This is a compelling portrait of the best-known yet most misrepresented Native American. Sitting Bulls name is still the best-known of any American Indian leader but his life & legacy remain shrouded with misinformation & half-truths. His life spanned the entire clash of cultures & ultimate destruction of the Plains Indian way of life. He was a powerful leader & a respected shaman but neither title fully captures the enigma of Sitting Bull. Drawing on research into rare contemporary records & Sitting Bulls own hieroglyphic autobiography this absorbing volume traces his life from a headstrong youth (named Jumping Badger) & first contact with White settlers through his election as spiritual & military leader of the Lakota Sioux his role in the major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn his subsequent flight to Canada & return as a performer in Buffalo Bills Wild West Show to his arrest & untimely death at the hands of the Indian Affairs police on the eve of the Battle of Wounded Knee. The first new biography of Sitting Bull (1831-1890) in over fifteen years Yennes work has set a benchmark for all future histories. ...

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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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Six tells the complete story of the services birth & early years including the tragic untold tale of what happened to Britains extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars. It reveals for the first time how the playwright & MI6 agent Harley Granville Barker bribed the Daily News to keep Arthur Ransome in Russia & the real reason Paul Dukes returned there. It shows development of tradecraft A & the great personal risk officers & their agents took far from home & unprotected. In Salonika for example Lieutenant Norman Dewhurst realised it was time to leave when he opened his door to find one of his agents hanging dismembered in a sack. This first part of Six takes us up to the eve of the conflict using hundreds of previously unreleased files & interviews with key players to show how one of the worlds most secretive of secret agencies originated & developed into something like the MI6 we know today. The second part published in Spring 2012 will tell the story from the outbreak of World War Two to the present." ...

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed & Paris was liberated. In this masterly & highly individual account of that struggle the reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals confronted by the combatants
- each encounter related from the point of view of a different nationality. While transcending conventional military history it provides an intensely vivid picture of one of the Second World Wars most crucial campaigns.
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The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis & Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never been able to digest the land it swallowed in 1967. However big its army it will never be at peace or feel secure until the future of this land is settled. Thirty-six years after the end of the six days of fighting after thousands more deaths & the failure of years of negotiation to try to reach a political settlement Israelis & Palestinians are fighting once again on the streets in the West Bank & Gaza. It is still a low-level conflict but if another full-blown Middle East war breaks out its roots will lie in those six days in June 1967. Drawing on his experiences as the BBCs former Middle East correspondent & building on extensive original research & interviews with some of the key participants Jeremy Bowen uses his vast array of contacts to weave together a completely convincing & compelling account hour by hour of the 1967 war between Israel & Egypt Jordan & Syria. As insightful as the best modern history writing & as gripping as fiction this is a major debut by an author with superb media contacts. ...

Sid is a cat who is addicted to having six meals a day & glories in this lifestyle. Manipulative persuasive & a charmer he has wrapped everybody round his little paw
- each owner believes that Sid belongs to them only.. .until the day he is found out!
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Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces: The Fundamentals of Physics Explained" is an essential introduction to the world of physics by one of its greatest teachers & icons. Richard Feynman inspired people around the world with his scientific brilliance endless curiosity about the world & unorthodox outlook on life. Here he guides the reader through the very basics of physics including atoms energy force the relation of physics to other sciences the theory of gravitation & quantum behaviour. Presenting complex ideas in simplified understandable terms & using illustrations such as shooting bullets waves on a seashore & even Dennis the Menace's building blocks " Six Easy Pieces" gets to the heart of how the world works. " One of the very best introductions to physics for the uninitiated". (" Independent"). " If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be " Six Easy Pieces"". (John Gribbin). " With Feynman as a guide you can't help wondering why everyone is not turning to science". (" Guardian"). " The greatest physicist of the twentieth century". (" Sunday Times"). Richard P. Feynman (1918-88) was one of this century's most brilliant & original thinkers. He taught at Cornell & the California Institute of Technology & received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics. Books by Feynman published by Penguin include "QED" & " The Character of Physical Law"." ...

How many other boys had a mother prepared to be buried alive
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Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86 but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of lightness quickness multiplicity exactitude & visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvinos debt to the comic strip & the folktale. With his customary imagination & grace he sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. This collection is a brilliant precis of the work of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed. ...