365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Irish is a year-long scenic route of jolliness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Ireland a country worth celebrating every day of the year. Within this humorously illustrated and entertaining book you'll find a historical year's worth of the discoveries, delights and derring-do that make Ireland a place to love and cherish, a place of wonder and a country that attracts 6 million people through its doors each year. From the beautiful streets of Dublin's city centre to the craggy scrapes of Galway; from the magical myths of Dearg Due (the Irish vampire!) to the legendary pint-pullers at Guinness; from scientists Francis Beaufort to ejection-seat inventor James Martin (plus many more!), Ireland is outstanding in every way, every single day of the year.

Du trenger ikke å være toppidrettsutøver for å bli verdensmester - oppdag verdens rareste, galeste og mest fantastiske mesterskap! Kanskje er det du som får gullmedaljen rundt halsen neste år? Er du rå på luftgitar? Har du noen gang hatt putekrig? Pyntet en kake? Rotet rundt i gjørma? Strøket en skjorte? Da kan det hende at internasjonal ære og berømmelse venter på deg. I denne boken kan du lese om 101 morsomme og merkelige konkurranser du kan bli verdensmester i. Vi forklarer deg reglene og gir deg historien bak. Vi byr også på de beste tipsene fra tidligere verdensmestere og viser deg teknikkene du må beherske for å bli en selv. Hvis du ikke kan kaste diskos, men er en reser på å kaste brødskiver, kan det hende at vi har mesterskapet akkurat for deg! Så en dag i fremtiden, når du står øverst på seierspallen med gullmedaljen rundt halsen og hører puplikum rope navnet ditt taktfast, kan du takke denne boken for at du i det hele tatt kom på å delta i konkurransen. Nå er det din tur til å bli verdensmester. Lykke til!

Ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and lost empires this book reveals these and other deserted places. Many places featured were once populated and now sit unoccupied, modern day ruins, sitting in decay. Stories, facts and photographs of 60 beautiful and eerie abandoned places from throughout the world. Time has stopped and nature is taking resident in these places mainly due to natural disasters, war or economic reasons. Places include: * Severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Six Flags Jazzland has been abandoned since. Several of the rides still stand, a testimony to the resilience of New Orleans. * Shicheng in China has been under water for 53 years since the Xin'an River Hydro Plant flooded the area. The city was founded 1,300 years ago. * Chernobyl was totally abandoned after the nearby nuclear disaster in 1986. Due to radiation, it has been left untouched ever since the incident and will be for many thousands of years into the future. Nature now rules the city in what resembles an apocalyptic movie. * Poveglia is an island in the Venetian Lagoon which under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte became a dumping ground for plague victims and later an asylum for the mentally ill. * Plymouth was the capital of the island of Montserrat. The town was overwhelmed by volcanic eruptions starting in 1995 and was abandoned. * St Kilda a remote Scottish Island may have been permanently inhabited for at least two millennia, the population probably never exceeding 180. The entire population was evacuated in 1930.

London - one of the world's most exciting cities. Teeming with life, bursting with history, it houses over 8 million people, and has thousands of stories to tell. 365 Reasons to be Proud to be a Londoner is a quirky, fun exploration of the people and events that make London so special, with an entry for every day of the year. From the building of London's frankly awe-inspiring sewer system to the founding of the iconic Abbey Road recording studios, from the diary of Samuel Pepys to the invention of the World Wide Web, this fascinating book provides 365 compelling reasons why every Londoner should be proud of their wonderful city. Maybe it's because you're a Londoner...that you'll love this book!Word count: 30,000Related titles:365 Reasons to be Cheerful (9781906032968)365 Reasons to be Proud to be British (9781907554391)365 Reasons to be Proud to be English (9781909396715)365 Reasons to be Proud to be Irish (9781909396401)365 Reasons to be Proud to be Scottish (9781907554872)365 Reasons to Look on the Bright Side (9781907554681)

A stunning photographic journey along the length of this vibrant waterway.

Many wondered, and not for the first time, at the end of WW2 how ordinary people could carry out the most terrible acts of cruelty and brutality against their fellow men. This book tells the story of a German boy and a Jewish girl forbidden to be together by the Nazi regime and how they fight to survive. It tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of the perpetrators and gives the reader an insight into the mental turmoil suffered by young men asked to carry out terrible acts. Can young love possibly survive such times?

We make decisions every day. Yet we are sometimes perplexed by these decisions and the decisions of others. To complicate things further, we live in an age where there are more things to choose from than ever before the Internet is transforming our choices and making us more accountable for them: what we choose is recorded, modelled and used to predict our future behaviour. So are we in a position to make better choices today than we were a decade ago? Certainly there are some who believe so. Psychologists claim we are subject to hidden mental processes that lead us to one thing rather than another; economists offer predictions about what people will buy; and some philosophers claim that our choices echo our evolutionary past. Are these claims merited? Do they reflect the beginnings of a new science of choice? This book offers a critical overview of these and other claims, showing where they are justified and where they are exaggerated. It will be an essential reference for anyone interested in whether science can help us to understand both the ways people make choices in their everyday lives and how these may be changing.

Using court transcripts, personal interviews, and police records to retrace the key events of the case, this journey to uncover the truth about what happened to Richard Davis provides a disturbing, eye-opening look into the problems of today's military. After surviving tours in Bosnia and Iraq, Davis was mercilessly tortured and ultimately murdered before his remains were set on fire in the woods of Georgia. Four members of his own platoon were arrested for the crime. When one was asked why they set Richard on fire, his answer was both col

Original Sin tie-in Remember when Star-Lord, Thanos, and Nova had been trapped in the horrific Cancerverse? When Star-Lord and Nova were going to sacrifice their lives to take out Thanos once and for all? And remember how Drax was supposed to have died? But Star-Lord, Drax and Thanos seem to be running around just fine nowadays. So what exactly happened to Richard Rider? You know you want to know And finally, it's time to get some answers about the true ending of the Cancerverse saga But the truth may just be stranger than fiction...or maybe Star-Lord's just not into the whole "no man left behind" thing.

I dag har vi tilgang på mye informasjon om hvordan man best burde spise, sove, trene, tenke og være, men det har aldri vært så mange overvektige, diabetikere, kreftpasienter, deprimerte, eller tilfeller av hjerteinfarkt som nå. Vi vil slå et slag for folkehelsa og håper dere vil like denne boken, som inneholder både oppskrifter og ideer. Vi vil vise deg at sunnhet kan være enkelt, kjapt og ikke minst smake godt. KÅL for folkehelsa, nei, jeg mente SKÅL for folkehelsa med en frisk hjemmepresset juice!

The bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I'm screwed. Andy Weir's second novel Artemis is now available for pre-order

In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. As if taking a perspective from far above the globe, it examines the great tectonic plates of history and the motivations of nations, explaining the attitudes that states and empires have taken to the rest of the world from the formation of Europe to our own times. Kissinger identifies four great 'world orders' in history - the European, Islamic, Chinese and American. Since the end of Charlemagne's empire, and especially since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Europeans have striven for balance in international affairs, first in their own continent and then globally. Islamic states have looked to their destined expansion over regions populated by unbelievers, a position exemplified today by Iran under the ayatollahs. For over 2000 years the Chinese have seen 'all under Heaven' as being tributary to the Chinese Emperor. America views itself as a 'city on a hill', a beacon to the world, whose values have universal validity. How have these attitudes evolved and how have they shaped the histories of their nations, regions, and the rest of the world? What has happened when they have come into contact with each other? How have they balanced legitimacy and power at different times? What is the condition of each in our contemporary world, and how are they shaping relations between states now? To answer these questions Henry Kissinger draws upon a lifetime's historical study and unmatched experience as a world statesman.

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is; that societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them - including the well-off; and, how we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future. Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, "The Spirit Level" has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.

Bli med Pinocchio til Lekeland og enda lenger i jakten på å bli en ordentlig, levende gutt. Denne magiske gjenfortelling av Carlos Collodis eventyr blir levendegjort med Richard Johnsons fantastiske illustrasjoner, dramatiske sprett-opp-bilder og lydeffekter.

She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet. But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter. Because his daughter is the image of Ellie. Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide?

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro. It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said that if you can't explain something to a first-year student, you don't really get it. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this: he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words. Many of the things we use every day - like our food-heating radio boxes ('microwaves'), our very tall roads ('bridges'), and our computer rooms ('datacentres') - are strange to us. So are the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells). Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and many, many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

London vil aldri bli helt det samme etter at du har lest denne boka. Glem Big Ben og Buckingham Palace og møt menneskene i gatene som gjennom historien har formet den britiske hovedstaden. Bli med til Notting Hill, Camden, Clapham, Peckham, Mayfair, Stamford Hill, Tooting, Southall, Shoredrich, Brixton og Ealing. Her møter du idealistiske ortodokse jøder, lidenskapelige Arsenal-fans, familien som har drevet kafé i Bethnal Green siden 1900, DJ-en som introduserte The Clash for reggae, irske løsarbeidere, hellige krigere, djerve filmregissører, polske bohemer og kompromissløse indiske restauranteiere. Boka er både et storslått byportrett, et aktuelt tidsbilde, og en innsiktsfull historiebok - en annerledes guide til en by som rommer hele verden.

A personal code for happier, more fulfilling relationships

Året er 1960. Dell Parsons er femten år gammel da foreldrene fengsles og tvillingsøsteren Berner stikker av. Dell blir alene igjen i den lille byen Great Falls i Montana. Men moren har klart å lage en avtale med en venninne, og før barnevernet når frem, har Dell blitt smuglet inn i Canada. Her får han husly og blir satt i arbeid hos den gåtefulle hotelleieren Arthur Remlinger, en uberegnelig amerikaner som også tror seg trygg i Canada. For Dell vil det alltid være et før og et etter. Et helt liv vil hangrunne over hva som skjedde dette året. Hva fikk foreldrene til å smadre sin egen lille familie? Hvem var de egentlig? Og hvem var Arthur Remlinger?