book. Step by step pictures take you from first day exercises tuning
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Build your basic skills using CD demonstration tracks that let you play with top professional backing musicians. If you have completed Book One or you already have some bass guitar skills this is definitely the book for you! In this great book practical advice & tips covering everything you need to know to become a better bass player. It contains CD demonstration tracks plus full-length accompaniments to play along with. Learn more great grooves from indie to rock to funk. Discover the secrets of slides syncopation & thumb-slapping. ...

This book helps you learn about correct posture & hand positions how to find your way around the keyboard & basic music notation & play with both hands together in no time at all! The enclosed CD

Includes:: demonstrations of the exercises & backing tracks so you can play along. The songs include: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes"; " Jingle Bells"; " Lullaby"; " New World Symphony"; " Ode To Joy"; & " The Unfinished Symphony"."

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Written by Neil Gaiman Art by Mark Buckingham Chris Bachalo Jeffrey Jones Dave Mc Kean & Mark Pennington Cover by Dave Mc Kean The landmark comic-book series that actually made Death seem.. .cool."
- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY on THE SANDMAN From the pages of Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaimans THE SANDMAN comes the young pale perky fan-favorite character Death in a new Absolute Edition collecting her solo adventures! Featuring the miniseries DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 1-3 in which Death befriends a teenager & helps a 250-year old homeless woman find her missing heart. Also included is the DEATH: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE 3-issue miniseries featuring the story of a rising star in the music world wrestling with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into Deaths imminent realm. & enjoy a plethora of extras including the DEATH TALKS ABOUT LIFE AIDS pamphlet stories from VERTIGO: WINTERS EDGE 2 & THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS the short story " The Wheel" from the 9-11 tribute book SANDMAN 8 & 20 & extras from the DEATH GALLERY one-shot along with an intro from Amanda Palmer the lead singer of the hit musical group The Dresden Dolls! Its all combined right here for the first time in one volume. This Absolute Edition slipcased hardcover is also the perfect companion for THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN & ideal for fans of Gaimans sprawling intimate comics work! Advance-solicited; on sale October 28
- 8.25" x 12.5" 360 pg FC $99.00 US"

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Known as The Ice Queen Anneliese Zander de St Phalle is one of the worlds most celebrated fashion designers. With an empire that stretches across continents shes a truly global brand in every sense. Yet despite her success shes a mystery; a reclusive disciplined perfectionist who rarely grants interviews. Shes successful & shes talented & thats all anyone needs to know. Anneliese never talks about her past
- not even to her only daughter Callan. Shes worked hard to leave it all behind her & its a time & place to which Anneliese will never return. Or so she thinks. Until at an exclusive New Years Eve party at her glamorous island hideaway a woman appears whom Anneliese has done her best to forget. On the cusp of her retirement at the height of Annelieses fame the stranger brings a story that demands to be told. To Annelieses horror the past cannot be left behind; it is here part & parcel of the present despite everything shes done to forget it
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Best-selling writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN ALL-STAR SUPERMAN JLA) & critically acclaimed artist J.G. Jones (52 Wanted) redefine what it means to be a modern day Super Hero in this cosmic epic. What happens when evil wins? Thats the question Superman Batman the Justice League & every being in the DCU have to face when Darkseid & his otherworldly legion of narcissistic followers actually win the war between light & dark. Featuring the deaths & resurrections of major DC characters FINAL CRISIS is more than your average multi-part event
- its a deconstruction of Super Hero comics & a challenging thought-provoking take on the modern four-color icons. This volume collects Final Crisis 1-7 Final Crisis: Submit 1 Final Crisis Superman Beyond 1-2 as well as additional JG Jones design pages with commentary by grant Morrison.
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ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing & a savage fable of our times almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan & Sasha refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor & his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage & most terribly in today's unipolar world of terror counter-terror & the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY & its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER le Carr?'s new novel presents us with magical writing characters to delight & a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges. ...

Jack Absolute is returning to Engl&. On the voyage home Jack helps in the defeat of a privateer gaining a friend in a charismatic Irishman Red Hugh Mc Clune along with a large share of the prize money & a nasty dose of cholera. Saved by Red Hugh Jack convalesces in Bath where he falls in love with the mans beautiful cousin Laetitia. But things are not as they seem tragedy strikes & Jack escapes with his life but loses something more important to him: his honour. From an assassination attempt on King George to espionage at the Jacobite Court in Rome through betrayal mutiny cavalry charges & duels Jack seeks to restore that honour
- with a consequence he could not have foreseen & a price to be paid in blood.. .
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