This heavy duty mailing box from Flexocare is easy to assemble with its self adhesive closure making it ideal for mailing electrical items gifting & glassware. The receiver will be able to use the tear strip to open without damaging the contents. Approximate size of the made up box is 241 x 166 x 94 mm. ...

Meticulously researched & illustrated with more than 2000 colour photographs taken by the author Flies is a landmark reference book that will be indispensable to any naturalist biologist or entomologist. Most photographs in this encyclopedic reference were taken in the field & show the insects in their natural environment. All of the world fly families are covered & the book contains species such as the common house fly the elusive African stalk eyed flies & giant robber flies of North Vietnam the strikingly beautiful Andean flower flies & giant hedgehog flies to the deadly tsetse flies & malaria mosquitoes. Flies is broken up into three parts: Life Histories Habits & Habitats of Flies; Diversity; & Identifying & Studying Flies. The 20 pages of profusely illustrated keys linked to the unprecedented photographic coverage of the worlds fly families & subfamilies enable the reader to identify most flies quickly & accurately & to readily access information about each family as well as hundreds of distinctive genera & species. ...

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates.. .A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary Coroner Jenny Cooper finds herself handling the case of a lone sailor whose boat appears to have been sunk by the stricken plane & drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl Amy Patterson a passenger on 189 whose largely unmarked body is washed up alongside his. While a massive & highly secretive operation is launched to recover clues from the wreckage Jenny begins to ask questions the official investigation doesnt want answered. How could such a high tech plane -- virtually impregnable against human error -- fail? What linked the high powered passengers who found themselves on this ill-fated flight? & how did Amy Patterson survive the crash only to perish hours later? Under pressure from Amys grieving mother & opposed by those at the very highest levels of government Jenny must race against time to seek the truth behind this terrible disaster before it can happen again.. . ...

Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates.. .A tragic accident or a terrible crime? When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary Coroner Jenny Cooper finds herself handling the case of a lone sailor whose boat appears to have been sunk by the stricken plane & drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl Amy Patterson a passenger on 189 whose largely unmarked body is washed up alongside his. While a massive & highly secretive operation is launched to recover clues from the wreckage Jenny begins to ask questions the official investigation doesn't want answered. How could such a high tech plane -- virtually impregnable against human error -- fail? What linked the high powered passengers who found themselves on this ill-fated flight? & how did Amy Patterson survive the crash only to perish hours later? Under pressure from Amy's grieving mother & opposed by those at the very highest levels of government Jenny must race against time to seek the truth behind this terrible disaster before it can happen again.. . ...

Flight 714 is about to take off but at the last minute Tintin & his friends are offered a ride on the private jet of eccentric millionaire Laszlo Carreidas. But why is Carreidas secretary so twitchy? & can Carreidas be trusted after a remarkable victory in a game of Battleships? Tintin is about to find out! ...

It is the bitterly cold winter of 1944/45. The Red Army is advancing on Eastern Prussia the easternmost province of Germany at the start of its inexorable advance towards Berlin. Millions of East Prussians are desperate to flee but the Nazis order them to stay & fight. Finally with the Russian guns in earshot they are allowed to leave. They soon realise that they are surrounded cut of f from the rest of Germany. Many of them take the perilous route over a frozen lagoon the only route left open. With them are thousands of the most superb horses in the world the Trakehner bred over the past two centuries in East Prussia. They flee in large herds or are harnessed to wagons or sleighs & face the same dangers as their guardians & owners. With little to eat the target of Soviet bombers & tanks many of them die on the way. Only a few hundred reached the West. They had saved their owners & their owners had saved them rarely has there been such a bond between men & horses. But the story is not over. Given the harsh conditions the hunger deprivation & poverty of the immediate post-war years can the breed be built up again? ...

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home a young mother discovers a beautiful & terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour" is a captivating topical & deeply human story touching on class poverty & climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet & explores the truths we live by & the complexities that lie behind them." ...

The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell & his Burmese elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission. In the summer of 1942 Gyles Mackrell
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Born in the United States but separated since they were boys twin brothers Max & Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides when the Second World War broke out Max as one of the Luftwaffes most feared pilots Harry as a Yank ace in the RAF! Two brothers united by blood -- divided by war In the early days of World War Two nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys Max & Harry Kelso have grown up to become ace fighter pilots -- Max as one of the Luftwaffes most feared pilots & Harry as a Yank with the RAF. Now the machinery of war has set in motion an intrigue so devious so full of danger that they will be forced to question everything they value: their lives & ultimately their loyalties. Against impossible odds it is their courage alone that will decide the course of the war itself! ...

Desperate to escape their vicious uncle in London orphans Finn & Derval Dove embark on a dangerous journey across England to Irel&. Lonely & scared their only hope lies in reaching the Connemara cottage of their beloved grandmother. But for some reason their uncle offers a reward for their return & suddenly Finn & Derval find themselves at the centre of a nationwide search. Dogged every step of the way by people they dont know who can the children trust...and how far will their uncle go to stop them reaching safety? ...