Congratulations!" Youre about to have a kid? Well Bro you might be asking yourself a series of important questions: * Will I ever be able to do awesome things again? * Will I be able to afford this? * Can I ever have sex again? * Will I be a good parent? * Am I able to love this child as much as I love my own life? Well the answer to all of these questions is a rock solid "no." But just because your life is now a petrifying turd on the canvas of life doesnt mean your kid has to be as lame as youre about to become. Which is why Barney has written this book." ...

This exciting & comprehensive text takes students trainees & professionals into the world of the modern-day newsroom covering both key techniques & theory in detail. The second edition has been revised & updated to include all the technical regulatory & theoretical advances in recent broadcast custom & practice & is influenced by newsrooms around the country. Main

Features: Complete coverage of all the key skills: news gathering interviewing writing & story-telling live/location-reporting online editing graphics & presentation. Expert advice & contributions from leading broadcast journalists from the BBC ITV & Sky News. The Essential Guide a section on how to get a job the law & an up-to-date glossary of broadcasting terms. Workshops & Exercises which provides the opportunity to practise key skills. Case Study A Closer Look & Thinkpiece boxes help put the theory into context. Remember & Tip boxes summarise key concepts & offer guidance. A DVD demonstrating filming techniques & editing ideas. New for the second edition: Greater emphasis on online elements of broadcast journalism & the role of social media in news gathering. A focus on the interactive nature of the contemporary news process
- how to find user-generated content empower audiences & engage listeners & viewers. The key skills required for students taking the new NCTJ Broadcast Journalism exams. Ideal for students on journalism courses at all levels this text is also useful for professionals & trainees working in broadcast print & other media & those looking at broadcast journalism in the wider context of media studies.


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The Norfolk Broads is a beautiful peaceful part of England where the pace of life is slow & relaxed. It is a haven for lovers of the natural world abundant with wildlife an escape from the pressures of modern life under a wide open sky. Whether you are boating along the river network searching for wildlife among the reeds sitting at a riverside inn or visiting a nature reserve the Broads provides a palce to get away from it all. Landscape photographer Jon Gibbs captures the magic & the serenity of this unique area in a mesmerizing collection of photographs. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

From his village in post-war France Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day a flamboyant stranger rides into the village upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer the other" & tensions rise until one night the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death but his report delivers much more than the bare facts: it becomes the story of a community coming to terms with the legacy of enemy occupation. In a powerful narrative of exceptional fascination Brodecks Report explores the very limits of humanity." ...

Brodys fight training under the tutelage of samurai ghost Kagemura has toughened his body & honed his senses so finely that Brody can not only communicate with ghosts but envision how & when someone dies. However his new skills arent quite powerful enough to uncover the whereabouts of the mysterious Penny Murderer. With the help of the ghost Talia herself hoping to bring the killer to justice Brody must resort to desperate measures to find the killer before he strikes again
- & Brodys received a psychic vision of his ex-girlfriend Nicole in the worst trouble imaginable...
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Amy's marriage to Mark isn't the best
- he can't resist the girls he can't hold down a job. But she doesn't want to know just how
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I was born & broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted beaten sold swapped photographed filmed left for dead corrupted blamed betrayed & ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim
- that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix
- a work in progress. This is my story. Shy wasnt meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. She would have boiling water poured over her in punishment for wetting the bed. & virtually every day from the age of four Shy was raped by her stepfather Stan. When she was ten she was attacked so viciously by the gang of dockworkers Stan had sold her to that she was left for dead in a field her skull fractured. Six years ago her testimony secured the imprisonment of Stan & his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. But it was only after a journey fraught with horror
- stealing to survive on the streets of London prison & a suicide bid. Today Shy is the internationally admired chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors the campaigning group she founded with Sara Payne to fight for justice for victims of child sexual abuse. They have worked tirelessly with politicians social services the legal system & the media for justice for victims of child sex abuse. BROKEN is the most hard-hitting memoir of overcoming abuse you will ever read. It is both a challenge & an inspiration.


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Book six in Kelley Armstrong's supernatural series marks the return of werewolf Elena Michaels from BITTEN & STOLEN. When half-demon Xavier calls in the favour Elena owes him it seems easy enough
- steal Jack the Ripper's ' From Hell' letter away from a Toronto collector who had himself stolen it from the Ripper evidence boxes in the Metropolitan Police files. But nothing in the supernatural world is ever as simple as it seems. Elena accidentally triggers a spell placed on the letter & manages to tear an opening that leads into the nether regions of Victorian London. Toronto may be looking for a tourism boost but ' Gateway to Hell' isn't quite the new slogan the city had in mind.. .
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When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes it becomes clear that this is no suicide. Its a brutal cold-blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton
- home for Thanksgiving after a long absence
- finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight
- he lies dead in his cell the words Not me scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesnt add up & deeply suspicious of Lena Adams the detective in charge Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties & ties that run deep. & the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead...


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