There are many ways to save the planet, & many a re pretty easy too. Some of these Knowledge Cards describe small but valuable actions that diminish pollution, energy consumption, & landfill mass. Others address topics such as the status of alternative energy sources, tree-free paper, & the beauty of bats. In this deck, 47 such tips & topics are discussed in Q & A format. ...

Jamie gets the nation cooking clever, shopping smart & wasting less with his new cookbook, Save with Jamie. This year, I`ve got the message loud & clear that as everyone comes under bigger & bigger financial pressure, they want help to cook tasty, nutritious food on a budget
- so this book was born completely out of public dem&. Save with Jamie draws on knowledge & cooking skills to help you make better choices, showing you how to buy economically & efficiently, get the most out of your ingredients, save time & prevent food waste. & there`s no compromise
- I`m talking big flavours, comfort food that makes you happy, & colourful, optimistic dishes. Our biggest luxury is knowledge, whether times are hard or not, so get kitchen smart & smash the recession. Jamie Oliver started cooking at his parents` pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight. His television & publishing career began in 1999 with The Naked Chef series. Since then he has set up Fifteen restaurant in London, changed school dinners in the UK & revolutionized home cooking. His charity, The Jamie Oliver Foundation, seeks to improve people`s lives through food. He writes for publications in the UK & around the world, including his own Jamie Magazine. Jamie lives in London & Essex with his wife Jools & their children.

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan is a novel about the seductions of Shangri-La, about being lost & being found, about losing your guide & carrying on regardless, & awaiting a saviour. All of this is woven into a backdrop of vibrant colours, smells, tastes & landscapes. Businesswoman, patron of the arts & socialite Bibi Chen has been killed in mysterious circumstances. Her death may or may not be linked to the disappearance of eleven American tourists in southern Burma who are ‘following Buddha’s footprints’ on a trip dreamt up by Bibi. The group decide that the death of their guide should not stop them setting forth…but it isn’t long before they stumble into difficulty with wary tribes & the military junta, all with Bibi watching. ...

On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci`s Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind`s greatest cultural treasures. In May 1944, two unlikely American heroes
- an artist & a scholar
- embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of stolen art, including works by Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio & Botticelli. As the Germans blew up the historic bridges of Florence & Allied air raids threatened Michelangelo`s David, a heretofore-unknown SS general held the art hostage while negotiating a secret Nazi surrender with American spies. A gripping narrative that will appeal to fans of history, art, travel & adventure, Saving Italy takes us from the battlefields of Monte Cassino to the Vatican & behind closed doors with the great Allied & Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower & Churchill; Hitler, Goring & Himmler.

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Frost can be fatal to a fledgling wine business.. .gorgeous glitter with a high price tag. On a winter`s day it is beautiful, but on a spring day after bud burst it spells devastation. For Sean & Caro Feely, a couple whose love affair with wine & France has taken them through financial & physical struggle to create their organic vineyard, it could spell the end. Until they receive an unexpected call that could save their skins... This book is about life, love & taking risks, while transforming a piece of land into a flourishing vineyard & making a new life in France. ...

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson & Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it. Every spring, the clocks go forward, & every autumn they go back. ” Saving the Daylight” explores for the first time the contentious, & often entertaining, story of this deceptively simple attempt to regulate the sunlight hours. Throughout its surprisingly controversial history, DST has been claimed to impact a wide variety of diverse & often unexpected areas, including agricultural practices, the reporting of sports scores, street crime, voter turnout & many other, sometime unexpected aspects of daily life. The book brings together the historical, political, & technical aspects of the fascinating story behind the movement for DST, with many lighter & offbeat anecdotes. ...

The WWF was established in 1961 spurred by the efforts of Max Nicholson, head of Britain's Nature Conservancy Council, naturalist Peter Scott, & a series of articles written in the Observer by Julian Huxley, former head of UNESCO. This book tells the story of the WWF's battle to save the world's wildlife, the work it has done to protect everything from tigers to marine life &, of course, pandas, as well as its campaigns to promote sustainable development & combat climate change. The author has access to the private papers of Prince Philip & Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, each of whom served as WWF president for 15 years & the book is lavishly illustrated throughout with exceptional photographs by world-famous wildlife & nature photographers. Also included are the earliest photographs taken of pandas in the wild & works produced for the WWF by such artists as Peter Blake & Tracy Emin. This richly illustrated book encapsulates all the magnificence of the world's wildlife
- & why it must be treasured & preserved.
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