1/2/08

This book is a must-have A-Z guide to antiques and collectables - from Judith Miller and the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. Keep right up to date with what's happening in the antiques and collectables world with Judith Miller and The Antiques Roadshow's essential guide to buying, selling, and collecting. From creamware to costume jewellery, Murano glass to Bauhaus, over 3,000 entries draw on the expertise and experience of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow specialists.Find accurate, informative and practical definitions, helping you to identify pieces.

Voted the Number One movie on the American Film Institute's List of 100 Funniest Movies, "Some Like It Hot" remains an undisguised movie classic, 50 years after its debut. Billy Wilder's hilarious film skilfully blends several American preoccupations - jazz, gangsters, drag, and Marilyn Monroe - into one scintillating bootleg cocktail.

Illustrates the history of flight through drawings of nearly 400 of the world's aircraft, each individually rendered and with technical specs.

The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater in their lives. Summarising, detailing, and bewailing all of the more important Bush administration outrages, and some of the more trivial ones: topics range in alphabetical order from abortion, AIDS, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Ashcroft, to women and workplace safety. Other major issues include budget and taxes, civil liberties, death penalty, defence spending, education, environment, gun control, health care, homeland security, Iraq, judicial nominations, "nucular" weapons, patients' rights, privacy, public land, September 11 and the war on terror, and social security. Of course, Bush's language abilities (featuring a selection of priceless Bushisms) cannot fail to feature.