Seen from first one view & then another, London’s sights reveal the energy, majesty, & human dimension that make the city so intensely historic & uniquely civilised. With a turn of the page, the gracefully patterned entrance to the British museum leads to ancient patterns of another sort. The stately lines of the Houses of Parliament give way to the close quarters of the Houses of Commons. A double-decker bus rolls down Regent Street to arrive at the open vista of Trafalgar Square. From mummies to knights, from Waterloo Station to Buckingham Palace, this beautifully illustrated book is a treasure for children & travellers of all ages. ...

Part how-to guide, part travelogue, The Insiders` Guide to Becoming a Yacht Stewardess not only outlines the step-by-step process to getting hired aboard a luxury yacht, it also reveals what life is really like aboard these oceangoing toys of mankind`s most affluent. Packed with anecdotal stories from her time on the high seas, catering to some of the most demanding guests in the world, Julie Perry`s account of life ”below deck” on a megayacht is informative & humorous. ...

An island shrouded in mist & a community with secrets buried in the past. When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are intrigued. Is it an ancient find
- or a more contemporary mystery? Then an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident in the middle of the night. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson
- his own colleague, Sandy Wilson. The sparse landscape & the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce & secretive people. Mima Wilson was a recluse. She had her l&, her pride & her family. As Jimmy looks to the islanders for answers, he finds instead two feuding families whose envy, greed & bitterness have lasted generations. Surrounded by people he doesn`t know & in unfamiliar territory, Jimmy finds himself out of his depth. Then there`s another death &, as the spring weather shrouds the island in claustrophobic mists, Jimmy must dig up old secrets to stop a new killer from striking again.

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Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, & seamanship questions The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, & boat handling under sail or power more accessibly & effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about: Boat Handling Under Power--Bob Sweet Sail Trim & Rig Tuning--Bill Gladstone Using Nautical Charts--Bob Sweet Using GPS--Bob Sweet Using VHF & SSB Radios--Bob Sweet Rules of the Road & Running Light Patterns--Charlie Wing Knots, Splices, & Line Handling--Charlie Wing Anchoring--Peter Nielsen Onboard Weather Forecasting--Bob Sweet Heavy Weather Sailing--John Rousmaniere Diesel Engine Care & Repair--Nigel Calder Emergencies On Board--John Rousmaniere Emergency First Aid On Board--Richard Clinchy ...

As a Fabian & lifelong socialist, Shaw believed that economic inequality was a poison destroying every aspect of our lives. Family affections & relations between the sexes were perverted by it. From Parliament to eduction our institutions were ”corrupted at the root by pecuniary interest”. Idealism, integrity & piecemeal attempts at political reform were all futile in the face of the gross injustice built into our economic system. & because a capitalist economy could never function smoothly, private property was not merely a form of robbery, but robbery with violence. ...

” The Interior Circuit is Goldman`s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife`s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico City) as his home, Goldman explores & celebrates the city which stands defiantly apart from so many of the social ills & violence wracking Mexico. This is the chronicle of an awakening, both personal & political, `interior` & `exterior`, to the meaning & responsibilities of home. Mexico`s narcotics war rages on &, with the restoration of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI) to power in the 2012 elections, the DF`s special apartness seems threatened. In the summer of 2013, when Mexican organized-crime violence & deaths erupt in the city in an unprecedented way, Goldman sets out to try to understand the menacing challenges the city now faces. By turns exuberant, poetic, reportorial, philosophic, & urgent, The Interior Circuit fuses a personal journey to an account of one of the world`s most remarkable & often misunderstood cities.” ...

This book aims to help yachtsmen & motorboaters pass the ICC test
- essential for anyone wanting to take their yacht or motorboat
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The International Marine Book of Sailing is a comprehensive, indexed manual containing need-to- know information for the sailor from the first afternoon of sailing to advanced racing & bluewater voyaging, featuring 1, 000 colour photographs & illustrations. Highly accessible & informative, The International Marine Book of Sailing follows an ideal sailor’s learning curve in easy to follow instructional text which is augmented by sidebar features giving alternative approaches, definitions of terms, & boat to boat variations. Robby Robinson has been a sailing instructor since his teens & has structured his book in such a way as to be suitable for both beginners & more experienced sailors, basing the structure on his experience of knowing what you need to know when in your sailing development. The result is an informative mix of how-to technology & technique, anecdotal evidence & tales & sailing tradition ...

A bold & provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war & how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history. On a hot summer afternoon in 1928, the leaders of the world assembled in Paris to outlaw war. Within the year, the treaty signed that day, known as the Peace Pact, had been ratified by nearly every state in the world. War, for the first time in history, had become illegal the world over. But the promise of that summer day was fleeting. Within a decade of its signing, each state that had gathered in Paris to renounce war was at war. & in the century that followed, the Peace Pact was dismissed as an act of folly & an unmistakable failure. This book argues that that understanding is inaccurate, & that the Peace Pact ushered in a sustained march toward peace that lasts to this day. The Internationalists tells the story of the Peace Pact by placing it in the long history of international law from the seventeenth century through the present, tracing this rich history through a fascinating & diverse array of lawyers, politicians & intellectuals— Hugo Grotius, Nishi Amane, Salmon Levinson, James Shotwell, Sumner Welles, Carl Schmitt, Hersch Lauterpacht, & Sayyid Qutb. It tells of a centuries-long struggle of ideas over the role of war in a just world order. It details the brutal world of conflict the Peace Pact helped extinguish, & the subsequent era where tariffs & sanctions take the place of tanks & gunships. The Internationalists examines with renewed appreciation an international system that has outlawed wars of aggression & brought unprecedented stability to the world map. Accessible & gripping, this book will change the way we view the history of the twentieth century—and how we must work together to protect the global order the internationalists fought to make possible. ...

The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast & timescales to long that it`s easy to dismiss them as being completely divorced from our everyday life. But in this new book Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, shows you the myriad ways we are intrinsically connected to the rest of the universe & how everything on Earth
- from the ground beneath our feet to the technology in our pockets
- has origins in space. Discover how rocks from space reveal what conditions are like at our planet`s core, how the desolate surface of the moon holds ancient clues to Earth`s earliest life forms, & how buried treasure in the Nile reveals the watery past of Mars. Discover how the atoms of your own body were forged in the heart of a star, how you can see the echo of creation on your TV, & the ways in which technology developed for observing the most far-flung corners of space is now used to diagnose potentially fatal human diseases. The Intimate Universe is a curated tour of the most fascinating phenomena & discoveries in astronomy, revealing how we are inextricably, inspirationally linked to the cosmos.

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