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The Ice Diet

Robert Smith — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:48:19 +0000

Super-charge your body’s calorie-burning powers to change the way you look and feel forever.

Based on cutting-edge scientific research, The Ice Diet reveals natural ways to beat weight gain by firing up your body’s metabolism to fight flab.

Health and diet expert Peta Bee has devised a unique six-week plan in three easy-to-follow stages that focus on your diet, fitness and lifestyle. It’s the secret Hollywood celebrities have known for some time – cool temperatures in your diet and lifestyle unleash your body’s fat-fighting ability to give you the body nature always intended you to have.

The Ice Diet is the ultimate fast-track to weight loss, providing dramatic and life-changing results.

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The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:23:05 +0000

In this comprehensive account of the Whitechapel murders, leading crime historian, Paul Begg, establishes all the essential and verifiable information available on the case, and explores the myth of Jack the Ripper in literature, theatre, film and in our culture. His meticulous research illuminates the desperate physical and social conditions in the East End during the 1880s, ideal for the killer’s purposes. He details the real lives of the murdered women, and why they were selected to be victims; examines the evidence against the known suspects; and assesses the opinions of senior policemen at the time on the killer’s identity.

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Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks: The strange stories behind urban legends

admin — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:18:45 +0000

Have you heard the one about Winston Churchill being a druid? Coca-Cola owning Santa Claus? Alligators in Sewers? Or the Beast of Bodmin Moor? We all love a good story. But have you ever wondered where the urban legends, conspiracy theories and old wives’ tales we hear every day really come from? And whether any of them are actually true?

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Shaggy Dogs & Black Sheep: The origins of even more phrases we use every day

admin — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:28:57 +0000

Where is the last chance saloon? Who were Gordon Bennett and Smart Aleck? Why do we have a hunch, get the cold shoulder, laugh like a drain, or get dressed up to the nines? We use these phrases every day and yet have little or no idea where most of them come from. Here Albert Jack takes us on a fascinating journey through the curious and often bizarre origins of hundreds of our favourite words and expressions.

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