In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward & Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. ...

Conferences end with a bang; a gym instructor offers extremely personal training; illicit liaisons abound & flourish in the luxuriously appointed rooms. The daring sexual exploits of the staff & guests are often seen through the eyes of the Receptioni ...

The destruction of nature as a consequence of modern human lifestyles, industries & agriculture is leading to the Earth's sixth great extinction of species. Current estimates suggest that the rate of extinction is now thousands of times that counted in the fossil record before the emergence of modern man. At the same time, human societies themselves are in a cultural extinction crisis, with experts anticipating that of the world's nearly seven thousand languages as few as ten percent may survive into the next century. Melanie Challenger's extraordinary book is an exploration of how we might live to resist these extinctions & why such disappearances must be of concern to us. Adventurous, curious & passionate about her subject, Challenger takes us on a very personal journey as she tries to restore her own relationship with nature. The narrative unfolds through a series of landscapes haunted by extinction. From the ruined tin mines of Cornwall & the abandoned whaling stations of South Georgia to the Inuit camps of the Arctic & the white heart of Antarctica, she probes the critical relationship between human activities & environmental collapse. This is the first book to weave together the strands of cultural, biological & industrial extinctions into a meditation on the way we live beside nature in the modern world. ...

Through twenty-two casts the author, one of the Britain's best-known freshwater fisherman, quits land in favour of the sea. There, he discovers the many pleasures of the coast: wild shores, unpredictable waves, &, of course, fish that glisten & dart beneath a never-still surface. This title focuses on the sea & its many wonders. ...

What is being on form? How does it relate to feeling in the zone? Are these states in the lap of the gods, a matter of which side of the bed we got out of that morning? Or is there anything we can do to make their arrival more likely?

In this fascinating book, former England cricket captain & psychoanalyst Mike Brearley draws on his own experiences, both on & off the field, & examines many of the elements of being in & out of form across a number of different disciplines
- not only in cricket & psychoanalysis but also in finance, music, philosophy, medicine, teaching, tree surgery & drama.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781472121806
• Author: Mike Brearley
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 408
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm










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Puzzle of 1500 elements with a beautiful view of the golden edges! 

After laying, a 850 x 580 mm image will be created.

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Details: Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid & living with her parents in Gloversville, New York,
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James Bond has had enough. Enough of Service life, of fruitless manhunts, of taking orders. But Blofeld is back – older, leaner & more dangerous than ever, with a deadly secret at the heart of his luxury ski resort. Bond must rediscover his passion for what he does best, in Fleming’s eleventh 007 novel. ...

James Bond goes undercover in the treacherous Swiss Alps in this action-packed epic filled with artillery-laden ski pursuits, incredible stunts & nonstop thrills! George Lazenby leaps into the role of Agent 007 with supreme confidence & undeniable charisma, even finding love with the beautiful & seductive Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg). But first Bond must stop evil genius Blofeld (Telly Savalas) from releasing a germ warfare plot that could kill millions! ...

When fiddler Tyrane Percival chokes to death on a chicken bone, his young protege, Eldridge Brewer, takes it pretty hard & decides to bury him next to his long lost love, Leona, in her family plot. Unfortunately, that grave is a hundred thousand miles away in Louisiana, so Eldy & Percival's former banjo player, Felton Halladay, hit the road. ...