HBO's Game of Thrones reigns as cable's highest-rated series. This official companion book gives fans new ways to enter this fictional world & discover more about the beloved (and reviled) characters & the electrifying plotlines. Hundreds of set photos production & costume designs storyboards & insider stories reveal how the show's creators translated George R. R. Martin's best-selling fantasy series into the world of Westeros. Featuring interviews with key actors & crew members that capture the best scripted & unscripted moments from the first two seasons as well as a preface by George R. R. Martin this special volume bound in a lavishly debossed padded cover offers exclusive access to this unprecedented television series. ...

Pupils who survive multiple traumatic experiences of loss trauma abuse & neglect can easily be misunderstood in our schools despite our good intentions. Such children often underachieve at worst becoming excluded from the very place that could offer them an opportunity for second chance learning" & for reaching their potential. These children do not respond well or consistently to behavioural modification techniques nor are they able to thrive in a system largely created for those from a "good-enough" background. Louise Bombers innovative & easy to use strategies provide teachers & teaching assistants with new perspectives practical tools & the confidence for supporting these children. Her work is based on the latest research from child development & Attachment theory (Bowlby) as well as many years of solid practical experience as a teacher-therapist working within education & social services with children families & schools. Contents include: providing an additional attachment figure in schools transitions during the school day permanency & constancy regulating arousal levels wondering aloud lowering the effects of shame creating home/school partnerships working with the transition from primary to secondary phase & more." ...

Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne is too late... Too late to save the one man who knew the truth
- the star witness who was about
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Keep your head down. Don't get noticed. Or else. I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend do my job & try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? Not like it's all that dangerous
- the only neck at risk is my own. Until I accidentally start a rebellion & become the go-to girl to lead a revolution...
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The paperback will have a brand new chapter on the band's historic decision to re-form after so many years in order to play at the LIVE8 concert including Sir Bob's intervention! Plus new never before seen photos of the band both onstage & backstage at the concert. One of the most fascinating rock bands ever Pink Floyd was formed in 1965. After a year in the London 'underground' experimenting with revolutionary techniques like lights which matched their music they released their first single in 1966. Their breakthrough album THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was released in 1973 & stayed in the charts until 1982 the longest a record has ever been continuously in the charts becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time. In 1975 they released WISH YOU WERE HERE which reached iconic status then in 1979 THE WALL went to number 1 in almost every country in the world. The movie version of THE WALL starring Bob Geldof was released in 1982 becoming a cult favorite. In the 1980s a rift developed between the band members which culminated in law suits. Only recently have there been reconciliations which have allowed founder member Nick Mason to write his personal take on the band's history. ...

Inside Pepys' London" reveals a vivid picture of London at a critical point in history
- poised to become a major centre of international
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious & important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb
- a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind & made Oppenheimer the father of the Bomb. Oppenheimer was a man of diverse interests & phenomenal intellectual attributes. His talent & drive allowed him as a young scientist to enter a community peopled by the great names of twentieth-century physics
- men such as Bohr Born Dirac & Einstein
- & to play a role in the laboratories & classrooms where the world was being changed forever. But Oppenheimers was not a simple story of assimilation scientific success & world fame. A complicated & fragile personality the implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos were to weigh heavily upon him. Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two Oppenheimers attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties
- & set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph Mc Carthy & his witch hunters. As with Ray Monks peerless biographies of Wittgenstein & Bertrand Russell Inside the Centre" is a work of towering scholarship. A story of discovery secrecy impossible choices & unimaginable destruction it goes deeper than any previous work in revealing the motivations & complexities of this most brilliant & divisive of men."



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Throughout the 1960s Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang. He had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organisation whose reputation in the underworld remains to this day. But he was not just an observer & his role in the Kray story ultimately led to him serving 15 years in prison. Inside the Firm tells with searing honesty his violent history with the Krays
- & the horrors of his subsequent imprisonment in top security institutions. In exorcising his ghosts he reveals an account that is more impartial & more terrifying than Ronnie & Reggie ever could have written. From the murder of Jack The Hat Mc Vitie
- & the mystery of his undiscovered body
- to the role of the Kray legacy in Britains prisons today Inside the Firm is the last confession of a gangster determined to turn his back on his brutal past.


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The Inbetweeners are Will Simon Neil & Jay
- brought together at Rudge Park Comprehensive through their sheer lack of popularity
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Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world & yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology & yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs & practices rolled back to match those of the Prophet Muhammed over a thousand years ago. In a world where events in the Middle East continue to have geopolitical consequences far beyond the region's boundaries an understanding of this complex nation is essential. With Inside the Kingdom" British journalist & bestselling author Robert Lacey has given us one of the most penetrating & insightful looks at Saudi Arabia ever produced. More than twenty years after he first moved to the country to write about the Saudis at the end of the oil boom Lacey has returned to find out how the consequences of the boom produced a society at war with itself. Filled with stories told by a broad range of Saudis from high princes & ambassadors to men & women on the street " Inside the Kingdom" is in many ways the story of the Saudis in their own words." ...