New Releases by Rod Green

Lead a life of adventure from the cushions of your couch Long before emergancy assistance was just a cell phone call away and GPS systems kept the mystery out of even the deepest off-roading trips, toughness-mental and physical- and independence were valued far above technology. Our fathers and grandfathers know how to fend for themselves and survive in even the most perilous situations, but up until now, our generation has taken a pass on acquiring such crucial life skills. The Dangerous Book for Men shows how today''s man can once again discover the exhilaration of an adventerous life with.

Plongez dans les passionnantes aventures des pirates au moment de l’âge d’or de la flibuste ! Pillez les navires ennemis avec Bartholomew Roberts, enterrez le trésor avec le capitaine Kidd et battez-vous avec barbe-Noire. Ecoutez les cris des hommes, le fracas des armes, le feu des pistolets et le bruit assourdissant des canons ! Entrez dans l’Histoire vivante de cet album avec de fastueux décors et de sons incroyables !

Presents sound effects, textual explanations, and detailed pop-up illustrations of such scenes of pirate life as a ship getting ready to sail, an attack by Chinese pirates, and pirates feasting, burying treasure, and fighting the British Navy.

This book''s hero is Darius Antonopoulos, an artist and apprentice printer who left London in 1605 to visit his ancestral home in Greece. What he found there was to send him on an incredible journey - a quest to discover the Seven Wonders of the World.

In this series, diorama pop-ups and atmospheric multi-layered sounds perfectly capture the atmosphere of each age, showing readers what it would have felt like to live at the time. ''Knights'' invites readers to witness a battle, enjoy a lord''s banquet, take part in a tournament and endure a siege.

Mr Bean has jokes for every day of the week and he has organised this collection of his favourite jokes so that you, too can have a stock of jokes for Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, any day you need a good laugh.

A coffin-shaped book offers facts and lore about cemeteries, skeletons, ghosts, apparitions, haunted buildings, vampires, werewolves, witches and spells, zombies, mummies, and Halloween.

There are many things that go bump in the middle of the night that have dark and terrifying causes.Night Fright takes on the supernatural in spine-chilling tales of witches, haunted houses, werewolves, vampires and all sorts of ghostly goings from across the world. Turn the pages and read about hauntings, grave-robbers and ancient curses. Discover a witch''s book of spells and learn how to protect yourself from a vampire!

Sais-tu qui te rend visite lorsque tu es profondément endormi ? Qui dresse la liste des enfants sages ? Qui parcourt le ciel en une seule nuit pour distribuer ses cadeaux à tous les bambins de la Terre ? Le Père Noël, bien sûr ! pénètre dans son royaume enchanté et découvre quelques-uns de ses mystères les mieux gardés : son chalet du Grand Nord, son village de lutins, la femme chère à son cœur, les préparatifs de la plus belle fête de l''année et son formidable traîneau au mille et une options. C''est avec grand plaisir que le Père Noël te dévoile son monde avec autant de précision. Mais chut ! Garde ses secrets pour toi...

Presents an account of how reindeer are raised at the North Pole by Santa and his helpers, with details on the skills they have to learn, the chores they have to do, and the tricks they like to play on the elves, along with descriptions of the personalities of some of the most famous reindeer.

Published to coincide with the keenly anticipated new Bean movie, Mr Bean¿s Holiday, this hilarious book contains over 300 Bean-inspired jokes. Illustrated throughout with distinctive line art, and with a new film tie-in cover, this bestselling title will enjoy a huge surge with Bean back at the Box Office.

Foyle''s War has been widely praised for its engaging storylines, admirable performances and also for the painstaking attention to detail that gives the series such an air of authority and authenticity. The Real History of Foyle''s War goes back to the real events and people that inform the fiction, and with stills from the show interspersed with historical images, provides an intriguing insight into law and order on the home front between 1939 and 1945, offering a wealth of background information on the living and working conditions for ordinary people during that time, on the role of the police in wartime and the crimes on which the plotlines of Foyle''s War are based.

Un voyage au pays des chats avec 400 photographies inédites. Sauvage ou affectueux, indépendant ou câlin, vif ou nonchalant, découvrez votre félin préféré dans ses poses les plus craquantes !

A gorgeous and quirky celebration of those pretty, peculiar and well-loved edifices that stand between humankind and the open sea. Wherever there are beaches, there are beach huts; the cabins that provide that last bastion of domestic security between us and the ocean from which we came - and the last stop before we take off our clothes and become one with nature... From the Black Sea to Belgium, South Africa to Southwold, Cannes to California, Melbourne to Morecambe, Scandinavia to Sardinia and every country with a coastline in between, beach huts stand bravely against the elements and represent more about our humanity, our national characteristics, our local and national cultures, and indeed ourselves, than we may realise. While worldwide, local authorities may dictate how the outside of these cabins should look as a symbol of civic pride, inside is a little world entirely individual - a cosy home-from-home, a love nest, a storage place, ...

Plus de 350 photographies inédites des 70 races les plus (ou moins) connues, montrant le meilleur ami de l''homme comme vous ne l''avez encore jamais vu !

Oi, moosh! Pay attention and you might learn something here. This is my booming marvellous A to Z of jokes. It''s a positive treasure trove of ticklish humour, a gigantic gallery of giggles, an overloaded lorryful of laughter. Like all good books mine starts at the beginning and finishes at the end, and like all good dictionaries, it starts at the beginning of the alphabet with A, although personally I think they should reorganise the old alphabet so that it starts with the most important letter - B (for Basil). But in the meantime, we will have to stick with convention so the first jokes in the book are about things beginning with A...like Ant: I say, I say! What kind of ants totally spoil your picnic when they run all over the cakes? Elephants! There''s no room here for one of my longer ones, but long or short, the entire A-Z of jokes in my Joketionary are guaranteed to be Boomin'' Marvelous