These are short stories for children designed to help kids learn how to read & learn to love reading. Race to the Finish is a ` Reading Alone` reader, perfect for children who are proficient readers. These short stories for children develop the habit of reading widely for both pleasure & information. DK Reads proves that good reads build great readers. Follow five teams as they prepare & build their cars & bikes for the 50th Annual Creek Point Crazy Race. From the gas-guzzling V12 rally car & the new prototype dual fuel hybrid car to a modified ”dualie” motorbike & the eco-friendly alternative powered-car find out about the advantages & disadvantages of the different engines, how they work & the possibilities for cool cars & bikes of the future. Who will win the race? ...

Since opening the hugely popular Pear Cafe nine years ago, Elly Pear has been on a quest for good food & new ideas. Having found real results sticking to the 5:2 way of eating, Elly shares some of her favourite, most exciting recipes for eating well & enjoying food on both fast days & feast days. Elly Pear: Fast Days & Feast Days is a collection of more than 100 of Elly`s favourite pescatarian recipes from both fast days & feast days, her home kitchen & her cafe, inspired by world cooking but always with an eye on the local greengrocers. With clear & comprehensive advice on shopping well & using your local shops, stocking your fridge & cupboards sensibly & avoiding waste at all costs, this book will guide you to a new way of eating delicious, nutritious food all year round
- on fast days & feast days.
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Fast Flags will help children to become familiar with the flags from different countries around the world. Players need to get rid of their cards before anyone else by finding 2 or more matching flags. This is a fast paced game where accuracy is important; make a mistake & you have to take another card. There are 48 different flags & the countries are also named. ...

In Fast Powerboat Seamanship, one of the world's leading authorities on high-speed piloting & navigation shows you how to operate any fast boat for maximum thrill at minimum risk. Dag Pike describes the effects of hull design on performance & gives you a better understanding of how your boat is built. He explains how fast boats respond under a variety of conditions, & he walks you through everything you need to know about engines, propulsion systems, trim tabs, & the other controls that give you complete command of your craft. Pike provides a step-by-step tutorial in the techniques of fast-boat driving & spells out the measures you can take to ensure comfort & safety for yourself & your passengers. He also explores the things you need to know about the sea itself: how waves are generated, how they move, & how to assess & adjust to changing conditions on the water. You'll learn how to adapt to the faster pace of events at 25 to 100 knots; navigate at high speed; & control a high-speed turn. You'll also learn techniques for avoiding collisions, operating in extreme weather, & much more. The better you understand your boat & how to control it, the greater the pleasure you will get from high-performance boating. Fast Powerboat Seamanship is the source for the specialized knowledge & skills you need to get the most out of any fast boat. ...

As the newest additions to the popular Fast Talk series, Fast Talk with Audio
- French is a pocket-sized phrasebook & CD companion,
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From first sail to cruising a mid-sized sailboat, here is a how-to book tailored to would-be sailors with big dreams & little time Like the ” Fast Track to Cruising” course, this book starts with the basics of sailing & moves the reader quickly through days ailing to cruising. The first half covers all the steps from learning to sail to live-a-board cruising in outline format, offering synopses of key information along that path. Each key point is cross-linked to a fuller exposition in the second half of the book, helping the reader to a fuller understanding of the concepts behind the techniques. ...

For professional cyclists, going faster & winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details & take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right
- it's the doing everything right that's hard. & that's what fascinates & obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery & an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster
- training, nutrition, the right psychology
- & explains how they work, & how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, & why, & how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches & the boffins get up to behind the scenes, & about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.


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For professional cyclists, going faster & winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details & take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right
- it`s the doing everything right that`s hard. & that`s what fascinates & obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery & an awareness that it`s all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster
- training, nutrition, the right psychology
- & explains how they work, & how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, & why, & how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches & the boffins get up to behind the scenes, & about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.


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For more than 30 years, Patience Gray author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone; grew much of her own food; & gathered & ate wild plants alongside her neighbors in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself & her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple & isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time: M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, & Julia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005 the BBC described her as an almost forgotten culinary star. Yet her influence, particularly among chefs & other food writers, has had a lasting & profound effect on the way we view & celebrate good food & regional cuisines. Gray s prescience was unrivaled: She wrote about what today we would call the Mediterranean diet & Slow Food from foraging to eating locally long before they became part of the cultural mainstream. Imagine if Michael Pollan or Barbara Kingsolver had spent several decades living among Italian, Greek, & Catalan peasants, recording their recipes & the significance of food & food gathering to their way of life. In Fasting & Feasting, now available in paperback, biographer Adam Federman tells the remarkable & until now untold life story of Patience Gray: from her privileged & intellectual upbringing in Engl&, to her trials as a single mother during World War II, to her career working as a designer, editor, translator, & author, & describing her travels & culinary adventures in later years. A fascinating & spirited woman, Patience Gray was very much a part of her times but very clearly ahead of them. ...

In August 1979, the 600-mile Fastnet Race, which began in fine weather off the Irish coast, became, for the men & women sailing it, a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, 60-knot storm swept across the Atlantic, with a speed that confounded weathermen, into the fleet of 303 boats. For 24 hours, over 2500 men & women were smashed by 40-foot breaking waves. John Rousmaniere, who was there, tells the story of this great disaster in the history of yachting. ...