Here is an informative & entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. You need only pack your imagination & a toothbrush
- this guide provides the rest describing all the best places to stay & shop what to do & what to avoid. Brought to life with wonderful computer-generated reconstructions of ancient Rome this highly original witty book will appeal to tourists armchair travellers & history buffs.
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Legend has it that hidden in the remote reaches of the Himalayan mountains lies an ancient secret. There generations of Tibetan monks have passed down a series of exercises with mystical age-reversing properties. Known as the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation or the Five Rites these once-secret exercises are now available to us all in Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder. Beginning with an account of his own introduction to the rites by way of Colonel Bradford a mysterious retired British army officer who learned of the rites while journeying high up in the Himalayas Kelder then reveals to us the five ancient Tibetan rites that can make you feel & look years younger. The philosophies in the book combine with the practical yoga-like positions of the rites & dietary/lifestyle advice to provide you with the ultimate guide to preserving your youth. Taking just minutes a day to perform benefits include increased energy weight loss better memory new hair growth pain relief better digestion & just feeling much more youthful! ...

Picking up where Peter Kelder's remarkable book left off Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth Book 2" completes the Fountain of Youth health programme with detailed information on a variety of topics discussed only fleetingly in the original bestseller: the history & origins of the Five Rites valuable insights about how the Rites work diet suggestions & easy-to-follow exercises. Illustrated with fifty black-&-white photographs this guide will help turn back the hands of time invigorating & energizing readers' lives as never before. As its title suggests the book's message is one of compelling concern to just about anyone interested in their own wellbeing. So make time to turn back the clock & achieve the health & vitality you've always dreamed of." ...

Among all the varied productions with which Nature has adorned the surfaces of the earth none awakens our sympathies or interests our imagination so powerfully as those venerable trees which seem to have stood the lapse of ages... John Muir 1868 A fascinating celebration of the some of the oldest living organisms on the planet from the grand Oaks of Europe & mighty Redwoods of California to Africas upside-down Baobab tree & from the Ginkgos of China & Korea to the Olive tree the worldwide symbol of peace. Ancient Trees covers those species of tree that have lived for more than a thousand years: the Redwood Bristlecone pine Montezuma Cypress the Monkey Puzzle Amazonian Ancients Yew Oak Sweet Chestnut Lime Olive Welwitschia the Baobab Kauri Totara Antarctic Beech the Fig Cedar & Ginkgo. Anna Lewington the well-known writer on all things botanical & leading wildlife photographer Edward Parker provide an illuminating & visually striking history of each tree species including where the long-living species can still be found the trees botanical details & its mythical associations. ...

Travel back in time & find out about the first weapons & their uses
- stone clubs flint axes wooden spears bronze daggers & steel
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In & Another Thing"...the outspoken & outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything. Jeremy Clarkson finds the world such a perplexing place that he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet despite the appearance of " The World According to Clarkson" things
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- haven't enhanced. Not being someone to give up easily however he's decided to have another go. In " And Another Thing"...the king of the exasperated quip discovers that: Bombing North Carolina is bad for Yorkshire; we can look forward to exploding at the age of 62; Russians look bad in Speedos. But not as bad as we do; Wasps are the highest form of life. Thigh-slappingly funny & in your face Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special the unique & the sheer bloody brilliant..." And Another Thing"...is a hilarious collection of Jeremy's " Sunday Times" columns & the second in his " The World According to Clarkson" series which also

Includes:: " The World According to Clarkson" " For Crying Out Loud!" & " How Hard Can It Be?" Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: " Brilliant.. .laugh-out-loud". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Outrageously funny.. .will have you in stitches". (" Time Out"). Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs & anything else that annoys him in his sharp & funny collections. " Born To Be Riled" " Clarkson On Cars" " Don't Stop Me Now" " Driven To Distraction" " Round the Bend" " Motorworld" & "I Know You Got Soul" are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App i Clarkson: The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store. Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the " Sun" & the " Sunday Times". Today he is the tallest person working in British television & is the presenter of the hugely popular " Top Gear"."



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Arthur Dents accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident. Arthur has travelled the length breadth & depth of known & unknown space. He has stumbled forwards & backwards through time. He has been blown up reassembled cruelly imprisoned horribly released & colourfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. & of course he has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life the universe & everything. Arthur has though finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate. For Arthurs chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the worlds oceans. Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up.. .again. ...

This is a sharply observed bittersweet tale of the trials of teenage pregnancy. Lana Spiggs is fed up with everyone telling her what to do. If it isn't her mother nagging & shouting it's her teachers nagging & shouting. What Lana wants is to be grown-up. She wants her own flat her own husband & her own children
- & then no one will be able to boss her around any more. When Lana meets Les on her fifteenth birthday she knows he is The One. & when she gets pregnant without even trying she knows it's her ticket to freedom
- even though everyone else calls it a prison sentence. But can her dream of Happy Families stand up to reality? By turns funny & hard-hitting this is expressive & accessible teen fiction
- teenage girls will find it utterly compelling. It sensitively deals with an important & difficult subject without ever becoming moralistic or patronizing. It is both infuriating & endearing Dyan Sheldon's heroine is always feisty & entertaining.


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The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs or that we're driving past the exact spot where King Harold was killed shot through the eye with an arrow? As a lover of both history & the British countryside Charlie Connelly decided to rectify this & set out on a series of walks that recreate famous historical journeys. En route he retells the story of the original trip while discovering who & what now inhabit these iconic routes. Walking in England Scotland Ireland & Wales Charlie journeys alongside Boudicca's ghost in Norfolk relives Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight to Skye disguised as Flora Mac Donald's maid & takes the same 32-mile round trip as the starving Louisburgh famine walkers. He suffers broken toes becomes trapped in the Scottish Parliament & encounters dead poets & a surprisingly high number of mad old women in woolly hats. Told with Charlie's customary charm & wit & Did Those Feet will reveal the historical secrets hidden in the much-loved coastal country & urban landscapes of Britain. ...

From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at Londons Central School of Speech & Drama it was her performance in her twenties as Juliet in Franco Zeffirellis memorable Old Vic production that turned her into a star. In the theatre since she has played every classic role from Titania to Cleopatra. She first became a household name via television thanks initially to a sitcom A FINE ROMANCE in which she played alongside the actor Michael Williams whom she married in 1971. She has since made nine series of another sitcom AS TIME GOES BY (with Geoffrey Palmer) as well as plays & classic serials such as CRANFORD. In the cinema her films have ranged from LADIES IN LAVENDER (opposite Maggie Smith) through NOTES ON A SCANDAL with Cate Blanchett to SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE in which she played Queen Elizabeth a role which gained her a Hollywood Oscar. But it is her role as M in seven James Bond films that has gained her worldwide recognition. This book is however much more than a career record. Her marriage to Michael Williams their daughter & her impish sense of humour contribute vividly to her account of more than half a century as Britains best-loved actress. ...