' People notice things & word around Whitehall is that Commander Bond is living a shade dangerously
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Every sport has its definitive annual guide the book that those who are passionate about the sport use for reference & information. For golf The World of Professional Golf sponsored by Rolex is the bible the volume that everyone with an interest in what happened on every Tour golf course around the world each year wants to have on their bookshelf. & for the first time the 2013 edition of this major reference work is available to buy giving readers the chance not only to read up on every pro event but to access all the hard statistics. The first section concentrates on rankings prize money & Tour winners. This is followed by reports on the four men's & women's Majors the men's Tour events across five continents the Women's Tours the Senior Tours & the money lists. The book concludes with extensive scoring summaries of every pro tournament played in the world in 2012 providing enough information to satisfy even the most ardent statistician's hunger for figures. This magnificent volume contains an introduction by the legendary Arnold Palmer a foreword by the first great golf agent & founder of IMG Mark H. Mc Cormack whose brainchild this book was plus Approx. 90 photographs of the year in action. If it happened in professional golf in 2012 you will find everything you need to know in The World of Professional Golf 2013. IMG is the world's largest sports marketing agency. It was founded in the early 1960s by the late American Mark H. Mc Cormack who in 1999 was described as ' The Most Powerful Man in Sports' by Sports Illustrated magazine. A self-confessed golf fanatic this annual book was his brainchild. Rolex have been highly visible sponsors of golf for more than four decades. ...

Nashville 1971. As the year drew to a close Willie Nelson wasn't exactly feeling the spirit of the season. A stalled career music executives hounding him for a formulaic Nashville Sound hit & consequently an unsettled personal life all contributed to his holiday blues. One day he wrote What Can You Do to Me Now?" The next day his house burned down. Willie saw it as a sign that things had to change & from that moment on he vowed he would blaze his own path with his music & his life- no matter if any one else understood or approved. After that life-changing period Willie began making music his own way. Heading back to his native Texas he reinvented himself & resurrected his career got back on the road & penned songs that miraculously brought hippies bikers & rednecks together in one audience for the first time. That success would propel him to the top of the outlaw movement
- an authentic rebel sound & attitude that defied Nashville's traditional law-&-order authoritarianism
- & seal his status as a beloved American folk hero. As they say the rest is history
- or as Willie says If you fail at something long enough you become a legend. " Roll Me Up & Smoke Me When I Die" recounts that special holiday season & the inspiring results that followed that watershed moment. But unlike other seasonal tales it features wild colorful tales of Willie's hijinks told in his unique voice. A story of thanks faith & staying true to your deepest beliefs " Roll Me Up & Smoke Me When I Die" offers hope & inspiration for us all."


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Mildred D. Taylors much-loved classic for readers aged 12+ Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" follows a feisty African-American girl
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Barnes was born in 1850 into a shipowning family in St Johns Newfoundland & first went to sea while still a schoolboy. His career seemed predestined & by the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a Liverpool company serving in their sailing ships working a triangular passage to St Johns the Brazils & back to Liverpool. He tried to swallow the anchor when he married but running a grocery store was too mundane & he soon went back to sea transferring his skills to the now dominant steamships. Even though he was 64 on the outbreak of the First World War he promptly volunteered for service. He does not seem to have regretted it even after being mined or torpedoed three times; the last time he was badly injured & spent three days adrift in an open boat. Despite these disasters like many a sailor he was probably safer at sea
- while in one port he fell for a rather exotic woman only to discover she was a German spy. When he eventually retired to New York he got to know a couple called Hilda & Denys Wortman. Denys was a newspaper cartoonist who was rather taken with the gruff old sea-dog & based a character he dubbed Mopy Dick on him for a series of popular cartoons. Meanwhile Hilda encouraged Barnes to record his adventures & she eventually became the editor of the first edition of this book imbuing the story with far more narrative flair than usually found in unliterary memoirs.
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This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs & more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago. Curated by us it features the very best photographs & ephemera from & beyond our archives." (Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie). On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street. In the intervening fifty years the Stones have performed live in front of more people than any b&...ever. They've played the smallest blues clubs & some of the biggest stadium tours of all time. They've had No.1 singles & albums in every country that has a popular music chart & have helped define global popular culture. A phenomenal half-century later they now look back at their astounding career. Curated introduced & narrated by the band themselves " The Rolling Stones 50" is the only officially authorized book to celebrate this milestone. With privileged access to a wealth of unseen & rare material it is packed with superb reportage photography contact sheets negative strips out-takes & so much more from every period in the bands history. With more than 1 000 illustrations it also features some of the most rare & interesting Stones memorabilia in existence: international posters draft record cover art bubblegum cards jigsaws & other previously unpublished treasures specially photographed for this volume. Additional contributions by photography legends Gered Mankowitz Jean-Marie Perier Dezo Hoffmann Michael Cooper Terry ONeill Bent Rej Philip Townsend & many others make this the definitive book to celebrate fifty years of the Rolling Stones. From Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie here is one spectacular thank you to their fans all over the world." ...

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service) while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke & to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (whod been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft multiple impregnations & playing blues guitar) & the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts & the potential was obvious. During the 1960s & 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain admired in some quarters for their flamboyance creativity & salacious lifestyles & reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies & in 2012 will have been together for 50 years. In The Rolling Stones Christopher Sandford tells the human drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones family members (including Micks parents) the groups fans & contemporaries
- even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stones will make sense of the rich brew of clever invention & opportunism of talent good fortune insecurity self-destructiveness & of drugs sex & other excess that made the Stones who they are.
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From the bestselling author of Jupiters Travels & Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining & inspiring new journey round Britain. Having crisscrossed the globe twice Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain. It is also a witty & affectionate journey back to the past when Ted would hitchhike across the country visiting friends (and girlfriends). He returns to the site of his old school with its astonishing war time history & visits familiar haunts where he did his National Service & got his first job in newspapers. He also visits less-familiar places. Some inspire him (Winchester Cathedral). Others defeat him (a tax office in Nottingham). As he rolls through the Isles he discovers that a great deal has changed: busier roads bureaucracy & worst of all the dreaded Sat Nav. But there is also much to celebrate & enjoy along the way. Packed with fascinating stories extraordinary encounters & glorious depictions of the British countryside Rolling through the Isles takes the reader on an unforgettable trip with a celebrated adventurer & writer. ...

The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun & a limited amount of armour plate at a dockyard in France. It was used by a squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. Backed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill more & better versions followed until by 1915 there were about 100 of them which were then handed over to the Army. They searched the world for War" as Sir Albert Stern said of them & before long there were Rolls-Royce armoured cars operating as far apart as German South West Africa the Western Desert Gallipoli all over the Middle East & the north west frontier of India. All of them used the classic 40/50hp Silver Ghost chassis. They were fast silent & reliable but above all strong. "A Rolls in the desert is above rubies" said Lawrence of Arabia & the Duke of Westminster would have agreed with him following his famous raid to rescue the kidnapped crew of the steamship HMS Tara. At least one car accompanied the adventurous MP Oliver Locker-Lampson on his adventures in Russia. After the war unable to find a better model the War Office simply copied the original Admiralty design with minor improvements. If that was not enough the Royal Air Force also acquired some to support their operations in the Middle East. A new design with a larger body & dome shaped turret also appeared for service in India. They also served in Ireland & even briefly in Shanghai. The 11th Hussars still had Rolls-Royces in Egypt when the war against Italy began & the youngest of these was over fifteen years old when they went into action but after that their numbers dwindled as newer vehicles came along. But then history repeated itself. Britain was threatened with invasion & a new army of veterans was raised to assist with defence. Some battalions built home made armoured cars on private chassis & at least three of these were based on Rolls-Royces." ...

For generations people the world over have been intrigued by the magic of the h&-built motor cars created by the worlds most skilled craftsmen & women. Their workmanship & world-class engineering made Rolls-Royce the benchmark for quality & excellence. The supreme accolade for other products was to be described as the Rolls-Royce of... Ironically the company that became the symbol of privilege & luxury was founded by a self-taught engineer Frederick Henry Royce son of a Lincolnshire farmer who started working at age 10 to help his widowed mother make ends meet. Obsessed with perfection in every task he proclaimed that nothing is ever right or good enough yet he produced the finest motor cars the world had ever seen. Owners range from royalty & billionaires to Hollywood stars & the just plain rich. They shared one aim
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