The bastard offspring of cocaine crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade Britain's inner cities were in the midst of a crack epidemic with users being responsible for a massive proportion of crime -- 95% of street shootings are crack-related for example. Communities especially in London were crying out for help but there were only two specialist units in the whole of the capital. One of them Haringey Drugs Squad embarked on a war on crack aiming to shut down all 100 crack houses in their borough in one year. Amazingly they did it. Even more amazingly in the subsequent twelve months all black-on-black killings in Haringey ceased & burglaries & muggings fell massively. Narrated by the leader of this team CRACK HOUSE describes in heart-stopping fashion a series of breathtaking raids as well as arrests beatings stabbings & shootings. Featuring a colourful team of family men who regularly faced death CRACK HOUSE takes the reader into the dark heart of our cities' most violent & terrifying places showing how the war on drugs can only be won by constant & forceful vigilance. ...

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed
- 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in
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Perfect Parker Fadley isnt so perfect anymore. Shes quit the cheerleading squad shes dumped her perfect boyfriend & shes failing school. Her parents are on a constant suicide watch & her counselors think shes playing games...but what they dont know the real reason for this whole mess isnt something she can say out loud. It isnt even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened & it just might be her fault. ...

Meet Dirty Bertie
- a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! He's the world's grubbiest trouble-magnet & he's full to bursting
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The multiple Oscar-winning creators of Wallace & Gromit show you how to make your own successful animation films in a new thoroughly revised edition of this acclaimed book. Peter Lord co-founder of Aardman guides the reader through the entire process of 3D animation culminating in a practical fully illustrated step-by-step description of how to create effective characters a storyboard sets & eventually make an entire film. In this new edition the section on CGI has been updated & the chapter on Making a Film has been completely overhauled to bring out the difference in structure thinking & technique when applied to scripting characterization short films television work advertising & feature films. For fans & enthusiasts of all ages as well as for serious students of animation this book is not only a lot of fun it is essential reading. ...

Fast-paced political memoir by a former Conservative MP charting the infiltration of the Conservative Party by non-conservative elements & the subversion of a once-great political party. On 1st May 1997 the Conservative Party suffered a most humiliating defeat at the hands of the British electorate & found itself in Opposition for the first time since Margaret Thatcher swept to power in 1979. In this book Christopher Gill follows the path taken by the Conservative Party after that defeat. Many Conservatives both in Parliament & outside it hoped that the spell in opposition would be spent analysing the reasons for defeat replacing those responsible & rejuvenating the party machine for the battle to come. Instead those responsible for failure secured their grip on power & moved ruthlessly to dominate the Party pushing aside those who objected & destroying all opposition. The author traces the way this was achieved out of sight of the media
- all too enraptured with reporting the doings of the shiny new Labour government. He explains how the decisions made then led inexorably to the failure of the Conservative Party to achieve victory in 2010 & to the dithering responses of a hamstrung coalition goverment. At what point in time the Conservative Party ceased to be a truly 'conservative' Party is a matter which might engage the attention of future historians but the author clearly points the finger at those to blame & explains how they achieved a spectacularly successful coup for the 'collectivist' infiltration which has left the Tory Party paralysed.
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A culture of bacteria a flock of lice a colony of ants: these are some of the insect collective nouns you may already know. But have you heard of a loveliness of ladybirds a clew of worms or a bike of hornets? Then turn the pages of this book to discover a collection of lesser-lnown & sometimes more fanciful ones... ...

CRADLE & ALL is megabestselling author James Patterson at the height of his creative power. A breathtaking combination of suspense love & apocalyptic nightmare it will keep his millions of fans on the edge of their seats. Kathleen from privileged Newport Rhode Island; Colleen from a poor Irish village
- two teenagers who are both pregnant & both in great danger. Meeting Kathleen private detective Anne Fitzgerald suddenly has the case of a lifetime & quickly finds herself caught between the certainty of science & the possibility of a miracle that could stop terrible medical epidemics sweeping the globe. Annes belief in humanity is put to the ultimate test as she comes face to face with an unimaginable evil.
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Nell Reece has never known her mother & her fathers burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years working as a common labourer on his sisters farm. But for all her aunts spiteful attempts to break Nells independent spirit she has never succeeded. But now Nell pregnant & alone is forced to leave behind the men in her life believing she might never be able to return. With little but the clothes she wears she travels across the Bedfordshire countryside of 1890. When she encounters a scruffy urchin called Kit a ten-year-old orphan whos lived his whole life on the streets she takes him under her wing. The pair become devoted friends never knowing where their journey will take them but each aware that the time will come when there must be a reckoning. ...

When a minor road accident lands county prosecutor Katie De Maio in hospital she is forced to stay in overnight. Looking out of the hospital window in her half-conscious state she thinks she glimpses a man loading a womans body into the boot of a car. Or is it just a pill-induced nightmare? At work the next day Katie begins investigating a suicide that looks more like murder. Initial evidence points elsewhere but medical examiner Richard Carroll spots a trail leading to Dr Edgar Highley. He begins to suspect that the famous doctors pioneering work curing infertile women might in fact violate every principle of modern medicine. But before he can tell Katie his fears he learns she has already left the office for an appointment for routine surgery
- in Dr Highleys operating room...
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