Andrew Bibby walks the Pennines along the route of the watershed that separates the water flowing westwards to the Irish Sea & the Atlantic from the water heading towards the North Sea. Ranging from Kinder Scout in Derbyshire as far as Hadrians Wall in Northumberland Backbone of England is partly a travel book partly a celebration of a fine stretch of countryside but primarily a journey to discover more about the landscape in this part of Engl&. Andrew Bibby reveals the factors which make the Pennine landscape as it is exploring what has happened in the past & particularly what is going on up in these hills today. ...

This is a practical & indispensable guide which covers all you need to know about keeping poultry in your own back garden. Find out: what housing & basic equipment you need; how to choose & obtain the right poultry for the space you have available; which are the best breeds of chickens ducks turkeys geese & quail for your circumstances; how to help your poultry settle into their new homes; how to feed & care for your poultry; how to breed your own; how to store eggs & increase production; & even how to cull your birds. ...

Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in Hackney & a white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police & questioned. A woman on the street after a long evening's drinking... She never makes it home. A suspect...an arrest...a confession...A case done & dusted? Five years earlier a 13-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. DCS James Langton headed the investigation; the case was never closed. It has haunted him ever since. & now comes another confession to this murder & to one more besides. Too good to be true? DCI Anna Travis pulled into the fray isn't so sure that they have their man. Then the suspect changes his story... ...

Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in Hackney & a white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police & questioned. A woman on the street after a long evenings drinking... She never makes it home. A suspect...an arrest...a confession...A case done & dusted? Five years earlier a 13-year-old girl disappeared in broad daylight on a busy London street. DCS James Langton headed the investigation; the case was never closed. It has haunted him ever since. & now comes another confession to this murder & to one more besides. Too good to be true? DCI Anna Travis pulled into the fray isnt so sure that they have their man. Then the suspect changes his story... ...

Tansy has to escape from her London life. Shes desperate to get away from her media job her coke habit her dead mother & her selfish boyfriend. But she finds travelling through Asia more smelly than romantic & besides shes missing her boyfriend. However she is determined not to give in give up or go home. As she travels further east she begins to enjoy her journey
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* ' Indispensable.' Wanderlust Magazine *' Essential pre-departure reading.' Jennifer Cox Author of Around the World in 80 Dates * Newly revised & updated in 2010 The Backpacker's Bible the result of extensive research & first-hand experience is crammed full of advice for the first time traveler
- from planning the journey to packing your bags from organising money to keeping in touch with home. There are helpful tips on finding work abroad obtaining travel insurance being a responsible eco-traveller & much more. Crucially you'll find information on personal safety & potential health risks with newly revised & updated chapters to cover the increased international safety measures & the growth of internet-related travel assistance & social online networking. To help you find out more about destinations the best guidebooks are recommended together with a comprehensive selection of insightful travel reads. There's even an alphabetical guide to diplomatic contacts for each country complete with details of typical regional climates. This book truly is the bible for the modern backpacker.
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The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female. Working mothers are still expected to make their children's costumes for the school play despite the fact that home economics was abolished in the Seventies; we're told it's not looks but brains that count & yet if we dare to leave the house looking vaguely our age we're made to feel like failures; women's magazines run earnest articles about the evils of size 0 culture only to feature models with hips like 10-year-old boys a few pages later; we pay the same level of taxation as men & yet on average we earn 25% less. So this book
- a book for women who never got around to perfecting the art of domestic divinity but would quite like to be able to cook supper for six without having a nervous breakdown; who never quite mastered Cosmo's 101 ways to please your man but don't want the embarrassment not to say inconvenience of him running off with a 19-year-old Russian supermodel. It's your mother your best friend your guru & your shrink wrapped up in book form with jokes. It's the antidote to every stupid boring reductive magazine article you've ever read or every silly hair-twirling chick lit confection about girls called Arabella who marry bankers & live in Gstaad. It's for women who love their children but don't want them to run their lives; & for women who love their lives & won't have them run by children. It's about revising expectations exploding myths & generally dealing with all that life love & other people have to throw at you.
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The modern classic completely updated." The newest edition of The Backyard Astronomers Guide

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This best-selling DIY handbook now features new & expanded projects enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials & this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions diagrams & photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple match-powered rocket to the more complex tabletop catapult & the offbeat Cincinnati fire kite. The classic potato cannon has a new evil twin -- the piezo-electric spud gun & the electromagnetic pipe gun has joined the company of such favourites as the tennis ball mortar. With a strong emphasis on safety the book also gives tips on troubleshooting explains the physics behind the projects & profiles scientists & extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel Robert Goddard & Isaac Newton. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers & fireworks fanatics who wish every day was the fourth of July. ...

Keeping chickens isnt just for farms! The backyard chicken revolution has coops popping up in neighborhoods all over. Home-raised chickens provide a great source of superior organic eggs that are as close as your backyard. Chickens also make good pets & provide free fertilizer-and lots of fun. Backyard Chickens Guide offers plans & photos for 16 custom coops built by real chicken owners (including three portable designs known as tractors). Read their stories & learn from their experiences then head out to the backyard to start your own flock. ...