In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare prodded & examined from every perspective of military & social history. But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale of quiet heroism a story of ordinary people who fought with enormous self-sacrifice not with tanks & guns but with elbow grease & determination. It is the story of the British railways & above all the extraordinary men & women who kept them running from 1939 to 1945. Churchill himself certainly did not underestimate their importance to the wartime story when in 1943 he praised 'the unwavering courage & constant resourcefulness of railwaymen of all ranks in contributing so largely towards the final victory.' & what a story it is. The railway system during the Second World War was the lifeline of the nation replacing vulnerable road transport & merchant shipping. The railways mobilised troops transported munitions evacuated children from cities & kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of transport failed. Railwaymen & women performed outstanding acts of heroism. Nearly 400 workers were killed at their posts & another 2 400 injured in the line of duty. Another 3 500 railwaymen & women died in action. The trains themselves played just as vital a role. The famous Flying Scotsman train delivered its passengers to safety after being pounded by German bombers & strafed with gunfire from the air. There were astonishing feats of engineering restoring tracks within hours & bridges & viaducts within days. Trains transported millions to & from work each day & sheltered them on underground platforms at night a refuge from the bombs above. Without the railways there would have been no Dunkirk evacuation & no D-Day. Michael Williams author of the celebrated book On the Slow Train has written an important & timely book using original research & over a hundred new personal interviews. This is their story. ...

Steaming retains the food's tenderness shape colour & texture as well as using little or no fat & preserving the vitamins which are usually lost through boiling. There is little chance of over-cooking steamed food & this economical & space-saving method is ideal for students singletons families & large dinner parties alike. This best-selling title

Includes:: recipes that combine healthy low-fat meal ideas with traditional hearty fare. Cooking charts give steaming times for all kinds of foods in addition to the many delicious recipes for eggs vegetables couscous rice pasta fish poultry meat desserts parcels & wraps.

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Simultaneously a literary movement ultra-hip subculture & burgeoning cottage industry Steampunk is the most influential new genre to emerge from the late twentieth century. Spinning tales populated with clockwork Leviathans cannon-shots to the moon & coal-fired robots it charts alternative histories in which the British Empire never fell or where the atom remained unsplit. Spectacularly illustrated & international in scope this comprehensive history explores Steampunk's many intricate expressions in fiction cinema television comics & videogames & traces its evolution into a truly global aesthetic which has made its mark on art architecture fashion & even music. From the classic scientific romances of Jules Verne H.G. Wells & Mary Shelley through the dystopian futurescapes of Cyberpunk to the otherworldly imaginings of Hayao Miyazaki Alan Moore & China Mieville author Brian J. Robb sets the key works of Steampunk squarely under the lens of his brass monocle & ventures into a world where airships still rule the skies. ...

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This is a fascinating & superbly illustrated look into the amazing world of steampunk. From a fantasy fiction genre steampunk has grown into a broad pop culture aesthetic with its own art fashion home decor music & events. Influenced by 19th-century steam-age industrial imagery the Wild West & science fiction followers modify modern objects such as computers to resemble path-not-taken" machines & filter fashion through a Victorian lens. The latest technologies are mixed with period styling to create a romantic neo-Victorian sepia-toned universe. " The Steampunk Gazette" chronicles this burgeoning international subculture with an illustrated newspaper-style design that reflects the vintage aesthetic. Reports from the forefront of the steampunk movement & a high percentage of specially commissioned photographs make the book a unique record of this diverse & influential movement. Steampunks current influences on fashion design television drama & film will be evident from these pages." ...

This is a reissue of the first major YA steampunk anthology; fourteen top storytellers push the genres mix of sci-fi fantasy history & adventure in fascinating new directions. Imagine an alternate universe where romance & technology reign. Where tinkerers & dreamers craft & re-craft a world of automatons clockworks calculating machines & other marvels that never were. Here fourteen masters of speculative fiction including two graphic storytellers embrace the steampunk genres established themes & refashion them in surprising ways & settings as diverse as Appalachia Ancient Rome future Australia & alternate California. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it. This is the first YA anthology to focus exclusively on steampunk; genre defining & genre defying
- with steampunk settings as diverse as Canada New Zealand Wales Ancient Rome future Australia & alternate California. This title features a top contributor line-up & editors with established adult/YA/cult following. This title

Includes:: a B-format edition of this first-rate literary sci-fi/fantasy with crossover appeal.


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One city. Two football clubs. One mutually shared hatred... Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield the traditional capital of Britains steel manufacturing industry there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United & Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs supporters berate each other with a venomous passion their long-running feud intense enough to divide families & workplaces from 1889 to the present dat. But why? How does a natural rivalry that in the 1960s saw supporters from both clubs going to Hillsborough Stadium (Wednesdays ground) one week then Bramell Lane (home to United) the next turn to such enmity? In Steel City Rivals authors Cowens (a United suported) & Cronshaw (Wednesday) combine their insider knowledge & fan anecdotes with a dark humour & bitter fascination with football violence. For the struggle for supremacy between red (United) & blue (Wednesday) blade versus owl is absolute. To the people of Sheffield Britains fourth largest city its never just a game. ...

Dark family secrets & a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Bankss fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire!
- now a hugely successful computer game. So successful the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban who has been evading the family clutches for years is run to ground & persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering
- part birthday party part Extraordinary General Meeting
- convened by Win Wopuld matriarch & most powerful member of the board at Garbadale the familys highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Albans past. What drove his mother to take her own life? & is he ready to see Sophie his beautiful cousin & teenage love? Grandmother Wins revelations wll radically alter Albans perspective for ever.


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Now in its eleventh edition Steiner & Woods EU Law is rightfully regarded as one of the best & most trusted EU law textbooks available. The book

Includes:: a well-balanced range of topics for students taking undergraduate courses on EU law. It offers a careful blend of institutional & substantive coverage & focuses on explaining the law clearly for an undergraduate readership as well as raising areas for debate. The end of chapter further reading lists highlight where to go for more in-depth research & flowcharts help to visually represent the workings of the EU to give a clear understanding of these processes. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre offering teaching & learning support including a customisable test bank of multiple choice questions & answers electronic copies of the figures from the book for use in lectures & as handouts as well as links to student resources including a glossary web links interactive map of Europe & a timeline showing major events in the development of the EU.

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Stella the Star Fairy is all in a flutter trying to put the sparkle into Christmas. Stella looks after all the special Christmas lights
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