Read the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films! This book will be a hit with children & adults alike. THE STORY CONTINUES in the third volume of Hiccup`s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.. . Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer & the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn`t always like that. Hiccup`s memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, & finding it very hard to be a Hero. Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first ` Boarding an Enemy Ship` lesson is bad enough. But to then discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn`t have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. Can Hiccup save the dragons & the day? How to Train Your Dragon is now a major Dream Works franchise. How to Train Your Dragon 2 hits cinemas in Summer 2014 starring Gerrard Butler, Cate Blanchett & Jonah Hill & the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies & Cartoon Network. Read the rest of Hiccup`s exploits & check out the website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com. It`s the place to go for games, downloads, activities & sneak peeks! ...

The days of wooing your love with embarrassing poetry or rambling love letters are over. Here begins the new dawn in the evolution the language of love: emoji. With a wealth of emojis on offer to convey your adoration, from kissy faces & hearts-for-eyes, to saucier combinations, there is no end to the ways you can declare your love. This book will guide you through each stage of your relationship with phrases for every occasion. Step back Shakespeare: wherefore are thou, aubergine? Sections include: pick-up lines, what not to say on a first date, how to say `I love you`, living together, the proposal, breaking up, love songs & romantic films. ...

Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elites can be complex, jargon-filled & completely baffling. & we need to understand it because if we can`t, then the elites will write their own rules. Now John Lanchester, bestselling author of Capital & Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone & no one can pay, sets out to decode it for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading & the World Bank to the difference between bullshit & nonsense. As funny as it is devastating, How To Speak Money is a primer & a polemic. It`s a reference book you`ll find yourself reading in one sitting. & it gives you everything you need to demystify the world of high fiannce
- the world that dominates how we all live now.
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The modern guide for identifying hipsters in their natural habitat. Spotting a hipster used to be simple
- a guy in his twenties
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This is a delightful & nearly endless source of cooking information. Ever wonder how to cut lemon wedges so they won't squirt you in the eye? Or what to do with those overgrown courgettes from the garden? How to save that bread that just won't rise? In How to Squeeze a Lemon, home cooks & chefs alike will find a delightful & nearly endless source of cooking information reference. The follow-up to the award winning How to Break an Egg, the wonderfully informative & entertaining How to Squeeze a Lemon is chock full of more than 1, 000 fresh tips, kitchen-tested techniques & smart substitutions for problems that bedevil cooks every day, all from the readers, contributors & editors of Fine Cooking, one of America's favourite cooking magazines. ...

This is the classic survival annual, now updated, re-illustrated & published for the first time in a Jungle-proof rubber khaki cover. Anyone who spends time in the wild: walkers, orienteerers, climbers, hunters: can suddenly be dependent upon his or her own resources to survive. This book offers serious tips & techniques that make starvation in the wilderness virtually impossible when you become lost or stranded, using only the resources of Mother Nature. Sustenance; Science of Staying Alive; Edible Vegetation Identification Guide; Trapping; Thirst; Warmth; Facts of Lighting Fires; Shelter for the Making; Wilderness Homes; Clothing; Orientation; Staying Found; Knowing Where You Are; Camping; Signalling; Lost in the Woods; Safety; Getting Out of Trouble; Emergency First Aid; Backwoods Medicine; Survival Kit; Detailed technical illustrations show readers exactly what they need to identify & to make: edible foods, simple traps, lean-to constructions, fire-building techniques, emergency signals, navigation methods... ...

The ultimate survival guide from the world’s leading survival expert. Nobody knows survival like Bear Grylls. There is a barely a terrain he hasn’t conquered or an extreme environment he hasn’t experienced. Over the years ? from his time in 21 SAS, through to his extraordinary expeditions climbing (and paragliding over) Everest, travelling through the Arctic`s treacherous Northwest Passage, crossing the world’s oceans & taking part in adventures to the toughest corners of each of the seven continents ? Bear has accumulated an astonishing wealth of survival knowledge. Now, for the first time, he is putting all his expertise into one book. How To Stay Alive will teach you:- How to survive a bear attack- How to fly a plane in an emergency- How to make fire from virtually nothing
- How to drive off-road- How to navigate using the stars- How to administer first-aid- How to escape a burning building- How to survive the most extreme conditions And dozens of other essential skills to survive the modern world.
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Read the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films! This book will be a hit with children & adults alike. The story continues in the ninth volume of Hiccup`s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs. Bad times have come to the Archipelago. Ever since the woods of Berserk burned down, it is almost as if the world is cursed. Dragons are starting to revolt against their Masters. The waters have risen, flooding fields & washing whole villages away. But worse still, the wicked witch Excellinor has returned. Can Hiccup find the King`s Things & win the sword-fighting contest to stop Alvin the Treacherous from becoming King of the Wilderwest? How to Train Your Dragon is now a major Dream Works franchise. How to Train Your Dragon 2 hits cinemas in Summer 2014 starring Gerrard Butler, Cate Blanchett & Jonah Hill & the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies & Cartoon Network. Read the rest of Hiccup`s exploits & check out the website for games, downloads, activities & sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup & all of your favourite characters, learn to speak Dragonese & train your own Dragon to do tricks! ...

Keep calm
- but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit
- except that it will be deeply damaging

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`I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.` Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he`s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, & now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover
- working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars & witch hunts as if he`d never witnessed them first-h&. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love. How to Stop Time is a wild & bittersweet story about losing & finding yourself, about the certainty of change & about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live.
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