On D-Day Dick Winters took off with 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment & prepared to parachute into German-held north France. Ground troops landing on Utah beach were relying on Easy Company to secure one of the causeways that were vital if the troops were to get off the beaches & reach the solid ground of Normandy. The plane carrying many of the commanding officers was shot down leaving Dick Winters suddenly in command of his company. But during the drop he & many of his men had been separated from his equipment & was unarmed except for a trench knife. In this remarkable World War 2 memoir Dick Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose in his 1992 epic Band of Brothers. Starting with an account of the gruelling training designed to make the 506th the most elite unit in the US Army Beyond Band of Brothers is fascinating account of one man's experience of commanding Easy Company from D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge & into Germany. Dick Winters gives real insight into leadership under the most difficult conditions
- every man in the company had been injured by the time they reached Germany
- & tells the real story of the Allies' final defeat of Hitler from the point of view of someone who was really there.

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Jenna Miscavige Hill niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect details her experiences as a member Sea Org
- the church's highest ministry speaks of her disconnection from family outside of the organization & tells the story of her ultimate escape. In this tell-all memoir complete with family photographs from her time in the Church Jenna Miscavige Hill a prominent critic of Scientology who now helps others leave the organization offers an insider's profile of the beliefs rituals & secrets of the religion that has captured the fascination of millions including some of Hollywood's brightest stars such as Tom Cruise & John Travolta.
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A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits & suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of ' Wolf Hall' & ' Bring Up the Bodies'. Alison Hart a medium by trade tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past who infiltrate her body & home becoming stronger & nastier the more she resists... Shortlisted for the Orange Prize Hilary Mantel's supremely suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour & even darker secrets. ...

A 512-page encyclopaedia on how to build a terrific physique. This encyclopaedia offers the key to your training success. By acknowledging your individuality this book teaches you precisely how to train yourself. Become your own expert personal trainer! Whether youre male or female a beginner or very advanced young or not-so-young want to train at home or in a public gym this book is for you. Apply what you learn & success will follow! The 'how-to' guidance
Includes:: why conventional training is fundamentally wrong & must be bypassed; how to overhaul your training philosophy so that youre destined for big gains; your ultimate size & strength potential & the organisation to take you there; how to design & personalise your own training programs step-by-step; how to conquer over training maximise results & never let age hold you back; how to eat in order to maximise your gains & improve your health; how to set up your own low-cost but super-productive home gym; & a real-life step-by-step training cycle for you to learn from.
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Are you unhappy with your body but fed up with constant dieting? Would you like to lose weight without depriving yourself of the food you love? Beyond Chocolate is a radically different approach to weight loss. Serial dieters for years Sophie & Audrey Boss finally overcame their weight problems when they discovered the key to success: break free from the diet mentality & learn how to listen to your body so that you can make food choices that really work for you. This book sets out a new liberating approach to establishing a healthy & satisfying relationship with food & a positive body image. Based on extensive research & workshops for women with weight issues Beyond Chocolate will help you to:* Eat whatever you want without feeling guilty* Lose weight & not worry that youll put it back on* Only think about food when you are hungry* Stop when you are satisfied* Feel comfortable in your body* Wear clothes you like & feel good in Beyond Chocolate is your passport to freedom! ...

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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