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Blackpool has an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties. Every weekend marauding packs of brides and grooms, close friends and family, overflow its streets on a mission to consume dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before the conventions and responsibilities of marital life, mortgage, children. Dougie Wallace has captured a town heaving with everything from bunnygirls to banana men. Girls dressed in togas, all matching gold handbags and neatly-done hair, giving it the 'when in Rome' treatment, devil girls, pink ladies, Brownies, guys in drag, stuffed into nuns' and nurses' outfits, wearing salacious T-shirts with 'Johnny's Last Night of Freedom' or 'Up the Anus Ashley' - each group with the same singular objective, to get as 'fucked up' as possible.

Since the banking crisis of 2008 the world of international finance has increasingly come under the spotlight. The consequent squeeze on public finances has led to global firms such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon coming under fire for the techniques that they use to avoid paying tax. There seems to be a growing culture of naming and shaming companies, and an increasing pressure on governments to act. Underpinning much of this financial manipulation by the global brands is the shadowy world of the tax haven. They may be legal but their morality is deeply unsettling. Driven by a relentless obsession to translate this rather immaterial subject into images, Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti have spent over two years travelling to the offshore centres that embody tax avoidance, secrecy, offshore banking and extreme wealth. Their photographs reveal a world of exploitation and privilege that distorts the financial markets and benefits those that already have the most. The book is presented as if it were an annual report and the accompanying text by author Nicholas Shaxson presents a clear insight into how these tax havens feed into the global economy and how they impact not only on the world of business but also on our everyday lives.

A lavishly illustrated book celebrating and exploring the history of open water swimming in the UK.

For every football fan the World Cup Finals are the most extraordinary celebration of the game. As we lookforward to South Africa hosting the 2010 tournament, this outstanding collection of photographs byAlistair Berg captures fan culture around the world at its most vibrant and characterful.The book is a unique chronicle of a 20 year period that has seen enormous changes in football and amassive surge in support for the game. It covers not only the last five World Cup Finals but also grassrootsfootball, from pub teams and Sunday league to children playing barefoot in the streets of Brazil or in thetownships of South Africa. Images are drawn from every continent and a chapter is devoted to each WorldCup from 1990 to 2006. To celebrate the Finals in South Africa there is a special extended section on thegame in Africa.Alistair Berg has worked as a freelance photographer for over twenty years, visiting more than fiftycountries for some of the world¿s most prominent publications and advertising agencies. He was a memberof the French press agency, Gamma, before joining the prestigious reportage agency IPG. In 2004 he movedto Cape Town, where he is now based.Despite the variety of assignments he has undertaken, Alistair has always photographed football culture.He views the World Cup Finals from the perspective of the fans as they make their pilgrimage to the meccaof the world game. 2010 will mark twenty years of Alistair¿s photographic coverage of football culture.Rogan Taylor is an academic, writer, broadcaster and football activist. He is author of several books onfootball including The Day of the Hillsborough Disaster and Kicking and Screaming. An Oral History ofFootball in England. He is also founder member and chairman of the Football Supporters¿ Association,launched in Liverpool after the Heysel disaster

The biography of the new Chelsea manager.