Though many books have chronicled Jimi Hendrixs brilliant but tragically brief musical career this is the first to use his own words to paint a detailed portrait of the man behind the guitar. With selections carefully chosen by one of the worlds leading Jimi Hendrix historians this work

Includes:: the most important interviews from the peak of his career 1966 to 1970. In this authoritative volume Hendrix recalls for reporters his heartbreaking childhood his concept of Electric Church Music" (intended to wash peoples souls & give them a new direction) & his wish to be remembered as not just another guitar player. While Hendrix never wrote a memoir with new transcriptions from European papers the African American press counterculture newspapers radio & TV interviews & previously unpublished court transcripts this book gives music fans the next best thing to a Hendrix autobiography."

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No one knows for sure when henna was first used for skin decorating but traces of henna have been found on mummies in Egypt & in cave painting in India dating back thousands of years. While this tradition is still widely used in India Africa the Middle East & Asia it is now gaining popularity throughout the Western world as well. It is increasingly common for henna parties to be held in the United States sometimes at weddings birthday parties & baby showers-and sometimes just for fun. Henna patterns are seen adorning pop icons like Madonna Demi Moore & Prince & henna artists are becoming an increasingly common sight at street fairs & shops as a temporary & painless alternative to tattoos. Design motifs are included from many different cultures with background information provided about the symbolism of the designs & motifs. ...

We all know the story of Henny Penny the silly chicken who thinks the sky is falling in. Well that is not the true story. No that is a misrepresentation put about by foxes. This is the true story & proves what we always knew in our hearts
- chickens are heroes!
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In 1955 Henri Cartier-Bresson published The Europeans" a portrait of the continent documenting a landscape shadowed by the war. In this book the photographer brings together images spanning the years from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He has travelled across Europe from the Scandinavian shield to the Irish bogs in order to capture what it means to be European. Beyond nationalism & the particular characteristics of each culture & nation he has found evidence of a greater identity a likeness shared by the people & the landscape. His photographs seek to speak of the same daily ceremony of the ongoing business of living for people across Europe whether Polish priests in alb or cassock or Abruzzi peasants shrouded in the black of their cloaks & hats." ...

Full of classic photographs by Cartier-Bresson that have become icons of the medium as well as rarely seen work from all periods of the photographers life this title

Includes:: a number of previously unpublished photographs as well as a selection of drawings paintings & films stills.

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For more than four decades the elegant slightly foppish figure of trainer Henry Cecil has been adulated by racing fans. He has handled countless top horses
- his '25 English Classics' include four Derby winners
- & won dozens of big races around the world. But his story is far from a chronicle of unbroken success. A sharp downturn in his racing fortunes in the late 1990s was accompanied by all manner of personal trials including well publicised marital problems & then cancer but the dogged manner in which he has climbed back to the top was rewarded in 2011 by the presence in his Newmarket yard of the wonder horse Frankel. Based on extensive research & interviews with those closest to Cecil" & shot through with Brough Scott's unparalleled inside knowledge of the sport this will be the racing book not only of the year but of the decade."

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When Sir Henry Cooper died in May this year the depth of affection in the tributes that filled the press were a testament to his remarkable popularity. Put simply Henry Cooper was the nations favourite boxer; a gentleman & a great sportsman of whom Muhammed Ali
- who Cooper famously floored in 1963
- remarked Henry Cooper hit me so hard my ancestors in Africa felt it.A Sir Henrys popularity transcended boxing & he became an even bigger national hero in the years after his retirement at the end of a 27-year fight career in 1971. He was the first person to be twice voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. During his fighting career he was the only boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright was undefeated European & Empire champion & the British title-holder for more than eleven years. Originally planned as an autobiography & written using interviews with the author recorded before Sir Henry death A Hero for All Time is a well-informed & intimate biography that puts his life & extraordinary boxing career into fresh focus. It

Includes:: in-depth summaries of the major fights with new commentaries from Sir Henry. It also

Includes:: many previously untold stories about his boxing career & paints an intimate portrait of a man whose courage skill & sportsmanship lifted him into the land of sporting legend."





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Henry Cooper is best remembered for the night he nearly changed boxing history
- 19 July 1963. Fighting an up-&-coming boxer by
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Angered by the loss of his son in battle the Earl of Northumberland supports another rebellion against King Henry IV bringing the country to the brink of civil war. Sick & weary the old King sends out his forces including the unruly Sir John Falstaff to meet the rebels. But as the conflict grows he must also confront a more personal problem
- how to make his reprobate son Prince Hal aware of the duties he must bear as heir to the throne.
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In February 1972 Henry Moore's sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition at Florence. In search of peace & quiet he went into a smaller room overlooking the fields where a local farmer grazed his sheep. The sheep came very close to the window attracting his attention & he began to draw them. Initially he saw them as nothing more than four-legged balls of wool but his vision changed as he explored what they were really like
- the way they moved the shape of their bodies under the fleece. They also developed strong human & biblical associations & the sight of a ewe with her lamb evoked the mother-&-child theme
- a large form sheltering a small one
- which has been important to Henry Moore in all his work. He drew the sheep again that summer after they were shorn when he could see the shapes of the bodies which had been covered by wool. Solid in form sudden & vigorous in movement Henry Moore's sheep are created through a network of swirling & zigzagging lines in the rapid & (in Moore's hands) sensitive medium of ballpoint pen. The effect is both familiar & monumental; as Lord Clark comments ' We expect Henry Moore to give a certain nobility to everything he draws; but more surprising is the way in which these drawings express a feeling of real affection for their subject.'


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