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Staying Alive in the Andes Advantages: A detailed account of survival that doesn't lapse into sentimentality Disadvantages: Graphic descriptions of, um, bowel movements I wasn't alive in 1972, so there was never a movement when I discovered that 16 survivors had been found from a plane crash 10 weeks earlier in one of the harshest territories on Earth. Instead, I've just heard scraps about the Fairchild, a chartered flight from the Uruguayan air force carrying a rugby team and a few others - 45 in total - crashing in the Andes while on their way to Chile and the survivors being forced to eat the dead in order to ... ...must have been - or how miraculous the escape of the remaining 16 was. My expectations were a little subdued when I read that the book had won a Thomas More Medal for its contribution to Catholic literature and that some of the survivors felt that "the faith and friendship which inspired them in the cordillera do not emerge from these pages". Read's introduction also makes it clear that this is no work of fiction: he did consider 'embellishing' ... DoubleFantasy11 05.08.2006 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors - Piers Paul Read	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
From a world of illusion comes a love of delusion Advantages: Nice tricks to have in your top pocket Disadvantages: Hypnotising ...doing some of his core tricks and skills. We start of with a basic coin and card trick, early on setting the parameters that slight of hand, subterfuge and distraction are skills you will need for later on. There are tips and lessons on everything from hypnotism and mind reading, to faking séances and pretending to talk to the dead. Derren has few nice things to say about people who claim to have special powers and charge people money in the process ... ...guys with the same ‘amazing’ results and no one would know the difference. Brown explains in detail how experienced police detectives can use various suggestive memory techniques to get witnesses ad villains alike to produce the statement results they want, SVA (Statement Validity Assement) the method used. If you are one of the above and not used to police questioning then this stuff is easy to fall for. One way is for the detective to recite what ... thedevilinme 01.11.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
Good for starting actors, my experience was successful using it Advantages: A wide range of scripts, male and female, and young to old Disadvantages: there isnt much information given about the play before, so do your own research! ...do a duologue, i did the wrong thing and not research the plays background but still i managed to get an A because the plays in here are very good ones. I think possibly the best of the best duologues are in here. The one i used 'Split down the middle', is extremely funny if performed properly. I find its too easy to judge whether something is funny or not, when rehearsal i found it pretty daft and that we'd get a bad reception. But it turned out ... ...Also, i found that the duologues don't require any props as there is enough information given in the script to divert the attention away. I was suppose to be in a boat for mine, but i was sat on a chair, and no one cared! There is a variety of duologues from young to old, and a good share in male and female pieces. It has encouraged me to want to get other methuen books. ... stagedoor123 12.08.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of The Methuen Book of Duologues for Young Actors - Anne Harvey (Editor), Imogen Stubbs (Preface)	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
The Beatles are back, in a book Advantages: It contains all 194 songs recorded by The Beatles Disadvantages: I can't think of any ...covers ALL the songs The Beatles ever wrote and recorded themselves, with the exception of instrumentals and Lennon-McCartney songs recorded only by other artists. Every song is even dated so you can find out the year the song was first recorded. The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook presents The Beatles' songs in a format designed for a guitarist singing the songs unaccompanied, or with others. For this reason the chord shapes have been simplified ... ...the original recordings. However, The Beatles did occasionally detune their guitars when recording (for example "Lovely Rita Meter Maid" used guitars with strings tuned down a semitone). Also if you are playing along with the record you may need to tune slightly sharp or flat on some songs. This slight deviation from concert pitch occurs for a number of reasons, including the fact that The Beatles experimented with "vari-speeding" their tapes. (Meaning ... gillenium1 29.02.2004 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Beatles Complete Chord Songbook	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money
STILL the Bible of Pop. Advantages: A wealth of information; user friendly; outstanding value for money and interesting articles too. Disadvantages: A very minor gripe - the lack of a dedicated 'uk number 1's' section. The "Virgin" Book of WHAT? I was a little surprised a few weeks ago to discover that after some 30 years the legendary Book of British Hit Singles was no longer published by Guinness but by Virgin. Aside from sentimental value however the change in publisher makes little difference to the overall value of this book. I will add that I would have greatly welcomed the change in publisher about 10 years ago when despite taking great care in compiling ... ...A previous edition of the Guinness Book was labelled along the lines of 'The Bible of Pop' and I personally agree. For those who are unfamiliar with the series the Book of British Hit Singles in basic terms has two listings sections, firstly by artist/band/duo etc whose hit singles have made the top 75 in the singles charts since 1952 when the charts as we came to know them were first compiled. Basically you can search for an artist such as ABBA ... d_w86 04.01.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles - Martin Roach (Editor)	Degree of Information How interesting was the... How useful was it? Would you read it again? Value for money