Times Books The Times. The Joy of Railways Holland Julian

The perfect gift for every railway enthusiast • The history of Britain's railways is a long and fascinating one, filled with stories of grand endeavours, noted figures and record-breaking feats. Julian Holland brings together a unique miscellany of intriguing tales and engaging trivia - the perfect collection for every railway enthusiast • Stories range from Bulleid's 'Chinese Laundries', trainspotting trips in Wales and Scotland and Liverpool's 'Dockers' Umbrella' to railway artists and clergy, a railway-owned airline and railways that were never built • Find out about • - The Royal Scot's 11,000-mile journey in the USA and Canada • - A narrow gauge island railway in the middle of the Bristol Channel • - How the London & South Western Railway saved the British Empire • - Mallard's unbeaten world speed record of 1938 • - How to fly by Great Western Railway from Cardiff to Plymouth • - The 75-mile network of narrow gauge railways on the Isle of Skye • - How another 4,500 miles of railway escaped closure by Dr Beeching • All Aboard is a delightful miscellany for every railway enthusiast, filled with fascinating and obscure stories, facts and figures

Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games • For anyone who loves the challenge of Su Doku but manages to solve them within minutes, you can now enjoy the extended mental workout and ultimate endurance test of a five grid interlinked system • This is Su Doku multiplied: every column, row and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and columns do not go beyond their usual 9x9 length but the interlocking boxes give you more clues - and more complexity • With another 100 new Samurai puzzles to vex you for hours, lose yourself in the four levels of this book • 30 Mild • 30 Difficult • 30 Super difficult • 10 Deadly • Even the speediest of Su Doku solvers will be agonising over these ultra-complex, extended brain-teasers

Отпразднуйте расцвет пассажирских железнодорожных перевозок по Британии с помощью этой прекрасной книги Times railway • Совершите путешествие назад, во времена бума британских железных дорог, с помощью уникальной коллекции увлекательных историй, фотографий, плакатов и железнодорожных эфемеров • Ведущий железнодорожный автор Джулиан Холланд рассказывает о волнующем периоде в истории железных дорог Великобритании – ушедшем навсегда, но никогда не забытом • Исследуйте столетие железнодорожных путешествий в Великобритании, охватывающее три важных периода • Конец 19 века - 1922 год. Зенит британских железных дорог, в котором работают 120 компаний • С 1923 по 1947 год. Железнодорожные компании объединены в "Большую четверку" • С 1948 по 1994 год. Национализация предвещает эру британских железных дорог

Christopher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of the UK on foot, and has written and broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife and people for over 25 years. Now, in this extensive new volume, he selects his top 200 routes from his hugely popular Times column, A Good Walk • More than just a basic guidebook, this is a meditation on our relationship with the landscape and a celebration of all that Britain has to offer. From Cornwall to Shetland via Pembrokeshire and Barrowdale, this is the most comprehensive collection of walks in the United Kingdom available in one book, and features trails to suit all skill levels and references, whether you want a gentle ramble to the pub or something much more challenging • Each of the featured walks contains • - Detailed description as featured in The Times column • - Postcode and OS grid reference start point • - Instructions on how to get there • - Distance and grade so readers can suit walks to their ability, fitness and mood • - Simple step-by-step walk instructions • - Beautiful colour photograph for each walk • - Full colour, clear and up-to-date map • - Food and accommodation details for the hungry traveller • Featuring stunning photography and using Christopher's trademark with and lyricism, this is the perfect gift for ramblers anywhere

Based on The Times Bridge column, an extensive bridge guide aimed at the less experienced or social player who longs to improve their game, with instructive deals and tips, as well as a helpful Index • Andrew Robson, The Times Bridge Correspondent, is both a champion Bridge player and an inspired teacher. He teaches and tutors at his Bridge Club and has acquired great practical knowledge about how people learn to play Bridge • Based on Andrew Robson's daily column in The Times, common scenarios are presented with an outline of what actually happened, as well as what should have happened. Along with every deal is the very popular handy tip 'If you remember just one thing…', which features throughout the book • The first section of the book, 'The Game', is a basic outline providing the key to playing a sensible game of Bridge, subdivided into 'Bidding', 'Declarer Play' and 'Defence'

A one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world's most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge • Previously published as Collins Need to Know? Bridge. Now with additional practice deals • Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, shows you how to play bridge - starting from the basics and taking you through the learning process step-by-step. Using clear illustrations and accompanying text, Andrew gives the reader a complete course in learning the game, including sample hands and ways to practice • You'll also learn about bidding, tricks, scoring and dealing, and etiquette whilst playing. Above all you'll begin to develop the skills you need to play bridge, and win - including ingenuity, working well in a partnership, and a good memory

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles • For those who like to live dangerously and push beyond their mental comfort zone, steel yourself for The Times' toughest Killer collection yet • Prepare for the extreme mental challenge of 100 Deadly-level Killer puzzles, including, for the first time ever, 20 Extra Deadly, to really test your limits: thjs is the only place you'll find such a torturous collection in a single book • The Times Ultimate Killer Su Doku is not for the fainthearted. The puzzles use the same 9x9 grid as Su Doku, and have an added mathematical challenge. The aim is not only to complete every row, column and cube so that it contains the digits 1-9, it is also necessary to ensure that the outlined cubes add up to the same number as well

"Кодовое слово Times. Книга 1. 150 разгадываемых логических головоломок" - идеальная альтернатива кроссвордам, основанным на знаниях (вы либо знаете это, либо нет, верно?), и Судоку, разгадывающему числа • В этой захватывающей коллекции из 150 совершенно новых кодовых слов, которые впервые в истории ранжируются по возрастающим уровням сложности, вы можете по-настоящему поразмыслить над своей силой слов и по максимуму проверить свою логику • Книга на английском языке • Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles • An utterly addictive puzzle, Codeword is an enormously popular feature of Times2 • This cracker of a puzzle is the perfect alternative to knowledge-based crosswords (you either know it or you don't, right?) and number-crunching Su Dokus

"Таймс Уорлд Атлас-головоломка" - абсолютная географическая задача от ведущих мировых производителей атласов. Викторины и головоломки по составлению карты мира, чтобы проверить, насколько хорошо вы знаете свои страны, флаги и столицы • Оригинальное сочетание словесных игр, простых вопросов, дразнилок, анаграмм и математических головоломок, которые заставят ваш ум работать часами. Эти дьявольские картографические викторины и головоломки придуманы Гаретом Муром, автором бестселлера Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book • Книга на английском языке • Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games • The ultimate geographical challenge from the world's leading atlas makers. World mapping quizzes and puzzles to test how well you know your countries, flags and capital cities

The noodle soup called pho is the national dish of Vietnam. When Little Blue-- having been dropped by a mysterious man with a red car and being told to count to 500 -- finds himself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's baffling, daunting capital, his salvation is his own mobile pho stand. Little Blue's relationship with the city and its food brings an understanding to what it means to never want to return home and the fact that everyone goes away in the end • Beautifully drawn and coloured, and featuring many delicious recipes for pho, this is a startlingly original and immensely appealing graphic novel by a brilliant new talent

An Artist’s Insights on Art Appreciation • Written by a practicing artist, this book decodes and maps the basic elements of visual art, leading the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation. Not an art history lesson per se, this illustrated guide is rather a tool kit to make the study of art and a visit to the museum truly rewarding. An entertaining and informative read, The Joy of Art offers the reader • A working art vocabulary to help you identify and explain what you’re looking at • Answers to many of the questions you may have about visual art in general • A summary of the basic criteria to consider when looking at art • Highlights of the primary art genres and an introduction to the artists who pursued them • Many visual examples of aesthetic considerations and practices • Interesting facts about your favorite artists and clues to why they made the choices they did • A few games to test your new skills • The Joy of Art contains 150 color photographs and many interesting insights from an artist-author who takes readers behind the curtain and into the studio to uncover what actually goes into making a work of art

In The Joy of Tax, tax campaigner Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you have about tax. For him, tax is fundamentally about the ideas that shape the sort of society we want to live in, not technicalities. His intention is to demonstrate that there is indeed a joy in tax, and by embracing it we can create a fairer society and change the world for the better • Tax has been a feature of human society for a very long time. Almost no one gives tax a good press even though, as Richard Murphy argues, it has been fundamental to the development of democracy the world over. Whilst we may not like tax very much, in contrast it is clear that we really do like the public services which governments provide. So much so, in fact, that for most of the last 300 years, people have been more than happy for governments to run deficits by spending more than they raise in taxation