Road to Valour is the inspiring against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history & continues to hold the record for the longest time-span between victories. Yet what ensured his permanent place in Italian hearts & minds were his actions in between when he secretly aided the Italian Resistance during World War II. Aili & Andres Mc Connon chronicle Bartalis journey starting in impoverished rural Tuscany where a scrawny mischievous boy painstakingly saves his money to buy a bicycle & before long is racking up wins throughout the country. At the age of 24 he stuns the world by winning the Tour de France becoming an international sports icon in the process. But Mussolinis Fascists hijack his victory for propaganda purposes derailing Bartalis career & as the Nazis occupy Italy Bartali undertakes dangerous missions to help those being targeted. He shelters a family of Jews in an apartment he financed with his cycling winnings & is able to smuggle counterfeit identity documents hidden in his bicycle past Nazi checkpoints under the guise of being a national hero in training. After the gruelling wartime years Bartali fights to rebuild his career as Italy emerges from the rubble. Despite numerous setbacks & a legendary snowstorm in the Alps the chain-smoking Chianti-loving 34-year-old underdog comes back & wins the most difficult endurance competition on earth
- the Tour de France. Bartalis inspiring performance helps unite his fractured homeland & restore pride & spirit to a country still reeling from war & despair. Based on nearly ten years of research in Italy France & Israel including interviews with Bartalis family former teammates a Holocaust survivor Bartali saved & many others this is the first book ever written about Bartali in English & the only book written in any language to fully explore the scope of Bartalis wartime work. Road to Valour is the breathtaking account of one mans unsung heroism & his resilience in the face of adversity. An epic tale of courage comeback & redemption it is the untold story of one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century.
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Another in our English Kitchen" series this traces the development of Anglo-Indian cookery in other words the curry in English & Scottish cookery books from its earliest appearance in the 18th century through to modern works by Camilla Punjabi & Marguerite Patten. It wanders the lanes & byways of the British occupation of India unearthing delightful accounts of Imperial eating & explaining how we have grown accustomed to the spice-box of the Raj. The broad intention is to reproduce early recipes for curry & accounts of Anglo-Indian food in their original words. The majority come from printed books but some are drawn from manuscripts. The narrative traces our enjoyment of Oriental flavours from the 17th century through to the first appearance of a recipe for curry in Hannah Glasse in 1747. Thereafter it looks at the various classes of cooks who produced popular & interesting recipes from the female cookbook authors of the 18th century to the club-cooks of Calcutta & London in the Regency to the crusty colonels of late Victorian England & the refined French-influenced chefs of the fin de siecle & pre-First World War days. By way of coda the authors consider modern recipes from authors such as Madhur Jaffrey & Sir Gulam Noons Chicken Tikka Masala Britains favourite dish. The whole is ornamented by tasty extracts from past literature on eating curries hither & beyond." ...

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire & Lancashire in the 1930s The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant & bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice cramped slum housing dangerous mining conditions squalor hunger & growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty fury & great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works & novels & remains a powerful portrait of poverty injustice & class divisions in Britain." ...

You think that the recession isnt biting? Look again. You think that the riots in August 2011 were unpredicted? Think again. 75 years after George Orwells classic expose on life in the North Stephen Armstrong returns to find that many things have changed but not always for the better. Here he finds how young girls go missing because of the intransigence of the benefits systems how fragile hope can be in the face of poverty & why the government stands in the way of a community helping itself. In his journey taking in Bradford Sheffield Liverpool & Wigan Armstrong reveals a society at the end of its tether abandoned by all those who speak in its name. ...

On the afternoon of August 15 1969 Richie Havens took the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair welcoming a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgurs farm. Havens was the first act
- the legendary festival years in the making was finally beginning. Nothing would be the same after. But the story of the legendary festival begins with Michael Lang a kid out of Bensonhurst Brooklyn who liked to smoke a joint & listen to jazz & who eventually found his way to Florida where he opened a head shop & produced his first festival
- Miami Pop featuring Jimi Hendrix Frank Zappa & others. In the late 60s after settling in Woodstock he began to envision a music & arts festival where folks could come & stay for a few days amid the rural beauty of upstate New York. The idea crystallized when Lang talked it over with Artie Kornfeld a songwriter & A & R man & with two other young men they formed Woodstock Ventures. They booked talent from Janis Joplin & the Who to the virtually unknown Santana & Crosby Stills & Nash; won over agents & promoters; brought in the Hog Farm commune to set up campgrounds; hired a peacekeeping force; took on fleets of volunteers; appeased the Yippies; & were run out of one town & found another site weeks before the festival. On the ground with the talent the townspeople & his handpicked crew Lang had a unique & panoramic perspective of the festival. Enhanced by interviews with others who were central to the making of the festival The Road to Woodstock" tells the story from inspiration to celebration capturing all the magic mayhem & mud in between."

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Roadcraft" is the official Police Drivers Handbook & is used by the police service to train police drivers. It is also the recognised bible for advanced & emergency response driver training & essential reading for driving instructors & any driver wishing to improve their skills & safety to a more advanced level. " Roadcraft" aims to help people become better drivers by increasing awareness of all factors that affect driving such as the capability of the driver characteristics of the vehicle & road & traffic conditions." Roadcraft" has been fully revised & redesigned to include current best practice in police driving & learning design. It incorporates the best parts of the older editions with the latest knowledge in this rapidly developing field. " Roadcraft" has been prepared in close consultation with a working group of senior police driving instructors & other police & civilian advance driver training experts. The first new edition in 10 years it has been updated to reflect recent changes in the legislative framework surrounding driving & emergency response driving & new methodologies in teaching safe driving. It now also incorporates information on automotive engineering advances such as ABS & Sat Nav devices & their effect on driving. A new chapter has been added to teach drivers the physical & psychological aspects of driving & how to develop mental skills to become a better driver. This edition of " Roadcraft" has been approved by the Association of Chief Police Officers which is satisfied that it reflects current best practice in police driver instruction & takes into account the relevant views of civilian experts. It features chapter summaries & reviews to reinforce learning plus practical tips & exercises to put the theory into practice. Clearly illustrated throughout chapters include: mental skills for better driving; observation & anticipation; acceleration using gears braking & steering; maintaining vehicle stability; overtaking; & driving on motorways & multi-lane carriageways. It is endorsed by IAM (Institute of Advanced Motoring) & ROSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents). It supersedes ISBN 0113408587." ...

Tracks candidates on an advanced driving course run at the Metropolitan Police Motor Driving School. This film provides an insight into what it takes to be an advanced driver. It complements the Roadcraft" handbook & would aid those drivers who want to improve their skills in preparation for an advanced driving test." ...

Hes been part of the Coldplay family since day one we love him. COLDPLAY A funny honest absorbing account from an unseen member of the Worlds biggest b&. SIMON PEGG Longtime Coldplay roadie Matt has taken almost every step with the band over a decade of world tours & 40 million (and counting) record sales. In this his first book he reveals what life is like behind the scenes at the pinnacle of rock n roll touring. As Coldplay move from club gigs to arenas & stadiums worldwide Matt goes with them; faking it as a band member on US chat shows flirting with Kylie saving a life on a French motorway & even pitching in with the odd guitar riff in the studio. Roadie provides the definitive glimpse of backstage life. Tales of hurricanes & heatwaves helicopter chases & private jets plectrum hunters & projectiles all come together as Matt explains in his unique way
- & regardless of the mountain (and gear) to move
- that the show must always always go on.

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Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written & updated over the course of several decades an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification. Nootebooms writings on politics people architecture & culture are as digressive as they are eloquent; his innate curiosity takes him through the landscapes of Heine & Goethe steeped in Romanticism & mythology & to Germanys baroque cities. With an outsiders objectivity he has crafted an intimate portrait of the country to its present day. ...

A highway patrol trooper notices something strange on the side of the road: a homemade cross fashioned as a memorial. Except the date being remembered is the following day
- the day the police find a kidnapped teenage girl in the trunk of a car left for dead. Special Agent Kathryn Dance kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation is on the case. The teenage victim points her to an online community where criticism is vicious. It looks as though one teen has finally snapped. Then further crosses appear. Now Dance must race against the clock to find the attacker before he can carry out his deadly plans for revenge.. .in the cyber world & the real.
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