Veteran globetrotter Phoebe Smith sets out to prove that outdoor adventures are available in the UK which rival anything found elsewhere in the world. In this sometimes scary frequently funny & intriguing journey around the country Phoebe attempts to discover & conquer its wildest places. From spending the night in the decaying wreckage of a World War Two bomber at Bleaklow to pitching next to the adrenaline-inducing sheer drops of Lizard Point Phoebe's extreme sleeps defy her perceptions of the great outdoors & teach her about herself along the way. ...

The ultimate Su Doku challenge from Wayne Gould the man who started it all. Wayne Gould is widely recognised as the leading authority on Su Doku. As the original creator of The Times puzzles his books have been worldwide bestsellers & he was listed as one of Time magazine's Most Influential People. In Extreme Su Doku Wayne Gould presents his biggest challenge yet to every su doku addict with 120 super-fiendish puzzles to test you to your limits. ...

The ultimate Su Doku challenge from Wayne Gould the man who started it all. Wayne Gould is widely recognised as the leading authority on Su Doku. As the original creator of The Times puzzles his books have been worldwide bestsellers & he was listed as one of Time magazine's Most Influential People. In Extreme Su Doku 3 Wayne Gould presents his biggest challenge yet to every su doku addict with 120 super-fiendish puzzles to test you to your limits. ...

The ultimate Su Doku challenge from Wayne Gould the man who started it all. Wayne Gould is widely recognised as the leading authority on Su Doku. As the original creator of The Times puzzles his books have been worldwide bestsellers & he was listed as one of Time magazine's Most Influential People. In Extreme Su Doku 2 Wayne Gould presents his biggest challenge yet to every su doku addict with 120 super-fiendish puzzles to test you to your limits. ...

Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes famous shipwrecks & ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance & endeavour. The statistics descriptions archive photographs & illustrative maps will give you a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains how Anthony Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War & how Shackleton's men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia. Sixty of the world's greatest survival stories. Here is a selection of them: Survival Stories * The Miracle of Stairway B & how 16 people managed to escape death in the Twin Towers on 9/11. * The infamous story of the Montevideo rugby union team's plane crash in the Andes & their subsequent admission of cannibalism
- 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the crash. Prison Escapes * Mary Queen of Scots & her escape from a remote Scottish castle. * Three men pull off what is possibly the only successful escape from Alcatraz. * Henri Charriere's (Papillon) five escape attempts from the Devil's Island penal colony. Wartime Escapes * The story of Dith Pran the Cambodian journalist who escaped the genocide of Pol Pot. * How the German soldier Cornelius Rost escaped from a labour camp in Siberia & trekked for 3 years to Iran. Shipwrecks * Ernest Shackleton's incredible journey to South Georgia to save every man on an expedition. * The story of 18 year old William Shotton & how he navigated his ship after most of the crew perished from a mystery disease in 1893. Hostage Situations * Naheeda Bi's ten years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan. * The dramatic rescue of Ingrid Betancourt by Colombian security forces after six years as a hostage.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet a couple of years after his father died in 9/11 nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar
- inventor letter-writer & amateur detective
- across New York's five boroughs & into the jumbled lives of friends relatives & complete strangers. He gets heavy boots he gives himself little bruises & he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to or even further from his lost father? Moving literary & innovative perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore & Nicole Krauss Jonathan Safran Foer's " Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock released in 2012. Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of " Everything is Illuminated" which won the National Jewish Book Award & the Guardian First Book award & " Eating Animals" & the editor of "A Convergence of Birds"."

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Looking for something silly weird & flatout idiotic? Look no more! From the magazine that inspired the hit Cartoon Network show comes this new collection of MAD" articles thats guaranteed to make you laugh cry & dance an Irish jig! [ Jig not covered by guarantee]" ...

' If you want to know what the human body can take & why we must continue to push ourselves beyond the limit in the name of exploration then read this book.' Professor Brian Cox In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a 'guinea pig'. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fongs television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a guinea pig. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits where human life is balanced on a knife edge. Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events & pioneering medicine Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat & cold vacuum & altitude age & disease. He shows how science technology & medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world & made it survivable. This is not only a book about medicine but also about exploration in its broadest sense
- & about how by probing the very limits of our biology we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work of what life is & what it means to be human.
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In a race down the Thames Detective Chief Inspector John Kerr is caught in a fight ot the death with two gold smugglers. The American wife of the British Defence Secretary is brutally murdered while walking her dog. A senior judge is executed in Middle Temple Lane. Blocked by 'affirmative inaction' at New Scotland Yard & threats from MI6 Kerr deploys a talented female operative undercover to force the truth.A dirty bomb attack proves the motive is hatred of the United States & the special relationship. But is this domestic extremism or the work of foreign spies? As attacks escalate Kerr confronts treachery & corruption from his own side & resorts to action as extreme as the dark forces turned against him. ...