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  Rodney and Nelson

  Robert Brown, Les Brown

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  “Simply the best reference for any model maker” on the most instantly recognizable British battleships in history (Warship World).   The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references—books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.   The two ships covered in this volume were the only capital ships designed and built between the wars—a special concession of the Washington Treaty’s ban on new battleships—and they were unlike anything before them, with the superstructure three-quarters aft and all main armament turrets forward of the bridge. During the war, Nelson survived mine and torpedo damage, while Rodney played a major part in the destruction of the Bismarck, both surviving to be broken up post-war.

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  Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers...

  Bruce Hales-Dutton

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  The stories of the daredevils who attempted to fly over the English Channel—a history filled with triumphs, tragedies, and colorful characters. 
   
  On July 25, 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane changed the status of a great nation. “England is no longer an island,” declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper’s proprietor, had put up the £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an airplane. 
   
  In securing the prize for one of aviation’s most celebrated firsts, Louis Blériot had beaten his Anglo-French rival Hubert Latham. Six days earlier, Latham had become the first airman to make a forced landing on water when the engine of his elegant Antoinette monoplane failed while he attempted the crossing. 
   
  This book explores the triumphs, tragedies, and many milestones in cross-channel flight, beginning back in July 1785 when John-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries made the first crossing, by balloon. Other flyers quickly followed Blériot so that Pierre Prier made the first non-stop London-Paris flight in April 1911 and Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly the Channel a year later—though her historic accomplishment was overshadowed by the Titanic catastrophe. 
   
  The book also charts other events in cross-Channel aviation such as the midair collision between the UK and France that led to a rudimentary system of air traffic control; the first cat to make the flight; the popular car ferry services of the 1950s and 1960s; and the coming of the jets—providing a colorful history of the era before the debut of the famed Channel Tunnel.

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  Reiki for Dogs - Using Spiritual...

  Kathleen Prasad

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  Learn how to heal, comfort, calm and create a deeper bond with your canine companion using the Japanese spiritual healing practice of Reiki. 
   
  Using the most gentle and natural treatment possible, Reiki for Dogs can help you realize a new level of wellbeing for your dog. This powerful book provides everything necessary to help your dog through times of discomfort and to deepen your bond with the canine companions in your life. With a wealth of information based on the author’s years of training and personal experience, Reiki for Dogs will guide you with: 
   
  • Enlightening tips and tricks for getting started 
   
  • Step-by-step examples of Reiki healings 
   
  • Real-life case studies of dogs helped by Reiki 
   
  Meaning “spiritual energy,” Reiki is used worldwide to support physical, emotional and spiritual healing, and is the perfect complement to traditional veterinary medicine.

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  The Peatlands of Britain and...

  Clifton Bain

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  Clifton Bain now completes his trilogy with this look at the Peatlands of Britain and Ireland. A source of fuel for many generations, they are now a haven for wildlife and plants as well as a storehouse of greenhouse gasses. Their social history is one of exploitation and the value of mending and restoring is a major theme of the book. Like its predecessors, The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland will be a sumptuous volume richly illustrated with photographs and with drawings by the wildlife artist Darren Rees.

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  Summary of The Life-Changing...

  Summareads Media

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  Are You Sick & Tired of Coming Home to A Messy Home? 
  That especially sucks after work isn’t it? 
  Schools have taught us many things. 
  Some useful, some useless. 
  However, have we ever been taught how to tidy in any phase of our life? 
  Think about it… 
  We live in our house; we sleep in our house. 
  We bring our beloved friends and families to our house. 
  And yet… 
  We don’t even know the right strategies & mindset to effortlessly tidy up our house? 
  Yes… “strategies” & “mindset” 
  Marie Kondo is a Japanese organizing consultant & a best-selling author. 
  The book “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up” has sold millions of copies throughout the world & many raving fans will tell you that tidying up will indeed change your life.Here’s what you’ll discover… 
  --- Chapter 1: Why It Is Difficult to Keep Your House Organized (hint: it’s NOT your fault) 
  --- Chapter 2: How to Finish Getting Rid of Stuff First (the right way… of course) 
  --- Chapter 3: How You Should Be Really Tidying (it’s super simple & powerful) 
  --- Chapter 4: How to Store Things Correctly (have you ever learnt this? Us neither) 
  --- Chapter 5: The Life -Changing Magic of Tidying Up 
  --- And so much more. 
  This is more than just tidying up. This is about getting rid of the clutter not only in your environment but in your mind. As cliché as it sounds, our external environment reflects our internal environment.

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  A Sense of the World - How a...

  Jason Roberts

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  He was known simply as the Blind Traveler -- a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Af-rica, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became "one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored," triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain, poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret). Once a celebrity, a bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that has endured -- until now.A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history's most epic lives. Drawing on meticulous research, Jason Roberts ushers us into the Blind Traveler's uniquely vivid sensory realm, then sweeps us away on an extraordinary journey across the known world during the Age of Exploration. Rich with suspense, humor, international intrigue, and unforgettable characters, this is a story to awaken our own senses of awe and wonder.

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