From Cornwall to Cuba Venice to France Alex Rider has travelled far & wide as a spy for MI6 facing danger & death at every turn. But in his last mission fighting the criminal organization Scorpia Alex appeared to have finally met his match. In the thrilling sequel to Scorpia" find out the answer to the question on everyone's lips
- " Will Alex Rider live to fight another day?""
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In this inventive interactive picture book created by Barney Saltzberg the bespectacled author of Beautiful Oops!" who charms young readers & their parents with a perfect light touch & joyful spirit kids get to do just what Arlo does to solve his problem. They read an eye chart look through a fold-out phoropter (that big machine optometrists use) & try on different pairs of glasses
- movie star glasses! superhero glasses! mad scientist glasses! & they interact with Arlo as he rediscovers how to be the best ball-catcher in the neighbourhood & picks up a new favourite pastime along the way
- reading! One out of five school-age children needs glasses. Arlo will show them just how lucky they are."

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Ground fighting is one of the most underestimated yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. Ninety-nine per cent of all street fights that are not finished within the first three seconds end up on the floor. The books in the Ground Fighting" series prepare you with the very best of wrestling ju-jitsu judo etc. covering ground control bars locks chokes strangles cranks butts reintroducing many of the illegal & banned techniques from the beginning of the century." ...

Four centuries two murders one motive... Archaeologist Neil Watson did not to expect to find the body of American veteran Norman Oppenheim in the ruins of the old chantry chapel... He turns to his old student friend Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson for help. Ironically both men are looking at an invading force
- Wes the WWII Yanks & Neil a group of Spaniards killed by outraged locals as they limped from the wreckage of the Armada. Four hundred years apart two strangers in a strange land have died violently
- could the same motives of hatred jealousy & revenge be at work? Wes is running out of time to find out.. . An intriguing blend of history & detection from the author of THE MERCHANTS HOUSE.

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A sunken secret. A missing woman. A race against time. Former SAS major Ben Hope is relaxing at his home in Normandy when he hears the worst news of his life. His ex-girlfriend Dr Brooke Marcel has been kidnapped. Racing against the clock Ben's frantic search for Brooke leads him from Ireland to the Spanish mountains & the rainforests of Peru. What is the mysterious link between the kidnapping the salvage of a sunken 16th-century Spanish warship & the secret activities of its wealthy discoverer? As the trail of wreckage & mayhem intensifies Ben soon uncovers a web of intrigue corruption & brutal murder. But will he be too late to find Brooke alive? ...

Fifty years from now our world is unrecognisable. Pollution & warfare have poisoned the skies the water & the soil. Pockets of society still exist living in highly fortified strongholds while those outside the walls roam the landscape
- either predator or prey. But even these isolated compounds are not safe; armies of demons & once-men assault their defences & inevitably one by one they succumb. Civilisation has fallen & anarchy is the only law. Logan Tom & Angel Perez are the last two Knights to stand against the forces of chaos. These two extraordinary people have the ability to resist the dark tide & to them will fall twin tasks: to find & protect a very old & a very new magic. They are humanity's last hope. Although the odds are stacked against them Logan & Angel have the power to halt the destruction of the Old World. It will be up to others to usher in the New.. .
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Air bags cause accidents because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people but not to economists who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience & illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The obvious answer is that the owner has a monopoly but if that were the whole story there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop & prices skyrocket journalists point to the obvious exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power theyd have raised prices before the frost. Why dont concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction & others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why dont firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong reveals better answers & illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it. ...

There are only three rules on the Goldsworth Estate 1. Dont let your guard down: Shaniqua Curtis is murdered by a gang after a night out
- only minutes from her front door. 2. Dont trust anybody: Her sister Aurora is left devastated by the murder but she is unaware that even the people closest to her are keeping terrible secrets about that night. 3. Dont snitch: Troy Banks is the killer. Determined to get into a gang & prove himself to his brothers he will stop at nothing to get what he wants...however the wall of silence on the estate is breaking. Shaniquas murder will tear apart friendships test relationships & change lives forever. Davie J. Toothill is an exciting new voice in crime fiction. Armed is a novel with great cross-over appeal from young adult upwards.
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A timely work of major historical importance examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current & ongoing peace process fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition. ' An essential book.. .closely-reasoned formidably intelligent & utterly compelling.. .required reading across the political spectrum.. .important & riveting' Roy Foster The Times ' An outstanding new book on the IRA.. .a calm rational but in the end devastating deconstruction of the IRA' Henry Mc Donald Observer ' Superb.. .the first full history of the IRA & the best overall account of the organization. English writes to the highest scholarly standards.. . Moreover he writes with the common reader in mind: he has crafted a fine balance of detail & analysis & his prose is clear fresh & jargon-free.. .sets a new standard for debate on republicanism' Peter Hart Irish Times ' The one book I recommend for anyone trying to understand the craziness & complexity of the Northern Ireland tragedy.' Frank Mc Court author of Angela's Ashes ...

One of Fighting Fantasys most innovative titles now in a br&-new edition. Can YOU defeat the nightmare army of the undead? Agglax the Shadow Demon is amassing an army of undead warriors to conquer Allansia. Having survived the perils of Deathtrap Dungeon you set off from Fang with over two hundred veteran soldiers to fight his army. But the Shadow Demon is not of this world & special powers are needed to destroy him. & the longer you spend searching for these powers the stronger he will become... ...