A revolution on the roads is approaching. Is it time for drivers to Give Way? Guardian news correspondent, Peter Walker, takes us on a journey around the world, exploring the varying attitudes to cycling on our highways.Visit the shining examples of Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where cycling culture is an intrinsic part of the approach of politicians and officials. How have these cities made provision for cyclists and what are the extraordinary benefits?And then take to the le...

'This book is pretty life-changing – encouraging, optimistic, rich with information. It got me off the sofa.' Jeremy Vine'This is such a lovely, ambitious, fascinating book. Essential lockdown reading. It allows us to reimagine our world and our bodies: we can move more.' Dr Xand van Tulleken, TV presenter'Truly uplifting' **Chris BoardmanWhat is the 'miracle pill', the simple lifestyle change with such enormous health benefits that, ...

As the King's young cousin, an admired scholar living in Italy, itfalls to Reginald Pole to make the case for Henry's divorce fromKatherine of Aragon. And it falls to the hapless Michael Throckmorton -the younger son of an impecunious titled family - to become ThomasCromwell's messenger to Pole in Rome.This dubious privilege makes of Throckmorton's life a tragicomedy ofendless journeys back and forth between England and Italy, but it alsoma...

'This book is pretty life-changing – encouraging, optimistic, rich with information. It got me off the sofa.' Jeremy Vine'This is such a lovely, ambitious, fascinating book. Essential lockdown reading. It allows us to reimagine our world and our bodies: we can move more.' Dr Xand van Tulleken, TV presenter'Truly uplifting' **Chris BoardmanWhat is the 'miracle pill', the simple lifestyle change with such enormous health benefits that, ...

Beer and bikes: can they ever mix? What's the best way to cycle in a summer dress? How much bike do you get for £70? Or £10,000? The Guardian bike blog is one of the most vibrant sections of the newspaper's website. Here, a cycling community from around the world gives their views, rants, complaints, and every clever tip available - from keeping warm in winter to beating the bike thieves. Along with brilliant advice there are also plenty of biking tales, from the sublime (a ride by moonlig...

THE NYMPHOMANIACAL MOTHER MADE HIM A WILLING SEX-SLAVE!Behind the solid stone walls of an English castle live three beautiful women--the youthful Duchess of Wellington and her two daughters--whose outward manners are beyond reproach, but whose secret lives, consumed by bizarre, festering sensual desires, infect all who enter its halls.Into this aphrodisiac atmosphere of rampant, yet unfulfilled lust, strides Peter Walker, sixteen, a cousin from America. Good-looking, "big...

It is 1967, and as America's allies hesitate over whether to send more troops to Vietnam and the strains of 'All You Need is Love' echo from Abbey Road, students take to the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, to protest the war. Among them are Race, Candy, Chadwick and FitzGerald and their elusive, electrifying friend Morgan Tawhai. They are young and hopeful and the world is all before them.Forty years later, in Washington DC, Race's son Toby is navigating his own path across a l...

The time is now.The world is in turmoil. Elias Girawong, Earth Wizard and knowledge keeper must act. His ceremony, calling the thirteen, heralds a long overdue change to shake the foundations of life itself.But there are those who covet power beyond reason.Each of the thirteen "called" have their assigned roles. Each of them must travel to join the circle of thirteen. Each of them face the challenge of their journey and the will and power of those who would thwart t...

**'Read this and add at least a fortnight to your life.' – Jeremy Vine'Real, down-to-earth and urgently needed.' – Oliver BurkemanWhy do we feel stress? And how can we change things?**Stress Tested is a pioneering collaboration between leading researcher Richard Mackenzie and journalist Peter Walker. Investigating the science of stress hormones, real-life case studies, the history of stress, societal factors and how they interact with stre...

Humanity operates like a force of nature capable of affecting the destiny of the Earth System. This epochal shift profoundly alters the relationship between humankind and the Earth, presenting the conscious, thinking human animal with an unprecedented dilemma: As human power has grown over the Earth, so has the power of nature to extinguish human life. The emergence of the Anthropocene has settled any question of the place of human beings in the world: we stand inescapably at its center. T...

Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rheto...

Millions of people across the world have heard of Jesus Christ, but how many are truly acquainted with the key locations he frequented?In the second edition of this established text, Peter Walker shares the fruits of his lifetime s research and expert knowledge to present a rich and engaging guide to the historical aspects of Jesus world. Following the chronology of Jesus life and ministry and drawing especially on the Gospel of Luke, we move from Bethlehem to Naza...