Do you want to try a new, interesting way to work out? Are you trying to build muscle? Are you looking for things to add to your workout routine to make it more versatile? Have you heard of Calisthenics but are unsure of how to approach this type of workout? Are you simply looking to broaden your workout horizons? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then this book will be a great tool for you!Calisthenics is a new and emerging type of workout that you may not yet be fa...

This book describes the reaction of the common people to some of the tumultuous events which occurred in Northamptonshire and shaped England's history, and how this gave rise to many colourful folklore traditions. Especially rich in dialect, vocabulary, legends, and wondrous stories that have been handed down through the ages, the character of Northamptonshire and its people is firmly rooted in its folklore. There are tales of literary folk and noblemen, but always at the ...

'An outstanding intellectual biography.' Eugene RoganWINNER OF THE BRITISH-KUWAIT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY BOOK PRIZEIn 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth starts here. Soon he’s reading Newtonian science and the radical ideas of Voltaire and Volney: he loses his religion, turning away from the C...

Crowns in Conflict: The Plantagenet-Capetian Dynasties presents a groundbreaking reexamination of medieval Europe's most consequential royal rivalry – a centuries-long struggle that shaped the foundations of England and France while laying the groundwork for the modern nation-state.Drawing on extensive primary sources, this meticulously researched work reveals how the prolonged competition between these powerful dynasties was far more than a series of battles and marriages...

The Hunters (A police detective Thriller)'To follow… the brilliantly inspired tracking of Hill's two detectives is a joy, apart from the brainteasing pleasure of accepting the author's challenge to identify the murderer.'London Evening News'Staunton walked out into the field. He stopped about twenty yards in, squatted down on his haunches and stared at the ditch where the girl's body had been found. Then he was motionless for a while, absorbing the deta...

Price is the most significant factor affecting the profitability of every business, profit centre or department. When the pressure is on to perform or grow, your instinct may be to discount, undercut your competitors, cut costs and promote through price. Yet these are often the last things you should do. Pricing for Profit is the most practical guide on pricing available. Using a firm, profit-focused framework developed running real projects for real busi...

A moving and hilarious memoir of life on three Scottish lighthouses - and a beautiful tribute to a long-lost vocation that will always capture the imagination.In 1973, Peter Hill was a 19 year old hippy art student when he was interviewed for the job of Relief A moving and hilarious memoir of life on three Scottish lighthouses - and a beautiful tribute to a long-lost vocation that will always capture the imagination.Lighthouse Keeper by The Commissioners of the Northern Lig...

There is a fine line between genius and insanity.In this dangerously overpopulated world, terrorism and fanaticism reach boiling point.Against a background of terrorist plots, political intrigue and espionage, the lives of three powerful women become inextricably entwined.Fleur Nichols, a beautiful and astute investigative journalist, Wenna Cavendish, an ambitious senior MI5 officer and Simone Gofre, a brilliant lesbian virologist, leave their marks...

Whoever controls these men controls the future of the world.After the virus, men are rare.Fertile males are even rarer.They have to be protected and milked of their semen if humankind is to survive.In this female-dominated world all but a handful of the viable males are in England, kept in a luxurious, heavily-guarded ex-SAS compound, prisoners of their own fecundity. They are serviced by 'milkmaids', whose function is to secure their precio...

The Fanatics (A Political Hostage Thriller)'A really good thriller writer…'The Daily TelegraphA terrorist unit brings sudden death to London.They have instructions to assassinate the two leaders of the new radical CDP (Christian Democrat Party).After gunning down one CDP leader in his Westminster flat, the pair set off to execute the other but the appearance of the police forces the pair to avoid capture by seizing the Rever...

They all want feisty British journalist Fleur Nichols dead.The CIA think she is a Jihadist sympathiser.The Jihadists think she is a CIA informant.She is on the hit list of a renegade assassin.But the biggest threat of all is the deadly virus that has been let loose on the world, leading to the closure of international borders and the imposition of martial law.If that wasn't enough her partner has been killed by a suicide bomber in Pa...

Discover the forgotten revolution that shaped our world...In the shadow of castles and cathedrals, amid the tumult of crusades and conquests, a quiet revolution transformed Europe. The 12th Century Renaissance reveals this hidden turning point in Western civilization—a remarkable intellectual awakening that laid the foundations for our modern world.This groundbreaking book challenges everything you thought you knew about the Middle Ages. Long befor...