Top Gear; 1977 - 2015; 2000 Copy Limited Edition

Author: Damien Buckland
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326289837
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description
Collection Editions books give you this one time edition commemorating the end (as we know it) of the most popular factual television show in the planets history. Limited to just 2000 copies worldwide Top Gear: 1977-2015 gives the most comprehensive illustration to Top Gear yet with dozens of episode reviews and illustrations including some never before seen, presenter biographies right from the original 1977 series through to today's modern masterpiece... - History of the series, guides and behind the scenes to every Top Gear "Special" including the latest and final Patagonia adventure. - Find out about all the spin-off shows across the world, Track reviews, Every single Power Lap time, Every single Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, Cars of the Year, Car of the Decade, The Stig's of past and present, And absolutely tons more... Top Gear: 1977-2015 provides the biggest, most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the Top Gear series for only the most dedicated of fans

Collection Editions James Bond

Author: Damien Buckland
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326597825
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
A follow-up to the bestselling "An Evolution of Bond" comes Collection Editions James Bond. For the first time every 007 fan can see the entire history of the world's most famous spy. From Ian Fleming's wartime adventures through to the creation of this beloved character... Bringing books to screen, the lawsuits, the scandals, the lost opportunities, the deaths and loss of limbs on set, and the successes of the biggest movie franchise ever.

Confessions of a British Celebrity Bodyguard

Author: Damien Buckland
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326958690
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Celebrity Bodyguard... The words conjure up an image of Kevin Costner running through the crowd saving the distressed starlet or perhaps the 7-foot-tall bus sized guy walking with the rapper in tow. Well welcome to real life. With 15 years' experience in law enforcement, private security, and close protection, Damien Buckland gives a true account of some of the most hilarious and uplifting moments working close protection for some of the world's best loved celebrities. There are no car chases, no gun battles, no pool houses... Instead we can find out which celebs like to wear ladies' underwear, who is really losing the plot, which celebrities think they can have you wiped from the face of the earth... There is even the odd severed hand and drunk footballer to laugh about. Yes, don't worry, these celebs are named and shamed... well apart from those where there is a fear of being sued... Even then, enough clues are evident for us to figure out who they really are.

The New Television Handbook

Author: Jonathan Bignell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317532139
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
The New Television Handbook provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes. The book looks at television from the perspective of someone new to the industry, and explores the place of the medium within a constantly changing digital landscape. This title discusses key skills involved in television production, including: producing, production management, directing, camera, sound, editing and visual effects. Each of these activities is placed within a wider context as it traces the production process from commissioning to post-production. The book outlines the broad political and economic context of the television industry. It gives an account of television genres, in particular narrative, factual programmes and news, and it considers the academic discipline of media studies and the ways in which theorists have analysed and tried to understand the medium. It points to the interplay of theory and practice as it draws on the history of the medium and observes the ways in which the past continues to influence and invigorate the present. The New Television Handbook includes: contributions from practitioners ranging from established producers to new entrants; a comprehensive list of key texts and television programmes; a revised glossary of specialist terms; a section on training and ways of getting into the industry. By combining theory, real-world advice and a detailed overview of the industry and its history, The New Television Handbook is an ideal guide for students of media and television studies and young professionals entering the television industry.

Emergency Response Guidebook

Author: U.S. Department of Transportation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626363765
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Does the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.

City on Fire

Author: Garth Risk Hallberg
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1109

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and "captures the city’s dangerous, magnetic allure" (The New York Times). • Streaming now on Apple TV+ “As close to a great American novel as this century has produced.” —Stephen King New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year’s Eve. When the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. City on Fire is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock ’n’ roll: about what people need from each other in order to live—and about what makes the living worth doing in the first place.

Wheel & Pinion Cutting in Horology

Author: Malcolm Wild
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 0719843618
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 731

Book Description
Many clock repairers carry out excellent work but avoid cutting their own wheels and pinions, fearing it is too complicated and involved. This book, written by an experienced clock and tool maker, dispels those fears and gives a step-by-step guide to an extremely satisfying aspect of horology. This book is written for both the amateur and professional involved in the making and restoring of clocks, and for anyone who intends to start building up a workshop and requires a guide to the equipment and how to use it.

Close Quarters

Author: Larry Heinemann
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307517705
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford. In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

The Visible Hand

Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674417682
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 625

Book Description
The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

And On That Bombshell

Author: Richard Porter
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409164756
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
I was Top Gear's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also got to hang around with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It didn't feel like something you should get paid for. From the disastrous pilot show of 2002 to the sudden and unexpected ending in 2015, working on Top Gear was quite a rollercoaster ride. We crossed continents, we made space ships, we bobbed across the world's busiest shipping lane in a pick-up truck. We also got chased by an angry mob, repeatedly sparked fury in newspapers, and almost killed one of our presenters. I realised that I had quite a few stories to tell from behind the scenes on the show. I remembered whose daft idea it was to get a dog. I recalled the willfully stupid way in which we decorated our horrible office. I had a sudden flashback to the time a Bolivian drug lord threatened to kill us. I decided I should write down some of these stories. So I have. I hope you like them. And now, a quote from James May: 'Richard Porter has asked me to "write a quote" for his new book about the ancient history of Top Gear. But this is a ridiculous request. How can one "write a quote"? Surely, by definition, a quote must be extracted from a greater body of writing, for the purpose of illustrating or supporting a point in an unrelated work. I cannot "write a quote" any more than I could "film an out-take". 'Porter, like Athens, has lost his marbles.'