Sean Connerys creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema allowing a cash-strapped morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him from. Undaunted Connery went on to prove himself one of the cinemas most relaxed & assured stars & a guaranteed box-office draw. Moulding & remoulding his image to fit the contours of the age Connery has gone from Sadeian Sixties sex symbol to the sagacious magus figure to which todays young stars are forever turning. Spirited argumentative & sardonically celebratory Christopher Brays Sean Connery" is both a biography of a star & an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. & its an analysis of what it means to be star-struck
- a critical tribute to a secular icon who has shaped so many dreams."
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Join Dora & Boots in this great look & find adventure. Each spread shows Dora & her friends in a different location with lots of hidden objects to find on the page. Little explorers will have great fun helping Dora & Boots find all the objects. ...

In 1972 when I first began to discover the delights of the mountains & then became involved with search & rescue I found that I could combine my love of dogs with this new passion for the great outdoors. Search Dogs & Me charts the journey which has taken me & my dogs from Donegal Kerry the Lake District & the Mountains of Mourne to Kashmir Turkey & Algeria. Neil Powell Search Dogs & Me tells the remarkable story of one mans adventures with his life-saving dogs. For the past forty years Neil Powell has worked with dogs in mountain search & rescue drowned victim recovery collapsed structure searching & optical disc & drug detection. Neil & his dogs have participated in countless searches
- often in life-threatening situations
- & saved many lives in Ireland the United Kingdom & throughout the world. But these are not just heroic working dogs they are much-loved family pets & they form the heart of the story. We come to know their personalities & quirks & share in Neils heartbreak when they reach the end of their days. Search Dogs & Me is a heartwarming inspiring & beautifully told story that will melt
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- the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.



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Ten minibooks cover all you need to know about search engine optimization Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential tool for getting a handle on web site promotional tactics & tools. With this complete reference youll explore issues not covered anywhere else including international SEO how to optimize servers for SEO & much more. Ten separate books join forces to provide you with a comprehensive straightforward guide to the benefits details & tricks of SEO. Coverage devotes time to topics such as keyword strategy competitive positioning SEO web design search marketing & more. Youll also look at how search engines work & how to create content link optimize the foundations & analyze results. Details the capabilities & benefits of search engine optimization (SEO) for gauging the success of online promotional tactics & tools Explains how search engines work nuances of keyword strategy how to deal with competitive positioning & more Walks you through working with SEO web design creating content linking optimizing the foundations & analyzing results Touches on topics not covered anywhere else including international SEO & optimizing servers for SEO Search no further! This book is one-stop shopping for everything you need in order to start your engine & embrace the potential of SEO today. ...

On April 29th 1945 General Heinrich Gestapo Muller head of that feared Nazi organisation left Hitlers bunker & disappeared. Today over a half a Century later he is still carried on the books of the German Office of Investigation of Nazi war crimes as their No. 1 wanted man
- The question is why? For nearly five years Muller had the power of life-&-death over 300 million Europeans in Occupied Europe. In that time not only did he play a major role in the Holocaust but he helped in kidnapping of Payne Stevens & Best chiefs of the SIS in Europe; had a hand in the planned abduction of the Duke of Windsor; broke the power of the European-Soviet spy ring the Red Orchestra; terrorised the French resistance; shot British SAS & SOE prisoners & master-minded the executions of the Great Escape POW escapees. But was he all the time working for the Russians & if so what happened to him on that April day? His subordinate Eichmann escaped as did other top Gestapo officials. Did he really die in Berlin? In his search for the truth the Author takes an interesting & exciting stance. He examines with typical thoroughness both Mullers career as it progresses from being a simple Bavarian policeman through to becoming a top Third Reichs henchman & the Allies post-war efforts to find out if Muller survived. The Search for Gestapo Muller is a truly intriguing modern mystery story.
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The tribe of the Durotriges was listed by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the second century AD. Traditionally it has been believed that the Durotrigans formed an Iron Age tribe whose territory included Dorset & parts of neighbouring Somerset Wiltshire & Hampshire. In AD 43-44 these hillforts
- sites such as Maiden Castle Hod Hill & South Cadbury
- bore witness to one of the pivotal events of British history when the Romans fought in a bloody campaign against the Durotrigan people to claim the Battle for Britain. In this engaging & fully illustrated new book Martin Papworth brings together fresh evidence to suggest that the Durotrigan nation was made up not of a unified state but rather of fiercely independent baronies. Here for the first time the evidence for the Durotriges is made accessible to both archaeologists & those who simply have an interest in the British Iron Age the Romans or the history of this area.

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Eva Nine was raised by the robot Muthr. But when a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary she called home twelve-year-old Eva is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her. She knows that other humans exist because of a very special item she treasures ~ a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl an adult & a robot along with the strange word Wond La". Tony Di Terlizzi honours traditional childrens literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet but as simple as a childs wish for a place to belong." ...

From the ground-breaking offices of Google Search Inside Yourself is a personal growth program that focuses on developing emotional intelligence through mindfulness making its participants more productive at work & better leaders while becoming more peaceful happy & compassionate individuals. Famed for its innovative & unusual yet highly successful working culture Google is more than just a search engine. One such innovation is the Search Inside Yourself program created for Google by a diverse group of individuals including a Zen Master a CEO a Stanford University scientist & author Daniel Goleman its been a life changing program for many participants contributing to great improvements in both their personal & professional lives. Search Inside Yourself has been taught in Google since 2007 producing dramatic results. Some participants have found new meaning & fulfilment in their jobs (one person changed her mind about leaving the company after taking the course!) Some have become much better at what they do; one engineering manager discovered the importance of giving himself quality time & reduced his working hours to four days a week. After he did that he got promoted! Some have become more effective managers learning to listen & communicate better & bringing a calm attitude to every situation. Not surprisingly many people found Search Inside Yourself to be beneficial in their personal lives as well. Many participants found they were happier & less-stressed their marital relationships enhanced & some even said the program helped them deal with personal crises. This book will show you how to apply the principles of Search Inside Yourself to you your business & everyday life. Whether you are a junior team member or a senior manager a secondary school teacher or a bus driver these valuable lessons have the potential to dramatically improve your life. Written by Chade-Meng Tan the first engineer in Googles history to leave the Engineering department & join their Peoples Ops Group where he leads this & other personal-growth programs. It also

Includes:: a foreword by Daniel Goleman the author of Emotional Intelligence & introduction from Jon Kabat-Zinn author of Wherever You Go There You Are.

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Can you imagine what it's like to be able to completely clear your mind & experience a deep sense of calm whenever you want? What about the power to switch into a state of intense concentration but at the same time be completely relaxed? Or even to feel the beginnings of an unwanted emotion like anger but be able to choose whether to let it take hold of you or simply make it dissolve & disappear? One Google engineer managed to do just that. Chade-Meng Tan discovered a way of explaining these secrets in a way that busy stressed-out people could instantly underst&. So many fellow Google employees told him that it had changed their life that he stopped engineering to share it with the world. The course that he still runs at Google is in this book & it's designed in a practical way that anyone can apply to any area of their work or family life. Meng won't ask you to hug a tree or 'find your centre'. He'll use brain scans modern science & plenty of humour to show you how a miraculous technique called mindfulness can in just 100 minutes begin to change your life. ...

The so called ' Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. The book ranges widely in subject matter space & time. Christian history & ecological demographic social & economic history are all interwoven with the politics religions & literature of the vast & varied area between European Russia & China from c 800 to 1300. The author's views are distinctive & stimulating & are not always accepted by western specialists. But his bold synthesis fills in many of the missing links between histories of Europe & medieval China & makes it possible to think of these vast areas as in some senses parts of a greater whole. ...