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Brand: Ian Oliver
EAN: 9781911390367
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A guide to get fighting fit .\r\nA compact manual with the focus firmly on regimes and drills that are part of or compliment boxing training...

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Brand: Ian Gentles
EAN: 9780300226836
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution\n\n The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals, Oliver Cromwell, to power during the English Revolution. Paradoxically, it was also instrumental in restoring the king in 1660. But the true nature of this army has long been debated.\n \n In this authoritative history, Ian Gentles examines the full scope of the New Model Army. As a fighting force it engineered regicide, pioneered innovative military tactics, and helped to keep Cromwell in power as Lord Protector until his death. All the while, those within its ranks promoted radical political ideas inspired by the Levellers and held dissenting religious beliefs. Gentles explores how brilliant battlefield maneuvering and logistical prowess contributed to its victories-and demonstrates the vital role religion played in building morale and military effectiveness.

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Brand: Oliver Harris
EAN: 9780349143828
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Mazy, pacy London noir' Ian Rankin\n\nTen days after the station closed, he was informed he'd been officially suspended pending a hearing over allegations of gross misconduct. No details. A few hours after that, he got a call from a man who wouldn't give his name but told him he was under surveillance...They were bracing themselves for a shit-storm. Stay safe, the caller said, and hung up.\n\nAmber Knight is hot property - pop star, film star, front-page gossip.\n\nDC Nick Belsey is less celebrated. He can't shake his habit of getting into serious trouble and his career at Hampstead CID is coming to a dishonourable end. He is currently of no fixed address - squatting in a disused police station round the corner from Amber's swanky Primrose Hill mansion. \n\nBut a knock on the door from a frantic and confused woman looking for her missing son is about to lead Belsey straight into the heart of Amber's glittering life. When a body is found and a twisted crime spree ensues, Belsey finds himself dangerously embroiled in a world of celebrity, obsession, glamour and desperation.\n\nPraise for The House of Fame\n\n'Harris has a terrific sense of place, hurtling between the wealthiest and most-run-down areas of London... The plot unfolds in a chilling and totally unexpected direction' Sunday Times \n\n'A fast-paced thriller that is also nuanced and evocative...hats off to Harris, who has, once again, managed it with style and authority' Guardian\n\n'Gripping, and Oliver Harris is punchy and perceptive' The Times

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Brand: Oliver Harris
EAN: 9780349142968
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Oliver Harris is always pure quality and I'm loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel' Ian Rankin\n\n'Scary if true, or even half true' Sunday Times star pick\n\nThere is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. He's spent fifteen years managing events overseas that never make the papers, deniable and deeply effective. Kane is a ghost in his own life, picking up and dropping personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when a woman he loves, Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced centre stage. \n\nDrawn ever deeper into a realm of deception, Kane moves from merely infiltrating events to steering them. He's used to a new mode of hybrid psychological warfare - but snowbound Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between China, Russia and the West, dictatorship and democracy, state intelligence and an increasingly powerful world of private agencies, it's impossible to work out who is manipulating who. And Kane's not the only one trying to figure out where Joanna Lake has gone or what she learned before disappearing.\n\nUnable to trust anyone, hunted by his own colleagues, and with the life of someone he loves at stake, Kane needs to work out who is driving events, and why...\n\nReaders say:\n\n'Damn, Harris knows what he is talking about, and damn if he doesn't stream that knowledge hard and fast through a sniper's ricocheting trickshot of a plot' five star reader review\n\n'I love the geopolitical skullduggery, the contemporary Great Game ... and it does feel contemporary. It puts espionage solidly in the digital world without losing the essence - people on the ground' five star reader review\n\n'Up there with LeCarre in my view. I'll get everything he's written now' five star reader review

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Brand: Miguel Delaney
EAN: 9781399619400
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Important, perfectly timed and hugely necessary.' - The Guardian\n\n'A must-read on how modern football works.' - Ian Wright\n\n'In this excellent investigation, Delaney reveals the ugly side of the beautiful game.' - Oliver Bullough\n\n'Brave, forensic and utterly gripping.' - Tom Holland\n\n'Majestic... the essential guide to how the people's game has become the plaything of the very rich and powerful.' - Jonathan Wilson\n\n______________________________\n\nThe definitive account of how capitalism and the world's elite corrupted modern football\n\nAs the 2022 World Cup in Qatar drew to a close, there was a bitter undercurrent to Argentina's triumph. Throughout the tournament, numerous allegations of sportswashing and financial misconduct had been made against the state of Qatar, moving what had previously been a smaller conversation into the worldwide spotlight. \n\nThe question had been asked, who really owns and runs football?\n\n Journeying from Abu Dhabi to Newcastle, and onto London, Paris, Moscow and New York, journalist Miguel Delaney investigates the allegations of sportswashing and misconduct in the beautiful game. The result is a gripping account of how football has been taken over by the world's wealthiest businessmen, state-backed corporations, media tycoons and oil-rich oligarchs. \n\nFrom Neymar's £198 million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain and Abu Dhabi's construction empire in Manchester to failed Financial Fair Play constraints and the dawn of the European Super League, Miguel draws on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to key stakeholders to produce an all-encompassing exposé of modern footballs highest echelons.\n\nAuthoritative, riveting and eye-opening, States of Play reveals how football has become a tool for the world's elite.\n\n______________________________\n\n'Delaney's diligence and determination to hold authorities to account is the moral compass that the game needs.' - Andy Brassell\n\n'The most important football book of its generation.' - Jack Pitt-Brooke\n\n'An eye-opening and essential investigation into the forces shaping the world's most popular sport.' - Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg\n\n'This book tackles the major issue affecting football today with fearlessness and forensic scrutiny. An important investigation for our times.' - Laurie Whitwell

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Brand: Miguel Delaney
EAN: 9781399619417
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Important, perfectly timed and hugely necessary.' - The Guardian\n\n'A must-read on how modern football works.' - Ian Wright\n\n'In this excellent investigation, Delaney reveals the ugly side of the beautiful game.' - Oliver Bullough\n\n'Brave, forensic and utterly gripping.' - Tom Holland\n\n'Majestic... the essential guide to how the people's game has become the plaything of the very rich and powerful.' - Jonathan Wilson\n\n______________________________\n\nThe definitive account of how capitalism and the world's elite corrupted modern football\n\nAs the 2022 World Cup in Qatar drew to a close, there was a bitter undercurrent to Argentina's triumph. Throughout the tournament, numerous allegations of sportswashing and financial misconduct had been made against the state of Qatar, moving what had previously been a smaller conversation into the worldwide spotlight. \n\nThe question had been asked, who really owns and runs football?\n\n Journeying from Abu Dhabi to Newcastle, and onto London, Paris, Moscow and New York, journalist Miguel Delaney investigates the allegations of sportswashing and misconduct in the beautiful game. The result is a gripping account of how football has been taken over by the world's wealthiest businessmen, state-backed corporations, media tycoons and oil-rich oligarchs. \n\nFrom Neymar's £198 million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain and Abu Dhabi's construction empire in Manchester to failed Financial Fair Play constraints and the dawn of the European Super League, Miguel draws on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to key stakeholders to produce an all-encompassing exposé of modern footballs highest echelons.\n\nAuthoritative, riveting and eye-opening, States of Play reveals how football has become a tool for the world's elite.\n\n______________________________\n\n'Delaney's diligence and determination to hold authorities to account is the moral compass that the game needs.' - Andy Brassell\n\n'The most important football book of its generation.' - Jack Pitt-Brooke\n\n'An eye-opening and essential investigation into the forces shaping the world's most popular sport.' - Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg\n\n'This book tackles the major issue affecting football today with fearlessness and forensic scrutiny. An important investigation for our times.' - Laurie Whitwell

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Brand: Polly Curtis
EAN: 9780349014517
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing\n\n'Brilliant . . . I love this book' LEMN SISSAY\n'A must-read book' JACQUELINE WILSON\n'Extraordinary' OLIVER BULLOUGH\n'Everyone should read this book' HILARY COTTAM\n'Important' IAN BIRRELL\n'Vital' HANNAH JANE PARKINSON\n\nMeet the mother whose children were taken away, and the father who fought for his son. Listen to the radical social worker, the judge, the lawyer. See inside the homes of foster carers, adoptive parents and children in care. Because behind closed doors, a scandal is ongoing.\n\nWe now remove more children from their parents than ever before. Children's Care is a system where fathers are ignored, and mothers are punished for experiencing abuse. Rife with prejudices about race, ableism and class, determined by a postcode lottery. Blind to poverty and its effects on family life. And, at its very worst, an exercise in social engineering that can never replace parental love.\n\nFrom North to South, rich and poor, Black and white, these are the people who know, first-hand, what is going wrong - and how we can fix it.

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