The hugely successful drama brings its intelligent writing to a new book. Six Feet Under is a family drama with a macabre twist - it's set in a funeral parlour. The show has quickly grown into a bona fide cultural phenomenon, grabbing many Golden Globe and Emmy Awards in 2002, as well as a UK Comedy Award. Now, Six Feet Under's producers turn their attentions to creating a one-of-a-kind companion book. With an introduction and contributions by Alan Ball as well as the show's head writers, this book will reveal the untold stories of the characters and the events in their lives. The Six Feet Under characters are both people who live next door and the people we have never met. The Six Feet Under book takes us behind the scenes of their complex lives, including material from the yet-unaired third season, as well as providing synopses of the 39 episodes to set the stage. It is designed with an elegant, spare look reflecting the feel of the show and begulles readers as only Six Feet Under can.

Six Feet Under : The Official Companion

Alan Ball

Channel Four Books H/B

"Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell" is the ultimate fan bible, offering a comprehensive behind the scenes guide to NYC and its most fabulous foursome - the friends and boyfriends, the bar rooms and bedrooms, the infatuations and fashions. Packed with information and photos not available anywhere else, it will fascinate and delight its readers with wholly original material from the show's stars, producers, costume designers, and more. It includes all-access passes to the sets; an insider's tour of the real bistros and boutiques where Carrie and friends sip, shop, and seduce; and never-aired outtakes from the series.Each of the show's major players are interviewed, offering revealing, intimate biographies and sharing the true life stories that inspire every episode. An elegant, beautiful edition with an exclusive introduction from Sarah Jessica Parker herself, this book is every bit as intoxicating as the pink Cosmopolitans sipped by Carrie and friends at Manhattan's chichest hot spots. This is a fully updated edition including episode guides for the final two series, with brand new and exlusive photographs and other most have mementos of this seminal show.

Sex and the City : Kiss and Tell

Humor & Entertainment

AMY SOHN

Humor

Dream Homes Within Your Reach showcases twenty of the most beautiful places abroad you can find to live, all near where the budget airlines fly to, and all within your budget. The book is themed to highlight the best property in regions famed for their beaches, countryside, mountains and islands. We will detail case studies from the show, talking to people who took the plunge in seeking their own piece of paradise. We will also be getting top tips from ex-pats, finding out about community life as well as the financial considerations. Also included are new price guides, at a glance fact boxes, and flight information as to which budget airlines fly to where, and for how much. Along with our series' trademark beautiful photography, it will both motivate and inspire your imagination.

A Place in the Sun : Dream Homes Within Your Reach

Fanny Blake

"Painting with Watercolour Challenge" is a book in which the experts who feature on the series - Mike Chaplin, Hazel Soan, Jenny Wheatley and Susan Webb - sit alongside the contestants and create a selection of different paintings of the same scene. By recreating the process that the experts use, the reader can learn new techniques, familiar pitfalls and be inspired to have a go themselves. The experts also demonstrate, using step-by-step illustrations, some of the most used techniques in order to create a practical manual. The book opens with a section on behind-the-scences explaining where the original idea came from, how the artists are chosen and what happens on a typical - and hectic - day on location.

Painting with "Watercolour Challenge": Challenge

Arts & Photography

Vowles, Diana

History & Criticism

By the time the Nazi interlude in German history came to a close, almost everything in the country had been destroyed. But, despite the millions of refugees and wrecked homes, and the dereliction of German industry, it was all rebuilt surprisingly quickly. Germany once more became a leading technological nation. German artists and writers emerged from hiding and resumed their work. But one thing was never repaired. When the Nazis took over Germany, German science was the best in the world. Despite all efforts to revive it, it has never recovered. This book looks at the often dubious work German scientists undertook during the Nazi era, especially in the fields of biology, medicine, aeronautics and nuclear physics, and chronicles the ultimate decline and death of German science

Science and the Swastika

WEALE, Adrian

Science & Math

Danger UXB. The Remarkable Story Of The Disposal Of Unexploded Bombs During The Second World War

Danger UXB

History

Melanie Jappy

Military

In its third year, " Scraphead Challenge" is one of Channel 4`s most successful Sunday evening series, with a regular audience of over three million viewers. It`s a knockout competition for amateur engineers - each week, two new teams of madcap mechanics have to work against the clock to build a specific machine from whatever junk they can scavenge. " Behind the Scenes at Scrapheap Challenge" looks at what goes on behind the camera as well as on screen, using six case studies from the series and scores of colour photographs. The teams have just ten hours to come up with the goods and get one step nearer to the season finale. The book follows the would-be engineers and presenters Robert Llewellyn and Cathy Rodgers` progress as the competition hots up. Through the interviews with the cast and crew, we discover what it`s really like to take up the " Scrapheap Challenge" .

Behind the Scenes at Scrapheap Challenge

Robert Llewellyn

Television

Bada-bing! A selection of the finest scripts from The Sopranos, including the first ever episode and the opening part of the eagerly awaited third series. The Sopranos - just your average, everyday New Jersey mafia family. Tony Soprano has a long-suffering wife, two children, a beautiful home and some major headaches...His mother wants him dead, his psychiatrist can't leave him alone and the FBI are taking an unhealthy interest in his business. What's a guy to do? Featuring five crackling scripts taken from all three series (including scenes that never made it to transmission), colour photographs and an exclusive introduction by series creator, writer and director David Chase, The Sopranos Scriptbook is a must-have companion to this compelling show.

The Sopranos Scriptbook (Social History of Africa)

David Chase

Movies

A new Time Team book, tying in to the ninth series of Time Team, presented by Tony Robinson. Time Team continues to be one of Channel 4's most popular long-running brands. Following the success of Behind the Scenes at Time Team, The Ultimate Time Team Companion and Time Team's Timechester, the producer Tim Taylor returns to life on location for this new book to accompany the ninth series of Time Team. In On Location with Time Team, Tim will tell the story of six entirely new digs, at locations all over Great Britain. This will be a chance to see what life is really like on location, not only for the production team, but also for the archaeologists who have become celebrities in their own right: Mick Aston, Phil Harding and Carenza Lewis. The book will be illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photographs of the new locations, and will be a fascinating portrait of life on location as part of the Time Team.

Digging the Dirt with "Time Team"

Tim, Taylor

Step inside the Bartlet Administration in this detailed official companion to one of televisions most sophisticated dramatic series. Created by Aaron Sorkin, "The West Wing" won nine Emmy Awards in its first season alone, and is acclaimed for its writing, portrayals, and an intelligent, authentic depiction of White House life.

The 'West Wing' Companion

Ian Jackman

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