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How to Age Well is a carefully researched, beautifully presented guide to ageing with style and grace. The author who is renowned for her own glamorous look, has spoken to and worked with literally dozens of beauty and fitness experts over the decades. Here she reveals their secrets, hacks and tips on how to always look one's best, from achieving amazing skin, dealing with weight gain and the menopause, to spiritual well-being and contentment. This is a must-have companion, for every woman wanting to look and feel her best, packed full of stunning photographs and expertise from some of the top names in the beauty, fitness and wellness industries.
Contains patterns and instructions for making a wide variety of toys, dolls, cushions and other designs.
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story of a boy who, when his parents died on the Oregon Trail in the 1940s, led his younger brothers and sisters through a thousand miles of hardship to their new home.
A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. Journey from ancient sailing ships carrying silk from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly on spices in the sixteenth; from the American trade battles of the early twentieth century to the modern...
An expansive study of the designs of Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) and company, covering jewelry, hollowware, and flatware designed and produced from 1904 to the present. Jensen's life and the company he founded are thoroughly researched and interpretation of the marks used on Jensen silver is provided. Lavishly illustrated, with an up to date price guide and index.
As long-suffering EastEnders patriarch Charlie Slater, Derek Martin has become one of British TV s best loved stars. Now in this witty and revealing memoir, Derek tells of his extraordinary journey from growing up in the real East End of London during the Blitz to taking up residency in Albert Square. Derek s journey to Albert Square has proved to be an eventful one. A bone fide East Ender, born within the sound of Bow Bells, Derek grew up during the Blitz in a tight-knit, working-class family. In this candid memoir he describes those tough early days, his stint in the police, life on the wrong side of the law and how he turned his dream of being an actor into a reality. But not before tryin...
The true story of a woman's incredible journey into the heart of the Third Reich to find the man she loves. When the Gestapo seize 20-year-old Olga Czepf's fiance she is determined to find him and sets off on an extraordinary 2,000-mile search across Nazi-occupied Europe risking betrayal, arrest and death. As the Second World War heads towards its bloody climax, she refuses to give up - even when her mission leads her to the gates of Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps...Now 88 and living in London, Olga tells with remarkable clarity of the courage and determination that drove her across war-torn Europe, to find the man she loved. The greatest untold true love story of World War Two.
A must-have guide book for anyone is a relationship or about to begin one. Packed full of wide-ranging scenarios and case studies, Happily Ever After...? explores the pitfalls and issues which often lead to marriage breakups and explains how to succeed in enjoying a long-lasting, loving relationship.
Graham Cole has played PC Tony Stamp in hit television drama The Bill for nearly 25 years. Now he lifts the lid on his own life and reveals how he became one of Britain's best-loved TV cops. From growing up in London to patrolling the streets of fictional Sun Hill, Graham's story is witty and warm and reveals what life is like as a star of the country's favourite police drama.
Happiness is one of the six core human emotions. The Happy Hobgoblin turns from happiness to sadness when he's forced to choose between the two sides of his family who are at war. It takes a wise friend to help him realise he does not have to choose: the problem is not his. He can be on both sides and learn to find happiness again being his true self. This is book for younger readers to learn literacy skills on their own or with adults. Comes with teaching aids. Illustrated with rhyme.