A refreshing antidote to the bewildering mass of information on diet & fitness Waist Disposal" gives you all the tools you need to leave calorie counting & strict regimes behind & get the body you've always wanted. A practical & easy-to-apply approach it delivers no nonsense
- just pure hard facts & long-lasting results. Are you carrying extra weight especially around the midriff that you'd like to get rid of? Are you confused by conflicting & contradictory weight-loss information & just want something that really works? In this book Dr John Briffa draws on hundreds of scientific studies to debunk popular myths about diet & exercise & reveals the most effective way to lose fat & build an athletic physique. Learn which foods cause fatness
- irrespective of calories
- & which foods don't how to harness the power of your mind to accelerate your progress & how to get fit & toned with just 12 minutes of exercise a day."


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Warren Buffett compares stock trading to great athletes: they excel not because of fast neurological responses but because of their ability to delay as long as possible before reacting. Successful CEOs fire fighters & military officers all know how to manage delay to gather as much information as possible to get the results they need. In Wait Frank Partnoy argues that decisions of all kinds whether snap or long-term benefit from being made at the last possible moment. The art of knowing how long you can afford to delay before committing is at the heart of many a great decision whether in a corporate takeover or a marriage proposal. Apologies are better received if they are not rushed; audiences listen more attentively if speakers pause first people who can defer gratification are happier & more successful than those who must have everything now. Exploring decisions that must be made in a millisecond to those that take months & years Partnoy demonstrates that the ability to wait is crucial to getting the right answer & that gut instincts are often wrong. ...

Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase & for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing lovingly & wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother & sisters & their politics (while not being at all political herself) finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country & her deep attachment to it & those who live & work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire Debo played an active role in restoring & overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses & gardens & in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children as well as her husbands battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy full of the authors sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...

Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase & for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing lovingly & wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother & sisters & their politics (while not being at all political herself) finally setting the record straight. Throughout the book she writes brilliantly about the country & her deep attachment to it & those who live & work in it. As Duchess of Devonshire Debo played an active role in restoring & overseeing the day-to-day running of the family houses & gardens & in developing commercial enterprises at Chatsworth. She tells poignantly of the deaths of three of her children as well as her husbands battle with alcohol addiction. Wait For Me is enthralling & a total joy full of the authors sympathetic wit (which she is not afraid to use on herself). ...

This is a gripping historical adventure by a much-loved & award winning author. It is World War II & Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis close to his mountain village in Spain. Now German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped. The slightest mistake could cost them their lives. ...

He appears out of the sea washed up naked in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious & claiming to be Christopher Columbus he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville where astonishingly he starts to reveal the true story of how he set sail on behalf of the Spanish queen five hundred years ago. Consuela a nurse at the Institute is charged with helping him back to reality. She listens to his fantastic tales in the hope of discovering the truth. But as his story unfolds she finds herself falling for her patient -- no longer able to tell where truth ends & fantasy begins. Meanwhile across the continent Emile Germain is involved in a different search. He's an Interpol officer on the hunt for a missing person presumed dangerous. He's a determined man & when his investigation leads to Spain these two stories collide. Part romance part mysterious thriller this is a rich & emotional novel about love loss & the fragile beauty of our own life stories. ...

Nothing happens nobody comes nobody goes it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would in time represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature. ...

Meet Oz.. .he's got a talent for trouble but his heart's always in the right place (well nearly always). Uprooted from his friends & former life Oz finds himself stranded in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. When a joke backfires on the first day at his new school Oz attracts the attention of Isobel Skinner the school psycho
- but that's just the beginning. After causing an accident that puts his mum in hospital Oz isn't exactly popular at home either. His older sister's no help but then she's got a problem of her own.. .one that's growing bigger by the day. Oz knows he's got to put things right but life isn't that simple especially when the only people still talking to you are a hobbit-obsessed kid & a voice in your own head! Packed with action heart & humour Waiting for Gonzo takes you for a white-knuckle ride on the Wheel of Destiny as it careers out of control down the Hillside of Inevitability. The question is do you go down laughing? Or grit your teeth & jump off?
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A life full of shattered hopes... Brenda ODonnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlins the rag-&-bone man says she can come & live with him & he will give her child a name in return for her running his home & looking after his children. Despite the gossip a desperate Brenda has little choice but to accept. Life isnt easy for Brenda & little Ruby but they try make the best of things. Until Brenda falls in love with Sids eldest son Danny & their affair causes trouble within the family. & when Sid dies & leaves the business to his cousin Charlie life becomes even harder for Brenda as she faces the threat of losing everything she holds dear... ...

Frederica Kimball had been waiting for the day when Nicholas Le Beck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didnt know what had hit him...sweet adorable Freddie whom hed always loved like a kid sister was suddenly looking & acting like a sensual woman. The waiting was over but the wanting had just begun! ...