The LEGO (r) Technic system opens a new realm of building possibilities. Using motors gears pneumatics pulleys linkages & more you can design LEGO models that really move. The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builders Guide is filled with building tips for creating strong yet elegant machines & mechanisms with the Technic system. Author Pawel Sairel" Kmiec will teach you the foundations of LEGO Technic building from simple machines to advanced mechanics even explaining how to create realistic to-scale models. Sariel a world-renowned LEGO Technic expert offers unique insight into mechanical principles like torque power translation & gear ratios all using Technic bricks. Youll learn how to: * Create sturdy connections that can withstand serious stress * Re-create specialized LEGO pieces like casings & u-joints & build solutions like Schmidt & Oldham couplings when no standard piece will do * Build custom differentials suspensions transmissions & steering systems * Pick the right motor for the job-and transform its properties to suit your needs * Combine studfull & studless building styles for a stunning look * Create remote-controlled vehicles lighting systems motorized compressors & pneumatic engines This beautifully illustrated full-color book will inspire you with ideas for building amazing machines like tanks with suspended treads supercars cranes bulldozers & much more. Your Technic adventure starts now!" ...

Sixty million people died in the Second World War & still they tell us it was the Peoples War. The official history of the Second World War is Victors History. This is the history of the Second World War without the patriotic whitewash. The Second World War was not fought to stop fascism or to liberate Europe. It was a war between imperialist powers to decide which among them would rule over the world a division of the spoils of empire & an iron cage for working people enslaved to the war production drive. The unpatriotic history of the Second World War explains why the Great Powers fought most of their war not in their own countries but in colonies in North Africa in the Far East & in Germanys hoped-for Empire in the East. Find out how wildcat strikes partisans in Europe & Asia & soldiers mutinies came close to ending the war. & find out how the Allies invaded Europe & the Far East to save capitalism from being overthrown. James Heartfield challenges the received wisdom of the Second World War. ...

Hugh of Singleton fourth son of a minor knight has been educated as a clerk usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith he turns to the profession of surgeon training in Paris & then hanging out his sign in Oxford. A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cess pit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith & her young man whom she had provoked very publicly is in due course arrested & sentenced at the Oxford assizes. From there the tale unfolds with graphic medical procedures droll medieval wit misdirection ambition romantic distractions & a consistent underlying Christian compassion. ...

The Cold Case crime department of Derby Constabulary feels like a morgue to DI Damen Brook. As a maverick cop his bosses think it's the best place for him. But Brook isn't going to go down without a fight. Applying his instincts & razor sharp intelligence he sees a pattern in a series of murders that seem to begin in 1963. How could a killer go undetected for so long? & why are his superiors so keen to drive him down blind alleys? Brook delves deep into the past of both suspects & colleagues unsure where the hunt will lead him. What he does know for sure is that a significant date is approaching fast & the killer is certain to strike again... ...

Danny Mc Rae private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland crime reporter looking for new angles to save her career. Its an alliance made in heaven. Until Eve disappears a contact dies violently & an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths. His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers double agents & assassins & hurls him into the shattered remains of Berlin where terrorism & espionage foreshadow the bleakness of the Cold War. & Danny begins to lose sight of the thin line between good & evil... ...

Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive illness. She has also experienced it first-h&. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine she was affected by the same exhilarating highs & catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients. An Unquiet Mind" is a memoir of enormous candour courage wit & wisdom which examines manic depression from the dual perspectives of the healer & the healed revealing both its terrors & its cruel allure. First published fifteen years ago it remains the definitive book on manic depression. " It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery brilliance & beauty" (Oliver Sacks). " Affecting honest touching". (Will Self)." ...

24 meets the X Files in the biggest teen blockbuster of the summer...STOP THE COUNTDOWN. SAVE THE WORLD... Leaving the beach seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit head on by a pickup truck. & killed. Then Ben Michaels resident stoner is leaning over her. & even though it isnt possible she knows Ben somehow brought her back to life... Meanwhile Janelles father a special agent for the FBI starts working on a case that seems strangely connected to Ben. Digging in his files Janelle finds a mysterious device
- one that seems to be counting down to something that will happen in 23 days & 10 hours time. That something? It might just be the end of the world. & if Janelle wants to stop it shes going to need to uncover Bens secrets
- & keep from falling in love with him in the process...

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' He has known all forms of fear he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man
- like myself as a matter of fact
- for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death & risk he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time he is testing his Maker's indulgence'
- John le Carre ' Mc Cullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about'
- The Times ' From the opening...there is hardly a dull sentence: his prose is so lively & uninhibited... An excellent book'
- Sunday Telegraph ' Unsparing reminiscences that effectively combine the bittersweet life of a world-class photojournalist with a generous selection of his haunting lifework...A genuinely affecting memoir that reckons the cost & loss involved in making one's way on the cutting edge of conflict'
- Kirkus Reviews ' If this was just a book of Mc Cullin's war photographs it would be valuable enough. But it is much more'
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I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War but for the moment that did not affect me. In the first instalment of Clive Jamess memoirs we meet the young Clive dressed in short trousers & wrestling with the demands of school various relatives & the occasional snake in the suburbs of post-war Sydney. His adventures are hilarious his recounting of them even more so in this -- the book that started it all.. . You cant put it down once started. Its addictive powers stun all normal decent resistance within seconds. Not to be missed Sunday Times All that really needs to be said to recommend Unreliable Memoirs is that James writes exactly as he talks which is all his millions of fans could wish Evening Standard ...