The fully revised & updated 2012 edition of the Man United Miscellany is essential reading for fans in the red half of Manchester. Written by respected football journalist Andy Mitten editor of popular fanzine United We Stand this goldmine of information reveals all manner of facts feats & stories from the proud history of one of English footballs most famous clubs. A rich source of quirky trivia the book explains how Old Trafford & the Stretford End took their names tells the story behind the clubs most famous terrace chants & reveals how the future James Bond nearly came to be on its books too. In addition it also relives Uniteds greatest comebacks introduces the die-hard fan who changed his name in honour of the club &

Includes:: special chapters celebrating the wit & wisdom of legends Sir Matt Busby Eric Cantona George Best & Sir Alex Ferguson. Alongside these meticulously researched entries are biographical sections on other club heroes like Duncan Edwards Bobby Charlton Bryan Robson Roy Keane & Denis Law as well as detailed season-by-season records to satisfy even the most ardent of statisticians. With its extensive array of facts feats & anecdotes to chew over this labour of love is the perfect Christmas present for the Man United fan in your life
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Every day thousands of animals die in laboratory experiments. Some say these experiments provide essential scientific knowledge while others will do anything to prevent them. James & Lauren Adams are stuck in the middle. They're CHERUB agents. Trained professionals with one essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

Man Walks Into A Bar is a one-stop shop for anyone who likes to hear & tell jokes. The jokes are ordered thematically
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Man Walks Into A Bar 2" is the second volume of the hugely popular joke series
- a one-stop shop for anyone who likes to hear
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Did you hear about the scarecrow that won the Nobel Prize? He was outstanding in his field. What kind of cheese can hide a horse? Mascarpone. What about the red ship & the violet ship that collided at sea? Over one hundred sailors were marooned. Did you hear about the paranoid vegetarian? He always feared the wurst. A blonde Essex girl walked into a bar with an Englishman & Irishman & a Scotsman & started to change the lightbulb. The barman asked Is this some kind of joke?. This is the third in the bestselling series of hilarious joke books
- packed full of every kind of joke to make you laugh until your sides split. From elephants to mothers-in-law priests to chickens knock knock to doctor doctor & much more besides A Man Walks into a Bar 3" contains over 2 500 great new gags. Even Queen Victoria would be amused."
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THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944 Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp E715 near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there & he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate & smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions & experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldn't bring himself to revisit the past but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story
- a tale as gripping as it is moving
- which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral & physical courage are almost beyond belief.

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THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944 Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp E715 near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there & he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate & smuggled himself into his sector of the camp. He spent the night there on two occasions & experienced at first-hand the cruelty of a place where slave workers had been sentenced to death through labour. Astonishingly he survived to witness the aftermath of the Death March where thousands of prisoners were murdered by the Nazis as the Soviet Army advanced. After his own long trek right across central Europe he was repatriated to Britain. For decades he couldnt bring himself to revisit the past that haunted his dreams but now Denis Avey feels able to tell the full story
- a tale as gripping as it is moving
- which offers us a unique insight into the mind of an ordinary man whose moral & physical courage are almost beyond belief.

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This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell one of the greatest scientists of our time & yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century
- & his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century.
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In 2008 Mark Beaumont smashed the world record for cycling around the world by an astonishing 81 days. His race against the clock took him through the toughest terrain & the most demanding of conditions. In 2009 Mark set out on his second ultra-endurance challenge. & this one would involve some very big mountains. The Man Who Cycled the Americas" tells the story of a 15 000 mile expedition that once again broke the barriers of human achievement. To pedal the longest mountain range on the planet solo & unsupported presented its own unique difficulties. But no man had ever previously summited the continents two highest peaks Mt Mc Kinley in Alaska & Aconcagua in Argentina in the same climbing season let alone cycling between them. Oh & Mark had never even been up Ben Nevis before. Full of his trademark charm warmth & fascination with seeing the world at the pace of a bicycle Mark Beaumonts second book is a testament to his love of adventure his joy of taking on tough mental & physical feats & offers a thrilling trip through the diverse cultures of the Americas." ...

On 15 February 2008 Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days & 17 hours previously he had begun his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than 18 000 miles on his own through some of the harshest conditions one man & his bicycle can endure camping wild at night & suffering from constant ailments. The Man Who Cycled the World" is the story not just of that amazing achievement but of the events that turned Mark Beaumont into the man he is today. From the early years of his free-spirited childhood in the Scottish countryside to present day he has been equally determined not to settle for an average existence but to break free & follow his dreams." ...