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This is a new edition of the popular guidebook to the magnificent
climbing found on the Pembrokeshire Coast in South Wales. The
information is presented in the full colour Rockfax style with
extensive route descriptions, maps, photo-topos and symbols. The
guidebook is enticingly illustrated with many stunning action
photographs. This is the 2009, 2nd edition. North Coast -
Carreg-y-Barcud, Porth-y-Ffynnon, St. Non's Bay, Craig Caerfai,
Porth Clais. Range East - Flimstone Bay Area, Crystal Slabs, Mosaic
Wall, Mewsford, Crickmail, Triple Overhang Buttress, The Castle,
Rusty Walls, Misty Walls, Box Zawn, Saddle Head, Bosherston Head,
Huntsman's Leap, Stennis Head, Stennis Ford, Chapel Point,
Trevallen, St. Govan's, and, St. Govan's East. Stackpole and
Lydstep - Mowing Word, Stackpole, Mother Carey's Kitchen.
The information is presented in the full colour Rockfax photo-topo
style and includes cruicial advice on when and how to tackle the
deep water solos. The guidebook is enticingly illustrated with many
stunning photographs, the majority taken by the author Mike
Robertson. Mike has been instrumental in developing and promoting
deep water solos throughout the world and has put all his intimate
knolwledge into the book. As a stand-alone comprehensive reference
book, or an essential companion to the traditional guides to the
venues, the Rockfax book Deep Water is eagerly anticipated.
THE LAST SPACE VIKING by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is a
sequel to H. Beam Piper's science-fiction classic, Space Viking.
This new novel takes place a hundred years after Lucas Trask
founded the League of Civilized Worlds. Many changes have occurred
in the Old Federation and King Trask's plans for a new galaxy order
are brought to a sudden halt when a new power emerges from the
ashes of the Old Federation. Will King Rodrik the First of Tanith
be able to salvage his grandfather's dream, or become a tool of the
new Mardukan Empire? Captain David Morland of the Sword-World
Joyeuse might well be the last of the great Space Viking captains.
He emerges at a time when the Old Federation is changing, and not
for the better. All Morland wants is his own Space Viking base
world to use as a place for organizing raids and trading parties
into the thousands of worlds of the long-dead Federation.
Generations of Space Viking marauders have taken their toll and
plunder-worthy planets have declined as more and more of the Old
Federation worlds have slipped into barbarism. But first, Morland
has to find the right world and conquer it before he's discovered
by a new power determined to end the Space Viking menace, one way
or another
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Get a Job (Paperback)
Mike Robertson
bundle available
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R399
Discovery Miles 3 990
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book answers some of the most challenging questions facing
organisations in today's competitive marketplace such as how to
create a collaborative contract in a scalable and cost effective
manner, how to maximise pre-contract savings, reduce contract
spend, reduce business risks and costs, increase revenue without
increasing the number of assets sold and increase profits without
selling for a higher price This book will challenge the way
organisations currently engage when buying and selling, to offer a
solution that could result in increased pre-contract savings for
the buyer and higher sales booking figures for suppliers, increased
post-contract savings for the buyer and increased post-contract
supplier profits. Benefits also include reduced pre-contract costs
for buyer and supplier and reduced post-contract risks and costs
for buyer and supplier.
The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any
notice in 2007. This was followed five years later with the release
of a second volume. As noted in the prefaces to both these
collections, their intended purpose was to present to readers a
series of literary entertainments on a range of issues, activities,
personalities and phenomena. In this, the third volume, these
observations and commentaries continue, combined once again with
short works of fiction. The author hopes, as he did with respect to
the two previous volumes, that this edition is faithful to the
lofty standards and possible amusements of those books.
The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any
notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had
neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being
to present a series of entertainments on a wide range of ridiculous
activities that constitute everyday life. Whether it was faithful
to that lofty purpose remains a mystery, even to the author that
made that bold declaration. Four years later, a second volume of
the Smart Aleck Chronicles appears, its intent no less high minded
than the standards of lunacy reached by its predecessor, its
implementation no less laughable. This time, as in the previous
volume, there are pithy and pointless observations that may have
appeared in previous publications for which the author may have had
responsibility, fictitious biographies of friends and colleagues,
several short works of fiction and top ten lists of observations
that may be symptomatic of clinical insanity. Further, just to
ensure that the reader is not entirely dismayed, there are also
several courageous attempts at poetry.
SPACE VIKING'S THRONE by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is the
concluding sequel to The Last Space Viking, which is set at the end
of the First Interregnum of H. Beam Piper's galaxy spanning
Terro-Human Future History. A century after H. Beam Piper's seminal
novel Space Viking, a new powerful entity, the Mardukan Empire, has
arisen from the ashes of Lucas Trask's League of Civilized Worlds.
This new Empire has set, as its primary mission: the consolidation
of Terro-Human space under their aegis. This means the elimination
of all competing sovereignties, most especially the Space Vikings
and the destruction of their Old Federation base worlds. Captain
David Morland, formerly of Joyeuse, started his career as a Space
Viking in the twilight of the Sword-World's reign of fear. The time
when Space Vikings terrorized the Neobarbarian worlds of the former
Terran Federation has come to an end. The Sword-Worlds, locked into
endless rounds of fratricidal war, are unable to come to the aid of
their brethren in the former Terran Federation. The Imperial Navy
is now playing a game of cat and mouse; suddenly, Space Vikings
find they are the prey, not the hunters Lucas Trask's dream is
dead: The League of Civilized Worlds is no more. Tanith is quickly
reverting to a backwater world. The Trasks are forced to watch
impotently as events pass them by. Meanwhile, on far away
Poictesme-one of Morland's base worlds-events are occurring that
may rock the very foundations of the Old Federation. Prince David
Morland, the last of the great Space Viking captains, is being
hunted by Captain Vandarvant of the Imperial Mardukan Navy.
Vandarvant is consumed with revenge; he wants to pay-back Morland
for defeating him and almost destroying his ship, the Challenger.
While the new Empire casts its nets far and wide to catch the last
of the Space Vikings, Prince Morland works furiously in a race
against time to establish a base world on far off Sarpanitum that
can sustain itself against even the mighty Mardukan Empire.
Because, whether Morland likes it or not, the Empire is coming
Space Viking's Throne is the third novel set in the Space Viking
series.
"These Memories Clear" is a collection of forty short stories, of
various lengths, genres and subject matter. Many of the stories in
the collection are drawn from childhood memories that may or may
not be actual recollections. From one page observations to much
longer pieces like "Close Enough to Miss" and "The Letter Seven,"
it is hoped that this collection is diverse enough to attract the
discriminating reader. Well, at least some of them anyway.
No plot, no characters, hardly any stories, just a collection of
smart remarks and clever lines delivered on a number of subjects
for no apparent reason, the literary equivalent of cleaning out the
closet. The Smart Aleck Chronicles presents a series of
entertainments on a wide variety of seemingly unrelated topics.
Sometimes serious but mostly flippant, the Smart Aleck Chronicles
navigate the reader through the various lunacies of everyday life
without evident purpose. There are sarcastically earnest letters to
the editor, fictional chronologies, biographies of people who may
or may not have existed, erudite comments on the issues that may
have seemed important at one time or another, extremely short
stories, and lists of ridiculous observations on the hilarity of
being or doing just about anything. The Smart Aleck Chronicles
makes no effort to be anything other that what it appears to be,
whatever that is.
Paul Waite is a hopelessly middle aged man with two sons, a heart
condition and a conventional disposition. He unexpectedly loses his
wife of 20 years to a traffic accident. Gone and Back follows Mr.
Waite as he makes his farewell to her. In finalizing her affairs
after she is gone, Paul comes across a startling discovery, a clue
to a mystery regarding his wife that he is determined to solve,
even if it threatens his memories of her and their marriage.
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