Let us turn our faces towards Asia exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. The East will help us conquer the West. Peter Hopkirks book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenins dream was to liberate the whole of Asia but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed. Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies Communist revolutionaries Muslim visionaries & Chinese warlords
- as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue & treachery barbarism & civil war whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.
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Those who have been bereaved are in need of support & group work is an effective way in which people can come together & support each other in a trusted environment. This book provides a practical introduction to setting up & facilitating bereavement support groups giving facilitators the confidence to run a group. It guides the reader through all the stages of setting up a group & examines different types of facilitation & the skills needed. Case studies illustrate different types of group such as closed time-limited groups & open groups & the potential of online groups is discussed. Chapters also cover group dynamics handling challenging situations & overcoming problems that may arise. This accessible book will help to make groups successful for both participants & facilitators & will be a valued source of information & guidance to anyone either running or considering running a bereavement support group. ...

This practical handbook now in a throughly revised & updated 5th edition with a new chapter on completing your application will help you understand the mechanics of running a limited company. Whether you have already started your business or are just embarking on it you will find vital advice on the benefits & obligations of forming a limited compnay & how to set one up & run it. There are deatailed explanations of the procedures involved together with essential advice on dealing with statutory information banking PAYE auditing & accounting.
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Ardittis approachable work covers the all the details of design siting & construction
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Severiano Ballesteros is perhaps the most naturally gifted golfer ever to have walked a fairway. From the moment his brother Manuel gave him his first club
- a 3 iron
- he was unstoppable; he played shots others could only dream of. A few weeks before his seventeenth birthday he turned pro. Five years later he won the Open. A year after that he became the first European ever to win the Masters. A genius had arrived. For the best part of two decades Seve dominated the golfing landscape. With 94 wins to date as a professional (including 5 Majors) 6 European Order of Merit titles & the No. 1 position in the Official World Golf Rankings he became a sporting phenomenon an athlete who transcended
- & still transcends
- his sport. But Seve stands for more than simple excellence. Almost single-handedly Seve gave European golf credibility; almost single-handedly he made the Ryder Cup one of the greatest contests in world sport. & when as captain he finally lifted the trophy on home soil in 1997 a whole continent rejoiced. His pride & passion have inspired millions & we have taken him to our hearts. Now for the first time Seve tells his story. From his humble beginnings right up to the present day here at last is the man behind the magic in his own words. Like its author Seve is utterly entertaining blazingly charismatic & unique; & like its author it wears its heart on its sleeve. But Seve is more than Seve the golfing magician Seve the proud family man & Seve the fierce patriot. It is simply ' Seve'.



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Breathtaking in its scope & originality Seven Basic Plots" examines the basis of story telling in literature film & libretto. No one will ever see stories in the same way again. This remarkable & monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples from ancient myths & folk tales via the plays & novels of great literature to the popular movies & TV soap operas of today it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how & why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways & how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples from Proust to detective stories from the Marquis de Sade to E.T. Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years & why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories & illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives & will be a talking point for years to come." ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter is faced with an ancient Inca curse which is causing its victims to fall into a life-threatening coma. The tomb of Rascar Capac has been unearthed! But one by one the finders fall into a terrifying coma. Can this be the curse of the Inca gods? Tintin must somehow fathom out the meaning behind his only clue: the shattered crystal ball lying beside each of the victims... Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. ...

Redis Neo 4J Couch Mongo HBase Riak & Postgres. With each database youll tackle a real-world data problem that highlights the concepts & features that make it shine. Youll explore the five data models employed by these databases-relational key/value columnar document & graph-and which kinds of problems are best suited to each. Youll learn how Mongo DB & Couch DB-both Java Script powered document oriented datastores-are strikingly different. Learn about the Dynamo heritage at the heart of Riak & Cassandra. Understand Map Reduce & how to use it to solve Big Data problems. Build clusters of servers using scalable services like Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Discover the CAP theorem & its implications for your distributed data. Understand the tradeoffs between consistency & availability & when you can use them to your advantage. Use multiple databases in concert to create a platform thats more than the sum of its parts or find one that meets all your needs at once. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks will give you a broad understanding of the databases their strengths & weaknesses & how to choose the ones that fit your needs. What You Need: To get the most of of this book youll have to follow along & that means youll need a *nix shell (Mac OSX or Linux preferred Windows users will need Cygwin) & Java 6 (or greater) & Ruby 1.8.7 (or greater). Each chapter will list the downloads required for that database. ...

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes a leading world authority on DNA & human evolution was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man & his age which was put at over five thousand years old fascinated the world. But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the Ice Man a woman living in Britain today. How was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago? In The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line & shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time & space. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groups. In Europe there are only seven. The conclusion: almost everyone of native European descent wherever they live in the world can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women the Seven Daughters of Eve. He has named them Ursula Xenia Helena Velda Tara Katrine & Jasmine. In this remarkable scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced how & where our ancient genetic ancestors lived what their live were like & how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our DNA which has survived & prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us today. It is a book that not only presents the story of our evolution in a wholly new light but also strikes right at the heart of ourselves as individuals & of our sense of identity. ...

From London to Beijing to New York art sales are booming & the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities & royals. In Seven Days in the Art World" Sarah Thornton a brilliant young sociologist looks at all aspects of buying selling & creating serious art. Thornton has exceptional access & brings a keen critical eye to her coverage of this glamorous milieu offering the first authoritative account of what is now a multi-billion dollar global marketplace-cum-playground for an ever-expanding number of collectors investors & enthusiasts." ...