Cats have quite a few opinions, but with easy-to-follow instructions and helpful diagrams, this book will teach you how - and how not - to elicit approving purrs, mews, and chirps. From "The Booty Lift Pet" to the "I Need That Catnip on My Desk Yesterday Pet," learn over 20 tips and tricks to be the person your cat wants you to be. With bonus insights into cat sounds, body language, and more - as well as charming, full-color illustrations - this fun, lighthearted book will delight cat lovers of all kinds!
The final collection of Joe Colquhoun's work on the seminal aerial combat story! After Johnny Redburn is discharged from the RAF for killing an officer, he takes to the skies in a stolen Hurricane. Soon, he meets the Falcon Squadron of the 5th Soviet Air Brigade, and begins his fight against Germany from the other side of the Iron Curtain! Includes a feature on Stalingrad by comics legend Garth Ennis.
THE ANGEL FLIES TO STALINGRAD. VOLUME SEVEN OF THE BRANDT FAMILY CHRONICLES.Valentine Brandt's wartime service with the Luftwaffe was short and predictable. Older, wiser pilots would rather not fly supplies to the dreadful Gumrak, the last airfield supplying the German garrison in Stalingrad. Landing wasn't the problem and it took Valentine too long to learn that. As a Russian speaker, Valentine was useful to his Soviet captors. He was spared, to work as slave labour. The M.G.B., the Soviet secret police are brutal, but a tiny part is diabolically clever and Valentine must serve the Soviet State by spying in Berlin. The M.G.B. burn and turn him and send him on his way. But there is no straight path for the Brandts and, on his journey, he acquires baggage that will do more than weigh him down. It could get him killed. It's 1947 by the time Valentine enters destroyed Berlin. The weather is brutal, food is short and fuel scarcer still. So far as the Germans are concerned the war might just as well continue. The French, like the Russians and Americans, want a potato-patch where the rump of Germany stands. France again casts avaricious eyes at the mineral rich Saar and Ruhr. The British are broke and exhausted. The Germans have no allies and certainly no friends. They are on their own. Valentine struggles in a world of scavengers, base threats and sudden death. A world where survival is not possible for all. Hope, like food, is rationed. Stalin will take West Berlin before he takes the rest of Europe. Deprivation is his weapon of choice and a blockade his strategy. Remember one of the Brandts shibboleths: 'Never put anyone in a position where they have nothing to lose, because they will fight.' Vital life signs flicker as American policy changes. This time, no guns, no dictator, only larceny, resolve and American know-how. Watch the miracle. The Stalingrad Airlift failed, but the Berlin Airlift will succeed because America has the men, machines and the will to make it happen. General Lucius D. Clay introduces a hidden dimension to counter the Soviet blockade and slam the door on Stalin's ambition. Join Valentine under the splutter and roar of hundreds of aircraft engines as divided Berlin, survives, recovers and prospers as America feeds it, four tons a time.Here is a story of triumph, of unsung American heroes, of resolve and of leadership in the victory over privation.ABOUT THE BRANDT FAMILY CHRONICLES. The series, at the time of writing, comprises seven books ranging from the Napoleonic Wars (Vols 1-4), through The Franco-Prussian War (Vols 5,6), to the Cold War (Vol 7). They start when Germany was conceived and develop through its birth to modern times. (1950). The thread is the Brandt Family and their adventures. The environment is German history. History is written by the winner and, from ace to knave, it's a pack of lies. These books are not German history. They are a unique view of German history and the stories are told from this deserted and neglected standpoint. This, so-far, unilluminated emphasis discloses both a disguised truth and a hidden one. Germany is not the warmonger it has been painted and, as the series develops, readers' curiosity may be piqued into checking to see if they agree with the author's conclusions.ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Oliver Fairfax is a nomad. A Scot by birth, he has wandered from England to Hong Kong and back - twice. He has lived in France and now in New Zealand. He worries that a generation is rising who cannot tell the difference between a citizen and a subject. He is concerned about the pervasive growth of regulation that cannot be afforded, cannot be complied with, but that seeks to remove free choice. He worries also about political correctness and the suppression of dissonance being two policies that misinform ordinary people's decision-making processes. But those irritants aside, life's great - and remember, you should never have joined if you can't take a joke.
Looking at her timeline, Erimem is intrigued by evidence that at some point in her life, she visits the Nazi-besieged city of Stalingrad in 1942. Against the advice of her friends, Erimem travels back through time to discover what happened in Russia during those terrible times in the war. With German forces relentlessly bombarding the city, the people are freezing and starving...and worse, there are stories of a demon or a beast, stalking the ruined streets of Stalingrad, devouring anyone it meets. When Erimem arrives she finds a city under attack both from the invading German armies and from a dark force in the shadows.
Randell Alexander; Angelo P. Giardino; Debra Esernio-Jenssen; Jonathan D. Thackeray; David L. Chadwick; Joyce A. Adams; Suzanne P. Starling; Rich Kaplan
Sexual abuse of children is an especially delicate matter, and each reported case should be treated with exacting care. Accurate identification and appropriate response to symptoms of sexual maltreatment in children is essential to resilient, long-term recovery for survivors. Therefore, it is incumbent upon those professionals who care for and represent the interests of survivors to recognize cases of childhood sexual abuse and to respond expediently, in the best interest of the survivors.This new pocket atlas, the second addition to an ongoing series on child abuse, will support medical practitioners and other affiliated sexual assault response providers in identifying and interpreting the physical signs and symptoms of sexual abuse in children. With nearly 400 full-color exam photos and corresponding case studies, as well as detailed refreshers on anogenital anatomy, exam equipment, and typical findings, readers in medicine, law enforcement, and social service will all benefit from this compact photographic reference and guide.
Mark Ravenhill's autobiographical radio play explores the way culture, high and low, impacted both his mother’s and his family’s lives. Starting an adult ballet class as the only male in the group sparks a memory of life through the eyes of Ravenhill, the playwright. As time intertwines through alternating perspectives we see his family at different stages of their life. From childhood dreams of being a dancer and performer through to the creativity that brings his parents together for the first time and into their old age, this is a deeply personal and resonate drama about the intersects of life and culture. Commissioned by Sound Stage, a new immersive audio theatre, designed by theatre-makers and leading technologists, giving audiences a unique and engrossing online theatre experience of new plays from the best in British theatre.
Angela's whole life seems to have been dictated by others. First her parents, then her husband. Will she ever have a life of her own, gain self worth and become an independent woman? This is the story of Angela's journey
Angela just wants to make her Ma happy, but it's an impossible task. Everything she does, everything she says, is wrong. Will she snap under the pressure and expectations or find a way to grow from the chaos?
"There's just something that doesn't seem right ..."Who can explain the mysterious allure of Angela Lansbury? In this Sidekick team-up, Chrissy Williams and Howard Hardiman gaze upon (and into) the many facets of Angela and her most famous fictional counterpart, Jessica Fletcher, as wonderstruck miners might scrutinise a fist-sized diamond freshly cut from the rock. But like a tesseract, Angela seems to exist in four dimensions, beyond Euclidean space, her limits impossible to define through observation alone. Thus, further and deeper must our fearless duo travel, through the televisual glass, past all the iterations of ode and approximation, into the parallel universe that is Angela.
One of the brightest talents to have emerged on the UK food scene in the past few years, Angela Hartnett has been been described by Gordon Ramsay as 'the new Elizabeth David'.
