Lionel Asbo
- a very violent but not very successful young criminal
- is going about his morning duties in a London prison when

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Richard I was crowned King in 1189 & set off almost immediately for the Third Crusade. This was a bloody campaign to regain the Holy Land marked by warfare among the Christians & extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. Men & women found themselves facing new sorts of challenges & facing an uncertain future. John the youngest son was left behind -- & with Richard gone he was free to conspire with the French king to steal his brother's throne. Overshadowing the battlefields that stretched to Jerusalem & beyond were the personalities of two great adversaries: Richard & Saladin. They quickly took the measure of each other in both war & diplomacy. The result was mutual admiration: a profound acknowledgement of a worthy opponent. In this gripping narrative of passion intrigue battle & deceit Penman reveals a true & complex Richard -- a man remarkable for his power & intelligence his keen grasp of warfare & his concern for the safety of his men who followed him against all odds. ...

Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious compelling world of the Plantagenets: the towering almost psychopathic Henry II commander of the slaughter of Thomas a Becket at war with both his wife the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine & his sons (including the subjects of this remarkable book Richard & John). & readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the type-casting of Good King Richard defending Christendom in the Holy Land & Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence. But how much do these popular stereotypes correspond with reality? Frank Mc Lynn known for a wide range of historical studies which are scholarly punchy & wonderfully readable has returned to the original sources to discover what the Plantagenets were really like & how their history measures up to their myth. In a substantial but riveting narrative he turns the tables on modern revisionist historians by showing exactly how bad a king John was despite his intellectual gifts & in contrast how impressive Richard was
- brilliantly successful in war accomplished artistically & the nearest we are likely to get to the medieval ideal of chivalry. In a narrative that spans most of Europe & the middle east he shows these larger-than-life characters as they really were
- Crusading waging wars in France negotiating with the papacy engaging in ruthless dynastic intrigue often against each other: in Richards case holding the kingdom together even when fighting in the Holy Land; & in Johns losing Normandy catastrophically antagonizing the barons over Magna Carta & losing the Crown Jewels in the Wash. This is history at its most revealing & enjoyable. It conjures up a vanished world in vivid primary colours & in the process gives us the nearest we are likely to get to the truth about two compelling historical archetypes.

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In this irreverent & provocative book Lewis Page exposes the scandalous state of our armed forces: how British soldiers are sent off to war with some of the worst guns around how the MOD keeps financing useless toys (at huge expense to taxpayers) & how decisions seem to be made with an eye above all for the interests of British Aerospace. He shows how politicians & the top brass are hopelessly entrenched in yesterdays wars & pouring their talents & energies into making sure that money is wasted right left & centre. ...

Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain a deeply compelling story of love adventure divided loyalties & what happens when beliefs begin to remake
- or destroy
- a world. The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands but over centuries seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy aided always by his friend & advisor the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan
- poet diplomat soldier
- until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever. Meanwhile in the north the conquered Jaddites most celebrated
- & feared
- military leader Rodrigo Belmonte driven into exile leads his mercenary company south. In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan these two men from different worlds meet & serve
- for a time
- the same master. Tangled in their interwoven fate
- & divided by her feelings
- is Jehane the accomplished court physician whose skills may not be enough to heal the coming pain as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war & beyond.









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An outstanding resource for students & practicing nurses the Ninth Edition of Lippincotts Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans contains 52 nursing care plans that address the most commonly encountered behaviors in psychiatric-mental health nursing. An excellent tool to introduce students to clinical psychiatric experience the Manual demonstrates use of the nursing process in psychiatric nursing & gives suggestions for specific interventions
- with rationale
- to address particular behaviors giving the student a sound basis on which to build clinical skills. Covering a range of problems & a variety of approaches the care plans are meant to be adapted & individualized in planning nursing care for each client. The Ninth Edition has been thoroughly updated &

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To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford Wendy Healy & Nico O' Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production & Nico is the editor of BONFIRE magazine. The trouble is from where Victory Nico & Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way. Nico is fitting in guilty extra-marital sex with an underwear model. Victory's last collection bombed & Wendy's twelve-year marriage to her metrosexual househusband is in freefall. Candace Bushnell's new heroines are irresistible & as she follows them through the minefield of work love & life at the top she gives us a hugely entertaining lesson on how to stay ahead in the toughest town on the planet. ...

Dont flush it down the loo
- save your pee & fertilize your garden! Because it is not recycled our urine is wasted & pollutes the
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Stuck in a rut? Know what you want but don't know how to get it? Feel like life is passing you by? Sick of getting mediocre results? Then enter the wonderful world of Liquid Thinking...A practical jargon-free & easily accessible self-help book drawing on a diverse range of experiences & containing digestible lessons & exercises used by sports captains charity leaders & business leaders. It is the only self-help book which has ever been endorsed by Sir Richard Branson Angelo Dundee Muhammad Ali & Jonny Wilkinson. It is a brave man who starts his book on self development by"ing Jerry Springer & discussing the literary merits of the Joy of Sex"; however this is Damian Hughes to a tee. Combining his own experiences as a Manchester United football coach HR Director & youth club leader with exclusive insights from Sir Richard Branson Angelo Dundee Muhammad Ali & Jonny Wilkinson Hughes will help you to step forward to achieve your own special hopes dreams & ambition. The books have been credited with helping people build their own houses fight cancer & run marathons so come on & be a fellow Liquid Thinker!" ...

From the wartorn steppes of Russia from the slopes of Monte Cassino the stunned bloody remnants of Hitlers armies were gathered to fight the last battle of the German Reich
- the battle of the Western Front. & as the Allies advanced upon Paris the war erupted into its most ruthless most savage & cruel phase. Across the scarred corpse-strewn landscape of northern France the men of the Panzer tank corps retreated
- fighting a suicide action as they went...

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