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A book which gives scientific proof of the paranormal. Psychic activity, remote viewing, the power of prayer and homeopathy are all discussed in this book which The Ecologist called 'one of the most thought-provoking reads of the year', and which has already gained a almost cult following • Sales Handles • A highly readable scientific detective story which reveals how 'the Field' a vast cobweb of energy connecting everything in the universe, past and present, is responsible for many of the most profound human mysteries • How psychics can read the future and the past; how remote viewing works - and how such techniques have been used by the CIA; how energy healing works; why homeopathy works and all sorts of other mysteries are explored by the frontier scientists Lynne McTaggart has interviewed

We've all heard the golden rule: eat less, exercise more and you'll lose weight. But what if it isn't that simple? • For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works • Debunking myths of about body and systematically explaining why dieting is counter-productive, this unflinching book investigates every aspect of nutrition: from the 'set weight point' that is unique to all of us, to good and bad fats, and from how genes impact our weight to how our hormones are affected after a diet ends • With a new chapter about the link between obesity and COVID-19, this incredible book will help you understand your body better than ever before

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love • At a Hollywood party, a screenwriter rescues an aspiring actress from a drunken suicide attempt. He is married, disillusioned; she is young, seemingly wise to the world and its slights. They slide into a casual relationship together, but as they become ever more entangled, he realises that his actions may have more serious consequences than he could ever have suspected. Hayes' exquisite novella, written in his cool, inimitable style, holds a revealing light to the hollowness of the Hollywood dream and exposes the untruths we tell ourselves, even when we think we have left illusions behind

You've made it to Friday, now what are you going to eat? • Having spent years gathering friends around her kitchen table, Eleanor has perfected the art of Friday night dinner. It usually starts with a sip of something cold and ends with friends tipsily heading home, full and happy. But most importantly, there's always something good to eat • Here are more than a hundred recipes for the best night of the week. If you're planning to spend the evening on the sofa, have your closest friend over or even host the masses, why not try Eleanor's fail-safe crowdpleasers • - Frozen jalapeno margaritas • - Bloody Mary rigatoni • - Barbecued lamb rump with griddled apricots, tahini sauce and garlicky labneh • - Smoky aubergines and mozzarella • - Big summer pasta with Little Gem, courgettes, peas and goat's cheese • - Brown sugar pavlova with miso caramel peaches and bourbon cream • And amongst the recipes are thoughts on the glamour of mixing a martini for one, the lifesaving magic of a really good spaghetti carbonara, and the joy of a table laden with bits, waiting for hungry hands

By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed dead, lost forever under the battlefields of northern France and Flanders • In The Searchers, Robert Sackville-West brings together the extraordinary, moving accounts of those who dedicated their lives to the search for the missing. These stories reveal the remarkable lengths to which people will go to give meaning to their loss: Rudyard Kipling's quest for his son's grave; E.M. Forster's conversations with traumatised soldiers in hospital in Alexandria; desperate attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead; the campaign to establish the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior; and the exhumation and reburial in military cemeteries of hundreds of thousands of bodies

This updated edition contains the account of Alex's El Capitan climb, which is the subject of the Oscar and BAFTA winning documentary, Free Solo • Alex Honnold is one of the world's best 'free solo' climbers, he scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. Exhilarating, brilliant and dangerous, there is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but also impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed themselves as far, 'free soloing' to the absolute limit of human capabilities • Half of them are dead • From Yosemite's famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall explores Alex's seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far

For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, an ordinary, working-class boy from London turned deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist and highly respected scholar • On the way into one of history's most extraordinary stories, Masson would take tea with kings, travel with holy men and become the master of a hundred disguises; he would see things no westerner had glimpsed before and few have glimpsed since • This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, and boundless hope

"Крысобой из будущего и поиски пропавшей штуковины" - третья книга из серии Джима Смита "Крысобой блестящего будущего" • Когда молния ударила в фонарный столб Колина, он перенесся на миллионы лет в будущее и превратился наполовину в мальчика, наполовину в крысу, наполовину в телевизор! • В этом новом приключении будущий Крысобой видит удивительную новую сторону своего врага, злого мистера Икс, отправляется в путешествие на планету Бин и сталкивается с гонкой со временем, чтобы найти пропавшую штуковину • Книга на английском языке • From the bestselling and Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning author of Barry Loser comes the third book in the brilliant Future Ratboy series! Perfect for readers aged 7-10 years old and fans of David Solomons, Pamela Butchart, Tom Gates and Mr Gum

Вернитесь в волшебный город Аврора в волнующей книге Кэрри Джонс "В поисках золотой стрелы" • Энни больше не никто - она Остановительница времени, одна из последних людей, которые могут контролировать время. Теперь она нашла дом в заколдованном городе Аврора, рядом со всевозможными мистическими существами, и завела трех лучших друзей в лице гнома Евы, последнего эльфа Блум и Джейми, который, возможно, тролль • Затем Энни обнаруживает, что злой Райфф похитил ее любимого нового опекуна. Чтобы спасти ее, Энни должна завоевать доверие дракона, любящего загадки, и найти волшебный лук и стрелы. Но когда Энни и ее друзья отправляются на это задание, она узнает несколько шокирующих секретов о своем прошлом - и о прошлом Блум тоже. Смогут ли они спасти положение до того, как Райфф уничтожит все, что им дорого? • Книга на английском языке