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. ...

Includes: Complete Coverage of the Open GL (r) Shading Language! Today's Open GL software interface enables programmers
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And there goes Juantorena down the back straight opening his legs & showing his class" is one of the best-known sporting faux pas ever uttered by a commentator. Said in total innocence by Ron Pickering as Alberto Juantorena pulled away from the chasing pack on the way to a gold medal at the 1976 Olympic Games it has made it into comic commentary folklore & is the inspiration for this collection of hilarious sports"es. Whether it is a confused cliche mixed metaphor a sports person stating the ridiculously obvious or a babbled banter of a post-match interview this magnificent collection of sporting"es celebrates the glorious slip-ups of sports stars & commentators. Every imaginable sport is featured as are many famous sporting greats proving that nobody is immune to the occasional gormless gaff." ...

Susan Jeffers has helped millions of people throughout the world overcome their fears heal their relationships & move forward in life with complete confidence & love. In Opening Our Hearts To Men she shares her own experiences & offers wisdom insights & practical advice on how to feel good about yourself & your relationships. Opening Our Hearts To Men is a book for every woman who wants to bring more love into her life. It will help you if: Your relationship is not working out in the way you had hoped. You want to develop greater intimacy in your relationships; You find it difficult to form lasting relationships with men; You are feeling lonely & unloved ...

A century can be understood in many ways
- in terms of its inventions its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinners Box Lauren Slater
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Pogue is a wonderful teacher... He can teach anybody." --Gay Talese bestselling author of Honor Thy Father " Scott Speck is a great communicator of classical music... Concert audiences & readers alike cant help getting caught up in the joy of his subject." --David Styers American Symphony Orchestra League Opera is weird. Everybody wears makeup & sings all the time. Even when theyre singing your language which is rare you still cant understand the words. Women play men men play women & 45--year--olds play teenagers. All the main characters seem to get killed off. & when somebody dies he takes ten minutes to sing about it. Yet for all its weirdness an operatic experience is an experience in breathtaking beauty. When you hear a soprano float a soft high C or a tenor singing a love song or a full--throated chorus in the climax of a scenes dramatic finale you cant help getting goosebumps. Want to experience all that beauty for yourself but dont know where to begin? Opera For Dummies is an excellent place to start. Written by an acclaimed conductor & a musical director this friendly guide tells you what you need to know to: * Understand opera from the Baroque & Roman periods through today * Interpret characters orchestra chorus & other players * Understand whats happening both on stage & off * Choose the best seats * Identify famous operas * Build a great collection of opera recordings * Locate opera sites & chat groups online Whether youre interested in attending a live opera want to build a collection of recordings or just want to be able to talk about opera intelligently Opera For Dummies is for you. Among other things youll explore: * The words the music & the people who sing it * The history of opera & the lives of the great composers * Going to the opera including tips for getting tickets preparing for the opera dressing for the opera & more * Musical & theatrical conventions used in opera * In--depth synopses of the worlds most beloved operas On the bonus CD youll find: * More than 60 minutes of music compiled especially for the book * A multimedia piece for PC or MAC Wonder what it is about opera that can make a grown person cry like a baby? Find out in Opera For Dummies." ...

Claire Seymour examines ways in which Brittens operas explored & articulated the inherent ambiguity & latent sexuality of music particularly song & suggests that they may illustrate his search for a public voice which would embody communicate & perhaps resolve his private beliefs & anxieties. She demonstrates how the delicate balance between private & public communication & the tension between art as self-expression & art as moral resolution were key concerns in Brittens music. Analyses of Brittens operas from Paul Bunyan to Death in Venice the three Church Parables & several of the childrens operas offer evidence that for Britten opera was the natural medium through which to explore express & paradoxically repress his private concerns. ...