This is the story of a life in crisis, set in the world of high finance. At the age of twenty-eight, Dubliner Geri Molloy has put her troubled past behind her to become a major player at Steiner's investment bank in London, earning $850k a year doing business with a reclusive hedge fund manager in Hong Kong who, in return for his patronage, likes to ask her about Kant & watch while she eats exotic Asian delicacies. For five years Geri has had it all, but in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991, her life starts to unravel. Abandoned by her corporate financier boyfriend, in the grip of a debilitating insomnia, & drinking far too much, Geri becomes entangled in a hostile takeover involving her boss, her client & her ex. With her career on the line as a consequence, & no one to turn to, she is close to losing it, in every sense. Taut & fast-paced, On the Floor is about making money & taking risks; it's about getting away with it, & what happens when you're no longer one step ahead; ultimately, though, it's a reminder to never, ever underestimate the personal cost of success. ...

Brain Box Travel On The Go World contains 44 beautifully-illustrated cards showing the very best the World has to offer, & then some! The object of the game is to study a card for 10 seconds & then answer a question based on the roll of a die. If the question is answered correctly, the card is kept & the person with the most number of cards after 5 or 10 minutes is the winner. Made from a minimum of 70% recycled material, the Brain Box range is fabulous fun. Find out who the Brain Box is in your family – it may not be who you think it is! ...

On the High Line is the first illustrated guide to the elevated park that has transformed an entire neighbourhood of New York City. Illustrated with some 400 colour photos, including the work of notable photographer & horticulturist Rick Darke, & featuring a gatefold map, it is an engaging, friend-at-your-side guide to everything that a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens & their thousands of plants from around the world; the art, architecture & landscape design by highly recognizable names such as Piet Oudolf, Olaf Eliasson & Pentagram; & a neighbourhood whose lively history

Includes:: the Titanic, the Manhattan Project, S&M clubs & the Tenth Avenue Cowboy. This book captures like no other the countless details that make a walk along the High Line such an unforgettable experience.

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Thirty feet in the air, rebuilt & planted on one-&-a-half miles of abandoned, elevated railroad track snaking through Manhattans West Side, the High Line has turned the dream of escape offered by most urban parks inside out. On the High Line is an engaging, friend-at-your-side guide to everything that a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens & their thousands of plants from around the world; the architecture, both old & new; & a neighbourhood whose lively history

Includes:: the Titanic, the Manhattan Project, S&M clubs & the Tenth Avenue Cowboy. This book captures like no other the countless details that make a walk along the High Line such an unforgettable experience.

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Maps have long intrigued & guided us
- from the days of the early philosophers to today`s digital, smartphone-enabled cartographic
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For three years, Carol Donaldson lived in a caravan on the North Kent Marshes while working for the RSPB, Britain`s largest wildlife conservation charity. Despite the hardship of frozen pipes & electricity which blew out in every storm, what began as a short term financial decision turned into a way of life she came to love. It was a simple life, under a willow tree & close to nature in a home that let the outside in. But Carol was then evicted, a devastating event which also brought about the end of a long term relationship. Carol moved to a nearby town & settled down to a more conventional life. Yet the new sense of security she felt from owning her own home was matched by a powerful urge to escape into the landscapes of the estuary, to find the unconventional people she knew who still lived there, on the watery margins. So in 2014 Carol set out on a series of walks across the marshes, travelling from Gravesend to Whitstable. Both an act of pilgrimage to a landscape she loves & an investigation into why people are drawn to live there, Carol meets the houseboat & caravan owners, the hermits who live in the woods & the men who choose to die in these remote places. On the Marshes brings us a fresh, honest & unflinching book for our times. Able to evoke the landscape of a marginalised corner of Engl&, Carol weaves her own story of alienation with those who have made the marshes their home. Along the way she never shies from confronting the issues of cultural conflict so relevant today, between marsh dwellers & corporate Engl&, between private ownership & conservation, between two ways of living. ...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: ` Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far`. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles & speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California & then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, as well as with a group of patients who would define his life, it becomes clear that Sacks`s earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters & travels
- sending him through bars & alleys, over oceans, & across continents.
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For humans the sea is, & always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving & ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed & scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown & threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing & cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials & we are eager for esoteric knowledge, & society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there
- a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, two contrasting seas
- the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed & soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete & we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal & England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans & the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.

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Watch a plane get ready for take-off with this beautifully illustrated interactive book! By simply holding the book up to the light, or shining a torch behind each page, young readers will be able to discover the hidden secrets of an airport, how pilots prepare a plane for flight, & how cabin crew help passengers to enjoy their journey. The innovative see-through feature fulfils a similar function to lift-the-flap books, but has the added interactive dimension of the child being able to see both the surface & the hidden picture at the same time. ...

SCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES
- a br&-new range of full-colour sticker-activity books for ages 3+, 5+ & 7. Collect them all! A fun-filled
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