He is one of the most beloved athletes in history & one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court
- but from early
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This is the autobiography of the controversial Open Championship 1999 winner
- Paul Lawrie. It is the story of the man who beat
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A golfer loved for his courage & charisma Darren Clarke has the crowds behind him. They know he is a warm funny raconteur who likes a Guinness who both works hard & plays hard. More important they know that this man pulled himself up by his bootstraps having lost his wife Heather to cancer to triumph at the 2006 Ryder Cup. Just days before the start of the 2011 Open at Royal St George's Darren's game had once again deserted him leaving him 'putting like a man with blurred vision'. A month before his 43rd birthday he was not in a good place. But Heather was 'watching from above' the crowd were roaring him on golf guru Dr Bob Rotella was telling him to 'go unconscious'
- & something sparked inside him. The rest is golfing history. Born in Dungannon Northern Ireland Darren caddied for his golf course greenkeeper father turning pro in 1990. He has played in four victorious Ryder Cup sides & beat his close friend Tiger Woods in the 36-hole final of the 2000 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play. In 2002 he became the only player to win the English Open three times. In An Open Book he speaks candidly about fellow-players coaches & golfing psychologists; about how he was bullied at school narrowly missed & IRA bomb & eventually set up a foundation to develop junior golf in Ireland; & about how he found personal happiness again marrying Alison Campbell in April 2012. Most vividly of all he takes the reader down those rainswept fairways to the ecstasy of that final putt when at his 20th attempt he lifted the silver claret jug.
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Preparations are well under way for the return of The Open Championship to Royal Lytham & St Annes Lancashire. It will be the 11th time the Championship has been played at the Club & expectations are high. Produced by the R & A this book provides the official record of the tournament. It contains images from some of the worlds best sports photographers articles by leading journalists & exclusive interviews with top players who reveal their thoughts on this years championship. Packed with statistical info & insightful commentary The Open Championship 2012 is a superb souvenir of the event for the millions of people who watched it around the world. ...

' The past if there is such a thing is mostly empty space great expanses of nothing in which significant persons & events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity'. Along the streets of Manhattan a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work & they give him the opportunity to process his relationships his recent breakup with his girlfriend his present his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation. But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius crisscrosses social territory as well encountering people from different cultures & classes who will provide insight on his journey
- which takes him to Brussels to the Nigeria of his youth & into the most unrecognizable facets of his own soul. A haunting novel about national identity race liberty loss dislocation & surrender Teju Cole's Open City" seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear rhythmic voice that lingers this book is a mature profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our world."
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Key Words with Peter & Jane" uses the most frequently met words in the English language as a starting point for learning to read successfully & confidently. The Key Words reading scheme is scientifically researched & world renowned. " Book 12c" provides the link with writing for the words used in "12a" & "12b". Once this book has been completed the child has finished the reading scheme. " The Key Words with Peter & Jane" books work because each of the key words is introduced gradually & repeated frequently. This builds confidence in children when they recognise these key words on sight (also known as the 'look & say' method of learning). Examples of key words are: the one two he. There are 12 levels each with 3 books: a b & c. " Series a": gradually introduces new words. " Series b": provides further practise of words featured in the 'a' series. " Series c": links reading with writing & phonics. All the words that have been introduced in each 'a' & 'b' book are also reinforced in the 'c' books." ...

A sweet funny & romantic novel from Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Jill Mansell. Nell ODriscolls known Marcus Kilburton for years
- according to her diary she even had a crush on him as a teenager. When he decides to open Kilburton Castle to the public Nell takes a job as his assistant
- & soon sparks are flying between them. But is Nell free to pursue Marcus when a figure from her past refuses to let go? Meanwhile Nells best friend Hetty Brewster has other problems. Her husband has abandoned her for a bitchy but successful writer. Now the press is full of stories about the frumpy boring wife losing out to a younger slimmer model. But Hettys about to get her chance for sweet revenge
- if she can stop being a nice person long enough to take it!


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This A4 spiral bound manual has been specifically designed to provide the necessary knowledge & techniques for the successful creation & manipulation of all your newsletters flyers posters etc. The accompanying data files on CD are designed to help demonstrate the features you are learning using a step-by-step approach. ...

Stella Rimington was educated at Nottingham Girls High School & Edinburgh & Liverpool Universities. In 1959 she started work in the Worcestershire County Archives moving in 1962 to the India Office Library in London as Assistant Keeper responsible for manuscripts relating to the period of the British rule in India. In 1965 she joined the Security Service (MI5) part-time while she was in India accompanying her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi. On her return to the UK she joined MI5 as a full-time employee. During her career in MI5 which lasted from 1969 to 1996 Stella Rimington worked in all the main fields of the Services responsibilities
- counter-subversion counter-espionage & counter-terrorism
- & became successively Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992. She was the first woman to hold the post & the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. During her time as DG she pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5 giving the 1994 Dimbleby Lecture on BBC TV & several other public lectures & publishing a booklet about the Service. She was made a Dame Commander of the Bath (DCB) in 1995 & has been awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Nottingham & Exeter. Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996 she has become a Non-Executive Director of Marks & Spencer BG Group plc & Whitehead Mann GKR. She is Chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research & a member of the Board of the Royal Marsden NHS Trust. She has two daughters & a granddaughter.

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This is the book Chavez gave Obama: the hottest book written about the coolest continent. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy a social & cultural narrative of the highest quality & perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology geography or political successions Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold & silver cacao & cotton rubber & coffee fruit hides & wool petroleum iron nickel manganese copper aluminum ore nitrates & tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent up to the Rio Grande & throughout the Caribbean & all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States & Europe. Weaving fact & imagery into a rich tapestry Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered & suffering people. ...