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Immortalized in the plays of Shakespeare, Henry V is the most famous and celebrated of all England's medieval monarchs. His succession of victories over the French, combined with his death at an early age, has created an aura of myth around the man and commander that has endured to this day.

Accompanied by the detailed maps, photographs and artwork that readers expect from an Osprey book, this title thoroughly explores Henry's command experience, tracing his development from a young prince struggling against an insurrection to his eventual triumph in Northern France. Author Marcus Cowper examines Henry's key battles and sieges, how he systematically extended English control throughout northern France and how he was perceived by his contemporaries as a military leader. This in-depth analysis extends to Henry's private motivations and aspirations, including the impetus behind some of his controversial military decisions. Learn the truths that set the Bard's stage in this engaging new title from one of Osprey's newest series. ... Read more

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Literate brief treatment of Henry V
This is a slender volume in Osprey's "Leadership, Strategy, Conflict" series. The focus is Henry V, who was one of the last English rulers to have any success in folding onto England's lands in France and the surrounding region.

The book begins with a genealogy of the English royal family (starting with Edward II and Isabella). Always fascinating to see how John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford are so central! Also, the French royal family is depicted as well, starting with Philip III and Isabel of Aragon.

The volume begins with Henry's early life, his introduction to matters military, and the historical context in which he lived. There is a listing of key leaders in the conflicts with France. Also described are key battles, such as the siege of Harfleur and the glorious victory at Agincourt.

The book ends with an assessment of Henry V. If one wants great detail, this will not be the book for you. If you want a "quick and dirty" and well illustrated work on Henry V, this will do nicely.
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At once ancient and modern, Britain's cosmopolitan capital has no formal center; each of its areas boasts its own style and atmosphere. Central London's royal palaces and grand hotels vie for the onlooker's attention with its majestic parliament building. The financial district--the City--has witnessed a flowering of daring and innovative modern architecture, which now mingles with the somber Tower of London and the greatest works of Sir Christopher Wren. The village atmosphere of Hampstead and Islington contrast with the 19th-century residential areas and museum districts of London's west.

Watercolor painter Graham Byfeld set out to capture the essence of the city.His impressions are captured vividlyin the London Sketchbook, and accompanied by writer Marcus Binney's engaging prose exploration of London's history, people, and architecture.
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Captures the essence of London
Graham Byfield's watercolor impressions of the city of London beautifully captures the spirit of the city, be it Central London, the East End, West London, North London, or South of the River. The watercolors are sumptuous to look at [the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, St James' Palace, Berkeley Square] - each is a work of beauty and paints a vivid picture in one's mind. The notes accompanying the watercolors provide us with more information on the buildings and make for interesting reading. All in all, a wonderful collection of watercolors about London, and a must-have for collectors.

great quality
the quality of the book is one of the best features to me. It is a very heavy paper stock and really helps carry the sketchbook feel, along with the little hand written notes on the sides. overall a great book for anyone who loves london.

Sketches and Text
We love London, and this sketchbook reminds us of our past trips.The text by Marcus Binney also supports the sketches. Although they are only considered sketches, I love the artwork.I am now getting other sketchbooks by Graham Byfield, and by the publisher, St. Martins Press.

A Small View of London at Large
This is a beautiful work of art for anyone who loves to look outside the well known sites of London, although that is there as well.I thorougly enjoy picking it up and having a read about the various sections and looking at the illustrations that will remind you of your time there or desire to go.The layout and illustrations brings to mind what a Grand Tour participant would have created upon visiting a new city.

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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. on February 1, 2010. The length of the article is 1037 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The boomerang effect: movie character inspires one man to promote change in the advertising industry.(EVERYDAY HERO)(Marcus Graham Project )
Author: Tamara E. Holmes
Publication: Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2010
Publisher: Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc.
Volume: 40Issue: 7Page: 108(2)

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This large single volume dictionary defines and explains the great number of technical terms employed within those areas of neuropsychology and medicine that are strictly relevant to neuropsychology.

Central to the book are a number of extended entries of over 8000 words that define and discuss key topics in the field. These are supported by a network of shorter entries ranging from 500 to 5000 words in length, and by a large number of glossary items that have been fully cross-referenced into the main entries. The texts have been written around a standard set of brain diagrams that enable writers on different subjects to illustrate their entries with consistent visual resources. ... Read more

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A practical reference book
Blackwell Dictionary of Neuropsychology is an excellent sourcebook for quick reference to central issues and topics in the field.A bit disappointing, as it does not include everything you may need to know such as diffuse Lewy Body dementia, and some information you seek may require a second reference to a dictionary of neuroanatomy.Nevertheless, in addition to brief dictionary entries, it does include (a few pages long) excellent essays on major topics ranging from Korsakoff's syndrome to EEG and to personality disorders; and these are written by experts in the field. Highly recommended to junior professionals or postgraduate students in the field, it does make reference to topics of relevance highly practical. ... Read more

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It was as daring an adventure as has been made in modern times. For the first time, three men were going to kayak the 800-kilometer length of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The peninsula is a finger of land jutting north from the northwestern corner of the ice shelf. It is there that the swells of the Southern Ocean, with a world to gain speed, meet the ice and rock of the coldest continent. Temperatures reach zero at their highest. Icebergs bigger than ships lie in wait. Brash ice-smaller chunks-can fill a bay and completely cut off access to shore. The Antarctic wind-the katabatic-is notoriously brutal, and can go from zero to gale force in an hour.

Here is the tale of the journey-undertaken by three New Zealanders-and what they found on the edge of 14 million kilometers of ice and rock. They were paddling within sight of the epic landings of the sealing captains of the nineteenth century, and their story is here, too, along with notes on many of the greatest explorers of the frozen south.

From the first day, when they attempt to make a midnight camp in the middle of a penguin rookery, to the grueling final hours, this is a rare adventure, told with wit and perception-a new classic of the genre.
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fascinating, inspiring, beautifully understated, and very human
There is no derring-do in this story of 3 mens voyage to Antarctica. And not just a voayge, a 528km Kayaking trip from the Northern most tip of Antartica, heading south......as you do for your summer holidays....While there are threats and potential problems, the reality of the trip was that most of them didn't come to fruition. So this is more than just a book about close shaves, encounters with man-eating wildlife, and battling the odds-but it is a very real tale of three men and their close encounter with Antartica from Kayaks.

I didn't really enjoy the book in the first few chapters at first. It felt trite, there was a great deal about planning and the problems of expeditioning. HOwever once the trip began it suddenly became a very real and fascinating read. Each chapter is told in turns by one of the three paddlers and their perspective, tone and issues come through adding colour and depth to each of the sections.

The book is beautifully illustrated by Graham Charles's photographs. And while the wildlife was gorgeous - penguins, seals, and whales, and the landscape spectacular - the photo which haunts me is the pictures by Charles of 'Jonesy' hood up, head down, paddling through sloppy seas, with wind howling around him, said most to me about the trip. It was probably easier and more scenic to take the spectacular shots, but this was ultimately human.

Once I had read it through I went straight back and read this book again. It is a great read. I suppose for the needs of their sponsors they mentioned pretty much everyone who helped them in the beginning, but their planning chapter - while logically at the beginning of the book, I found made better reading the second time around.

The great thing about these three is they are good friends, and the friendship has clearly stayed with them - they have since done another trip which is a book I would also like to read now. I enjoyed reading the human element of their voyage, and their individual way of doing things. As they point out, expeditions often fall apart because small individual differences in the way each member operates become annoyances to other members.

The three men write well, without interlarding their text with unnecessary superlatives. They leave issues to the intelligence of the reader to sort out. So when they are sunbathing naked on the shores of a bay and a cruise ship with 500 passengers turn up, it is discussed sparingly and left to the reader to imagine, not just what the cruise ship passengers must have felt seeing three naked kayakers on shore, but how it feels for the three men to be in the middle of one of the most remote regions in the world, with 500 extra guests.

This book is a real keeper - and I will be getting other books by the group.

Brings back the memeories!
My brother and I went on an expedition ship along the Antarctic Peninsula last year. We brought back some great images, but 8 days in the area wasn't nearly enough. The images in this book are magic, especially so when you remember everything was carried in and done from 3 kayaks. The typical Kiwi understatement may hide the true passion that must be there to undertake such an unearthly challenge. I can understand the immense effort involved, and also the absolute fascination of this unique environment. So much so, that we're going back next January for a 21 day trip. Can't wait.

Thanks guy's for an un-put-downable read and set of images!

The Frozen Coast
Very well written.Read from cover to cover without stopping. A tribute to the vision, research and sheer determination to succeed and overcome awesome conditions at times.Very philosophical in attitude to overcome daunting prevailing circumstances.

Chilling Out
One day New Zealander Graham Charles realizes that no one else has kayaked the Artarctic Peninsula, and so he rounds up two similarly experienced Kiwi paddle pals to join him on a 528-mile voyage that is so well-planned it's almost dusty. (The fourth author, Sarah Moodie, is a journalist involved only in the writing end.) The three men write a little about each other and a little more about the trip per se (this is not a text-heavy production), each taking for himself one section of the journey. All in all there's more hard work than drama here, at least partly because their planning (exemplified by an excellent chapter on equipment) precluded the endless death-defying adventures, mishaps and show-off machismo that are all too commonly the stock of books of the into-the-void variety. In short there are some thrills--but no thrills. The gang's greatest drama, in fact, comes when they're in someone else's hands, being ferried back to Argentina.

The prose is workmanlike and in all there's a rather muted emotional tone here: The paddlers seem to think the voyage is a bit of all right as a fairly extreme male-bonding experience, but clearly no one's actually obsessed with it. To pump the emotional temperature up a bit, Mme. Moodie is dragooned to staple on some sonorous and high-flown prose about the idealism of adventure: how man must needs go a-questing, a-daring the unknown, and how the race needs people test themselves. Jeez: There's even a Mission Statement! Adding this claptrap to a lot of sudden realizations of man's wee-tiny place in the vast universe occasionally made me long for George Mallory's empty-headed (but brief!) explanation of why he wan ted to climb Everest: "Because it's there."

But then there are the photos. Many of them are so perfectly exposed and beautifully composed that they look like studio shots or Sierra Club posters. They make you wonder who carried the 8X10 view cameras--and who lugged Ansel Adams. I'd like to see these shots three times as big and three times as many. They're perfect for winter dreaming by the fire with your feet up and some wine at your elbow. You can stare at them until you fall right into the frame.--Bill Marsano is an award-winning editor and writer whose own kayaking voyages fill only pages, not books.

Antarctic adventure journal with spellbinding photos
The trio of authors are New Zealanders, with Charles the photographer. With the journalist Moodie, they do a journal of their incredible kayak trip around the Antarctic Peninsula jutting out toward South America. Charles's dramatic photos shift back and forth between shots of the kayaking and camping, and the forbidding, rugged, yet entrancing Antarctic landscape. The journal records the hardships and satisfactions on the challenging trip. The section "Equipment" following the text and photos lists the varied gear and supplies needed for the trip--which list in itself testifies to the uniqueness of the physical challenge and the hardships the kayakers had to overcome by careful preparation, ingenuity, and determination.
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I'm Marcus.Graham the writer of this book I'm 16 years old and this is a book that contains 52 of my deepest poems in 80 pages. My poetry is not the standard norm and is intended for an audience of my age. It is an intriguing, emotional and sometimes very angry explicit journey that battles the subject of life and death and also touches on subjects such as War Past Relationships Growing up Drugs and Alcohol Money Sex Religion Experimentation Education System And many more.. I was not considered to be the smartest kid in class although I have had a lot of friends and I believe have a true experience of the life around us. The Book is poetry with a modern outlook from the mind of a semi-corrupt openminded teenager. ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Jensen, Sydney James Kirkby, Marcus Loane, Graham Richard Delbridge, Colin Davies Sheumack, Gerald Bruce Muston. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Jensen (born 11 July 1943), is the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, and Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales. Jensen was born in Sydney jand educated at Bellevue Hill Public School and The Scots College. After completing his Leaving Certificate he studied law for two years and worked as an articled clerk before he moved into primary school teaching. He entered Moore Theological College in the late 1960s and won the Hey Sharp prize for coming first in the Licenciate of Theology, the standard course of study at that time. He also has a Master of Arts degree from Sydney University, a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of London, and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree from the University of Oxford. His 1976 master's dissertation was entitled "Calvinism and the Persecution of the Witches in England (15631604)" and his 1979 doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Life of Faith in the Teaching of Elizabethan Protestantism". Jensen was appointed Principal of Moore College in 1985 and lectured in systematic and biblical theology during that time. He gained a reputation as a gifted preacher and was often seen at the annual Katoomba Christian Conventions. On 5 June 2001, Jensen became the 11th Archbishop of Sydney. He was consecrated on St Peter's Day, 29 June 2001. He called upon all churches in the Sydney diocese to aim to reach 10% of their communities by 2012. He encouraged an unprecedented increase in church planting with more than 60 new congregations started between 2002 and 2005 and a 30% increase in candidates for Anglican ministry over the same p...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=973118 ... Read more

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This book chronicles the history of corporate branding, the emergence of voice branding onto marketing and branding executives radar, as well as steps to roll out a successful voice branding initiative throughout any Fortune 1000 company. ... Read more

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Chapters: Stephen Graham, Joey Graham, Jermaine Taylor, Marcus Jordan, Stan Kimbrough, Mark Jones. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Graham (born June 11, 1982, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA. After playing through his senior year with the Oklahoma State Cowboys, Graham declared for the NBA Draft in 2005. However, he was not selected. He played for the Phoenix Suns in the Las Vegas Summer League, and then for the San Antonio Spurs during the 2005 preseason, but was not offered a longer contract by either team. He then joined the CBA, a minor league, signing with the Sioux Falls Skyforce; he appeared in the 2006 CBA All-Star game. Graham's twin brother, Joey, was his college teammate and is also currently playing in the NBA, for the Denver Nuggets. Graham played competitively at Florida's Brandon High School, and was team captain his senior year in which he averaged 16 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists per game; in that year, he and his brother Joey led Brandon to the state finals. Graham was named to Hillsborough County's All-Conference team his junior year and to the All-State team his senior season. He played in the AAU's Junior Olympics National Game and was named an All-American. He was a member of both Tampa's championship AAU Sunshine State Games' team, and Nike's traveling Florida team. He was recruited by South Florida, Richmond, Florida State and Florida. Graham spent his freshman and sophomore college basketball seasons (200001; 200102) with the University of Central Florida Knights, then transferred to Oklahoma State University for his junior year (200203) in which he redshirted. In his first season with the Cowboys in 200304, he only twice scored 12 p...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3798455 ... Read more

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An excellent taxonomic reference to Pteromalidae.
This book was the most important identification reference for Pteromalidae in the Holarctic region up until recently, and is still the most authoritative reference in that region for species identification. It isstill the most reliable identification guide to European Pteromalidae, andit is not likely to be replaced soon. The drawings are among the bestavailable, and the information is still relatively up-to-date for its time,though it is recommended that students make sure the information they findhere is up to date by consulting more recent literature. ... Read more