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. ...

Everyone needs a little inspiration & encouragement, but it doesn`t need to be cliche or sickly sweet. These young, hip designers & artists turn advice & affirmation into a visual treat on every page. From the contemplative `find beauty in rain` to the uplifting `live every day like it`s your birthday` the sincere `be kind, for everyone is facing a hard battle` to the joyful `let your hair down` Think Happy, Be Happy is charming & honest. Scattered throughout are playlists, simple recipes & quirky facts to complement the"es. ...

Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz
- wisdom & smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei. Why do some people
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Think Words Spin is the fun, fast-paced game which is simple to play – spin it, name it, take it! How to Play: There are 7 ways to play Think Words Spin, here’s one of them…1) Spin…the spinner until it stops.2) Match…the colour to select the category & letter.3) Shout…out the answer first to win the card! Contents:1 x Spinner 80 game cards Instructions ...

What`s wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, & how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why is every film & TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are we so reliant on perpetual diversion that someone has created chocolate toothpaste? Is there anything to be done about the Internet? These & many other questions trouble David Mitchell as he delights us with a tour of the absurdities of modern life
- from Ryanair to Downton Abbey, sports day to smoking, nuclear weapons to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made from cats. Funny, provocative & shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates & commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious nation.
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What`s wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, & how can they be stopped from stopping them? Why is every film & TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are we so reliant on perpetual diversion that someone has created chocolate toothpaste? Is there anything to be done about the Internet? These & many other questions trouble David Mitchell as he delights us with a tour of the absurdities of modern life
- from Ryanair to Downton Abbey, sports day to smoking, nuclear weapons to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made from cats. Funny, provocative & shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates & commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious nation.
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When & how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When & why did our capacity for language or art, music & dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking & provocative book that it was the need for early humans to live in ever-larger social groups, & to maintain social relations over ever-greater distances the ability to think big that drove the enlargement of the human brain & the development of the human mind. This social brain hypothesis, put forward by evolutionary psychologists such as Robin Dunbar, one of the authors of this book, can be tested against archaeological & fossil evidence, as archaeologists Clive Gamble & John Gowlett show in the second part of Thinking Big. Along the way, the three authors touch on subjects as diverse & diverting as the switch from finger-tip grooming to vocal grooming or the crucial importance of making fire for the lengthening of the social day. Ultimately, the social worlds we inhabit today can be traced back to our Stone Age ancestors. ...