By the late 1970s boxing had lapsed into a moribund state & interest in it was on the wane. In 1980 however the sport was resuscitated by a riveting series of bouts involving an improbably dissimilar quartet: Sugar Ray Leonard Marvelous Marvin Hagler Thomas Hearns & Roberto Duran. The Four Kings of the Ring would fight one another nine times throughout the decade & win sixteen world titles between them. Like Ali & Frazier Dempsey & Tunney Robinson & La Motta these four boxers brought out the best in each other producing unprecedented multi-million-dollar gates along the way. Each of the nine bouts between the four men was memorable in its own way & at least two of them
- Leonard-Hearns I in 1981 & Hagler-Hearns in 1985
- are commonly included on any list of the greatest fights of all time. The controversial outcome of another
- the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight
- remains the subject of heated debates amongst fans to this day. Leonard Hagler Hearns & Duran didnt set out to save boxing from itself in the post-Ali era but somehow they managed to do so. In Four Kings award-winning journalist George Kimball documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport & argues that we will never see their likes again.



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The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the cooling of hot metal & from the unfurling of a leaf to the course of life itself
- everything is directed & constrained by four simple laws. They establish fundamental concepts such as temperature & heat & reveal the arrow of time & even the nature of energy itself. Peter Atkins powerful & compelling introduction explains what the laws are & how they work using accessible language & virtually no mathematics. Guiding the reader from the Zeroth Law to the Third Law he introduces the fascinating concept of entropy & how it not only explains why your desk tends to get messier but also how its unstoppable rise constitutes the engine of the universe.
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When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didnt say much. He told my father to be a painter & left it at that.. . So begins Niall Williams magical tale about love & destiny. Nicholas Coughlan & Isabel Gore were made for each other
- but fate doesnt always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start Nicholas & Isabel have never met & nor are they likely to without some kind of divine intervention. But as God ghosts a series of coincidences & seemingly chance events & encounters conspire to bring the couple together other
- often more human
- forces attempt to keep them apart. What will be will be of course but that doesnt guarantee a happy-ever-after ending nor answer the question Will they wont they? Written in a lyrical lilting tone Four Letters of Love" is a glorious uplifting story about faith about seizing the moment believing in your instincts & acting on impulse
- & about following your heart no matter where it may lead."



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C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection Friendship Eros & Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity however the Gift-love of God is divine in its source & expression & without the sweetening grace of this supernatural love the natural loves become distorted & even dangerous. ...

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen this collection of Ibsens plays

Includes:: A Dolls House Ghosts

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Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's worst private-detective agency in four hilarious & action-packed stories from the creator of the Alex Rider" series. It's a dangerous life being the younger brother of the world's worst private detective
- but Nick Diamond has survived...so far. However these four mysteries are set to test his survival instincts to the full: a school reunion on a remote Scottish island a dream holiday to Paris an investigation into the whereabouts of a man in a blurry photo & the high profile visit of a world famous singer. What connects them? Murder! & if the Diamond Brothers don't play their cards right they too could end up dead... These are four diamond stories in one collection including " The French Confection" "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" " The Blurred Man" & " The Greek Who Stole Christmas". The Diamond Brothers' exposure is at an all-time high with br&-new covers for the entire series. The 2007 World Book Day edition of "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" shot to No. 1 in the Nielsen/ Bookscan Children's Chart."
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At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart an alternative reality can slip through like a blade between the ribs & switch you into a new & terrifying world.FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense the fragments spinning away from the desperate clutching reach of sanity.. . ...

Despite her broken heart when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensens new band the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets they could be made for each other. But before they have chance to declare themselves Dillys friend Nell confides that she has a huge crush on Magnus & Dilly nobly steps down in order to play reluctant matchmaker. Nell returns the favour by setting her friend up with her dashing twin brother Flipper. But Flipper the bounder is not a good rebound for a true romantic. He hides a secret that could break Dillys heart all over again.. . ...

The culminating achievement of Eliot's poetic career. The four parts: Burnt Norton" " East Coker" " The Dry Salvages" & " Little Gidding" present a rigorous meditation upon those spiritual philosophical & personal themes that preoccupied the author." ...

These profound studies of the cosmic forces behind the four great festivals of the year provide a wealth of material for fruitful meditation. Rudolf Steiner presents great imaginative pictures that unite the heavens & the earth through a portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael Gabriel Raphael & Uriel. In the course of the lectures he offers spiritual wisdom on subjects that include the alchemical processes of sulphur mercury & salt in the cosmos man & the plant spiritual combustion processes crystals clouds meteors the movements of elemental beings in nature & the conflicting efforts of the two great adversaries to divert the earth from its true goal. ...