One of the original Busby Babes, he grew up alongside the likes of Duncan Edwards & Bobby Charlton, & but for injury would have been abroad the plane which crashed at Munich, killing 23 people including eight of his team-mates & friends. Now for the first time he tells the full story of his incident-packed lifetime in the game, revealing the joy & the injustice, the sorrow & the controversy. He describes what it was like to work & play with Busby & Edwards, Charlton & Ramsey, Law & Best, & a host of other household names. Man & Babe is a moving tale of excitement, anguish & redemption, with humour never very far away. ...

Wilfred & Olbert are wildlife explorers!

Grab your boots & join them on a race through colourful coral reefs, wild grasslands

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When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange & vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Cammissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued & attracted by the girl's intelligence & moral seriousness. But when she is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case. ...

In the 2006 case of the US Government vs Enron, the presiding judge instructed the jurors to take account of the concept of wilful blindness as they reached their verdict about whether the chief executives of the disgraced energy corporation were guilty. It was not enough for the defendants to say that they did not know what was going on; that they had not seen anything. If they failed to observe the corruption which was unfolding before their very eyes, not knowing was no defence. The guilty verdict sent shivers down the spine of the corporate world. In this book, distinguished business woman & writer, Margaret Heffernan, examines the phenomenon of wilful blindness. Drawing on a wide array of sources from psychological studies & social statistics to interviews with the relevant protagonists she examines what it is about human nature which makes us so prone to wilful blindness. Taught from infancy to obey authority, & absorbing the importance of selective vision as a key social skill, humans exacerbate their tendency to become institutionalised by joining organisations which are run by like-minded people. She looks at how hard work & the information overload of the modern workplace add to the problem. & she examines why whistleblowers & Cassandras are so very rare. Ranging freely through history & from business to science, government to the family, this engaging & anecdotal book will explain why wilful blindness is so dangerous in the globalised, interconnected world in which we live, before suggesting ways in which institutions & individuals can start to combat it. In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell & Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Margaret Heffernan's thought provoking book will force open our eyes. ...

Dive into the incredible career of one of the biggest celebrities of all time, Will Smith! This brave & inspiring autobiography traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, & human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music & film that anyone has ever had. From a fearful child in tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest rap stars of his era & then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, with a string of box office successes that will likely never be broken, is an epic tale of inner transformation & outer triumph, & Will tells it astonishingly well. But it's only half the story. Will Smith thought, with good reason, that he had won at life- not only was his own success unparalleled, his whole family was at the pinnacle of the entertainment world. Only they didn't see it that way- they felt more like star performers in his circus, a sev... ...

A farcical Adventure set in Africa. Will Hay stars as Professor Benjamin who hits upon the idea of opening schools for the natives. However, much to his surprise, as he heads up the river, trying to help the children, he finds himself involved in s revolt. Will he escape unscathed? ...

Ben Cutlet Will Hay) is a bogus sea captain who is tricked into taking command of an unseaworthy ship. The Rob Roy he & two stowaways arrive on an Island inhabited by cannibals. The radio set they have with them scares them into friendliness. But for how long? With Moore Marriott & Norman Varden. ...

For cooks everywhere who are falling in love with cast iron comes will it skillet?

The new cookbook from Daniel Shumski,

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This is the true story of Jason, whom Shane meets first in a residential home just after he has left college. Jason is a tiny, frightened five-year-old who has stopped speaking, & who terrorises even the older children with his angry, violent behaviour. Gradually, with remarkable patience, Shane & the team win Jason s trust &, slowly, he begins to speak & reach out for the help & comfort he so desperately needs. ...

The Internet has united the world as never before. But is it in danger of breaking apart? Cybersecurity, geopolitical tensions, & calls for data sovereignty have made many believe that the Internet is fragmenting. In this incisive new book, Milton Mueller argues that the 'fragmentation' diagnosis misses the mark. ...