The Know the Game series is firmly established as the leading introduction to a huge range of sports & games. For 50 years they have been the first step into a new sport or game for many people children & adults alike. The series has now been relaunched in a new format with a modern design
- making the best even better. The aim has been to make the books more accessible & they are now packed with colour photos & illustrations top tips & interesting facts. Each book contains everything you need to know about the sport or game including equipment rules techniques & training tips. There's even information on how to find a club & meet new people to play the sport or game with. & having been written & endorsed by the game's professional body you can be sure that you are getting the best information available.
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The Mahabharata" is the story of two warring factions of cousins
- 100 demons in human form against five sons of gods. Woven into
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The Mahabharata" is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent & is a major text of Hinduism. Its discussion of human goals (artha or purpose kama or pleasure dharma or duty & moksha or liberation) takes place in a long-standing tradition attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society & the world (the nature of the ' Self') & the workings of karma." ...

The day Queen Mary Tudor
- or Bloody Mary as shes called because she has anyone who doesnt go to church burned
- came to town

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Born in 1910 Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world lit by candles & oil lamps where you slept in your clothes
- if you hadnt already been sewn into them for the winter
- & fought an unending battle with hunger & bed bugs. At its best life was lived on the bustling noisy streets where fish sellers jostled with hurdy-gurdy men organ grinders & street fighters where children dodged between the wheels of horse-drawn carts & where money could still be made by mudlarks & the rag & bone man. At the age of fifteen Rose left the noise & squalor of Hoxton & started work as a live-in maid at a house in the West End. Despite the poverty of her childhood nothing could have prepared her for the long hours the backbreaking work & the harshness of this new world; a world in which servants were treated as if they were less than human. It was a world in which Rose found herself working from six in the morning till nine at night in a house where the only unheated bedroom was the one she slept in. Here & in later grander houses Rose had to endure the strict hierarchy of the servants world where the maid was expected to put up with sex pests deranged employers verbal & even physical abuse. But however difficult life became Rose found something to laugh about & her remarkable spirit & gift for friendship shines through in her memories of a now-vanished world. This is upstairs downstairs as it really was.

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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Maidstone Corporation fi rst began operating trams on 14 July 1904 in conjunction with the municipal electricity supply. Motor buses were introduced from 7 April 1924 & to replace the trams which were being phased out through 1929 & 1930 trolleybuses were introduced on 1 May 1928. Towards the end of the 1960s it was decided that the trolleybuses should be phased out themselves & the Corporation continued operating buses alone until it ceased to exist in 1974. Using offi cial photographs commercial postcards enthusiasts pictures & ephemera this volume records the history of Maidstone Corporations transport operations until it was replaced by Maidstone Borough following the local government reorganisation. Eric has been interested in transport since the days when his journeys to Maidstone Grammar School involved a trolleybus ride & has spent his career working in public transport. He is a member of the M&D & East Kent Bus Club & a founder member of the Maidstone Postcard Club. ...

Inspector Lognon
- an embittered but dedicated detective
- is shot. To everyones amazement it emerges that Lognon had spent

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100 of the most popular Mail on Sunday" puzzles brought together in one fun-filled book. At last a compilation of general knowledge crosswords from your favourite Sunday newspaper! With over 100 puzzles with questions on a myriad of subjects there is plenty here to flex your memory muscles & keep you entertained for hours. From classical music to the latest films " Mail on Sunday Prize Crossword Volume 1" is perfect for quiz fans & puzzle lovers alike." ...