This practical guide to effective revision & success in exams takes the reader through a fourteen-day program which ensures maximum results in the time available. With illustrations to enhance the text it shows the reader how to tackle common revision & exam challenges through exercises checklists & worked examples. It is a handy guide offering expert advice to help students maximize their chances of exam success in just two weeks. ...

Cleanse & boost your system in just two weeks. Lose weight the simple way with 90 step-by-step recipes. It helps you how to renew your body & mind with 500 photographs. It

Includes:: recipes range from soups smoothies & breakfast ideas to sustaining salads healthy fish & poultry dishes & tasty desserts each crammed with nutrients & cleansing properties. It

Includes:: a detailed introduction that explains what toxins are where they are found & how they can be avoided as well as checklists of foods that should be included & those that should be excluded during a detox. You can choose from an intense one-week regime or a more comprehensive two-week detox plan. It contains ideas for exercise complementary therapies & how to detox your home. An ancient therapy that has been used for centuries detoxing is believed to help the body's natural cleansing process & replenish vital nutrients. The introduction contains a list of symptoms to enable self-diagnosis guidance on when & when not to detox tips on how you can boost your organs advice on suitable exercises & complementary therapies & a directory of foods you should include & those you should avoid. Menu plans for either a one- or a two-week plan make selecting & combining recipes easy ensuring that you get the perfect balance of foods every day. Recipes include Lime & Watermelon Tonic Granola Fresh Cabbage Soup Citrus Fruit Salad with Avocado Pan-fried Chicken with Pesto & Summer Berry Frozen Yogurt. Crammed with invaluable advice information & recipes this is the ideal book for anyone who wants to detox safely in the home.



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Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt his piety & his rigorous application of justice he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But what was he really like? Does he deserve to be thought of as the greatest man who ever ruled England?. In this groundbreaking & ambitious book Ian Mortimer portrays Henry in the pivotal year of his reign. Recording the dramatic events of 1415 on a day-by-day basis he offers the fullest most precise & least romanticised view we have of Henry & what he did. In addition the kings story is told against the background of other important developments in Europe in particular the struggle for power within the Catholic Church & official attempts to eradicate any deviant religious beliefs. In so doing the reader encounters unexpected & eye-opening explanations for why Henry tried to unify the kingdoms of England & France
- & why he was prepared to burn men alive as heretics. The result is not only a fascinating reappraisal of Henry; it brings to the fore many unpalatable truths which biographers & military historians have largely ignored. While Henry retains the essential qualities of his greatness his legend is stripped of its Shakespearean rhetoric & compassion. At the centre of the book is the campaign which culminated in the battle of Agincourt: a slaughter ground designed not to advance Englands interests directly but to demonstrate Gods approval of Henrys royal authority on both sides of the Channel. 1415 was a year of religious persecution personal suffering & one horrendous battle. This is the story of that year as seen over the shoulder of its most cold-hearted most ambitious & most celebrated hero.
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On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships some nearly five hundred feet long were under the command of Emperor Zhu Dis loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas & unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years & take them around the globe but by the time they returned home China was beginning its long self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. & so the great ships were left to rot & the records of their journey were destroyed. & with them the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan reached America seventy years before Columbus & Australia three hundred & fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research 1421 is Gavin Menzies enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet the remarkable discoveries he made & the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps precise navigational knowledge astronomy & the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers & the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind
- from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed giving thanks to Shao Lin goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.
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In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science art & technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance & our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Gavin Menzies presented controversial & compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus Cook & Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didnt stop there. Until now scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance
- the basis of our modern Western world
- came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece & Rome. A stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434 sparked the Renaissance & forever changed the course of Western civilization. After that date the authority of Aristotle & Ptolemy was overturned & artistic conventions challenged as was Arabic astronomy & cartography. Florence & Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a large Chinese fleet official ambassadors of the Emperor arrived in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. A mass of information was given by the Chinese delegation to the Pope & his entourage
- concerning world maps (which Menzies argues were later given to Columbus) astronomy mathematics art printing architecture steel manufacture civil engineering military machines surveying cartography genetics & more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance
- Da Vincis inventions the Copernican revolution Galileo etc. Following 1434 Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas discoveries & inventions which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as Greek thought & Roman law. In short China provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze.



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Up until very recently it was believed that in 1491 the year before Columbus landed the Americas one-third of the earth's surface were a near-pristine wilderness inhabited by small roaming bands of indigenous people. But recently unexpected discoveries have dramatically changed our understanding of Indian Life. Many scholars now argue that the Indians were much more numerous were in the Americas for far longer & had far more ecological impact on the land than previously believed. This knowledge has enormous implications for today's environmental disputes yet little has filtered into textbooks & even less into public awareness. Mann brings together all of the latest research & the results of his own travels throughout North & South America to provide a new fascinating & iconoclastic account of the Americas before Columbus. ...

Two hundred million years ago the earth consisted of a single vast continent Pangea surrounded by a great planetary sea. Continental drift tore apart Pangaea & for millennia the hemispheres were separate evolving almost entirely different suites of plants & animals. Columbus's arrival in the Americas brought together these long-separate worlds. Many historians believe that this collision of ecosystems & cultures-the Columbian Exchange-was the most consequential event in human history since the Neolithic Revolution. & it was the most consequential event in biological history since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Beginning with the world of microbes & moving up the species ladder to mankind Mann rivetingly describes the profound effect this exchanging of species had on the culture of both continents. ...

Nothing else comes close to touching the magic of vertical flight; from the moment you lift into the air to the second the helicopter settles gracefully back on the ground it is a truly exciting & unforgettable experience. You will be welcomed & briefed by one of our specialist team & given the opportunity to see & hear our modern helicopter at close quarters. Then its your turn; climbing gracefully to over 1 000 feet & accelerating to over 120 miles an hour you will interact with the pilot via the headset (dont forget to listen out for air traffic on the radio!) swooping over the landscape & then settling gently back on the ground. Cameras are positively encouraged
- with an experience this exhilarating you will want to relive it as often as possible! Lauch sites (subject to change): Aberdeen (Harbour & River Dee Tour) Ayr (Ayr & Prestwick Tour) Barton (Bolton & Reebok Stadium) Bedford (Milton Keynes Tour) Bicester Oxfordshire (Waddesdon Manor) Bournemouth Dorset Bristol (Cheddar Gorge) Chester (City Tour) Cotswold Airport Gloucestershire (Cotswolds Tour) Coventry (Castle Tour) Denham Middlesex Edinburgh (City Tour) Exeter (Dunkeswell) Glasgow (City Tour) Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock (Greenock Gourock & Inverkip Tour) Hornchurch Essex (East of London Tour) Hull (City Tour) Inverness (Cawdor Castle & Coast Tour) Lake District (Lake Windermere Tour) Liverpool (City Tour) Llangollen (Horseshoe Pass) Nottingham (City Tour) Newcastle upon Tyne (City Tour) Peak District Derbyshire (Chatsworth) Preston Lancashire Redhill Surrey Snowdonia (Giants & Waterfalls) Stirling (Campsies Stirling & Falkirk Wheel Tour) St Ives* Cornwall Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare Tour) Welshpool Mid Wales Wolverhampton West Midlands York (Breighton) * At St Ives we will fly two Summer camps in June & August What You Will Receive On purchasing this experience you will receive a Silver A5 Presentation Pack. Your Silver A5 Presentation Pack is embossed with a ribbon design great if you are buying this experience as a gift. Included within your presentation pack: Your Gift Experience Voucher
- Keep this safe! You will need this to book your experience & may be required to take this with you on the day of your experience. An Information Booklet
- Detailing all you need to know about your experience including personal injury cover cancellation cover & full terms & conditions of the experience. How to Book Guide
- A personal guide based on your chosen experience detailing all the available locations & contact numbers you need to ensure you experience runs smoothly. "



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The Fifteen Minute Rule" sets out to help us tackle those things that we are always putting off: starting an exercise regime looking for a new job doing our tax returns or learning a new skill. Or perhaps doing something to improve the quality of life by learning to fight depression or confront an annoying habit. Perhaps it's simply clearing the huge pile of clutter from your desk. Whatever it is all you need is fifteen minutes & before you know it some weeks later you have accomplished a task you couldn't bring yourself to start. The hardest thing to overcome when you're trying to start something daunting & new is to actually start. That mountain of paperwork in front of you that looks like it will take hours to go through & hours of mind-numbing sorting is hard to contemplate for most
- but fifteen minutes isn't. Fifteen minutes is manageable & can bring minor & major results each one providing satisfaction & a boost in self-esteem. This book is for those people who need instant gratification & also those long-term players who recognise the benefits of consistency & dedication."
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Say thank you congratulations or simply write a good old fashioned letter to a loved one with these colourful Orla Kiely notecards. The notecards are decorated with a Flower Abacus print & feature 3 different colours. The cards measure H 17.5 x W 12.5 & there are 15 notecards included in the box together with envelopes. ...