The Dukan Diet is based on a unique four-step programme. Two steps to lose weight & two steps to keep it off for good. The Dukan Diet Recipe Book will help you stick to the diet by offering over 350 recipes suitable for the all-important weight loss stages. With meal ideas for the protein-only Attack stage & then lots more recipes to keep you on track during the Cruising stage when you can add vegetables to your diet The Dukan Diet Recipe Book shows how you can eat well & still lose weight. Packed with ways to liven up your meals & stave off boredom so that you reach your goal there are even recipes for delicious dressings & sauces & a selection of mouth-watering desserts. The Dukan Diet is devised by Dr Pierre Dukan a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently. The diet was a word-of-mouth bestseller in France & has now been adopted by twenty countries & translated into ten languages. For more information visit www.dukandiet.co.uk ...

Discover the first & only food in the world that can be considered a natural weight loss ingredient. In this book Dr Dukan reveals the secrets behind his magic ingredient: oat bran. Oat bran is a key component of The Dukan Diet the unique 4-step programme which combines two steps to lose your unwanted weight & two steps to keep it off for good. Not only does it reduce hunger it also helps to reduce cholesterol prevent diabetes & cancer as well as aiding digestion. By eating oat bran as part of The Dukan Diet weight-loss programme you can lose the weight you want like millions of others have around the world. Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty-five years clinical experience. Beyond its immense success in France The Dukan Diet has been adopted by more than 50 countries & translated into 25 languages. Many international observers agree that this is the method most likely to put a stop to the worlds weight problems. ...

Driven to uncover the truth about the mysterious death of the woman he loved the Duke of Hawkscliffe will go to any lengths to unmask a murderer. Even if it means jeopardising his reputation by engaging in a scandalous affair with London's most provocative courtesan
- the desirable but aloof Belinda Hamilton. Bel has used her intelligence & wit to charm the city's titled gentlemen while struggling to put the pieces of her life back together. She needs a protector so she accepts Hawkcliffe's invitation to become his mistress in name only. He asks nothing of her body but seeks her help in snaring the same man who shattered her virtue. Together they tempt the unforgiving wrath of Society
- until their risky charade turns into a dangerous attraction & Bel must make a devastating decision that could ruin her last chance at love.

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After enduring two seasons in London Daphne Bridgerton is no longer naive enough to believe she will be able to be marry for love. But is it really too much to hope for a husband for whom she at least has some affection? Her brothers old school friend Simon Basset
- the new Duke of Hastings
- has no intention of ever marrying. However newly returned to England he finds himself the target of the many marriage-minded society mothers who remain convinced that reformed rakes make the best husbands. To deflect their attention the handsome hell-raiser proposes to Daphne that they pretend an attachment. In return his interest in Daphne will ensure she becomes the belle of London society with suitors beating a path to her door. Theres just one problem Daphne is in very real danger of falling for a man who has no intention of making their charade a reality...

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Plantagenet Palliser the Duke of Omnium & former Prime Minister of England is widowed & wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora he works hard to guide & support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers however that his own plans for them are very different from their desires. Sent down from university in disgrace his two sons quickly begin to run up gambling debts. His only daughter meanwhile longs passionately to marry the poor son of a county squire against her fathers will. But while the Dukes dearest wishes for the three are thwarted one by one he ultimately comes to understand that parents can learn from their own children. The final volume in the Palliser novels The Dukes Children" (1880) is a compelling exploration of wealth pride & ultimately the strength of love." ...

In the world of rare books everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract the currency is not money but life. A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumass classic The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid Spains wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso solitary & obsessive is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship the more it leads him back to Dumas. Hes the unwitting protagonist in someones evil plot but is he sleuth or hero Sherlock Holmes or d Artagnan? ...

An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home! Everyone blamed Emilys accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didnt receive the letter until June 28th! by which time Emily was already dead! ...

A facsimile first edition hardback of the Poirot book famously featuring Agatha Christies own dog on the cover. Everyone blamed Emilys accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didnt receive the letter until June 28th!by which time Emily was already dead! To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirots first appearance & to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie. Reproducing the original typesetting & format of the first edition from the Christie familys own archive this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory. ...

As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning he alights upon a letter from an elderly & (as it transpires) exceedingly rich spinster
- Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress & seeking his help but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is 'the incident of the dog's ball'. However what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication
- it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival they discover that she has died apparently of natural causes. But Bob Miss Arundell's devoted wire-haired terrier knows better. & so soon does Poirot. John Moffatt as ever stars as Hercule Poirot & Simon Williams as Captain Hastings. This work comes with music specially composed by Tom Smail.

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This radical treatise on public education has been a best-seller for 10 years! Thirty years of award-winning teaching in New York Citys public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory governmental schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine. In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Dumbing Us Down & to keep this classic current the publisher has renewed the cover art added new material about John & the impact of the book & a new Foreword. ...