The extraordinary character & career of Saladin are the keys to understanding the Battle of Hattin the fall of Jerusalem & the failure of the Third Crusade. He united warring Muslim lands reconquered the bulk of Crusader states & faced the Richard the Lion Heart king of England in one of the most famous confrontations in medieval warfare. Geoffrey Hindley's sympathetic & highly readable study of the life & times of this remarkable many-sided man who dominated the Middle East in his day gives a fascinating insight into his achievements & into the Muslim world of his contemporaries. Geoffrey Hindley is a distinguished medieval historian who has written widely on many aspects of the period. He has made a special study of medieval warfare & of sieges in particular. His previous books include Castles of Europe Medieval Warfare England in the Age of Caxton Under Siege Tourists Travellers & Pilgrims The Book of Magna Carta & The Crusades. His most recent publications are is A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons & Medieval Siege & Siegecraft. ...

As Redwall slumbers in the summer sun it is unaware that the mountain stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the weasel army of Ferahgo the Assassin & that the deadly Dryditch fever is creeping towards the Abbey. But the sword of Martin the Warrior sends Samkin & Arula from Redwall over forest swamp & great waters to try & save Salamandastron from being turned into a centre of evil power... ...

Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher & soccer coach at a girls' private school
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Sales guru Jeffrey Gitomers bestselling classic is now available in paperback Jeffrey Gitomers Sales Bible was listed as one of The Ten Books Every Salesperson Should Own & Read" by the Dale Carnegie Sales Advantage Program. Now completely revised this book is available for the first time in paperback. The Sales Bible has helped tens of thousands of salespeople all over the world reach their potential & close the big deal. Gitomer gives sales professionals the right answers to the toughest questions:* How to make sales in any economic environment* Twenty-five ways to get that most-elusive appointment* Top-down selling* How to fill the sales pipeline with prospects ready to buy* How to use the right questions to make more sales in half the time* This book is everything its title claims to be" ...

The classic features & benefits" sales approach is dead. To sell today you must add value provide perspective & show customers ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Shes bored of nice
- its time to be naughty. Sally Lomax is 25 & bored of being homely & predictable so shes decided to give the
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This is a heartwarming story about a little girl who learns an important environmental lesson. When Sally pulls a limpet off a rock at the beach it sticks to her finger
- & nothing she her family or her friends do can unstick it. Sallys teacher says that limpets live on the same rock for twenty years. So will Sally ever get the limpet off her finger?
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Think Bridget Jones meets Moby Dick. I knew we were in trouble the moment our knickers which are pegged to the mast started flapping in completely the wrong direction writes Sally. & so begins her epic ocean adventure. With no rowing experience & certainly no sea-going experience Sally Kettle took to the oars in her ocean rowing boat Calderdale in 2003. Fate however had other plans & when illness beset her then boyfriend & team-mate she was joined on-board by an unlikely partner Sarah Kettle her mother. After years of arguments & misunderstandings they set off from the Canary Islands in a boat the size of the average bathroom with nothing to do but row watch whales & grow cress. They passed the hours with the kind of chit-chat that only girls are capable of discussing the merits of a good pair of cotton knickers playing eye spy & reading stories to each other at bedtime. When they landed in Barbados 105 days later they became the worlds first mother-&-daughter pair to row an ocean having rowed 3 000 miles across the giant Atlantic to the West Indies. In the course of their row they raised over GBP250 000 for an epilepsy charity & earned their place in the Guinness World Records 2008. It brought them closer together & in the confines of their tiny boat Sally & her mother managed finally to reconcile their past. Sallys Odd at Sea" is an inspiring hilarious & real-life account of a daughter & mothers exceptional journey across the high seas & Sallys subsequent attempt to cross the Atlantic as skipper of the all-girl Rowgirls team." ...

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones a fisheries scientist
- for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric
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