Ted Wallace is an old sour womanising cantankerous whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet & drama critic but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper months behind on his alimony payments & disgusted with a world that undervalues him Ted seeks a few months repose & free drink at Swafford Hall the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted... ...

Hippopotamus had a spotamus.. .on her bottomus! Its Measles!" said Weasel. " Its Hippopox!" said Fox. " Its Jungle Fever!" said Beaver. But in the end the spotamus turned out to be something hilariously unexpected." ...

Was Jesus a Freemason? The discovery of evidence of the most secret rites of Freemasonry in an ancient Egyptian tomb led authors Chris Knight & Bob Lomas into an extraordinary investigation of 4 000 years of history. This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisations most cherished beliefs: Were scrolls bearing the secret teachings of Jesus buried beneath Herods Temple shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans? Did the Knights Templar the forerunners of modern Freemasonry excavate these scrolls in the twelfth century? & were these scrolls subsequently buried underneath a reconstruction of Herods Temple Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland
- where they are now awaiting excavation? The authors discoveries shed a new light on Masonic ceremony & overturn our understanding of history.
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Hire with Your Head Updated with new case studies & more coverage of the impact & importance of the Internet in the hiring process this indispensable guide has shown tens of thousands of managers & human resources professionals how to find the perfect candidate for any position. Lou Adler's Performance-based Hiring is more powerful than ever! We have chosen Performance-based Hiring because it's a comprehensive process it's behaviorally grounded managers & recruiters find it easy to use & it works." -Marshall Utterson Director Staffing AIG Enterprise Services LLC " Everyone's looking for the perfect means to make effective hiring decisions. A trained interviewer armed with the right tools is the best solution. Performance-based Hiring is a proven methodology to get these results." -John Ganley Vice President & Chief Talent Officer Quest Software " Any staffing director that doesn't send all of their people through Performance-based Hiring training is missing out on top talent plain & simple. This should be the standard throughout the industry." -Dan Hilbert Recruiting Manager Valero Energy Corporation " Performance-based Hiring has been the most successful recruitment tool that we have added to our organization over the past few years. In fact these tools have not only produced amazing outcomes-in terms of selecting the best fit in an extremely tight labor market-but with a level of success among our operations customers that I have rarely seen with other HR products." -Trudy Knoepke-Campbell Director Workforce Planning Health East (r) Care System" ...

Gost is surrounded by mountains & fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of the windows glass darkened with dirt today stands open & the lively chatter of English voices carries across the fallow fields. Laura & her teenage children have arrived. A short distance away lies the hut of Duro Kolak who lives alone with his two hunting dogs. As he helps Laura with repairs to the old house they uncover a mosaic beneath the ruined plaster & in the rising heat of summer painstakingly restore it. But Gost is not all it seems; conflicts long past still suppurate beneath the scars. ...

Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century more than 100 000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Hiroshima Nagasaki tells the story of the tragedy through the eyes of the survivors from the twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to the wives & children who faced it alone. Through their harrowing personal testimonies we are reminded that these were ordinary people given no warning & no chance to escape the horror. American leaders claimed that the bombings were our least abhorrent choice & fell strictly on military targets. Even today most people believe they ended the Pacific War & saved millions of American & Japanese lives. Hiroshima Nagasaki challenges this deep-set perception revealing that the atomic bombings were the final crippling blow to the Japanese in a stratgic air war waged primarily against civilians. ...

From their first meeting at the student union over a decade ago Jim & Alison successfully navigated their way through first dates meeting parents moving in together & more... Then they split up & divided their worldly goods (including a sofa a cat & their flat) into his n hers. Now three years on & with new lives & new loves they couldnt be happier. Until a chance encounter throws them back together & causes them to embark on a journey through their past to ask themselves the big question: where did it all go wrong & is it too late to put it all right? ...

Men are endlessley mystified about the contents of a womans handbag their wardrobe & what they read in their magazines...equally women dont understand a mans need for gadgets power tools & their obession with sport.the His & Hers board game is a celebration of our differences as seen through everyday things. Divide your friends into single sex teams & have some fun celebrating what makes a woman a woman & a man a man. Contents:- Playing Board- 2 x Playing Pieces- 400 cards- Instructions ...

THE OTHER MAN IN HER LIFE... He was her late husbands best friend the man shed been warned to avoid
- the man shed always found
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Holiday fling
- to wedding ring? A&E specialist Dr Alyssa Jones breathes a sigh of relief as she looks out over the waving
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