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| "The Great British Bake Off: How to turn everyday bakes into showstoppers" |
| "The Great British Bake Off is a glorious celebration of Britain's favourite pastime As the series has shown us baking is the perfect way to mark an occasion - to celebrate to congratulate and reward and to lift spirits This new book is inspired by the wonderful creations from The Great British Bake Off 'Showstopper Challenge' Covering a wide range of bakes from large and small cakes biscuits and cookies sweet and savoury pastry puddings breads and patisserie this book will show you how to bake beautiful enticing recipes to wow at every occasion There are dainty cupcakes for afternoon tea quick bakes perfect for bake sales school fairs or coffee with friends mouthwatering desserts breads and pastry recipes for lunches and dinner parties and some really special bakes for birthdays and festive celebrations throughout the year This recipe book will show you how to make your bake extra special from exciting finishes using chocolate curls and ribbons and spun sugar to simple ideas for icing shaping and decorating so you can bring a touch of magic to any bake Great British Bake Off also includes the 'Best of the Bake-off' - the finest recipes from the new set of Great British Bake Off amateur bakers and all of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood's Technical Challenges from the series If you learned How to Bake from last year's cook book Showstoppers will take you to the next level of skill and combined with a dazzling new design and superb photography this will be an irresistible gift for yourself or someone else"
Price: 17.49 |
| "Play Bridge in 10 Minutes" |
| "Fancy yourself as a bridge player? This essential little book will show you how - in just 10 minutesIntroduces the basic rules and techniques for bidding declarer play and defenceUseful bridge-table diagrams and quirky illustrations help the information stick Bridge can sometimes look incredibly complicated and opaque But that really isn't the case it is a very easy game to learn By the time you've read this invaluable little book you'll be equipped with all the knowledge you need to take your partner and play your first game In clear easy-to-follow text backed up with useful diagrams and illustrations the author shows you exactly how bridge works including bidding defence declaring and trumps The book then goes on to more advanced strategies including how to use your opponent's bidding to your advantage and discusses the finer points of etiquette and conduct during a bridge game Armed with the information in this book you can go on to become a star bridge player - in double-quick time!"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Everything You Know About Art is Wrong" |
| "A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history In the intriguing outrageous and often provoking world of the visual arts nothing is quite as it seems From the world's first intance of photobombing in 1843 to the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Mars the destruction of Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers during World War II and the GBP3500 sheet of paper crumpled into a ball Everything You Know About Art is Wrong will confound your assumptions about the world of art - and perhaps even the place of art in the world"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Rules of Association Football, 1863 : The First FA Rule Book" |
| "The Rule Book of The FA from 1863 is one of the most important books ever published - according to the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg Drawing on his recently published work he explains in the Introduction why this book is one of the Twelve Books that Changed the World (Hodder & Stoughton April 2006) Published to coincide with the World Cup in June 2006 this unassuming little book sets out the thirteen original rules as first written down by a group of frustrated former public school men at the Freemason's Tavern in Lincoln's Inn Fields Every rule is accompanied by images from the hand-written manuscript preserved at The FA which records the first time that anyone put pen to paper and wrote down the fundamental tenets of football such as the definition of a free kick or the length of a regulation football pitch When these rules were originally published it became possible for everyone everywhere to play the same game and it was this that enabled the beautiful game' to become the worldwide force it is today As Sir Bobby Charlton explains in the foreword the fourteen original rules embody the essence of the game and instil admiration for the honesty courage and skill of its players These rules have not simply made it possible to play football; they embody its spirit and heritage The book is officially endorsed by The FA and supported by a publicity initiative backed by The FA"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Engineering : A Beginner's Guide" |
| "Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world McCarthy details the development of the discipline explains what makes an engineering mind and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered from gadgets to our national infrastructure Long considered tinkerers problem solvers and visionaries engineers hold the keys to our real and virtual future"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Classical Music : A Beginner's Guide" |
| "What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? With such a rich tradition what relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore the field and examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality emotion the weight of history and self identity"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones St Hilda's College Oxford First published in 1900 Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century Set in the Malay Archipelago the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance but also an exotic tale of the East Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of conscience of moral isolation of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit In this novel Conrad draws on his background as Polish emigre as well as his first-hand experience as a seaman to experiment radically with the presentation of human frailty and doubt in the modern world"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Collected Short Stories of Saki by Hector Hugh Munro (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's' Saki (HH Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire irony and the macabre in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried This collection includes Sredni Vastor and The Unrest Cure We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'"
Price: 3.99 |
| "Tales from the Arabian Nights by Wordsworth Editions Ltd (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night This is the background to the Arabian Nights In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp the Enchanted Horse the Princess Badoura Sinbad the Sailor and the great Caliph of Bagdad Haroun-al-Raschid The stories are beautifully illustrated by HJ Ford"
Price: 2.99 |
| "What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Katy Carr is untidy tall and gangling and lives with her brothers and sisters planning for the day when she will be beautiful and beloved and amiable as an angel An accidental fall from a swing seems to threaten her hopes for the future but Katy struggles to overcome her difficulties with pluck vitality and good humour"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "With an Introduction by Derek Matravers Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France it differs from that great work in every relevant respect Where Burke uses the language of the governing classes Paine writes with the vigour of a self-taught mast-maker and exciseman With passionate and rapier wit Paine challenges Burke's assertion that society cannot be judged by rational standards and found wanting Rights of Man contains a fully-costed budget advocating measures such as free education old age pensions welfare benefits and child allowance over 100 years before these things were introduced in Britain It remains a compelling manifesto for social change"
Price: 3.99 |
| "Three Sea Stories" |
| "Editedand with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man the edge of his temper and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret stuff of his pretences not only to others but also to himself' In Typhoon Conrad's funniest story Captain MacWhirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea's treachery violence and terror Falk is desperate to get married but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica The Shadow-Line is a poignant and beautiful story Written during the First World War and based on Conrad's fond evocation of his own first command it expresses his solidarity with all who were obliged to cross in early youth the shadow-line of their war-torn generation Includes a glossary of nautical terms"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Winslow Boy" |
| "Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946 The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college having been accused of petty theft Enraged his father Arthur engages a lawyer to challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court - but public opinion is very much against the Winslows and each member of the family is sufferingThis edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato a biographical sketch and a chronology"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends by Paul Moorhouse (Hardback, 2017)" |
| "Hodgkin&39;s art can be seen as providing memorials for people many of whom are friends whose absence is countered by the corresponding physical presence of particular paintings Descriptive elements visible in his earlier portraits from the 1950s are subsumed within paintings that have over the course of more than fifty years become more psychologically charged but no less connected with evoking specific individuals in particular situations This book like the exhibition it accompanies surveys the development of Hodgkin&39;s portraiture from its beginnings in 1949 to the present including new paintings Comprising key works from a range of international public and private collections it traces the evolution of the artist&39;s visual language and his engagement with a range of friends and others within the artist&39;s circle Exhibition curator Paul Moorhouse provides a compelling introduction to Hodgkin&39;s portraits his subjects working methods the role of memory and his distinctive approach to representing people Peter Blake Stephen Buckley Patrick Caulfield David Hockney Philip King R B Kitaj and Richard Smith are among the many leading artists portrayed so that the British art world emerges as the wider subject of Hodgkin&39;s art The book also contains a fully illustrated chronology and commentaries on individual work"
Price: 19.99 |
| "Events Management by William O'Toole, Johnny Allen, Glenn A. J. Bowdin, Ian McDonnell, Rob Harris, Glenn Bowdin (Paperback,..." |
| "Events Management is the must-have introductory text providing a complete A-Z of the principles and practices of planning managing and staging events The book introduces the concepts of event planning and management presents the study of events management within an academic environment discusses the key components for staging an event covering the whole process from creation to evaluation examines the events industry within its broader business context covering impacts and event tourism provides an effective guide for producers of events contains learning objectives and review questions to consolidate learning Each chapter features a real-life case study to illustrate key concepts and place theory in a practical context as well as preparing students to tackle any challenges they may face in managing events Examples include the Beijing Olympic Games Google Zeitgeist Conference International Confex Edinburgh International Festival Ideal Home Show and Glastonbury Festival Carefully constructed to maximise learning the text provides the reader with a systematic guide to organizing successful events examining areas such as staging logistics marketing human resource management control and budgeting risk management impacts evaluation and reporting fully revised and updated content including new chapters on sustainable development and events perspectives on events and expanded content on marketing legal issues risk and health and safety management a companion website for lecturers and students which includes PowerPoint slides extra case studies and multiple choice questions to aid both teaching and learning"
Price: 37.99 |
| "A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Hardback, 1993)" |
| "This brilliantly coloured tale of the French Revolution is an historical romance set in Paris and London Famous for the character of Sidney Carton who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine&39; it is a far far better thing I do than I have ever done &39;- the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution illuminated by Dickens&39; lively comedy"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives by Laura Whitworth, Phillip Sandahl, Henry Kimsey-House, Karen..." |
| "THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE COACHING FIELD FOREVERUsed as the definitive resource in dozens of professional development programs Co-Active Coaching teaches the transformative communication process that allows individuals from all levels of an organization - from students to teachers and direct reports to managers - to build strong collaborative relationshipsWith the first edition the authors of Co-Active Coaching earned their place at the forefront of the coaching profession Now this fully revised third edition of their classic work extends the use of their pioneering Co-Active model - which emphasizes a partnership between client and coach - into leadership management throughout an organization This new edition has been updates to include fresh coaching examples the latest in coaching terminology and an expanded web-based 'Coach's Toolkit'"
Price: 16.49 |
| "How God Sent a Dog to Save a Family" |
| "Emma and Alex have had nothing to eat all day and there is no food in the kitchen or the store cupboard Their mother has no money to buy food and all that she can do is pray that somehow someone will send them something to eat But in the morning something is scratching at the door and the children go out to investigateFind out who or what it is and discover how God has answered the families' prayers Read other stories too about flying bread Martha's Raven and the Stolen Sleigh You will find out about how God cares for us and about how Children can believe in him Scriptural references are taken from the King James Version of the Bible and the questions are based on this Suitable for 7-12 year olds"
Price: 4.99 |
| "101 Rules of Thumb for Sustainable Buildings and Cities by Huw Heywood (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "People across the world are becoming more aware of the need for the buildings and cities they live and work in to be sustainable but the issue of how to be sustainable can seem a confusing and complex one These rules of thumb provide universal guidelines for the sustainable design of both buildings and the urban realm It's a global primer and textbook for anyone interested in understanding sustainability in the built environment an ideal starting point for students as well as an aide memoir for more experienced readers and practitioners interested in this field"
Price: 18.49 |
| "Devised and Collaborative Theatre: A Practical Guide by The Crowood Press Ltd (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "This text is written for all companies student and professional who are interested in non-text-based theatre and aims to shine a practical light on the passionate business of the devising process Suggestions and advice include getting started and developing trust and communication within the devising company how to research and use the results to stimulate ideas and discussion in the rehearsal period and encouraging channelling and developing ideas in the rehearsal room Discovering and incorporating the unexpected in rehearsal and how to stop talking start playing and develop the performance for an audience is explored is also explored In addition backstage and design work complete with sample checklists raising money and organizing budgets is also covered"
Price: 11.99 |
| "British Web Equipment of the Two World Wars by Martin J. Brayley (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare However the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to an American officer named Anson Mills and the skills of the company created to produce his design - the 1908 equipment set made in woven cotton web By the outbreak of WW2 the British infantry had new 1937 pattern equipment whose design reflected a new generation of weapons and tactics This proved unequal to the special demands of jungle warfare in the Far East so 1944 saw yet another set of kit In this book the author offers collectors and students of militaria a detailed review of these infantry equipments which spanned the British soldier's combat experience throughout most of the 20th century"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Yorkshire Dales: Landscape and Geology by Tony Waltham (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The first in an exciting new series that tells the story of some of Britain's most beautiful landscapes Written with the general reader - the walker the lover of the countryside - firmly in mind this opens the door onto a fascinating story of ancient oceans forests shallow seas and ice Over millions of years the stunning limestone landscape has been laid down at the bottom of tropical seas deformed by movements in the earth's crust and shaped giant glaciers and in our own time the simple effects of rivers and rain water"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence by Peter Burke (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence By reviewing the many varieties of images by region period and medium and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (eg the Bayeux Tapestry an engraving of a printing press a reconstruction of a building) Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are 'reflections' of specific historical meanings and influences He also shows how this assumption can be problematic Traditional art historians have depended on two types of analysis when dealing with visual imagery iconography and iconology Burke describes and evaluates these approaches concluding that they are insufficient Focusing instead on the medium as message and on the social contexts and uses of images he discusses both religious images and political ones also looking at images in advertising and as commodities Ultimately Burke's purpose is to show how iconographic and post-iconographic methods - psychoanalysis semiotics viewer response deconstruction - are both useful and problematic to contemporary historians"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Gin : A Global History" |
| "Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort - the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever The drink then made its way to Britain where cheap imitations laced with turpentine and other caustic fillers made it the drink of choice for poor eighteenth-century Londoners Eventually replaced by the sweetened Old Tom style and then by London Dry gin was introduced to the wider world by means of the British Empire and during the Jazz Age became a mainstay of a new drinking culture the cocktail Today classic cocktails like the Gimlet and the Negroni are embraced by drinkers who enjoy a new breed of modern gins and gin has reclaimed pride of place in the world of mixology Gin A Global History will attract both cocktail aficionados and lovers of food history as it chronicles gin's evolution from cheap liquor to modern alcoholic marvel"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Mission Survival 2: Way of the Wolf by Bear Grylls (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "MISSION SURVIVALLOCATION The Alaskan mountainsDANGERS Blizzards; grizzly bears; white-water rapidsA fatal plane crash A frozen wilderness The world's youngest survival expert is in trouble again Beck Granger must find help across the mountains - but even if he survives the deadly cold can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail?The second book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert BEAR GRYLLS"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Daisy and the Trouble with Giants by Kes Gray (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Fee Fi Fo Fum! What has Daisy gone and done?! Daisy has decided she wants to meet a REAL giant! If Daisy met a real giant he'd pick Daisy up and put her on his shoulder and they'd have giant adventures! They'd eat crunchy creams as big as tractor tyres and if she got thirsty they'd have giant lemonades out of giant straws It would be sooooo gooood! Trouble is if you want to meet a giant you need a magic bean And finding magic beans can be troublesome The trouble with giants is they really shouldn't live at the top of magic beanstalks If giants didn't live at the top of magic beanstalks then Daisy is convinced that she wouldn't have got into big trouble AGAIN!"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Angelica Sprocket's Pockets" |
| "Angelica Sprocket lives next door Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in themPrepare to be surprised thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket's never-ending pockets and the marvellous things she keeps in them"
Price: 5.99 |
| "All Year Round : Calendar of Celebrations, A" |
| "All Year Round is brimming with things to make activities stories poems and songs to share with your family It is full of well-illustrated ideas for fun and celebration from Candlemas to Christmas and Midsummer's day to the Winter solsticeObserving the round of festivals is an enjoyable way to bring rhythm into children's lives and provide a series of meaningful landmarks to look forward to Each festival has a special character of its own participation can deepen our understanding and love of nature and bring a gift to the whole family All Year Round invites you to start celebrating now!"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Invasion Airfields Then and Now" |
| "In his 1945 report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the success of Operation Overlord' the Supreme Commander General Eisenhower wrote that on the morning of June 9 I was able to announce that for the first time since 1940 Allied air forces were operating from France and that within three weeks of D-Day 31 Allied squadrons were operating from the beach-head bases' In their forecasts for the first three months following D-Day the planners plotted the number of the advanced landing grounds that would be required in Normandy to support the Allied air forces up to September 1944 Using maps andaerial photographs individual sites were surveyed and plans drawn up so that when each location was captured eitherUS Aviation Engineers the Royal Engineers or RAF Airfield Construction Wings could move in without delay to begin work to build them This book tells the story of every airfield that became operational by D90 explaining the methods used to construct them and the units that flew from them The vast majority of the temporary airstrips have now been returned to the farmland from which they came but by using engineers' plans from the period and modern aerial photographs we have portrayed the sites in true After the Battle fashion as they were then and as they are today"
Price: 31.49 |
| "Discover Cairngorms National Park : Visitor Map and Guide" |
| "From the publishers of Footprint Maps this is a visitor map and guide of the whole of the Cairngorms - Scotland's second National Park Based on OS data there is clear mapping at a scale of 1120000 A touring maps showing areas for walkers cyclists wildlife history and visitor attractions"
Price: 7.99 |
