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Television can be a storehouse of treasures, and one of its best kept secrets was a show called Charmed. Despite being scheduled at all hours, the series steadily built up a dedicated and vocal audience who became hooked by its beguiling and seductive power, attractive visuals and gentle wit. Charmed is the story of the four Halliwell sisters, Prue (Shannon Doherty), Piper (Holly Marie Combs), Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) and Paige (Rose McGowan). Together they are the Charmed Ones and they are sworn to protect the innocent. In Triquetra, best-selling author Keith Topping explores every episode, revealing the triumphs, the goofs, the guest stars, the intake of nicotine and alcohol, and generally gets under the skin of the Halliwell sisters and their lives, loves and spellbinding adventures.

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept’s long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO. Introducing the concept of the “fear-terror cluster,” Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms that we have used to express extreme emotional states over the centuries—from anxiety, awe, and concern to dread, fear, and horror. He shows that the choices we make among such words to describe shades of feeling have seriously shaped the attribution of motives, causes, and effects of the word “terror” today, particularly when violence is deployed by or against the state. At a time when terror-talk is widely and damagingly exploited by politicians and the media, this book unpacks the slippery rhetoric of terror and will prove a vital resource across humanistic and social sciences disciplines.

Sapphire & Steel charted the efforts of two mysterious ‘agents’, named Sapphire (Joanna Lumley) and Steel (David McCallum), as they were given a number of ‘assignments’. featuring everything from a faceless man and a vengeful soldier, to living nursery rhymes and a time-trapped motorway cafe.The series was innovative, intelligent and terrifying, and it has stayed in the memories of all who saw it.In this guide, Richard Callaghan delves into the six televised ‘assignments’ and finds out what made them tick. He explores the continuity and background to the show, and gives all the facts and figures as well as a critical commentary. The show’s spin-off books and audio adventures are also discussed and reviewed.This edition of the book has been fully revised and updated including new interviews with key cast and crew, and new and updated facts and figures relating to the show.

'The best book yet on a band that have evolved into a cross between a large Victorian family and a rehab unit' The Times

Based on the 'Durham Memories' column that appears in the Northern Echo, this book features the history of Durham city and its surrounding suburbs. It includes the historic city centre with all its wonderful buildings and wealth of history, and also visits the city's outer reaches. It also documents the hangings at Dryburn.

A collection of stories covering the history, landscape and people of Scotland. It includes twelve winning entries from the My Scotland Young Writers competition, selected from entrants aged 8-12 from all over the country.

1962 saw the passing of Marilyn Monroe, arrest of Nelson Mandela and birth of Eddie Izzard. Z-cars and Steptoe and Son made their TV debut and on the big screen James Bond first appears in Dr No. This was the year The Beatles were told they had no future and the Rolling Stones first gigged. Meanwhile the world held its breath as tensions escalated in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Founded in 1879, Sunderland AFC quickly became one of the greatest clubs in English football. This history of the club takes the reader step by step through the club's development, beginning with the club's foundation, the early triumphs and subsequent tragedies, through conflicts with Sunderland Albion to league and cup domination.

With a foreword by Terry Deary. In 1892, 66 year old Harry Watts leapt into the River Wear to rescue a boy from drowning. It was the 36th rescue in a life filled with heroism and tragedy, and was to be his last. A hero in his lifetime, Harry Watts: The Forgotten Hero tells the story of this remarkable man and his extraordinary life.