*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged j...

Drupal open source content management is the perfect solution for small business websites, and this book takes you through the whole process step-by-step, from installing Drupal to incorporating sophisticated e-commerce modules.Key FeaturesBuild a Drupal 7 powered website for your business rapidlyAdd blogs, news, e-commerce, image galleries, maps, surveys, polls, and forums to your website to beat competitionComplete example of a real world sit...

If you want to learn French without having to relocate to a French-speaking country for months or even years, then keep reading.... Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible, at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. It’s easier than you think. You’re not going to pull out your hair while learning French. It won’t be long until you amaze your friends and ...

Grumpy old retired Prof of Medicine rails (with cartoons) against low salt and low fat diets, over-diagnosis of high blood pressure, inappropriate use of anti-coagulants, etc. For light relief, some unsolved puzzles of body function are discussed.

Learn the new features of Drupal 7, how they work and how they will impact youKey FeaturesGet to grips with all of the new features in Drupal 7Upgrade your Drupal 6 site, themes, and modules to Drupal 7Explore the new Drupal 7 administration interface and map your Drupal 6 administration interface to the new Drupal 7 structureComplete coverage of the DBTNG database layer with usage examples and all API changes for both Themes and Modul...

Do you have a love or passion for learning French and Spanish? Or you have thought of visiting Europe and experiencing the local lifestyle? Or do you have overseas clients in European countries? Or are you planning to expand into European countries? Learning a new language sounds difficult, and you are just frozen at your feet at the start. If you are a working professional, then it might just sound impossible to you, but right now, learning a new language is as simple as it gets. It is ea...

Learning a new language can seem difficult, if not impossible at the very beginning. If you’re an adult, then it probably seems even scarier. You may have had a bad experience trying to learn a second language in school. You’ve wanted to learn French for some time now. It could just be because you’re in love with the language or you may live in an area where French is routinely spoken. Regardless of the reason, your desire to learn a second language is genuine, and it has driven you here.

Do you have the love or the passion for learning French and Spanish?Or you have thought of visiting Europe and experiencing the local lifestyle?Or do you have overseas clients in European countries?Or are you planning to expand into the European countries?Learning a new language sounds difficult, and you are just frozen at your feet at the start. If you are a working professional, then it might just sound impossible to you, but right now, learning a new language...

Rome, AD 68. Nero has committed suicide. One hundred years of imperial rule by the descendants of Julius Caesar has ended, and chaos rules.His successor Galba dismisses the incorruptible Germans of the Imperial Bodyguard for the crime of loyalty to the dead emperor. Ordering them back to their homeland he releases a Batavi officer from a Roman prison to be their prefect. But Julius Civilis is not the loyal servant of empire that he seems.Four centurions, tw...

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the re...

"We'll make a list. A list of all the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then . . . we'll investigate them."Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life—because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be.But as far as Miv is concerned, ...

The action-filled climax of the epic story of the Batavi uprising in AD 69, f****rom the author of the bestselling Empire series.'A masterclass in military historical fiction' - Sunday ExpressVictory is in sight for Kivilaz and his Batavi army. The Roman army clings desperately to its remaining fortresses along the Rhine, its legions riven by dissent and mutiny, and once-loyal allies of Rome are beginning to imagin...