The disappearance of Richey Edwards troubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers is one of rock & rolls great unresolved mysteries. His Vauxhall Cavalier was found abandoned in a service station car park near the Severn Bridge a notorious suicide spot in February 1995 a fortnight after Edwards had last been seen. The location of the car & the tape left in the deck
- Nirvanas album In Utero
- tended to point to one conclusion. However it almost seemed too obvious a statement & in A VERSION OF REASON Rob Jovanovic unravels the complicated life & final days of Richey Edwards. Piecing together testimony from those close to Edwards Jovanovic seeks to produce an authoritative account of the life & times of Richey Edwards.

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For courses in Vertebrate Zoology Vertebrate Biology Function & Paleontology Widely praised for its comprehensive coverage & exceptionally clear writing style this best-selling text explores how the anatomy physiology ecology & behavior of animals interact to produce organisms that function effectively in their environments & how lineages of organisms change through evolutionary time. The Ninth Edition features dozens of new figures & photos updated information from molecular data & evolutionary development & expanded discussions on global climate change extinction & conservation. ...

Vertebrate Palaeontology" is a complete up-to-date history of the evolution of vertebrates. The third edition of this popular text has been extensively revised to incorporate the latest research including new material from North & South America Australia Europe China Africa & Russia. This work: highlights astonishing new discoveries including new dinosaurs & Mesozoic birds from China; features a new chapter on how to study fossil vertebrates; provides an increased emphasis on the cladistic framework with cladograms set apart from the body of the text & full lists of diagnostic characters; &

Includes:: new molecular evidence on early mammal diversification. New features aid study including new functional & developmental feature spreads key questions & extensive references to useful web sites. It offers a strong phylogenetic focus making it an up-to-date source of the latest broad-scale systematic data on vertebrate evolution."

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Vertical Take-Off Fighter Aircraft" is an illustrated history of concepts experimental & operational military VTO & VTOL aircraft. The book starts with wartime German projects such as the Focke Wulf Treibflugel Heinkel Wespe & VTO rocket fighters. Postwar projects include US Navy carrier-based VTOL fighters the French annular wing experiments undertaken by SNECMA & various other proposals for fighters. In addition to "tail sitters " the author discusses conventionally shaped VTOL designs such as the Harrier Russian carrier-based Yaks & the new Lock Mart F-35 Lightning. This title will be of interest to aviation enthusiasts & modelers." ...

An original funny & poignant story about those things in life that you just cant plan for...A very modern fairytale full of Claudias trademark wit & humour Sheila OFlanagan Eloise Elliot is one of the youngest newspaper editors in the country. Respected & revered by her peers shes at the top of her game. But on the eve of her thirtieth birthday finding herself surrounded by some pathetic looking balloons & mangy sandwiches in The Daily Posts conference room Eloise is hit but a long sharp pang of loneliness. Suddenly & with dazzling clarity she realises what she wants to make her life more complete. A baby. One successful trip to the sperm bank & almost three years later & she is the adoring mother of a gorgeous little girl Lily. Juggling a high-powered job with motherhood is not easy & when she finds herself without childcare she sends an SOS to her sister Helen. Yet its when Lily starts asking about her daddy that Eloise really starts to panic. What will she tell her? So Eloise decides theres nothing for it
- shes going to find Lilys father. After all she chose the perfect donor so surely there wont be any surprises. Except that there are plenty & Eloise gets a lot more than she bargained for.
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Warning: This book could change your ideas about history for ever!! Do you know why the Celts got the best girls? Or who had his portrait painted after he was dead? & have you any idea who planned the first Channel Tunnel? From the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War its all here in the factually accurate & hilariously funny Very Bloody History of Britain. Bizarre barmy & almost beyond belief youve never had a history lesson like it! ...

John Farman makes history hysterical in this must-have companion volume to the best-selling THE VERY BLOODY HISTORY OF BRITAIN: THE FIRST BIT! Its the wittiest & wackiest chronicle of modern British history youll find
- ranging from post-war rationing through the glut of the Thatcher yuppy years to the new millennium.
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This title features acclaimed political satire & T.V. drama now back in print with Serpents Tail
- from the celebrated diarist
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On 15 September 2003 Baha Mousa a hotel receptionist was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra & was taken to a military base for questioning. For forty-eight hours he & nine other innocent civilians had their heads encased in sandbags & their wrists bound by plastic handcuffs & had been kicked & punched with sustained cruelty. A succession of guards & casual army visitors took pleasure in beating the Iraqis humiliating them forcing them into stress positions in temperatures up to 50 degrees Centigrade & watching them suffer in the dirty concrete building where they were held. Other soldiers officers medics the padre did not take part in the violence but they saw what was happening & did nothing to stop it. Some knew it was wrong. Some weren't sure. Some were too scared to intervene. But none said anything or enough until it was far too late & Baha Mousa had been beaten to death. This book tells the inside story of these crimes & their aftermath. It examines the institutional brutality the bureaucratic apathy the flawed military police inquiry & the farcical court martial that attempted to hold people criminally responsible. Even though a full public inquiry reported its findings into the crimes in September 2011 its mandate restricted what it could say. The full story told with the power of a true-crime expose or court-room drama shows how this was not simply about a few bad men or 'rotten apples'. It shines a light on all those involved in the crime & its investigation from the lowest squaddie to the elite of the army & politicians in Cabinet. What it reveals is devastating. It is the winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2013. ...

On 15 September 2003 Baha Mousa a hotel receptionist was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra & was taken to a military base for questioning. For forty-eight hours he & nine other innocent civilians had their heads encased in sandbags & their wrists bound by plastic handcuffs & had been kicked & punched with sustained cruelty. The story of Baha Mousa's death symbolised some of the tragedy of Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. Not only does it show how easily our troops could abuse the very people we were supposed to liberate but it also revealed how incapable
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- the army government & the law were in stopping that abuse. This book proves that the detention & interrogation system imposed by the armed forces was flawed. It enabled abusive techniques (hooding imposing stress positions
- known as 'harshing') to be used that frequently spilled over into physical & psychological violence. The government has set up a body to find out the scale of the problem & already almost 200 separate cases are being investigated.


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