Book & DVD. This is a unique eye-witness documentary record of life inside Auschwitz at its full operational peak as recalled with impressive lucidity & matter-of-factness by Wilhelm Brasse prisoner no. 3444 who due to his professional skills escaped extermination by becoming a photographer whom the ever-well-organised Nazis obliged to record photographically the running of the camp including such detail as Dr Mengeles infamous experiments. Wilhelm Brasse was born in 1917 in Zywiec of an Austrian father & a Polish mother. Before the war Brasse worked in a photographic studio in Katowice. For refusal to join the Wehrmacht he was sent to Auschwitz where from 1941 to 1945 he worked in the Identity Service as a photographer. He took tens of thousands of photographs of prisoners hundreds of portraits of SS-men & documented some so-called medical experiments. After the war ended he returned to Zywiec where he has been living ever since. In March 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is this book & its edited tales of the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz together with a film with extracts from the interview. There is an introduction by the historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy the academic editor at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The book is generously illustrated with photographs from Wilhelm Brasses own archives as well as the photographic archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum & Yad Vashem. The book is published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow Pol&. The publication has been supported by the following ministries & organizations: The Ministry of Culture & National Heritage of the Republic of Pol&. ...

Short & oddly built with a head too big for his body extremely short-sighted unable to stay still dressed in colourful clothes as if playing a certain part in the great general drama of life Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer befriended by the great loved by children irresistibly attractive to women -- & avidly read by generations of readers. Ackroyd follows his hero the sweetest-tempered of all the Victorian novelists from his childhood as the son of a well-known artist to his struggling beginnings as a writer his years of fame & his life-long friendship with the other great London chronicler Charles Dickens. A true Londoner Collins like Dickens was fascinated by the secrets & crimes -- the fraud blackmail & poisonings -- that lay hidden behind the citys respectable facade. He was a fighter never afraid to point out injustices & shams or to tackle the establishment head on. As well as his enduring masterpieces The Moonstone -- often called the first true detective novel -- & the sensational The Woman in White he produced an intriguing array of lesser known works. Collins had his own secrets: he never married but lived for thirty years with the widowed Caroline Graves & also had a second liaison as Mr & Mrs Dawson with a younger mistress Martha Rudd with whom he had three children. Both women remained devoted as illness & opium-taking took their toll: he died in 1889 in the middle of writing his last novel Blind Love. Told with Peter Ackroyds inimitable verve this is a ravishingly entertaining life of a great story-teller full of surprises rich in humour & sympathetic understanding. ...

Will & Kate: Fairy-Tale Romance is one of an exciting series of lush books celebrating some of the most popular & influential figures of the day
- who are constantly talked about & whose every life event fashion choice or opinion is awaited with baited breath by legions of fans. Prince William had many adoring fans already of course but when Will & Kate became William & Catherine the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge their allure & popularity went through the roof
- starting with that wedding & THAT dress. Will & Kate is the ultimate celebration of the world's favourite couple. Discover the fairy tale through the story of their courtship wedding & marriage told alongside inspirational & beautiful photography
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Women were once taught that the way to a mans heart was through his stomach. In reality fewer women cook or really want to. Making reservations or ordering in has become one of the multi-minded abilities of todays more progressive woman. Therein is the problem. Men must learn to navigate their way around the kitchens galleys & cucinas of the world. In fact to every mans advantage the women can be very generous to men who know a spoon from a spatula. All men need is some beautiful inspiration & a few words of simple instruction from Rocky Fino. ...

Sky cowboy Will Gallows is finding life hard on the ranch. Should he follow his heart & join the elf side of his family learning their magical secrets? Or should he join the Sky Cavalry with his friend Jez? His decision is put on hold when his grandma is kidnapped
- by the most terrifying creature Will has ever encountered a rock demon with a seventy-year-old grudge to avenge...
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In his almost 20 years in the sport Will Greenwood has achieved just about everything a professional rugby player could ever aspire to playing an integral role in the World Cup-winning campaign of 2003 & achieving great things with England beyond that at the Six Nations & on tour with the Lions. Never was a man more well placed to write on the sport. From the grass roots to elite professionalism Greenwood has made his name as the face of intelligent & entertaining rugby writing & punditry. From hilarious character sketches of players to technical discussion of scrummaging & World Cup reminiscences Greenwood delivers unrivalled writing on the game of rugby. ...

Every British comic actor that followed Will Hay owes Hay a debt of gratitude -- for it was Hay who defined the modern essence of British comedy. Working closely with Hays family Graham Rinaldis definitive tribute to the respected comic actor takes a close look into Hays on-screen & off-screen personae. Drawing upon Hays own writings -- newspaper articles notes from his astronomy observations & pilots logbooks & extracts from his unfinished & previously unpublished autobiography I Enjoyed Every Minute" -- the book gives a unique insight into Hays childhood his continuous thirst for knowledge & his passion for aviation astronomy & comedy. The book is illustrated throughout with previously unpublished photographs from Hays family albums including a rare photograph of Hay with Amy Johnson plus memorabilia from his performing career. Extensive research into Hays stage work

Includes:: extracts from his original Fourth Form at St Michaels sketches The Will Hay Radio Programme & for the first time from all of his revue & variety shows including Nosey Knows & Moonstruck for Fred Karno. Each of Hays 18 films is examined with insightful information regarding their production written extracts from deleted scenes (including for the first time in their entirety the missing sequences from Ask a Policeman ) previously unpublished stills & interviews with those who worked with him from Val Guest Leslie Gilliat & Roy Ward Baker to Dame Thora Hird Barry Morse & Googie Withers. Did you know that in addition to creating the mould for British comedy that Hay was an accomplished astronomer linguist & pilot? No? Then you must read this book about one of British films most fascinating characters!"

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Ben Hunt-Davis won Olympic Gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 as part of the Mens Rowing Eight. He & Executive Coach Harriet Beveridge have teamed up to show you how to use similar strategies to improve your own life. The pair have been road-testing these methods for 10 years with clients from all walks of life; managers leaders call centre staff sales reps athletes & shop assistants; whatever your challenges whatever your goals there are ideas that will help everyone. Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? is divided into 11 chapters each of which is split into 2 halves. Firstly Ben provides a narrative recounting an episode from the eights journey to Gold & shows the team using the methods in action. Then comes the analysis explaining why & how the crew did what they did. Simple & chatty the book is a warts-&-all authentic account of a journey to success that will show you how you can succeed in whatever you want to do. It is aimed at readers interested in personal development & managers wanting to achieve corporate goals. It will appeal to sports enthusiasts practitioners & coaches who will find the Olympic story compelling & learn plenty of techniques for improving their own game strategies. ...

Today the very word meeting conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit airless offices. People sitting around tables unsure why they are there & wishing they were somewhere else. Hour after hour. Day after day. David Pearl can change that & in this book he shows how you can take back control of your working life. Will There Be Donuts?" is about a big mistake that almost all companies are going to make this year. & the next. & the one after that. Well call it nearly meeting. It happens the length & breadth of the business world from boardroom to shop floor. Will There Be Donuts? is business expert David Pearls first book & he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings & crucially how to make them great. His client list is a whos who of FTSE & NYSE names & they seek his advice on how to engage employees at every level to make their meetings more efficient effective & engaging. His list of achievements in the field
Includes:: * Identifying GBP30million of savings by changing ineffective meetings at GSK. * Persuading the CEO of Skandia International to saw through his boardroom table. * Showing the Department of Work & Pensions that having your mobile phone on in a meeting could be seen as a good thing. At every level of an organisation not just the very top. if your meetings are ineffective then its likely that your business is too. " Will There Be Donuts?" will reinvigorate you as a person & as an employer/employee. Consider the following: You are in a role which requires you to attend three hours of meetings a day. Lets say youd score those meetings 70% effective. Lets also imagine there are 100 people like you in the company & that your average wage is GBP60k. You personally just wasted 5 whole weeks in meeting time this year. Your company lost a combined 2500 days of productivity; thats the equivalent of 11 person-years costing the company GBP675 000. Whats more if you were to continue at this rate for a conventional career youd be burning a total of 9 years 6 months & 3 days of your working life. All for the sake of some ineffective meetings. " Will There Be Donuts?" will help you reclaim your working life."
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This title is tenth in the brilliantly addictive series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed & popular writer. Poppy & Graham are staying in a grand country house for the weekend to help at a family christening party but they're seriously unimpressed. Dull dull dull! Not to mention the fact that baby Marmaduke has taken a shine to Graham & won't let him out of his sight without shrieking the place down. Then events take a mysterious turn when a filthy tramp turns up in the churchyard...dead. As Poppy & Graham begin to dig around they realize that all is not as it seems... ...