Edited & introduced by Bill Bryson & with contributions from Richard Dawkins Margaret Atwood David Attenborough Martin Rees & Richard Fortey amongst others this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Since its inception in 1660 the Royal Society has pioneered scientific discovery & exploration. The oldest scientific academy in existence its backbone is its Fellowship of the most eminent scientists in history including Charles Darwin Isaac Newton & Albert Einstein. Today its Fellows are the most influential men & women in science many of whom have contributed to this ground-breaking volume alongside some of the world's most celebrated novelists essayists & historians. Published to mark its 350th anniversary this highly illustrated book celebrates the Royal Society's vast achievements in its illustrious past as well as its huge contribution to the development of modern science. With unrestricted access to the Society's archives & photographs ' Seeing Further' shows that the history of scientific endeavour & discovery is a continuous thread running through the history of the world & of society
- & is one that continues to shape the world we live in today.
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The most high-profile referee this country has ever seen the controversial & opinionated Graham Poll exposes the myth that referees are the game's silent men & opens the lid on the shocking & often unbelievable world of football that few outsiders get to see. Fully updated paperback edition with new chapters. Seeing Red is Graham Poll's incisive insight into football from his prime position as the man in black the one in control the eye that sees all. A Premier League referee since 1991 & with ten years as an international referee Graham Poll has handled some of the toughest games in the Premiership involving Arsenal Manchester United Liverpool & Chelsea as well as European Championships & World Cups
- in total over 1500 matches. What is it like to referee the biggest matches in international football? What really goes on between the players in the tunnel before a match & in the dressing room after? Who are the nastiest footballers? & the funniest? Who is the smartest manager? & are the bureaucrats ruining the beautiful game? Controversial & opinionated Poll has crossed swords with some of the biggest names in world football & shares private conversations with the likes of Alex Ferguson Jose Mourinho Sepp Blatter & Steve Mc Claren & the inside story behind controversial incidents involving Roy Keane David Beckham Patrick Vieira & current England captain John Terry among others. Poll also talks about the infamous 2006 World Cup match when he failed to send off a Croatian player after three yellow cards in a crucial tie against Australia returning home early in disgrace & with his career in meltdown. The games the players the managers the suits
- the most outspoken referee in the modern game tells it as it really is.

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Return to the dazzling world of The Looking Glass Wars as Wonderland is fantastically brought to life again by acclaimed Hollywood producer Frank Beddor. Alyss of Wonderlands rule has only just begun but the Queendom & her White Imagination are already under threat. Someone has resurrected the brutal Glass Eyes & they are attacking Wonderland on all sides. Has renegade Redd Heart freed herself & her assassin Cat from the prism of the Heart Crystal? Can Alyss trust Boarderlands King Arch as he extends a benevolent helping hand? A battle is raging but who is the enemy? ...

Simon Armitages new collection is by turns a voice & a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues allegories parables & tall tales. Here comes everybody: Snoobie & Carla Lippincott Wittmann Yoshioka Bambuck Dr Amsterdam Preminger. The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home; the English astronaut with a terrestrial outlook on life; an orgiastic cast of unreconstructed pie-worshipers at a Northern sculpture farm; the soap-opera supremacists at their zoo-wedding; the driver who picks up hitchhikers as he hurtles towards a head-on collision with Thatcherism; a Christian cheese-shop proprietor in the wrong part of town; the black bear with a dark secret the woman who curates giant snowballs in the chest freezer. Celebrities & nobodies all come to the ball. The storyteller who steps in & out of this human tapestry changes trickster-style from poem to poem but retains some identifying traits: the melancholy of the less deceived crossed with an undercover idealism. & he shares with many of his characters a star-gazing capacity for belief or for being genuine in his disbelief. Language is on the loose in these poems which cut & run across the parterre of poetic decorum with their cartoon-strip energies & air of misrule. Armitage creates world after world peculiar yet always particular where the only certainty is the unexpected. ...

' Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf & an account of the development of an extraordinary & expressive language' Evening Standard Imaginative & insightful Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is for many people alien & unfamiliar -- for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount. In this remarkable book Oliver Sacks explores the consequences of this including the different ways in which the deaf & the hearing learn to categorize their respective worlds -- & how they convey & communicate those experiences to others. ' Seeing Voices is a manifesto characteristically humane & impassioned; once more Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face' Sunday Times ' Empathetic intelligent & compassionate' Guardian ' Scholarly & carefully documented Seeing Voices makes the gigantic leap so essential to understanding total deafness' Sunday Telegraph 'A passionate meditation on the richness of sign language' Independent ...

The hotly anticipated third book from Joss Stirling featuring the characters from Finding Sky & Stealing Phoenix. Crystal Brook has always been the dud Savant in her family; paranormal powers just aren't her thing. Dropping out of school with a clutch of 'E' grades & no future she lives in the shadow of her high-flying sister Diamond. On a trip to Denver a chance encounter with the dashing Benedict brothers leaves Diamond head over heels in love & engaged to be married. Crystal on the other hand is unimpressed by their charms.. .in fact no boy can annoy her as much as Xav Benedict! Back in Venice their families assemble for Diamond's wedding & a powerful enemy seizes the opportunity to attack. Crystal & Xav must join forces to save their loved-ones unlocking a secret that until now has lain deeply buried.. . ...

This is the conclusion of Ann Turnbulls epic story of love & the struggle to stay true to what is most important
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The Seer is a compelling account of one mans spiritual awakening written with extraordinary energy candour & humility. The first of three books that together comprise The O Manuscript it is the beginning of a personal & philosophical quest that challenges conventional wisdom & takes the reader on a mystical journey through ancient history & modern times. The book begins with the author at a crossroads suffering from debilitating health his personal & professional lives disintegrating around him. Bed-ridden for three years Lars Muhl was put in touch with a seer who helped him over the telephone initially to recover his energy & brought him back to life. The Seer became his spiritual leader teaching him the inner truths of existence. We travel with him to Montsegur a remote mountain village & castle in southern France where he meets the Seer & begins his remarkable & challenging adventure. The book is not only a spellbinding introduction to the ancient vision of cosmic interconnectedness but also a critical evaluation of a long list of limiting New Age dogmas. When Lars & the Seer part the latter hands an old manuscript into the authors care
- a doorway to further revelations.
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Now in the final stages of their quest for his son Garion & his companions travel to Kell to consult the only undamaged copy of the Malloreon Gospels. For centuries the Seers have guarded this book from the Grolims & even had their wizards put a curse of blindness on any Grolim who tried to enter Kell. So as proclaimed in Guardians of the West Belgarion the Godslayer sets out with those who must join him: the Eternal Man the Guide the Man with Two Lives the Bearer of the Orb & the Silent Man & the rest of his companions to The Place Which Is No More to make the final choice
- darkness or light. But Zandramas the Sorceress will not be outdone. Though she may not enter Kell she still has young Geran & should she reach the final meeting place with him then Garion must slay his son or the world will be no more. THUS ENDS THE EPIC STORY OF THE MALLOREON.
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Book 5 of The Malloreon" the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspired generations of fantasy writers
- from Raymond Feists " The Riftwar Cycle" to George R. R. Martins "A Game of Thrones". The final choice: darkness or light The last clue has been found. It will lead Garion & his friends to the Place Which Is No More. Zandramas awaits him there...and with him is Garions son. Armed only with his ancestral sword Garion must fight his way past dragons & demons to meet Zandramas & fulfil his destiny. But the prophecies require a great sacrifice. An impossible choice: save the world
- or the person you love."

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