WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI

The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of

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The love affair between Maurice Bendix & Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly & without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love & jealousy two years later, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, & slowly his love for her turns into an obsession. ...

We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or overfished. If nothing is done to stop the squandering of fish stocks the life of the oceans will face collapse & millions of people could starve.

Fish is the aspirational food for Western society, the healthy, weight-conscious choice, but those who eat & celebrate fish often ignore the fact that the fishing industry, although as technologically advanced as space travel, has an attitude to conservation 10, 000 years out of date. Trawling on an industrial scale in the North Sea takes 16 lbs of dead marine animals to produce just 1lb of sole. Regulation isn't working, fishermen must cheat or lose money, dolphins & other wildlife (seabirds, turtles, sharks) are killed unnecessarily & fish stocks are collapsing despite the warnings.

The End of the Line looks at the problem & proves that we, as consumers, have to change if the situation is to improve.



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According to the ancient Maya, the world as we know it will end on 21 December 2012. On that date, their calendar will click round to zero for the first time in over 5, 000 years. They prophesised that this destruction will be preceded by a series of natural disasters, including earthquakes & floods. Does this sound familiar?

What will this mean for us? Should we take seriously their claims that this will be a time of apocalyptic cataclysm? & just how did the Maya, a clever but nonetheless Stone Age people, calculate the date of an astronomical event that would take place many millennia in the future?

These are just some of the questions posed by Adrian Gilbert, co-author of the international bestseller The Mayan Prophecies. In The End of Time, he revisits the ancient archaeological sites of the Maya & makes astonishing new discoveries about their cosmology. He also makes use of modern computer technology to



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According to the ancient Maya, the world as we know it will end on 21 December 2012. On that date, their calendar will click round to zero for the first time in over 5, 000 years. They prophesied that this event will be preceded by a series of natural disasters, including earthquakes & floods ...