When Donovan Hohn first heard the remarkable story of how 28 904 bath toys spilled into the Pacific en route to the US from China & have been washing up along beaches throughout the world ever since he decided to find out more & assumed he would interview a few oceanographers talk to some beachcombers & read up on Arctic science & geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far & they carry you away. Setting out on a series of journeys to track the renegade rubber ducks Moby-Duck is an adventure into the heart of the sea through science myth the global economy & some of the worst weather imaginable & the riveting story of an accidental odyssey which pulled Hohn into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates the daring terrain of Arctic researchers the lunatic risks of maverick sailors & the shadowy domain of Chinese toy factories. With each new discovery Hohn learns of another loose thread & with each successive chase he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from (and where it is heading...). In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz & David Quammen Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy & curiosity for anyone who is interested in obsession travel plastic & that great American novel Moby-Dick. ...

Mock the Week is back with the perfect gift for anyone interested in Life the Universe & childish smut. Whether youre seven* or seventy this is the only guide to life that youll ever need.
Includes:: Bad Things to Hear in a Maternity Ward: Were proud of the care the NHS provides for new mothers like you Mrs Jones. Now finish your brandy & bite down on this stick. Unlikely School Reports: Young Adolf is doing very well in the debating society but spends far too much time occupying other pupils desks. Bad Things to Shout During Sex: This is all a bit over-rated isnt it? Unlikely University Courses: French & Saunders (Combined) Unlikely Things to Hear at a Funeral: He wanted this day to be a celebration of his life but I think all of us who knew him would much rather make it a celebration of his death. * Probably best not to give this book to a seven-year-old. Or a seventy-year-old for that matter.
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Mock the Week is back with the perfect gift for anyone interested in Life the Universe & childish smut. Whether you're eight* or eighty* this is the only guide to life that you'll ever need.
Includes:: Bad Things to Hear in a Maternity Ward: ' In an attempt to empathise with my wife I want you to ram this pineapple up my backside.' Unlikely Greetings Cards: Sorry to hear about your mother. (On the plus side you can afford that new house now.) Bad Things to Shout During Sex: ' Did you hear that? Did they just say England are 81 for 5?' Unlikely Things to Read on a Gravestone: Fell asleep on 16 August 2004. Unfortunately whilst driving a truck on the M5. Unlikely School Report Cards: Dear Mr & Mrs Johnson Boris is a very popular & intelligent boy who should go far just as long as he's not put in charge of anything complex. * Probably best not to give this book to an eight-year-old. ** Or an eighty-year-old for that matter.
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The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged & lulled by electronic bliss. Its a world without art reading & children a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth the most perfect machine ever created cannot bear it & seeks only that which he cannot have
- to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion & joy that a man & woman discover in love & in books hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love & the magic of a dream.
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Against all odds Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge... This thrilling final instalment of this ground-breaking trilogy promises to be one of the most talked-about books of the year. ...

This is the final book in the ground-breaking Hunger Games" trilogy. Against all odds Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that shes made it out of the bloody arena alive shes still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. & what worse President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss family not her friends not the people of District 12." ...

Designated driver? Going back to work after lunch? Having a party with lots of teens & tweens or people who just don't want alcohol? When a cocktail isn't the right choice it's time for a mocktail. & there's more than a standard-issue Virgin Mary or a Shirley Temple on the menu here! Top bartender Kester Thompson understands that you can't just forget the tequila in the margarita or the rum in the daiquiri; the flavour won't be right that way. Instead he's whipped up a host of gourmet sensations some meant for the sophisticated palate others designed to please a thirsty child. Choose from a variety of drinks: citrusy ones like Mint Lemonade or Mandarin Orange Chilli & Coriander; 'berry' delicious blasts including an Elder-flower Cordial & tropical temptations as wonderful as a day on the beach
- a Guava Pineapple & Passion fruit mix or a Banana Colada is a sunny treat. Beautiful colour photos throughout provide attractive ideas for serving these mocktails
- so they look as great as they taste.

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Terry Rawlings book perfectly captures the look & soul of Mod. Tracing its roots back to Londons Soho of the Forties he unearths every impulse & expression of the only surviving British youth movemebt that can be looked back on without embarrassment.

Includes:: exclusive interviews & audiences with some of the Mod scenes main movers past & present including Richard Barnes Johnny Moke Graham Hughes Peter Stringfellow Kenney Jones Bobby Gillespie & Mani Mounfield Eddie Piller & Gary Crowley. With chapters on the origins of Mod its music scooters clothes & fashions the beach riots & for the first time the story of the Mod revivals of the late Seventies & beyond. Features hundreds of pictures many gleaned from private collections & never published before.

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Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding all-night-dancing instigators of what became from its myriad sources a very British phenomenon. Mod began life as the quintessential working-class movement of a newly affluent nation
- a uniquely British amalgam of American music & European fashions that mixed modern jazz with modernist design in an attempt to escape the drab conformity snobbery & prudery of life in 1950s Britain. But what started as a popular cult became a mainstream culture & a style became a revolution. In Mod" Richard Weight tells the story of Britain's biggest & most influential youth cult. He charts the origins of Mod in the Soho jazz scene of the 1950s set to the cool sounds of Charlie Parker & Miles Davis. He explores Mod's heyday in Swinging London in the mid-60s
- to a new soundtrack courtesy of the Small Faces the Who & the Kinks. He takes us to the Mod-Rocker riots at Margate & Brighton & into the world of fashion & design dominated by Twiggy Mary Quant & Terence Conran. But Mod did not end in the 1960s. Richard Weight not only brings us up to the cult's revival in the late 70s
- played out against its own soundtrack of Quadrophenia & the Jam
- but reveals Mod to be the DNA of British youth culture leaving its mark on glam & Northern Soul punk & Two Tone Britpop & rave. This is the story of Britain's biggest & brassiest youth movement
- & of its legacy. Music film fashion art architecture & design
- nothing was untouched by the eclectic frenetic irresistible energy of " Mod"."





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