OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Have you ever wondered why you feel like youve known someone for years when youve only just met? Why youre so attracted to someone who seems like your complete opposite? How to make your relationships last despite your differences? Linda Goodman seeks to answers these questions perceptively & insightfully. Goodman provides the reader with the means to create their own detailed & unique astrological chart based on time & date of birth. Using her own interpretations of the planetary aspects the reader can compile an individual analysis of how compatible they & their loved ones really are. ...

This title shows the world through Linda's lens. This is a retrospective of Linda Mc Cartney's life & photography. In 1966 during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town & Country" magazine Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the " Rolling Stones" aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band's official photographer & she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock 'n' roll photographer. On May 11 1968 when her portrait of Eric Clapton was featured on the cover of " Rolling Stone" she entered the record books as the first woman to have that honor. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s' musical scene she captured many of rock's most important musicians on film including Aretha Franklin Jimi Hendrix Bob Dylan Janis Joplin Simon & Garfunkel The Who The Doors & the Grateful Dead. In 1967 Linda went to London to document the " Swinging Sixties" where she met Paul Mc Cartney at the Bag 'o Nails club & subsequently photographed the Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul & Linda fell in love & were married on March 12 1969. For the next three decades until her untimely death she devoted herself to her family vegetarianism animal rights & photography. From her early rock 'n' roll portraits through the final years of the Beatles via touring with Wings to raising four children with Paul Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder & Michael Jackson as well as artists Willem de Kooning & Gilbert & George. Always unassuming & fresh her work displays a warmth & feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photographing her children celebrities animals or a fleeting moment of everyday life she did so without pretension or artifice. This retrospective volume
- selected from her archive of over 200 000 images
- is produced in close collaboration with Paul Mc Cartney & their children. As such it is a moving personal journal & a lasting testament to Linda's talent."

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From working the land in Narromine to winning cricket's World Cup three times Glenn Mc Grath has always faced life with fierce determination & an unerring will to succeed despite the odds. Now following his retirement from international cricket Mc Grath tells his complete story
- on & off the field. The man known as ' Pigeon' won his baggy green cap in Perth in 1993 & went on to forge a brilliant career eventually becoming cricket's most successful fast bowler with 563 Test wickets. Mc Grath entered Ashes folklore in 1997 when he destroyed England by taking 8 for 38 at Lords & he even scored a Test half-century with the bat. With leg spinner Shane Warne he formed the most devastating bowling combination in Test history. Glenn Mc Grath's most meaningful achievements however have been off the field. With his wife Jane he established the Mc Grath Foundation a major funder for & supporter of breast cancer sufferers. Here in their own words the Mc Graths discuss their battles with the disease & Jane's tragic death. Line & Strength is the tell-all story of an Australian country boy who took on the world.
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In 1916 in the middle of the First World War two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them. Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge. The deal they struck which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Cordiale drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier. Territory north of that stark line would go to France; land south of it to Britain. Against the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries Britain & France would rule. The creation of Britain's 'mandates' of Palestine Transjordan & Iraq & France's in Lebanon & Syria made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty years. Through a stellar cast of politicians diplomats spies & soldiers including T. E. Lawrence Winston Churchill & Charles de Gaulle A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain & France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs & the Jews & ultimately led to war between the British & the French in 1941 & between the Arabs & the Jews in 1948. In 1946 after many years of intrigue & espionage Britain finally succeeded in ousting France from Lebanon & Syria & hoped that having done so it would be able to cling on to Palestine. Using newly declassified papers from the British & French archives James Barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life & reveals for the first time the stunning way in which the French finally got their revenge. ...

A huge critical success on first publication in 2004 the novel went on to win that years Man Booker Prize. It was adapted for television & broadcast on BBC2 in 2006. It is the summer of 1983 & young Nick Guest an innocent in the matters of politics & money has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald an ambitious new Tory MP his wealthy wife Rachel & their children Toby & Catherine. As the boom years of the mid-80s unfold Nick becomes caught up in the Feddens world while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty -- a prize as compelling to him as power & riches are to his friends. In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning & bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis & Cormac Mc Carthy Alice Sebold & Helen Fielding Graham Swift & Alan Hollinghurst. Years later Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction non-fiction & poetry from across the globe. Discover more at picador.com/40 ...

The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess.. .and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks & seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance while Orlandine a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology seeks a weapon of appalling power & finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika scientist & Dragon expert is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity & dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebuss attacks are not so indiscriminate after all & could very well herald the end of the Polity itself.. . ...

Any student of linear algebra will welcome this textbook which provides a thorough treatment of this key topic. Blending practice & theory the book enables the reader to learn & comprehend the standard methods with an emphasis on understanding how they actually work. At every stage the authors are careful to ensure that the discussion is no more complicated or abstract than it needs to be & focuses on the fundamental topics. The book is ideal as a course text or for self-study. Instructors can draw on the many examples & exercises to supplement their own assignments. End-of-chapter sections summarise the material to help students consolidate their learning as they progress through the book. ...