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Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his popular site xkcd.com, ‘a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language’ which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. In pursuit of answers to the strange questions fans ask, he runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults with nuclear reactor operators. Here, he explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read.
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The way we’ve been taught excludes or limits all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture. From cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model-making, from playing Top Trumps to arguing with TV programmes, from collecting leaves to playing ‘Who am I?’, Michael Rosen shows how to use everything around you to learn more – and how enjoyable and satisfying it can be.
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One of the greatest feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s remarkable life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on 26 April 1944. He and Captain Billy Moss hatched a daring plan to abduct the general, while ensuring that no reprisals were taken against the Cretan population. Dressed as German military police, they stopped and took control of Kreipe’s car, drove through 22 German checkpoints, then succeeded in hiding from the German army before finally being picked up on a beach in the south of the island.
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We have reached a crossroads in modern women’s lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward, many of the key issues – equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors – remain to be tackled. Casual sexism in the media and in everyday life is still rife and our daughters face a host of new difficulties as they are bombarded by images of unrealistically skinny airbrushed supermodels and celebrities who depend on their looks and partners for status. This is a manifesto for every mother who has ever had to comfort a daughter who doesn’t feel ‘pretty’, for every young woman who out-performs her male peers professionally and wonders why she is still not taken seriously, and for anyone interested in the world we are making for the next generation.
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‘A Time of Gifts’ and ‘Between the Woods and the Water’ were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book completes the extraordinary journey.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe.
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In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle, exhausted by his creation Sherlock Holmes, retires to the spa at Bad Homburg. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde. When the two friends make a series of macabre discoveries amongst the portmanteau of fan mail Conan Doyle has brought to answer, the game is once more afoot.
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The unmistakeable voice of Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters, rings out of this second volume of her occasional writings. The pieces range from a ringside view of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and funeral, a valedictory for her local post office, and the 1938 London season.
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This work is about the remotest, the wildest and the most isolated region of Greece. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus, and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, this rocky central prong of the Peloponnese is the southern most point of Mediterranean Europe.
