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. ...

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 And 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 CILIP 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. ...

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? ...

A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week. This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst & his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding & human of experiences. These are stories about our everyday lives: they are about the people we love & the lies that we tell; the changes we bear, & the grief. Ultimately, they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too. ...

When Zurich multimillionaire & local politician Isaak Kohler shoots a professor to death in broad daylight for no apparent reason, he cheerfully accepts his 20-year prison sentence. Yet, despite the fact that there were witnesses aplenty, he enlists Spat, a down-&-out lawyer, to investigate the crime, ordering him to pretend that someone else, now at large, committed it. Through luck & happenstance, the greenhorn attorney pulls off the impossible: an acquittal. In the process, Spat falls in love with Kohler`s daughter Helene, whom he suspects is an accomplice. He also meets a femme fatale whose auto racer boyfriend beats her, a dwarfish heiress surrounded by muscled bald bodyguards & sundry small-time crooks. Did Kohler shoot the professor as an abstract, fiendish mental game, or was Swiss pistol expert Benno the real culprit, as the newspapers rashly proclaim? The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system & a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence & morality. ...

The plague raging through London in 1665 has emptied the city. The only people left are those too poor to flee, or those who selflessly struggle to control the contagion & safeguard the capital`s future. Amongst them, though, are those prepared to risk their health for money
- those who sell dubious `cures` & hawk food at wildly inflated prices. Also amongst them are those who hold in their hands the future of the city`s most iconic building
- St Paul`s Cathedral. The handsome edifice is crumbling from decades of neglect & indecision, giving the current custodians a stark choice
- repair or demolish. Both sides have fanatical adherents who have been fighting each other since the Civil Wars. Large sums of money have disappeared, major players have mysteriously vanished, & then a unidentified skeleton is discovered in another man`s grave.A reluctant Chaloner returns to London to investigate, only to discover that someone is determined to thwart him by any means
- by bullet, poison or bludgeon
- & he fears he has very little time to identify the culprits before he becomes yet another victim in the battle for the Cathedral`s future.




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On a quiet mountain road near Barcelona, a woman steps out in front of a car. When the driver, a well-known artist, stops to come to her aid, he finds she is alive, but without any memory of who she is or where she has come from. The only clue to her identity is the broken violin lying at her side. The artist tries to help her remember her past, & finds himself falling in love, but as secrets from the woman`s forgotten life start to come to light, he finds his new romance turning into a nightmare... ...