If you were to make a list of financial topics that have grabbed the interest of the wider public over recent years then spread betting & foreign exchange trading would surely be near the top. These have both been around for decades but developments in technology & financial markets in the past five to ten years have made them extremely hot topics right now. This book starts by covering the basics of spread betting & explains why it has become such a popular method for trading a whole host of markets. Next the forex markets are explained
- cutting through the jargon to help you understand how they work what makes currency prices move second by second 24 hours a day & how you can trade forex using spread betting. Finally some trading strategies are examined
- approaches that you can put into practise straightaway using spread betting & at a level of risk that suits your own particular circumstances. If you are looking to trade forex then this book provides an expert introduction
- helping you to succeed by avoiding the most common pitfalls of this highly volatile but fascinating market.


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Finding so young & pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian. His captive in spring muslin has more than her rapturous good looks & bandboxes to aid her
- she is also possessed of a runaway imagination...
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When Lou Winter picks up a dog-eared magazine in the dentist's waiting room & spots an article about clearing clutter she little realises how it will change her life. What begins as an earnest spring clean soon spirals out of control. Before long Lou is hiring skips in which to dump the copious amounts of junk she never knew she had. Lou's loved ones grow disgruntled. Why is clearing out cupboards suddenly more important than making his breakfast her husband Phil wonders? The truth is the more rubbish Lou lets go of the more light & air can get to those painful closed-up places at the centre of her heart: the love waiting for a baby she would never have the empty space her best friend Deb once occupied & the gaping wound left by her husband's affair. Even lovely Tom Broom the man who delivers Lou's skips starts to grow concerned about his sweetest customer. But Lou is a woman on a mission & not even she knows where it will end.. . ...

Cyclings spring races are always the most anticipated of the year not only because they herald the start of the season but also because they are brutally difficult & spectacularly unpredictable. Known as the spring classics these one-day races test cyclings toughest riders with the worst conditions imaginable
- sucking mud choking dust leg-numbing sleet fanatic spectators & Europes narrowest most bone-grinding country roads. Clattering through agrarian hamlets on routes established a century ago The Spring Classics" celebrates cyclings most glorious & meaningful history. " The Spring Classics" delves into the stories of Milan
- San Remo Ghent-Wevelgem the Tour of Flanders Paris-Roubaix the Amstel Gold Race La Fleche Wallone & Liege-Bastogne-Liege through hundreds of rare & restored photographs presented in a lavish format. With authoritative text from cyclings expert sportswriters " The Spring Classics" commemorates the riders traditions & secrets of cyclings greatest one day contests. This is the only book to explore the history of the spring classics. The authors are top sportswriters for LEquipe Frances leading sports publication. It features hardback with jacket. It

Includes:: full-colour & black & white photographs throughout."



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Tokyo 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders
- rich provincial familes
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Deep in the murkiest back streets of old London town three children are escaping from an orphanage. But lurking in the fog watching Rose Lily & Ned is a king among villains
- Mack the Knife! A dreadful fate looks certain until from out of nowhere a figure with glowing red eyes appears. He leaps through the air like a firework
- its Spring-Heeled Jack scourge of evil-doers!

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Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 1 helps students to practise: Nouns & verbs Words with similar sound/spelling patterns Position words & Opposites & comparisons. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 2 helps students to practise: Alphabetical order (first & second letters in a word) Classification of words Homophones & Abbreviations. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 3 helps students to practise: sequencing stories & recounts rhymes & limericks riddles & adjectives. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 4 helps students to practise: converting nouns to adjectives by adding 'y' or 'ful' plurals alphabetical order (third letter in a word) & capital letters. ...