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He has played an East End hardman an SAS soldier & investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all
- the Taliban. In order to prepare for this life-threatening ordeal Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal Anglians in Englands subzero temperatures practicing firing SA 80 rifles &. 50 caliber machine guns getting to know the soldiers & learning the tactics they use to stay alive. Sent with them to Camp Bastion in Afghanistans Helmand province he immerses himself fully: he endures the stifling heat the constant threat of snipers RPG attacks suicide bombers & land mines. In short he discovers first hand what its like to fight on the front line. Its the closest hes ever come to dying
- bullets fizzing inches from his head as they hit the ground on either side of him. After two harrowing & arduous months Ross returns to England but there is little relief to be had as he meets the mothers of soldiers killed in the conflict. Then in September 2008 he goes back to the war zone to see how the men he grew so close to are faring to check how many of them are still alive. Its a fascinating horrifying & often moving insight into the brutal reality ordinary soldiers have to face in one of the worlds most dangerous & volatile regions.

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Cornwall in the 1780s
- when powerful forces of revolution & reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America
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Coal mining is the second oldest industry in Britain after agriculture. As big coalmines developed to cope with the output to feed the Industrial Revolution many small-scale moorland pits
- including those around Rawtenstall Bacup Rochdale Littleborough & Heywood
- were still worked to provide fuel for local markets households farms mills factories & foundries. These small private coal mines were often worked on a shoestring budget & the miners themselves toiled in extreme conditions using methods of mining hundreds of years old. Written by a former miner this book recalls an industry now long gone of accidents & deaths of child labour & the owners of these mines as well as the proud men who toiled below ground sometimes hundreds of feet down others in coal seams less than eighteen inches high. Illustrated with 50 images this book a lasting record of the East Lancashire Coalfields.

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The exiled Italian poet Gabriele Rossetti arrived in London in 1824 with a few letters of introduction little money & less English. But within one generation he would bequeath his new city with a remark- able cultural legacy through the accomplishments of his children. There was the poet & Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel the poet & religious thinker Christina the nun & Dante Alighieri scholar Maria & William who combined a life of English letters with a successful career in finance. The lives & achievements of the Rossettis are placed within the wider context of the artistic literary & spiritual communities that inspired them & that they shaped in their turn. They worked with each other & in collaboration with the most famous figures of their day
- the Barrett-Brownings Tennyson Swinburne & Ruskin
- as well as within significant groups like the Pre-Raphaelites Anglo-Catholics Freemasons & suffragists.

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Nearly fourteen years ago a freak virus swept across the world turning those infected from the living into the undead. Benny Imura has grown-up never knowing anything different; his last memories of his parents tainted by the image of them becoming zombies. Now Benny is fifteen & his brother Tom wants him to join the family business" & train as a zombie killer. The last thing Benny wants is to work with Tom --- but at least the job should be an easy ride. Then the brothers head into the Rot & Ruin an area full of wandering zombies & Benny realises that being a bounty hunter isnt just about whacking zombies. As hes confronted with the truths about the world around him Benny finds his beliefs challenged & makes the most terrifying discovery of all that sometimes the worst monsters you can imagine are human..." ...

This book gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in Rotherham over the past 100 years. It recalls houses & public buildings shops factories & pubs that have vanished or been changed almost beyond recognition. The pictures show changing types of transport & fashion & the developing character of streets & districts as they took on the form that is familiar today. The astonishing periods of growth that occurred during the late Victorian & Edwardian eras & since the Second World War are particularly well illustrated. Many aspects of the changing town are recalled
- hospitals & schools places of work & recreation parks & squares suburban streets & the main thoroughfares
- & the pictures record the ceaseless building & rebuilding that characterises the town today. The author has combined a remarkable selection of archive photographs with modern views of the same scenes in order to record the transformation that has occurred. The book will add to the knowledge appreciation & enjoyment of all those who take an interest in this distinctive town.

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This work is Taschens 25th anniversary
- special edition! One of the most esteemed abstract expressionists & greatest painters
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Master what it takes to make your rotoscoping & digital painting blend seamlessly into each shot. Through illustrious four color presentation the book features step-by-step instruction on the artistic techniques of rotoscoping & digital painting with lessons on: * Articulate mattes * Digital paint in moving footage * Motion tracking * Advanced rotoscoping & digital paint techniques & much more It also features practical insight on the subject & industry delving into: * The history & evolution of rotoscoping & the role of the rotoscoper *A typical day in the life of a rotoscoper * How to get a job as a rotoscoper ...

The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist Bernard Connolly for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet". (Observer Editorial 1 October 1995). " Mr. Connollys longstanding proposition that the foisting of a common currency upon so many disparate nations would end in ruin is getting a much wider hearing..." (New York Times 17 November 2011). When first published in 1995 The Rotten Heart of Europe caused outrage & delight
- here was a Brussels insider a senior EU economist daring to talk openly about the likely pitfalls of European monetary union. Bernard Connolly lost his job at the Commission but his book was greeted as a profound & persuasive expose of the would-be monetary masters of the world. His brave act of defiance became headline news
- & his book a major international bestseller. In a substantial new introduction Connolly returns to his prophetic account of the double-talk surrounding the efforts of politicians bankers & bureaucrats to force Europe into a crippling monetary straitjacket. Hidden agendas are laid bare skulduggery exposed & economic fallacies are skewered producing a horrifying conclusion. No one who wants to understand the workings of the EU past present & future can afford to miss this enthralling & deeply disturbing book."

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