The Holy Grail of modern scientists is ' The Theory of Everything', which will contain all that can be known about the Universe
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Yoga is hotter than ever, with the number of people practising in the UK increasing by 25% each year. While many do so for general fitness & to tone their bodies, many others practise it to optimise their health & wellbeing. Therapeutic Yoga reveals how you can use yoga positions to boost your physical, mental & emotional fitness & shows you specific sequences designed to combat common problems. This book provides easy-to-follow, effective answers to all the common diseases & ailments, including arthritis, asthma, back-ache, chronic fatigue syndrome, colds & flu, headaches & migraine, high blood pressure, infertility, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, menstrual problems & stress. With practical advice & clear step-by-step colour photography throughout, this is the definitive guide to using yoga for health, from one of the UK's best-known complementary practitioners. ...

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress & a flash car, Laurence ' Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst.

As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks
- via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity & memories of his 1950s South London boyhood
- on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment.



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When Sean Astin, veteran Hollywood actor of over 30 movies including The Goonies, & Rudy, landed the part of Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings, he knew it was going to be different to anything he'd ever worked on before. Here he shares his heartfelt opinions on his early movies, how he got the part of Sam at that point in his career, & what it was like to be on set for nearly two years of his life. How did he & the other cast members get along? What were the excitements & the dangers they faced during filming? What happened the evening that Elijah Wood lost the keys to his room? How did Sir Ian Mc Kellen cope when he didn't like the music the hobbits listened to during make-up & what happened when the crew considered striking?
Revealing & immensely readable, There & Back Again is the behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to be involved in the making of one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.
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These Days represents one of the most strikingly original debuts in recent years & won the 2004 Forward Prize for Best First ...

An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island
- around the isolated honeymoon hotspot, the Drome Hotel
- gathering

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An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island
- around the isolated honeymoon hotspot, the Drome Hotel
- gathering

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