The Weather Watcher's 3-Year Log Book offers the opportunity to record your own daily observations
- in as much or as little detail
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Meet the Royal Baby & of course Nanny who looks after the Royal Baby & the all-important Royal Nappy Cabinet! A funny warm look at the royal nappy through history
- from Henry VIII to the present day & a very special new arrival... Find out where the royal nappies are made the different kinds for every occasion (parachuting nappies say or shiny nappies for palace floors
- whee!) & what happens when the royal nappies.. .run out!

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Four years ago the Second Sea Lord of the Royal Navy asked Andrew St George to spend time with every level of the Navy staff from junior sailors in the engine room of an aircraft carrier to handlers of landing craft through to Royal Marines ships commanders & Royal Navy staff right up to Navy Board & Cabinet level with the aim of creating a book which distils the leadership culture of perhaps the most highly respected & efficient organization in the world. This book charts that journey
- representing the largest piece of research on Royal Navy leadership ever done
- & it is the current state of the art leadership framework for the Navy. St George writes about how to plan & execute how to exercise judgment & how to motivate people. Everything in the book is here because it works tested over thousands of hours of hard training rigorous assessment & absolute measurement. The books messages are deceptively simple. In order to succeed we must have: the clarity of intent; the strategy; the resources; a contingency plan; an emotional investment. These tenets stand in all walks of business & personal life. The Royal Navys way of getting things done depends on soft skills high emotional intelligence & an understanding of how people work in small teams. This book (15 000 copies) will be issued to every Royal Navy officer & Senior Rate (middle manager) in the Service. The books insights are profound & their applications are wide-ranging: for industry for finance for professional services for commerce for academia & for the public sector these methods of planning executing & inspiring make a tried tested & effective way of leadership.

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From Eltham & Greenwich to the east of the capital & the Tower of London Buckingham Palace Whitehall & Westminster in the centre to Hampton Court & Kew to the west Londons magnificent royal palaces past & present have always been places of beauty & power. Some remain working institutions & living homes; others have acquired new functions as show houses of history & art; all have remarkable tales to tell. Sumptuously illustrated throughout The Royal Palaces of London is the first major survey to bring together the stories of these buildings & the characters events & art that have filled their grand spaces & intimate corners from the Norman Conquest to modern times. ...

Create magical scenes in the Ben & Hollys Little Kingdom Royal Picnic Magnet Book". This delightful childrens magnet book contains all of your favourite characters from the magical television show " Ben & Hollys Little Kingdom". Join Ben Elf & Fairy Princess Holly on a Magical picnic in this wonderful magnetic adventure. Read the story & put the magnets on the pages to complete the scenes. From the Makers of Peppa Pig! Discover more childrens books from " Ben & Hollys Little Kingdom" including: " Hollys Magic Wand Sticker Book" " The Toy Robot" " Gastons Messy Cave" " Noisy Elf" & many more." ...

As a magician your greatest reward is to astonish & perplex your audience
- using just a simple pack of cards. & to do that you
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The distinguished reputation & specialist knowledge of the Royal School of Needlework are combined in this colourful & inspirational introduction to the most popular hand embroidery techniques. A detailed introductory section provides all the practical information needed for setting up & finishing pieces of embroidery selecting your design fabric & treads & preparing & framing up for working. The next four chapters examine the popular techniques of silk shading gold work crewelwork & black work all introduced with a historical overview & a comprehensive stitch glossary. Each stitch technique features four exquisitely worked embroidery projects with step-by-step instructions & photographs explaining their development & stitching. The 16 projects include a Jacobean leaf sampler in crewel work an Iris in blackwork a tree bark design in silk shading & a sampler in goldwork. Royal School of Needlework: Embroidery Techniques is an essential guide to stitching for embroiderers
- it is a valuable source of reference & a beautiful book for the needlecrafters library.
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Fully Updated Sixth Edition
- Over 1 800 000 Copies Sold Over 5 000 Over-The-Counter & Prescription Medicines Extensive Information
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The wedding of Prince William & Kate Middleton helped reclaim the fashion cred of Britains royal family ushering in a generation of hip but genial personalities that appeal to every age & station. But royals have been setting fashion trends for centuries. This fascinating overview of aristocratic icons reaches back to the middle age & from Europe to the Middle East to profile the most renowned promoters of elegance & style ever to don their empires crowns. Author & royals watcher Luise Wackerl juxtaposes the fifteenth-century Duke of Burgundys penchant for black with Elizabeth Is taste for virginal white. She presents historys first It Girls": Marie Antoinette Louisa of Prussia Empresses Sisi of Austria & Eugenie of France. She relates how Queen Victorias sorrow & propriety transformed her country & how an impeccably styled Americans love for Edward VIII upended the British monarchy. From the irreproachably elegant styles of Grace Kelly to Lady Diana Jordans Queen Rania to Princess Letizia of Spain we move on to the newest icons: couture-loving Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece Princess Marie of Denmark & Princesses Beatrice & Eugenie of York whose faces & party antics grace the tabloids on a weekly basis. Hundreds of photos & a lively text make this irresistible reading for anyone interested in fashion royalty & the lively intersection of both worlds." ...

The Royal Yacht Britannia criss-crossed the world seven times during her 43 years of service & remains the only ship in the world whose Captain by tradition was always an Admiral. The Queens floating palace the one place in which she can truly be at ease has hosted four Royal honeymoons promoted British industry worldwide
- & provided shelter for a group of Aden refugees. Royal biographer Brian Hoey has been granted access to the State Apartments & compiled this affectionate tribute of the most famous ship in the world with the co-operation of her officers & crew. The full story is told here in this updated Diamond Jubilee edition from 1951 to the present day chronicling what life was really like onboard Britannia.
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