' The book to read' GQ'A revelatory book' John Lewis-Stempel Praise for The Billion Dollar Deals & How They're Changing Our World the TV documentary which accompanies the book' So brilliant you want to take notes It's a brilliant concept brilliantly executed' Lucy Mangan Guardian What if the way we understand our world is wrong? What if it isn't politicians & events that shape our lives but secret deals made by people you've never heard of? This book tells the story of the secret deals that are changing the world & revolutionizing everything we do including money the food we eat what we buy & the drugs we take to stay well These deals never make the news they are made high up in boardrooms on golf courses & in luxury cars each sealed by world-changing handshakes This is the story of those handshakes ...

When cathedral dean Adam Ayscough encounters clockmaker Isaac Peabody their unlikely friendship touches the lives of the entire community Behind the dean's fearsome reputation lies a humble man crippled by shyness Desperate to leave behind a lasting legacy of goodness his only wishes are to serve God & his parishioners & to be loved by his young & dissatisfied wife Haunted by the memories of a miserable childhood gifted clockmaker Isaac Peabody has spent a lifetime perfecting his craft & rejecting all belief in God Despite their fundamental differences both men find a common understanding & discover that faith can come in many different guises ...

Rod Campbell's preschool classic Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with children & parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982 Now even very young children can join in the fun & draw their own zoo! Toddlers will be kept busy for hours drawing colouring & doodling all the animals from the original story in The Dear Zoo Drawing & Colouring Book It's packed full of simple activities that are perfectly pitched for preschoolers can you draw bananas for the naughty monkey or give the fierce lion big sharp teeth? With large square pages extra thick paper & lots & lots of animals The Dear Zoo Drawing & Colouring Book is a fun & satisfying introduction to learning to draw ...

We Lost Everything I Used to Pray for the Heavens to Fall To Hold & Have You Can&t Get Born Again Times Infinity 1 Here&s to the Death of All the Romance Someday All This Will Be Yours Face of Horrors Hell Hath Frozen in Your Eyes Onward & Downward ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence impersonate Bobby Z a recently deceased drug dealer in a hostage switch with a crime lord When the negotiations go awry Kearney flees with Z&s son in tow One Man Two Lives Countless Enemies Marked for death by a biker gang ex-Marine convict Tim Kearney (Paul Walker Into the Blue) just got one last chance to walk out of jail alive A scheming DEA agent (Laurence Fishburne Mission Impossible III) needs somebody to impersonate recently deceased druglord Bobby Z & Tim happens to be a dead ringer It&s a risky proposition but if Tim plays his part right he may be able to claim Bobby Z&s smoking hot ex-girlfriend (Olivia Wilde Alpha Dog) & a cool fortune in illegal profits Unfortunately taking on Bobby Z&s name also means taking on his bloodthirsty enemies Caught in the crossfire Tim runs for his life as he tries to find a way out of his deadly masquerade Also starring UFC Light Heavyweight Champ Chuck Liddell ...

In this classic text Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning & rebuilding & to introduce new principles by which these should be governed The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written Throughout the post-war period planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods super-blocks rigid 'scientific' plans & endless acres of grass Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground The real vitality of cities argues Jacobs lies in their diversity architectural variety teeming street life & human scale It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe interesting & economically viable as well as places that people want to live in ...

The lady in black was really responsible for the whole affair according to Joe Trayne's story When someone asks for assistance with a dead man the sensible option is to walk away But when club owner Joe Trayne meets Wendy Bond on a warm summer's night in London his curiosity gets the better of him Joe accompanies Wendy into her flat off Conduit Street only to find himself alone after she mysteriously disappears But it's what she leaves him with that's most disturbing a large box & a body inside it After he flees the scene Joe finds he can't stop thinking about Wendy & her unfortunate guest As he sets about tracking her down he finds himself at the centre of not just one but several cases of murder Can Joe solve the crime before he becomes the next victim? ...

The Trials are over WICKED have collected all the information they can Now it's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test But something has happened that no-one at WICKED has foreseen Thomas has remembered more than they think & he knows WICKED can't be trusted The time for lies is over But the truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined With the Gladers divided can they all make it? ...

The Trials are over WICKED have collected all the information they can Now it's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test But something has happened that no-one at WICKED has foreseen Thomas has remembered more than they think & he knows WICKED can't be trusted The time for lies is over But the truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined With the Gladers divided can they all make it? ...

The Trials are over WICKED have collected all the information they can Now it's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test But something has happened that no-one at WICKED has foreseen Thomas has remembered more than they think & he knows WICKED can't be trusted The time for lies is over But the truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined With the Gladers divided can they all make it? ...