Seve is the most extrovert player Europe has ever produced. Playboy good looks along with a magnetism that attracted non-golfers to the game made him the biggest drawing card Europe has ever had. He emerged on the world scene with typical elan hitting one of the most outrageous shots ever seen at the 1976 Open Championship. Three years later he became the youngest Open Champion of the modern era when he won the first of his five major championships. Ballesteros started Europes domination of the Majors throughout the 80s & 90s paving the way for Nick Faldo Bernhard Langer Ian Woosnam Sandy Lyle & Jose Maria Olazabal. His play in the Ryder Cup fuelled by an intense dislike for Americans helped restore Europes pride in the event. Driven by Basque pride & with a fiery Latin temperament Seve has often let his heart rule his head. Seve" is the remarkable story of one of the games most fascinating characters." ...

Breathtaking in its scope & originality Seven Basic Plots" examines the basis of story telling in literature film & libretto. No one will ever see stories in the same way again. This remarkable & monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples from ancient myths & folk tales via the plays & novels of great literature to the popular movies & TV soap operas of today it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how & why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways & how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples from Proust to detective stories from the Marquis de Sade to E.T. Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years & why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories & illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives & will be a talking point for years to come." ...

The world's most famous travelling reporter is faced with an ancient Inca curse which is causing its victims to fall into a life-threatening coma. The tomb of Rascar Capac has been unearthed! But one by one the finders fall into a terrifying coma. Can this be the curse of the Inca gods? Tintin must somehow fathom out the meaning behind his only clue: the shattered crystal ball lying beside each of the victims... Join the most iconic character in comics as he embark on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical & political events & thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100 000 copies every year in the UK & having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson in 2011 The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children & adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th. ...

Redis Neo 4J Couch Mongo HBase Riak & Postgres. With each database youll tackle a real-world data problem that highlights the concepts & features that make it shine. Youll explore the five data models employed by these databases-relational key/value columnar document & graph-and which kinds of problems are best suited to each. Youll learn how Mongo DB & Couch DB-both Java Script powered document oriented datastores-are strikingly different. Learn about the Dynamo heritage at the heart of Riak & Cassandra. Understand Map Reduce & how to use it to solve Big Data problems. Build clusters of servers using scalable services like Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Discover the CAP theorem & its implications for your distributed data. Understand the tradeoffs between consistency & availability & when you can use them to your advantage. Use multiple databases in concert to create a platform thats more than the sum of its parts or find one that meets all your needs at once. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks will give you a broad understanding of the databases their strengths & weaknesses & how to choose the ones that fit your needs. What You Need: To get the most of of this book youll have to follow along & that means youll need a *nix shell (Mac OSX or Linux preferred Windows users will need Cygwin) & Java 6 (or greater) & Ruby 1.8.7 (or greater). Each chapter will list the downloads required for that database. ...

In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes a leading world authority on DNA & human evolution was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man & his age which was put at over five thousand years old fascinated the world. But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the Ice Man a woman living in Britain today. How was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago? In The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line & shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time & space. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groups. In Europe there are only seven. The conclusion: almost everyone of native European descent wherever they live in the world can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women the Seven Daughters of Eve. He has named them Ursula Xenia Helena Velda Tara Katrine & Jasmine. In this remarkable scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced how & where our ancient genetic ancestors lived what their live were like & how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our DNA which has survived & prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us today. It is a book that not only presents the story of our evolution in a wholly new light but also strikes right at the heart of ourselves as individuals & of our sense of identity. ...

'I was 22 years old a hard-on with a pulse: wretched vice-ridden too much to burn & not enough minutes in a hour to do so' The action begins in West Des Moines Iowa where Corey Taylor frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot & Stone Sour systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He has picked fights with douche bags openly brandishing guns. He has set himself on fire at parties & woken up in dumpsters after cocaine binges. He lost his virginity at eleven. He got rich & famous & immersed himself in booze women & chaos until one day he realised suddenly that he didn't need any of that at all. Now updated with a brand new chapter Seven Deadly Sins is a brutally honest look at 'a life that could have gone horribly wrong at any turn' & the soul-searching & self-discovery it took to set it right. ...

We live with the idea of sin every day
- from the greatest transgressions to the tiniest misdemeanours. But surely the concept
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The story of Lance Armstrong
- the cyclist who recovered from testicular cancer & went on to win the Tour de France a record seven
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A healthy young man dies in his sleep despite the ringing of eight separate alarm clocks! Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off one after the other starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived one clock was missing & the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular the words Seven Dials were to take on a new & chilling significance! ...