A Matter of Life & Death profiles some of the worlds most eminent & pioneering pathologists. This is a hidden world yet one we will all inevitably encounter at some time in our lives for pathology lies at the cornerstone of modern medicine. It is pathologists who are responsible for recognising new diseases such as AIDS SARS or Bird Flu & for diagnosing which cancer a patient is suffering from. & it is pathologists who must explain the cause of death at the autopsy table. A Matter of Life & Death tells fascinating stories of mysterious illnesses & miraculous scientific breakthroughs. But it is also crammed full of extraordinary characters
- from the forensic anthropologist with his own Body Farm in Tennessee to the doctor who had a lung & heart transplant & ended up using her own lungs for research.
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When a bomb goes off in Londons West End Home Secretary Victoria Osborne has a desperate sense of having failed in her duty to protect the public. A young Muslim reporter Ahmed Khan also has deep-seated feelings of anger & responsibility. He persuades his editor to let him go back amongst childhood friends in Leeds to try to find any lead that might help prevent further bombs. When Ahmed meets Victorias daughter Nattie at a party he cannot get her out of his mind. They begin seeing each other. But as he investigates his hometown & finds out uncomfortable facts his involvement with Nattie has everyone alarmed. Knowing something catastrophic is being planned & fearing for Natties safety Ahmed becomes obsessively determined to thwart it whatever the cost to himself. ...

I never ask for mercy & seek no one's sympathy. I would never as was once needlessly feared in this court be a fugitive from justice in this country only a seeker of it." --Conrad Black in his statement to the court June 24 2011 In 1993 Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's " Daily Telegraph" & the head of one of the world's largest newspaper groups. He completed a memoir in 1992 "A Life in Progress " & "great prospects beckoned." In 2004 he was fired as chairman of Hollinger International after he & his associates were accused of fraud. Here for the first time Black describes his indictment four-month trial in Chicago partial conviction imprisonment & largely successful appeal. In this unflinchingly revealing & superbly written memoir Black writes without reserve about the prosecutors who mounted a campaign to destroy him & the journalists who presumed he was guilty. Fascinating people fill these pages from prime ministers & presidents to the social legal & media elite among them: Margaret Thatcher Tony Blair George W. Bush Jean Chretien Rupert Murdoch Izzy Asper Richard Perle Norman Podhoretz Eddie Greenspan Alan Dershowitz & Henry Kissinger. Woven throughout are Black's views on big themes: politics corporate governance & the U.S. justice system. He is candid about highly personal subjects including his friendships
- with those who have supported & those who have betrayed him
- his Roman Catholic faith & his marriage to Barbara Amiel. & he writes about his complex relations with Canada Great Britain & the United States & in particular the blow he has suffered at the hands of that nation. In this extraordinary book Black maintains his innocence & recounts what he describes as "the fight of & for my life." "A Matter of Principle" is a riveting memoir & a scathing account of a flawed justice system."

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What did the Romans know about their gods? Why did they perform the rituals of their religion & what motivated them to change those rituals? To these questions Clifford Ando proposes simple answers: in contrast to ancient Christians who had faith Romans had knowledge & their knowledge was empirical in orientation. In other words the Romans acquired knowledge of the gods through observation of the world & their rituals were maintained or modified in light of what they learned. After a preface & opening chapters that lay out this argument about knowledge & place it in context The Matter of the Gods" pursues a variety of themes essential to the study of religion in history." ...

Claire Barclay has returned to the home in Scotland where she spent her teenage years. After the sudden death of her mother Claire is concerned about the welfare of her much-loved & now frail stepfather Leo. But his own grown children seem more concerned about preserving their financial assets than their father's health. Claire is desperately trying to avoid Jonas the love of her life who broke her heart at just eighteen but he's asking her to trust him again on a matter of urgency. Can she forget the past & put her faith in someone who once hurt her so deeply? The bestselling author of An Ocean Apart Robin Pilcher excels at weaving stories full of heart warmth & family secrets ...

Hope Dunne is content with her life finding serenity & beauty through the lens of her camera. She isnt looking for a man or excitement. But things change when she accepts a last minute assignment in London photographing one of the worlds most celebrated writers. To Hopes surprise Finn ONeill exudes warmth & a boyish charm. He courts her whisking her away to his palatial isolated Irish estate weaving a tapestry of tales about his life. Hope finds it all absolutely dizzying. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories & suddenly Hope is both in love & suspicious. How many lies has he told? Is it possible that this kind loving attentive man is hiding something even worse? ...

In 1987 a small aspirant dance group with a striking name made its debut on the London fringe. In 1996 Adventures in Motion Pictures" made history as the first modern dance company to open a production in London's West End. From this achievement AMP sailed triumphantly to Broadway
- winning three Tony Awards
- guided by Artistic Director Matthew Bourne. Even before the inception of AMP Bourne was fascinated by theatre by characterization & by the history of dance. In his early works
- " Spitfire" " Town & Country" & " Deadly Serious"
- Bourne brought a novel approach to dance. & in his reworkings of the classics of the ballet canon
- " Nutcracker" " Swan Lake" " Cinderella"
- Bourne created witty vivid poignant productions that received great acclaim. In the first decade of the new millennium the company name was changed to New Adventures & Bourne's 'classics' as well as Bourne's new works
- " The Car Man" " Play Without Words" " Edward Scissorhands" & " Dorian Gray"
- achieved levels of box-office popularity that have seldom if ever been matched in dance. In addition his choreography for various musicals
- " My Fair Lady" " Mary Poppins" & " Oliver!"
- have run for years in the West End & on Broadway. The detail in which Bourne discusses his work with Alastair Macaulay is unprecedented. The two explore Bourne's upbringing his training & influences & his distinctive creative methods. Bourne's notebooks his sources & his collaboration with dancers all from part of the discussion in this book."









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An entirely new & approachable translation of the New Testament & study guides by a world-renowned scholar Tom Wright. The series provide invaluable background detail & a wealth of information to help the reader understand each passage in a richer way. The implication of the text for the life of the modern reader is also explored. The translation of the Bible text is underpinned by deep scholarship but has an immediacy & freshness that makes it easy to read & set it apart from other modern-language translations. The guides assume no detailed knowledge of the New Testament & are therefore suitable for beginners as well as more experienced students of the Bible. Each volume stands alone though the series will build into an unrivaled guide to the entire New Testament book by book. ...

An entirely new & approachable translation of the New Testament & study guides by a world-renowned scholar Tom Wright. The series provide invaluable background detail & a wealth of information to help the reader understand each passage in a richer way. The implication of the text for the life of the modern reader is also explored. The translation of the Bible text is underpinned by deep scholarship but has an immediacy & freshness that makes it easy to read & set it apart from other modern-language translations. The guides assume no detailed knowledge of the New Testament & are therefore suitable for beginners as well as more experienced students of the Bible. Each volume stands alone though the series will build into an unrivaled guide to the entire New Testament book by book. ...

Matthew doesn't care about anything as much as football. What's more he's the best player in the whole school! But his mother has banned him from playing & she doesn't seem to care if he misses the most important match of the season. The whole team are depending on him. Is there anything he can do? ...