Maria Anderson trained as an NHS nurse and went on to become a midwife, a job she has adored for over 20 years. After fainting whilst attending her first three births, Maria went from nervous trainee to assured midwife and in her brilliant memoir she recounts the highs and lows of life inside the maternity unit
The final year of World War II in western Europe saw the world's largest amphibious operation at D-Day, the largest airborne operation for its time at Arnhem and proved with Hitler's offensive in the Ardennes that victory was not going to be easily won.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
Updated in line with the ITIL 2011 editions and Release, Control and Validation (RCV) syllabus, this quick-reference guide will help you as you study for the RCV module of the ITIL Intermediate Cpability qualification.
A follow-up to the highly successful COOKING FOR BLOKES, published as a paperback original by Warner Books in August 1996. Having mastered the basics of (mostly) British cooking, here is a chance to learn some basic foreign cooking. Written in a lighthearted way, Duncan Anderson and Marian Walls give you a mixture of easy, moderate and more difficult recipes from all over the world - Chinese, Asian, Indian, North European, French, Italian and Mediterranean, American and Mexican. Such delicious recipes as: Starters: cherry soup, mushrooms in wine, guacamole... Main Courses: Apricot and turkey casserole, Thai chicken with basil, cashew nut and chicken curry, cassoulet, cheese and fennel salad, enchiladas, plaice fillets in prawn sauce, spring lamb stew, ham and cheese bake, risotto, Mediterranean lamb hot pot... Desserts: chocolate mousse, fried banana, pecan pie.. And there are many recipes for vegetarians including: chilli omelette, curried eggs, fried cheese tortillas, lentil onion rice bake, mushrooms in wine...
An omnibus edition of the bestselling COOKING FOR BLOKES and FLASH COOKING FOR BLOKES* Basic cookery for all.
The illustrated history of Germany's Eastern European campaign documents a four-year struggle of epic proportions, beginning with Operation Barbarossa-Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941-and ending with the fall of Berlin in 1945. A year-by-year history, along with archival photography and color maps and drawings, dissect SS tactics along the 2,000-mile front, while illustrating the strategies and comparing German weaponry and equipment with that of the Red Army. Major events like the siege of Leningrad, the trek to Moscow in the dead of winter, the Soviet push to Berlin, and more are all examined in detail, as are leading figures in the campaign. An essential and complete look at the eastern half of Nazi Germany's flawed two-front strategy. '
This cookery book is specifically designed for blokes. It provides simple explanations for cooking whilst encouraging healthier eating. From the simplest snack to something to impress Mum, this book provides step-by-step instructions and covers Indian, Chinese and Italian cuisine.
The Argentine invasion of the Falklands in 1982 sparked national outrage and Britain felt she had to avenge such a humiliation and protect her own. This volume explores both the military and political dimensions of this important conflict, including detailed accounts of the air/sea battle.
Glass Warriors is the new, text-only paperback edition of The Times War, and has been fully revised and updated to include in-depth biographies of the war journalists and photographers in the book as well as chronologies of all the major wars.