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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Thanks to a broken leg during flight school Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to France during World War I. In November 1917 during low level bombing & strafing attacks he was shot down three times by ground fire. He spent eight months at the front & accumulated 222 hours of flight time in Sopwith Pups & Camels during a staggering 118 patrols; being engaged in combat 56 times. He lived to retire from the RAF as an air vice-marshal in 1946. Author of three books this is by far his best. Lee puts you in the cockpit in a riveting account of life as a fighter pilot at the front. At turns humorous & dramatic this thoughtful enlightening true account is a classic to be ranked with Winged Victory by W. V. Yeates also published by Grub Street. ...

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." ...

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. ...

In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s when Dave Wootton began touring sites & taking photographs the industry was firmly established with major operations & very large machinery. His fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994. There are panoramic shots showing the scale of operations & fine close-ups of individual machines of many kinds at work. He

Includes:: several walking draglines such as the 4000-ton Ace of Spades the largest of its kind in Europe. Another record holder was O& Ks RH300 hydraulic shovel beautifully photographed by Dave at its Godkin Derbyshire workplace. Dave visited some two dozen sites in Derbyshire Northumberland Yorkshire South Wales & elsewhere capturing the full range of surface mining activities. The equipment was manufactured by famous names such as Caterpillar Ransomes & Rapier & Demag. BCO used contractors
- so Wimpey Taylor Woodrow Fairclough & others are all seen playing their parts. The surface-mining industry has changed considerably since 1994 meaning that this collection of photographs has great historic interest for enthusiasts. The author also

Includes:: a short history of BCO some machine specifications & copies of publicity material.




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With lines so sharp you could shave yourself with them Sweet Smell of Success is the smartest most cynical American film of the 1950s. A scathing vivisection of the world of PR & journalism Sweet Smell of Success defined the era it portrayed with this stunning screenplay. Burt Lancaster stars as J.J. Hunsecker the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York (based loosely on Walter Winchell) who is determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas a jazz musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis in one of the best performances of his career) a sleazy & unscrupulous press agent to break up the affair by any means possible. ...