The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759-1796) one of the most popular poets is celebrated in 2009. A pioneer of the Romantic movement works such as A Red Red Rose" "A Man's a Man For A' That" & the ubiquitous " Auld Lang Syne" have made him an international figure. Naxos Audio Books' popular " Great Poets" series marks the anniversary with a CD bringing together all the key works." ...

Robert Capa" is one of four new titles published this September in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed Photofile series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format & at an easily affordable price. Hailed by " The Times" as finely produced the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some sixty full-page reproductions together with a critical introduction & a full bibliography." ...

A pop-up book that lets you load & tip a dumper truck or plough a field with the tractor. It shows why giant cranes dont fall over & figures out how bulldozers flatten roads. From farms & factories to quarries & building sites it covers 28 big machines. ...

A guidebook for walking in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson as he travelled through France's Velay & Cevennes regions from Le Puy to St Jean de Gard accompanied by his faithful donkey Modestine. At 140km this route is ideal for people new to walking holidays. Early one morning in the autumn of 1878 Stevenson set out from the sleepy village of Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille to traverse the Velay & Cevennes & his account of his trek has long captured the imagination of walkers & lovers of literature alike. Today the RLS Trail has become a classic route across the hills & along the valleys of this delightful region of rural France. The route which is well served by accommodation of all types is divided into 12 day-stages in the guide so that the Trail easily fits into a fortnight's holiday. The book

Includes:: details of the facilities for the traveller & places of interest en route together with a detailed route description & an account of Stevenson's adventures with Modestine. For those with more time available trails that link the beginning & end of the route are also described making it possible to walk all the way from the historic town of Le Puy to Ales. Packed with snippets of fascinating information about this historic region the guide is also of use to cyclists & motorists keen to trace a parallel road route following in the footsteps of Stevenson & Modestine.

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On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. Hes brutally killed & his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to carry tons of chemicals to create biological weapons of mass-destruction. The President cannot let the ship reach its destination
- a rogue Middle East nation. But he doesnt want the navy to attack & board it either because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. Covert-One operative Jon Smith is brought in to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Then an agent is murdered & vital evidence destroyed. Smith must find the truth about the ship a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...
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Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA Martin Lindros who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear material. Bourne agrees to help track the money trail of the terrorists but soon suffers from confusing flashbacks of unfamiliar places & events. Is someone brainwashing him in order to throw him off the trail? Worse still is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Now Bourne is on his own
- gathering evidence while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA...
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When Jason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake he discovers that the man is not only freezing
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University professor David Webb
- forever caught between two identities
- is still haunted by the splintered nightmares his

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Jon Smith is attending a W.H.O. conference in The Hague on infectious diseases & wakes in his hotel room to find a man aiming a gun at him. Smith neutralizes the shooter & finds three pictures in the assassins pocket: one of an unknown woman one of Peter Howell his friend & a former agent with Britains MI6 & one of him. When Smith tries to leave the hotel he encounters a second group of terrorists in the process of attacking it. The hotel is not the only target in The Hague. Within minutes of Smiths narrow escape bombs go off at the train station airport & at the headquarters of the International Court of Justice where a Pakistani warlord Oman Dattar is being held while he is tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos Dattar escapes. Dattar has learned of a new strain of bioelectric bacteria that can grow electrical wires as a form of cilia. These cilia connect with another metallic source & can transmit & transport themselves via electric current. These bacteria are carried to the W.H.O. conference in preparation for an international consortium of biologists convened to study them along with other strains of deadly bacteria. Dattar arranges for his men to steal the bacteria & use them to bring down the West once & for all. Can Jon Smith stop him? ...

In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics the once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed & the intelligence agents involved have all disappeared without a trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt. Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For unbeknownst to the world at large the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions & forever change the nature of the world. ...