Retro Fonts" is a fantastic compilation of over 400 of the best retro fonts from 1830 to the end of the 20th century. The fonts are presented in the style of old type specimen books as alphabets with sample words/phrases shown opposite classic examples of the fonts in use in their historical context. Arranged chronologically into eight sections representing different stylistic eras each with an introduction discussing the typography of that era the fonts range from Art Deco Bauhaus & Swiss through to Sixties Disco & Punk. Featuring both familiar fonts & lesser known examples ripe for rediscovery this is a unique source of inspiration for all graphic designers & typographers. The accompanying CD contains 222 copyright-free fonts." ...

Retro is back
- if it ever went away
- & more & more of us are finding inspiration in the homes of the twentieth century.

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There is big & evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed. The Germans have won WWII. America is a nuclear wastel&. & worst of all the breakfast menu at The Wifes Legs Cafe in Brentford is serving Bratwurst rather than the proper big boys British banger. Something is Not Right. & when the worlds all wrong & it needs setting right whore you gonna call? Hugo Rune thats who. A man who offers the world his genius & asks only in return that the world cover his expenses. & so with the aid of his faithful acolyte & companion Rizla the gurus guru also known as the hokus bloke the Lad Himself & the Retromancer* sets out to rewrite history the way it should be. Together they return to war-torn London to solve the twelve cosmic conundra based on Hugo Runes personal tarot deck each one leading them closer to a final terrifying confrontation. They must match their wits against beautiful spies advanced alien technology killer robots & death rays do battle with an ancient god & come face to face once more with Hugo Runes arch-enemy the sinister Count Otto Black all the while finding time to drink ale talk the toot & dine out in some of Londons swankiest eateries. Without ever paying the bill. ...

The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop Retromania" explores rocks nostalgia industry of revivals reissues reunions & remakes & argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music fashion art & new media Simon Reynolds confronts a central paradox of our era: from iPods to You Tube were empowered by mind-blowing technology but too often its used as a time machine or as a tool to shuffle & rearrange music from yesterday. We live in the digital future but were mesmerized by our analogue past." ...

An atmospheric vibrant & moving tale of pain & passion at the heart of war-torn Spain from Victoria Hislop the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISL&. Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music & secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet caf? a chance conversation & an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war. Seventy years earlier the caf? is home to the close-knit Ram?rez family. In 1936 an army coup led by Franco shatters the country's fragile peace & in the heart of Granada the family witnesses the worst atrocities of conflict. Divided by politics & tragedy everyone must take a side fighting a personal battle as Spain rips itself apart. ...

Shari Cooper is dead the victim of a murderous attack. She is on the other side in a place of spirits. But she is given a rare offer. To return to Earth without having to be reborn. Into the body of a messed-up teenage girl
- Jean Rodriguez. A transfer of souls they call it. Shari is given a chance to be a Wanderer & to do a great service for humanity. It is an offer she gladly accepts. Then she is back in a human body. Yet she does not remember being Shari Cooper. At first she recalls nothing of the afterlife. Perhaps it is just as well. Not everybody on Earth welcomes Wanderers. Of the few who know of their existence some want them dead. & others the truly evil ones wish them much worse than that.
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Van Veeteren thought back to what his friend Mahler had said the previous evening: Doing something at the right time is more important than what you actually do.. . An unmissable hospital appointment is looming for Inspector Van Veeteren when a corpse is found rolled in a rotting carpet by a young child playing in a local beauty spot. Missing head & limbs the torso is too badly decomposed for forensic identification
- bar one crucial detail.. . Circumstantial evidence soon points to a local man a double murderer who disappeared 9 months before shortly after being released on parole; a local hero turned monster after being convicted of killing two women over a span of three decades. Recuperating after an operation Van Veeteren is nevertheless directing investigations from his hospital bed for he is convinced that only the innocence of this new victim can be the motive for his murder. But the two women have been dead for long enough for any evidence to have died with them.. . And is he a little like Inspector Morse can be on occasion simply on the wrong track completely?
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A secretarys silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a womans mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each others bags & then learn when you unlock a strangers suitcase you enter a strangers life. These & many more poignant ironic often humorous stories
- unforgettable slices of life
- show why Maeve Binchy is one of the worlds favourite storytellers.

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The outbreak tore the USA in two. The east remains a safe haven. The west has become a ravaged wilderness. They call it the Evacuated States. It is here that Henry Marco makes his living. Hired by grieving relatives he tracks down the dead to deliver peace. Now Homeland Security wants Marco for a mission unlike any other. He must return to California where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden. & where his own tragic past waits to punish him again. But in the wastelands of America you never know who
- or what
- is watching you.. .

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In the spring of 1839 the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks & plumed shakos nearly 20 000 British & East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes & re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad & the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the nineteenth century: an entire army of the then most powerful nation in the world ambushed in retreat & utterly routed by poorly equipped tribesmen. Return of a King is the definitive analysis of the First Afghan War told through the lives of unforgettable characters on all sides & using for the first time contemporary Afghan accounts of the conflict. Prize-winning & bestselling historian William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful & important parable of colonial ambition & cultural collision folly & hubris for our times. ...