Mastering the latest fitness craze-keeping your brain healthy at any age Judging from the worldwide popularity of the brain game, Nintendo DS, & such mind-bending puzzles as Su Doku & Ken Ken (R), keeping one's mind as limber as an Olympic athlete is an international obsession. ...

Fun, bold colourful illustrations make these action-packed books are a little boy's dream. Turn the pages to reveal a pop-up vehicle that springs to life before your eyes. Go on an adventure & watch the carriages chug past the grazing cattle or marvel at the super-sleek bullet train speeding along the tracks. ...

A spectacular pop-up celebration of trains & railways from a bestselling creator.

Get right on track with this train book

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The railroad, invented over two centuries ago, has contributed to the economic & social development first of Europe, & then other continents. They have experienced a renaissance in suburban areas, while the reintroduction of trams has brought them into the heart of the city. The 1001 photos in this book recreate the wonderful adventure that is the railroad all over the world. ...

Love for Harry Moore will be forever linked with Marie, the beautiful girl from Alsace. Ever since his magical teenage encounter with her in a tiny holiday resort in Donegal, it has never lived up to his expectations. Thirty years later, Harry, middle-aged but not quite disillusioned, travels to Strasbourg to take up the search for Marie & the innocence & longings of his youth. ...

After a surveillance mission in Sevastopol goes badly wrong, Stratton finds himself doing penance at MI16, the government's clandestine organisation that creates weapons equipment for special forces & the secret service. But Sevastopol has started something. In the North Sea a team of hijackers take over the giant Morpheus oil platform. They are demanding two billion dollars. Inside twenty-four hours. Or the bodies will start falling. With the SBS overstretched & its surveillance team locked down, there is only one option: Stratton & a team of unproven operatives from MI16. Stratton knows he has to redeem himself & he also has his own agenda. One of the men on the rig is an old friend. & Stratton intends to save him. But one of Stratton's team is not what they appear to be. A traitor. With a deadly agenda of their own. & Morpheus is just the beginning. This is the incendiary sixth thriller in the Stratton series by the UK's leading ex-SF professional. ...

Deep in the North Sea, the giant oil platform Morpheus is in the grip of a team of hijackers. They demand two billion dollars or the first man will be shot in less than twenty-four hours. With the SBS locked down, the only option is to bring in a small team of unproven operatives led by Special Forces maverick John Stratton. Stratton knows he needs to redeem himself after a recent botched assignment, but he has another reason for going. On of his old friends is on the oil rig & could be first in line to die unless Stratton gets there on time. But someone among Stratton ...

Once seen in the heat of battle, Captain Stryker is never forgotten. Driven by loyalty rather than conviction to serve the Royalist cause, he has no truck with aristocracy. But when the existence of a dangerous spy is discovered after the Battle of Edgehill, it is Stryker whom Prince Rupert chooses for the mission. Stryker & his loyal band journey across a bitterly divided country beset by marauding bands of soldiers. But unbeknown to Stryker, someone else is also closing in on his quarry... ...

If I had to choose between betraying my friend & betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' So wrote the English novelist E.M. Forster in 1951. People have betrayed their country, or their friends, for all kinds of different reasons
- & one man's traitor may be another man's hero, especially as those found guilty of treason have usually faced only one penalty: death. Betrayal for money is perhaps the most despicable level of treachery
- not for nothing is the term ' Judas' applied with such contempt; others have earned the mark of treason for rebelling against established authority. The stories in Traitors & Turncoats range from a British seaman in the Second World War who sold information to the Germans for a pittance, to the White Rose gang's defiant campaign against Hitler; from the recusant terrorism of Guy Fawkes, to the abolitionist fury of John Brown; from the unwitting treason of Lady Jane Grey, to the deadly perfidy of Mata Hari. Thoroughly researched & grippingly told, these tales of treachery embrace cowardice & cupidity, high tension & terrible tragedy.

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What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage that protected them, from Peter Grant to Richard Cole to Ahmet Ertegun, giant figures from long-vanished world of 1970s rock. This book is a history, adventures, myths & realities of this legendary & powerful of bands. ...