Duck punch cover block & knee strike. Boxing wrestling & Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan lines of attack & final disengagement. If you cant take flight youre going to have to fight. Extreme Unarmed Combat is an authoritative handbook on an immense array of close combat defence techniques from fist fights to headlocks from tackling single unarmed opponents to armed groups from stance to maneuvring. Presented in a handy pocketbook format Extreme Unarmed Combats structure considers the different fighting & martial arts skills you can use before looking at the areas of the body to defend how to attack without letting yourself be hurt & how to incapacitate your opponent. With more than 120 black & white illustrations of combat scenarios punches blocks & ducks & with expert easy-to-follow text Extreme Unarmed Combat guides you through everything you need to know about what to do when you cant escape trouble. This book could save your life. ...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet a couple of years after his father died in 9/11 nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar
- inventor letter-writer & amateur detective
- across New York's five boroughs & into the jumbled lives of friends relatives & complete strangers. He gets heavy boots he gives himself little bruises & he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to or even further from his lost father? Moving literary & innovative perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore & Nicole Krauss Jonathan Safran Foer's " Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock released in 2012. Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of " Everything is Illuminated" which won the National Jewish Book Award & the Guardian First Book award & " Eating Animals" & the editor of "A Convergence of Birds"."

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Looking for something silly weird & flatout idiotic? Look no more! From the magazine that inspired the hit Cartoon Network show comes this new collection of MAD" articles thats guaranteed to make you laugh cry & dance an Irish jig! [ Jig not covered by guarantee]" ...

' If you want to know what the human body can take & why we must continue to push ourselves beyond the limit in the name of exploration then read this book.' Professor Brian Cox In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a 'guinea pig'. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fongs television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a guinea pig. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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How many times have you wanted to experiment with your eye makeup but didnt know where to begin? This book gives you multiple options for every mood & event you could ever dream of. Let acclaimed makeup artist Linda Mason take the mystery out of eye makeup by teaching you her secrets to more than fifty hot looks. Whether you are feeling flirtatious or funky glamorous or just natural Lindas easy steps clear diagrams & individual colour palettes break it all down to help you get the look you want. Youll be showing off your new lids in no time. Soon everyone will think you have your own personal makeup artist.. .but only you will know the truth! Originally from Sunderland in the northeast of England Linda Mason has been known since the late 1970s for her creative & exciting use of colour. She worked for Lacome before becoming the premier makeup artist at Helena Rubenstein & later worked on early runway collections for Jean-Paul Gaultier John Galliano Commes des Garcons & Giorgio Armani. In 1987 Linda started her cosmetics company Linda Mason Elements Inc followed by the opening of her The Art of Beauty shop/gallery in NYC. For more information visit: www.lindamason. com ...

A tale of terror unlike any other: The barren windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found strange fossils of unheard-of creatures carved stones tens of millions of years old & finally the unspeakable mind-twisting terror of the City of the Old Ones. ...

Solve the mind-boggling picture puzzles on every page using the three cool searching tools
- one to magnify one to find colours
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The Goal Kings face a mid-season change of coach & suddenly every boy in the team is under pressure to prove his worth. Josh is desperate for a lucky break Alex's position as star striker is under threat & a string of defeats brings the new defensive line-up seriously into question. ...

When The Stabbers sixth victim is found with his head nailed to the ground DI Andy Gilchrist knows his failed investigation is about to cost him his career. The windswept streets of St Andrews provide the setting for the grisly attacks of an unhinged serial killer. Six men have been brutally murdered all known wife beaters stabbed through the left eye. Suspended from the case & desperate to redeem his reputation Gilchrist embarks on a desperate hunt for the killer. Alone & on the wrong side of the law any mistake could be his last. ...