Aldershot is famous as the ' Home of the British Army' & the early character of the town was formed by the choice of the Army to make Aldershot Heath the site of its first permanent training camp. Before 1853 Aldershot was a small rural village of around 870 people, but this underwent a dramatic change when some 15, 000 soldiers arrived. To meet the needs of the troops, a new town, which was a remarkable example of Victorian design & architecture, was constructed. In the twenty-first century Aldershot sees more change, such as the new Westgate centre & the Aldershot Urban Extension which will build thousands of new houses on land previously used for barracks across South Camp. By comparing fascinating old photographs with their modern equivalents, this book shows not only some of the huge changes which have occurred in military & civilian Aldershot, but also how much of its rich history can still be seen & enjoyed. ...

Aldershot is proud to be ` The Home of the British Army', & its history is inextricably linked with that of the military. The town has been shaped by the presence of the Army since it was selected as the site of Britain's first permanent training camp, & probably every regiment has been stationed in Aldershot at some time in its history. The camp was founded during the Crimean War, & soldiers from Aldershot have fought in all major conflicts since then, including the Zulu War, wars in Egypt, the Sudan & South Africa, the two world wars, & more recent conflicts including the Falklands War, Iraq & Afghanistan. This book is a celebration of Aldershot's rich & continuing military heritage. In following the development of the camp, it reveals the immense contribution Aldershot has made to the British Army from the 1850s to the present, including some of the colourful personalities who have left their mark on it, together with the many fine buildings & memorials which remind us of our military predecessors to whom we owe so much. ...

Aldo by John Burningham is the tale of a lonely little girl who finds that her imaginary friend Aldo has the power to comfort & reassure. With its haunting illustrations & lyrical text, Aldo is full of feeling & the perfect story to share if your child is worried & unhappy about friendships. ...

The catalog of the Aldo Manutiu exhibition, 500 years after his death, is a tribute to the most famous printer in the history of publishing. It tells how the book changed the world & how & why this change happened in Venice, cosmopolitan city & gateway between East & West. But it is mainly a journey through the world of culture & the arts in Venice between the end of the fifteenth century & the start of the sixteenth, in a crucial period featuring major figures like the painters Bellini, Carpaccio, & the young Giorgione (with the debut of his pupil Titian), illustrious visiting foreign artists like Albrecht Durer, & intellectuals of European fame such as Erasmus of Rotterdam. ...

The son of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background & was educated at Eton & Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then enhanced enough for him to start writing, & by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty & daring novels like CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923) & POINT COUNTER POINT (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society, BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932), that Huxley is remembered today. A truly visionary book, it was a watershed in Huxley's world-view as his later work became more & more optimistic
- coinciding with his move to California & experimentation with mysticism & psychedelic drugs later in life. Nicholas Murray's brilliant new book has the greatest virtue of literary biographies: it makes you want to go out & read its subject's work all over again. A fascinating reassessment of one of the most interesting writers of the twentieth century.
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This is a biography about the British motor industry's most influential & controversial engineer, Sir Alec Issignois. Wood exposes a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal & corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role. THE COLLAPSE in 2005 of MG Rover marked the end of Britain's indigenous motor industry as a volume car manufacturer. Yet back in the 1960s its Longbridge-based British Motor Corporation predecessor dominated the market with the iconic Mini & stylish 1100. Both were the work, together with the legendary Morris Minor, of Sir Alec Issigonis, CBE, FRS, the British motor industry's most influential & controversial engineer. In this full-length biography, published to commemorate the centenary of its subject's birth, which falls in 2006, award-winning motoring historian Jonathan Wood chronicles the rise & fall of Issigonis, born in Turkey of Greek/ Bavarian parentage, who arrived in Britain as a near-penniless refugee & became the most powerful automobile engineer in the l&. His ingenious & effective designs had a deep, lasting influence on the evolution of the motor car & on the wider history of industrial design, & he deserves to be ranked with the other giants of the field like Ferdinand Porsche in Germany & Dante Giacosa in Italy. Wood's candid & meticulously researched account, which exposes Sir Alec's public & private faces, & is the product of some 30 years of research, is complemented by interviews conducted with many of Issigonis' former colleagues & friends, including: Ronald Barker, John Cooper, Jack Daniels, Christopher Dowson, Paddy Hopkirk, Spen King, Dr Alex Moulton, Dr Bernd Pischetsrieder, Lord Snowdon & Stuart Turner. The finished volume is a balanced view of a remarkable, immensely talented man, with a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal & corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role. ...

* For the first time ever, the pioneering autobiographical comics of master cartoonist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) are collected in a single volume! * Brilliantly observed & profoundly expressed, the ALEC stories present a version of Campbell's own life, filtered through the alter ego of Alec Mac Garry. Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's) progression from beer to wine
- wild nights at the pub, existential despair, the hunt for love, the quest for art, becoming a responsible breadwinner, feeling lost at his own movie premiere, & much more! Eddie's outlandish fantasies & metafictional tricks convert life into art, while staying fully grounded in his own absurdity. * This Life-Size Omnibus edition of ALEC

Includes:: all the stories from The King Canute Crowd, Three-Piece Suit, How to be an Artist, & After the Snooter, as well as the very early, out-of-print ALEC stories & a staggering amount of bonus material.


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Aled Jones, a choirboy with a remarkable voice, achieved more as a teenager than many adult singers do in a lifetime. His prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom; before he was 16, he had already sold more than 6 million records & had become a fixture on television & radio. He has worked alongside such musical greats as Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Neville Marriner, Howard Blake & Mike Oldfield. Some of the high points of his early career included performances at the Hollywood Bowl & the wedding of Bob Geldof & Paula Yates, as well as singing privately for the Prince & the late Princess of Wales. Best known as a boy soprano for his hit ' Walking in the Air', Aled tells the full story of the effect it had on his life. Always refreshingly honest & self-effacing, Aled reveals how he faced up to life after his voice had broken & how he carved out a new career for himself on stage, record, television & radio. His story begins with his idyllic childhood on the Welsh island of Anglesey & his years as a chorister at Bangor Cathedral, during which his family provided wonderful support & encouragement as he rose to fame. He tells of his studies at the Royal Academy of Music & the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. As an adult performer, Aled has released a series of best-selling albums. Today, he is most known for sitting alongside Lorraine Kelly as one half of the presenting partnership of ITV's breakfast programme Daybreak. He is a regular host of Songs of Praise & presents weekly radio programmes for Classic FM & BBC Radio Wales. Aled: My Story reveals the man behind the music in a frank, heart-warming & funny account of his life. ...

Aled Jones was a choirboy with a remarkable voice, whose prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom. Before he was sixteen, he had already sold more than six million records & had become a fixture on television & radio. He has worked alongside such greats as Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Neville Marriner, Howard Blake, & Mike Oldfield. Some of the high points of his early career include performances at the Hollywood Bowl & the wedding of Bob Geldof & Paula Yates, as well as singing privately for the Prince & Princess of Wales. Best known as a boy soprano for his hit " Walking in the Air, Aled tells the full story of this phenomenal record & the effect it had on his life. Always refreshingly honest & self-effacing, Aled reveals how he faced up to life after his voice had broken & how he carved out a new career for himself on stage, record, television, & radio. His story begins with his idyllic childhood on the Welsh island of Anglesey & his years as a chorister at Bangor Cathedral, during which his family provided wonderful support & encouragement as he rose to fame. He tells of his studies at the Royal Academy of Music & the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School & delves behind the scene of some of Britain's best-know institutions, such as Songs of Praise, BBC Wales & Classic FM. Aled reveals the truth about the man behind the music in this frank, heartwarming & funny account of his life. ...

The perfect gift for Christmas, this book

Includes:: all your favourite carols brought vividly to life

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