Lance Bradley idling his life away in Somerset suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly Lance goes to London where he discovers that Rupe's employers want him tried for fraud. A Japanese businessman claims he has stolen a document of huge importance. & Rupe has hired a private detective to try & trace an American called Townley who was involved in a mysterious death thirty years before. No sooner has Lance decided that whatever Rupe was up to is far too risky to get involved in than he finds that he already is involved. & the only way out is to get in deeper still. Where is Rupe? What is the document he has stolen? Who is Townley? & could the seemingly unexplainable events of the past hold the key to a secret more shocking than Lance Bradley could ever have imagined? ...

Bob Dylan is popular musics most celebrated poet/singer/songwriter
- a legend a maverick & a superstar who has rarely given away
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Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea & won wide acclaim for his often declamatory & rhetorical work of the 1940s which included Deaths & Entrances" (1946). He died from alcoholism shortly before the airing of his most famous work " Under Milk Wood" (1954). Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 studied at Trinity College Dublin & the Sorbonne & has held journalistic & academic appointments in London & New York. A member of Aosdana he has received numerous awards including the Irish Academy of Letters Award & the Scott Montcrieff translation prize. His " Collected Poems" was published in 1999. In the " Poet to Poet" series a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses & their critical reactions the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here Derek Mahon selects Dylan Thomas." ...

' In the beginning was the three-pointed star One smile of light across the empty face; One bough of bone across the rooting air The substance forked that marrowed the first sun; & burning cophers on the round of space Heaven & hell mixed as they spun.' This is a rich collection of Dylan Thomas's best-loved poems & stories as well as pieces he wrote for radio & magazines. The selection spans Thomas's writing lifetime & it shows the full range of this tempestuous & meticulous artist who once cheerfully claimed that he had beast angel & madman within him. ...

Have fun with this easy to use embosser. Use the embosser for labelling shelves drawers cabinets plugs & switches & anything else you can think of that needs a little organising. Make your words & numbers stick on 9mm wide embossing tape that comes preloaded for ease of use. Included in the pack are easy to follow instructions & no batteries are required. ...

Figure drawing is the most essential
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- of all the skills for the artist to learn. In this manual Burne

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Most books on karate usually do not provide complete detailed instructions & illustrations-the fundamentals plus the fine points-that readers hope for. This book fills the gaps left by others. The late Master Masatoshi Nakayama chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association left this book as a testament. It reveals his great experience as a karate competitor & teacher describing & illustrating in detail all the correct movements involved in the particular block punch or kick you want to perfect as well as instructions--on combining blocking techniques with decisive counterattacks. Also included is a glossary of all Japanese karate terms & a guide to their pronunciation. Because of the lightning speed of karate techniques normal camera work often fails to record the action accurately. For this reason many of the photo sequences found in Dynamic Karate were taken using a stroboscope with a flash time of 1/10 000 of a second enabling you to follow each movement as it is actually performed. ...

The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning interest in ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape. More recently a strong aesthetic element has been added to what was formerly a movement aimed at creating nature-like landscapes. The Dynamic Landscape advances a fusion of scientific & ecological planning design philosophy that can address the need for more sustainable designed landscapes. It is a major statement on the design implementation & management of ecologically inspired landscape vegetation. With contributions from people at the forefront of developments in this field in both Europe & North America it provides a valuable synthesis of current thinking. ...

This book illustrated with drawings in pencil charcoal pen & ink & brush & ink shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light & shade. Hogarth demonstrates how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form & space. He then shows how the silhouette is transformed into three

Dimensions with the addition of highlights. There is a chapter devoted to each of the five basic categories of light & shade: single-source light; double-source light; flat diffused light; moonlight; & sculptural light. Natural & artificial light sources are examined & the effects of the five types of light on a variety of subjects
- faces figures landscapes still lifes
- are illustrated. Hogarth also explains more complex light effects: how light & shade can create a sense of near & far; how light is affected by weather time of day & the changing seasons; how light reveals the surface qualities of forms; the effects of light passing through transparent materials like glass & water; & much more.



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Designed for the busy practicing project manager Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2010" is the perfect guide to getting up to speed with the new features of Project 2010 giving readers the confidence & knowledge to create effective schedules more efficiently using best practices. Through the use of best practices helpful screen shots hands-on exercises illustrations & review questions this new edition of the best-selling guide instructs you on how to build dynamic schedules that will allow you to explore what-if? scenarios & dramatically decrease the time you spend making static schedule changes. This volume also

Includes:: access to downloadable resources including exercises glossary & more at the website."

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