' Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends & I live & go to school & play & sleep
- sometimes with each other.
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Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side where my friends & I live & go to school & play & sleep
- sometimes with each other.
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Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side where my friends & I all live in huge fabulous apartments & go to exclusive private schools. We arent always the nicest people in the world but we make up for it in looks & taste. The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour & cool. Set in New Yorks glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills & spills of its richest & most beautiful teenage residents (with Jimmy Choo shoes & shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way). In this second novel they are interviewing for college (Ivy League only naturally). ...

Football used to be better in the past...and heres the proof. Got Not Got focuses on British footballs apparent lost utopia of the 1960s 70s & 80s
- the fondly remembered golden age of mudbaths & cloggers of miniature carpet-level & table football games & imaginary comic-book worlds. It evokes the feel & smell of football past its rituals & relics. But theres more to the grumpy authors vision than a hilarious heartstring-tugging celebration of everything we miss in modern football. Here are hundreds of beautiful images of a lost football culture pin-sharp observations & memories shared by generations of fans
- in all an ideal blueprint to help restore the game to its former glories!

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A breakout success & a New York Times" bestseller in hardcover " Got Fight?" is the uproarious & out of control book from Forrest Griffin one of the most outrageous personalities in the Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC). The former light heavyweight champ of the UFC Forrest is one of the UFC's biggest stars in mixed martials arts the fastest-growing sport in the world. Now in " Got Fight?" the man who's been called 'the most popular fighter in the UFC' offers personal stories from inside & outside the Octagon to give readers a glimpse into the mind of a mixed martial artist & illustrate his 50 principles of being a fighter with topics ranging from mentally preparing before a professional fight to kicking it into high gear when your ring is the street. Mixing his fighting tips with his own booming personality & his trademark sense of humour Forrest creates his own unique self-depricating version of self-help. In these pages you will learn about true mental toughness
- whether it's scraping it out in the Octagon or picking up chicks."
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GOTCHA GADGETS teaches children the basics of electronics while playing tricks on family & friends. With this book kids can build a door alarm a motion detector a light sensor & a push button sound machine. Then use them to set a snoopy sibling trap wire the biscuit jar play audio limbo confuse the cat & more.

Includes:: four build-it-yourself electronic gadgets & four hilarious sounds. Putting science & electronics in the service of immaturity.

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Written by ED BRUBAKER & GREG RUCKA Art & cover by MICHAEL LARK The first ten issues of the Eisner & Harvey Award-winning series are collected in softcover for the first time! Written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America) & Greg Rucka (DETECTIVE COMICS 52) this series pits the detectives of Gotham City's Special Crimes Unit against the city's greatest villains
- in the shadow of Batman himself. On sale MARCH 9
- 240 pg FC

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The sixty photographs contained in this book were taken over the course of more than a decade by Luca Campigotto in New York. They are primarily images borrowed from movies & comic books visions of the city at night. A Gotham City reconstructed from memory often infused with a glassy light & an atmosphere at times glowing with vivid colors other times wrapped in muted hues. A sentimental journey in the Big Apple of our imagination
- from the East River bridges to the Empire State Building from the Guggeheneim Museum to Canal Street from Times Square to the old docks of Brooklyn each image looking like the backdrop for scene in a movie.
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Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory Fred Bottings Gothic is a clear & welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid easy-to-follow guide: * Explains the transformations of the genre through history * Outlines all the major figures which define the genre such as ghosts monsters & vampires * Charts key texts over two centuries * Traces origins of the form * Looks at the cultural & historical location of gothic images & texts * Provides a succinct introduction to the field which is also an excellent foundation for further study. ...

Gothic & Lolita" charts the current trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s young teenagers predominately adolescent girls congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku Akihabara & a number of underground clubs in & around Tokyo dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes & late-Victorian dress. The psychological characteristics of the average Japanese Goth is one of introversion & exclusivity. The majority of girls in the scene are teenagers & most usually stop by the age of eighteen. The origin of the movement was in Osaka in the mid 1990s when young teenagers adopted Gothic fashion in response to the clothes worn & promoted by Japanese Gothic rock bands. In the ten years since the trend began it has expanded to a number of cities including Tokyo & now boasts many thousands of devotees who dedicate their lives to creating ever more flamboyant & bizarre variations on the Gothic theme. From handmade black lace dresses based on designs from the 1860s to Lolita outfits lacy Gothic designs that have a pre-pubescent rococo edge to them to dresses with an occult flavour the Gothic & Lolita scene is one of the more bizarre hybrids within Japanese street fashion. " Gothic & Lolita" is specially commissioned by Phaidon Press. Based on the creative design of the best selling " Fruits & Fresh Fruits" it will feature portraits & group portraits of Japanese Goths & Lolitas both at home & in the urban centres of Tokyo & Osaka. In addition to the visual content of the book each subject will also be asked a number of questions about their handmade designs & why the fashion is so important to them. This text will run in a similar question & answer format as in the original Fruits publications. The coupling of portraits & insightful first-person commentary will together make " Gothic & Lolita" the definitive book on the scene in both the West & in Japan presenting an ideal opportunity to view one of the more surreal aspects of Japanese popular youth culture in an informative yet entertaining manner." ...