World War Z" is the eagerly awaited film starring Brad Pitt. The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt) who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies & governments & threatening to annihilate humanity itself. " World War Z: The Art of the Film" is the official illustrated companion to the movie & features a wealth of stunning production art design sketches & storyboards alongside the full shooting script. (TM) & (c) 2013 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved." ...

This is a fantastic reference book on the two most important conflicts of the 20th Century; World Wars 1 & 2. It provides detailed accounts of the causes & effects of each war as well as describing their main battles innovations & leaders. It also describes the cultural legacies of the wars including the impact they made to the roles of women & how they inspired poets artists & writers. It is illustrated with dramatic photographs & detailed colour maps. It is Internet-linked to provide young learners with the opportunity for further independent research. ...

I am dividing. It is as though I am holding myself cupped in my own hands & I am falling to pieces there slipping through my fingers. & that is true. That is how we are in the world. We are pieced together out of lots of different bits. Its magical.. . There are more than seven billion people on the planet. They have on average over 10 billion nerve cells in their brains & 5 litres of blood pumping through their bodies. Their skeletons are made up of 206 bones & their hearts beat Approx. 72 times per minute. They are connected to each other in more ways than they can possibly imagine. Philip is one of them. Sue is another. This is their story. It is the story of one year & two lives & what it means to live in them. It is a story about love & courage risk & betrayal; about the choices we make & the consequences that shape us. It is a story that will make you look at the world with new eyes. ...

On the day after Halloween in the year 1327 four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief a bully a boy genius & a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults their lives will be braided together by ambition love greed & revenge. They will see prosperity & famine plague & war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. & always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war passion & family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later as the men women & children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. ...

The CIA is facing an unknown enemy. His genius: the ability to steal prototype weapons with unimaginable destructive powers & leave no trace of their whereabouts. The weapons never appear on any black market. They're never used to wage a battle on US soil. & they're never sold to foreign agents. It's as if they simply vanish. But a top-secret CIA operation is one step ahead of the game. They know the next target. A company in Texas has developed a military combat uniform that renders a soldier virtually invisible. Optical camouflage offers limitless possibilities --and no one knows that better than CIA operative Steve Conway. But as Conway & his team set the trap for the elusive thief things go terribly wrong. A hair-raising blend of mystery manhunt & terror World Without End is an electrifying page-turning novel of suspense by an author destined to join the ranks of the masters. ...

A unique collection of 500 couture cocktails from around the world illustrated with stunning photography & accompanied by an ...

This big book is stuffed with the fastest brightest longest funniest weirdest wildest wettest saddest brainiest & fascinating-est (yikes!) things in the world. From the highest peaks to the murkiest depths the fastest man to the slowest sloth the oldest lake to the most venomous snake & much much more. ...

In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the world wars the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labour unions criminal gangs spies political agitators armed kidnappers & assassins. Adjoining the Settlement were the French Concession & the Chinese city both hotbeds of intrigue & crime themselves. Called the most sinful in the world the Settlement relied on its police: the Shanghai Municipal Police one of the most advanced forces in the world. After an incident in 1926 when the police fired upon demonstrators which resulted in unrest & strikes W. E. Fairbairn was charged with forming a specialised unit to deal with riots & armed encounters. The resulting Reserve Unit became the prototype for future SWAT teams as it developed tactics for using snipers in barricade & hostage incidents techniques for use of the sub-machine gun during raids hostage rescue tactics aggressive riot-dispersal tactics & various other tactical innovations. Out of the experiences of the unit came many of the techniques later taught by W. E. Fairbairn E. A. Sykes Pat ONeill & others to the Commandos Rangers SOE OSS 1st Special Service Force & other Second World War elite units. Those same techniques still resonate today with special forces & police tactical units. ...

Brand new & fully-illustrated with over 2 000 photographs this coffee table book explores the most fascinating travel destinations on Earth as part of a pictorial round-the-world adventure. This trailblazing tour takes in ancient capitals of Europe the awe-inspiring Amazon rainforest the natural wonders of Africa volcanic mountains in Iceland fast expanding cities of East Asia the imposing monuments of the Middle East & much more. Astonishing facts & insightful texts are incorporated into full-page illustrations bringing each destination to life & whetting the appetite for adventure. ...

Take for example Enriqueta Marti who kidnapped children from the streets of Barcelona then boiled away their flesh & crushed their bones for ingredients for her coveted magic potions. Or take Randy Kraft known as The Scorecard Killer a computer genius by day & a a deranged psychopath by night. Finally arrested with a corpse slumped in the passenger seat of his car it emerged that Kraft had spent over a decade cutting up & disposing of his numerous victims along the California highways. In this stomach-churning collection all the stories have one thing in common
- a unique bizarre twist. True crime writer James Marrison draws upon the material that has featured in the hugely successful column The Murder File in cult magazine Bizarre in order to disclose the kind of sickening deeds that are perpetrated more often than you might think but which sometimes go largely unreported by the media. Welcome to The Worlds Most bizarre Murders
- the most shocking true crime book you will ever read.

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