The ultimate book of sweetie nostalgia! A colourful, witty & irreverent encyclopedia of all the sweets & crisps of your youth. From Mojos to Rainbow Drops, Space Raiders to Trios, Corona to Kia Ora & everything in between. Fully illustrated with hundreds of wrappers, ads & specially recreated packshots this book will lead you down memory lane until you reach the corner shop, load up a 10p mix up bag & rot your teeth on the contents. The authors have been given access to the archives, factories & warehouses of some of the leading sweet & snack manufacturers in the country & have delivered a book that is packed full of fascinating historical research...and lots & lots of sweets. WITH A FOREWORD BY JONATHAN ROSS. ...

Britain is a place of remarkable beauty & surprising extremes: nowhere else in the temperate world boasts such extreme variety in such a small area. Our humble island has over 10, 000 miles of coastline; iconic animals & birds; & unique spectacles of migration that see wildlife from all corners of the globe descend upon our shores. Here, life is governed by the seasons: each month bringing extraordinary transformations to our land & its inhabitants. This lavish companion to the new BBC One series brings Britain to life, celebrating the vibrancy of the changing year through stunning photography & mesmerising time-lapse sequences, & revealing the unmissable drama & beauty to be witnessed on our very own doorstep. ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is a name synonymous with the heroic & inventive engineering of the Victorian era. His personal bravery, persuasive character & refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his profession led him to a wide range of exceptional achievements. In this revised & updated edition, Chris Morris tracks down Brunel`s legacy to provide an unrivalled visual celebration of the great man & his work. Alongside the graphic photography is a commentary which reveals Brunel to be as much a visionary as an engineer. ...

” The Great Builders” surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities & seven centuries of architectural innovation make for a survey of spectacular scope & depth. From churches & fortresses to bridges & high-tech skyscrapers, it

Includes:: masterpieces from all over the world & covers 700 years of architectural history. This book, in the same series as ” The Great Naturalists” & ” The Great Explorers”, will appeal to anyone with an interest in architecture, buildings, engineering, urban planning or the history of the built environment.

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` Mark Lowery is far too funny` Jonathan Meres, author of THE WORLD OF NORMThe fourth book in the hilarious & anarchic ROMAN GARSTANG ADVENTURE series Incredibly, unbelievably, Roman`s cousin is marrying the cousin of Rosie Taylor (AKA The Worst Person Who Ever Lived) cousin. Roman can`t believe this (as Rosie says: ” How can we be in the same family, we`re barely in the same species”). Rosie`s parents decide they should go along together & ”make a weekend of it”. Roman`s plus one is his best friend Gamble (probably the naughtiest kid in Europe)
- & it`s the beginning of another big, messy, catastrophic & uproarious adventure for Roman
- with Winnebagos, illegal thrash metal festivals & campsite beauty contests all thrown into the mix.. .

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In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked the regiment of soldiers where they were from. ` Ross-shire, ` one called down, but the porter heard ` Russia`. & so began a rumour that led to Germany losing the First World War. Often the history we learn at school is only half the story. We hear of heroic deeds & visionary leaders, but we never hear about the people who turned up late for court & thereby changed the law, or who stood in the wrong queue at university & accidentally won a Nobel Prize. The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes demonstrates that the nation is as much a product of error as design. Through chapters on religion, law, culture, war, science & politics, it reveals such things as how an edict from Pope Gregory IX helped spread the Black Death, how the sister of cricketer John Willes invented overarm bowling, & how, had a letter not been lost, Disraeli might never have become prime minister. This book is history told through human failings, schoolboy errors, bad luck & extraordinary consequences; a history of mishearing, misdiagnosis & misinterpretation
- a history that you won`t find in the textbooks.
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Jelly & her family live in Chompton-on-de-Lyte, where everyone loves a Chocablocka bar or two. So when the end of chocolate is announced, she can`t believe it. Determined to investigate, Jelly & her gran follow a trail of clues to a posh chocolate shop & its owner, the pompous Garibaldi Chocolati. Gari`s suspiciously smug, despite his failing business & yucky chocolate. Is it really the chocopocalypse, or is there a chocoplot afoot? ...

Stanfords Adult Book of the Month July 2016 From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, from Uruk & Memphis to Tokyo & Sao Paulo. A galaxy of distinguished contributors evoke the character of each place
- its people, its art & architecture, its government
- & explain the reasons for its success. Richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, maps & plans, this volume is nothing less than a portrait of world civilization.

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John Kenneth Galbraith`s now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse, ” The Great Crash” remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom & bust in modern times. ” The Great Crash 1929” examines the causes, effects, aftermath & long-term consequences of America`s infamous financial meltdown, showing how rampant speculation & blind optimism sustained a market mania, & led to its terrible downward spiral. Galbraith also describes the people & the corporations at the heart of the financial community, & how they were affected by the disaster. With its depiction of the `gold-rush fantasy` ingrained in America`s psychology, this penetrating study of human greed & folly contains lessons that are still vital today
- & are now more relevant than ever. ” Lively & highly readable”. (” Financial Times”). ” Galbraith is a considerable writer
- admonitory, ironic, patrician, funny”. (” Guardian”). ” The definitive work on the subject”. (” Daily Mail”). ”A book you will read at a single sitting”. (” Prospect”). ” One of the most engrossing books I have ever read”. (” Daily Telegraph”). John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a Canadian-American economist.A Keynesian & an institutionalist, Galbraith was a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism & progressivism. Galbraith was the author of 30 books, including ” The Economics of Innocent Fraud”, ” The Great Crash: 1929”, & ”A History of Economics”.

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Here`s a book to hurl at the culinary barbarian on your crew, though it`s a lot more than a simple defense against digestion... John Payne, who writes with wit & clarity, makes the business of learning to be a good sea cook much more entertaining than it might otherwise be... All in all, this is an excellent guide to the task of providing good food afloat. Payne

Includes:: a lot of basic-but-need-to-know stuff, like: what kind of fruits & vegetables keep & how long, how to (really!) catch fish, galley equipment, safety, on board gardening (sprouting), & hundreds of really excellent recipes. Living Aboard

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