The village of Campodimele in the Aurunci Mountains has been called the village of eternal youth by the scientific community after a study revealed the astonishing longevity of its inhabitants. The average life expectancy of the Campomelani is 95 compared to the European average of 75 for men & 82 for women. Not only do the villagers live to an extraordinary age but they also enjoy healthy & active lives at an age when many people in the UK have succumbed to general infirmity or the three major plagues of Western life: cancer heart disease & diabetes. How do they do it? Tracey Lawson decided that the only way to find out was to spend some time living in the village herself. This book chronicles twelve months in the life of Campodimele focusing on the seasonal cooking & eating habits that doctors believe are the key to the villagers long lives. There are insights from such colourful characters as Gerardo who still zips down to the wheat fields on his aged scooter & Maria who is often seen chasing hens up the hill on her 83-year-old legs as well as a years worth of timeless simple recipes that will seduce even the busiest urbanite. With full-colour plate sections to show off the wealth of gorgeous photography A Year in the Village of Eternity is at once a Mediterranean cookbook a sensible & inspiring food manual & a stunning unique travel book; a winning cross between Under the Tuscan Sun & Jamies Italy with a dash of You Are What You Eat. ...

A Year of Adventures is the inspirational planning tool to take you all around the world in pursuit of action. Discover a whole range of extraordinary experiences including snow biking in France volcano boarding in Nicaragua kayaking with orcas in Canada & sailing the Whitsunday Islands. Choose from over 250 experiences in 115 countries some to challenge you some to enjoy at a leisurely pace & catering to all fitness levels. After all adventure doesnt need to mean hardship. Be inspired & plan a year to remember! -Organized by month & week to allow you to plan the best adventure at the best time of year. -Country & Activity indexes provide easy access: search by the destination of your next holiday or by the adventure you want to experience. -
Includes: links for further information on adventure events throughout the book.
...

Judith OReilly author of the hugely popular blog & book Wife in the North" embarks on a year long social experiment in the witty "A Year of Doing Good". Fed up of New Years resolutions involving diets & exercise abandoned on January 2nd Judith is attempting to be good. For one whole year. She embarked on a mission to do one good deed every day. Some called it a social experiment. At times she called it madness. Juggling family friends & a variety of neighbours in the small Northumberland village she calls home she recounts the ups downs moments of doubt & sheer bloody hard work of doing good. From the small
- babysitting a friends child clearing up her neighbours dead mice & feeding her friendship cake Herman the German to the slightly larger
- trying to raise GBP10 000 for charity with her Jam Jar Army & teaching a severely handicapped child to write
- she describes what she learns along the way: that no good deed is too small & that being good makes you happy. Well most of the time. A " Year of Doing Good" inspires the reader with the day-to-day journey of meaning gratification & joy that comes from contributing to the lives of others in so many creative ways. For those who want to put "do unto others" in the centre of their lives & reap the unexpected benefits of happiness & health this is the book for you. Elegantly written the words jump off the page by Stephen G. Post Ph D author of " The Hidden Gifts of Helping". "I howled with laughter tears of recognition at every bloody page. My only problem with this book was choosing who to pass it on to first". (Jenny Colgan author of " Amandas Wedding on Wife in the North"). Judith OReilly is a writer & journalist. Her first book Wife in the North was based on her blog of the same name & was a bestseller. Her second book a novel is living in a drawer. Her third book is this one. She is married with three children & for one year she tried to be good."


...

The Guide to the Worlds Greatest Happenings A Year of Festivals" takes you around the world in pursuit of festivals in all their flamboyant color & variety. Discover music camel races feats of endurance manic street parties & monumental food fights! From the sublime (Venices Carnevale or Indias Krishna Janmastami) to the absurd (Finlands Wife-Carrying Championships or Australias Beer Can Regatta)
- the best of the famous & little-known alike are represented here. Be inspired & plan a year to remember! Organized by month & week to help you to plan a great festival experience at any time of year. Country & Festival indexes allow you to also search by the destination of your next vacation or by the name or theme of the festival you want to experience.

Includes:: essential planning tips & contacts for further information on events throughout the book."


...

Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult
- & potentially controversial. Was it enough
...

A superb work of literary fantasy. In a truly original imagined world of breathtaking sometimes surreal beauty fifty utterly ...

The sun brightens in the east reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood ? a manmade plague ? has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren a young dancer trapped where she worked in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls in town); & Toby who watches & waits from her rooftop garden. Is anyone else out there? ...

In 1959 British agents masterminded the escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. Three years later Paul Chavasse is doing it all over again...A vitally important scientist holding intelligence that could shift the balance of world power is being held in China. British secret agent Paul Chavasse responsible for extracting the Dalai Lama from under Chinese noses is the perfect man to slip through the border locate the scientist & bring him back to the West. But Chavasse's nerve stamina & loyalties will all be tested as he finds the Chinese are reluctant to let their asset go without a fight... ...

It had never been the best of marriages & over recent years it had become effectively a marriage in name & outward appearance only. Yet in the autumn of 1960 Winifred & Daniel Coulson presented an acceptable facade to the outside world for Daniel had prospered sufficiently to allow them to live at Wearcill House a mansion situated in the most favoured outskirt of the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Of their children it was Donald on whom Winifred doted to the point of obsession & now he was to be married Winifreds prime concern was whether Donald was entering wedlock with an unbesmirched purity of body & spirit for amidst the strange workings of her mind much earlier conceptions of morality & the teachings of the Church held sway. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House but when that explosion came it was in a totally unforeseeable & devastating form plunging the Coulsons into an excoriating series of crises out of which would come both good & evil as well as the true significance of The Year of the Virgins"..." ...

Get Close To The Worlds Most Amazing Animals Every week of the year something astounding happens in the animal kingdom. A million wildebeest trek 800 km across the Serengeti; killer whales surf Argentinean beaches; lizards fly like paper planes in the jungles of Borneo; 10 million puffins descend on Iceland; & the worlds biggest feeding frenzy takes place off the coast of South Africa. A Year of Watching Wildlife" shows you where when & how to take part in the natural worlds greatest happenings
- be inspired & go wild! Organized by month & week to help you plan the years wildlife adventures
Includes: essential planning tips & links to more information about each encounter Country & animal indexes allow you to search by destination or by animal"

...