'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture'
- Sunday Times". Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire
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Enjoy a professional makeover & a fashion photoshoot. Pick your favourite image from the shoot to be placed on your very own personalised front cover of Cosmopolitan the UK&8217;s favourite women&8217;s magazine. You&8217;ll be pampered like a celebrity from the moment you arrive at the photo studio & begin your incredible experience
- which will leave you looking & feeling truly amazing. Imagine what your friends will say when they see you as a Cosmopolitan cover girl!
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* Spacecraft missions to nearby planets * The Library of ancient Alexandria * The human brain * Egyptian hieroglyphics * The origin of life * The death of the sun * The evolution of galaxies * The origins of matter suns & worlds The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter & life into consciousness of how science & civilisation grew up together & of the forces & individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible & exciting. ...

The magnificent vault of stars emblazoning Earth's night skies are but an infinitesimal fraction of the hundreds of billions that inhabit our galaxy
- & there are at least as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way. Cosmos makes sense of this dizzying celestial panorama by exploring it one step at a time illustrating the planets moons stars nebulae white dwarfs black holes & other exotica that populate the heavens with some of science's most spectacular photographs. The book opens with an orbital survey of planet Earth before venturing into the solar system heading for interstellar space & the heart of our galaxy. As the journey unfolds the rhythms of stellar life emerge: we pass through dark clouds of dust & gas ablaze with newly smelted stars & we witness dying stars bloom & fade as planetary nebulae or tear themselves apart as supernovae. Having crossed the Milky Way we enter intergalactic space. Out here we watch the hidden lives of galaxies: we see them flock & cluster forming massive conglomerations that span millions of light years visibly warping space with their tremendous gravity. After covering an almost unimaginable 13.4 billion light years we approach the edge of space & the dawn of time where our voyage must end but not before we consider how the universe was born & how it might die.
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Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. The maps also contain a comprehensive index & inset city maps of Valencia Murcia & Alicante. The map scale is
- 1: 300 000.

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A guidebook to walking in Spain's Costa Blanca area north & west of Benidorm. The rugged mountains of the Costa Blanca offer wonderful walking in a landscape of pinnacled ridges enormous crags & shady pines. Orange & almond groves enhance the valleys whilst attractive mountain villages provide hospitality offering a taste of the real Spain far removed in character from the developed coastal strip. The walks are described in two books which split roughly into west (book 1) & east (book 2). This book volume 1

Includes:: walks in: Sierra Aitana Monte Ponoch Puig Campana Val de Arc the Benidorm Area
- Sierra Helada Sierra Cortina Sierra Serrella / Aixorta Val de Algar Val de Galinera / Forada the north-west Sierras & outlying areas. Two multi-day walks are also included
- the Gallinera Way & Costa Blanca Mountain Way.



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Marco Polo maps feature completely up-to-date digitally generated mapping. The high quality cartography with distance indicators & scale converters aid route planning.

Includes:: 3 city plans: Barcelona Girona & Tarragona. A fold-out overview map is ideal for route planning & 7 self-adhesive Marco Polo mark-it stickers can be used to pin-point a destination or route for future reference. Scenic routes & places of interest are highlighted
- ideal for touring holidays. Comprehensive index. The map scale is 1: 200 000.


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Ever since the collapse of the extradition treaty with the UK in the late 1970s Spain's southern coastal strip of the Costa Del Sol has been a safe haven for criminals. The adventures of drug smuggler Howard Marks the $6 million Security Express raid of 1983 involving Ronnie Knight & Clifford Saxe & the road rage murder by Kenneth Noye are just some of the dramatic stories in this thrilling compilation. But Spain's unique status became a thing of the past when the government agreed to reinstate the treaty allowing them to fast-track extraditions. These days drug dealers are forced to make runs over to the tip of Africa in nearby Morocco some meeting gruesome ends at the hands of rivals & unscrupulous property barons who hatch dubious deals to provide homes for the rapidly expanding population much of which is made up of UK ex-pats. This is the fascinating history of the criminals' favourite playground. ...

This exquisite book of photographs brilliant in colour & enchanting in subject takes readers on a personal journey through the bejeweled treasure that is Costa Rica. Images of spacious beaches muddy river banks crystal clear waterfalls & lush jungles adorned with tropical blooms & prehistoric plants will stay in the readers mind for a long time to come. Representing 13 years of the authors field work in Costa Rica the photographs & text bring the exotic island to life. The book is organized by region
- the Central Divide Guanacaste the Central Pacific the Osa Peninsula the North Caribbean the South Caribbean
- with descriptions of wildlife botany & ecology. It closes with a discussion on conservation & responsible tourism. All of the photographs bear extended captions which like a well-informed tour guide provide interesting facts & valuable context. Highlights on the journey include Arenal one of the worlds most active volcanoes Tortuguero National Park where a lone jaguar trots across the sand giant tree ferns
- evolutionary relics that predate flowering plants
- in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve a blood-scarlet passion flower emerging through leaf litter a partially submerged crocodile its riveting stare fixed on the photographer & poison arrow frogs vividly painted in deadly reds blues & greens. Overflowing with brilliant page-filling photographs & informative text this book is as close as one can get to Costa Rica without getting on a plane.



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