* The Encyclopedia of the Unexplained is a comprehensive guide to the mysterious & strange whether natural or unnatural. Even with todays hi-tech science many events & ancient mysteries such as crop circles ghosts the Holy Grail & the Nazca Lines remain unexplained with many theories stirring the imagination. Some famous enigmas such as The Bermuda Triangle have now been explained by science but still hold an allure of mystery. The Encyclopedia of the Unexplained will also uncover some of our ancient superstitions & symbols from why black cats are lucky to how Feng Shui is supposed to change life for the better. ...

Whether you are an experienced jewellery-maker looking to move up to the next level or a complete beginner The Encyclopedia of Wire Jewellery Making Techniques" is an invaluable resource. Using this book you can: learn how to manipulate wire to create elegant structural designs for earrings rings pendants necklaces tiaras & brooches with clear illustrated instructions; combine wire with beads & stones through threading & wrapping for an intricately embellished look; have fun experimenting with different types of wire from precious metal to electrical & recycled wires; & progress from basic wire-working skills to more advanced techniques such as making linked jump-ring chains simple soldering & using chemicals to alter the wire finish." ...

A spectacular new pop-up masterpiece about dinosaurs from two best-selling creators! Featuring more than 35 stunning pop-ups ...

This third & final volume of the bestselling Encyclopedia Prehistorica" series tackles the furry titans of the ancient world. Fearsome sabre-toothed cats bears taller than basketball hoops & everyone's favourite Ice Age giant the woolly mammoth come to life through 35 astounding pop-ups. Full of captivating facts this is the ultimate book for monster-lovers to tear into!" ...

Ian Kershaws The End" is a gripping revelatory account of the final months of the Nazi war machine from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945. In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side & its rulers cut a deal with the victors if only in an attempt to save their own skins. In Hitlers Germany nothing of this kind happened: in the end the regime had to be stamped out town by town with an almost unprecedented level of brutality. Just what made Germany keep on fighting? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skins? & why did ordinary people continue to obey the Fuhrers suicidal orders with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for desertion or defeatism? Named Book of the Year by the " Sunday Times" "TLS" " Spectator" " Sunday Telegraph" " Daily Mail" & " Scotland on Sunday" Ian Kershaws " The End" is a searing account that takes us into the heart of the Third Reichs final months laying bare the fear & fanaticism that drove a nation to destruction. " Nuanced & sophisticated.. .undoubtedly a masterpiece". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Gripping yet scholarly.. .the best attempt by far to answer the complex question of why Nazi Germany carried on fighting to total self-destruction". (Antony Beevor " Telegraph"). " Masterly... Kershaws gripping & boldly intelligent work of scholarship.. .will surely become the standard account of the Nazi systems terrible final phase". (" Financial Times"). " Brilliant.. .utterly terrifying". (" Sunday Times" Books of the Year). Ian Kershaw (b. 1943) was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield from 1989-2008 & is one of the worlds leading authorities on Hitler. His books include " The Hitler Myth" his two volume biography " Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" & " Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" & " Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941". He was knighted in 2002." ...

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery & despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on... The End". This book is the last in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" & even if you braved the previous twelve volumes you probably cant stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm a suspicious beverage a herd of wild sheep an enormous bird cage & a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents." ...

Aurelio Zen is posted to Calabria where in the heart of a tight-knit traditional community there has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence & uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world
- a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre & deadly obsession.
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Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria at the toe of the Italian boot. & beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence & uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world
- a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre & deadly obsession. Michael Dibdin has crafted another suspenseful action-packed thriller full of unexpected twists & turns through the dark corners of the human heart.
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The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while...A few weeks later George Marshalson lives every father's worst nightmare: he discovers the murdered body of his eighteen-year-old daughter on the side of the road. As a man with a strained father-daughter relationship himself Wexford must struggle to keep his professional life as a detective separate from his personal life as husband & father. Particularly when a second teenage girl is murdered
- a victim unquestionably linked to the first
- & another family is shattered...

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The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil & the everyday & caused a major controversy when it was first released in the US. The story centres on the correspondence of two paedophiles: one the narrator is a middle-aged child-killer serving his twenty-third year in prison; the other his bl&-speaking sweet-seeming admirer is a nineteen-year-old woman intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Slowly through these letters the narrator's monstrous character emerges. ...