Best Selling Books by Chris Ellis

Each title in this series examines two units - their organisation, order of battle and how this changed, their battle history, their insignia and markings, and their top people. This volume covers German 21st Panzer and British 7th (BR) Armoured Division.

The Number Crew programmes are produced for Channel 4 Schools by Open Mind Productions. This story was adapted from the scripts written by Chris Ellis.

The German Army, which fought in World War 2 from Finland in the north to the Sahara in the south, from France in the west to Russia in the east, was one of the most potent military forces the world has ever seen. Chris Ellis provides a detailed handbook to the German army of the period, its history, its organization, its uniforms and its equipment.

"A mystical, haunting romance beautifully disguised as a coming of age story. . ."Liam Oliver is only three years old when he first dreams about a wild night creature. One who comes to frighten him from out of the darkness of the orange groves beyond his bedroom window in his house on the edge of the small village of Indiantown. For sure, he''s heard tales of the many wild beasts since he was born but now believes the creature has the ability to step out of his dreams and become real enough to touch him. Is it a wolf, as some say, or something far worse he fears? Someone knows, for his family has lived on the edge of the wilds on the family''s fifty acres along the St Lucie Waterway since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And Liam has lots of cousins and aunts and uncles and his maternal grandparents to guide him as he grows up in the verdant paradise of the citrus district of South Florida. We follow Liam''s, his many cousins'' and his school friends'' journeys along the way to adulthood. From when he meets his best friend Davey in first grade at Warfield school, all the way through his enrollment and advancement through Hightower Christian Academy for Boys. Follow him to a place in time where Liam must finally face The Wolf of Waterway Road.

Each title in this series examines two units - their organisation, order of battle and how this changed, their battle history, their insignia and markings, and their top people. This volume covers German 7th Flieger and 82nd US Airborne Division.

Zieg Barclay is a hero, he just doesn''t know that yet.It''s 1982 and best friends Zieg, Luke, Baz and Jackson form a private boy''s club deep within one of the last stretches of woods remaining along the Indian River on the Atlantic seaboard, directly across from the Kennedy Space Center. Three of them straight, one gay. Or are they? Dr. Emma Luce is treating Zieg for depression and possible early childhood abuse, becomes infatuated with Zieg''s handsome hypnotist, Raymond Salgetis. Who will compromise whom? And are things what they seem on the surface? An upside down take on both teen and adult quests for identity, all on a collision course with the dramatic history unfolding along the Space Coast in the early 1980''s.

THE BLACK SUN: TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WHO HAVE THEIR TENTACLES IN ALMOST EVERY ASPECT OF GOVERNMENT DOMESTIC AND ABROAD. SLASHER: ONE-EYED BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR. LEADER OF A MERCENARY GROUP NAMED BRIGADE. THEY OPERATE IN THE SHADOWS UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF SLASHER AND THEY ANSWER TO NO ONE ELSE. KNIGHTSHADE: LEADER OF A CANADIAN BLACKS OPS TEAM NAMED THE HORNETS. WITH FULL CO-OPERATION FROM THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT THE HORNETS OPERATE ON EVERY CONTINENT IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT. SLASHER AND KNIGHTSHADE: ONCE BELIEVED TO BE ENEMIES, NOW FIND THEMSELVES ON A TIME SENSITIVE MISSION OF HUNTING A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. THEY MUST WORK TOGETHER BEFORE THE BLACK SUN CAN ECLIPSE THE ENTIRE GLOBE IN BLOOD. CAN SLASHER AND KNIGHTSHADE PUT THEIR VENDETTAS ASIDE AND WORK TOGETHER TO BRING DOWN THE BLACK SUN?

Light Your Path is a unique guide for young people to learn more about who they are, who they can become, and what it means to live a healthy and joyful life. It seamlessly integrates wisdom teachings from many of the great schools of thought and belief systems around the world over the past several thousand years. From Confucius to Kant, Marcus Aurelius to Maya Angelou, and Lao-Tzu to Lady Gaga, it shares thought-provoking ideas from over one-hundred luminaries from ancient times up to the present day. Light Your Path distills thousands of years of wisdom into a set of engaging bit-sized teachings that will help a young adult manage stress, reduce anxiety, improve attention, increase resilience, and build healthy self-esteem.A recent Harvard study at the Chan School of Public Health found that young people raised with spiritual wisdom practices experience better overall health as they develop. With this in mind, Light Your Path blends eastern and western schools of philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, along with concepts from nature and science into a useful resource for a young person maturing in a challenging and uncertain world. With a strong emphasis on practical mindfulness and healthy habits, Light Your Path awakens a young mind to the many benefits of increased consciousness at an early age, including uncommon courage, concentration, and compassion. It is a great companion for one''s amazing adventure in growing up!

Russell Brockbank (1913-1979) was best known for his motoring, motor racing and aviation cartoons. His work was published in numerous magazines and journals, including Motor, Punch and Lilliput, and collections of his work appeared in several books, such as The Penguin Brockbank (1963), Brockbank''s Grand Prix (1973) and The Best of Brockbank (1975). His association with Punch lasted over 30 years, and he was Art Editor from 1949 to 1960. He provided a weekly cartoon to Motor for over 20 years, often featuring his character ''Major Upset''. Brockbank''s cartoons were characterized by a high degree of draftsmanship and he often went to great lengths to ensure that the cars and aircraft in his cartoons were as true-to-life as possible. They are also deliciously funny, so much so that many rate his as one of the top cartoonists from any genre. This book, using material provided by his daughter, would feature 100 of his best cartoons in an inexpensive, landscape-format paperback.

Water is one of the most fascinating elements in our lives. Without it, none of us would be here, and our planet would be a very different place.

Offers suggestions for starting and building your model railway.

Featuring one hundred illustrations, an introduction to a fascinating and complex hobby is a guide to model trains from the golden age of Lionels, Ives, Ma+a5rklin, and Hornby to the exciting models of today.

Is it normal for households to go to extreme lengths to prepare for disaster? I argue yes. Extreme preparedness is at the very least logical and can be considered normal under the right framing. Threats range from the mundane to the existential and come in various forms : chlorine gas spills, zoonotic diseases, typhoons, solar flares, civil unrest, and war. Response and recovery to these assorted hazards is measured in hours, days, and sometimes years. It is an expected function of a state to plan, rehearse, and prepare for cataclysmic events. Numerous governments currently encourage or even mandate relatively high levels of household disaster preparedness or have done so in the past as a proactive mitigation strategy. By extension then, it should be natural for individuals and households to attain - or even surpass - these levels. Those who go to extreme levels have throughout the years been referred to as survivalists or preppers even though their actions often match state plans for continuity of government in an existential crisis. Contrary to popular depiction however, many of these individuals are not fringe as to ideology or demographic composition, nor are they monoculture. Our modern understanding of this phenomenon is hampered by stereotype, a lack of quantification, and a lack of definitive categorization and theorization. I fill in many of the gaps of a forty-year legacy problem, primarily in an American setting, but with insights to the global presence of these individuals. I find that in America, 11.4 million people have the means to survive at home for 31 days or more after a disaster. Additionally, I theorize a new international model, with the theory of ontological security at its core, to understand how extremely prepared individuals can be identified and then split into extremist and non-extremist (ideologically speaking) categories and how both groups relate back to average civilians. I provide one implication of this finding looking at US island residents, who I find prepare at rates 40-135% greater than their mainland counterparts, possibly due to their geographic isolation where aid and recovery efforts would be delayed.

Tips for techniques, tools, and materials used in constructing, finishing, and displaying plastic models from kits.