Part of Penguin's" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked & cast adrift Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion & fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters
- with the crude giants of Brobdingnag the philosophical Houyhnhnms & brutish Yahoos
- give Gulliver new bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire views mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished magnified & finally bestial species presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves."

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The standard text on the identification of the northern hemispheres gulls this book covers the plumage variation through age & subspecies of all 80 species in the region. With exhaustive coverage detailed maps & superb plates & photos this book remains the definitive work on these birds which represent the trickiest of all ID challenges. ...

Eating is the most pleasurable gross necessary unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs & enema exorcists stomach slugs rectum-examining prison guards & competitive hot dog eaters (how much can you eat before your guts burst?)- as she investigates the beginning & end of our food. ...

When Jonas finds a gun left from a shooting he takes it home. He cant wait to show his mates Kamal & Binny who reckon they can use the gun to bolster their own street cred. But when Kamal starts to use the gun in robberies Jonas realises its only a matter of time before someone gets hurt
- Gritty urban story.
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The amazing story of one of the Few fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. This is a fighter pilots story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting
- to 249 Squadron. Nineteen years old fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which the survival of Britain was to depend. By the end of the year he had shot down 13 enemy aircraft seen many of his friends killed injured or burned & was himself a wary & accomplished fighter pilot.
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This biography draws heavily on the personal diaries of the subject Robert Hichens (or Hitch as he was universally known). After a brief description of his early life time at Oxford his motor racing achievements (including trophies at Le Mans in his Aston Martin) & RN training the book focuses on his exceptional wartime experiences. Hitch was the most highly decorated RNVR officer of the war with two DSOs three DSCs & three Mentions in Despatches. He was recommended for a posthumous VC. We read of his early days in vulnerable minesweepers & the Dunkirk Dynamo operation (his first DSC). In late 1940 he joined Coastal Forces serving in the very fast MGBs soon earning his own command & shortly after command of his Flotilla. He was the first to capture an E-Boat. His successful leadership led to many more successes & his reputation as a fearless & dynamic leader remains a legend today. The book contains detailed & graphic accounts of running battles against the more heavily armed E-boats. Tragically he was killed in action in April 1943 having refused promotion & a job ashore. This book is on the Royal Naval College Dartmouth official reading list. ...

The main objective of this fascinating book is to train the trainer to ensure that he or she produces a socially acceptable dog that all members of the family including the children can enjoy both as a well-mannered confident companion & as a competent working gundog. ...

With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard An invaluable new strategy for creating enthusiastic employees from the author of the bestselling The One Minute Manager. Every day thousands of uninspired employees trudge to work
- often dooming their companies to failure with their lack of enthusiasm. Drawing on over 20 years experience of working with hundreds of corporations across the US
- including America Online Eastman Kodak General Motors Hershey Chocolate & Microsoft
- Blanchard reveals a sure-fire strategy for boosting employee enthusiasm productivity & performance. Gung Ho! presents a simple system for inspiring employees. Based on three core ideas: work must be seen as important workers must be put in control of their own production & managers must cheer their workers on
- it is a method that all employees & managers can easily implement & which has already been adopted by such major corporations as K-Mart.



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A contemporary of Walter Gropius & Le Corbusier Gunnar Asplund pursued a unique architecture that displayed a blend of classical tradition vernacular architecture & Modernism. Above all he achieved a sensitive understanding of the relationship between architecture & its surrounding landscape & it is such contributions that have made him recognized as Swedens leading architect of the twentieth century. His abilities are amply demonstrated in masterpieces like the Woodland Cemetery. This comprehensive monograph

Includes:: extensive new colour photography as well as many original drawings. It was produced in collaboration with the archives of the Swedish Architectural Museum in Stockholm. There is no other book currently in print dedicated solely to the work of Gunnar Asplund.

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If the First World War had not happened when it did Channel Islander Clarence Ahier would almost certainly have led a mostly unremarkable life. But it did & in October 1915 aged just 23-years-old Clarence left his home & volunteered to join the British Army. He would spend the next two & half years serving as an artilleryman on the Western Front. Now this in itself is not remarkable
- millions of other young men did the same thing. But Clarence Ahier did do something remarkable & it was something to set him out from almost all his contemporaries. From the very beginning of his time at the front he wrote a graphic & moving account of his experiences of war. Clarences ultimate plans for his meticulously written journal are unknown. But having lain unnoticed for years it was recently discovered in a collection of dusty ephemera handed to a local history society. The complete journal consists of around 25 000 words with a focus on Clarences experience during the Battle of the Somme in the fighting around Ypres & after he was wounded for the second time the journey to India & his time there as a member of the garrison. This will be supported by additional explanatory text.
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