My mother once said to me, ‘I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen seconds, so you’d know how awful it is.’ I thought about it. Realised we could all learn from being in another person’s head for eighteen seconds. Eighteen seconds inside Grandma Roberts’ head as she sat alone with her evening cup of tea, us girls upstairs in bed. Eighteen seconds inside one-year-old Colin’s head when he woke up in a foster home without his family. Eighteen seconds inside the head of a girl waiting for her bedroom door to open. Writer, Louise Beech, looks back on the events that led to the day her mother wrote down her last words, then jumped off the Humber Bridge. She missed witnessing the horror herself by minutes. Louise recounts the pain & trauma of her childhood alongside her love for her siblings with a delicious dark humour & a profound voice of hope for the future. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781837700202 •†Author:   Louise Beech  •†Publisher:   Mardle B... ...

Enter the mind of a genius who changed the world. Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, humanist
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Practice the crucial mind skills of memorization, listening, intuition, imagination, analysis, & calculation-while you have fun playing 11 specially designed mental games, each with adjustable difficulty! Included touch-screen stylus stores quickly & securely in unit. Trains six key areas of mental effectiveness! Easy, normal, & hard settings adjust to the whole family Tracks your improvement! Requires 2 AAA batteries, not included ...

Set of three wooden puzzles (Star, Atom, Sphere) Do you have the brainpower to take on the Brain Benders? Try any of these wooden puzzles & see just how mentally sharp you are. Challenge a friend & see who can unravel each Brain Bender the fastest! 7 x 8.5 x 8cm ...

Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius. From his remarkable theory of relativity & the famous equation E=mc 2 to his concept of a unified field theory, no one has contributed as much to science in the last century. As well as showing how Einstein developed his theories. This book reveals the man behind the science, from his early years & thought experiments in Germany, to his marriages & children, his role in the development of the Atomic Bomb & his work for Civil Rights groups in the United States. Drawing on new research & documents only recently made available, this book also

Includes:: items of rare facsimile memorabilia, to show you more than Einstein's groundbreaking theories. Documents include: postcard sent to Einstein by Mileva Maric, before she became his first wife; a letter written by Fritz Haber in 1911 to Einstein as he worked on his General Theory of Relativity; the telegram sent by Hendrick Lorentz, informing Einstein that his theory of deflection of light by the sun had been confirmed. This confirmed Einstein's principle of relativity; &, the letter Einstein wrote to President Roosevelt in 1939 warning him of the possibility that Germany could develop an atomic bomb.

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The author began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. This book is based on her search, which throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the centre of the story stands the author herself
- wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she's entitled to know.
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When Jo Lancaster, the first British pilot to eject in an emergency, triggered his ejection seat in 1949, it took thirty seconds before he was safely away from the aircraft & under his parachute.  Since those first post-Second World War ejections, many tens of thousands of lives have been saved by increasingly sophisticated escape systems. When John Nichol’s Tornado was blasted out of the sky during the 1991 Gulf War, a mere 2.5 seconds elapsed between pulling the ejection handle & his parachute opening. Today, the newest seats can automatically initiate ejection if the system decides the pilot faces mortal danger & cannot react quickly enough. Now, Nichol tells the incredible story of the ejection seat in war & in peace – of the pioneers who risked everything during the early days of development in the 1940s & 50s, of the designers who went head to head with the authorities in order to realise their vision, & of the extraordinary men & women who were given a second cha... ...

Details: Before the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, the British had never won a major battle on land against the Germans;
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Diego
- a poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius with a ball took him to the heights of European & World football,
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The search for gold & for the mythical El Dorado gripped the imagination of the conquistadors from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Crossing over the Andes, they explored the unknown eastern forests & jungles, launching expeditions that were often disastrous & always disappointing. ...