When creating karate kata, the Okiniwan masters included deadly techniques targeting vital points. But they chose not to pass on their full knowledge of vital-point striking. Here, Ashley Croft demystifies this hidden corner of the art & explores its practical application. ...

This book is about language designed to mean what it does not seem to mean. Codes protect secrets. Symbol & magic hide meanings to imperil or delight. Languages made to confuse let insiders talk openly without being understood by others. Barry Blake looks in depth at these & many more & illuminates the most arcane & curious uses of language ...

Lara Boucher will do whatever it takes to get that coveted promotion to detective. But the last thing she expects when she goes undercover at the so-called 'spa' is to run into Jack again
- or to feel such a strong attraction. Will he be able to show Lara the man he really is without jeopardizing their mission?
...

Drama set in 1964 South Carolina, based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd. Dakota Fanning stars as Lily Owens, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a fruit farm owner who is violent & abusive towards her. Her mother died in a horrific accident when Lily was a toddler, & she is cared for by her black nanny, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson). When Rosaleen ends up in jail after getting in trouble with a group of racist men in their local town, Lily frees her & the pair run away together, ending up at a honey farm owned by the Boatwright sisters, August (Queen Latifah), June (Alicia Keys) & May (Sophie Okonedo). Lily is taken on by the sisters as a beekeeping apprentice, & eventually discovers that her new 'family' has deep & unexpected connections with her late mother. ...

All three episodes of the BBC wildlife mini-series following eminent elephant expert Iain Douglas Hamilton & his Save the Elephants team as they study the emotional behaviour of a herd of wild elephants in the Samburu National Reserve in Northern Kenya. ...