This training book is the perfect introduction to the Olympic Athletics field events & will prove an indispensable guide for both the keen beginner & club athlete. Written by leading athletics journalist Jason Henderson & illustrated with over 50 specially commissioned diagrams this official book gives an overview of each field event & covers training safety tactics & techniques & standards of performance to aim for. Whether you are a beginner who simply wants to try a new sport or a budding Olympian who dreams of one day winning a gold medal this concise & easy-to-use book will take you to the next level. ...

This training book is the perfect introduction to the Olympic Swimming events & will prove an indispensable guide for both the keen beginner & club swimmer. Written by a leading swimming journalist & illustrated with over 50 specially commissioned diagrams this official book gives an overview of each Swimming event & covers training safety tactics & techniques & standards of performance to aim for. Whether you are a beginner who simply wants to try a new sport or a budding Olympian who dreams of one day winning a gold medal this concise & easy-to-use book will take you to the next level. ...

Designing the greenest Olympic games in history Beginning with the bidding process planners for Londons 2012 Olympics envisioned nothing less than a transformation of East London with permanent structures that would bring to life the driving creative principle of sustainability. In London 2012 this visionary undertaking is documented in brilliant full colour--with in progress construction photos computer-generated visualisations & detailed construction drawings. Arranged around individual case studies starting with the large-scale infrastructure & transport work in Stratford the book then addresses individual structures including the Olympic Stadium & the Aquatics Centre as well as finer design details. Written by an architect & the sustainability editor for the Architects Journal London 2012 is a wide-angle look at how environmental thinking has informed all aspects of staging & planning the Olympic games--from transportation to entertainment & nowhere more than in the design of specific venues.

Includes:: 250 colour images including specially commissioned photography Examines key Olympic structures including the Olympic Stadium the Velodrome & the Aquatics Centre

Includes:: the landscape plan for the Lea Valley Sheds light on other design elements including lighting product design & graphics

Includes:: key data & metrics throughout highlighting sustainability standards A thorough brilliantly documented look at just how sustainability standards at the micro & macro levels have made the 2012 games unique in Olympic history London 2012 gives future design professionals a rich seam of knowledge to draw from--and Olympic fans who cherish the earths resources something to celebrate.





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Stunning photographs offer a visual journey through Londons Art Deco style--from factories & underground stations to theaters & private residences This richly illustrated book offers a fascinating & detailed look at the Art Deco style from building design to decorative detail. The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition after which each nation seemed to adapt its own distinct architectural style. Less florid than the French or that of the United States Great Britains buildings reflected the countrys imperial status. From the imposing style of the Savoy Hotel through the ornate detail of the West End theaters to Art Deco factories like the Hoover Building they also demonstrated Britains love of detail. Remarkably many of Londons Art Deco buildings still survive--their once grime-covered indigenous Portland stone now mostly scrubbed clean beautifully displaying their many sculptural details. ...

It is 1938 & the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesnt stop. Everywhere people continue to work drink fall in love fight & struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street Kennington the buttoned-up clerk Mr. Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr. Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs. Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new lodger a self-styled Professor of Spiritualism); & flashy young mechanic Percy Boon whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much much worse. ...

This is a guide to Londons distinctive Blue Plaques
- commemorating the remarkable men & women who have lived in the capital. Its
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This is the tenth book in the Alex Cross series. Alex Cross FBI agent is back in his most explosive adventure yet. & so is the Wolf. & so is the Weasel. Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A town in Nevada has been annihilated & the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction & the thought of such dark genius at work makes Alexs blood run cold. Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger. Full of the high-voltage action & enthralling intrigue for which James Patterson is best known LONDON BRIDGES is an unforgettable thriller that will grip you from cover to cover. ...

Explore London with ease with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized map. Small in size yet big on detail this compact dependable map will ensure you dont miss a thing. *

Includes:: 2 Pop Out maps
- a detailed bus map of central London & the whole Underground network shown * Ingenious self-folding map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough place index is also featured & cross-referenced to the Underground map & the bus map so you can easily find your destination * Key places of interest are listed offering you advice on the best things to see


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Maxine Davies writes an emotive story of growing up within an unconventional & often chaotic family during the early 1950s. Love was buried under the mound of family problems." As the eldest child Maxine helped her mother bring up the other children. Her father was a musician who travelled the world so visited the family infrequently. Maxine recalls some very personal experiences of her early years her family ancestry travels abroad & latterly of her success & fulfilment of a career in child care." ...

This work is the first to study the gentlemens clubs that were an important feature the Late Victorian landscape in London & the first to discover the secret history of clubmen & their world. The wealthy men of the British upper classes have often been segregated to the realm of biography or family history lumped in with their middle-class rivals or dismissed as irrelevant in the larger story of Victorian Britain. This book places the English gentleman at center stage detailing how clubland dramatically shaped nineteenth & early twentieth-century ideas about gender domesticity power class & the city. ...