Times Books The Times. All Aboard! Remembering Britain’s Railways Holland Julian

Перенеситесь в 1950-е и 60-е годы с этим ностальгическим взглядом на британские железные дороги в дни их славы. Прекрасно проиллюстрировано уникальной коллекцией фотографий, записных книжек с изображениями поездов и железнодорожных эфемеров • Набитый сотнями фотографий, записных книжек с записными книжками-однодневками. Это яркое воспоминание обо всей атмосфере железных дорог, царившей с тех пор, как закончилась эпоха пара и появились дизели • Совершите путешествие по каждому из основных регионов под руководством автора бестселлеров и эксперта по железнодорожным перевозкам Джулиана Холланда • Насладитесь образами могучих паровых двигателей, когда они выполняли свои окончательные графики • Насладитесь частичкой волшебства, которое испытали трейнспоттеры в ту славную эпоху

Christopher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of the UK on foot, and has written and broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife and people for over 25 years. Now, in this extensive new volume, he selects his top 200 routes from his hugely popular Times column, A Good Walk • More than just a basic guidebook, this is a meditation on our relationship with the landscape and a celebration of all that Britain has to offer. From Cornwall to Shetland via Pembrokeshire and Barrowdale, this is the most comprehensive collection of walks in the United Kingdom available in one book, and features trails to suit all skill levels and references, whether you want a gentle ramble to the pub or something much more challenging • Each of the featured walks contains • - Detailed description as featured in The Times column • - Postcode and OS grid reference start point • - Instructions on how to get there • - Distance and grade so readers can suit walks to their ability, fitness and mood • - Simple step-by-step walk instructions • - Beautiful colour photograph for each walk • - Full colour, clear and up-to-date map • - Food and accommodation details for the hungry traveller • Featuring stunning photography and using Christopher's trademark with and lyricism, this is the perfect gift for ramblers anywhere

Отпразднуйте расцвет пассажирских железнодорожных перевозок по Британии с помощью этой прекрасной книги Times railway • Совершите путешествие назад, во времена бума британских железных дорог, с помощью уникальной коллекции увлекательных историй, фотографий, плакатов и железнодорожных эфемеров • Ведущий железнодорожный автор Джулиан Холланд рассказывает о волнующем периоде в истории железных дорог Великобритании – ушедшем навсегда, но никогда не забытом • Исследуйте столетие железнодорожных путешествий в Великобритании, охватывающее три важных периода • Конец 19 века - 1922 год. Зенит британских железных дорог, в котором работают 120 компаний • С 1923 по 1947 год. Железнодорожные компании объединены в "Большую четверку" • С 1948 по 1994 год. Национализация предвещает эру британских железных дорог

A one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world's most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge • Previously published as Collins Need to Know? Bridge. Now with additional practice deals • Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, shows you how to play bridge - starting from the basics and taking you through the learning process step-by-step. Using clear illustrations and accompanying text, Andrew gives the reader a complete course in learning the game, including sample hands and ways to practice • You'll also learn about bidding, tricks, scoring and dealing, and etiquette whilst playing. Above all you'll begin to develop the skills you need to play bridge, and win - including ingenuity, working well in a partnership, and a good memory

Based on The Times Bridge column, an extensive bridge guide aimed at the less experienced or social player who longs to improve their game, with instructive deals and tips, as well as a helpful Index • Andrew Robson, The Times Bridge Correspondent, is both a champion Bridge player and an inspired teacher. He teaches and tutors at his Bridge Club and has acquired great practical knowledge about how people learn to play Bridge • Based on Andrew Robson's daily column in The Times, common scenarios are presented with an outline of what actually happened, as well as what should have happened. Along with every deal is the very popular handy tip 'If you remember just one thing…', which features throughout the book • The first section of the book, 'The Game', is a basic outline providing the key to playing a sensible game of Bridge, subdivided into 'Bidding', 'Declarer Play' and 'Defence'

Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles • For those who like to live dangerously and push beyond their mental comfort zone, steel yourself for The Times' toughest Killer collection yet • Prepare for the extreme mental challenge of 100 Deadly-level Killer puzzles, including, for the first time ever, 20 Extra Deadly, to really test your limits: thjs is the only place you'll find such a torturous collection in a single book • The Times Ultimate Killer Su Doku is not for the fainthearted. The puzzles use the same 9x9 grid as Su Doku, and have an added mathematical challenge. The aim is not only to complete every row, column and cube so that it contains the digits 1-9, it is also necessary to ensure that the outlined cubes add up to the same number as well

Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games • For anyone who loves the challenge of Su Doku but manages to solve them within minutes, you can now enjoy the extended mental workout and ultimate endurance test of a five grid interlinked system • This is Su Doku multiplied: every column, row and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and columns do not go beyond their usual 9x9 length but the interlocking boxes give you more clues - and more complexity • With another 100 new Samurai puzzles to vex you for hours, lose yourself in the four levels of this book • 30 Mild • 30 Difficult • 30 Super difficult • 10 Deadly • Even the speediest of Su Doku solvers will be agonising over these ultra-complex, extended brain-teasers

"Кодовое слово Times. Книга 1. 150 разгадываемых логических головоломок" - идеальная альтернатива кроссвордам, основанным на знаниях (вы либо знаете это, либо нет, верно?), и Судоку, разгадывающему числа • В этой захватывающей коллекции из 150 совершенно новых кодовых слов, которые впервые в истории ранжируются по возрастающим уровням сложности, вы можете по-настоящему поразмыслить над своей силой слов и по максимуму проверить свою логику • Книга на английском языке • Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles • An utterly addictive puzzle, Codeword is an enormously popular feature of Times2 • This cracker of a puzzle is the perfect alternative to knowledge-based crosswords (you either know it or you don't, right?) and number-crunching Su Dokus

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared

More than 100 walks across the length and breadth of Britain’s lost railway lines. Each walk includes a short history of the railway before it closed, a description of what can be seen along it today, practical details such as car parking, access by public transport, a detailed route map and historical and modern day photographs • 4,500 miles of railway and 2,000 stations were closed between 1963 and the mid-1970s. While many of these still remain hidden away in the undergrowth or have been lost to road improvements and urban or industrial development, a growing number continue to be slowly reopened both as recreational footpaths and cycleways and as wildlife corridors • Some of our lost railways have also been incorporated into long distance paths, while they all form wildlife corridors in which butterflies, birds, small mammals and wild flowers flourish

В книге "Эпоха декаданса. Великобритания с 1880 по 1914 год" Саймон Хеффер раскрывает противоречия поздневикторианской и эдвардианской Британии. Он объясняет, как, несмотря на огромную мощь страны, неумело проведенная война против буров в Южной Африке породила глубокие сомнения в ее имперском предназначении. Он показывает, как попытки обеспечить жизненно важные социальные реформы привели к серьезнейшему конституционному кризису двадцатого века и совпали с самыми серьезными промышленными беспорядками в британской истории. Он описывает, как политики, которые уступили право голоса миллионам мужчин, настолько пренебрежительно относились к женщинам, что публичный протест женщин-суфражисток граничил с терроризмом. Он изображает правящий класс, ставший жертвой вырождения и скандала

The Peterloo Massacre is a revealing and compelling account of one of the darkest days in Britain's social history • On 16 August 1819, a strong force of yeomanry and regular cavalry charged into a crowd of more than 100,000 workers who had gathered on St Peter’s Field in Manchester for a meeting about Parliamentary reform • Many were killed. This violent, startling event became known as Peterloo, one of the darkest days in Britain’s social history • The Peterloo Massacre provides a revealing narrative account of the events leading up to Peterloo, starkly describes the actions of that fateful day, and examines its aftermath. It offers a new perspective on the political and military activities of the time, and shows how the very nature of society was powerfully influenced by irreversible technological change: a pattern that, two-hundred years later, still has relevance in understanding the forces shaping our world today