In 2009 the University of Copenhagen announced research proving that the Scandinavian diet is as healthy as the renowned Mediterranean diet. Top chefs voted a Danish restaurant to be the third best in the world. Scandinavian cuisine has never been more hot & audiences everywhere are now keen to know more about their healthy lifestyle & diet composed of home-grown vegetables berries grains & fish. In this beautiful & evocative book leading Danish chef & food writer Trina Hahnemann presents an insight into a food culture that is both deeply traditional & ultra-modern with a collection of 100 delicious recipes representing the essence of Scandinavian cooking. Structured around the distinctive seasons which have inevitably made their impact on cooking & dining the book also gives a feel for life in Scandinavia with photographs & special features. Divided by months each chapter contains 10 recipes which highlight the very best seasonal recipes from January's Danish Pastries & Citrus Marinated Salmon through to April's Rack of Lamb Stuffed with Mint & Dried Apricot September's Swedish Meatballs with Cowberry Compote & all the December delights of Christmas with traditions & recipes from all three countries. The recipes in the book all have an emphasis on simple healthy ingredients which reflect today's desire to eat lighter food without sacrificing look or flavour. ...

Substance D
- otherwise known as Death
- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys

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Substance D -- otherwise known as Death -- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres leading first to disorentation & then to complete & irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor undercover narcotics agent is trying to find a lead to the source of supply but to pass as an addict he must become a user & soon without knowing what is happening to him he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring. ...

Substance D
- otherwise known as Death
- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys

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The ' Scanners' series of books have been consistent bestsellers being the UK's leading guides to receiving equipment employed by enthusiasts to monitor the short wave & VHF/UHF wavebands used by airfields maritime & rescue services & analogue & digital two-way private mobile radio systems. This new (seventh) edition covers the rapidly increasing trend towards digital two-way radio communications & the latest handheld & mobile/base scanners with some digital modes fitted. It has been fully re-written & updated to include the latest UK radio frequency listings & call signs for airports maritime & emergency services & other professional organisations. The book covers the latest shifts in the hobby towards digital & PC- & tablet-controlled radio technology & illustrates the very latest commercial radio scanning equipment & accessories. Included are details of an increasing number of 'apps' for smartphones specifically for radio data decoding including programs for digital scanner communications decoding for which a smartphone can be linked to an existing scanner radio to decode. Other innovations include TETRA as used by police ambulance fire & rescue services & DMR modes such as Mototrbo. It is predicted that by 2016 fifty per cent of two-way radio communication in the UK will use digital modes. ...

By chance two men
- one English the other French
- meet in a provincial railway station. Their physical resemblance is uncanny

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At all costs avoid blame. Such is the creed of dictators & politicians tycoons & company chairmen media celebrities & spin doctors the world over. But what about men at war where the penalties for errors of judgement can be devastating? History is full of tales of those who have been wrongly castigated in the rush to find a culprit; only later sometimes much later when the real truth comes out is the scapegoat exonerated. ...

A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity & spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile.. .A pirate city hauled across the oceans.. .A hidden miracle about be revealed.. . These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoners journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people for the most astonishing beast in the seas & ultimately for a fabled place
- a massive wound in reality a source of unthinkable power & danger.
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In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis charismatic & highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers recounts his remarkable life story & the history of the band itself. Raised in the Midwest he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie purveyor of pills pot & cocaine to the Hollywood elite. After a brief child-acting career Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. & plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. underground music scene. He formed the band with three schoolfriends
- & found his lifes purpose. Crisscrossing the country the Chili Peppers were musical innovators & influenced a whole generation of musicians. But theres a price to pay for both success & excess & in SCAR TISSUE Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate & band mate Hillel Slovak & his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. It is instead a compelling story of dedication & debauchery of intrigue & integrity of recklessness & redemption.
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1593. Queen Elizabeths trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead for two years... As plague sweeps through the streets & stews of London so suspicion & mistrust sweep through the court & government. No one feels safe. Even the celebrated swordsman adventurer & philanderer Will Swyfte must watch his back. It is when his best friend & colleague the playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in a pub brawl that Will decides he must act. The murder has all the hallmarks of an assassination. But in going in search of Kits killer he discovers that there are those in positions of power & influence who are not what they seem... Against a backcloth of growing paranoia & terror Will detects the malign machinations of Englands hidden enemy the Unseelie Court. With these devils at his back the countrys greatest spy may find that even his vaunted skills are no match for the supernatural powers arrayed against him. The choice is simple: uncover the true nature & intention of this vile conspiracy
- or face the executioners axe...
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