For more than 80 years The Shell Channel Pilot has been the ultimate authority on English Channel navigation & pilotage Following the pioneering work of the legendary Adlard Coles the book was passed to Captain John Coote RN in 1982 In his comparatively short ten-year tenure John Coote expanded the coverage from the English coast to include northern France He also applied a characteristic humour to the shoreside aspect of the text which has been enthusiastically adopted by Tom Cunliffe the present & third compiler of this unique work Upgraded & updated regularly this is the 8th edition published by Imray under Cunliffe's hand Shell' is more than a harbour guide It also provides a reassuring hand on the shoulder for Channel navigation with useful passage notes gleaned from the compiler's personal experience of more than 40 years running the tides & finding the eddies His frank remarks regarding harbour & recreational facilities have long been relied upon by sailors of all generations & nationalities While leading to some enlightening secrets they have been known to cause landlords whose establishments fall short of the required standard to lose the will to live Working with harbourmasters & a dedicated group of carefully selected yachtsmen & women Cunliffe has kept this pilot as up to date as is humanly possible More than being technically sound which is to be expected from a Yachtmaster Examiner the book is also a thoroughly enjoyable read ...

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full & varied life a Bohemian childhood in London & Cornwall an unhappy wartime marriage & the one man she truly loved She has brought up three children
- & learned to accept them as they are Yet she is far too energetic & independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age & when she discovers that her most treasured possession her father's painting The Shell Seekers is now worth a small fortune it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family or be split apart
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This much-anticipated revision written by the ultimate group of top security experts in the world features 40 percent new content on how to find security holes in any operating system or application New material addresses the many new exploitation techniques that have been discovered since the first edition including attacking unbreakable software packages such as Mc Afee's Entercept Mac OS X XP Office 2003 & Vista Also features the first-ever published information on exploiting Cisco's IOS with content that has never before been explored The companion Web site features downloadable code files ...

Ayla & Jondalar have reached home the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back with her strange accent & her tame wolf & horses She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni the spiritual leader of her people a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills After the rigours & dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life Ayla yearns for peace & tranquillity; to be Jondalar's mate & to have children But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored & even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii ...

It is Christmas Eve 1957 Flying home on leave from Germany he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire Sixty-six minutes of flying time with the descent & landing
- destination Lakenheath No problem all routine procedures Then out over the North sea the fog begins to close in Radio contact ceases & the compass goes haywire Suddenly out of the mist appears a World War II bomber It is flying just below the Vampire as of trying to make contact
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The Shepherd's Hut is an exquisite brutal coming of age novel It tells the story of Jaxie a boy on the run from his past & explores the way love & hate combine to form a young man's beliefs 256 pages Winton Tim ...

A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the Chalk something is stirring The owls & the foxes can sense it & Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots An old enemy is gathering strength This is a time of endings & beginnings old friends & new a blurring of edges & a shifting of power Now Tiffany stands between the light & the dark the good & the bad As the fairy horde prepares for invasion Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her To protect the land Her land There will be a reckoning THE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVEL ...

Tiffany Aching has finally got her wish She is a witch (and a respected one at that) Overworked & underpaid that's for certain but a witch nonetheless Help is at hand though In the form of young Geoffrey & his goat Geoffrey wants to be a witch too & thinks he can save the world by building sheds Well everyone has to start somewhere But as new friends are made & old ones return enemies are stirring With her beloved chalk in jeopardy Tiffany will face the toughest challenge of her life There will be a reckoning Brilliant This is a book worth reading twice in quick succession' Daily Mail ...

A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the chalk something is stirring Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots
- an old enemy is gathering strength
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER' Affectionate evocative illuminating A story of survival
- of a flock a landscape & a disappearing
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