Stanley Kubrick (USA 1928-99) was a master who took the art of filmmaking further than any other contemporary director a creative perfectionist whose work now fascinates new generations. He started out as a photographer before moving into film noir aged barely 25 after which the power & originality of his work soon brought him box-office success. In the 1960s he lived & worked in London away from the scandal caused by his adaptation of Lolita (1962) & from the major studios from which uniquely he was able to wrest total control of his films. He made only a dozen features in 50 years each of which displays an extraordinary degree of technical & aesthetic invention. From the sci-fi 2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) onwards each of his masterpieces explores new genres & controversial topics such as Vietnam (" Full Metal Jacket" 1987) violence ("A Clockwork Orange" 1971) horror (" The Shining" 1980) & sexuality (" Eyes Wide Shut" 1999)." ...

Imagine your misfortune if like Stanley Yelnats you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice & interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? Thoughtfully Louis Sachar has learnt his knowledge & expertise to the subject & created this wonderful quirky & utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Spiced with lots of information about the characters in Holes" as well as lots of do's & don'ts for survival this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of " Holes'" fans." ...

Stanleys Stick is a teaming-up of hefty talents
- glorious poet John Hegley & award-winning illustrator Neal Layton. Stanleys stick
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For Crystal Wyatt growing up on a ranch in Northern California Hollywood seems a million miles away. Bold passionate & enchantingly beautiful she knows her destiny is waiting for her. But no one said it was going to be easy. Singled out for her devastating looks & captivating singing voice Crystal soon embarks on the dangerous road to stardom. Her dreams are creeping closer but then so are those determined to stop her. & when the darkest of scandals comes out Crystal must face the challenge of her life. ...

In this compulsively readable & constantly surprising book Peter Biskind the author of the film classics Easy Riders Raging Bulls & Down & Dirty Pictures writes the most intimate revealing & balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboy Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious & successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time from Bonnie & Clyde to Shampoo Heaven Can Wait Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar) Bugsy & Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single film -- & unlike Welles Beatty did it twice. Biskind shows how Beatty used star power commercial success savvy & charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will. Beattys private life has been the subject of gossip for decades & Star confirms his status as Hollywoods leading man in the bedroom describing his affairs with Joan Collins Natalie Wood Leslie Caron & Madonna among many others. Biskind explains how Beatty exercised unique control often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket producing directing & acting in his own films. He was arguably one of the most successful & creative figures in Hollywood during the second half of the twentieth century & in this fascinating biography Warren Beatty comes to life -- complete with excesses & achievements -- as never before. ...

See the night sky like you have never seen it before with this all-encompassing guide to astronomy. Learn all there is to know about the layout of the skies the positions of the main constellations & the names of the brightest stars so you can become a backyard astronomer in no time at all. With easy-to-use star charts photographs & observational drawings of objects visible from both hemispheres The Star Book will take your understanding & enjoyment of stargazing to the next level. Whether you use binoculars or a telescope or even if you have no optical aid at all there are enough celestial sights to keep anyone enthralled for a lifetime. The Star Book provides a quick & simple reference to the major stars & constellations with easy-to-use star charts finder charts high-quality images & observational drawings covering the key stars viewable from all over the world. Author Peter Grego also

Includes:: a brief introduction to the history of astronomy an easy-to-follow explanation of the life-cycle of stars from ignition to collapse & information about deep sky objects such as nebulae & globular clusters. This fascinating attractive & accessible book will become a trusted resource to make sense of the night skies & is a wonderful gift for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy.

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Born in the Dublin slums of 1901 his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer & settler of scores Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk hes out robbing & begging often cold & always hungry but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday 1916 hes fourteen years old & already six-foot-two a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later hes ready to die for Ireland again a rebel a Fenian & a killer. With his fathers wooden leg as his weapon Henry becomes a Republican legend
- one of Michael Collins boys a cop killer an assassin on a stolen bike.
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This title contains two sparkling Magic Kitten stories! In Star Dreams" Jemmas biggest dreams become possible when she discovers silky cream & brown kitten Flame & theres Double Trouble for Kim when silver tabby kitten Flame comes to stay!" ...

It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Summoned by a strange distress signal Peri & the rest of the Phoenix's crew head to the remote desert planet Westrenia to see if they can help. At first the main town seems devoid of life. Then the crew realise that the inhabitants are in hiding. The sheriff of Westrania has been kidnapped & a gang of outlaws is terrorising the town. It's up to Peri to think of a way to outwit the outlaws & get the sheriff back!
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Who are the best graphic designers today? Who are the emerging new superstars of the moment? Where do they get their ideas from? What are their best pieces of work? In what direction is contemporary graphic design heading? What new sources are used for inspiration? You will find the answers to these questions in Star Graphic Designers: a compilation of more than 80 of the best current international graphic designers with the aim of offering a comprehensive showcase of their most prominent works & becoming a reference manual for graphic design in the 21st Century. The result of this research is a careful presentation of 400 projects that show the path that graphic design will take in the next decade. ...