In February 1973, the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland were at their very worst and following Bloody Sunday the previous year neither the Scotland nor Wales rugby teams would dare to travel to Ireland to play. Almost totally reliant on income from International matches, the Irish Rugby Union faced imminent bankruptcy and the Five Nations competition itself hung in the balance. What would England do? The press and public were divided on the subject and the blazers in the corridors of power at...

John Kendall-Carpenter was a truly extraordinary man. He captained the England rugby team in the early 1950s, when he was widely regarded as one of the cleverest and most tactically astute players in the world. At the same time he launched out on a career in education which saw him not only hold the headmastership of three well-known public schools but also play a prominent role in the Headmasters’ Conference in its negotiations with the Labour Government in the 1970s to ensure the continu...

This is the incredible story of Brian 'Stack' Stevens, born in a remote former mining area of Cornwall with no sporting background, yet found he had an exceptional talent for rugby. When still a teenager, he was playing against established international players but, with Penzance being cut off from the rugby mainstream, he would have very little recognition for a decade. At twenty-eight, following some outstanding county matches for Cornwall, he was at last given an England trial. He won t...

Cornwall has long been recognised as being one of the hotbeds of English rugby enjoying a level of interest and support even outstripping that of football. Ten years ago Penzance and Newlyn rebranded itself as the Cornish Pirates and now operates as the only truly professional sports team in the area. Despite its remote location and low population base it has nevertheless recently twice won national knock-out trophies and twice more reached play-off finals of the Rugby Championship – just ...

Cet album est constitué de deux récits complets.Dans Poésie de la folie, B. est le protecteur de l'Atlantide. Mais un culte secret s'attaque au royaume, et même B ne sera peut-être pas assez puissant pour le sauver.Dans "L'Empire déchu", un ancien royaume a été décimé par le BRZRKR. Et il n'y a qu'un seul survivant... Celui qui devra alors raconter son histoire et prévenir les autres royaumes du danger qui plane sur eux."

Nel corso della sua esistenza millenaria il guerriero creato da Keanu Reeves ha vissuto innumerevoli avventure, due delle quali stanno per venire alla luce per la prima volta. Nella prima, Unute dovrà vedersela con un orrore indicibile nella leggendaria Atlantide. Nella seconda, ambientata in un impero dimenticato alla cui caduta è sopravvissuta una sola persona, saremo testimoni di amori proibiti, tradimenti e violenza...

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of child morbidity and mortality worldwide. Now in its fourth edition, Manual of Childhood Infections is a simple-to-use, evidence-based, and practical handbook on how to recognize, investigate, and manage both common and rare infectious diseases in children and babies. Endorsed by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, this fully updated version of the established 'B...

BRZRKR: BLUTLINIEN erzählt zwei in sich abgeschlossene Abenteuer aus der 80.000-jährigen Geschichte von BRZRKR! In Poesie des Wahnsinns erwartet uns ein Meer aus Blut und Verwüstung, als B. durch eine schicksalhafte Begegnung zum unaufhaltsamen Beschützer des fortschrittlichen und uralten Reichs Atlantis wird. Doch ein kränklicher Monarch spiegelt die Fäulnis im Inneren wider, denn die durch B.s Gewalt geschaffene Sicherheit und Glückseligkeit ist oberflächlich ... die Risse, die ein gehei...

Que pouvait bien faire B. à l'époque du Far West entre un grand propriétaire lancé à la recherche de sa fille fugueuse, mais aussi de la légendaire Babylone au XIIIe siècle aux côtés de Ghengis Khan ? C'est ce que proposent de nous raconter les auteurs des deux récits complets proposés dans ce deuxième opus consacré au passé de l'immortel créé par Keanu Reeves.