A pop-up book that lets you load & tip a dumper truck or plough a field with the tractor. It shows why giant cranes dont fall over & figures out how bulldozers flatten roads. From farms & factories to quarries & building sites it covers 28 big machines. ...

A guidebook for walking in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson as he travelled through France's Velay & Cevennes regions from Le Puy to St Jean de Gard accompanied by his faithful donkey Modestine. At 140km this route is ideal for people new to walking holidays. Early one morning in the autumn of 1878 Stevenson set out from the sleepy village of Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille to traverse the Velay & Cevennes & his account of his trek has long captured the imagination of walkers & lovers of literature alike. Today the RLS Trail has become a classic route across the hills & along the valleys of this delightful region of rural France. The route which is well served by accommodation of all types is divided into 12 day-stages in the guide so that the Trail easily fits into a fortnight's holiday. The book

Includes:: details of the facilities for the traveller & places of interest en route together with a detailed route description & an account of Stevenson's adventures with Modestine. For those with more time available trails that link the beginning & end of the route are also described making it possible to walk all the way from the historic town of Le Puy to Ales. Packed with snippets of fascinating information about this historic region the guide is also of use to cyclists & motorists keen to trace a parallel road route following in the footsteps of Stevenson & Modestine.

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On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. Hes brutally killed & his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass-destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination
- a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesnt want the navy to attack & board it either because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered & vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...
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When a U.S. Special Forces team is wiped out by a group of normally peaceful farmers in Uganda Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to investigate. Video of the attack shows even women & children possessing almost supernatural speed & strength consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain fear & all but the most devastating injuries. Smith finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity & then going dormant. This time though its different. & as Smith & his team are cut off from all outside support they begin to suspect that forces much closer to home are in play... ...

Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA Martin Lindros who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear material. Bourne agrees to help track the money trail of the terrorists but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places & events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse still is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own
- gathering evidence while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA...
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University professor David Webb
- forever caught between two identities
- is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his

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Jon Smith is attending a W.H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious diseases & wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter & finds three pictures in the assassins pocket: one of an unknown woman one of Peter Howell his friend & a former agent with Britains MI6 & one of him. When Smith tries to leave the hotel he encounters a second group of terrorists in the process of attacking it. The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of Smiths narrow escape bombs go off at the train station airport & at the headquarters of the International Court of Justice where a Pakistani warlord Oman Dattar is being held while he is tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos Dattar escapes. Dattar has learned of a new strain of bioelectric bacteria that can grow electrical wires as a form of cilia. These cilia connect with another metallic source & can transmit & transport themselves via electric current. These bacteria are carried to the W.H.O. conference in preparation for an international consortium of biologists convened to study them along with other strains of deadly bacteria. Dattar arranges for his men to steal the bacteria & use them to bring down the West once & for all. Can Jon Smith stop him? ...

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics the once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed & the intelligence agents involved have all disappeared without a trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt. Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For unbeknownst to the world at large the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions & forever change the nature of the world. ...

A fiery explosion shatters a laboratory building in Paris. Among the dead is Emile Chambord one of the leaders in the global race to create a molecular
- or DNA
- computer. Unfortunately Professor Chambord kept the details of his work secret & his notes were apparently destroyed in the fire. Then suddenly US fighter jets disappear from radar screens for a full five minutes & theres no explanation; utilities cease to function; & all telecommunications abruptly stop with devastating consequences. This is not the work of a clever hacker
- only the enormous power & speed of a DNA computer could have caused such havoc. Covert-One agent Jon Smith flies to Paris to investigate. Following a trail that leads him across two continents he uncovers a web of deception that threatens to re-shape the world for ever...


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On a desolate island deep within the Arctic a scientific expedition photographs the wreckage of a bomber. It seems to be a relic from the Cold War
- but a handful of insiders know that it is a Soviet Air Force biological warfare platform still armed with weaponised anthrax. Covert-One's Lt. Col. Jon Smith leads a team to secure the site. But on the island they find themselves confronted with a traitor from within their ranks. Gradually they become aware that the ancient bomber conceals something else: a secret so deadly that it could trigger a Third World War...
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