Britain. What`s that all about then? Having skewered modern life & culture in the bestselling Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?, Steve Lowe & Alan Mc Arthur set out to uncover the deep dark truth about Britain ? its history, its myths & its people. Over the course of a year they endure the Last Night of the Proms & search for a couple of pissed dragons under a hill in Wales. They witness Scotland rising again (a bit), encounter terrifying Europhobe ladies in Surrey & lose the will to live in Gibraltar. They also meet a lot of druids. Hilarious, provocative & filled with fascinating facts, Blighty offers a brilliant, alternative vision of Britain ? the island in the Atlantic that some people call Britain. ...

During the First World War, the railways of Great Britain were run for the benefit of the armed services. With minimal investment & much of the workforce conscripted, the railways paid the price for their war service. Many railway-owned ships were commandeered & never returned, some lost, others unfit for service at the end of the war, while yet others were retained by the Navy. The railway workshops were turned over to war work, building ambulance trains, armaments & munitions; the railway ports were heavily utilised while the tracks themselves, especially in the south of Engl&, were turned over for military use. A fascinating insight into railways operating at their peak. For the first time, archival documents from the Railway Executive Committee have been analysed, & combined with data from previously untapped resources, to show the sheer scale of the railways` contribution to the winning of a war unprecedented in its scale & violence. ...

One of the titles in a series of topographic maps covering much of north-west Africa, produced as part of the IMW* project in 1960’s. Each map covers an area spanning 6° in longitude & 4° in latitude. There is some variation in colouring & the depiction of terrain, but hill-shading, spot heights & contours are used to show the general relief. Additional graphics show features such as dunes, rock outcrops, cliffs, sand areas, escarpments, marshes, seasonal lakes & watercourses, & areas liable to flooding. Bathymetric contours are also included. Communications detail

Includes:: roads, major trails & railways, although there is some inconsistency in colouring & the extent of classification, e.g. not all maps distinguish seasonal roads. On most maps intermediate road distances are indicated on main routes. Symbols show airports, mosques, mines, oil & gas fields, lighthouses, ruins & significant isolated buildings. Administrative boundaries are marked & latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals, with further margin ticks at 1’ intervals. The map legend is in French only on some sheets, & in English & French on others.* The International Map of the World was a project conceived in the early 20th century to compile a world map series at 1:1, 000, 000 through the efforts of participating nations. The value of the program has declined since 1970 & the IMW is no longer regarded as an active international series.

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The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made. This is the story of the men & women who risked everything to find it, earning their place in history beside the likes of Peary, Amundsen, Hillary, & Armstrong. In 2004, two great scientist-explorers attempted to find the bottom of the world. Bold, American Bill Stone was committed to the vast Cheve Cave, located in southern Mexico & deadly even by supercave standards. On the other side of the globe, legendary Ukrainian explorer Alexander Klimchouk
- Stone`s opposite in temperament & style
- had targeted Krubera, a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia. ” Blind Descent” explores both the brightest & darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover
- to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering & ocean exploration pale by comparison. These supercavers spent months in multiple camps almost two vertical miles deep & many more miles from their caves` exits. They had to contend with thous&-foot drops, deadly flooded tunnels, raging whitewater rivers, monstrous waterfalls, mile-long belly crawls, & much more. Perhaps even worse were the psychological horrors produced by weeks plunged into absolute, perpetual darkness, beyond all hope of rescue, including a particularly insidious derangement called ” The Rapture”. ” Blind Descent” is a testament to human survival & endurance
- & to two extraordinary men whose relentless pursuit of greatness led them to heights of triumph & depths of tragedy neither could have imagined.



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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is another collection of beautiful stories from the lyrically unconventional imagination of Haruki Murakami. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us & the things we might wish for. Whether in a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, a holiday in Hawaii or in the vicelike grip of everyday life, Murakami’s wonderfully inventive characters confront loss, sexuality, the glow of a firefly, or the impossible distance between those who ought to be closest of all. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience & condition in ways that are instructive, surprising & relentlessly entertaining. ...

Say goodbye to Ruby Redfort: every smart kid`s smart kid. The mind-blowing conclusion to the thrilling series by award-winning author Lauren Child. Ruby Redfort: undercover agent, code-cracker & thirteen-year-old genius
- you can count on her when the ice starts to crack. All good things come to an end... Ruby Redfort is running scared, a whole bunch of people want her dead & worst of all one of them is on her team. But just who is this agent of doom? You can run, Ruby, but you can`t hide...
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Slim wrist watch with light-up digital time display. Like the Blink Watch, the surface of the Blink Time Mini illuminates with the time when the watch face is pressed. However, the face & strap of the Mini are slimmer & ideal for children & customers who prefer a more feminine watch. The durable design makes it absolutely ideal for outdoor use & the light-up display excels in low light conditions. ...

From the author of The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell`s international bestseller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a revolution in the understanding of the mind. An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture & instantly spots it`s a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes whether a couple will stay together. A fire-fighter suddenly senses he has to get out of a blazing building. A speed dater clicks with the right person... This book is all about those moments when we `know` something without knowing why. Here Malcolm Gladwell explores the phenomenon of `blink`, showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision. By trusting your instincts, he reveals, you`ll never think about thinking in the same way again. ” Trust my snap judgement, buy this book: you`ll be delighted”. (The New York Times). ” Compelling, fiendishly clever”. (Evening Standard). ” Brilliant.. .the implications for business, let alone love, are vast”. (Observer). ” Superb.. .this wonderful book should be compulsory reading”. (New Statesman). ” Blink might just change your life”. (Esquire). ” Should you buy this book? You already know the answer to that”. (Independent on Sunday). Author, journalist, cultural commentator & intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. His first book The Tipping Point captured the world`s attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects. His other international bestselling books are Outliers, which looks at the stories of exceptional individuals & reveals the secrets of their success, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking & What The Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocative & entertaining New Yorker pieces. ...

The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler`s gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine &, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, & crucial to troops` resilience
- even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired & confused decision-making, with Hitler & his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
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The sensational German bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich, from Hitler to housewives. ` Bursting with interesting facts` Vice ` Extremely interesting.. .a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched` Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler`s gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine &, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, & crucial to troops` resilience
- even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired & confused decision-making, with Hitler & his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
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