A Place in the Sun: Ultimate Escapes is the latest tie-in book to the hugely popular TV series, this time focusing on tropical hideaways in far flung places, including sections on the USA, the Caribbean, Australia and South Africa. Covering locations with beautiful white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters, as well as areas of rolling hills and breath-taking lakes, A Place in the Sun: Ultimate Escapes always takes a close look at the irresistible houses available, and offers a practical guide to buying property in the countries featured. With indispensable advice from people, featured in the TV series, who have taken the plunge and sought out their own piece of paradise, the book offers an insider's view of househunting abroad, as well as an honest look at the expat experience. Whatever your dream location, this must-have guide will have it covered, and with the series' trademark stunning photography, A Place in the Sun: Ultimate Escapes is a truly aspirational guide that showcases places that really are paradise on earth.

A Place In The Sun: Ultimate Escapes

Blake, Fanny

Travel

Channel 4 Book

When Britain went to war with the Boers in October 1899, everyone was confident that it would be an easy victory and over by Christmas. The war, however, was neither glorious nor swift, It not only irreparably damaged the British Empire but led to the establishment of apartheid in South Africa. This is a portrait of the war through the eyes of ordinary soliders and civilians. It includes letters and diaries written by British, Canadian and Australian soldiers, along with accounts by black South Africans of their experiences during the war.

The Boer War: Military History

History

Jackson, Tabitha

Military

Watercolour Challenge

"Watercolour Challenge" is Channel 4's daytime series featuring amateur painters. Presented by Hannah Gordon, the show travels to some of the most beautiful parts of the British Isles and challenges local artists to paint a scene from a chosen area in just four hours. For some this is a terrible rush - for others it is just too long. All have their distinctive style - some representational, some expressionists, some abstract - and with such a range of subjects, Diana Vowles has the opportunity to discuss all aspects of watercolour as she meets so many different painters. "Watercolour Challenge" aims to inspire other would-be artists to don their smocks and pick up their paintbrushes. The book is an accessible practical guide to watercolour painting, including guidance on how to get started, descriptions of all the major techniques, hints and tips from the "Watercolour Challenge" experts and detailed descriptions of the styles employed by the competitors.

Arts & Photography

Vowles, Diana

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

"Queer as Folk" is the story of three gay guys, their families and friends. The exploits of Stuart, Vince and Nathan covered many of the thornier problems in life, such as cleaning up your loft apartment after a wild party, how you should react when your mum wants to come clubbing with you, and the perils of being the ultimate social outcast - a Doctor Who fan. This title contains the complete unexpurgated scripts from the first series, and includes scenes that were never transmitted.

Queer As Folk: The Scripts

Humor & Entertainment

Davies, Russell T.

Movies

The Day The World Took Off goes back 100 years, then 250, 500, 1,000 and finally 10,000 years, to examine the roots of technological development.To understand how technology evolves, and why it transforms some parts of the world and not others, requires a long-term view of world history that extends well beyond the last two centuries. This book takes the reader on a dizzying global journey through history in an attempt to identify the critical conditions that caused some civilizations to flourish and others to atrophy. Using diaries and first-hand accounts, as well as drawing on the latest academic research, it comes up with some surprising answers.

The Day the World Took Off: The Roots of the Industrial Revolution

Business & Money

Dugan, Sally

Dugan, David

Economics

The Boer War was brutal, racially explosive and catapulted the world into the 20th century, prefiguring the worst excesses of modern conflicts; the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, scorched-earth policies and concentration camps. It was also a civil war, dividing families, communities and races. This book includes material and oral testimony that makes this a reassessment of the war that shaped the destiny of South Africa and, as Rudyard Kipling remarked, taught the mighty British Empire " no end of a lesson" .

The Boer War

A Place in the Sun: Buying Your Dream Home Abroad

Real Estate

Practical Painting Course shows you how to master all the practical aspects of watercolour paintingincluding paint basics such as laying different types of washes and the rudiments of brushstrokes. You are also helped to attain a full understanding of how colours work with a guide to mixing paints and using colours successfully to create moods and effects. When it comes to planning pictures, this book includes all the compositional tricks of the tradefrom the traditional approaches to perspective, to judicious cropping when a painting is finished. There are also lots of new styles to try for the more advanced painter. This wonderful book provides the inspiration and the know-how to paint watercolours.

Watercolour Challenge: Practical Painting Course

Painting

Station X tells the true story of the amazing achievements of the codebreakers working at Bletchley Park in the Second World War. In 1939 several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies' top-secret centre for deciphering enemy codes. Their task was to break the ingenious Enigma cypher used for German high-level communications. The settings for the Enigma machine changed continually and each day the German operators had 159 million million million different possibilities. Yet against all odds this gifted group achieved the impossible, coping with even greater difficulties to break Shark, the U-Boat Enigma, and Fish, the cypher system used by Hitler to talk to his generals. Station X is also the story of the people involved from leading codebreakers such as Alan Turing, father of the modern computer, to the female operators who intercepted the messages.

Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

Europe

Using 150 dramatic astronomical photos, Extreme Universe investigates the most violent phenomena in the cosmos, from death–trap planets to black holes.

Extreme Universe

Science & Math

Cooper, Heather

Henbest,Nigel

Astronomy & Space Science

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