NOW A UK BESTSELLERUnrivalled gardening wisdom from Monty Don including essential tips knowledge & musings from his 50 years of gardening experience Written as he talks this is Monty Don right beside you in the garden challenging norms & sharing advice Discover Monty's thoughts & garden ideas around nature seasons colour design pests flowering shrubs containers & much more Read about the month-by month jobs he does in his own garden that he hopes are relevant to you Monty's intimate & lyrical writing is accompanied by photos of his garden showing areas rarely seen on television This is the perfect gift for the gardener in your life I have written many gardening books but this is the distillation of 50 years of gardening experience It has all the tips & essential pieces of knowledge that enable you to make your garden grow well & it also shares my view that gardening is the secret to living well too
- Monty
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For riders at all levels Carl Hester & Bernadette Faurie aim to make dressage training accessible with step-by-step guides for improving the horse's paces riding dressage movements & competing Essentially this book is about every rider making the most of his or her potential & in the process producing a horse that is more pleasing to ride & more athletic in its body The book offers advice on training all types of horse & in everyday language explains how to set about improving the horse's paces & suppleness whilst keeping him happy & enthusiastic in his work It describes how to ride dressage movements from simple circles to flying changes & pointing out common mistakes & how to correct them Carl Hester is seen in over more than 100 specially shot photographs schooling his horses at home bringing on youngsters & fine-tuning the more experienced animals ...

' Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us In every lonely corner of every sea through every night every day & every imaginable weather tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat These ordinary men live extraordinary lives subject to dangers & difficulties we can only imagine from hurricanes & pirates to years of confinement in hazardous if not hellish environments Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe & experiences unforgettable journeys As the ships cross seas of history & incident seafarers unfold the stories of their lives & a beautiful & terrifying portrait of the oceans & their human subjects emerges ' Tremendous' The Times ...

It is the driest flattest hottest most desiccated infertile & climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents & still Australia teems with life
- a large portion of it quite deadly In fact Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else Ignoring such dangers
- & yet curiously obsessed by them
- Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia & promptly fell in love with the country & who can blame him? The people are cheerful extrovert quick-witted & unfailingly obliging their cities are safe & clean & nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold & the sun nearly always shines Life doesn't get much better than this


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Sometimes popular music registers our concerns & anxieties more lucidly than we realise This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades So claims Down with Childhood as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth & inner-children the fascination with juvenilia amidst an ebbing UK rave scene & dozens of nursery rhyme hip-hop choruses spawned by a hit Jay-Z tune As it examines the often complex sets of meanings to which the occasional presence of children in pop songs attests the book pauses at Musical Youth's ' Pass the Dutchie' & other one-hit teen wonders the career paths of child stars including Michael Jackson & Britney Spears radical experiments in free jazz & Black Panther influenced children's soul groups In the process a novel argument begins to emerge relating the often remarked crisis of childhood to changing experiences of work & play & ultimately to an ongoing capitalist crisis that underlies them ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Renee Zellwegger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (Ewan Mc Gregor) these sparring would-be lovers generate enough sparks to fly you to the moon & back In other words the ultimate catch has just met his match! ...

Get all of Warren Ellis' best Top Cow work including the mini-series Down as well as his Tales of the Witchblade issues If you're an Ellis fan this is a must-have in your collection

Includes:: new cover art by fan favorite Tony Harris!

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play April 1945 a nation awaits its Downfall Not since GW Pabst&s 1956 effort & Letste Akt& (The Last Act) has a German film attempted to tackle the subject of their most famous leader Adolf Hitler Breaking a long-standing taboo the director Oliver Hirschbiegel has made a film that has sparked much debate in Germany & the rest of the world Downfall features an astonishing performance by Bruno Ganz as history&s most notorious figure Providing an unprecedented & controversial insider&s perspective the film is a gripping insight into the madness & desperation of Hitler in the final hours of the war as the Russian Army closes a ring around Berlin Beautifully photographed & brilliantly acted this tour de force is at once dramatic harrowing & remarkably authentic The basis for the screenplay by writer-producer Bernd Eichinger came from two key sources Joachim Fest&s book " Inside Hitler&s Bunker The Last Days of The Third Reich" the recognition that the horrifying epic of Hitler & his people during his twelve years in power was reflected in those last twelve days in the bunker; & the memoirs of Hitler&s private secretary Traudl Junge in Melissa Mueller&s book " Until The Final Hour Hitler&s Last Secretary" which provided an invaluable insight into the character of the man & those final fatal few days of the war Actors Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Ulrich Matthes Corinna Harfouch Juliane Kohler Heino Ferch Matthias Habich Christian Berkel & Ulrich Noethen Director Oliver Hirschbiegel Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen 178 Anamorphic Widescreen Languages German
- Dolby Digital (51) ; DTSSubtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 35 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Charting the final days of World War II in Nazi Germany DOWNFALL shows what went on in the bunker where Hitler (Bruno Ganz) his secretary (Alexandra Maria Lara) & a few close colleagues waited for their inevitable demise ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Controversial & award-winning German drama about the final days of Adolf Hitler & the Nazi regime Bruno Ganz plays the German dictator who as the Russians close in towards Berlin retreats to his bunker with his fianc?e Eva Braun (Juliane K?hler) his private secretary Traudle Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) & his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes) His mood ranging from violent rage to pessimistic defeat Hitler attempts to deny the inevitable as the other occupants of the bunker deal with the prospect of their impending death at the hands of the Russians Goebbels kills his family before committing suicide while Hitler finally marries Eva Braun in a ceremony that precedes their own suicide by hours With only Junge surviving the Red Army closes in & takes the capital ...