Shaft sinking for the extraction of minerals has taken place for centuries & for much of this time coal mining was carried out in the North East of Engl&. Various methods of pit sinking developed from the use of shallow bell pits to the excavation of deep shafts in order to access rich seams of coal & other minerals for sale in rapidly urbanising areas such as London. In the close mining communities of Northumberland & Durham those who dug the initial shafts the sinkers themselves were regarded as the mining elite. This book not only tells the story of mining itself through upheaval & technological developments but also focuses on the lives of miners & their families above ground in the emerging pit towns adn villages; places where religion adn miners galas were an integral part of life. Peter Ford Mason descended from three generations of County Durham miners has written a fascinating investigation onto miming society which makes a compelling read for anyone interested in the social history of the North East or the mining industry as a whole. ...

When Chief Inspector Lorimer returns from his holiday on the island of Mull he feels a welcome sense of calm. But it doesnt last long. Kelvin FCs new star midfielder is found brutally stabbed to death in his own home & with his wife apprehended trying to leave the country a seemingly straightforward new case begins. But the grisly murder of a referee after a Kelvin match throws light on some dark secrets at the ground. & when the latest signing to the club becomes the latest victim in a string of killings Lorimer knows theres a serial killer on the loose
- one thats only beginning to show his true colours. As lies emerge & tensions build the players & managers live under the constant threat of becoming the next Kelvin fatality. Building to a dark & suspenseful climax Pitch Black is Alex Grays most powerful work to date.
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The most effective CV youll ever write. The best interview youll ever give. This revolution in the way we sell ourselves in CV & at interview is based on the Elevator Pitch concept & has now been endorsed & recommended by over 40 of the worlds leading business schools & universities from Kellogg to Columbia in the US from Insead to London Business School in Europe & from Otago to Sydney in Asia-Pacific. The Elevator Pitch prioritises who you are & how you work the qualities that you are employed for rather than what you did & where you worked your past which is the emphasis of a traditional CV. The Elevator Pitch shifts the focus from your perspective to the employers perspective & from the past to the future. Its a way of presenting yourself that makes more sense to the employer & means that you can sell yourself more effectively. Its a way of writing a CV & preparing for interview that will vastly increase your chances of getting the job. Employers now are focused very much on competencies as a way of deciding who to employ. This is the book that shows you have to bring your competencies to the forefront. In a time when there are far more graduates than top class graduate jobs standing out from the crowd is vital. This is the book to show you how. The second edition incorporates feedback from the authors global seminar & lecture program meetings with careers advisors at these institutions as well as helping hundreds of people create their job winning CVs. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War: 1914-1918" is a provocative & boldly-conceived history that explodes many of the myths surrounding the First World War. The First World War killed around eight million men & bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm & were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war as is often asserted greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? Was there in fact a death wish abroad driving soldiers to their own destruction? The war he argues was a disaster
- but not for the reasons we think. Far worse than a tragedy it was the greatest error of modern history. " Must take a permanent place at the top of the War's historiography. It is one of the very few books whose own scale matches that of the events it describes". (Alan Clark " Daily Telegraph"). " Possibly the most important book to appear in years both on the origins of the First World War... Ferguson can confidently claim to have inherited A. J. P. Taylor's mantle". (Paul Kennedy " New York Review of Books"). " At one massive stroke Niall Ferguson has transformed the intellectual landscape". (Economist Niall). Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College Oxford & a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution Stanford University. He is the bestselling author of " Civilization" " The House of Rothschild" " The Pity of War" " The Cash Nexus" " Empire" " Colossus" " The War of the World" & " The Ascent of Money"."
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Economic meltdown usually brings calls for change
- or its supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out to find these all he heard
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This book consolidates all the best functionality of pivot tables into one guide that provides you with a meaningful tutorial offering practical solutions to day-to-day problems. Within just the first 2 chapters you will be creating basic pivot tables increasing productivity & producing reports in minutes instead of hours. Within the first 6 chapters you will learn how to use pivot tables to quickly highlight your top 10 customers or bottom 5 products in profitability; quickly create analysis comparing sales this period to last period by product or region or both; easily summarize daily transactional data by month or quarter or year in a few mouse clicks-all without knowing any formulas! By the end of the book you will truly be a pivot table guru automating pivot tables using VBA creating pivot tables with external data in OLAP cubes & even creating dynamic reporting systems so that your managers can answer their own queries with a few mouse clicks. * Take advantage of the numerous pivot table recipes * Create powerful summary reports in seconds * Build ad-hoc query tools with ease * Enhance your Executive Reporting * Filter reports to top 10 customers or products * Add dynamic charts to reports * Quickly summarize daily data by month quarter or year Introduction.. .1 1 Pivot Table Fundamentals.. .11 2 Creating a Basic Pivot Table.. .21 3 Customizing a Pivot Table.. .45 4 Controlling the Way You View Your Pivot Data.. .83 5 Performing Calculations Within Your Pivot Tables.. .117 6 Using Pivot Charts & Other Visualizations.. .141 7 Analyzing Disparate Data Sources with Pivot Tables.. .167 8 Sharing Pivot Tables with Others.. .189 9 Working with & Analyzing OLAP Data.. .201 10 Enhancing Your Pivot Table Reports with Macros.. .215 11 Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables.. .231 12 Common Pivot Table Issues & Questions.. .291 A Finding Pivot Table Commands on the Ribbon.. .315 ...

This is a new edition of the best of Pixar & beyond. Pixar are the animation giants behind incredible movies including Monsters Inc" " Finding Nemo" " Wall.E" " Up" & now " Toy Story 3". Go behind-the-scenes & find out all there is to know about this extraordinary company. Learn about the fascinating rise of Pixar from their history & creative talent to the secrets behind their unique movie-making process. From Woody to Lightening Mc Queen discover little-known facts & trivia about the characters from all their major & short films. Plus pick up inside knowledge from which fishy character pops up in " Monsters Inc" to why the number A113 appears in all Pixar films. Packed with timelines fantastic pictures & movie-stills this is an essential guide to the ultimate movie-making machine." ...

The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock disappearing as not-quite-the-next-big-things only to become gods in absentia. Doolittle" is their knotty masterpiece the embodiment of the Pixies abrasive exuberant enigmatic pop. Informed by exclusive interviews with the band Sisario looks at the making of the album & its place in rock history & studies its continued influence in light of the Pixies triumphant reunion." ...