Discover the world`s best teams & biggest competitions with the ultimate visual guide to football, fully updated to include the results of the 2018 World Cup. Are you a keen player, a lifelong supporter, or simply an armchair football manager? The Football Book has something for everyone, packed with stats & facts. From the history of football to the most recent tournaments, The Football Book reveals the story behind the game. Profiling more than 65 of the world`s best sporting nations, including the winners of the 2018 World Cup, France, the biggest names in club football, & looking at techniques from free-kicks to block tackling, this is the ultimate guide to the beautiful game. Previous ISBN: 9780241317631 ...

At any time, in any place, food is there for the taking
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In The Forager`s Kitchen, expert forager & cook Fiona Bird shares the knowledge she has gained from years of gathering food from the l&. Whether you live in a large city, in open countryside or by the coast, if you open your eyes & follow Fiona`s advice, you will find more ingredients growing in the wild than you could imagine. & once you have brought your bounty home, there are more than 100 recipes for you to try. If you love baking, try the carrot & clover cake, wild hazelnut shortbread or sea lettuce madeleines. Make the most of a hedgerow glut by making honeysuckle jelly or quince & wild thyme sorbet. Try a food-for-free main course of chanterelle puffs or wild mussels steamed with dandelions, or a quick snack of garlic mustard, chickweed & tomato bruschetta. Or indulge your tastebuds with wild berry & herb marshmallows or a wild cherry panna cotta. The Forager`s Kitchen will change the way you cook
- rather than shopping in the aisles of your grocery store, head off to the great outdoors & you will be amazed by the sheer quantity of food that available for free.
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The Forbidden City is located in the heart of Beijing/ Peking. It has been the focus of authority in imperial China for over 6 centuries. A city within a city, its high red walls enclosed the centre of government, the imperial palace. Also enclosed within are huge lakes dotted with islands & pleasure-boats, workshops producing clothing, furniture & fittings & luxury items for the court & a zoo with horses, cats, elephants &, occasionally, a giraffe. For hundreds of years, thousands of eunuchs served their imperial masters within the Forbidden City, taking control of the flow of administrative documents & all the daily needs of emperors & women of the palace. This lively book introduces the colourful characters who inhabited the Forbidden City & vividly evokes the strictly prescribed rituals that made up life behind its walls. In the 16th & 17th centuries, a tiny number of foreign envoys, from the Persian Gulf & from Holl&, described the discomforts of waiting for hours in the freezing cold to catch a glimpse of the Emperor in his yellow silk sedan chair but it was not until the very end of the 19th century that westerners managed to penetrate the Forbidden City. This book means that you can do just that, under the guidance of one of its most learned & enthusiastic admirers. ...

Built by the Ming emperor in the fifteenth century as the earthly reflection of the realm of the Jade Emperor
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To Luca Matthews the dangers of the high mountain peaks are the air upon which he thrives. In the ruthless pursuit of his goals he would sacrifice anything
- even another climber`s life. His friends & family know & fear it. So when he sights a virgin peak in the Himalayas that exists on no map, no one is surprised when he becomes obsessed with being the first to scale it. Together with his climbing partner, Bill Taylor, they set off into a region of Tibet highly restricted by the Chinese. But a freak accident puts one of their team in mortal danger & it is left to a local Tibetan girl to lead them to Geltang, a monastery that has been hidden from the outside world since the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when most of the monasteries were pillaged & burned. When the Chinese secret police get wind of them, Luca & Bill find themselves embroiled in an age-old struggle, not for their lives but to protect the precious secret that Geltang hides, & the legacy of Tibet itself.
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A cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, & unforgettable as The Wire. Everyone can be bought. At the right price... Detective Sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs & guns in New York. For eighteen years he`s been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition & corruption, where no one is clean. What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he & his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs & cash. Now he`s caught in a trap & being squeezed by the FBI. He must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all. Review: Praise for The Force: ` This stands out by a mile.. . fresher, faster, funnier & truer.. . bursting with life, lousy with death, it is because it tells the truth, in all its ugliness, that this novel is so exhilarating` Daily Telegraph ` Hard-hitting.. . one of the great works of fiction about the police.. . superbly chronicled` The Times ` There won`t be a better cop novel this year than The Force by Don Winslow. Not next year, or the year after that, either` Linwood Barclay ` Stephen King, James Ellroy & Lee Child see Don Winslow as one of their number, & he confirms his right to belong in this elite with The Force.. . a panoramic picture of a criminal justice system permeated by corruption, cronyism & lies` Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month ` Sprawling & visceral` Financial Times, Crime Books of the Year ` Breathtaking. Think of TV series The Sopranos.. . told in majestic prose.. . this is without question among the finest ever police novels` Daily Mail, Books of the Year `A brutal, gut-punching story` Independent, Books of the Year ` Almost Shakespearean` Spectator, Books of the Year ` Shocking & shockingly convincing.. . sinewy, flexible, raw & full of wit. This novel is as entertaining as the best crime fiction must be, but it is also moving` TLS ` Don Winslow`s magnificent novels have positioned him as the next big-hitter of crime writing.. . Gripping` Metro ` Intensely human in its tragic details, positively Shakespearian in its epic sweep
- probably the best cop novel ever written` Lee Child ` Mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It`s that good` Stephen King ` Nobody understands the disaster of corruption better than Don Winslow. The Force exposes the dawning horror of how it eats into the best intentions` Val Mc Dermid, No.1 bestselling author of Out of Bounds `A stunner of a cop novel with dialogue, gritty New York setting & moral pincers all in the service of a devastating plot` New York Times, Crime Books of the Year Author Biography: Don Winslow is the author of nineteen acclaimed, award-winning, international bestsellers
- including the No. 1 international bestseller The Cartel, winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, The Power of the Dog, Savages, & The Winter of Frankie Machine
- several of which have been made into movies or are in development. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer, & trial consultant, Winslow lives in Southern California.


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The greatness of Italy`s culture & way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign & easy going country. ” The Force of Destiny”, Christopher Duggan`s immensely enjoyable new book, lays waste to this idea. While sharing everyone`s enthusiasm for Italy as a place, he strongly distinguishes this from its political role over the past two centuries, which has been both vicious & ruinous for Europe as a whole. ...

When launched in 1962, the Ford Cortina was an entirely new type of British car. Compared with its rivals
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Tientsin in north-eastern China was known as ` The Ford of Heaven` as it gave travellers access to the Celestial City of Peking & the Emperor of Heaven eighty miles to the west. It was also a `concession port` in the 1920s & 1930s, occupied by the foreign powers of Britain, France, Russia, America & Japan in the wake of the Opium War of 1860. This memoir evokes a childhood spent in this strange & exotic place. The world that Power evokes is a microcosm of the complexity & ferment that was China before the Second World War, yet seen through the fresh eyes of a sensitive child attuned to the people around him. This new edition of The Ford of Heaven (first published in 1984) contains a new foreword by Frances Wood, Curator of the British Library`s Chinese Collection, as well as a postscript & inclusion of extensive additional material. ...