Collins Bird Guide

Was recommended this product by an avid bird watcher and it didn't disappoint. Informative with beautiful illustrations. A must-have for the novice and seasoned twitcher.

A must for all off shore sailors

I was recommended this book after completing this years Fastent Yacht race and was hooked from page 1.<br />The storyline kept me gripped and it was even more captivating because it was a true story.<br />Mad as it may seem, it has made me want to sail round the world even more rather than less!

Excellent, can't be faulted

Got this software in the hope that it would save me having to read the highway code book and other relavant books, easy to install, doesn't take a powerful computer to run. The software uses actual questions from the tests and using the internet can keep up to date with the most current questions. Used for 4 weeks and did a mock test once a day and got 49/50 in the theory test and 58/75 in hazard perception, so passed it by quite a margin, the software makes it very simple and easy to learn. Definately 5*.

graet

this item is great i can't stop myself from just sitting there and read lots of pages.

Invictus (aka Playing the Enemy)

Although the book uses the famous 1995 Rugby World Cup Final as a frame to hang the narrative around, it really isn't about the rugby per se. What the real meat of the book concerns is how Mandela made himself a focal point around which apartheid could be pulled down while avoiding the carnage of a civil war. The tense backroom deals and influencing required with the apartheid regime and indeed his own party and friends, are brilliantly described. <br /><br />The book is excellent in describing the factions and tensions involved at the beginning of the end of apartheid. Transitioning apartheid to democracy could have gone very violently wrong not because of"black vs white" issues as you may simplistically think, but due to the fact there were miriad competing factions on all sides that led to huge danger of mass violence. Mandela's biggest problem at times was convincing the ANC to buy into symbols like the rugby springbok as a way of winning people over as he realised outright rejection of all aspects of the"white culture" would push more of the heavily armed white minority over to the side of the hardliners who actively wanted conflict. When you think how the black majority suffered under the cruelty of apartheid, taking the ANC with him on a conciliatory route was an incredible feat of diplomacy and leadership. <br /><br />Mandela's genius was to understand the differences between white South Africans in terms of modernisers vs conservatives vs white supremacists, between forward thinking politicians and hardliners in the security services and especially, underlying all, between the English and Afrikaan speakers. He never made the mistake of alienating people by false stereotyping. In prison Mandela taught himself Africaans and deliberately took an interest in rugby as a way of winning over some of his guards, many of who became close friends during his captivity and after his release. <br /><br />Much detail is included on the Springbok captain, Francois Pienaar, who eventually fell completely under Mandela's spell and captained The Rainbow Nation to rugby glory. In the book Pienaar provides the most striking example of how Mandela could inspire fervent changes in attitudes even in people you'd not expect to be open to his influence. Pienaar was an unlikely convert to Mandela's ideals and as a young man had no political view on apartheid at all - in fact was proudest, as an Africaner, of never losing a school rugby match to"an English school". Mandela handing the Rugby World Cup to Pienaar, both wearing the springbok number 6 shirt, became the ultimate symbol of the real potential for a truely united South Africa against the odds, this book describes how that image became possible.

Beware of the dog

Great book and gives you a very good insight of the man in the scrum, pit bull as usual pulls no punches.

Compelling

I have never read a book ostensibly about a sport that I couldn't put down. It's given me hope that I can actually run without injury if I do it how we were intended to.

Collins Bird Guide

Was recommended this product by an avid bird watcher and it didn't disappoint. Informative with beautiful illustrations. A must-have for the novice and seasoned twitcher.

Just what we needed

This is a conveniently sized book that helped us identify the current, Jan/Feb, range of birds visiting our garden.<br /><br />This inspired me to take a number of pictures to complement those in the book!<br />

Exceptional fitness book

I've read a few fitness books (Matt Roberts, Anita Bean and Running Made Easy). There are some very good books out nowadays and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading Walking for Fitness. It's not really true that the book is aimed purely at Power walkers as I think any fitness seeking walker would benefit from the advice here.<br /><br />Of all the books I've read, this one made the most sense to me. It is motivational without being OTT (as these type of books often are). The book is clear and progresses very naturally through all aspects of fitness without making it feel like any part is going to be a struggle. That is the beauty of this book for me: a lot of the time, fitness manuals (in their OTT approach to superhuman healthy living) send you into an OTT regime you'd rarely keep up with. This is gentle and sensible and covers so much more besides just power walking (meditation whilst walking, positive thinking and visualisation, pedicures, massage, healthy diet (where fry ups are allowed!!!), and even basic pilates and yoga). On top of this, you get a good grounding in walking and general fitness. Nothing is too much; just enough to start and enjoy without feeling there is any pressure to succeed.<br /><br />I thoroughly enjoyed this and hope that Nina Barough writes more books in future. It may not be strong enough to motivate a health fanatic, but if you're looking for a solid and gentle fitness book -- which allows you to develop at your own pace without feeling pressured to do more -- you can't really go wrong.

balls to cancer

While this is a great book, for an even better book about about surviving Testicular Cancer read One Lump Or Two by Darren Couchman. OK, he isnt a world class athlete worth millions of dollars, but he is a Top Bloke, an ordinary man who drinks beers, scoffs doner kebabs and farts. He is one of the originators of the Testicle Tour, which he takes a huge pink fluffy testicle round the streets of the UK to raise awareness of this Man Killer. In July of this year he rounded up 14 other Testicular Cancer Survivors (including myself) and 50 supporters, and armed with similar fluffy testicles, walked round the streets of London getting other blokes to 'check their nuts'. <br /><br />Anyway, his book is full of humour, great sadness and best of all, this is where it beats Lance Armstrong's book, explains how to do a Testicle Self Examination. <br /><br />Pure Class Read!<br /><br />Matt 'One Nut' Wakefield<br />9 Year Testicular Cancer Survivor

A great read

A little heavy going at times, but a great read nonetheless. <br /><br />He gives you a taster of one or two of his tricks too, but the value lies in the exploration of criticial thinking versus so called faith based belief systems that have been doing the rounds since time began.<br /><br />Thought provoking and easily worth the money.

if you folow this guide you will lose out heavily! in the game

-Romance plots are not covered aside from a 2 line note.<br />-There is no warning in the guide that perusing a romance in ME2 could aversely effect the events in ME3, should you have imported a character from ME1 that already had a romance going.<br />-if you imported an me1 save, you will meet lots of people from the earlier game, depending on your actions in me1 there reactions will be quite different. Very! Few of these are covered in the guide.<br />- no features, no concept art, no behind the scenes or story out look.<br /><br />:::Spoiler warning:::<br />.<br />.<br />.<br />.<br />-The sequence of the missions you undertake will have a huge effect on the end game, the sequence in the guide will get people killed in game, that could otherwise remerge in ME3. if you chose to go exploring after you have the iff, people from your crew will die in the meantime. You can do one or 2 quests, but when joker and EDI tell you the iff is ready, you should go through the omega4 relay ASAP!<br />-There are actual mistakes in the guide that make it seem like the author has just assumed things are a certain way (which they are not)<br />Conversations that will net you renegade or paragon points are not covered, and you will have to load save games several times if you want a good result.<br />-If you chose to select your endgame squad according to the guide, they might very well die, despite the guides insistence that they will not. The Salarian should not be chosen to infiltrate the vents in the collector base.<br /><br />This guide feels like a n00b has written it. Someone who did a quick play through of ME1 did an import and and a bad job of covering the choices of ME2, this is an RPG and the coises is an integrated part of it, and they are largely ignored. The guide is treated more like a guide for a shooter,"cover here, cause there is an enemy with a rocket launcher here, see map" sort of thing. It feel like the author didn't play it more then once and never realized there were different endings and consequences to choices made. Like the loading screen says what you do in ME2 can have dire consequences in ME3. in other words stay clear of this guide.

Amazingly wonderful book - everything it promised

After years of shying away from running, and then entering myself in this years Great North Run (13.1 miles) I thought I better do something. After just a short while of reading I was desperate to get running, and I have religiously stuck to the first week of my training plan, which although not easy hasn't killed me either. I've also seen a noticable improvement in a really short time. To the point that I ran to greet my parents back off holiday yesterday instead of just standing waiting for them to get to me. I cannot praise this book highly enough and this is just the beginning....

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Excellent service despite having to deal with dodgy postal service in Spain<br />well done

If you are serious about your health you need this book

This book covers everything you need to know about where your body gets it's energy from and how it has different energy sources. It simplifies the process so that even I could understand it and gives the latest info. on which foods to eat, how much you need and when to eat them.

Born to run, baby

If you run, you'll love this book.<br />If you like Murakami, you'll love this book.<br />If you like the short story you'll appreciate the Carver allusion in the title - and you'll love this book.<br /><br />If you do all three - why are you wasting time reading this? Get the book, now!<br /><br />By the way - he's so right about Beck and Gorillaz.

Good as ever.

Good as ever, full of all the detailed info you need to make viewing F1 more interesting. Helps greatly in visualising the circuits. Only drawback - was probably published a little bit early this year and suffers due to the uncertainty from all the team changes and new teams taking part.