`I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.` Twenty-three-year-old Frits
- office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes
- finds life absurd & inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death & destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits`s life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets & tries to make sense of the minutes, hours & days that stretch before him. Darkly funny & mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, "idian triumphs & heartbreaks of our everyday lives & turns them into a work of brilliant wit & profound beauty. ” The funniest, most exhilarating novel about boredom ever written. If The Evenings had appeared in English in the 1950s, it would have become every bit as much a classic as On the Road & The Catcher in the Rye.” Herman Koch, author of The Dinner ” Unlike John Williams, Gerard Reve`s work was critically acclaimed & sold exceptionally well during his lifetime. But, just like Stoner, The Evenings is brilliantly written, & has a maximum impact on the reader`s soul.” Oscar van Gelderen, the Dutch publisher who rediscovered John Williams`s Stoner ” Very funny & strange... Reve is a writer who may yet `catch on` in the Anglophone world” Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize Gerard Reve (1923-2006) is considered one of the greatest post-war Dutch authors, & was also the first openly gay writer in the country`s history. A complicated & controversial character, Reve is also hugely popular & critically acclaimed- his 1947 debut The Evenings was chosen as one of the nation`s 10 favourite books by the readers of a leading Dutch newspaper while the Society of Dutch Literature ranked it as the Netherlands` best novel of all time.

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`I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.` Twenty-three-year-old Frits
- office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes
- finds life absurd & inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death & destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits`s life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets & tries to make sense of the minutes, hours & days that stretch before him. Darkly funny & mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, "idian triumphs & heartbreaks of our everyday lives & turns them into a work of brilliant wit & profound beauty.

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A THRILLING JOURNEY TO THE DARK SIDE OF EVEREST. In the deepest Himalaya a story is spreading like wildfire. The story of an Everest expedition unlike any other. An expedition that ended with mysterious disappearances.. .and death. This is the mystery that eighteen-year-old Ryan Hart sets out to solve. Ryan is on a gap year adventure, working for a medical charity in Nepal. When a local girl begs him to investigate why her sixteen-year-old friend Kami never came back from Everest, Ryan cannot resist the challenge. A solo journey takes Ryan deep into the mountains where his detective work finally pays off. What emerges is a shocking tale of lies, betrayal & obsession. All played out on the lethal slopes of the highest mountain in the world. Little by little Ryan is falling under Everest`s deadly spell. ...

The Everyday Guide to British Birds is the perfect companion for nature enthusiasts & birdwatching beginners. It describes the common & widespread species we`re most likely to come across in Britain & explains what makes each of them unique. Clearly illustrated, packed with fascinating facts & written in a friendly style, this RSPB is ideal for anyone who wants to identify & learn more about the birds they encounter, whether in the back garden or the wider countryside. ...

The Everywhere Bear has a home on a shelf But he doesn`t spend very much time by himself, For each boy & girl in the class is a friend & he goes home with one of them every weekend. The Everywhere Bear has a wonderful time with the children in Class One, but one day he gets more than he bargained for when he falls unnoticed from a backpack & embarks on his own big adventure! He`s washed down a drain & whooshed out to sea, rescued by a fishing boat, loaded onto a lorry, carried off by a seagull.. .how will he ever make it back to Class One? The Everywhere Bear is a warm & engaging story from Julia Donaldson & Rebecca Cobb, the creators of The Paper Dolls, which has sold over 200, 000 copies worldwide & was shortlisted for the Kate Greenway Medal. ...

Pioneering climbing in Scotland the 1930s, combat against Rommel's forces, three years in Nazi prison camps, & a near fatal alpine accident marked W.H. Murray's early life. Three exploratory Himalayan ventures followed including the critical 1951 reconnaissance trip that established the route by which Everest was climbed two years later. Thereafter he built a reputation as a writer & environmental polemicist & was deeply involved with the struggle to protect the Highlands from commercial exploitation. ...

This is the guidebook to Turkey`s new long-distance Cultural Route, complete with route description, map, historical background, & places to see. The route follows the Ottoman gentleman adventurer Evliya Celibi on his way to Mecca in 1671; it runs for 600km from the Sea of Marmara via Bursa, Kutahya & Afyon to Usak & Simav. The route follows, as far as possible, ancient paved roads & visits the cities, sights & tiny villages that Evliya rode through & recorded in his ” Seyatname” (” Book of Travels”). It can be explored by walkers, horse-riders & bikers. The UN has declared Evliya ` Man of the Year` for 2011, the 400th anniversary of his birth. This route is a practical addition to these celebrations
- it enables modern travellers to directly experience Evliya`s life, times & travels. It is brought to you by the noted Ottoman historian & author of ” Osman`s Dream”, Caroline Finkel, & the originator of ` The Lycian Way`, Kate Clow.
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A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences--what Darwin termed ”the taste for the beautiful”--create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin`s theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, & what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum--reviving Darwin`s own views--thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances & mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display traits that seem disconnected from, if not outright contrary to, selection for individual survival. To explain this, he dusts off Darwin`s long-neglected theory of sexual selection in which the act of choosing a mate for purely aesthetic reasons--for the mere pleasure of it--is an independent engine of evolutionary change. Mate choice can drive ornamental traits from the constraints of adaptive evolution, allowing them to grow ever more elaborate. It also sets the stakes for sexual conflict, in which the sexual autonomy of the female evolves in response to male sexual control. Most crucially, this framework provides important insights into the evolution of human sexuality, particularly the ways in which female preferences have changed male bodies, & even maleness itself, through evolutionary time. The Evolution of Beauty presents a unique scientific vision for how nature`s splendor contributes to a more complete understanding of evolution & of ourselves. ...

` If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make.. .it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.` From the industrial revolution & the rise of China, to urbanisation & the birth of bitcoin, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events & trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the ground up. In this wide-ranging & erudite book, Matt Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our minds, & that even now is shaping our future. As compelling as it is controversial, as authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley`s deeply thought-provoking book will change the way we think about the world & how it works. ...

It is the year 1852, & the origin of species remains a mystery. In a primitive hut in the remote Amazonian jungle, Alfred Wallace, a brilliant young collector of scientific specimens, lies wasted by tropical illness. He does not expect to survive. Healed by a village shaman, Wallace continues his pioneering fieldwork in the Malay archipelago, crystallising his ideas about evolutionary theory, which were to be independently formulated by Charles Darwin. Why wasn`t Wallace given the credit for his momentous discoveries? & how did he end up in conflict with London`s scientific establishment, including Charles Darwin himself? ...