Once upon a time, ordering a cocktail at a bar was the kind of thing an aging lothario might do to impress a girl. But these days, knowing your Margarita from your Mojito, & your Old-Fashioned from your Tom Collins, is essential knowledge for every modern gent. In The Gentleman`s Guide to Cocktails, Alfred Tong will teach you all you need to know about the fine art of mixology. From tools of the trade, to muddling & mixing, schmoozing & shaking, & including secrets from some of the world`s best bartenders, you`ll be mixing with mojo in no time. Hone your skills with over 100 recipes, ranging from classics like Bloody Marys & Whiskey Sours to modern marvels such as the Flirtini, the Don Draper & Under the Boardwalk. Slick & stylish, dapper & dandy, The Gentleman`s Guide to Cocktails will turn you into the man who mixes. Is it worth the time just to get a drink, I hear you ask? Well yes, it does require some effort, but then so does having a suit made, seducing a woman or landing that contract. Doing it properly matters. This book is going to show you how. ...

This guide is considered the ` Bible` by many cruising yachtsmen travelling between Florida & Venezuela.

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The lost art of travelling in exquisite style. The advantages of travel are incontestable: it broadens the mind as well as helping one to avoid the iniquities of a less-than-perfect married life. Those of an expeditionary bent will find The Gentleman`s Guide to Travel full of timely & much-needed counsel, their appetite for wanderlust whetted at every new page. Mr Darkwood`s sage advice
- including how to repel leeches & maintain personal hygiene in the filthy heat of the Tropics
- is sure to inspire a desperate ache for the cut & thrust of adventure in even the most urbane. Gentleman travellers everywhere will be induced to prise themselves from their armchair, gather up their portmanteau, don a tweed hunting jacket & set off on a sterling voyage of discovery.

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” One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, & of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were to take to fencing as one of the regular occupations of their day” The Gentlewoman`s Book of Sports is part of ` Found on the Shelves`, published with The London Library. The books in this series have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library. Now celebrating its 175th anniversary, with over 17 miles of shelving & more than a million books, The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes, manners & thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it. ...

The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand sets a new benchmark in atlas publishing. With 264 maps
- well over twice as many as recent
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The Geography Collective is a group of Guerilla Geographers: grown ups enthusiastic professionals who encourage kids to re-discover the world & bring enthusiasm & excitement into learning. Young explorers can independently complete fun & adventurous missions through research, analysis & observation of our surroundings. Packed with colourful drawings, basic training & advice to safely carry out the activities, these books are fun & motivate children (and grown ups) to get to know & care about the environment, learn & improve skills, explore, try new things & get involved. The books in the Mission: Explore series include Geography Collective, On the Road, Camping & their latest one Food. Expect learning whilst having lots of fun. No more “ …I am bored..”. Parents, you are warned; the children will be busy bees! ...

What makes a nation happy? Is one country`s sense of happiness the same as another`s? In the last two decades, psychologists & economists have learned a lot about who`s happy & who isn`t. The Dutch are, the Romanians aren`t, & Americans are somewhere in between... After years of going to the world`s least happy countries, Eric Weiner, a veteran foreign correspondent, decided to travel & evaluate each country`s different sense of happiness & discover the nation that seemed happiest of all. Eric Weiner discovers the relationship between money & happiness in tiny & extremely wealthy Qatar (and it`s not a good one). He goes to Thail&, & finds that not thinking is a contented way of life. He goes to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, & discovers they have an official policy of Gross National Happiness! He asks himself why the British don`t do happiness? In Weiner`s quest to find the world`s happiest places, he eats rotten Icelandic shark, meditates in Bangalore, visits strip clubs in Bangkok & drinks himself into a stupor in Reykjavik. Full of inspired moments, ” The Geography of Bliss” accomplishes a feat few travel books dare & even fewer achieve: to make you happier. ...

When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other h&, made observations about the background environment...and the different ”seeings” are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners & East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think
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- the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, & educational systems that date back to ancient Greece & China, & that have survived into the modern world. As a result, East Asian thought is ”holistic”
- drawn to the perceptual field as a whole, & to relations among objects & events within that field. By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories, or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a ”middle way” between opposing thoughts. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, & apply rules of formal logic to understand their behaviour.


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The spectacular scenery of Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly is the result of some 400 million years of geological history. Rock types range from sedimentary mud & sandstones to igneous ones of granite & those of volcanic origin. Local geology can be seen in pebbles on the beach, & in towns, villages & countryside in buildings & hedges. The coast & moors exhibit some of the most dramatic rock exposures, many of them Sites of Special Scientific Interest. This book describes & explains the best sites, & gives a gallery of rock types that may be encountered in Cornwall. ...

The Geology of Australia provides a vivid & informative account of the evolution of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years. Starting with the Precambrian rocks that hold clues to the origins of life & the development of an oxygenated atmosphere, it goes on to cover the warm seas, volcanism & episodes of mountain building, which formed the eastern third of the Australian continent. This illuminating history details the breakup of the supercontinents Rodinia & Gondwana, the times of previous glaciations, the development of climates & landscapes in modern Australia, & the creation of the continental shelves & coastlines. Separate chapters cover the origin of the Great Barrier Reef, the basalts in Eastern Australia, & the geology of the Solar System. This second edition features two new chapters, covering the evolution of life on Earth while emphasising the fossil record in Australia, & providing a geological perspective on climate change. From Uluru to the Great Dividing Range, from earthquakes to dinosaurs, from sapphires to the stars The Geology of Australia is a comprehensive exploration of the timeless forces that have shaped this continent. ...