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Gaza conflict - the forgotten historyThe Palestine Campaign of World War One has been largely ignored in the popular press, and this book seeks to bring two major battles into focus. While there is considerable detail aimed at military enthusiasts, the personal aspect provided by never-before-published quotations and interviews with survivors and relatives of some of those killed will engage a wider audience. Extensive appendices cover the composition of the divisions which took part, comprehensive casualty charts and complete gallantry awards, as well as many photographs which have never been published before.

The story of Count Dracula, the blood-sucking vampire of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel and the subsequent star of a multitude of stage and film presentations, is well-known: a creature which comes alive at night when everyone else is asleep to feast on the warm blood of young maidens before returning to its coffin home at dawn; one which can be repelled by garlic and crosses but killed only by a stake through the heart. What is not so well known is that much of Stoker's original 1897 novel is set in Essex - in the Thameside village (as it was then) of Purfleet, near Grays.Why should Bram Stoker have chosen such a seemingly insignificant settlement as the place where the Transylvanian vampire makes his English home? Could it be that the fiction of Dracula is based on some horrifying fact? Does Purfleet perhaps have a history of vampire associations? Are the characters and the locations in the novel drawn from actual people and places in the village? Or is there a more mundane reason for this Essex location being Stoker's choice?This book sets out to answer all these questions and more to provide once and for all an answer to the mystery of why Bram Stoker should wish to set such a horrific blood-curdling story in a quiet Essex Thameside village...

In the beginning was Jamestown.... This is the wondrous story of the genesis of America told through this cradle to the grave account of the life of one man. Richard Pace was a simple London carpenter who became an Ancient Planter - a name given to the earliest colonial settlers. It was his timely warning of an impending attack that saved the first permanent settlement in Virginia from annihilation. Richard's heroic act had profound consequences: Survival provided a breathing space that would eventually bring about a total victory over the indigenous tribes as the colonists gained time to re-group and then went on to the offensive Richard's warning which foiled a Jamestown massacre meant that by their failure to wipe out the settlers the Powhatan Confederacy had effectively signed their own death warrant. The fate intended for the interloping white man was in fact visited on the attackers for in the following years the native population suffered subjugation, marginalisation, suppression of their culture and were pressed from their tribal lands To the victor the spoils for the settlers secured undisputed occupation and control of the territory. Virginia prospered under individual enterprise balanced by institutions which ensured justice, the rule of law and participative governance. The colony organised round this combination of individualism, free markets and democratic self government, presaged what America would become

A few weeks after I made an attempt to rocket power a Dinky Toy, nearly blowing up the Toolroom in the process, I left the Meccano factory to present myself at Cardington Air Force Base to do my National Service in the R A F.Three days later I was back, having been pronounced unfit to serve Queen and Country because I had suffered two severe bouts of pneumonia as a child. At a previous medical I had been graded A1.My family were happy to see the return of the 'prodigal', not so my current girlfriend, she had wasted no time in finding a replacement.After my explosive exit I was also less than welcome when I arrived back at Meccano on the following Monday but, because I had left to do my duty in the armed forces, by law they had to give me my job back. I was immediately moved into the Tool Repair, next door where, presumably, they thought I would be out of harm's way, and the main Toolroom staff would be safer without a budding bomb maker in their midst. Life moved on, then one Sunday afternoon I happened to be near Binns Road and decided to pay a nostalgic visit to the old Meccano factory, now closed. Outwardly the building looked much as I remembered but when I peered in through a small window set in one of the massive doors I looked upon total devastation, demolition was well under way. For a long time I gazed as the memories flooded back so real and fresh, that I realised such unique experiences should not be allowed to simply fade away as the place in which they were created was fading away, they must be preserved. And so . . . .All the incidents in this narrative actually happened although, obviously, not precisely as depicted.This book has not been written to extol the wonderful products which poured from the Binns Road production lines for over fifty years, that has been done many times, but rather it is to bring to the reader the experiences, good and bad, happy and sometimes traumatic of a young apprentice growing up in the legendary factory that was Meccano. Except for the author most of the names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the not so innocent).

Ken Eaton-Dykes: pessimist or prophet? ... or comic curmudgeon?

Igbo Language Made Easy with English and Swedish translation is an introductory learning material for individuals, especially students who want to learn the Igbo language and can read and understand either English language or Swedish language. The main purpose of this book is to help Igbo families living in diaspora, especially Sweden, to begin to understand, speak and write the Igbo language in order to know, appreciate and promote the language, culture and customs. This book contains visual instructions to aid learning. The lessons contained in this book are simple to understand, easy to read, speak, and to write.

Alan Cobham wanted to help Britain take a lead in international air travel so he organised and financed this first flight to Australia and back. Read how Cobham and engineer Arthur Ward took on the challenges of more than 50 landing strips through the Middle East and Asia, as well as hairy river and sea-landings where no strips existed. See inside the cockpit of the DeHavilland DH50J and meet the characters that helped them along the route. Familiar as Cobham was with long distance flying, taking on this journey in a small seaplane offered a new and dangerous adventure.

Kate Goodwill reveals her love for earth and her respect for humanity in this intriguing tale of an apocalyptic "explosion of souls".

This book describes how the quality of life can be improved by exploiting the central role of the hearing organs from the astonishing discoveries of Professor Alfred Tomatis.This book can be considered as a standard work to establish the proper execution of the original Tomatis method. It pays tribute to Professor Alfred Tomatis' pioneering work. It provides an insight into why and for what disabilities the method works so well. A wealth of scientific validations and cases are presented to illustrate this as an aid for practitioners as well as for potential clients and to convince the outside world. Details encompass anatomy, neurology, and physiology, pathology, psychology along with interpretations of listening tests, programming and equipment. It serves both therapists and clients, as well as generally interested persons and medical or educational institutions. The authors have extensive experience in applying the therapy; Jozef Vervoort, as successor appointed by Professor Alfred Tomatis, has run a Tomatis Centre for over forty years, recently with his daughter Astrid, being Josef's successor. He is also the leader of the large MBL-Tomatis network of the Mozart-Brain-Lab. Martien de Voigt and his wife Ann, in close cooperation with Vervoort, have about twenty-five years' experience. In total about 45,000 disabilities have been successfully treated by them and numerous therapists trained.

Paul ByrneDublinIreland2015A candid account of a boy growing up on council estates in South Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s. A true life story.I try to look at it from both sides of the argument.However, I can't always look at it from the other side.From having a happy and healthy childhood, going on adventures in the Dublin Mountains and Shankill and Killiney beaches ...Then becoming seriously ill.Finding out how bad the health service really is. Left to fight a very serious illness. On my own.I knew I was different from every other child, which would make my illness totally unique in my country.And maybe in the whole world.I have yet to come up with a name for my illness.Maybe call it O'Byrne's Syndrome?Without causing offence to the O'Byrne clan.I just hope that my book.Will help others.Who have a serious and embarrassing illness and are living it alone.Please read and reflect.

Born in Liverpool in 1945, Roy Starkey grew up fascinated with the natural world. As a schoolboy he joined the local botanical society and made a number of trips to isolated bird observatories around the British coast. At the age of twenty-five he became disillusioned by the politics of university research and decided to leave and do his own thing.With very little money, no boatbuilding skills and no experience of the sea he built Sea Loone, a thirty-three foot sloop, and sailed away. The boat and crew were soon tested on the ocean, first losing the mast over the side and then sailing into one of the worst gales ever - the 1979 'Fastnet Gale' - which claimed eighteen lives on the 306 yachts participating in that year's biannual 'Fastnet Race'.Over the next nearly forty years Sea Loone sailed throughout the tropics finally completing three very convoluted circumnavigations of the world. Having experienced hardships, tragedies and many happy adventures, Roy at last decided to put pen to paper and record his remarkable story.

A collection of 69 poems, some reflective, some playful, some with a poignant or comical twist ... but all reveal Christian Boustead's immense respect and love for the natural world.

Here is a History teacher`s tribute to error - the error which defies correction, the error which has a logic of its own, the error which often deserves to be right far more than the truth does.Which port in Spain did the Armada sail from?El CidWhat was a toga?A rape-around robeWhat does the name 'Christ' mean?Something has gone wrongWhy was England dull under Cromwell?He closed the cinemasWhere was Hitler born?Burnham Thorpe, NorfolkWhat did men use to build the prehistoric huts on Dartmoor?Their hands.

Spearmint - "Sweeping the Nation" (Hitback records). Email to mail@spearmint.net 11.30 21/12/13.Hi,I've just finished the first draft of my book about the five years I spent promoting various genres of local music during 2002/2007 in and around Chorley, Blackburn and Preston, Lancashire.It champions all the bands and artists that never got to make it further than their hometown fan base...and a few that did. I found your track "Sweeping the Nation" on a Rough Trade CD and have been recommending it to anyone I meet/know as the best song I have ever heard that sums up what my book is about...I am 51 and Northern Soul was an influence on my growing up and appreciation of musical styles. How clever of you to combine the classic back beat sample with a list of the bands you knew about that never made it and then bound it all together with driving guitars and the thumping chorus of: "I've been wasting my life I've finally realised I've wasted so much time....!My book has made me understand that I didn't waste my life because I followed my dream, stuck to what I believed in and have some wonderful memories. I know what Mr Bradshaw meant in his words to Shirley as everything I wanted in life has come true!Thanks again and maybe I'll get to one of your gigs in the New Year."I wanna hear you on that!"John Winstanley.About the author.John Winstanley was born in Okehampton, Devon in 1962. His parents were originally from the North West of England and they moved to Euxton, Lancashire in the early 1970's. John went to Balshaws High School and Runshaw College in Leyland before starting his career in Preston. Married to Helen he lives with their daughters Hannah and Holly in Withnell, Nr Chorley. When not going out to watch live music John enjoys writing about it and looks forwards to retirement at the family's favourite holiday destination - Benahavis, Costa Del Sol, Spain.