Success strikes twelve: The winners of the 1990 Ian St. James Awards

Literature & Fiction

David Walker

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fontana/Collins

This guide takes the reader through the requirements of the advanced Jiu Jitsu black belt. Using step-by-step photography, it goes through all the techniques as well as showing how these can be used in self defence. There is also a section on taking your belt gradings.

Jiu Jitsu for All

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Jiu Jitsu for all: purple belt to dark blue belt guides the reader through the requirements of these intermediate Jiu Jitsu belts. Using clear step-by-step photography, it covers: introduction - the history of Jiu Jitsu, preparing to train (mentally and physically), and working together techniques - strikes, throws, locks, groundwork and weapon defences self-defence - practical application putting it all together - bringing together the techniques for belt gradings. Jiu Jitsu is a unique martial art helping the student to develop new skills, improve fitness and defend themselves if necessary. By following the clear guidance in this book, the reader will be able to progress through the belts.

Jiu Jitsu for all

Experience & Learning: Reflection at Work

David Boud

Hyperion Books

Labour's second term is drawing to a close. What have they really achieved in the last four years? Did Iraq overshadow all? Did public services improve after all? Were the targets reached, the promises met? In Better or Worse? Toynbee and Walker do a thorough audit of hospitals, schools, trains, climate change, the constitution and the countryside and find the hard facts. The verdict? Blair II delivered. Figures show that Britain is safer, better educated, better off all round. But people don't believe it and the polls reveal this growing public mistrust. This is Labour's most profound failure. What caused this rift between perception and reality? Was it Blair's political style or the growing irresponsibility of the press? Incisive, comprehensive and fair, Better or Worse? gets away from the personalities and the spin to reveal the true political picture of Blair's Britain now. This is an essential analysis of the Labour Party's performance during the last four years.

Better or Worse? Has Labour Delivered?

Polly Toynbee

History

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

In the early 1970s, a new breed of film emerged that would completely change the way black people were presented in movies. With their afros picked to spherical perfection and their guns blazing, big bad soul brothers and super sexy sisters lit up movie theaters across the country. Never before had black men and women appeared on screen in quite this way. In time, these films would be called "blaxploitation." And while it has long been debated exactly which film launched the blaxploitation era, the financial success of Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Gordon Parks's Shaft helped open the flood gates for the more than 200 films that are now considered blaxploitation. Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak is a collection of interviews with many of the men and women who defined the genre. In candid conversations, some of the most important figures of the era describe what it was like to work on these films and what impact they had on American culture. Among those interviewed are such icons as Jim Brown (Slaughter), Antonio Fargas (Foxy Brown), Gloria Hendry (Hell Up in Harlem), Jim Kelly (Black Belt Jones), Ron O'Neal (Superfly), William Marshall (Blacula), and Fred Williamson (Hammer). Also featured here are some of the most influential names behind the scenes, including Larry Cohen (Black Caesar), Oscar Williams (Five on the Black Hand Side), and Melvin Van Peebles. This volume also includes a filmography of every known (or rumored) blaxploitation film, including their availability on VHS and DVD.

Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak

Humor & Entertainment

Andrew J. Rausch

Chris Watson

Movies

Scarecrow Press

Rhyming text follows the life of all sorts of puppies from when they are born "with eyes shut tight," through moving in with a new family and "getting bowls and beds and names," to learning how to do things grown-up dogs do.

Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!

Children's Books

MEYERS, SUSAN

Animals

Harry N. Abrams

<li>One-of-a-kind story of resilience and determination in the Vietnam War </li>
<li>Combat action with a long-range patrol (LRP) team </li>
<li>Written in a no-holds-barred, from-the-gut style In January 1968, barely a month after arriving in Vietnam, Dave Walker received a debilitating shrapnel wound to his eye. Medically discharged and sent home, Walker--now missing an eye--maneuvered his way back into the army and back to Vietnam in 1970, where he served another eighteen months conducting patrols and special operations in the Central Highlands.
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Cyclops in the Jungle: A One-Eyed LRP in Vietnam (Stackpole Military History Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Stackpole Books

The Lord's pink ocean

The Lord's Pink Ocean

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