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In this fun and accessible book, children are encouraged to look at paintings in a whole variety of ways. Each spread focuses on a different perspective with 14 perspectives in...

Jewish men and women have been prominent in the fields of religion, music, commerce, law, diplomacy, philosophy, literature, art, sport and cinema. Who were the most influential, and how do...

THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME The turn of a new decade held such promise. A chance to close off a cycle and begin anew in 2020. And then every corner...

Finally, the day has arrived! Four beautiful eggs hatch and four delightfully fluffy chickens emerge. One little chicken quickly realises she's different, but not sure why. In a quest to...

In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bait shop and a boat ramp, and, in garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing....

War Music collects the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's account of Homer's Iliad.

This bridge book looks at the crucial area of bidding. It discusses doubles in all areas of competitive auctions and offers ammunition for beginners and experts alike. The book starts...

Accompanying the BBC series, COAST is not only a superbly illustrated celebration of Britain's coastal areas but a practical guide to all that they have to offer.The first part of...

A welcome return to Vianne Rocher and the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harris's remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Chocolat THE THIRD NOVEL IN...

John Bunyan was a major figure in seventeenth-century Puritan literature, and one deeply embroiled in the religious upheavals of his times. This Companion considers all his major texts, including The...

The Melbourne Street Art Guide is the essential reference to the who, what, why and where of Melbourne's dynamic street-art scene. Focused on the art, politics, people and places which...

When Dawg Mackay made his four half-sisters part of his family, he vowed that he would care for and protect them with everything he had. But what happens now that...

Drawing from a wide range of experience, the authors propose the simple ideas which should underpin all professional museum training courses. Organised on a modular basis Museum Basics provides a...

From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology-sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces-to address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers....

This book uses psychological type as a model for organizing mental health interventions, including assessing how a client's personality is affected within a specific relationship using the Psychological Type Relationship...

From the girl who never gets invited to a birthday party because classmates think she's "weird" to the geek who is terrific at math but is failing every other subject,...

To begin with Colm s childhood was idyllic. Life on a farm in County Wexford with loving parents was good. But evil was never far away and no one could...

Tells the story, via the letters they wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two...

Come to the nightspot where the beautiful people hang out, and meet: Tony Blake - your host and guide - and anything else you want him to be . ....

1677, on a late summer's evening two ships lurk off the coast of southwest Ireland. They are Barbary corsairs from North Africa, slave catchers. As soon as it is dark,...

A retarded child is ritually murdered while on a school outing in a nature reserve. The police, led by Milo Sturgis, have got nowhere and are hampered by the girl's...

Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, established as...

Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury reminds us that before you take a stand, you've got to take a chance. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden Harris is very happy...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A love story of astonishing power" ( Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza...

This novel opens with a scene of war which is destined to become a classic: trudging back from the front through a ravaged and icy wasteland, their horses dying around...

A wise, thoughtful, beautifully observed and impossible-to-put-down portrait of a marriage Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies...

Health informatics is a multi-disciplinary, multi-dimensional field which seeks to facilitate the effective collection, management, and use of information in the health care environment. Taking a socio-technical perspective, Health Informatics...

Alphabetical thesaurus for secondary school students which covers synonyms and antonyms and clarifies context where necessary. Includes an appendix of collective nouns. Designed to be included in students' ringbinders.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins....

Maggie's Going Nowhere is a fierce and funny debut introducing a thoroughly relatable and offbeat heroine. If you enjoy Fleabag, you'll adore Maggie! 'A compulsive and hilarious read. In Maggie,...

A thought-provoking and often controversial look at education policy in the UK and comparatively. "Education, education and education" has become an obsession for politicians and the public alike. it is...

'The feeling I had when Aunt Agatha trapped me in my lair that morning and spilled the bad news was that my luck had broken at last ...' When Bertie...

The is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty....

Is this the end of Max and Fang, and the beginning of Max and Dylan? Only Angel knows. Maximum Ride and her friends have always had each other s backs...

New thinking for a new world. *Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which...

A haunting and powerful story of passion, betrayal, obsession and loss. A body is found in the sandhills on the southern coast of New South Wales. David is an archaeologist,...