The ideal portable companion, the world-renowned Collins Gem series returns with a fresh new look and updated material.This is the perfect pocket guide for nature and foraging enthusiasts keen to identify the most commonly found mushrooms and toadstools in Britain and northern Europe.Authoritative text, beautiful photographs and detailed illustrations show the distinguishing features of each mushroom and toadstool, including details of size, habitat and when it can be found...

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to identify, pick and cook edible mushrooms. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout.From identifying and picking edible mushrooms to growing your own mushrooms, from recipes for seasonal dishes to important information on poisonous species, this book provides all the helpful information you need to relish the exhilarating experience of collecting wild mushrooms....

Mushroom collecting is becoming increasingly popular, and while a comprehensive identification guide is essential, the folklore, facts and fables, recipes and stories that have accumulated since ancient times create part of the charm of these strange organisms. Oddly, these facts have never been compiled in one book.Collins Mushroom Miscellany is a compilation of all of the fascinating biological facts – a mushroom holds the record for the largest spreading single organism covering...

The problem with self help books is that is very difficult for most of us to find areas of ourselves to improve. Face it, we are pretty much perfect the way we are. However we certainly can't say the same of family members, work mates, and most of all, friends. These disasters require information and tips to upgrade themselves and this ebook is just the thing to send them. But do it anonymously if possible, lest they misunderstand. They won't be able to thank you for it, but you will be ab...

Not everybody got to graduate high school. Some of us dropped out to go to work, others got pregnant, or fought a war. A few of us might have been expelled for mowing obscenities into the school's front lawn concerning the Principal and his secretary. It's nothing to be ashamed of.For some of us high school was the worst time in our life. Our shortcomings were exposed during gym showers, so we got shoved in our locker for the weekend, and had to experience the Senior Prom from ther...

During the long, cold December weeks leading up to Christmas, as we spend our time frantically panicking about the financial side of the festive season, it's all too easy to forget the traditional nativity story. The real meaning of Christmas and the traditions that have existed for generations are shunted aside as we worry about how many shopping days we have left and how we're going to fit that monster turkey into the oven.In this charming book, Patrick Harding breathes new life i...

Splendiferous is an adventure set in a cruel world seventy years after the Nazis won W.W.II. The narrator of the piece is sixteen-year-old Telly Walker. Soon the Night Watch will implant a chip in the back of his neck and he'll do menial work across the bridge for rich white folks who are only too happy with the status quo.After his rebel journalist father disappeared and was declared dead,Telly's family was sent to a Ghetto, a world where public floggings and hangings are common, ...

Steve Palmer had lived the archetypal middle-class life. After graduating from UC Berkeley with an MBA, he embarked upon a promising career in finance, married a successful woman, and acquired the rewards of a prosperous lifestyle. They lived in their dream house in the Berkeley hills, drove a set of his and hers Mercedes and joined the prestigious Claremont country club.Having no children, they indulged themselves with vintage wine and modern art collections.When their marr...

When you’re a forty something old male, newly single and looking to meet mature women on-line, you need to understand the rules of engagement. What women are looking for and how they approach such connections may surprise you. Behind these digital personas are women who are more complicated and evolved than those you will have met before. Through such encounters you will learn something about life.Steve Palmer had lived the archetypal middle-class life. After graduating from UC Ber...

Telly Walker, the diminutive hero of Splendiferous, finds himself attending Werner Von Braun Institute of Technology in Florida hoping to reveal how and why one of their Drones gassed an entire Native reservation some 1200 miles away. Was it the first shot in a War of Independence against Berlin? Or evidence that the new bosses will be worse than the old ones?His exploits in Splendiferous made him something of a national symbol of resistance against the status quo. It gets him into ...

'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian NortonFrom the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since our our Neolithic ancestors' first forays into sheep-rearing nearly 11,000 years ago, these remarkable animals have fed us, clothed us, changed our diet and language and finance...

The best of the weirdest news, facts, and fun from all over the world!Where else could you learn about a woman who broke her legs flying a pig, a student who got credit for dressing like a lobster, and a man who patented a method for determining the sex of a spinach plant? Uncle John rules the world of bizarre information and humor, so get ready to be thoroughly entertained. Read all about . . .·The world's longest ear hair·A girl raised by dogs