This third edition of Kenneth Katzner`s best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style & layout, delightful original passages, & exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, & up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages & English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet & pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language & speaker numbers *an introduction to language families ...

The Landscape of London is a 3D map revealing the natural landscape of Greater London at a scale of 1:65, 000. Topography is defined with digital hill-shading, spot heights & detailed contours at just 10metre intervals. Urban area & road network overlay are featured for ease of orientation, whilst the paths of rivers & canals show the Thames Basin drainage system. Areas of parkland or forest are shown & unitary boundaries are demarcated. ...

When Eve falls for the secretive, charming Dom, their whirlwind relationship leads them to purchase Les Genevriers, an abandoned house in a rural hamlet in the south of France. As the beautiful Provence summer turns to autumn, Eve finds it impossible to ignore the mysteries that haunt both her lover & the run-down old house, in particular the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful first wife, Rachel. Whilst Eve tries to untangle the secrets surrounding Rachel`s last recorded days, Les Genevriers itself seems to come alive. As strange events begin to occur with frightening regularity, Eve`s voice becomes intertwined with that of Benedicte Lincel, a girl who lived in the house decades before. As the tangled skeins of the house`s history begin to unravel, the tension grows between Dom & Eve. In a page-turning race, Eve must fight to discover the fates of both Benedicte & Rachel, before Les Genevriers` dark history has a chance to repeat itself. ...

Lanterne rouge: French / noun 1. The red lantern that hangs on the rear of a train 2. The competitor who finishes last in the Tour de France. If you complete a bike race of over 3, 000 kilometres, overcoming mountain ranges & merciless weather conditions while enduring physical & psychological agony, in the slowest time, should you be branded the loser? What if your loss helped a teammate win? What if others lacked the determination to finish? What if you were trying to come last? Froome, Wiggins, Merckx
- we know the winners of the Tour de France, but Lanterne Rouge tells the forgotten, often inspirational & occasionally absurd stories of the last-placed rider. We learn of stage winners & former yellow jerseys who tasted life at the other end of the bunch; the breakaway leader who stopped for a bottle of wine & then took a wrong turn; the doper whose drug cocktail accidently slowed him down & the rider who was recognised as the most combative despite finishing at the back. Lanterne Rouge flips the Tour de France on its head & examines what these stories tell us about ourselves, the 99 per cent who don`t win the trophy, & forces us to re-examine the meaning of success, failure & the very nature of sport.
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`A charming & brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch` Penelope Lively, from the introduction” When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we`ve got
- to have a lark entirely on our own? No chaperone, no rules, no...” No present income or future prospects, ” said Lucilla. It`s 1919 & Jane & her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures
- cutting flowers from their front garden & selling them to passers-by, inviting paying guests who disappear without paying
- all the while endeavouring to stave off the attentions of male admirers, in a bid to secure their independence.` To come upon any Nesbit today, hitherto unread... is like receiving a letter from a friend whom you have believed dead` New York Times


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Product Description The Olympic Gold Medallist explains how to win in this, the most competitive class. Beautifully illustrated with colour photo sequences of Ainslie in action. An online video including footage of him demonstrating every manoeuvre from starting, tacking upwind to downwind technique is also available. Details of where to view the online videos can be found within the book. From the Back Cover Ben Ainslie is the fastest laser sailor on the planet. Here are the secrets that won him Olympic gold, shown in words, photo--sequences, video clips & his commentary. This pack is a colourful, detailed account of how to dominate the worlds hottest class. The book contains text & photo--sequences on: * Psychology & goal setting. * Getting the boat right. * Speed around the course. * Fitness & training. * How to win a championship. The video, available to view online & contains footage video clips & commentary on: * Starting. * Beating. * Tacking. * Roll Tacking. * Windward mark. * Reaching. * Gybing. * Running. * Leeward mark. ...

In the summer of 2003, a perilous helicopter descent delivered Ross Donaldson, an American medical student in his twenties, into Sierra Leone. With abundant schooling but little practical experience, Ross wanted to save the world. Little did he know that by the end of his journey, it would be he who would need rescue. With rebels fighting just across the border in Liberia, humanitarian need quickly swept Ross southward towards makeshift refugee camps & the heart of danger. There, he had his first terrifying encounter with the highly contagious Lassa Virus. Working on the Lassa Fever Ward, he was wholly unprepared for what he would find, & for twist of fate that saw him running the facility alone, with only a handful of untrained nurses to help him. Based on his personal journal, this gripping memoir details the time Ross spent on the Lassa Ward, & his own battle with a potentially fatal illness. It is a real-life thriller that not only tells the adventure-packed tale of a modern-day hero, but also bears witness to a people in need, & the struggle of those who risk their daily comforts, & even their lives, to help them. ...

In the summer of 1990, Cathy`s brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand & watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy & her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many & various fates worse than death. This is the story of what happened to Cathy & her brother, & the unimaginable decision that she & her parents had to make eight years after the night that changed everything. It`s a story for anyone who has ever watched someone suffer or lost someone they loved or lived through a painful time that left them forever changed. Told with boundless warmth & affection, The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink is a heartbreaking yet uplifting testament to a family`s survival & the price we pay for love. ...

In the summer of 1990, Cathy`s brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand & watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy & her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many & various fates worse than death. This is the story of what happened to Cathy & her brother, & the unimaginable decision that she & her parents had to make eight years after the night that changed everything. It`s a story for anyone who has ever watched someone suffer or lost someone they loved or lived through a painful time that left them forever changed. Told with boundless warmth & affection, The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink is a heartbreaking yet uplifting testament to a family`s survival & the price we pay for love. ...

At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything he needed he built, grew or killed. He made his clothes from deer he killed & skinned before using their sinew as sewing thread. But he didn`t stop there. In the years that followed, he stopped at nothing in pursuit of bigger, bolder challenges. He travelled the Mississippi in a handmade wooden canoe; he walked the two-thous&-mile Appalachian Trail; he hiked across the German Alps in trainers; he scaled cliffs in New Zeal&. One Christmas, he finished dinner with his family & promptly upped & left
- to ride his horse across America. From South Carolina to the Pacific, with his little brother in tow, they dodged cars on the highways, ate road kill & slept on the hard ground. Now, more than twenty years on, Eustace is still in the mountains, residing in a thous&-acre forest where he teaches survival skills & attempts to instil in people a deeper appreciation of nature. But over time he has had to reconcile his ambitious dreams with the sobering realities of modernity. Told with Elizabeth Gilbert`s trademark wit & spirit, this is a fascinating, intimate portrait of an endlessly complicated man: a visionary, a narcissist, a brilliant but flawed modern hero. The Last American Man is an unforgettable adventure story of an irrepressible life lived to the extreme. The Last American Man is a New York Times Notable Book & National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
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