Category Archives: Accessories
The Frisians – Xenophobe Guide
What makes the Frisians FRISIAN: A guide to understanding the Frisians with illuminating insights into their character and quirks with humour and style.
Outdoor First Aid: A Practical Manual: Essential Knowledge for Outdoor Enthusiasts
The great outdoors provides us with a playground, and for some, a place of work. Whether you are a walker, paraglider, orienteer, climber, horse rider, mountain biker or fell runner, all outdoor activities carry inherent risks and dangers. In an urban setting we rely on ambulance crews, paramedics, doctors and nurses to provide assistance and
Canoeing – Ray Goodwin
This is a thoroughly modern book on the traditional open canoe. It covers all aspects of the open canoe, from design to wilderness travel. What really sets it apart is its focus on canoeing techniques. Ray Goodwin is the UK`s best known and (many would go so far as to say) foremost canoe coach. By
Ski Touring: A Practical Manual
Fully revised and updated 2nd edition including an entirely new chapter on avalanchesIf you want to leave the confines of the piste, and explore the mountains and valleys beyond, then this is the book for you.Everything you need to make the transition from piste skiing to ski touring is here, from downhill off-piste and uphill
English Picture Dictionary
Simple, colourful first picture dictionary in a handy format. Over 350 useful words in over 35 popular themes including school, sports, beach, house, farm and wild animals. Each word is clearly illustrated with a bold caption and there is a full alphabetical word list at the end.
French-English Picture Dictionary
It`s never too soon to start teaching boys and girls a second language, and this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach French words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects, with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its
Secrets of Churchill`s War Rooms
On 10 May 1940, Britain`s new Prime Minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command centre. `This,` growled Winston Churchill, `is the room from which I will run the war.`This magnificent new volume gives you exclusive access to those War Rooms, bringing you closer than
Spanish-English Picture Dictionary
It`s never too soon to start teaching boys and girls a second language, and this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach Spanish words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects, with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its
The Somme: A Visual History
Between 1 July and 18 November 1916 Britain`s new volunteer army took the leading role in a battle on the Western Front for the first time. The Somme offensive was intended to achieve a decisive victory for the British and French Allies over the Germans, yet the Allies failed to achieve all of their objectives
Spanish-English Word Puzzle Book
Younger boys and girls have fun learning basic vocabulary in a second language when they open this book. It presents puzzles that use 14 child-friendly themes as it teaches Spanish vocabulary to English-speaking children and English vocabulary to Spanish-speaking kids. The themes include โ€ On the Farm, The Supermarket, Numbers and Months, At the Seashore,
Churchill Flip Book
IWM has managed a Film Archive since it was first established in 1917, and the Archive now covers all aspects of conflicts in which British, Commonwealth or former Empire countries have been involved since the start of the twentieth century. The constantly growing collection extends to over 23,000 hours of moving images, representing a wide
The Pointless Book: Started by Alfie Deyes, Finished by You
Bake a cake in a mug; take part in a people-watching challenge; create a time capsule; diarise a week of your life and learn to make origami. Fully illustrated and packed with a host of games, activities and pranks, Alfie invites you to join his online following as he challenges you to complete your journal
The Urban Hen: A Practical Guide to Keeping Poultry in a Town or City
Thousands of backyard poultry keepers are signing up all over the country, experiencing afresh the joys of their first hen, their first egg, their happy chuckle in the morning garden. Keeping poultry in the city brings with it not only joys but responsibilities. โ€The Urban Henโ€ is the perfect companion for the city poultry keeper
Walk! Mallorca
Looking for one Mallorca guide book that has all the walking adventures you could want? New for 2014 Walk! Mallorca is your choice. 53 fully detailed walking routes ranging from east strolls up to serious mountain hikes packed into 160 pages that you can fit into your pocket. At just GBP12.99 (or less) don`t go
Walk Mallorca Tour & Trail Super-durable Map
2014 is a special year for Mallorca adventures with our new Walk Mallorca Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map by David Brawn and Walk! Mallorca guide book by Charles Davis. Comprehensively updated information from our popular North & Mountains Tour & Trail Map means that Walk Mallorca Tour & Trail Map gives you a super detailed,
The Remarkable Mrs ANDERSON
When a priceless Leonardo is stolen from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian government tries to hush things up and the police show themselves to be completely clueless. Thank goodness for Milla Anderson!A gifted reporter for one of Budapest`s daily newspapers, she picks up the trail in Palermo-and of course an international gang
Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat likes being alone, but a cuddly little kitten snuggles up to him and begins to follow him everywhere. Grumpy Cat tries to shake the kitten off, but without much luck. But when the kitten finally disappears, Grumpy Cat is suddenly not grumpy anymore…he`s lonely. Watch Grumpy Cat`s story unfold through Britta Teckentrup`s expressive
The Iraqi Christ
From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim`s stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the all-too-real. Taking his cues from Kafka, his prose shines a dazzling light into the dark absurdities of Iraq`s recent past and the torments of its countless refugees. The subject of this, his second
