This is Max. Doesn`t Max look sweet. Max looks so sweet that sometimes people like to dress him up in ribbons. Max does not like being dressed up in ribbons. Because Max is a fearless kitten. Max is an intrepid kitten. Max is a brave kitten. Max is a Kitten who chases Mice. Meet Max the Brave, a brilliantly witty new character from acclaimed author & illustrator, Ed Vere. Told with deadpan humour & with beautifully stylish illustrations, this is something to be enjoyed by parents & children alike. ...

Max, chief mouse-hunter at the Theatre Royal, is up to his whiskers in his first mystery! Max is a pampered cat, used to the finer things in life, until a fun mouse chase goes badly wrong & he finds himself scruffy & alone & hiding out at the Theatre Royal. It`s here that Max takes on his first case as a detective cat, when he notices that famous singer Madame Emerald is acting strangely. Why is her maid so terrified? & what kind of singer doesn`t like to sing in public? Soon Max is trapped in a complicated web of crime, dashing round dancers` legs & over the rooftops of London in a race to catch a clever thief... ...

Maximum City is a vibrant, exotic & thrilling portrait of Mumbai, the world’s largest city, told from a number of perspectives; through interviews with a kaleidoscope of characters, & through the author’s own journeys, recollections & experiences. Author Suketu Mehta, raised in Mumbai, is a celebrated & seasoned journalist; “ Maximum City” is his first book, the product of 7 years of research. Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, & written with the relentless observation & patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay & its people
- a book as vast, diverse, & rich in experience, incident, & sensation as the city itself.
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Eric Horst brings unprecedented clarity to the many cognitive & neurophysical aspects of climbing & dovetails this information into a complete program, setting forth three stages of mental training that correspond to beginner, intermediate, & elite levels of experience & commitment-the ideal template to build upon to personalize one`s goals through years of climbing to come. ...

Join Christopher Nye on his hilarious journey to become the self-styled Rocco Forte of the Road to Eastbourne. This is a book about a dream. The dream of running a restaurant. In Uckfield, East Sussex. Well, okay, Uckfield didn`t actually appear in the dream. But for Christopher Nye it was the perfect choice: a small town, but not too small; a town crying out for an American-style diner; a town without a Mc Donald`s. So here`s the story of how to make it big in small-town Britain. How to find the right premises (if not quite the right location); how to motivate teenage staff while giving work experience to a haute cuisine chef; how to stay out of casualty when things get a bit ` Goodfellas` on a Friday night; how to keep your puppy hidden from the Environmental Health Inspector; & why you should never, ever, hire an Elvis impersonator on the cheap. Oh
- & how to deal with Mc Donald`s, when they realise they need an outlet in Uckfield after all. ” Maximum Diner” is a tale of all this, served up with the crispiest fries & the strangest milkshakes on the south coast. Read it & laugh aloud. But keep that dream alive. For this might all happen to you.
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Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper. They have been uneasy rivals since childhood. Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life
- at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family & history. The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, & death. But this is also a savage & dizzyingly inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer
- the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants` desperate craving for intimacy & their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel`s heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans losing & finding themselves anew; & it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation
- simultaneously terrifying & inspiring.


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The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings` Old Scandinavian to Persian, Arawak, Cantonese, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Inuit & Erdu
- amongst a host of others
- we have enriched our modern language with such words as tulip, slogan, doolally, avocado, moccasin, ketchup & ukulele. May We Borrow Your Language? explores the intriguing & unfamiliar stories behind scores of familiar words that the English language has filched from abroad; in so doing, it also sheds fascinating light on the wider history of the development of the English we speak today. Full of etymological nuggets to intrigue & delight the reader, this is a gift book for word buffs to cherish
- as cerebrally stimulating as it is more-ishly entertaining.


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` Arriving in Cambridge on my first day as an undergraduate, I could see nothing except a cold white October mist. At the age of twenty-four I was a complete failure, with nothing to show for my life except a few poems nobody wanted to publish in book form.` Falling Towards England -- the second volume of Clive James`s ` Unreliable Memoirs` -- was meant to be the last. Thankfully, that`s not the case. In ` Unreliable Memoirs III`, Clive details his time at Cambridge, including film reviewing, writing poetry, falling in love (often), & marrying (once) during May Week -- which was not only in June but also two weeks long.. .` Nobody writes like Clive James; he has invented a style` Spectator ` He turns phrases, mixes together cleverness & clownishness, & achieves a fluency & a level of wit that make his pages truly shimmer.. . May Week Was In June is vintage James` Financial Times ...

The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the New Worlds greatest ancient civilization. In these pages, Professor Coe distils a lifetimes scholarship for the general reader & student. The eighth edition incorporates the latest archaeological & epigraphic research, which continues to proceed at a fast pace. Among the finest new discoveries are the spectacular polychrome murals of Calakmul, which provide archaeological evidence for the importance of marketplaces in the Classic Maya cities as well as giving a unique glimpse into Maya daily life. It concludes with new historical evidence for the crucial role played by collaborationist native leaders, both Maya & non-Maya, in the Spanish conquest of the region. ...

Maya 2012 in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...