New Releases by James Marsh

his is a story spanning some of the most turbulent decades in recent world history. James Marsh was born during the first year of the Second World War and many of his infant years were spent in air-raid shelters outside his home. Bombs rained down from the German Luftwaffe as they tried to destroy the city of Southampton, which has now been James'' home for more than sixty years. The gritty determination, community spirit and, above all, the humour, with which the local community faced the difficulties of war, have stayed with James throughout his life. Moving on to describe the harsh lessons learned in 1940s and ''50s schooling and subsequently describing his teenage years in the merchant navy, this book explores how growing up in the post-war years was both a challenge and a lot of fun.

John Halden and Charles Buckley, part of "the stolen white generation" who spent their formative years at a farming settlement for English orphans in Western Australia, began searching for their natural parents in the late 1990s, unleashing a string of disastrous incidents which impact themselves and their families.

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A guide to making films. It covers: using a camcorder; filming techniques, lighting and sound; finding a story and writing a script; storyboarding and special effects; recruiting cast and crew; locations; budgeting for equipment, costumes and crops; directing; editing; and the premiere!

Crash Course is the revision series all medical students have been waiting for! This superb new series of revision books are bright, colourful, easy to use learning tools every student will want to have. Crash Course has been written by students, for students which ensures they are ideal for today''s curriculum. Colourful, fun illustrations that simplify difficult concepts are combined with concise bulleted text to set this remarkable series apart from any other. This comprehensive group of revision books is pitched squarely at the more modern, integrated curriculum. Many of the titles are ''systems'' rather than ''discipline'' based. For example, the Gastrointestinal System covers aspects of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of that system therefore teaching the student the basic sciences within a clinical setting. Meeting the requirements of the change in curriculum in medical schools throughout the country, Crash Course is the first review series to fully integrate the basic sciences with clinical information.

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Provides information on a variety of developments in the plant world, from trees of record-breaking size to plants that eat animals.

Young Telegraph books address the need for a less formalised approach to language in children''''s non-fict ion, and combine this with strong visual imagery. ''

Fifteen poems depict the fun and feeling of being in love.

Descendants of Abner Raleigh who was in North Carolina in the late 1700''s.

Illustrates balance in the language in reduplication; relative constructions; bound pronouns; paragraph and discourse structure.

Definitive, clearly written, and well-illustrated volume addresses all aspects of the subject, from the historical development of understanding metal fatigue to vital concepts of the cyclic stress that causes a crack to grow. Includes 7 appendixes.

Sentenced to three years in jail after he destroyed government property as part of an anti-war protest in 1968, Daniel Berrigan fled justice but later turned himself in. In ''The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Berrigan addresses the conflicts between conscience and conduct, power and justice, law and morality.