Fancy! A lot of working chaps beating a lot of gentlemen 1879 the third round of the FA Cup. A football team from the humble Lancashire cotton town of Darwen take on Remnants
- a Berkshire club of the moneyed & well-connected
- & beat them. It is footballs first ever giant killing. Their reward is a quarter-final with the mighty Old Etonians. It pitches rulers against ruled rich against poor champions against underdogs old tactics against new the inventors of the game against the upstarts. It is an encounter that is seen as symbolic & hidden at the heart of the encounter lies the bitterest controversy. Underdogs is a fascinating story that covers the very birth of football & its development towards the game we recognize today. Storyteller football connoisseur & historian Keith Dewhurst shows how 130 years ago at its beginning football was already reflecting the modern game closely
- money talks cheating abounds & victory is secured whatever the cost.


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My names Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I dont have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family yes that doesnt really function without tomato sauce. Thats me. Cameron & Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) & plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl
- a real girl not like the ones in the lingerie magazines. But who could ever love an underdog like Cameron Wolfe?
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Includes:: material on necessary skills for after graduation. It is a practical research-informed text providing student researchers with models tasks & activities to enable them to think through plan action write up & present their research. It will help to develop ideas creative thinking & systematic research practices that will enable students to produce high quality dissertations & reports.

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The clock is still ticking... Luke thought he knew who his enemies were. But then he wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies
- & they've been waiting his whole life to track him down. Meanwhile up on the surface the people of Phoenix are beginning to disappear. But the worst is still to come. Deep under Phoenix Luke will uncover a secret that changes everything. There are now just 49 days until the end of the world.
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In 2013 London Underground the world's first underground railway marks its 150th anniversary. This new lavishly illustrated history is the official anniversary publication of the London Underground drawing on previously unseen sources & images to celebrate the crucial role of the tube in the creation & everyday life of modern London. London Underground experts David Bownes Oliver Green & Sam Mullins have a lifelong passion for the city & the Tube. In London Underground 150 they blend social history with the story of the pioneering engineers designers & social reformers who created the system reflecting on the problems of keeping a fast growing city on the move. From providing access to the business heart of the Victorian City of London to the leisure delights of the Edwardian West End through the growth of the suburbs & the vital role of the Underground as shelter during the Blitz the story continues through urban regeneration to the challenge of upgrading the original network to meet the needs of the 21st century. With a cast of characters encompassing entrepreneurs architects politicians & passengers this is the story of how the world beneath our feet made history. ...

It is an entertaining & enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway. Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest most sprawling & illogical metropolitan transport system in the world the result of a series of botch-jobs & improvisations. Yet it transports over one billion passengers every year
- & this figure is rising. It is iconic recognised the world over & loved & despised by Londoners in equal measure. Blending reportage humour & personal encounters Andrew Martin embarks on wonderfully engaging social history of London's underground railway system (which despite its name is in fact fifty-five per cent overground). Underground Overground" is a highly enjoyable witty & informative history of everything you need to know about the Tube."
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What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide & history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages & tunnels of the city the bunkers & tunnels crypts & shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London it's also an exploration through time: Queen Boudicca lies beneath Platform 10 at King's Cross (legend has it); Dick Turpin fled the Bow Street Runners along secret passages leading from the cellar of the Spaniards pub in North London; the remains of a pre-Christian Mithraic temple have been found near the Bank of England; on the platforms of the now defunct King William Street Underground posters still warn that ' Careless talk costs lives'. Stephen Smith uncovers the secrets of the city by walking through sewers tunnels under such places as Hampton Court ghost tube stations & long lost rivers such as the Fleet & the Tyburn. This is 'alternative' history at its best. ...

Books on the history of fortifications are plentiful. Medieval castles the defensive systems of the seventeenth eighteenth & nineteenth centuries the trenches & bunkers of the First World War the great citadels of the Second World War
- all these have been described in depth. But the fortifications of the Cold War
- the hidden forts of the nuclear age
- have not been catalogued & studied in the same way. Paul Ozorak's Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below fills the gap. After the devastation caused by the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki & the outbreak of the Cold War all over the world shelters were constructed deep underground for civilians government leaders & the military. Wartime structureswere taken over & adapted & thousands of men went to work drilling new tunnels & constructing bunkers of every possible size. At the height of the Cold War in some countries an industry of bunker-makers profited from the public's fear of annihilation. Paul Ozorak describes when & where these bunkers were built & records what has become of them. He explains how they would have been used if a nuclear war had broken out & in the case of weapons bases he shows how these weapons wouldhave been deployed. His account covers every sort of facility
- public shelters missile sites command & communication centres storage depots hospitals.A surprising amount of information has appeared in the media about these places since the end of the Cold War & Paul Ozorak's book takes full advantage of it.



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This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the Great War on the Western Front
- the war underground. The subject has fascinated visitors to the battlefields from the very beginning of battlefield pilgrimages in the years immediately after the Armistice & locations such as Hill 60 & the Grange Subway at Vimy have always been popular stops on such tours. Three other volumes will follow covering the Somme Ypres & French Flanders. Each book in the series has a short description of the formation & development of Tunneling Companies in the BEF & a glossary of technical terms.
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On paper things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife children fulfilling job. But then at his 40th birthday party his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression... How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives havent seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often dont visit the doctor or they dont want to face up to feelings of weakness & vulnerability. By telling his story Mark Rice-Oxley hopes it will enable others to tell theirs. In this intensely moving memoir he retraces the months of his utmost despair revisiting a landscape from which at times he felt he would never escape. Written with lyricism & poignancy Mark captures the visceral nature of this most debilitating of illnesses with a frightening clarity while at the same time offering a sympathetic & dispassionate view of what is happening & perhaps why. This is not a self-help book but a memoir that is brimful of experience understanding & hope for all those who read it. It is above all honest touching & surprisingly optimistic. ...