Waging Heavy Peace" is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young. Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock & pop culture in the last four decades inducted not once but twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Reflective insightful & disarmingly honest " Waging Heavy Peace" is his long-awaited memoir. From his youth in Canada to his crazy journey out to California through Buffalo Springfield & Crosby Stills & Nash to his massively successful solo career & his re-emergence as the patron saint of grunge on to his role today as one of the last uncompromised & uncompromising survivors of rock 'n' roll
- this is Neil's story told in his own words. Young presents a kaleidoscopic view of personal life & musical creativity; it's a journey that spans the snows of Ontario to the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the contemplative paradise of Hawaii today. Along the way he writes about the music the victims the girls & the drugs; about his happy family life but also about the health problems he & his children have experienced; about guitars cars & sound systems; about Canada & California & Hawaii. Candid witty & revealing this book takes its place beside the classic memoirs of Bob Dylan & Keith Richards. " Wryly funny deeply moving painfully honest". (" Guardian"). " He's talking to you not at you unravelling himself as well & you don't want it to end... You see rock & roll history from the inside out & in the present tense". (" Independent"). " Young appears bounteous & joyful a genuinely happy hippy... Unusually for a rock memoir this one is almost completely angst-free". (" Sunday Times"). " Dryly hilarious.. .poignant..." Waging Heavy Peace" shows that Young is still in full possession of that stubborn brilliant one-of-a-kind instrument". (" Rolling Stone"). "A real treat.. .he writes openly & movingly abut the key figures in his life.. .you feel you know Young better for reading it". (" Metro")."
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Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composers artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age & gives us the first detailed & comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner & the philosophers
- from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach & Schopenhauer. Magee explores the relationship between words & music between the conscious & the unconscious mind between art & philosophy. It tackles soberly & judiciously the Wagner whose paranoia egocentricity & anti-semitism are repugnant as well as the Wagner of artistic genius. The resulting text illuminates Wagner & the music-dramas in altogether new ways.
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In all the sagas of human migration none can top the drama of the journey by mid-Western farmers to Oregon & California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land these travellers trekked two thousand miles by covered wagon from Missouri to their destination on the Pacific. Although they used mountain men as guides they went almost literally into the unknown braving dangers from hunger thirst disease drowning & Indians. Left far behind them were the extended family schools doctors churches stores & the rule of law. The early overlanders got through only after Herculean efforts but later in the decade complacency set in & the result was disaster especially in the case of the Donner party marooned in the snows & reduced to cannibalism. Using the original diaries & memoirs Frank Mc Lynn underscores the incredible heroism & dangerous folly on the overland trails. His year-by-year narrative

Includes:: many thematic investigations: the wagons & animals used by the pioneers the role of women relations with Indians crime & punishment beyond the pale of civilisation & much else. The narrative builds to a climax with the dreadful tale of the Donner party but achieves closure with the triumphant story of Brigham Young & the Mormons. Sandwiched between the era of the fur trappers & the post-1849 gold fever this account of the pioneering years in the overland trails highlights & explains a unique experience both in American & world history.

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The next time you hit the shops take a closer look at the hands of the girls around you & you'll notice one thing: everyone seems to have crazy nails! Thanks to celebrities like Katy Perry Rihanna & Lady Gaga nail art has become one of THE must-have affordable accessories & it's only set to get bigger & bigger. From simple techniques like zebra & leopard print to the tricker designs like roses glitterface & more Sharmadean Reid shares 25 of her most in-demand nail designs as requested at her hip London salon WAH Nails. Filled with step-by-step instructions & cheats techniques on how to make your nails pop The WAH Nails Book of Nail Art will make you ensure you're super-cool all-year-round from your fingers to your toes. It also

Includes:: an exclusive WAH Nails sticker sheet.

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' Thomasina Miers is bringing a large slice of genuine Mexico to the mainstream' Independent Eat your way around the markets of Mexico with this collection of over 130 mind-blowing recipes from Thomasina Miers co-founder of the award-winning Wahaca restaurants. Inspired by the flavours of Mexico but using ingredients easily found in Britain Wahaca
- Mexican Food at Home is all about cooking authentic Mexican food in your own kitchen. Mexican cooking is fresh colourful & full of flavour with breakfasts to get you through the day hearty dinners sensational puddings & zingy cocktails. Follow Tommi on her trip through the markets cantinas & fiestas of Mexico to discover recipes bursting with flavour you'll want to eat & share.
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This handsome desk diary featuring the illustrations of A. Wainwright is bound with real cloth & has gold blocking on the cover & spine. Illustrated throughout with Alfred Wainwrights sketches of the Lakes it has a week to a view & a ribbon marker & is individually shrinkwrapped ...

Wainwright Family Walks brings together for the first time twenty of the easiest & best walks in the southern Lake District from Alfred Wainwrights classic collection of guides. Ideal for those with children & those just starting on their Lake District walking adventures alike it is a perfect accessible introduction to Wainwright. With the emphasis on the lower peaks & manageable climbs here is a selection of wonderful fell walks for all abilities. Sketches & notes from Wainwrights timeless guides are reproduced in their entirety for each of the walks so you can enjoy his peerless commentary on the Lakeland fells while detailed & up-to-date directions guide you along some of Wainwrights recommended routes. There is also plenty of practical advice for getting to the start of each walk & family-friendly facilities nearby plus map & GPS references. With starting points across the southern Lake District & walks ranging from simple strolls to more challenging climbs all that is left to do is lace up your familys boots & walk! A second volume of Wainwright Family Walks covering fells in the northern half of the Lake District will be available soon. ...

The Wainwright Memorial Walk is the 102-mile route through the Lake District that A. Wainwright
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This handsome pocket diary featuring the illustrations of A. Wainwright is bound with real cloth & has gold blocking on the cover & spine. Illustrated throughout with Alfred Wainwrights sketches of the Lakes & his Coast to Coast walk it has a week to a view & a ribbon marker & is individually shrinkwrapped. ...

All the 17 walks shown on the television series plus a bonus from the Outlying Fells are covered in full in this handy book bringing together more than 250 pages from the brilliantly revised & updated Second Edition of Wainwrights Pictorial Guides. Wainwrights old friend Eric Robson sets the scene for each walk with stories from the days he spent filming with the great fell-walker adding his own personal impressions of the fell & the chosen ascent. Practical sections give the length of each route the ascent in feet the best O.S. map to take along how to get to the start of the walk & suggestions for the best route down. Freshly updated instructions & maps with the routes picked out in red plus information on car parking & campsites. Here is all you need to get out & enjoy the Lakeland landscape
- & who better to take along as your guide than the one & only Alfred Wainwright
- much-loved British character & fell-walking legend.

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