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What's the brightest light on Earth?

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Distant galaxies, dark matter, black holes elusive, incomprehensible and inhospitable these are the building blocks of modern physics.

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When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly.

Supporting the work of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

Supporting the work of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.

In the fall of 1996 Sydney Plum encountered a solitary Canada goose on a pond near her home in New England.

In the course of a year Julie Brominicks walked around the edge of Wales, having left her job in environmental education at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth.

The latest book of travel essays by prize-winning writer and poet Robert Minhinnick, Island of Lightning documents his travels from his home in south Wales to locations such as Argentina, China, Finland, Iraq, New York, Lithuania, and the titular island itself, Malta.

The city of Portland and its surroundings, including the islands of Casco Bay, have inspired a wide range of art over the past 200 years.

"e;What Edging the City does so effectively, though, is defamiliarize and enrich these landscapes, with allusion, digression and depth, all painted in seemingly effortless poetic prose.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a full-color book celebrating the world's most breathtaking, exciting, and astonishing attractionsplaces you'll want to visit before it's too late.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ';In fact very funny.

This work is a highly readable introduction to Shaykh Mufid, the leading Shi'i scholar of his time, and it examines his contributions in the fields of jurisprudence, theology, and sacred history in clear and straightforward language.

';This is a well paced and exciting read.

In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company.

The much-anticipated follow-up to the Radio 2 Book Club-favourite The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Twenty-two-year-old Tania has moved to Montreal to study, fine-tune her French and fall in love.

';A delicious new voice in crime writing.

Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.

In Comfortable Entertaining, Nathalie Dupree has written the book that gives us permission-at long last-to entertain in a less-than-perfect world.

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