6 July 2005. Great Britain has just been announced as the next host of the Olympics. The euphoric crowds pour forth from Trafalgar Square into the waiting bars & restaurants of Soho. Dreams drugs debauchery... Soho is London's red light district where any desire can be satisfied in the blink of an eye. But behind it all there is a permanent community of residents whose own sins are concealed by the partying & excess. Zoe an aspiring model looking for her big break will discover the sinister world behind the bright lights; artist Seb is hoping he can forget the past by drinking himself into oblivion while his friend Ade is about to take extreme measures to save his livelihood & relationship. Meanwhile Stella Ade's girlfriend wonders if this is the night to escape. Through the dark streets these four ordinary people walk a dangerous twisted path through London's greatest adult playground. Come the morning of 7 July as jubilation turns to horror will they have fallen into Soho's poisoned embrace while the nation's eyes are turned elsewhere? ...

With its trendy bars quirky shops & historic restaurants Soho is an exciting cosmopolitan slice of Londons entertainments district. It is also Theatreland with more cinemas & historic theatres than anywhere. Featuring rare photographs from the Victorian era to the 1960s with comparison images from the present day this book takes a journey through teeming streets murky byways & once-grand squares. Along the way are the shops where our ancestors traded lively markets & the back streets where a fashion revolution began in the Swinging Sixties. Landmarks from the worlds of Theatre & Cinema are explored with the primitive viewing halls & experimental picture shows from Cinemas earliest days. With its fresh look at a fascinating & multi-faceted corner of London this book will delight everyone who knows & loves Soho. ...

Fight the Beasts Fear the Magic! Join the hero Tom on a high-action adventure with terrible Beasts & deadly danger! Tom is about to embark on his biggest Quest yet! The lands of Avantia Kayonia & Gorgonia are under attack from six Evil Beasts. Tom's first deadly challenge is to defeat Solak Scourge of the Sea. ...

WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair & he is still in love with her. When Beards professional & personal worlds collide in a freak accident an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess reinvigorate his career & save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico this is a story of one mans greed & self-deception; a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing & complex problem of our time. ...

Develop large-scale solar photovoltaic projects with this book to feed power into a grid. Contains case studies of the Waldpolenz Energy Park Germany Lopburi Solar Plant in Thailand & what will be the worlds largest PV plant the Topaz Solar Farm in California. Also included are interviews from leading figures in the PV industry. Contents cover: planning & structuring projects siting planning & connection issues building & operating projects technology basics economies of PV history & business of PV financing & regulation technical aspects of system design. Supported by figures & photographs this is for anyone wanting to master the commercial professional financial engineering or political aspects of developing mega-watt solar PV projects in a mainstream power market. ...

What is the surface of Mars like? Why does Venus glow in the dark? How do scientists explore faraway planets? Beginner readers can find answers to these questions & more in this colourful information book. Illustrated with stunning photographs & illustrations accompanied by short informative text developed with reading experts.

Includes:: carefully selected internet-links to exciting websites about the Solar System.

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A psychologist arrives at a research space station called Prometheus his mission to ascertain whether research into the mysterious planet of Solaris should be terminated. He finds Prometheus all but deserted its straggling crew seemingly haunted by hallucinations of figures from their pasts. ...

In recent years campaigns have been galvanised to 'save the High Street'. It seems everyone has a view about how we can revamp our down-at-heel towns & cities. But are they missing the point? Veteran retailer Bill Grimsey argues that it is already too late. The High Street that we have grown to know & love is as good as dead already. The indisputable truth is British towns & cities are losing their identity & dying off. Independent stores that were once vital to the fabric of towns are disappearing at a rate of 50 shops a week. Some towns now have as many as 24 per cent of their shops shuttered. The time has now come to work out what happened learn lessons from our mistakes & find a new way forward to make new & innovative use of our shattered town centres. Have our shopping preferences created the High Street we now deserve?"" ...

When Philip Serrell
- now well known for his television appearances
- gave up teaching to become a professional auctioneer he

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In November 2001 as the world still reeled from the attack on the Twin Towers German historian Sonke Neitzel discovered an extraordinary cache of documents from the Second World War. The documents were the transcripts of German prisoners of war talking among themselves in prisoner of war camps & secretly recorded by the allies. In these apparently private conversations the soldiers talked freely & openly about their hopes & fears their concerns & their day-to-day lives. With a banality & ease which to the modern reader can appear shocking they also talked about the horrors of war -- about rape death & killing. Sonke Neitzel shared the material with renowned & bestselling psychologist Harald Wezler & they set about trying to make sense of the vast piles of documents the hours of transcripts. The result is SOLDATEN a landmark book which will change the way we look at soldiers & war & is as relevant to our modern conflicts in Iraq & Afghanistan as it was to the soldiers of the German Army in 1945. Published to huge acclaim & controversy in Germany it was a number one bestseller there & reignited the debate about the banality of evil under the Nazi regime. ...