The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale large format spiral bound road atlas of Britain for 2015, featuring Collins' popular and well established road mapping, and designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use.

The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale A3 spiral bound road atlas of Britain for 2018, featuring Collins' popular and well-established road mapping. Designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use. This fully updated road atlas covers the whole of Britain with each scale of mapping colour-coded for ease of use. The smallest scale maps are great for long-distance route planning and the street plans help you locate your final destination. The atlas includes: * Easy to use, clear road maps at a scale of 3.2 miles to 1 inch of England, Wales and Southern Scotland. Northern Scotland is shown at 5 miles to 1 inch. * Route planning section including maps at a scale of 15.8 miles to 1 inch (1:1,000,000) for long-distance route planning, motorway services information and a handy distance calculator. * 22 urban area approach maps at 1 mile to 1 inch, which clearly show the best routes through and into the busiest built-up areas. * 64 street maps focused on town centres, showing places of interest, car park locations and one-way streets. * Fully updated fixed speed camera sites, with average speed camera locations clearly highlighted. All speed cameras show the speed limit. * M25 orbital map. * Information about restricted motorway junctions. * Park & Ride locations shown, ideal when visiting towns and cities. * Over 30 categories of places of interest including castles, theme parks, sports venues, universities, mountain bike trails and surfing beaches. * Full postcodes for the top 1000 places of interest - ideal for use alongside your sat nav.

This book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis.

Here's the ultimate guide to being the best—and safest—driver possible. And an absolute must for everyone with a learner's permit. Former Top Gear Stig and professional driver Ben Collins shares expert skills culled from a twenty year career as one of the best drivers in the world, famous for racing in the Le Mans series and NASCAR, piloting the Batmobile, and dodging bullets with James Bond. Refined over thousands of hours of elite-level performance in the physics of driving, his philosophy results in greater control and safer, more efficient and fun driving for all skill levels.

Globe-trotters rejoice! This updated volume gathers the crème de la crème from The New York Times travel series. The Times's renowned writers curate 150 bite-sized itineraries into an A-Z showcase of the world's most captivating cities, from Barcelona to Bogotá, New Delhi to New Orleans--with 26 new stories including Amman and Nairobi.

The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!