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The Soft Diet offers groundbreaking ideas and exciting recipes for the increasing number of people who have problems chewing or swallowing, whether through disability, dental problems or illness. It is based on providing proper nutrition, with vegetables and fruit, salads, bread and cakes, cereals,...

Olivier Lagalisse takes the dog owner through the aging process a dog undergoes, clearly outlining the signs of age and the most common ailments that older dogs are subject to. There is accessible and simple advice on how to prepare your dog for a happy old age. This book contains everything the dog...

He's 39, a writer, dried up and waiting for better days. She's ten years younger, an arts graduate, not doing anything much. Both married, both bored. Lust at first sight. And so they fuck each other and keep fucking each other, just about everywhere in just about every way, and their desire increases....

In the early 1990s British cycling was an irrelevance on the world stage on both road and track. Yet by the Beijing Olympics in 2008 it had turned itself into the most feared track squad in the sport. Four years later, in 2012, British Cycling and British riders would dominate the sport on both road...

Finally, the secrets of natural magnetism made plain, in the 19th Century's delightful prelude to How to Win Friends and Influence People "You are not the weak, downtrodden creature you have so long considered yourself, but a glorified, radiant, happy being!" Drawn from the...

The Bombay Marines are the East India Company's private fighting ships, defending India's coast and naval trading routes. Captain Adam Horne is the commander of history's first naval commandos and a hero in the mould of Hornblower, Alexander Kent's Bolitho or Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin....

The light greenery of the early summer is trembling around Erik and Julia as they shove their children into the car and start the drive towards the house by the sea on the west coast of Finland where they will spend the summer. From the outside they are a happy young family looking forward to a long...

Vesuvio is the golden Voyager, destined to journey through every cavern of depravity in the ancient world. It is a time when Rome was at its most decadent and throbbing with the muscle of slavery, the First Century A.D., an age of sensual adventure and unbridled sexuality. In this, the first part...

Vesuvio is the golden Voyager, destined to journey through every cavern of depravity in the ancient world. It is a time when Rome was at its most decadent and throbbing with the muscle of slavery, the First Century A.D., an age of sensual adventure and unbridled sexuality. Pagan Voyager, the second...

Vesuvio is the golden Voyager, destined to journey through every cavern of depravity in the ancient world. It is a time when Rome was at its most decadent and throbbing with the muscle of slavery, the First Century A.D., an age of sensual adventure and unbridled sexuality. Following Golden Voyager...

Gluten is the basis for much of the Western diet, either as bread, pasta and cereals or as an ingredient in a range of processed foods. However it doesn't agree with everyone. It can lead to problems ranging from Gluten allergy, coeliac conditions, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis or bloating....

Scientific studies have shown how moderate wine drinking lowers the risk of heart disease (especially red wine, which is high in flavonoids). Thanks to its medicinal properties, moderate wine drinkers are 85% less likely to catch colds than those who do not drink; two to three glasses of sweet white...