Time Out's 2012 things to do in London celebrates a very special year for the Capital. It is packed with suggestions around the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, as well plenty of ideas on how to get involved with local sports & activities. Athletes & well-known Londoners tell us their top ten favourite things to do alongside hundreds of ideas for interesting walks, lovely views, hidden locations & must-visit restaurants & shops. Suggestions run from once-in-a-lifetime experiences to everyday pleasures; many of them absolutely free. Peppered with photos & illustrations throughout, this guide offers new ways to navigate the city. If you think you know London, think again. ...

Can a young boy figure out how to turn an obstacle into an opportunity in this nearly wordless picture book? A morning of fun with Dad takes a turn for the boring when a long to-do list interferes. At first content to let Dad cross things off his list, the boy in the story soon realizes that the whole day will be spent on chores
- unless he can come up with a solution. In his singularly playful & expressive style, author-illustrator Sam Zuppardi crafts a colourful celebration of fathers & sons, & the fun that can be had with just a little imagination.. .and a trusty green crayon.
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Things to Make & Do for Christmas is an Usborne activity & craft book for children, full with imaginative ideas for cards, decorations & wrapping. Follow the simple step by step instructions to create festive fancies such as Christmas beads, fingerprint fat robins, gift tag stars & a polar bear pop up card. Things to Make & Do for Christmas comes with over 50 festive stickers to use with projects, homemade cards & gift tags. ...

A pocket guide to one of the most famous cities in the world, featuring fifty of London`s best-known landmarks, each fully illustrated & accompanied by a detailed description, interesting facts, other things to spot nearby, & the nearest Underground stations. Add the stickers to the pages as you spot each building or place. ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil industry, Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children & her gossiping friends & relatives. Happy being at the heart of her family, she devotes herself to their every need. But when an enigmatic Armenian family move in across the street, something begins to gnaw at Clarice's contentment: a feeling that there may be more to life
- & to her
- than this. Dizzy with the sweltering heat & simmering emotions, Clarice begins to feel herself come alive to possibilities previously unimaginable. Set in Iran prior to the Islamic revolution, Zoya Pirzad's award-winning novel crafts an intimate portrait of family life
- its joys & its compromises
- & how we find a happiness that endures.



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Thrilling & terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed children & young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk beneath the river & stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world where the secrets half-buried under Argentina`s terrible dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, & where women, exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out lies in the flames... ...

There`s a bar at the crossroads on the way out of town. Or the way in, depending on whether you`re coming or going. Marcie & her husband have run it for years. After thirty years of marriage, there aren`t many secrets left between them. Couples often say that, don`t they? But it`s not always true. Arlene appeared in the bar one day, not long before Franky Albertino came back to town, hoping that she`d find a man called Jack. Franky was hoping that people might have forgotten the mess he`d left behind him the first time around. Franky`s problem had always been women. Women & money. What Arlene`s problem is isn`t clear. It`s obvious she has a history, but who doesn`t? As Arlene gets closer to finding Jack
- her father? her lover?
- the bar becomes the scene of a great unravelling; secrets buried a lifetime ago are dragged into the light. In Things We Nearly Knew, Jim Powell invites us to consider how much we know about the people we love & asks, finally: would you want to know the truth?

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Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm & wisdom & sparkling with its author`s singular wit. As a priest, Michael Mc Girr decides to take his charming & inimitable mum on the honeymoon she & her late husband never got around to having. He uses his six-week vacation to take her on a tour of Europe. Between meditating on their hilarious & illuminating travels & on the historical figures who dot their voyage
- everyone from Hemingway to Michelangelo to the quietly heroic people who inspire Michael`s special brand of faith
- Mc Girr plunges deep into his family history, unearthing sickness & instability but also moments of great love & perseverance. Things You Get for Free is a deeply moving spiritual & intellectual journey, proving the truth behind a mother`s favorite saying: `I know more than you think I do.`

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Thingvellir area of Iceland at 1:100, 000 in a series of hiking & recreational topographic maps from Sogur Utgafa, with 27 hiking & riding tracks highlighted & described in detail. The map presents detailed picture of the area’s topography, with contours at 20m intervals supplemented by spot heights & relief shading. The colouring indicates different types of terrain & vegetation: lava, sand & mudflats, glaciers, etc. Road network

Includes:: jeep roads & tracks; footpaths & bridleways are marked with symbols indicating which tracks are not recommended for hikers or horses. Locations of campsites & shelters, country hotels & farmhouses, swimming pools, gas stations are also marked. Each title of this series carries on one side an enlargement of the chosen area with descriptions of the individual walks/or rides (descriptions & map legend are in English only), & on the reverse a physical map of the whole Iceland with basic tourist information. The map is printed on non-waterproof paper & does not feature a UTM grid (so it is not GPS compatible). To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.

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A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online course Our personal & political worlds are rife with arguments & disagreements, some of them petty & vitriolic. The inability to compromise & understand the other side is widespread today. What can we do to change this? In Think Again philosopher Walter Sinnott-Armstrong draws on a long tradition of logic to show why we should stop focusing on winning arguments & instead argue in a more constructive way. Based on a hugely popular online course with more than a million followers around the world, Think Again explains how to analyse, evaluate & make better arguments while also spotting bad reasoning & avoiding certain fallacies. Through lively, practical examples from everyday life, politics & popular culture, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong offers brilliantly straightforward, wise advice that we can all use at work, at home & online. ...