The Scramble for the Arctic examines the history of the region & its exploration, the current state of ownership, the legal status of the Arctic & its waters, the likely outcomes of today’s power-plays & what is at stake both politically & ecologically. The map of the arctic is literally being redrawn by global warming & the ownership of its various segments will be one of the defining issues of the next decade. The Scramble for the Arctic is an informed & clear-sighted account by leading Arctic scholars & explorers Richard Sale & Eugene Potapov that analyses the competing interest of nations, corporations & last, but absolutely not least, species. ...

Hey guys, I`m Alfie & welcome to The Scrapbook of My Life! Inside this book you`ll read all about the day I was born & what it was like growing up with my family in Brighton. Read stories from my childhood & teen years, right up until present day, &, of course, all about how my crazy You Tube journey began & my thoughts on what the future holds. I`ve had some amazing adventures & met some awesome people along the way, & like everything I do I wanted to share it all with you. Oh & how could I forget to tell you that you can also join in & create your own scrapbook next to mine? Just fill in the blank sections by writing down your memories, or any fun facts that you don`t want to forget. You can also stick your favourite photos or souvenirs to the pages, so that in many years to come you can look back on your own life! The Scrapbook of My Life also

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A milestone in the history of popular theology, ` The Screwtape Letters` is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare & the power of the devil. This profound & striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways & is `lost` to the young devil. Dedicated to Lewis`s friend & colleague J.R.R. Tolkien, ` The Screwtape Letters` is a timeless classic on spiritual conflict & the invisible realities which are part of our religious experience. ...

Decorate each colourful safari scene with stickers from 8 pages of over 250 fantastic designs: featuring lions, elephants, crocodiles & much, much more! Children will have hours of fun accessorising these vivid pages to make them look just the way they want. Each page features things to look for, find & count, along with questions to stimulate young minds. Plus a treasure hunt activity so children can go back & spot things they might have not have noticed before. ...

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! Lottie loves the Great Library & all the beautiful books that fill it. But the money hungry Head Curator of the British Museum, Sir Trevelyan Taylor wants to sell all of the ancient books to the highest bider. The missing scroll of Alexandria is the only thing that can prove that the books must stay in the museum. Can Lottie, Great Uncle Bert & Reg the caretaker follow the clues & track down the missing scroll before it`s too late? Perfect for developing & newly confident readers, Lottie Lipton Adventures are packed with action, adventure & puzzles for the reader to solve. ...

Written by a master of the scythe, professionally trained in Austria, & drawing deeply on research into original German texts, The Scything Handbook brings centuries-old scything techniques into the twent-first century. Detailed illustrations cover scythe assembly, perfecting the stroke, blade selection, honing, peening, & aftercare, as well as background on how scythes are forged. Also covered are the basics of making hay & mulch by h&, & how to grow & harvest gains at the home & homestead scale for self-sufficiency. Scything promotes health, flexibility, mind-body connection, & a meditative contemplation of the natural world while producing beautiful lawns & luscious mulch for the modern gardener & homesteader. This is truly an heirloom tool to master. ...

Renowned for his pictures of Breton lighthouses, Plisson widens his focus to encompass the subject of the sea as a whole. Dramatic pictures of giant swells alternate with peaceful shots of flat waters. Every photograph captures a love of the element that is as deep as the deepest sea! ...

' There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, & enslaving than the life at sea' wrote Joseph Conrad. In The Sea: A Cultural History John Mack considers the ways in which human beings interact because of the sea, navigate their course across it, & live on & around it
- whether promontories, estuaries, ports or coves. The Sea considers the characteristics of different seas & oceans & investigates how the sea is conceptualized in various cultures. It looks at the diversity of maritime technologies, especially the practice of navigation & the 'society' of the sea
- in many cultures all-male, often cosmopolitan, always hierarchical. The separation of the sea & the land is evident in the use of different vocabularies for the same things, the change in a mariner's behaviour when on land for a period, & in the liminal status of points of interaction between the two realms, notably on beaches & at ports. Ships are also deployed in symbolic contexts on land from ship burials, such as that at Sutton Hoo, to ecclesiastical & public architecture. The two realms are thus in dialogue in both symbolic & economic terms, rather than irrevocably separated. In describing the diversities of maritime cultures, this book moves beyond conventional boundaries, using histories, maritime archaeology, biography, art history & literary sources to provide an innovative & experiential account of 'the great blue yonder'.

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The Atlantic, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, the South Pacific-here are all the oceans in all colors & aspects: clear, tropical waters; turbulent open seas; immense plains of water seen from space; magical icy polar oceans; & delicate & frothy photographs from inside powerful waves. The Sea's camera eye emerges from underwater-from the multicolored coral reefs & underwater wrecks & washes on to sandy beaches, coral reefs, cliffs, & volcanic islands to observe the life of coastal villages, ports, & on ships at sea. Another chapter deals with sea creatures: predators & prey, the brightly hued, the powerful, & the delicate life of our oceans. ...

`A masterly study of grief, memory & love recollected` Professor John Sutherl&, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss & confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr & Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease & candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles & Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, & what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years & shape everything that was to follow. `A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, & in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation` Allan Massie, Scotsman ` You can smell & feel & see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, & I`ll bet it will still be read & admired in seventy-five years` Rick Gekoski, The Times ` Poetry seems to come easily to Banville. There is so much to applaud in this book that it deserves more than one reading` Literary Review `A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel` Spectator ...