New Releases by Chris Ellis

This volume presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken at four sites in Kent. The two ''linear'' schemes, the West Malling and Leybourne Bypass and Weatherlees-Margate-Broadstairs Wastewater Pipeline, provided transects across the landscape revealing settlement and cemetery evidence of Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon date. Medieval settlement remains included sunken-featured buildings at West Malling, Fulston Manor and Star Lane, Manston.

The extremely calculated nature of heinous crimes and their perpetrators means that many leave little to no evidence. Often these cases are left open with scant hope of resolution, usually to the horror of affected families and friends. But thanks to rapidly developing advances in forensic techniques—especially in the fields of psychological, psychic, and DNA profiling—an increasing number of cases are being reexamined and solved years after the crimes were committed. Collected here are the incredible true stories of how some the most horrific murderers in existence were caught using astounding and unusual methods, sometimes decades after the fact. Filled with alarming crimes and captivating investigative techniques, these stories are proof that there is no such thing as a perfect murder.

Construction of a tank road through part of Salisbury Plain, from Warminster to Tilshead, has revealed archaeological remains dating from the Neolithic up to the modern use of the Plain for military training. Excavation adjacent to Battlesbury Camp hillfort has uncovered Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age settlement activity including ditches, roundhouses, four-post structures and numerous pits. Some of the pits contained human burials, and other deposits of artefacts and animal bones appear to have been formally placed. Detailed environmental investigation has provided information about both the nature of the on-site activities and the character of the surrounding landscape. Other sites investigated along the tank road included a round barrow and a multiple inhumation and cremation burial of Early Bronze Age date, a Middle Bronze Age enclosure, Late Bronze Age settlement sites, the ''Old Ditch'' Wessex Linear earthwork and evidence for Romano-British settlement and landuse.

This book is filled with useful and practical language learning strategies designed to help doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers to learn an African language through their daily contact with patients in Africa. More than this, it gives advice on ways to reach some understanding of the culture, health beliefs and world views of the patient in a medical consultation. Although English/Zulu and the Zulu medical culture are used as the examples, the underlying themes are applicable to any culture. The book has retained the humor and wit of its predecessor, Learning Language and Culture in the Medical Consultation, but it has been considerably revised and expanded to include more material on the cross-cultural consultation and the AIDS pandemic, as well as appendices of vocabulary and "survival phrases" designed to facilitate communication and understanding in a medical context.

It''s the essential source book on tanks, an extensive pictorial history with unmatched technical illustrations and data throughout. Over 1000 photographs, with development notes, show all the tanks produced for military service by the major arms-producing countries during this crucial period. Even prototypes and experimental models appear. Arranged chronologically, from the early days of World War One to the Russian and German heavy tanks used in 1945, the entry for each vehicle has notes on design, production, and performance. Invaluable for the enthusiast and collector. A Selection of the Military Book Club.

Officially a part of the Luftwaffe, Germany''s parachute units were organized into the 7th Flieger Division in July 1938 under General Kurt Student. In the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 the parachute units stunned the world and laid the basis for an airborne mystique that has endured to the present day. The division also fought in Norway, Greece and Crete before surrendering in Italy in 1945. Each Spearhead title includes an evaluation of the units combat effectiveness as seen by the unit, its opponents and subsequent researchers, and a research section including a bibliography and a listing of museums, websites, re-enactment groups and memorials.

The new Spearhead series is designed to look at the cutting edge of war, dealing with units capable of operating completely independently in the forefront of battle. Each volume in the series examines a historic unit''s origins, history, organization, order of battle, battle history, insignia and markings. The 21st Panzer Division gained greatest fame in North Africa, but also served in Normandy and on the Russian Front. Each Spearhead title includes an evaluation of the units combat effectiveness as seen by the unit, its opponents and subsequent researchers, and a research section including a bibliography and a listing of museums, websites, re-enactment groups and memorials.

This complete illustrated history of British, American and Commonwealth tanks, gun motor carriages and special-purpose vehicles between 1939 and 1945 provides a detailed history of each type, plus full pictorial coverage of the many variants which were produced on each chassis.

This comprehensive guide explains the basic concept of radio control and the operating features of key components such as receivers and servos. The author takes you through the main construction stages, from setting up your work area and tool box to essential testing prior to operating. Once you have mastered the basic skills you will be able to start your own model. Choose one of the 15 exciting kits featured in this book, and assembly will be child''s play. Ranging from an elegant yacht to an F-1 racing car, the models are accompanied by detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs which illustrate all the techniques needed to build a fully operational model. Invaluable hints on operating your model are given, from the best way to launch a glider, to how to tack and jib and the necessary control stick movements for performing aerobatic maneuvers. A resources section provides valuable information on organizations and the major manufacturers and distributors. Highlighting the fine detailing and realism of today''s kits, the superb completed models featured in the gallery sections will inspire you to experiment and explore a wide variety of models. Book jacket.

The Number Crew programmes are produced for Channel 4 Schools by Open Mind Productions. This story was adapted from the scripts written by Chris Ellis.

Featuring one hundred illustrations, an introduction to a fascinating and complex hobby is a guide to model trains from the golden age of Lionels, Ives, Ma+a5rklin, and Hornby to the exciting models of today.

Water is one of the most fascinating elements in our lives. Without it, none of us would be here, and our planet would be a very different place.

"Vehicles at War" shows how military vehicles, from humble cargo trucks to tanks, were developed over the years to meet the changing styles of transport and warfare in the industrialized age. The complete transformation from using the horse as chief mode of transportation to complete mechanization took approximately forty years, and was not at an end until the beginning of World War II. Even during that conflict, a not insignificant portion of European armies still used the horse as their major means of transport.

Pictures and describes the formidable range of tanks, self-propelled antitank guns, infantry-support guns, and heavy artillery used by Germany''s panzer divisions

2. Verdenskrig. Britiske hær- håndbog for den britiske hær. Udkom oprindeligt i 1942 (TM-30-410) - beregnet til at give den amerikanske soldat "an overall picture of the British Army, its equipment, uniforms, insignia, organisation, ranks, armament, military intelligence in the field and its tactics" I bogen beskrives den britiske hær 1942, udrustning, uniformer, mærker, organisation, grader, taktisk efterretningstjeneste og taktik.