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The recruitment consultant asked me ‘What do you think of voluntary work? I said ‘I wouldn’t do it if you paid me.’
- Tommy Cooper
76531 UNTANGLING THE WEB: What the Internet Is
Doing to You by Aleks Krotoski From Toronto to Timbuktu, Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi, more than two billion people use the World Wide Web. Nine hundred million of us connect and share news on Facebook and over five hundred million tell friends, lovers, strangers and stalkers what we had for breakfast on Twitter. The
author, a social psychologist, has spent a decade untangling the claims, rumours and scaremongering from the reality. In this ground-breaking book, she unpicks how the new technology affects us personally, socially and as a society. What does it mean to be a modern family, when dinner-table conversations take place over smart phones? How has the web changed our concept of privacy? Will it lead to a global social revolution, or is the government already using it to control us? This revealing book sorts out how much humanity has - and has not - changed because of our increasingly co- dependent relationship with the computer. It tells the real story of how the network is woven into our lives and what, if anything, we should, or can, do about it. 216 paperback pages. £12.99 NOW £4
76315 OIL ROAD: Journeys
from the Caspian Sea to the City of London by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello
Building on a decade of study with Platform - a London-based arts, human rights and environmental justice organisation - and embarking on a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of
Northern Europe, the authors track the concealed routes along which flow the lifeblood of our economy. The stupendous resource of Azerbaijani crude oil has, for a long time, inspired dreams of a world remade. From the revolutionary Futurism of the capital city, Baku, to the Capitalism of modern London, the drive to control the region’s oil reserves - and hence, people and events - has shattered environments and shaped societies. In this revealing investigation, the human scale of village life in the Caucasus Mountains and the plains of Anatolia is seen to have been, suddenly and sometimes fatally, confronted by the almost ungraspable scale of the oil corporation BP. Pipelines and tanker routes tie the fraying social democracies of Italy, Austria and Germany to the repressive regimes of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. A web of financial and political institutions in London weaves together the lives of metropolis and village. Readers are guided through the previously obscured landscape of energy production and consumption, resistance and profit that, for over a century, has marked Europe. This controversial volume aims to open readers’ eyes to where the human race is heading along the Oil Road, and why it is time to change direction. 362 pages with seven maps, glossary of abbreviations and plans. £16.99 NOW £6
75934 HOW TO START AND RUN A B & B
by Stewart Whyte
A Practical Guide to Setting Up and Managing a Successful Bed and Breakfast Business - Revised and Updated Third Edition. Considering ‘down-shifting’? This handy volume will help you to determine who your customers are likely to be, to manage the necessary financial
tools, to make ready your house for B & B or to help you buy or build a new one, to market your property and - most importantly - to ensure that not only do you make a profit from your enterprise, but that you thoroughly enjoy your new life. 316 paperback pages, illus. With Hypothetical Feasibility Study and Hypothetical Business Plan. £16.99 NOW £4
72821 WRINKLIES’ GUIDE TO HOME
COMPUTING: New Pursuits for Old Hands by Guy Croton
With this useful book, you will quickly become a fully- fledged member of the computer world. There are tips about email and the internet, such as etiquette, attachments, online shopping (another benefit if you find getting to the shops difficult) and social networking. There is plenty of advice on backing up files, recovering deleted files and dealing with viruses. Happy computing. 192 pages. £9.99 NOW £4
75225 ON THE MONEY: The Economy in
Cartoons 1925-2009 edited by Robert Mankoff
Robert Mankoff is cartoon editor of The New Yorker and a gifted cartoonist in his own right. Here, he has selected over 400 of the magazine’s best cartoons on the theme of money. Whether the stock market is up or down, this hilarious book will keep readers laughing at over 80 years of classic cartoons on banking, investments, employment, and the economy. Our
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favourite is the two corporate types who are placing a report on their boss’s desk, saying: ‘These projected figures are a figment of our imagination’. 260 pages 26cm x 21cm, cartoons, index of cartoonists. £16.99 NOW £8
75575 FEMME DIGITALE by Michael Burns
This book demonstrates how to produce images of beautiful women from scratch using software designed for the purpose and creating a female form to a precise specification. The book introduces the technology and terms used in high-end 3-D applications and professional graphics software.
Adobe Photoshop offers the use of layers, allowing you to work on a single section, Poser has the advantage of over 70 ready-made poseable figures, while Maya provides highly versatile all-round modelling software. Building the body is the next stage, starting in a 2D painting set-up and then moving into 3D with details such as realistic hair. A chapter on Components and Ingredients covers lighting, texture and figure geometry, and finally there is a gallery of 50 alluring digital creations. 224pp, softback, colour photos. $29.95 NOW £4
CRIME
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
- Albert Camus
76346 MURDER OF CLEOPATRA: History’s
Greatest Cold Case by Pat Brown In a completely unique interpretation of the demise of Cleopatra - and, incidentally, Antony too, - by a world-renowned criminal profiler, this penetrating exploration debunks the myth that, when the Roman general Octavian
stormed Alexandria, the great pharaoh desperately ended her own life with the bite of an asp. The author was the first person to challenge the myth that has endured for more than 2,000 years. Here, she investigates even further, using the techniques and methodology of criminal profiling and crime reconstruction, and determines quite positively that Cleopatra was murdered. Her findings, borne of scientific method, rigorous inquiry and deductive reasoning, are revealed against a historical backdrop of mystery, drama, politics, danger and romantic intrigue - providing a thought-provoking analysis of the amazing woman Cleopatra really was. Here is a fascinating account of her final, desperate attempt to escape Egypt with her ships and treasure, and the brutal homicide that ended her life as the last Egyptian pharaoh. 261 paperback pages with maps, b/w photographs, notes and afterword: What This New View of Cleopatra Means to World History. Small remainder mark. £15.99 NOW £6
76510 LETTERS FROM A
SUBURBAN HOUSEWIFE by Mark Eden and Bill Hill This is a true story. The trial is an edited version of the transcripts from the Old Bailey in December 1922 and all Edith Thompson’s letters reproduced here are authentic. It is only where there is no way of knowing what was said in certain situations that the authors have employed analysis, conjecture and
imagination to help tell this incredible story. When they began their adulterous affair, Edith Thompson was a married woman of 27 and Freddy Bywaters an 18-year- old young seaman. 18 months later, they were both hanged for the murder of Edith’s husband, Percy. To some, it was a sordid tale of two immoral, selfish people who would stop at nothing to satisfy their carnal appetites. Others felt that Edith was simply a victim of the strict moral climate that prevailed in the 1920s. In analysing these letters and after studying the transcripts of the trial, the authors have reached their own conclusions, which may astonish some readers. A riveting 183 pages with b/w archive photos and maps. £11.95 NOW £4.50
75895 RIPPEROLOGY: A Study of the World’s
First Serial Killer by Robin Odell In the Foreword to this book about the gruesome murders committed in 1888 in the Whitechapel and Spitalfields area, Don Rumbelow points out that as a serial killer the Ripper is in the small-time league, with the number of his victims usually agreed at five - far fewer than Harold Shipman. Always working at weekends and mainly in the open, the man had anatomical knowledge and some theories have suggested a hospital porter or a local butcher. Why did the murders stop as suddenly as they had started? Did the murderer meet with a sudden accident? Or perhaps he was only visiting? One of the people to be questioned was the American Dr. Tumblety who hastily terminated his visit to London and returned to his native land, where he was placed under surveillance from which he managed to escape. In Britain he was not discussed as a serious suspect until 100 years later. Other suspects reflected the prejudices of the times, targeting the mentally ill, Jews, various aristocrats including royalty, and sufferers from syphilis who might be taking vengeance on prostitutes. The author surveys the whole of the literature and assesses the evidence. 272pp, illus.
£20.50 NOW £7
All Locked Up 76484 HISTORY OF
LONDON’S PRISONS by Geoffrey Howse
London has had more prisons than any other British city. The City’s gates once contained prisons but notably the most notorious of all was Newgate, which stood for over 700 years. The 11th century Tower of London was used as a prison for many high profile prisoners from Sir Thomas More to
the Kray Twins. Find out all about The Clink, the King’s Bench Prison, Debtors’ prisons such as Fleet Prison and the Marshalsea and ‘lost’ prisons such as the Gatehouse in Westminster, Millbank Penitentiary, Surrey County Gaol in Horsemonger Row, the House of Detention, Cold Bath Fields Prison and Tothill Fields Prison. Plus the more familiar jails of Holloway, Pentonville, Brixton, Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs. Unmeshed is an intricate web of historical facts, prisoners’ day to day lives and dozens of individual cases cited including those who became clients of the executioner. 205pp. £19.99 NOW £10
76356 UNDERWORLD LONDON: Crime and
Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold Beginning with an atmospheric account of a public execution, the author takes readers on a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne’er do wells. Along the way they can take in beheadings and brutality at the Tower, Elizabethan street crime and the golden age of the highwaymen, before moving on
to the Victorian era of incarceration. This colourful gruesome history investigates the cruel and unusual punishments visited upon miscreants through the ages, and provides a sobering reminder of the fate awaiting those who fell foul of the law before modern times. The book also looks at the influence of London’s criminal classes on literature, as well as charting the rise of East End mobsters the Krays and the Soho gangs of the 1950s and 1960s. An overview of the sensational trials and miscarriages of justice that led to the abolition of the death penalty, and a glimpse of criminal behaviour in the present era rounds up this horrific portrait of London’s underbelly. 340 paperback pages, illustrated. £8.99 NOW £4
75195 MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE MAFIA edited by Nigel Cawthorne and Colin Cawthorne
19 glamorous and horrific mob stories from prominent ex- Mafiosi, infiltrators and award winning writers. Donnie Brasco, the FBI agent who worked undercover in the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York for six years, Albert DeMeo, the son of a gangster who later became a lawyer, Jerry Black the ‘hit man’, a chilling professional murderer of 38 victims regarded by many as the original ‘Soprano’ and more first hand accounts of life inside the mob by Frankie Faggio, Richard Kuklinski and many more. 458pp in paperback. $13.95 NOW £5
75924 A CRUEL AND SHOCKING ACT: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shennon
One of the most horrifying facts to emerge from his five years of research by Philip Shennon into the most important, and most controversial homicide of the 20th century is that much of the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy had not been told. Not only that, but masses of evidence had been covered up or destroyed - shredded incinerated, or erased - by the CIA, the FBI and others in power in Washington. It was also clear that senior officials at both the CIA and FBI hid information from the investigating panel, apparently in the hope of concealing that they had been aware of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cuban connections, that he had been under surveillance in Dallas for months before the killing and that they had not been able to stop him. The volume features some of the most compelling figures in modern American history: Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Chief Justice Warren, CIA spymasters Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, the CIA’s treacherous ‘mole hunter’ James Jesus Angleton, and many more. What becomes clear from this fine account is that the Warren Commission - set up specially to investigate the crime - failed to pursue important evidence and witnesses because of limitations imposed on it by the man who ran it, and many of those witnesses have since died. 625 detailed pages, archive photos. £25 NOW £6.50
75790 GREAT PEARL HEIST by Molly Caldwell Crosby
This brilliantly researched true story opens in 1909 as “Blonde Alice Smith” waits in a getaway car in Piccadilly Circus. A fabulously wealthy jeweller will be handing over gems worth a fortune in the Piccadilly cafe, and the criminal mastermind Joseph Grizzard has sent word to his gang members to make use of the target’s vulnerability when he visits the restaurant’s toilet. The case brings Grizzard to the attention of his nemesis, chief inspector Alfred Ward of Scotland Yard, and over the coming years the two brilliant men pit their wits against each other in a game of cat and mouse. This gripping book goes on to tell the story of the pink pearl heist of 1913 in which a necklace was stolen from Hatton Garden’s legendary dealer Max Mayer. The pearls are being returned by post from France following a loan to a prospective customer and Grizzard puts his men in place as postal workers and couriers ready to intercept the pearls en route. Would anyone be prepared to give evidence in court? 288pp, photos. ONLY £6.50
75816 MURDER AND MAYHEM IN NORTH
LONDON by Geoffrey Howse This shocking report includes a wide range of murders, some of them internationally famous, others more obscure. The cases encompass Britain’s first railway murder, the first criminal to be caught via wireless telegraphy, and the story of the foreign anarchist who left a trail of murder and mayhem
following a Tottenham factory wage snatch. Here too is the discovery of a body in an Islington warehouse cellar, the shooting of a vicar in Stamford Hill, the slaying of a rival at Primrose Hill, and the badly burned corpse in a Camden Town shed. Murder and mayhem indeed! 190 paperback pages, illus. £12.99 NOW £6
75299 ENEMIES OF THE STATE: The Cato Street Conspiracy by M. J. Trow
The characters of the Cato Street conspirators were not afraid to resort to murder in order to generate political change. A highly rated biographer reveals the plan to assassinate Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet and destroy his government. This was an age when it was possible for a prime minister to be shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons, when 300,000 soldiers and sailors found themselves suddenly out of work, and when the yeomanry charged an unarmed crowd of women and children at St Peter’s Fields in Manchester. The Cato Street conspirators matched the Gunpowder plotters in their daring, but their dark, radical intrigue has not, until now, received the attention it deserves. The author reconstructs the case and sets it in the wider context of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. 192 pages, illus, map. £19.99 NOW £6
75312 THAMES TORSO MURDERS by M. J. Trow
The incredible career of the Thames Torso Murderer has gripped historians ever since he committed his horrifying crimes in the 1870s and 1880s. How, over a period of 15 years, did he not only get away with a succession of murders, but also succeed in scattering the dismembered corpses along the banks of the River Thames? What sort of a perverted character was he? Why did he kill again and again? He was well-organized, with a cold, logical streak, and was fascinated by the river. The methodical dismemberment of at least eight bodies had more to do with the clinical need to avoid detection than with the frenzy of a maniac. Yet the anonymous individual who removed heads and legs, but did not obliterate the faces, even had the audacity to drop a victim into the foundations of the new Scotland Yard. 175 pages, archive illustrations, map. £19.99 NOW £7
75792 A GRIM ALMANAC OF ESSEX by Neil R. Storey
Murderers and footpads, pimps and prostitutes, riots, rebels, bizarre funerals, disaster and peculiar medicine all feature. Apparently, Essex has always been a hotbed of crime. Three witches were hanged after the Chelmsford Witch Trial of 1589, as Agnes Waterhouse had been three years previously. In the 1620s, Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder-General was born here, as were Dick Turpin, the country’s most notorious highwayman, and William Calcraft, the nation’s longest- serving hangman. 180 grim paperback pages, archive photos, engravings, newspaper reports, line drawings and original documents, and list of Essex Executions 1865-1953.
£14.99 NOW £6
75981 GREATEST TRAITOR: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake
by Roger Hermiston Drawing on hitherto unpublished records from his trial, new revelations about his dramatic jailbreak from Wormwood Scrubs and original interviews with former spies, friends and the man himself, this intriguing volume sheds new light on a most complicated
character, while at the same time presenting a gripping history of the Cold War. In WWII, the teenage Blake performed sterling deeds for the Dutch resistance, before making a dramatic bid for freedom across Nazi-occupied Europe. Later recruited by British Intelligence, he quickly earned an exemplary reputation and was entrusted with building up the Service’s networks behind the Iron Curtain. Following a posting to Seoul, he also suffered for his adopted country, when captured by North Korean soldiers at the height of their brutal war with the South. By the time of his release, Blake was a hero. But unbeknownst to SIS they were harbouring a mole. He was assiduously gathering all the important documents he could lay his hands on and passing them to the KGB. After a trial conducted largely in secret, he was sentenced to an unprecedented 42 years in jail. 362 pages, archive photos. £20 NOW £6.50
75889 CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN BRITAIN by Richard Clark
This chilling, and often graphic, new book ‘brings to life’ once more the condemned victims and the methods by which they met their end. The author reveals the many horrific guises of the ultimate punishment, from execution by hanging, drawing and quartering, to other sickening alternatives, including burning, eye gouging, boiling alive, and use of the dreaded Halifax gibbet - precursor to the guillotine. Witches fell to watery graves through violent drowning, whilst condemned women were often pressed slowly to death with weighted stones or iron, which crushed their ribs. Modern developments are also taken into account, with a detailed look at the reduction in the number of executions, 20th century reprieves, vivid descriptions of the death sentences in Britain and their final abolition. 336 repulsive pages illustrated in colour and b/w with list of executions between 1900 and 1964.
£19.99 NOW £7.50
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