Essential reading following an astounding summer of sport; if you've ever wondered what makes a champion Bounce has the answer. What are the real secrets of sporting success & what lessons do they offer about life? Why doesn't Tiger Woods choke"? Why are the best figure skaters those that have fallen over the most & why has one small street in Reading produced more top table tennis players than the rest of the country put together. Two-time Olympian & sports writer & broadcaster Matthew Syed draws on the latest in neuroscience & psychology to uncover the secrets of our top athletes & introduces us to an extraordinary cast of characters including the East German athlete who became a man & her husband
- & the three Hungarian sisters who are all chess grandmasters. Bounce is crammed with fascinating stories & statistics. Looking at controversial questions such as whether talent is more important than practice drugs in sport (and life) & whether black people really are faster runners the mind-bending Bounce is a must-read for the hardened sports nut or brand new convert."
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Barnes Wallis is best known as the 'boffin' behind the famous bouncing bomb used by 617 Squadron to breach the Ruhr dams in 1943 but his work covers a far wider canvas. It ranges from airships through novel aircraft structures & special weapons to long-range supersonic aircraft & an extensive patent portfolio. This book describes the huge breadth of Wallis's work showing how his genius brought totally new ideas into these various fields & revealing the science & engineering expertise that he deployed to make them work. Extensive use of illustrations
- both line artwork & photographs
- demonstrates the concepts involved.

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Bound for Glory" is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny cynical earthy & tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town of the Depression that followed & of his subsequent travels in on & under trains in stolen cars & on his feet round an America going rotten from the top downwards." ...

Saucy goings-on in the world of highbrow academia makes for a wildly entertaining sexy story... When university lecturer Hazel Jones takes in the most popular of her female students as a lodger she expects a procession of attractive men to follow. What she doesnt expect is Tiggys diary to be left out every day. Sharing her house with this shameless young woman encourages Hazel to realise whats missing in her own rather dull academic life. Knowing what Tiggy gets up to she is unable to resist reading it. Its not quite what she expects but the revelations in the diary quickly lead her down a path she never expected to take. ...

At a local vampire club someone is beheading the clientele & the peace the Guardians are meant to maintain is getting shaky. Human & vampire fatalities escalate & Riley Jenson
- a rare hybrid of werewolf & vampire
- finds herself struggling to make sense of the murders & in particular her main suspect: the club's owner Dante Starke & his powerful sexual aura. & if things weren't bad enough she's also torn between her love for Quinn & her connection with the unpredictable werewolf Kye
- her soulmate. With the city on the verge of all-out war Riley must not only capture the killer but choose between the man she loves & the man she's destined to be with.


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The full-size edition of this inspiring Zondervan title has sold nearly 1 million copies. The Gold Medallion award-winning Christian book by two psychologists whove written a number of self-help guides offers a realistic compassionate plan for setting healthy boundaries with family friends & co-workers. ...

With his sly little moustache broad gap-toothed grin garish waistcoats & ostentatious cigarette holder Terry-Thomas was known as an absolute bounder both onscreen & off. Graham Mc Canns hugely entertaining biography celebrates the life & career of a very English rascal. Born in 1911 into an ordinary suburban family Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens set about transforming himself at a very early age into a dandy & a gadabout. But he did not put the finishing touches to his persona until the mid-1950s with his groundbreaking TV comedy series How Do You View? a forerunner of The Goon Show & Monty Python. Terry-Thomas went on to carve out a long & lucrative career in America appearing on TV alongside Judy Garland Bing Crosby & Lucille Ball & in Hollywood movies with Jack Lemmon Rock Hudson & Doris Day. He became every Americans idea of a mischievous English gent. After a long battle with Parkinsons disease he died in 1990 in comparative obscurity but his influence lives on. Basil Brush was a polyester tribute to Terry-Thomas & comedians including Vic Reeves & Paul Whitehouse hail T-T as a role model. Dandyism is the product of a bored society DAurevilly observed. Terry-Thomas cocked a snook at the dull sobriety of post-war Britain with his sly humour. As he would say himself: Good show! ...

Boundless" is a book about facing challenge & fear both in the wilderness & at home. Karens first book " If You Fall" is about recovering from the rock-climbing accident that paralysed her & about returning to adventures & embracing change. " Boundless" is a very different book & tells the stories of the biggest challenges Karen has faced yet beginning with a 600 kilometre crossing of the Greenland icecap on a sit-ski a month long journey across one of the worlds great expanses of wilderness. This journey led Karen to a bold decision to return to the rock & a week-long climb suspended on the kilometre-high overhanging face of El Capitan using just her arms in over 4000 pull-ups. " Boundless" isnt a book about expedition heroics but one that offers a view of lifes challenges & the profound effects of wilderness. Karens adventures show just what is possible when heart & mind are set to something." ...

Why settle for a same-old wedding bouquet that matches the tablecloths at the catering hall? With a few key techniques some fresh flowers & Bouquet Chic any bride can create her own magnificent wedding bouquet that makes a truly personal statement. Author Kimberly Aurora Kapur urges readers to be inspired by the bride's gown & jewellery sleek contemporary looks for both flowers & embellishments the location of the wedding & unique colour choices. Kapur's designs are beautiful romantic & feminine blossoming with unusual styling striking colours & unconventional details such as jewelled inserts feathers shells & sumptuous ribbons. An overview of essential techniques plus step-by-steps & how-tos make this the one book every bride needs to make her day unique. ...

This is anatomically correct Bourgerys monumental & unsurpassed treatise. We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy" which was not only a massive event in medical history but also remains one of the most comprehensive & beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830 having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871) a student of the French painter Jacques Louis David. The first volumes were published the following year but completion of the treatise required nearly two decades of dedication; Bourgery lived just long enough to finish his labor of love but the last of the treatises eight volumes was not published in its entirety until five years after his death. The four parts of Bourgerys treatise cover descriptive anatomy surgical anatomy & techniques (exploring in detail nearly all the major operations that were performed during the first half of the 19th century) general anatomy & embryology & microscopic anatomy. Jacobs spectacular h&-colored life-size lithographs are remarkable for their clarity color & aesthetic appeal reflecting a combination of direct laboratory observation & illustrative research; the images are to this day unsurpassed in anatomical illustration." ...