Packed full of the most amazing facts & unusual-but-true tales this new book celebrates all that is weird & wonderful in our world today. Featuring a wealth of amazing images throughout Ripley's Believe It or Not! Simply Shocking! is a 384-page extravaganza featuring among many others the man who pulled a minibus along with his eyelids the extreme sportsman who kayaked down a 120-ft waterfall the office chair racing championships a dentist with no hands & a surfing rat! Illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs this book is a must-have for anyone intrigued by the weirder aspects of our planet & its inhabitants. ...

Packed full of fascinating facts & strange tales about unbelievable but totally true stories this new book celebrates the remarkable & the bizarre in our world today. Ripley's Utterly Crazy!" is a 384-page extravaganza featuring a wealth of breathtaking images & amazing individuals. Be shocked & amazed at the extraordinary feats & incredible tales. Marvel at the Electric Man who can power lightbulbs & fry fish with his bare hands a jet-powered bar stool a man with bright blue skin & cats that glow in the dark! Illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs this book is a must-have for anyone intrigued by the weirder aspects of our planet & its inhabitants." ...

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. ...

Twenty years have passed since Stefan Salvatore last saw his brother Damon. Now living in a remote town in England Stefan is finally able to start over. But when news from London reaches Stefan of a brutal killer on the loose who goes by Jack the Ripper Stefan suspects that the murders are the work of a vampire...his brother. Full of dark shadows & surprising twists the fourth book in the Stefan's Diaries series raises the stakes for the Salvatore brothers as they face new loves old treacheries & unimaginable threats. ...

Suzy & her two best friends Lucy & Alexa are attending the annual round-up & auction at White Cloud Station. All three girls are desperate to buy horses of their own but unfortunately Suzy is allergic to horses & her father has forbidden her to have one. Suzy falls in love with a curly-coated horse that she desperately wants to buy. However things dont go according to plan when he gets sold to another bidder. ...

When Ember left her home to enter a mysterious order of Knights an order that protects our world from the next she thought she was finding her true home. A family a purpose & most surprising of all love. But that was before. Now the order is on the edge of destruction
- driven apart by someone they trusted the most. With hope fading Ember attempts a desperate escape. But she faces relentless pursuit by supernatural horrors that act on the commands of a mysterious evil. What she discovers in the shadows will shatter their world & bring a divide that will reverberate down the generations...
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Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins & outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister & right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves which Cromwell had arranged led to his swift downfall & execution. In this authoritative biography by an acknowledged expert in the field John Schofield reveals that the popular image of Cromwell as a blood-stained henchman is largely fictional. Detailed research into contemporary sources illuminates his brilliant mind & his love for & patronage of the arts & humanities while short case studies shed new light on his relations with & his reputation among Henry VIII's subjects. In his conclusion Schofield narrates the drama of Cromwell's downfall & highlights the king's posthumous exoneration of the 'most faithful servant he ever had'. ...

One woman's struggle to fit back into her old self. Amy Crane is in crisis. Six months after the birth of her baby Amy still looks pregnant & can't remember the last time she had a wax or an orgasm. Motherhood is stirring up disturbing questions about her own childhood. & she suspects her boyfriend is cheating. Enter Alice yummy mummy superior on a mission to transform Amy's body & love life. As Amy swaps breast pads for Botox & climbs out of a vortex of self-doubt her libido awakens from its long nap & things get rather more complicated.. .A wonderfully well-written funny & sharp novel about the trials of playing hip happy families & the contradictions at the heart of modern motherhood. ...

This book provides a fascinating & stunningly illustrated account of ancient Greece & its classical heritage. It chronicles military & political development in Athens Sparta & other ancient Greek city-states all revealed in magnificent detail. It features a special focus on the life tactics & military campaigns of Alexander the Great one of the most important soldiers the world has ever known. It explains & examines the military techniques & strategies operations & training of the Greek armies. It features over 500 photographs illustrations maps battle plans & fact boxes. The first half of this military & political history details how the Greeks recovered from the collapse of the first Minoan Cretan & Mycenaean civilizations & moved towards democracy. It highlights the Persian Wars shows Athens during the Golden Age before it was wrecked by the wars with Sparta & describes the men & women who made Greeces name resonate down the ages. The second part of the book describes the rule of Alexander the Great a military genius who helped spread Greek culture across half of Asia. Nigel Rodgers shows how Alexanders death without an heir was an irreparable loss & that ultimately his heir turned out to be the Roman empire. With information on weapons & fleets on the tactics of Greek soldiers & the organization of great armies this is a breathtaking analysis of 2000 years of impassioned politics warfare & culture. ...