Bøger af Alex James

I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band. This was no disaster, though. It was a dream coming true.'For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more eventful life. But as bass player of Blur - one of the most successful British bands of all time - his journey was more exciting and extreme than he could ever have predicted. In Bit of a Blur he chronicles his journey from a slug-infested flat in Camberwell to a world of screaming fans and private jets - and his eventual search to find meaning and happiness (and, perhaps most importantly, the perfect cheese), in an increasingly surreal world.

There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I'd suddenly realised, they did still.One winter's night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn't spoken to - or even shouted at - each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run.This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise - and emotional - return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his 'Britpop Trousers,' somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle. Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world's biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old - or hungover - we might feel, nothing's ever truly over: it's always just the start of the next thing.

A white 12-year old virgin becomes impregnated by the seed of a hanged black man. This is a new twist on the Mother Leeds legend.

Smart, handsome, and popular, Leros is as normal as it gets in public. However beneath the surface Leros must control extraordinary power, and satisfy the wicked curses that plague him.In a tragic event, Leros loses that which he holds dear, forcing a sinister alter ego, Demiro, to emerge and bring forth terrible destruction. In the aftermath Leros learns of his true nature and birth-right in the underworld, but is whisked away to a foreign world before he can settle in. Leros's adventure continues in the magical world of Earth Alpha, where he must seek out a twisted queen and end her tyrannical rule.

Enzo Peroni is rich, handsome and extremely powerful. He rules Vegas and everyone fears him except for one woman. She had the balls to fling a drink at him and walk out when propositioned what she did not expect was the head of the Peroni Mafia family to want her more than ever and make her his forever.Lexie Jones came to Vegas with one mission, get revenge for the death of her father and she needed Enzo to make it happen. Her plan was to make him fall in love with her so that he would do anything for her, little did she expect to fall head over heels in love with her mark. Will she be able to put her thirst for revenge aside and accept Enzo as head of a Mafia Syndicate and rule by his side as his queen or will his lifestyle be too much for her making her walk away from her soul mate.

For 24 hours the earth's magnetic field is reversed placing the ground above and the sky beneath. During the interim, our hero, young Perkins, 13 years of age, must find a way to the pharmacy to obtain his 10 year old sister's insulin for diabetes. The journey through falling magma, fires, and earthquakes adding to the drama creates a fascinating tale for the young.

This remarkable true story of adolescent sexual abuse, survival and triumph offers realistic hope to all victims of abuse - both for recovery, and for a fulfilling life no longer defined by an abusive past. The author's courageous struggle to achieve insight and awareness, and eventually see justice done, points a way for others to overcome childhood trauma and victimisation.

Mitch Pyne is starting to realize that his premonitions - of a devastating Los Angeles earthquake - might be real.In one night, down-on-his-luck Mitch will have his world turned upside down: a shocking phone call from a woman who knows more about his life than he does; a mysterious gift from an old friend - who has just been brutally murdered somewhere in the jungles of Peru… and the sudden return of the beautiful woman Mitch has loved all his life.Thrust into a world he never knew existed, Mitch is forced to confront a strange new reality - a twilight world in which no-one can be trusted… but in which he will be forced to choose sides.Because Mitch alone holds the key to a burgeoning war between two rival billionaires, each of whom represent two sides of an ancient and terrifying legacy: the truth about the human genetic code, and its power to manipulate the course of humanity.Unless Mitch can decipher the clues left for him by his murdered friend, and quickly locate the six people who have each become entrusted with a piece of the genetic sequence that holds the key to the survival of mankind, terrible forces that have been manipulating humanity for thousands of years will trigger a series of catastrophic natural events……and smash the human race back into the Stone Age.

AMETHYST PYNE HAS TAKEN THE PANDORA SEQUENCEAND TRIGGERED A MYSTICAL TSUNAMI…For years, Amethyst Pyne has been away, pursuing one goal: to banish the Anunnaki, ruthless colonizers of the human dreamscape, by waging war against them in the Astral Realm.But when battle-weary Thys returns to Earth, she is shocked to find that things are even worse: increased surveillance, toxic mega-mergers, and endless religious conflicts - not to mention a sociopathic celebrity culture of which Thys, now heiress to a corporate fortune, is suddenly an unwilling target…Physically attacked, publicly abused and spiritually lost, Thys is cast adrift overnight as a powerful cabal of old enemies resurface - human, alien, and demonic - allied with a terrifying new agenda: to remake Earth as a "Living Hell".With only Harding, her trusted bodyguard, and Xylata, her Anunnaki ally, left to help her, Thys must decide: can the war against human oppression - and a great cosmic evil - ever be won? Can her mysterious ex-lover still be trusted? And can her dangerous new alien alliances help locate the missing Pandorans? Or will Thys become trapped, powerless and alone, against a conspiratorial hoard of darkness, whose plans for final human domination can only come to fruition with the sacrifice of one final person…Amethyst Pyne - HEIRESS TO THE PANDORA INHERITANCE!

This book covers a range of models, circuits and systems built with memristor devices and networks in applications to neural networks. It is divided into three parts: (1) Devices, (2) Models and (3) Applications. The resistive switching property is an important aspect of the memristors, and there are several designs of this discussed in this book, such as in metal oxide/organic semiconductor nonvolatile memories, nanoscale switching and degradation of resistive random access memory and graphene oxide-based memristor. The modelling of the memristors is required to ensure that the devices can be put to use and improve emerging application. In this book, various memristor models are discussed, from a mathematical framework to implementations in SPICE and verilog, that will be useful for the practitioners and researchers to get a grounding on the topic. The applications of the memristor models in various neuromorphic networks are discussed covering various neural network models, implementations in A/D converter and hierarchical temporal memories.

In a dystopian future shattered by a Second American Civil War, a breed of powerful psychics – the hypers – begin to emerge. But when the fascist global government commands they be hunted to extinction by the evil Bureau 88, the survivors take to the streets, living off their wits, maintaining a low profile, and keeping the use of their powers to a minimum…But something else is emerging from the shadows – something that feeds off the flesh of those in despair… and the misery created by the fascist elite. It’s called The Fear, and only the hypers can fight it… because only the hypers possess The Wrath.Reduced now to a rag tag collection of reckless young loners – the most cunning, powerful and determined of the hypers have been unknowingly corralled into one lonely city at the bottom of the world… but can they live long enough to accept an offer they can’t refuse – to unite and make a stand? Or will they each die alone in the dark, hunted by the Bureau – and consumed by The Fear?

This is the story of Alex James's transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the nineties. But now Alex has grown up, fallen in love and got married. He has also fallen passionately for his new home, an enormous rambling farmhouse in the Cotswolds, set in two hundred acres of beautiful British countryside.The farm represents not just a new house for Alex, but also a new career. As he breathes new life into the old farm he chances across an unexpected calling: making cheese. His cheeses, Blue Monday, Farleigh Wallop and Little Wallop have received widespread media interest and are now sold through many outlets.The story culminates with an account of the triumphant reformation of Blur for Glastonbury 2009.