A first-rate charmer with a devilish twinkle in his eye Billy Mac Kenzie was a maverick figure within the music industry whose wild & mischievous spirit possibly did him more harm than good. As frontman of the Associates gifted with an otherwordly octave-scaling operatic voice Mac Kenzie together with partner Alan Rankine enjoyed Top Twenty chart success in 1982. At the height of their success however they split. Over the ensuing years Mac Kenzie gained a reputation for his unhinged career tactics generous spirit & knack for squandering large amounts of record-company money. Born in Dundee in 1957 he was the eldest son in a large Catholic family. He was bullied at school & sought refuge in music. He was a schemer & dreamer a breeder of whippets & a bisexual who kept quiet about his private life. During his lifetime his unique vocal gift attracted the attention of Shirley Bassey Annie Lennox & Bjork. However in the tradition of Scott Walker Syd Barrett & Nick Drake Mac Kenzies tale is one of thwarted talent & ultimately tragedy. He was found dead aged 39 at his fathers home in Scotland on 22 January 1997 having taken an overdose. ...

Glamour in the Skies is the first book to celebrate the stewardesses of British Airways & their predecessors from 1936 to 1980 widely agreed to be the golden age of air travel
- a time which personified optimism excitement & a feeling of boundless opportunity for both passengers & airline crew. The air hostess as she was known initially began her British career in a one-engine propeller plane crossing the English Chan-nel & ended up in Boeing 747 jets & the supersonic Concorde. Ex-hostess Libbie Escolme-Schmidt combines history with hundreds of surveys & interviews from re-tired & current cabin crew enabling the reader to follow the development of the role of the stewardess through the early years of discrimination to her present-day career equality. During this period flying evolved from a potentially dangerous adventure to a remarkably safe & comfortable means of international travel & through it all the air hostesses were there. Their appearance changed over the years from the 1940s military look to the mini-skirts of the 1960s & the caring mother figure to the sexy corporate prod-uct as the role was glamorised to almost iconic status becoming a dream career for millions of young women worldwide. Glamour in the Skies is packed with many anecdotes ranging from administering oxygen to passengers flying over the Andes to serving French champagne on Concorde. Covering training sexual discrimination disasters passengers glamorous stopovers & other temptations this illustrated book presents the changing times in air travel through the eyes of the stewardess & offers the perfect tribute to the girls who walked the skies. This fabulous richly illustrated history of air travel from the 1940s to the 1980s revels in the glamour the romance
- & the...realities of life as a trolley dolly in the Jet Age. Sunday Express magazine This delightful book will please anyone interested in airline history... Well done girls! ***** (Absolutely outstanding) Aeroplane As [ Libbie Escolme-Schmidts] fascinating new book reminds us the excitement & romance of air travel was personified by the air stewardess... Irish Independent (Eire)... a fascinating frank & sometimes funny portrait of life in the skies during the halcyon days of air travel... Fasten your seatbelts for a nostalgic & illuminating flight. This England

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys 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. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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In the past
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- competitive schoolgirls in the west of Scotland collected as many Valentines as they could & swapped

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There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from stealing a ship to singing a seditious song but nineteenth century Glasgow was a unique place with an amazing dynamism. Immigrants poured in from Ireland & the Highlands while the factories shipyards & mills buzzed with innovation. However underneath the bustle was a different world as an incredibly diverse criminal class worked for their own profit with total disregard for the law. Robbers infested the highways & byways a glut of garrotters gathered to jump on the unwary; drunken brawls disfigured the evening streets prostitutes lured foolish men into dark corners conmen connived clever schemes & perfidious poisoners plotted. There were dark & dangerous places such as the Tontine Close & always the possibility of a major riot
- with religion the excuse
- as a volatile population became angry at unjust poverty & poor housing. It was perhaps not surprising that Glasgow formed Britain's first professional police force & men such as Superintendent James Smart fought to stem the crime that at times seemed to overwhelm the city. The forces of law had to be mobile with the robbery of the Paisley Bank involving a coach chase as far as London while the robbery of Walter Baird's shop in the Argyll Arcade took Acting Superintendent George Mc Kay over the sea to Belfast. The police had an often thankless task & The Real Mean City" chronicles the century long struggle of the forces of law & order to bring peace to a troubled city."

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The fragile beauty of glass has ensured its popularity through the ages in forms ranging from simple beakers to ornate decorative masterpieces. This beautifully illustrated book traces the story of glass from its origins in Mesopotamia some 5000 years ago to the creation of the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice & the creation of modern glassware for daily use. ...

Over recent years there has been considerable interest in the creative potential of printing onto alternative surfaces. Glass in particular offers incredible potential for the artist due to its transparency & flexibility. This handbook provides all the necessary information to create high quality prints on glass. It begins with relatively basic processes & then introduces more sophisticated methods in subsequent chapters offering new creative methods of working across the main areas of glass art: Kiln glass Hot glass & Architectural glass. Throughout the specific materials mediums & methods are explained. A range of works by international artists are also shown to demonstrate the exciting creative potential & diversity of approach possible in this area. ...

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge
- of maths music philosophy science & art. Intrigued as a school boy Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult. As Knecht fulfils his life-long quest he must contend with unexpected dilemmas & the longing for a life beyond the ivory tower.
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G.W. Dahlquists The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" the first in the series of adventures of Miss Temple Cardinal Chang & Dr Svenson & followed by " The Dark Volume" & " The Chemickal Marriage" is a rip-roaring tale like no other. In " The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters" three most unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish process: Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes to learn why her fiance Roger broke off their engagement... Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it & why... And Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals... An adventure like no other in a mysterious city few have travelled to featuring a heroine & two heroes you will never forget. " Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens Sherlock Holmes & Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven". (Kate Mosse author of " Labyrinth"). "A page-turner a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying". (Giles Foden " Guardian"). " An erotically charged rip-roaring adventure for adults with scarcely a dull moment to be had which defies its great length to keep the reader on the edge of his seat". (" Daily Mail"). G.W. Dahlquist fell asleep when trapped by a snowstorm & " The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" came to him in his dreams. He is the author of the " The Dark Volume" & " The Chemickal Marriage" the next books in the series." ...