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69975 DARWIN’S NOTEBOOK: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Charles Robert


Darwin by Jonathan Clements The author has mined the rich resources of Darwin’s journals and books to reveal the fascinating man behind the theories. Here are family snapshots, jottings, notes and sketches, together with Darwin’s own comments at various times of his life from a very young age. Here too misapprehensions are corrected by the author so that the scientist’s real achievements can be appreciated. He was not, in fact, the inventor of the theory of evolution but the inventor of the theory of natural selection and, as the discoverer of dozens of species of beetles and birds, and the world authority on


barnacles, he offered theories that would later form the foundations of disciplines such as cosmology and socio- biology and even psychology. 160 pages, colour and b/w illus.


£11.99 NOW £5 69262 DINOSAUR DOCTOR: The Life and


Work of Gideon Mantell by Edmund Critchley Gideon Mantell (1790-1850) was a respected surgeon and a pioneering geologist and palaeontologist. Using his skill in comparative anatomy, he pieced together unidentified bone fragments found in chalk quarries to evaluate the modes of life of early dinosaurs including the Iguanodon, his most famous discovery. From the flora and fauna of the rock strata, Mantell established the Age of Reptiles, and he revealed how the soft bodies of animalcules formed the chalk. His collection of antiquities and fossils of every size was exhibited to the public, and later formed a major section of the British Museum. He became embroiled in Whig politics and support for the underdog, and became a famous writer and lecturer. 256 paperback pages. £18.99 NOW £6


68673 A DREAM OF UNDYING FAME: How Freud Betrayed his Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis by Louis Breger


In the late 1870s, Sigmund Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer. Breuer became his mentor and trusted friend, providing the young doctor with financial support, patient referrals and new ideas on the inner workings of the mind. His most valuable gift was the description of his treatment of Anna O - a female ‘hysteric’ who would become the first case in Freud and Breuer’s joint publication, Studies on Hysteria. This classic work has revolutionised the way we understand unconscious motivation, neurotic symptoms, childhood trauma, the ‘talking cure’ and more. But it was also a turning point in Breuer and Freud’s partnership. 146 pages.


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69735 OF MEN AND GALAXIES by Fred Hoyle


Astronomer and mathematician Sir Fred Hoyle (1915- 2001) coined the phrase ‘Big Bang theory’ to describe the currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the Universe. His important work centred on the origins of stars and the elements within stars. In this compilation of popular lectures delivered in 1964, Hoyle comments on the nature of the scientific enterprise, delivers his view of life on Earth from the perspective of astronomy, and speculates about the future. He suggests that ‘the emergence of intelligent life is not a meaningless accident.’ In conclusion, he conjectures that contact with more advanced civilisations may prove vital to mankind. 70 page paperback reprint. ONLY £3.50


70419 THE NAKED MAN: A Study of the Male Body by Desmond Morris


By the author of the international bestseller of the 1970s The Naked Ape, and following the success of The Naked Woman, Desmond Morris now studies the masculine body from head to toe. He examines biological features of the male anatomy and describes the many ways they have been modified, suppressed or exaggerated by local customs and changes in social fashions. Written from a zoologist’s perspective, it is packed full of scientific facts, engaging anecdotes and thought-provoking conclusions including a controversial chapter examining male sexuality. In all he is looking at the evolution, biomechanics, behaviour and psychology of the human male. He even has chapters on the beard and the brow. US first edition, 280pp. $25.99 NOW £6.50


SCOTTISH INTEREST


Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, It’s all in perfect working order. - Spike Milligan


70565 MY HEART’S IN THE LOWLANDS


by Liz Curtis Higgs The historical novelist says, ‘I consider Galloway the country’s best-kept secret: a place where time holds its breath, where ancient ruins dot the countryside in moss- covered splendour...so, ten days in bonny Scotland. You’ll join me, aye?’ This delightful armchair travel book takes us on a journey


through the verdant hills and glens of Dumfries and Galloway to explore quaint villages and crumbling castles, old book shops and charming tea rooms. The setting for her historical novels, the region is rich in history and culture and peopled with engaging


SPORT


Go jogging? What, and get hit by a meteor? - Robert Benchley


70778 ABC OF SHOOTING by Colin Willock


This 2005 edition of Colin Willock’s shooting classic is an expansion of the original 1975 must-read manual. Since 1975 shooting has gained enormously in popularity. Knowing your game is essential, and chapters by different authors focus on game, pigeons, wildfowl, deerstalking and clay pigeon shooting. Aspects of rearing, management and habitat are covered and the author is


particularly concerned about the effects of human incursions onto the uplands where Britain’s 15 species of grouse can be discovered in numbers. For the author, wildfowling is the cream of shooting sport, inspiring many writers to descriptions of the saltings and the beauty of ducks and geese in flight. Wildfowling is also a relatively inexpensive sport which does not exclude people from a lower income bracket. The beginner is strongly advised to start with clay pigeon shooting but aiming at a live target will nevertheless be a different challenge. In an invaluable chapter on “How to shoot” Tony Jackson takes the beginner through the basic four methods. He himself favours the Stanbury method which relies on the shooter’s unconscious delayed reaction for getting a good aim. Jackson also describes two contrasting pheasant shoots explaining not only techniques but also etiquette such as never being late and not poaching your neighbour’s bird. 352pp, drawings, legal section. £25 NOW £8.50


70793 COMPLETE


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRICKET by Peter Arnold and Peter Wynne-Thomas


The origins of the game of cricket are uncertain, but it was firmly established by 1624 when a fielder was accidentally killed by a hit from a bat. The first dedicated cricket


ground was built in Sheffield in 1821 and the first England-Australia Test match followed 45 years later. In this big encyclopedia, a chapter on domestic cricket focuses on county cricket, including a list of champions since 1864 and featuring UK cups such as the 20/20 and the Gillette, together with the major trophies of other great cricketing nations. Chapter Three covers Test Cricket, describing recent Ashes tournaments and international cricket between nations other than the UK. The book moves on to biographies of 230 great players, with special features on 27 stars including Botham, Boycott, Flintoff, Imran Khan, Lara, Pietersen, Viv Richards, Sobers, Tendulkar and Warne. Famous grounds are described in the final section covering 10 countries, from the Oval and Trent Bridge to Newlands with its view of the Table Mountain and Basin Reserve in Wellington. Colour photos, maps, diagrams, and above all statistics. 288pp. £25 NOW £7


70138 RADIO CONTROLLED


MODEL AIRCRAFT by David Boddington


Officially judged to be a sport rather than a hobby, the three essential components of radio-controlled flying are the model, the radio equipment and finally the operator. The first two are reasonably predictable, but the same cannot be said for the operator. This is the ideal book for


a beginner, though veteran flyers will find plenty of useful advice. Radio control has been going for almost a century, but the 1960s saw a big breakthrough with lightweight transistorised systems. Multi-channel equipment co-ordinating 12 functions quickly became available but even with a rudder-only model it was possible to loop and roll. Nowadays computerised equipment is affordable. Joining a club is essential for the beginner and the author identifies the basic essentials of an introductory level outfit, moving on to building a model, hints on flying, aerobatics and competition work. 176pp, colour photos. £19.95 NOW £5.50


66230 ASK BEARDERS Answers to the


World’s Most Challenging Cricket Questions by Bill Frindall


No one knew and loved cricket quite like Bill Frindall. In 2001, he began to offer his cricket expertise for a column on the Test Match Special website. Fans would write in


characters. Thomas Carlyle was once asked by Queen Victoria to name the loveliest road in Britain ‘The road from Creetown to Gatehouse of Fleet,’ he answered. ‘Dark green woods, wild flower meadows, the bay reappeared as you continued to climb in an ever- changing scene until we reached the second or third millennium BC with huge jagged stones thrust into the ground as if flung from heaven surrounding a gaping burial chamber on a grassy summit. Cairnholy.’ Charming line illustrations, 256pp in paperback with glossary.


£8.99 NOW £4.50


69251 SCOTTISH HERITAGE FOOD AND COOKING


by Carol Wilson and Christopher Trotter The ready availability of wild salmon gave rise to such dishes as Coulibiac, a salmon pie with eggs, mushrooms and fennel, Smoked Haddock Flan and West Coast Fisherman’s Stew. Roast Hare with Beetroot and Crowdie or Loin of Wild Boar with Bog Myrtle are two of the more exotic main courses based on the availability of game. First courses include Grilled Oysters with Highland Heather Honey, Dressed Crab with Asparagus, Sea Trout Mousse, or for those who prefer soup, the legendary Cullen Skink. 256pp, softback, colour photos on every page. ONLY £4


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with the most difficult and arcane questions possible, hoping to stump ‘the Bearded Wonder’. They never did. This book collects the best of the Qs and As from Bill’s popular column, offering cricket aficionados a one-step compendium of the most challenging bits of history and statistics the game has to offer. 224 pages. £9.99 NOW £2.50


68811 OUR GEORGE: A Family Memoir of George Best by Barbara Best


George Best was the first superstar of football but it was his troubled personal life as much as his sporting genius that came to dominate the headlines. The book not only confronts George’s own failings but those of some of the people who were close to him. It also reveals the many pressures he was subject to and is a searingly honest and frank book about the demons that haunted George Best’s life. 230pp in paperback with many colour and b/ w photos.


£7.99 NOW £2.50


69843 LAST WRESTLERS: A Far-Flung Journey in Search


of a Manly Art by Marcus Trower


For the author, wrestling - as he saw it - was a means of expression, both physical and mental and, in Britain at least a dying art. He hated the World Wrestling Federation, Big Daddy and all the other spandex-clad musclemen. For him, the deeper, spiritual aspects, and trying to improve technically,


were more important than winning or losing. So began his travels to India, Mongolia, Nigeria, Brazil, and Australia and his encounters with a host of colourful characters. These led him to suspect that the true origins of wrestling seemed to have everything to do with seduction in a testosterone-fuelled world he never knew existed. 387 paperback pages with colour photos. £10.99 NOW £2.75


69114 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT CRICKET: One Man’s Vain Attempt to Explain Cricket to a Teenager Who Couldn’t Give a Toss by Sandy Balfour


This is the story of a summer when a cricket-obsessive teaches his novice pupil the wisdom of the game. The author is cast as the supposed master and his 16-year-old daughter’s new boyfriend - the skateboarding boy wonder - is the reluctant pupil. This beginner’s guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is actually a love letter addressed both to those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed and very funny. 273 paperback pages.


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69104 DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF GOLF


edited by Nick Hoult The Daily Telegraph has an unrivalled pool of contributors and for this anthology draws on veteran columnists such as Martin Johnson and Michael Williams, together with guest appearances from golfers as diverse as Nick Faldo, Colin Montgomerie, Michael Parkinson and W.F. Deedes. Deedes’s 1997


piece, “What we all owe to Tiger”, describes the fellow- feeling every golfer felt with Woods as he approached the 8th hole at Troon at five under and left, with a ruinous six, at two under. Michael Parkinson celebrates the laid-back Laura Davies in 1994, who claimed that she “never had a golf lesson in her life”. Hours of pleasure. 242pp.


£18.99 NOW £3.50 69453 TABLE TENNIS: Fourth Edition


by English Table Tennis Association Table Tennis is the biggest racket sport in the world and can be enjoyed by men and women, boys and girls of all ages and abilities, and also by those with special needs. Covering all the basics of the game, its rules, skills, tactical stroke play, advanced stroke, return and service, warm up and cool down, practice, programme planning, coaching and even administration, it looks at the all-time greats in an expert text with clear illustrations and colour photos. 64 page paperback. £6.99 NOW £2.75


69871 ULTIMATE BOOK OF MARTIAL ARTS


by Fay Goodman and Mike James Subtitled A Step-by-Step Practical Guide: Tae Kwondo, Karate, Aikido, Ju-Jitsu, Judo, Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Kendo, Iaido and Shinto Ryu. Using step-by-step photos and drawing on the expertise of many highly-qualified practitioners, the author looks in detail at each discipline, its history and philosophy, the basic etiquette, important warm-up exercises, the most popular techniques and


69711 CASTLES - SCOTLAND AND THE BORDER COUNTRY: The Essential Visitor Guide to the Best of the Region by Plantagenet Somerset Fry, revised and updated by Pip Leahy


Here are more than 100 castles, mostly in Scotland but, because many English border castles are accessible for a day trip, the best of


those have also been included. The castles have been divided into four key geographic areas, all clearly marked on a coloured diagram at the front. With specially commissioned colour photos, and packed with info on opening times, collections, gardens and other visitor attractions. 128 softback pages with maps, key dates, useful addresses and websites. £9.99 NOW £3.50


69430 ST. ANDREWS & FIFE


by George Washington Wilson Here is Rossend Castle, Burntisland, a tea room, Kirkaldy High Street, Dysart Town Hall, West Wemyss Harbour with some Royal Navy tars lounging at the door of the harbour-master’s tally hut, the beach at Elie,


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70136 MOTOR RACING CIRCUITS IN ENGLAND THEN AND NOW by Peter Swinger


Formula One is not the beginning and end of motor racing, and this in-depth account of English racing circuits, whether purpose-built or adapted from disused airfields, identifies as many as 38 circuits, both large and small, including world-famous tracks and well-kept secrets. Silverstone became the home of British motor tracing in 1948 when the Royal Automobile Club started to cast around for a suitable venue for a Grand Prix. At the time, Brooklands was owned by Vickers Armstrong and Donington Park was a military storage depot, so ex-R.A.F. airfields came under consideration. At the smaller end of the scale are the disused Catterick track, situated on a site once occupied by Roman legions, Lydden Hill in Kent, the birthplace of Rallycross, and the short-lived circuit at Lulsgate Aerodrome which was recommissioned as Bristol Airport. Donington Park is the world’s only privately owned Grand Prix circuit. Each circuit is fully described and pictured, with diagrams showing the evolution of each track and figures recording the lap records. 160pp, softback, colour and archive photos.


£16.99 NOW £7


some of the more advanced moves. Tae Kwondo, the Korean art of empty hand fighting, concentrates on high kicking techniques. The principles behind Aikido are applied to many self-defence techniques. Ju-jitsu is one of the oldest martial arts and uses blocking, evasion, strangleholds and throws. The art of Japanese swordsmanship is called Iaido, while Shinto Ryu relates to self-defence in every day situations. 256 large softback pages, 30 x 23mm, colour photos. ONLY £6


69875 FISHING: Coarse, Game and Sea


by Bruce Vaughan Fishing is one of Britain’s most popular sports. Often taking place in tranquil, picturesque surroundings, it offers endless variety including delicately casting a tiny dry fly for brook trout, fishing a floating crust to a wily carp, or hauling giant ling and pollock from a wreck, miles


offshore in a pitching boat and driving rain. This book offers all aspects of game, coarse and sea angling and features articles on the different species of fish, information on where to fish and what to look out for. If you feel adventurous and want to travel further afield there is a special chapter on fishing abroad written and photographed by internationally renowned angler John Wilson. Reservoirs, still waters in winter, there is all kinds of watercraft, tips on the ideal line length, weights, float fishing, bobbins, flies for brown trout and others. 150 colour photos, 256pp. £25 NOW £5


69338 GOLFER'S NOTEBOOK by Keith Baxter


Incorporating four year-planners and 50 pages designed for recording the details of a round, including a table for each hole showing distance, par, stroke index and score. Information about competition format and the handicap system is provided, with a handicap calculator and instructions on how to measure your yardage. The last part of the book contains pages for Course Reviews, with a star system for the course, bar, staff and shop. With useful pocket in the cover. 150pp, numerous superb colour photos of courses.


£12.99 NOW £2


69880 SHORE, PIER AND BOAT FISHING by Jim Whippy


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No licenses are required to go shore fishing so anyone can do it and it does not cost a lot of money. All you need is a rod, reel and a packet of bait, and tackle is not expensive, but you tend to get what you pay for. Some areas with shallow shingle beaches may require long casts to catch the fish, while at other marks the fish can literally be under your feet. You may be even fishing from your own boat; whichever way and wherever you are, this book is filled with tips and advice. The author has highlighted some of the best marks to try. Clear layout, 160pp.


£5.99 NOW £2.75


Lundie Tower at Anstruther from the pier with a lovely photograph of a fishing boat, golf on St Andrews Links and beautifully dressed Victorian children photographed outside the old and new Town Halls at Newburgh and many more. 48 page large softback, rare 1994 first edition.


£4.95 NOW £2


69761 SCOTLAND VISITOR GUIDE, 4TH EDITION edited by Colin Baxter Photography


This user-friendly guide is divided into 14 regions, including the mainland plus Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles. Glasgow offers the superb architecture and designs of Rennie Mackintosh and his contemporaries, while Edinburgh


and the Lothians are packed with history. Going north we encounter the amazing landscapes of Argyll and the Isles, including Iona and the spectacular rock formations of Staffa, followed by Perthshire, Dundee, Aberdeen and Grampian. Facilities, opening times and contact details, golf, national parks and annual events. 288pp, softback, maps, numerous colour photos. $24.95 NOW £4.75


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