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76450 UNIVERSE ROCKS: The Complete Guide to Space
by Windmill Books Ltd The Universe is an amazing place. You will soon discover that it rocks! Explore the stars, planets and galaxies and the awesome inventions that transport human beings into outer space. Have
your mind blown by the activities included for you to take part in. Construct your own balloon rocket, create your own constellations, make a rainbow, fashion a paper-cup sundial or, and these are really way out, how about building your own Milky Way, watching an erupting volcano, wondering at icy volcanoes, or creating a time-line of the universe? How about galaxies in a cup or a toilet paper solar system? You may just be so inspired by this book that you want to become an astronaut yourself. We should not be surprised. 120 pages in absolutely dazzling colour with Top Ten Universe Facts, useful websites, and glossary. £9.99 NOW £5
74312 WATERMELONS: How
Environmentalists are Killing the Planet by James Delingpole
If Global Warming is not real how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all these eminent scientists lie to us? What’s wrong with biofuels, wind farms, carbon taxes and sustainability? Delingpole has the answer to these questions, plus a host of others, and they are not the ones that the environmentalists nor, for that matter, most politicians, would like you to hear. If, as is more likely, we balance the author’s refutations against the raft of evidence that says the world is on its way to hell in a overheated handcart, we are much more likely to question the waves of “facts” and “statistics”. 314pp paperback. £9.99 NOW £3.50
75830 SCHOOLBOY SCIENCE REMEMBERED by Dr Keith Souter
Packed with fascinating facts and ever-so-easy-but-exciting experiments. Did you know, for instance, that Tycho Brahe, the great Renaissance scientist, had an artificial silver nose and was assisted in his experiments by his court jester, or that an ancient Greek inventor, Hero of Alexandria,
invented a steam machine 1,700 years before James Watt built his machine? You will also be thrilled to hear that you can make a battery from a stack of coins, blotting paper, silver foil and some salt and vinegar and that you can equally easily produce a crystal set radio from a toilet tube, copper wire, a pencil, a safety pin, a few drawing pins and paper clips, and an old razor blade. 244 jolly paperback pages, illus, notes and Timeline of the History of Science. £14.99 NOW £6
75074 IT’S ABOUT TIME: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History by Liz Evers
This enthralling book is full of thought-provoking info on timekeeping, its origins, advances and impact, as well as time-related trivia from early man to the modern day. Mankind has spent millennia developing new ways of measuring time, describing and quantifying it, and such methods have given rise to some of the most technically remarkable and aesthetically beautiful devices ever created. This gripping volume is a tribute to the creation, customs and conventions of timekeeping in its myriad forms. 224 pages with line drawings. £12.99 NOW £3.50
75151 ENCYCLOPEDIA ANATOMICA by Monika von Dürling, Marta Pogessi and Georges Didi-Huberman
From the eccentric Museo La Specola in Florence comes this amazing collection of waxworks depicting the human anatomy in all its dazzling complexity. The 27 wax bodies and 1500 part and organ studies that make up the museum’s collection are presented here; from skeletons to vein structures, organs to nerves, and arteries to the delicate pores of the skin, the human body is mapped out in meticulous and exacting detail. Texts explaining the human anatomy in laypersons’ terms and exploring the historical and cultural significance of the wax figures complete this “total body experience.” Softcover, 140mm x 195mm, 704 pages, Taschen. ONLY £12.50
75738 EMPIRE OF ICE: Scott, Shackleton And the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this riveting account of science, courage and endurance looks at the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. It is the first book to place the famed expeditions of British explorers Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen and others in a larger scientific, social and geopolitical context. Amundsen earned his place in history to be the first to reach the South Pole. Scott meanwhile has been reduced in the public mind to a dashing incompetent, defeated. By looking at the British effort for what they were, massive scientific enterprises, the book focuses on scientific purposes and accomplishments. Whether he is discussing the first observations of the lifecycle of the Emperor Penguin, the mapping of the ocean floor, or experiments in terrestrial magnetism, Larson’s book sparkles and is a wonderful achievement. 326pp with 16 pages of images and other illus such as the track of the journey from Cape Evans to Cape Crozier. £20 NOW £7
75998 LEONARDO’S LEGACY by Stefan Klein Sub-titled ‘How Da Vinci Reimagined the World’, here is a fresh exploration of Da Vinci’s real ‘code’ - science. Revered today as perhaps the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart who designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the very first heart valve. Read about the artist as neuroscientist, how he became a writer, why flying does not mean flapping wings, in the mortuaries of Santa Maria Nuova, an x-ray view of sex, man as a machine, expeditions into the beating heart and questions about the soul of the foetus. Illus, 291pp in paperback. £10.99 NOW £4.50
75992 UNNATURAL: The Heretical Idea of Making
People by Philip Ball Can we make a human being starting with nothing? And if we can, should we? Can an artificially created person be truly human? With the help of modern science, we can clone a sheep or produce a fertilized egg in vitro but, for these to work, we need DNA or sperm to start with, so we are not producing
a human being from scratch. All the myths express fears about the allegedly treacherous, Faustian nature of this type of experiment. From the legendary inventor Daedalus to Goethe’s tragic Faust, and from the automata-making magicians of E.T.A. Hoffman to Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein, the old myths are still subtly manipulating the current debates about assisted conception, embryo research and the aforementioned cloning, which have at last given the fantasy some kind of reality. 373 page paperback, illus. £9.99 NOW £4
SPORT
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
- Ernest Hemingway 76591 SEARCHING FOR
HEROES by Ian Wooldridge Sub-titled ‘Fifty Years of Sporting Encounters’ here is a wonderful anthology by the finest sports writers of our generation whose words dance brilliantly from his mind and onto the page. Ian Wooldridge’s many awards as a reporter, columnist and feature writer bear witness to this superb journalist who wrote principally
about the drama of international sport. For 45 years he reported for the Daily Mail on sporting competitions with unusual understanding of the physical and mental qualities demanded of the great performers. An unashamed romantic, he celebrated style, courage and originality and his sporting heroes ranged from Denis Compton to George Best, Muhammad Ali and his favourite racehorse, Desert Orchid. A lover of extreme sport, he flew with the Red Arrows, braved the Cresta Run and annually ran before the bulls at Pamplona. His reports, leavened by his self-effacing modesty, bring these experiences before the reader in all their graphic immediacy. 408pp with many cartoons, colour and b/w photos, paperback. £8.99 NOW £4.50
76544 BRIDGE: Winning Ways To Play Your Cards by Paul Mendelson
To be really successful at bridge, you need the right strategy. If the declarer has one plan, the defenders must counter it with one of their own. You cannot properly consider your own strategy and isolation from that of your opponents for every thought they have; you need to have a counter. The author uses
examples of hands that occur in a real game of bridge that will make a difference to your scores and help improve your game. Assess your opponents’ strengths and weaknesses in relation to your own - and win! 190pp in paperback with useful glossary and examples. £6.99 NOW £3.50
76564 GOLDEN RULES OF BRIDGE
by Paul Mendelson A companion to Bridge Winning Ways code 76544, the author looks again at how to gain an edge against your opponents and improve your score. Many people play bridge all their lives believing it is a game where you have to remember what to do. It should be about understanding the key principals of
how the game works and then using your skills to make the best decisions. Learn nothing by rote, but instead improve your knowledge in each area of the game - bidding, declarer play and defence. Whether you play social rubber bridge or Chicago, club teams events or duplicate pairs, these tips and techniques will transform both your results and your enjoyment of the game. If you play an Acol-based system or any of the many natural bidding systems available, knowing the Golden Rules will improve your scores and frustrate your opponents. Understand the logical reasoning behind the most common bids, leads and plays, develop winning understandings with your regular partner or group of players and avoid making the mistakes which ruin your score. 247pp in paperback with examples. £9.99 NOW £4.50
SCOTTISH INTEREST
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
- Winston S. Churchill 76456 YEAR IN THE LIFE OF
GLENCOE by Bill Birkett Famous the world over for the ultimate betrayal, the “murder under trust” massacre of 38 members of the MacDonald clan by their houseguests the Campbells on 13 February 1692, the Clachaig Hotel at Glencoe still displays the legend “No Hawkers or Campbells”
over its front desk. Renowned though it is for infamy, Glencoe is also regarded as one of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes. Enclosed by vertiginous bastions of granite that stretch over 3,000 feet into the sky, Glencoe plunges from the desolate wilds of Rannoch Moor to the sea and the burial islands of Eilean Munde. Created by long-extinct volcanoes, eons of wind, rain, sun, snow and ice carved this raw landscape which is now protected and conserved by the National Trust. The little communities of Glencoe and Ballachuilish continue to function through the extremes of the seasons as they have done since the Bronze Age. Rowans flower then hang red with berries before the deep winter snow blankets all, the Golden Eagle rules the air and the red stag barks his authority across the heather, while down in the valley long-horned shaggy Highland cattle resolutely soak up the worst the elements can throw at them. Bill Birkett is one of our foremost mountain writers and photographers. This awe- inspiring collection of his photos show the seasonal changes in these famous glens. He provides a wealth of information concerning the region’s history, wildlife, geology, myth, legend and lore. Approx. 100 spectacular colour photos, many full-page, 112pp, 10"×10½”. £12.99 NOW £6
76623 PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND
by Hugh Barty-King Sub-titled ‘And the Hawick Knitwear Story’, here is the history of the pioneers of Scottish knitwear and the company that will celebrate its 200th year in 2015. The book carries the reader through the dramatic events ever since the invention of the knitting machine in
1591 and the illustrations portray the main protagonists in the story but concentrate on the dazzling shifts of fashion to which Pringle have contributed. Textile manufacture around the border town of Hawick had been famous years before the start of Pringle, even before John Hardie set up his first stocking frame there in
76547 CRICKET’S GREAT
ENTERTAINERS by Henry Blofeld
As a cricket writer and historian with an encyclopedic knowledge and a unique brand of wickedly sharp humour, Henry Blofeld is the ideal man to select the great players and notable commentators like John Arlott, who have livened up the sport over the years. In his irrepressibly enthusiastic book we
hear of the exploits of the legendary Ian Botham, a man who made up his own rules, and remains one of the highest wicket-takers in the history of Test cricket. Here too are Garry Sobers, the immensely popular all-rounder and the furious and brilliant Dennis Lillee, an explosively temperamental fast bowler who, when ordered to change his aluminium bat, once held up a game with a tantrum. Blofeld regales readers with sometimes mischievous stories and singles out those players who have made cricket lovers cancel appointments to go and see them. With his anecdotes about W. G. Grace and Donald Bradman, Denis Compton and Brian Lara, and many more, the author’s contagious humour will delight from beginning to end. 335 paperback pages with b/w archive photos.
£8.99 NOW £4.50
74430 BRITIAN’S MOST ECCENTRIC SPORTS by Richard O. Smith
In Cumbria they hold the World’s Biggest Liar Championships, in Dorking a wife carrying race, or have you ever heard of underwater hockey, pram racing at Hastings, onion eating, gravy wrestling, custard pie throwing, and or course, our cheese rolling, open crabbing, men’s netball, korfball and crazy golf? Britain is a nation of good sports. Madcap, hilarious and sometimes downright dangerous. 160pp in paperback, colour photos. £9.99 NOW £2
76074 CYCLING TRAFFIC-
FREE LONDON by Jules Selmes
25 traffic-free cycling routes. The main routes are from Kingston to Teddington Lock via Hampton Court Palace, Kew Bridge, Waterloo to Tower Bridge, Greenwich, the Limehouse Basin, the Grand Union Canal, the Isle of Dogs, the River Lea Navigation, Richmond Park,
Wimbledon Common, Hyde Park and the Mall, Regents Park to Hampstead Heath, Epsom Downs Loop, right out to Epping Forest among them. Station, parking, distance, hills and gradients, surface, refreshments and roads and road crossings. Maps and clear instructions. Colour photos, 128pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.75
TRANSPORT
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- H. G. Wells 76452 LONDON’S
CLASSIC BUSES IN BLACK AND WHITE by John A. Gray
On occasion the “classic” epithet is well-deserved and in no instance is this better demonstrated than with the London Transport
“Routemaster” rear entry/exit bus in all its many incarnations,
which first hit the streets of the capital in 1954. Double- decked, slender for its passenger capacity, quick for passengers to board and alight, safe for passengers with a conductor and driver with totally separate duties, it fell foul of the “improvers” as early as the 1960s but remained in service well into the next millennium, and around two fifths of those built are still in existence today. In 2001, Ken Livingstone’s choice of the disastrous “bendy-bus” over the “son of Routemaster” design left Boris Johnson the simplest task ever to ensure election as Mayor in 2008 - ditch the “bendy” and go ahead with the new diesel-electric hybrid LT2 Routemaster “Borisbus” which went into service in 2012. This superb selection of fully captioned b/w photos taken between 1948 and 2001celebrates London’s great buses and the routes they plied. Gray’s eye for minutiae is quite amazing: he spots the smallest details pertaining to bus, driver, conductor, passengers, roads, other vehicles and even street furniture like pillar boxes and signage which turns this into far more than just a collection of photos. It is a riveting festival of public transport down memory lane (and Memory High St, Memory Broadway and Memory Bus Garage) where the bus, rather than the car, is the star. We particularly enjoyed the shots from Docklands before it was redeveloped: empty roads, empty streets, not a wine bar to be seen, and then there is the decapitated RT1709 that was driven at speed under the low bridge on Rotherhithe New Road - only one passenger was on the top deck, and he threw himself to the floor when he saw the bridge coming! And the adverts - “Wool, the Wealth of the Commonwealth”, Capstan Non-Filters and Eno’s Fruit Salt - wonderful stuff! 96pp, 9"×10", over 130 photos, many full page. £14.95 NOW £7.50
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1771. Barty-King leads up to that year through 200 years of hand knitting and another two centuries of ‘framework’ knitting across the country. Beautifully designed, 184 very large pages with colour and many other photos besides. £25 NOW £6
75281 LOST CITY: Old Aberdeen by Jane Stevenson and Peter Davidson The “lost city” of Old Aberdeen is one of Scotland’s greatest but, strangely, least well known architectural treasures. From the 15th century until 1891 this ancient burgh situated on the River Don was legally autonomous from the younger bustling trading town to the south on the Dee with its own distinct trades, traditions and institutions. With its treasure house of architectural gems such as the medieval Brig o’ Balgownie and St Machar’s Cathedral, the Georgian townhouses built for the Highland aristocracy and the ancient University, myths about the city, the remarkable characters and the trades and industries that have sustained it. 164pp, glorious colour illus, 9¾” square softback. £14.99 NOW £5.50
75287 SOOR PLOOMS AND SAIR KNEES: Growing Up in Scotland After the
War by Bob Dewar Post-war Scotland was a time of penny trays, Brylcreem, ‘jeely’ making, cub scouts, outside lavvies, coal fires, family Sunday walks, Cowboys and Indians, mangles, allotments and
smallholders. Delightedly, and delightfully, the author relives his childhood diversions, his school, the Box Brownie snapshots he took of everyday life in black and white, the shopping - austerity style, of course - and the soggy swimsuits and Spam sandwiches that were an integral part of holidays at home (never abroad). 112 softback pages 26cm x 21.5cm, author’s own charming brush-and-ink colours. £12.99 NOW £6
75442 CASTLES OF SCOTLAND: Places and History
by Christina Gambaro and Anna Galliani From the first defensive towers in bare stone to the stately homes of the 19th century, crammed with paintings and precious furniture, the most daring of men fought to defend or conquer these architectural wonders. Artists and architects were commissioned to embellish them. Their fortunes were ensured by the most powerful families. We follow an evocative itinerary through ancient buildings, climbing narrow spiral staircases, crossing imposing halls, admiring splendid libraries, marvelling at the tall, double-walled stone towers called brochs. Here is the spectacular Eilean Donan Castle, which takes its name from the island that it completely engulfs. Here, by contrast, is Drummond Castle which still retains all the features of a 17th century Scottish Renaissance castle. 136 pages 30.5cm x 25cm, super colour with fold-out triple spreads and map.
ONLY £9
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