The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion but amazingly, over the years, the experience has occurred again & again: to mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, aviators, astronauts & 9/11 survivors. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a helper or guardian. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention while recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis & great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, the Third Man who
- in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner
- `leads you out of the impossible`.

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Following on from the success of the ` One & Only Mandala Colouring Book` & the ` Second One & Only Mandala Colouring Book`, comes the latest addition to this best-selling series. Packed full with brand new unique mandala designs, the Third One & Only Mandala Colouring Book will bring peace & calm to your life. Each design has been carefully selected to create the perfect way to focus the mind. The high quality paper of the Third One & Only Mandala Colouring Book allows pencils, paints, pens or pastels to be used freely. ...

Based on ten years of surveying farming communities around the world, top New York chef Dan Barber`s The Third Plate offers a radical new way of thinking about food that will heal the land & taste incredible. The `first plate` was a classic meal centred on a large cut of meat with few vegetables. On the `second plate`, championed by the farm-to-table movement, meat is free-range & vegetables are locally sourced. It`s better-tasting, & better for the planet, but the second plate`s architecture is identical to that of the first. It, too, disrupts ecological balances, causing soil depletion & nutrient loss
- it just isn`t a sustainable way to farm or eat. The `third plate` offers a solution: an integrated system of vegetable, cereal & livestock production that is fully supported
- in fact, dictated
- by what we choose to cook for dinner. The Third Plate is where good farming & good food intersect.


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Twenty-two-year-old Etienne is studying film in London, having fled conscription in his native South Africa. It is 1986, the time of Thatcher, anti-apartheid campaigns & Aids, but also of postmodern art, post-punk rock, & the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Adrift in a city cast in shadow, he falls in love with a German artist while living in derelict artists` communes. When Etienne finds the first of three reels of a German film from the 1930s, he begins searching for the missing reels, a project that turns into an obsession when his lover disappears in Berlin. It is while navigating this city divided by the Wall that Etienne gradually pieces together the history of a small group of Jewish film makers in Nazi Germany. It is a desperate quest amid complications that pull him back to the present & to South Africa. However, his search for the missing film continues. Ambitious & cosmopolitan, the material of S. J. Naude`s The Third Reel is as disparate as the cities in which the book is set. Architecture, cinematography, sex, music, illness, loss & love all collide in this exquisitely wrought, deeply affecting novel. ...

The Third Reich was the name Hitler & the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 & ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany & Hitler`s suicide. Defined by the messianic, iconic figure of the Fuhrer, the Third Reich was one of the pivotal periods of the modern age. From small beginnings in the 1920s, Hitler`s movement came to dominate German society in the 1930s, bringing with it the militarization of German society, the apparatus of state terror & a policy of violent discrimination against political opponents, the so-called `asocials`: gypsies, homosexuals, &, above all, the Jews. The history of the Reich is bound up with territorial aggression, total war & genocide. The end result was the complete defeat of Germany & the annihilation of millions of Europeans, a historical drama without precedent that still lies as a shadow over modern-day Germany. Richard Overy charts the rise & fall of Nazi power in a compelling narrative of the period, amplified by extensive"ations from documents, letters, diaries & oral testimony, & accompanied by many original & striking images of the era. There are also fact boxes which explore many of the important aspects of the Third Reich in greater detail. Authoritative, informative & sumptuously illustrated, written by a scholar steeped in knowledge of the period, The Third Reich brings the bloody realities of war, conquest & genocide vividly to life. It is an ideal book for anyone fascinated by the stormy history of the twentieth century, World War II & the age of dictators. ...

In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war & charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites & scenes had once exercised a strange & terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals & inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to st&, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale. This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly, & at times painfully, up against an explosive present, producing some memorable observations on the social wonders & existential horrors of Mussolini`s new Roman Imperium. Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist & short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour & understated irony. Pushkin Press`s publications of Szerb`s work include his novels Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII & The Pendragon Legend, as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle & the history The Queen`s Necklace. ...

THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETSA woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOODUnder pressure from the media to solve the crime, the force know there’s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case… ...

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! The blistering new SUNDAY TIMES number one bestseller!THERE`S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. HE`S IN YOUR HOUSE... HE`S IN YOUR ROOMUnder pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there`s only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing & his one failed case. HE`S OUT FOR BLOODWhen another victim is found, Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he`s to finally catch the one who got away.` An expertly plotted, compelling & gripping white-knuckle ride... Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers` Sunday Express on THE SON` Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller with expertise & verve. The ticking clock, the tension expertly ratcheted ever upwards, the changing scenery, the constantly shifting goalposts & the effortless, triumphant outpacing of the reader`s ability to guess what`s going to happen will keep you gripped to the last page` Guardian on THE LEOPARD` The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction` The Times` Scandinavian crime thrillers don`t come much darker or more tense than the best-selling Harry Hole series, & this tenth outing for the Norwegian detective is the best yet` Sunday Mirror on POLICE ...

This title is presented with an introduction by Stella Rimington. It`s May, 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure
- a desperate hunt across the country & against the clock, pursued by the police & a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay`s life & the security of Britain are in grave peril, & everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps?
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With an introduction by Stuart Kelly. Recently returned from South Africa, adventurer Richard Hannay is bored with life, but after a chance encounter with an American who informs him of an assassination plot & is then promptly murdered in Hannay`s London flat, he becomes the obvious suspect & is forced to go on the run. He heads north to his native Scotl&, fleeing the police & his enemies. Hannay must keep his wits about him if he is to warn the government before all is too late. ...