In a world where people born with an exceptional skill known as a Grace are feared & exploited Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa King of the Middluns & is expected to carry out his dirty work punnishing & torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms & cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings
- after all the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms each of them ruled by their own king & his personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates.. .and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him & why? & who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills for the first time as she & the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark & deadly is rising in the north & creeping across the continent & behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king.. .
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Collins New GCSE Maths Edexcel Linear Grade C Booster Workbook provides extra support for students to achieve a Grade C in mathematics. The write-in format with answers in a tear-out section makes it easy to use & revise. * Written by a trusted maths teacher & author Collins New GCSE Maths Edexcel Linear Grade C Booster Workbook is perfect for students on the D / C borderline who want to make sure they get their Grade C. * Lots of questions at Grade C (with some Grade D & some Grade B) help students focus on the key topics required to get their grade. * Assess how well students are doing with Grade progression maps that clearly show how to move from a Grade D toC. * More in-depth questions assess students understanding & test problem-solving & functional maths skills * Perfect for revision booster classes retakes intervention groups. ...

Warm-ups technical exercises & studies are an essential part of all brass players training
- building stamina as well as establishing
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Employers want to fill their top management posts with candidates of the highest calibre. Any mistake in their recruitment process can mean wasteful costs in both time & money. Consequently recruitment to any management post is by rigorous selection often including a range of psychometric tests. The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook" provides essential preparation for graduates or managers who face psychometric tests whether as part of selection or assessment procedures. With correct training & practice a candidate can improve on their expected score & this workbook provides that opportunity. A companion to the best-selling " How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests" it contains even more practice material & realistic timed mock tests relevant to the selection tests of many top organizations. The larger format allows space for writing answers & notes & there are detailed explanations of answers with interpretations of scores." ...

Graeme Swanns transformation from international outsider to Englands primary match-winner & undisputed best spin bowler in the world has been remarkably rapid. Within two years of his 2008 Test debut he had become his countrys most reliable bowler made the shortlist for the ICCs cricketer of the year award & claimed an Ashes-sealing wicket. Yet the script took many twists & turns along the way. Drafted into the squad for the full tour of South Africa in 1999-2000. Swanns meteoric received a jolt. While some liked the cut of his jib others did not & England coach Duncan Fletcher already had a foot in the latter camp when Swann missed the bus for the first of two times on that tour. Suddenly he was judged on temperament & not talent. Although Swann candidly concedes he was nowhere near good enough for the top level at that stage in his career his jettisoning back to county cricket for the next seven years following a solitary one-day international hinted at a career wasted. A clash with then Northamptonshire coach Kepler Wessels triggered his move to Nottinghamshire in 2005. A County Championship winner in his debut season he was back in the England fold at the end of his third. Forever a flamboyant showman he made up for lost time with two wickets in his first over against India
- his habit of striking in his opening over a spell has become a party piece. You cannot keep the spotlight off him for long. Since moving into the top 10 of the world rankings for bowlers on the back of eight wickets in the Ashes-defining Oval Test of 2009 he has not dropped outside it & has been widely tipped to be the decisive factor in the defence of the urn in Australia.
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Carry all of your stationery essentials around in style with this WHSmith Respect" pencil case. It features a graffiti design with multi coloured writing. The pencil case features three pockets with two zips one main & two external. It is large enough to store all of your pencils pens rulers & rubbers & has a plastic coating so easy to wipe clean." ...

Tectums illustrated Bible series gets another welcome addition with this new volume fully dedicated to street art. Graffiti exists in all shapes & sizes
- from stencil & sticker art to old-school spray painting. It appears on bridges walls & pavements & nowadays in art galleries! This book contains no text but more than 450 amazing colour photographs demonstrating the astonishing skills of the international graffiti artists. These images speak for themselves
- & that is exactly what they were meant to do.

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With over 120 clever & witty illustrations from Andrew Pinder this book will give the budding graffiti artist a wealth of ideas & provide hours of simple anarchic amusement. Doodlers are encouraged to deface & disfigure all manner of recognisable places people & products: add some more heads to Mount Rushmore; put a Zulu warrior in a sentry box at Buckingham Palace; give Michelangelos (naked) David a three-piece suit; give the Mona Lisa a full makeover. There are no restrictions to the havoc that can be created with this fun & rebellious book. ...

Long before graffiti was adopted as the visual expression of hip-hop culture in the 1980s Chicano gang members in East Los Angeles had been developing stylized calligraphy & writing them on walls since as early as the 1940s. Cholo (gangster) scripts became the first distinctive letter forms to evolve in the modern vernacular tradition of graffiti writing. Today in addition to the long-standing tradition of Cholo writing Los Angeles street artists of diverse backgrounds draw from a unique confluence of cultures (pan-Asian pan-Latino African-American European Jewish) that has led to regionally distinctive styles which are now studied by graffiti writers worldwide. This is confirmed by the fact that not only have many writers come to Los Angeles to collaborate with regional artists but many have now taken up residence in the city to be a part of this thriving art scene. In Graffiti L. Ai: Street Styles & Art" author Steve Grody documents current trends in graffiti & street art in Los Angeles while also providing a history of the art form in the city. This is an indepth examination of technique an exploration of socio-cultural issues in crew dynamics battles & apprenticeship & interviews with the most prominent artists round out the text. This volume places Los Angeles in its rightful place
- at the vanguard of the graffiti world."
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' We've got at least seven hours to get what we want before the sun comes up.' School is over & Lucy has the perfect way to celebrate: tonight she's going to find Shadow the mysterious graffiti artist whose work appears all over the city. Somewhere in the glassy darkness he's out there spraying colour birds & blue sky on the night. & Lucy knows that a guy who paints like Shadow is someone she could fall for
- really fall for. The last person Lucy wants to spend this night with is Ed the guy she's managed to avoid since punching him in the nose on the most awkward date of her life. But when Ed tells Lucy he knows where to find Shadow the two of them are suddenly on an all-night search to places where Shadow's pieces of heartbreak & escape echo off the city walls. & what Lucy can't see is the one thing that's right before her eyes.
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