Harry Henniker's biking guides have been widely praised, both in the cycling press & elsewhere. This latest mountain biking book has been well worth waiting for. It features routes all over Scotland: not boring routes with only spruce trees to look at, but routes full of variety, interesting for cyclists of all abilities & usually with beautiful scenery. Many of the routes are completely new, & the majority have never been published in book form by anyone else. The text & easy-to-follow maps are accompanied by stunning colour photographs. In addition to writing mountain-biking & cycling guides, Harry also runs a special bus service for cyclists based in Edinburgh. His friends & Bike Bus passengers have had a great time checking out many of the routes featured here; we hope you do too! ...

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Howard Marks is king of the dope-smoking world: Mr Nice is now at a staggering half a million copies sold, & the Book of Dope Stories has sold 100, 000 copies in six months. Simon Bond is a well-known cartoonist: the classic 101 Uses For A Dead Cat came out in an omnibus edition last year
- twenty years after it was first published. 101 Uses For A Dead Roach will be a humour classic
- 101 cartoons ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, of how to use the un-useable part of your joint.

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Howard Marks is king of the dope-smoking world: Mr Nice is now at a staggering half a million copies sold, & the Book of Dope Stories has sold 100, 000 copies in six months. Simon Bond is a well-known cartoonist: the classic 101 Uses For A Dead Cat came out in an omnibus edition last year
- twenty years after it was first published. 101 Uses For A Dead Roach will be a humour classic
- 101 cartoons ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, of how to use the un-useable part of your joint.

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At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14, 000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York
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Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this new study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the great warriors who fought for the crown of England in 1066, Frank Mc Lynn shows that this view is mistaken. The Battle on Senlac Hill on 14 October was desperately close-run thing, which Harold lost only because of an incredible run of bad fortune & some treachery from the Saxon elite in Engl&. Both William & Harold were fine generals, but Harold was the more inspirational of the two. Making use of all the latest scholarship, Mc Lynn shows that most of our 'knowledge' of 1066 rests on myths or illusions: Harold did not fight at Hastings with the same army with which he had been victorious at Stamford Bridge three weeks earlier; the Battle of Senlac was not won by Norman archery; Harold did not die with an arrow in the eye. ...