The official companion for the new Man of Steel movie featuring Superman. Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman offers an intimate look at the reinvention of the world's most iconic superhero through the eyes of acclaimed director Zack Snyder (300 Watchmen) & producer Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy). This unique companion book offers a rich selection of materials from concept art & behind-the-scenes set photography to director commentary & interviews with key creatives unlocking the secrets behind giving new life to an immortal hero. Man of Steel stars Henry Cavill as Superman. Also appearing are three-time Oscar (R) nominee Amy Adams (The Fighter) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane & Oscar (R) nominee Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It) as her editor-in-chief Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent's adoptive parents Martha & Jonathan Kent are Oscar (R) nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) & Academy Award (R) winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves). Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians the villainous General Zod played by Oscar (R) nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) & Faora Zod's evil partner played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman's native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van Superman's mother played by Ayelet Zurer & Superman's father Jor-El portrayed by Academy Award (R) winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator). Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy. MAN OF STEEL & all related characters & elements are trademarks of & A (c) DC Comics. ...

On VE day everyone was rejoycing & it seemed the whole population of Liverpool had turned out to celebrate. Eileen Gillmoss a colourful character with a smile forever lighting up her face was the life & soul of the party. Today was the day she'd prayed for & dreamed about. After five long lonely years her prisoner-of-war husband Bill would be coming home back to the open loving arms of his wife & children. But the man who comes back from the war is a complete stranger to her. It isn't only that Bill's appearance has changed. It's his remoteness his flinching from her touch that Eileen can't cope with. Now Eileen who is always there to lend a shoulder to cry on is the one in need. But who can she turn to? No one can give her what she craves most...her old husband back. She wants him back where he belongs as the man of the house. ...

Jamie Johnson starts the season on fire. He's playing for his beloved Hawkstone
- & he's the top scorer in the country. But when
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As Minister for Culture the Honourable M. A. Nanga is a man of the people as cynical as he is charming & a roguish opportunist. At first the contrast between Nanga & Odili a former pupil who is visiting the ministry appears huge. But in the eat-&-let-eat atmosphere Odilis idealism soon collides with his lusts
- & the two mens personal & political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos. Published prophetically just days before Nigerias first attempted coup in 1966 A Man of the People" is an essential part of his body of work dealing with modern African history."
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This work is set in Antigua 1817. Every harbour & estuary is filled with ghostly ships the famous & the legendary now redundant in the aftermath of the war. In this uneasy peace Adam Bolitho is fortunate to be offered the seventy-four gun Athena & as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Bethune once more follows his destiny to the Caribbean. But in these haunted waters where Richard Bolitho & his band of brothers once fought a familiar enemy the quarry is now a renegade foe who flies no colours & offers no quarter & whose traffic in human life is sanctioned by flawed treaties & men of influence. & here & when Athenas guns speak a day of terrible retribution will dawn for the innocent & the damned. ...

Like many a restless teenager before him Charles Nordhoff craved excitement & in 1844 when barely 14 he managed to talk his way into the US Navy. A bookish lad who had been apprenticed to a printer Nordhoff was better educated than most of his fellow seamen & was well equipped to describe what became a three-year round-the-world adventure. He was lucky in his ship USS Columbus a large 74-gun ship of the line that had been chosen to undertake a diplomatic mission to China & then to Japan in an abortive attempt to open the latter to American trade. In the course of this voyage Nordhoff was to see many countries of south-east Asia & the Far East before crossing the Pacific visiting South America rounding Cape Horn & finally returning to Norfolk Virginia having crossed the Equator six times. Apart from its descriptions of exotic climes much of the interest in the book lies in a boys view of naval life & how the ship was run. The US Navy was small & followed very conservative principles with an emphasis on discipline routine & training that would have been familiar a century earlier. However it was also subtly different: more humane in its treatment of the crew less draconian in punishment & a promoter of what would be considered Victorian moral values. The book offers a valuable & entertaining account of life in the last days of the sailing warship. ...

The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s
- the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime
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Looks at a day in the life of Bob. Find out what he does on the moon: cleaning & tidying welcoming vistors performing tricks for tourists & much more. He knows almost everything there is to know about the moon
- but there's something going on behind his back that he hasn't spotted. Age 3+.
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The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin took their giant step across a ghostly lunar landscape they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250 000 miles away. A Man on the Moon" is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme: from the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch through the euphoria of the first moonwalk to the discoveries made by the first scientist in space aboard Apollo 17. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts & team this is the story of the twentieth centurys greatest human achievement minute-by-minute in the words of those who were there." ...

Make sure all your manly things are always to hand with the essential Man Stuff storage box. Perfect for pointless stuff like spare leads screws & other nonsense they refuse to get rid of. A perfect Christmas or anniversary gift for a husband or boyfriend. Measurements: H 20cm x W 15.5cm x D 10.5cm ...