A cultural history of a national obsession with polar exploration & mountaineering, & a study of how the poles have been perceived, dreamed of, even desired. The text sets out to show how Captain Scott's death was the culmination of a long-running national enchantment with perilous journeys. ...

In 1969 a determined 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto during his famous Vietnam protest bed-in with Yoko One, & convinced John to do an interview about peace. Four minutes of this exclusive 40-minute interview, in which John speaks candidly on war, politics, what it means to be a peacenik, the scandalous Two Virgins album, & the supposed subliminal messages in his music, is the basis for the recent 2008 Academy Award nominated short film, I Met The Walrus. Here for the first time in book form is Jerry's full contextualized & illustrated account of his experience with John, with all new illustrations from the film's acclaimed illustrator James Braithwaite, never-before-seen candid photographs of John & Yoko, & a DVD keepsake featuring exclusive video footage & the complete 40-minute soundtrack of the interview with John. A complete annotated typescript of the interview is also included plus Jerry's memorabilia from that day
- notes from John & Yoko, drawings & doodles from John & more. The result is a spell-binding package, an immortalized up-close one-on-one moment with John, a tribute to his extraordinary voice, boundless wit & timeless message.
...

Gives useful tips & on the job stories from a former TSA Airport Screener. This book contains chapters that are organised into helpful & revealing tips & tricks to get through security fast & safely. It teaches how to clear Airport screening without setting off alarms. ...

Maureen Lipman has the knack of making the everyday supremely entertaining, the ordinary absurd & unexpected. This new collection of pieces sparkles with her inimitable prose & pithy opinions. Encounters in the street, at the hairdresser, in the dressing room, on her travels at home & abroad, indeed wherever she goes, are sharply observed, joyfully &
- at times
- ruefully recorded. Included too are a selection of brilliant monologues which capture Maureen's voice in wonderfully diverse ways.

...

Guaranteed to make everybody laugh, & with an introduction by the renowned Stephen Fry, this collection of hilarious cartoons is an insight into the darkly comic world of one of the UK's leading cartoonists, Tony Husb&. Tony Husband has created cartoons for many leading publications, including The Spectator, Private Eye, The Times & Punch. His Yobs strip is one of the best-known comic strips in the UK &, at 25 years, one of the longest running. Tony has won more than 15 major awards, including the prestigious Pont Award. Funny, witty & deeply dark humour from one of the funniest cartoonists alive, this book is guaranteed to have you roaring with laughter in no time! 14.8 x 1 x 21, pages 160 ...

Puzzle & learn at the same time with this beautiful I Need More Space 180  Piece Jigsaw Puzzle.

Featuring a variety

...

For those authors & would-be authors wanting to learn about the publishing industry from the inside, & for anyone remotely connected with the book trade or contemplating a business in it, this book provides a look at the success of a small publisher who never had a best-seller in its twenty-five-year existence as an independent house. ...

Covering various subjects including history, cathedrals, sports, records, modern Britain, royalty, people, places, deeds, discoveries & disasters, this work features a range of questions from multiple choice & odd ones out to picture quizzes illustrated with line drawings to test your knowledge of the famous faces & facades of Britain. ...

Journey around Irel&, to the tales buried deep in the country's history. This book visits each of the four provinces Ulster, Leinster, Munster & Connaught, & unearths the hidden gems that each county in these provinces holds such as the holy mountain, Croagh Patrick in Country Mayo, the burial chamber at Newgrange, County Meath, & more. ...

Takes us on a journey around London to discover the tales of the capital's history. This work aims to unearth the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures & birthplaces that shape the city's past. It contains stories & snippets providing an insight into what has shaped the capital. ...