It was the summer of 1983. Walsall were preparing for yet another season in Division Three when, out of the blue, British Airways got in touch. They were launching an innovative advertising campaign and wanted to feature the team underneath the banner 'They're only 90 minutes away from a place in Europe'. The idea was to show how quickly European cities could be reached from Birmingham Airport, while gently mocking the West Midlands' least successful football club. As the season got underw...

Tinpot is the story of football's lost tournaments: the strange and forgotten competitions that sparked into life before shuffling off their mortal coil. The book tells their stories, giving them the spotlight they deserve.It's time for something different. It's time to go somewhere new. It's time to wander off the highways of football history and see where long-discarded paths lead.England's major football tournaments seem to have been with us for...

Sixteen Walsall legends tell the stories behind their most memorable games for the club, enabling fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there. Stretching from Allan Clarke's memories of FA Cup glory to Adam Chambers's account of how Walsall finally reached Wembley after almost a century of trying, this unique collection covers some of the most enthralling encounters in the club's history. Along the way, Alan Buckley tells of how th...

It is often tempting to believe in the grand sweep of history; to conclude that the triumphs of great teams were simply inevitable. The truth, however, is that history can turn on what appear, at frst glance, to be infnitesimally small events. Behind all those triumphs lie the countless disappointments of teams that were denied glory by a cruel bounce, the width of a crossbar or a dubious refereeing decision. Challenging the perception that the outcome of great clashes couldn't have been a...

General ThemeThe general theme of the books are to educate children from the ages of 4-9 to learn about the way different trucks provide a service to the world, such as where and how milk gets from the farm to the fridge, to how a television, radio, iPod gets to the shops, then to the home, though, there will not be any mention of the meat processing or fishing industries.Similarly to Thomas the Tank Engine, there are multiple truck characters in every story, with a twist of...

A man walks into a Birmingham bookshop, buys a volume of poetry, and steps out into the road, where a jazz musician seems momentarily to bring the whole city together. In the second poem in Playing the Changes, the same thing happens, only half the words are redacted. Then the experience is retold as a Petrarchan sonnet; a children's skipping rhyme; an Acknowledgements page; a pastiche of Tristram Shandy...Drawing on the traditions of jazz improvisation and Oulipo...

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp. While the refugees are expected to behave as innocent, helpless victims, the question of victimhood among Burundian Hutu is increasingly challenged, following the 1993 massacres in Burundi and the ...

So you want to learn to play the guitar?You know that it will take practice. You know it will need investment of time.But where do you start? After all there are a plethora of tuition books out there. How do you choose?LOOK NO FURTHER THAN LEARN TO PLAY GUITAR WITH EASE.Written by a seasoned guitarist who has learned the hard way - by using books, tapes and NO LESSONS, Simon Turner has a great depth of experience in helping students find their real potential...

In business circles, Mark Turner, the former CEO of WSFS, is best known for having led the Delaware-based bank from a market value of $100 million to a value of $3 billion on the NASDAQ exchange, outperforming the broader market's returns many times over while steering WSFS through turbulence, crisis, and opportunity for more than two decades. Born the eighth of nine kids in a working-class Philadelphia family, Turner's childhood was a full education in determination, resilience, a...

A highly illustrated study of the battle of Malplaquet, the last and bloodiest of Marlborough's victories in the 18th century War of the Spanish Succession.In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom. Circumstances had worsened to the point that King Louis XIV was forced to offer to end the War of Spanish Successi...

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of ‘stuckness’.From a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters explore how life is lived in and across these sites of confinement by focusing...

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today. Since the Earth’s origin 4.55 billion years ago magmatic processes have continued to shape the Earth, producing the major reservoirs that exist today (core, mantle, crust, oceans and atmosphere) and promoting their continued evolution. But key questions remain. When did the core form and how quickly? How are magmas produced in the mantle, and how rap...