"Carlsen sees a world of wonder hiding in plain sight and may just change how you look at the world around you." —TODAY ShowA simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life—from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights.In this celebration of the seemingly mundane, Carlsen opens our...

The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use onvessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor,on board. It provides assistance and direction for crew memberswhen it becomes necessary for them to assess and treat traumaand medical illness. Ships and fishing vessels which carryCategory A or Category B stores are required also to carry acopy of the guide.This new guide, the 24th edition, continues to k...

This lavishly illustrated monograph is the definitive publication on the internationally renowned Canadian artist Marcel Dzama. Characterized by an immediately recognizable cast of fanciful and frightening characters, Dzama’s work draws from a diverse range of influences, including Dada and Marcel Duchamp. While the artist is best known for his delicate psychosexual drawings, his work also includes sculpture, painting, and film. More than 500 color images from the late 1990s through the pr...

the Ship Captain’s Medical Guide is intended primarily for use on vessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor, on board. It provides assistance and direction for crew members when it becomes necessary for them to assess and treat trauma and medical illness.For the 23rd edition, the guide has been comprehensively rewritten, with the aim of reflecting current best medical practice, applying this to the maritime environment. The new guide also incorporates advance...

In a world without wood, we might not be here at all. Without wood, we wouldn't have had the fire, heat, and shelter that allowed us to expand into the colder regions of the planet. If civilization somehow did develop, our daily lives still would be vastly different: there would be no violins, baseball bats, chopsticks, or wine corks. The book you are now holding wouldn't exist.At the same time, many of us are removed from the world where wood is shaped and celebrated every day. Th...

'How'zit, Sir!' simply had to be written. It contains a collection of anecdotes that should be enjoyed by anyone who has had anything to do with childhood, puberty, adolescence, adulthood and geriatrics - it therefore follows that there should be something for everybody in this book. Ninety-nine percent of what is written here is true; all the characters really do bear a resemblance to persons you might know or have known or who might be similar to someone you know. The experiences in this...

Wake Up and Take Control of Your Life and Business!Darren Stephens and Spike Humer, two of the world's most Brilliant Business minds, reveal the secrets to How to Transform your Business and make it Survive and Thrive in any Economic Climate.What separates companies in any economy, any market or any industry is your ability to adapt, adjust and execute. Business owners who know where they are, where they want to go, and then take effective action survive and thrive - those ...

Learn to think like a billionaire.If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Millionaires & Billionaires Secrets Revealed will show you how to achieve the extraordinary lifestyle you desire and deserve. Learn how to master your own personal & professional financial future.You will learn:* Wealth creation strategies of the ultra rich.* How to quadruple your speed to financial freedom.* 5 key financial habits of the wealthy.

Volume one of Spike Milligan's legendary memoirs is a hilarious, subversive first-hand account of WW2'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian______________'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a trav...

Third book of the seriesBetty is a childhood prodigy who solved her first whodunnit aged six. She lives with her mother and Aunt Medley in Glim Glumswick, a village that is situated above, and indeed influenced by a powerful and ancient Ley Line.Find out more about her coffin flying friend with attitude Tudor Sefton.

The Wheelchan MobA RUTHLESS, VIOLENT WHEELCHAIR GANG BENT ON RACKETEERING, MURDER AND ROBBERY. WORSE! THE LEADER OF THIS NEFARIOUS BUNCH WAS ONCE RENOWNED AS A BAKER STREET IRREGULAR, ASSOCIATED WITH MR SHERLOCK HOLMES, A STARRY-EYED STREET URCHIN EARNING HALFPENNIES, NOW TURNED MOBSTER... RULING HIS PATCH WITH THE END OF A SAWN-OFF SHOTGUN.Tower Bridge Book

On the other side of Arundel, is a portal, an innocuous musty, rat filled railway tunnel - late October, and a girl will ride an unscheduled service, a train that runs just once every year and enter...HALLOWEENLAND"Trick n treating is for sissies, try the real deal - be scared out of your brains." Says the coffin flyer, ghost girl with attitude Tudor Sefton, "Crack open the most grotesquely pleasing case Betty. That of an age old curse, and how to get it revoked."