A new & fully updated edition of the original bestselling survival handbook. Written by ex-SAS survival expert John ' Lofty' Wiseman this book provides the most reliable authoritative & respected survival information on the market. The original survival handbook
- the choice of both survival expert & novice this book is the international bestseller which in the 20 years since it was first published has been often imitated but never bettered. John ' Lofty' Wiseman served in the SAS for 26 years: his knowledge experience & skills are unrivalled in survival circles. He is the first & best expert on survival instruction
- in any situation. In this fully updated edition Lofty imparts his much sought-after survival experience knowledge & timeless techniques
- preparing you for anything anywhere in the world. Updated contents include: Be prepared
- The latest most resilient resourceful & eco-friendly must-have kit On the move
- Up-to-date navigation technologies such as GPS are discussed & explained Health
- The body's physiology explained: how to maximise survival when injured or in any climate on land or at sea. Disaster Survival- Increasingly-changing environmental conditions are addressed: what to do in the face of flash flooding or fast-spreading fire Fear Management
- How to react keep calm & manage hostile environments & survival situation Navigation
- Skills technologies & techniques to use when making your way through unfamiliar terrain Also featuring new case studies & survival scenarios designed to offer fascinating insight into other people's survival experiences & to force you to think about what you would do in their position.







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Im not going to teach you how to survive in snowy mountains with only a tea bag; this book will teach you how to fight & survive war in the 21st century.--Robert Stirling from the Introduction In the tradition of John Lofty Wisemans SAS Survival Handbook" comes a new combat handbook from a seasoned speical forces soldier. Whereas Wiseman initiated hundreds of thousands of readers to the survival techniques developed by the SAS in far-flung covert ops in Burma the Middle East Africa & elsewhere Stirlings focus is on fighting techniques for the contemporary soldier. Stirling a combat veteran of Northern Ireland the Bush Wars in Africa & Afghanistan provides a fully-illustrated training-manual for combat readiness. This is the stuff they dont teach you in boot camp but they damn well should. Stirling writes in a aggressive style that will appeal to the warrior in every reader. He also serves up first-hand anecdotes & advice drawn from operations that went well--and those that went wrong. Table of Contents: Why Do You Need This Book
- Tools of the Soldiers Trade
- Food Shelter & Dealing with Weather
- Medical Aid
- How to Avoid Getting Shot
- How to Avoid Blast Injury
- How to Deal with Suicide Bombers
- How to Deal with Bombs Under the Road
- How to Survive an Interrogation
- Defending a Position
- Attacking the Enemy E-book information forthcoming"









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Winter 1916. In St Petersburg snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful & headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin & her dissolute friends Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy & seduction. Twenty years on Sashenka has a powerful husband & two children. Around her people are disappearing but her own family is safe. But shes about to embark on a forbidden love affair which will have devastating consequences. Sashenkas story lies hidden for half a century until a young historian goes deep into Stalins private archives & uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion & betrayal savage cruelty & unexpected heroism
- & one woman forced to make an unbearable choice.. .
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SASSY The Go-For-It Girl Guide to becoming Mistress Of Your Destiny Do you have any idea what it is like to be that girl? The girl who is totally badass speaks her truth makes money follows her heart & has crazy-mad adventures? The girl who people stop in the street & ask hey g-friend what is your secret? When you are that girl there is no secret. You are SASSY. SASSY from the creatrix of www.sassyology.com is a rather deliciously delightful cocktail of womanly arts make-life-betterness & magickal chutzpah that will switch your I am awesome levels to maxim-o. You will find ways to seek passion & pleasure to dig on your sweet self & to know your fabulosity. You will be inspired beyond measure by interviews & insights from divine Daring Dames like Pleasure Provocateur Sam Roddick & Queen of Burlesque Immodesty Blaize & most importantly you will learn how to conjure up & invoke whatever it is you want in life all while dancing to your very own beat & wearing completely inappropriate footwear. ...

Gripping & tense story of secret agents even more secret government facilities & a deadly virus from the acclaimed master of action & suspense. HELL IS ABOUT TO BE UNLEASHED... Five strands of high-voltage wire 200 yards of bare ground & double barbed wire fences patrolled by armed guards with dogs separated Mordon Research Centre from the outside world. Yet behind the locked doors of E block a scientist lies dead & a new toxin of terrifying power has vanished... ...

Called The Black Pope" by many of his followers Anton La Vey began the road to High Priesthood of the Church of Satan when he was only 16 years old & an organ player in a carnival: " On Saturday night I would see men lusting after halfnaked girls dancing at the carnival & on Sunday morning when I was playing the organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives & children asking God to forgive them & purge them of carnal desires. & the next Saturday night they'd be back at The carnival or some other place of indulgence."I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy & that man's carnal nature will out!" From that time early in his life his path was clear. Finally on the last night of April 1966--Walpurgisnacht the most important festival of the believers in witchcraft--La Vey shaved his head in the tradition of Ancient executioners & announced the formation of The Church Of Satan. He had seen the need for a church that would recapture man's body & his carnal desires as objects of celebration. " Since worship of fleshly things produces pleasure " he said "there would then be a temple of glorious indulgence... "" ...

The Satanic Bible was written by Anton La Vey in 1969. It is a collection of essays observations & basic Satanic rituals & outlines La Vey's Satanic ideology. It contains the core principles of La Veyan Satanism & is considered the foundation of the philosophy & dogma that constitute Satanism. ...

Praise for the first edition: It is a wonderful source of information & has the merit of going straight to the subject being technically precise although very easy to underst&. There are numerous pictures photographs diagrams which make the reading a real pleasure." --European Broadcasting Union Technical Review " The complexity of a satellite newsgathering system could be a four-month long college course with a high tuition rate & an enrolment number so large you have to watch your professor on a TV screen. Jonathan Higgins might have saved the independent learner a few attendance point deductions by fitting it into one book." --Satellite Broadband magazine An ideal introduction for anyone working or interested in satellite newsgathering (SNG). The new edition of this popular book builds upon the success of the first--an important & valuable work that is extermely easy to read comprehensive in its treatment & detailed where necessary. SNG used to be an immensely complex & expensive affair where broadcasting organizations were at the mercy of an expert who sat in a lonely corner until needed. Things have changed--everyone in a global news organization needs to know about it now. This is not only because of the high costs of mistakes but because now even non-technical journalists on the ground have to operate their own equipment. Learn the skills basics of equipment cutting edge technology & critical safety issues of satellite newsgathering." ...

A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom. Sugamo Prison Japan October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or naked kill he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom he feels it now as never before... Overseen by Haverford his American spymaster he must go to Beijing & kill the Soviet Unions commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept. Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom & if so at what cost? & can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori
- the possibility of true understanding & harmony with the world?
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All primary schools are required to administer SATs (National Tests) in English & maths at the end of KS1 & KS2. The use of optional tests in the other years is also becoming increasingly popular especially with the continuing pressure on schools to perform well in the Primary School league tables. This photocopiable book provides three complete tests with accompanying guidance & answers. The tests are set out to mimic the real thing & so are ideal for the practice & consolidation in the run up to the tests which take place in May each year. ...