K2 is one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world & one of the most treacherous
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A. C. Grayling`s lucid & stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world & make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things & Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling`s recent writings on the world in a time of war & conflict. In describing & exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits & prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds. Whether he is writing about the First World War & its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening & hopeful. ...

John is infinite. He can become any book, any combination of words
- every thought, act & expression that has ever been, or
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A fully-updated edition of the internationally acclaimed The Champagne Guide, by the winner of the 2011 Louis Roederer International Champagne Writer of the Year Award for the 2011-2012 edition. The book contains fully independent assessments, with profiles & ratings, of over 100 champagne producers-from the smallest growers to the largest houses. The wines have all been reviewed based on current tastings & the notes are accompanied by full colour bottle images. The 2016-2017 edition features fully updated information on the distinction between houses & producers & how to avoid corked, stale & lightstruck champagnes, as well as a new section on vintages. The Champagne Hall of Honour ranks the best producers in Champagne this year & the best champagnes of the year under $60, under $100, under $200, at any price, & the best blanc de blancs, rose & low-dosage champagnes. The Champagne Guide tells you everything you need to know about how champagne is grown & made & how to buy, open, serve & store champagne, all for less than the price of even a cheap bottle of Champagne! ...

A fully-updated colour edition of the internationally acclaimed self-published The Champagne Guide, winner of the 2011 Louis Roederer International Champagne Writer of the Year Award for the 2011- 2012 edition. The book contains fully independent assessments, with profiles & ratings, of almost 100 champagne producers
- from the smallest growers to the largest houses. The wines have all been reviewed based on current tastings & the notes are accompanied by full colour label images. The 2014u 2015 edition features fully updated & frank commentary on all the current issues facing Champagne: global warming, parallel imports, excessive yields, & how to avoid corked, stale & lightstruck champagnes. The Champagne Hall of Honour ranks the best producers in Champagne this year & the best champagnes of the year under $60, under $100, under $200, at any price, & the best blanc de blancs, blanc de noirs, ros & low dosage champagnes. The world`s most comprehensive & up-to-date guide to Champagne, featuring all the latest, freshest releases, all tasted recently.
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Some 15 billion years ago, a titanic explosion created space & time & started the universe on its epic journey towards ever greater complexity. Out of a tiny primordial speck was woven an immense tapestry of hundreds of billions of galaxies, each home to as many stars. In one of those galaxies, on a planet circling a nondescript star, there emerged human beings with the ability to marvel at the beauty & harmony of the cosmos. In clear, simple language, this account explains the Big Bang & its ever-expanding consequences. ...

Beata Moore explores the rich heritage of British & French influences & the surprisingly varied landscapes of the Channel Islands. From Jersey, an island of opposites, where cosmopolitan city life sits easily with lazy beach holidays to the proudly different Bailiwick of Guernsey, where agriculture remains a bigger part of the island economy, & the islands of Alderney & car-free Sark & Herm. From bustling harbour towns, remote cliff paths, beautiful beaches & rural interiors, Beata Moore captures the diversity & uniqueness of this much-loved archipelago. ...

This 2nd edition of the RCC's Pilotage Foundation pilot of the Channel Islands has been completely reworked. New annotated photographs & brand new charts support the rewritten text that describes in detail transits through & between the islands & accessing harbours. In this new edition full use is made from waypoints made to support descriptions of transit. Now in full colour, ' The Channel Islands' is designed to be used in conjunction with Imray Channel Islands chart pack 2500. Peter Carnegie has sailed all the marks described in this pilot with Caprice, a 42' sloop with 65hp auxiliary & 1.6m draught. Companion Book Purchase: RCC PF North Brittany Cherbourg to Ouessant & the Channel Islands. Companion Chart Purchase: Imray Channel Islands chart pack 2500. ...

The English Channel is the busiest waterway in the world. Ferries steam back & forth, trains thunder through the tunnel. The narrow sea has been crucial to our development & prosperity. It helps define our notion of Englishness, as an island people, a nation of seafarers. It is also our nearest, dearest playground where people have sought sun, sin & bracing breezes. Tom Fort takes us on a fascinating, discursive journey from east to west, to find out what this stretch of water means to us & what is so special about the English seaside, that edge between land & seawater. He dips his toe into Sandgate`s waters, takes the air in Hastings & Bexhill, chews whelks in Brighton, builds a sandcastle in Sandbanks, sunbathes in sunny Sidmouth, catches prawns off the slipway at Salcombe & hunts a shark off Looe. Stories of smugglers & shipwreck robbers, of beachcombers & samphire gatherers, gold diggers & fossil hunters abound. ...

Emilio & Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 & the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return & help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren isl&. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds & ends & homemade paints. Whilst Emilio`s chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been left to the sheep, will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war & separation? For Rosa is no longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further into the Italian resistance movement & closer to danger, as friendships & allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human perseverance & resilience are at the heart of this strong debut & the small Italian chapel remains, as it does in reality on the island of Lamb`s Holm, as a symbol of these qualities. ...