Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty-five years'...
Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken? Did a Welsh prince discover America centuries before Columbus? What happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste?
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Faith is in crisis. Are God and faith no longer useful in the modern world< If both are to have a future, Deepak Chopra argues, we must find a new approach to spirituality....
In this text, Tom Fort traces the history of lawns from the first mention (Henry III) through famous lawns to the present day, interspersed with his own efforts over the year of...
Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece On the Origin of Species shook society to its core, would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy over evolution...
Football isn't a matter of life and death,' Bill Shankly once famously said, 'it's much more important than that.' In The Heart of the Game, Jimmy Greaves looks back over his...
Otto Frank was the father of the most famous girl of the twentieth century. It was Otto who found his daughter Anne's diaries after her death and it was his determination that...
The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off,...
Gervase Phinn is offered the post of County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire because of his good sense and lack of pretension. We don't put people on pedestals in...
The inevitable ageing process does not have to condemn us to solitude, suffering, degradation or dependency. In this meditation on ageing, Marie de Hennezel guides us through a...
The Wisdom Paradox explores the aging of the mind from a unique, positive perspective. In an era of increasing fears about mental deterioration, world-renowned neuropsychologist...