The Rolling Stones origins date back to the boyhood friendship of Mick Jagger & Keith Richards forged in 1951. Their acquaintance was interrupted when both families moved in the mid-Fifties but got rekindled in October 1960 when the two ran into each other at a train station & Richards noticed the imported R&B albums Jagger was carrying under his arm. Jagger a student at the London School of Economics was a hardcore blues aficionado while Richards interest leaned more toward Chuck Berry-style rock & roll. Richards soon joined Jaggers group Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys. Several years later Richards & Jagger met Brian Jones & the three clicked forming the Rolling Stones. Joined by drummer Charlie Watts & bassist Bill Wyman the band would come to epitomize the darker bluesier & more boldly sexual side of rock & roll in a kind of ongoing counterpoint with the Beatles sunnier more pop-oriented vistas. Five decades later no one has yet stripped the Rolling Stones of their title as the Worlds Greatest Rock & Roll B&. In a 2002 interview in USA Today Richards said: People thought it couldnt be done. We never thought of trying it. We are just here. Its a vague mission you cant give up until you keel over."" ...

This is our story of fifty fantastic years. We started out as a blues band playing the clubs & more recently we've filled the largest stadiums in the world with the kind of show that none of us could have imagined all those years ago. Curated by us it features the very best photographs & ephemera from & beyond our archives." (Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie). On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street. In the intervening fifty years the Stones have performed live in front of more people than any b&...ever. They've played the smallest blues clubs & some of the biggest stadium tours of all time. They've had No.1 singles & albums in every country that has a popular music chart & have helped define global popular culture. A phenomenal half-century later they now look back at their astounding career. Curated introduced & narrated by the band themselves " The Rolling Stones 50" is the only officially authorized book to celebrate this milestone. With privileged access to a wealth of unseen & rare material it is packed with superb reportage photography contact sheets negative strips out-takes & so much more from every period in the bands history. With more than 1 000 illustrations it also features some of the most rare & interesting Stones memorabilia in existence: international posters draft record cover art bubblegum cards jigsaws & other previously unpublished treasures specially photographed for this volume. Additional contributions by photography legends Gered Mankowitz Jean-Marie Perier Dezo Hoffmann Michael Cooper Terry ONeill Bent Rej Philip Townsend & many others make this the definitive book to celebrate fifty years of the Rolling Stones. From Mick Keith Charlie & Ronnie here is one spectacular thank you to their fans all over the world." ...

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service) while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke & to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (whod been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft multiple impregnations & playing blues guitar) & the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman & Charlie Watts & the potential was obvious. During the 1960s & 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain admired in some quarters for their flamboyance creativity & salacious lifestyles & reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies & in 2012 will have been together for 50 years. In The Rolling Stones Christopher Sandford tells the human drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones family members (including Micks parents) the groups fans & contemporaries
- even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stones will make sense of the rich brew of clever invention & opportunism of talent good fortune insecurity self-destructiveness & of drugs sex & other excess that made the Stones who they are.
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From the bestselling author of Jupiters Travels & Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining & inspiring new journey round Britain. Having crisscrossed the globe twice Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain. It is also a witty & affectionate journey back to the past when Ted would hitchhike across the country visiting friends (and girlfriends). He returns to the site of his old school with its astonishing war time history & visits familiar haunts where he did his National Service & got his first job in newspapers. He also visits less-familiar places. Some inspire him (Winchester Cathedral). Others defeat him (a tax office in Nottingham). As he rolls through the Isles he discovers that a great deal has changed: busier roads bureaucracy & worst of all the dreaded Sat Nav. But there is also much to celebrate & enjoy along the way. Packed with fascinating stories extraordinary encounters & glorious depictions of the British countryside Rolling through the Isles takes the reader on an unforgettable trip with a celebrated adventurer & writer. ...

The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun & a limited amount of armour plate at a dockyard in France. It was used by a squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. Backed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill more & better versions followed until by 1915 there were about 100 of them which were then handed over to the Army. They searched the world for War" as Sir Albert Stern said of them & before long there were Rolls-Royce armoured cars operating as far apart as German South West Africa the Western Desert Gallipoli all over the Middle East & the north west frontier of India. All of them used the classic 40/50hp Silver Ghost chassis. They were fast silent & reliable but above all strong. "A Rolls in the desert is above rubies" said Lawrence of Arabia & the Duke of Westminster would have agreed with him following his famous raid to rescue the kidnapped crew of the steamship HMS Tara. At least one car accompanied the adventurous MP Oliver Locker-Lampson on his adventures in Russia. After the war unable to find a better model the War Office simply copied the original Admiralty design with minor improvements. If that was not enough the Royal Air Force also acquired some to support their operations in the Middle East. A new design with a larger body & dome shaped turret also appeared for service in India. They also served in Ireland & even briefly in Shanghai. The 11th Hussars still had Rolls-Royces in Egypt when the war against Italy began & the youngest of these was over fifteen years old when they went into action but after that their numbers dwindled as newer vehicles came along. But then history repeated itself. Britain was threatened with invasion & a new army of veterans was raised to assist with defence. Some battalions built home made armoured cars on private chassis & at least three of these were based on Rolls-Royces." ...

Roma" is the story of the ancient city of Rome from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive powerful empire in the ancient world. Beginning with the prehistory days when Roma was a way station among seven hills for traders & merchants & the founding of the city itself by Romulus & Remus critically acclaimed historical novelist Steven Saylor tells the epic saga of a city & its people its rise to prominence among the city-states of the area & ultimately dominance over the entire ancient Western world. From the tragedy of Coriolanus to the Punic Wars & the invasion by Hannibal the triumph & murder of Julius Caesar & the rise & decline of the Roman Republic & the beginnings of Imperial Rome Saylor's breathtaking novel brings to vivid life the most famous city of the ancient world. " Roma" is Saylor's finest achievement an epic in the truest sense of the word." ...

This title contains three new editions in the popular Discovery" series. Visually exciting & highly informative each book presents its subject in a fun & accessible way. Internet links offer a fascinating selection of recommended web sites
- with sound animation & video clips & much more which provide additional information for projects & homework."
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The book clearly explains & illustrates the mechanics of how Roman commanders
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Like every other school in the country Davys class are working on the Romans. Everyone is to do a piece of work based on the visit they made to a Roman fort & the best will get a prize at the Roman Feast planned by the school. Davys problem is that bossy Molly from next door keeps stealing his ideas. That is until Davey draws inspiration from Julius Sneezer the Roman soldier. A funny & insightful story from the popular prize winning author of The Demon Headmaster. ...

For nearly four centuries Britain served as the western border of the Roman Empire. Invaded in AD 43 it was initially a wild place prone to Celtic uprisings such as those led by Boudicca. However as the decades passed the unrest settled & the Romans set to work building temples roads baths & villas. Life in Britain became similar to life in any of the corners of the empire with the order & culture of the Romans mixing freely with the native cultures. Covering all aspects of Roman British life from family food religion & travel this book allows the reader to discover what it was like to be a citizen of the greatest empire in the world while at the same time living near the edge of the map. ...