Mock the Week is back with the perfect gift for anyone interested in Life the Universe & childish smut. Whether you're eight* or eighty* this is the only guide to life that you'll ever need.
Includes:: Bad Things to Hear in a Maternity Ward: ' In an attempt to empathise with my wife I want you to ram this pineapple up my backside.' Unlikely Greetings Cards: Sorry to hear about your mother. (On the plus side you can afford that new house now.) Bad Things to Shout During Sex: ' Did you hear that? Did they just say England are 81 for 5?' Unlikely Things to Read on a Gravestone: Fell asleep on 16 August 2004. Unfortunately whilst driving a truck on the M5. Unlikely School Report Cards: Dear Mr & Mrs Johnson Boris is a very popular & intelligent boy who should go far just as long as he's not put in charge of anything complex. * Probably best not to give this book to an eight-year-old. ** Or an eighty-year-old for that matter.
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The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged & lulled by electronic bliss. Its a world without art reading & children a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth the most perfect machine ever created cannot bear it & seeks only that which he cannot have
- to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion & joy that a man & woman discover in love & in books hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love & the magic of a dream.
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Against all odds Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge... This thrilling final instalment of this ground-breaking trilogy promises to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. ...

The final book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. Against all odds Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. & what's worse President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family not her friends not the people of District 12. ...

This is the final book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games" trilogy. Against all odds Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that shes made it out of the bloody arena alive shes still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. & what worse President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss family not her friends not the people of District 12." ...

Terry Rawlings book perfectly captures the look & soul of Mod. Tracing its roots back to Londons Soho of the Forties he unearths every impulse & expression of the only surviving British youth movemebt that can be looked back on without embarrassment.

Includes:: exclusive interviews & audiences with some of the Mod scenes main movers past & present including Richard Barnes Johnny Moke Graham Hughes Peter Stringfellow Kenney Jones Bobby Gillespie & Mani Mounfield Eddie Piller & Gary Crowley. With chapters on the origins of Mod its music scooters clothes & fashions the beach riots & for the first time the story of the Mod revivals of the late Seventies & beyond. Features hundreds of pictures many gleaned from private collections & never published before.

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Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding all-night-dancing instigators of what became from its myriad sources a very British phenomenon. Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a newly affluent nation
- a uniquely British amalgam of American music & European fashions that mixed modern jazz with modernist design in an attempt to escape the drab conformity snobbery & prudery of life in 1950s Britain. But what started as a popular cult became a mainstream culture & a style became a revolution. In Mod" Richard Weight tells the story of Britain's biggest & most influential youth cult. He charts the origins of Mod in the Soho jazz scene of the 1950s set to the cool sounds of Charlie Parker & Miles Davis. He explores Mod's heyday in Swinging London in the mid-60s
- to a new soundtrack courtesy of the Small Faces the Who & the Kinks. He takes us to the Mod-Rocker riots at Margate & Brighton & into the world of fashion & design dominated by Twiggy Mary Quant & Terence Conran. But Mod did not end in the 1960s. Richard Weight not only brings us up to the cult's revival in the late 70s
- played out against its own soundtrack of Quadrophenia & the Jam
- but reveals Mod to be the DNA of British youth culture leaving its mark on glam & Northern Soul punk & Two Tone Britpop & rave. This is the story of Britain's biggest & brassiest youth movement
- & of its legacy. Music film fashion art architecture & design
- nothing was untouched by the eclectic frenetic irresistible energy of " Mod"."





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Since 1967 crafters have entrusted their most treasured creations to Mod Podge
- the number one all-in-one glue sealer & finish
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Are there such things as merely possible people who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being & its logical relations with contingency & change. In Modal Logic as Metaphysics Timothy Williamson argues for positive answers to those questions on the basis of an integrated approach to the issues applying the technical resources of modal logic to provide structural cores for metaphysical theories. He rejects the search for a metaphysically neutral logic as futile. The book contains detailed historical discussion of how the metaphysical issues emerged in the twentieth century development of quantified modal logic through the work of such figures as Rudolf Carnap Ruth Barcan Marcus Arthur Prior & Saul Kripke. It proposes higher-order modal logic as a new setting in which to resolve such metaphysical questions scientifically by the construction of systematic logical theories embodying rival answers & their comparison by normal scientific standards. Williamson provides both a rigorous introduction to the technical background needed to understand metaphysical questions in quantified modal logic & an extended argument for controversial provocative answers to them. He gives original precise treatments of topics including the relation between logic & metaphysics the methodology of theory choice in philosophy the nature of possible worlds & their role in semantics plural quantification compared to quantification into predicate position communication across metaphysical disagreement & problems for truthmaker theory. ...

All professional engineers have a little book in which they jot down those notes of fact figures & formulae which they feel that they are likely to need on future occasions. It is always more convenient to look up one's own records than to wade through a lot of associated but irrelevant material especially as this may mean a trip to the reference library. Over a period of years the contents of such notebooks grow to cover a wealth of vital information & the time saved can be considerable. During his professional life Tubal Cain filled three such books & as a lifelong engineer he is in a unique position to select (and add to) the material most useful to the amateur engineer. Model Engineer's Handbook comprises a compilation of those tables facts procedures & data which the author himself found valuable in his model engineering activities & it provides a real mine of information to which you will return again & again. Not the least of its attributes is the use where appropriate of data & calculations in both Imperial & SI units so that all generations of model engineers can feel at home. In this third edition all the existing data has been updated or re-arranged for greater clarity & much new matter has been added to provide an even more comprehensive book indispensable to the expert & beginner alike. ...