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Classic Comic Store Ltd Jane Eyre
£7.15
Tate Publishing Hard Times for Unicorn
What ever happened to the last of the unicorns? An unlucky unicorn finds herself travelling the world in unusual circumstances – where will she end up next? From being caught by an explorer, to fishing in the deep, cold waters of the north sea, to performing her own circus acts and becoming a world-famous athlete – is there anything Unicorn hasn’t done? Follow the lively course of this plucky unicorn through vibrant adventures on her journey to freedom. Expect surprises and delights in
£7.78
OM Book Service The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion
£53.99
Renard Press Ltd Almost Adult
Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London. It’s going to be mind-blowing. Attractive Hinge dates, mature new friends… A job at a dinosaur-themed bar? Hell. Yes. Several months in things are looking slightly less rosy. Her housemate seems to hate her and her manager’s a creep… But we don’t need to talk about that. Do we? Almost Adult is a brilliantly funny play that lays bare the darker side of slick modern workplaces and the underhand employment practices that police them – or fail to – with stunning lightness of touch.
£8.70
Taschen GmbH Decorative Art 50s
Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers. TASCHEN’s Decorative Art 50s explores the spirit of optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and construction had been enervated by research during the war and these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped the decade. Rising incomes and postwar rebuilding on both sides of the Atlantic led to a massive housing boom in both the suburbs and inner cities, and these new homes reflected the new style. While European design was extraordinarily inventive, American design was looking to an idealized vision of the future—between them a modern idiom was developed that can be seen vividly on these pages. This overview of the decade includes the work of such famous innovators as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Hans Wegner, and Gio Ponti.
£30.00
Olympia Publishers Florence and the Kind Unicorn
£7.78
Nova Science Publishers Inc Women in America: Social & Economic Achievements & Challenges
£129.59
OxfordFolio Prayer for the Day: Prayers during a Pandemic
£9.68
Anness Publishing Find Out About Ancient Egypt, Rome & Greece: Exploring the Great Classical Civilizations, with 60 Step-by-step Projects and 1500 Exciting Images
This title explores the ancient cultures that shaped human history and civilization. It vividly portrays key periods from the past, with glimpses into art, fashion, crafts, trade and warfare. It contains inside-view artworks of palaces and humble homes, and insights into the everyday lives of monarchs, priests, farmers, traders and children of long ago. It includes 60 practical projects for historical models, costumes and recipes - construct a miniature Parthenon, don the uniform of a Roman legionary, and bake pastries from an age-old Egyptian recipe. It features an exciting and authoritative reference for home or school use by 8- to 12-year-olds. This authoritative reference and project book will enrich your knowledge and understanding of the past. Witness the progression of human civilization, and see what gave each culture - from the Stone Age to the Roman Empire - its particular identity. Over 1500 photographs and illustrations include inside-view artworks of important buildings from history, such as a Pharaoh's tomb, an ancient Greek home and a Roman bath. Projects include a model Egyptian boat, a miniature stonehenge, a Roman toga and the Greek game of knucklebones.
£9.99
Oxford University Press Jane Eyre
"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.
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Libri Publishing On Call in Urology
On Call in Urology is aimed at junior trainees working in urology. The book is written as a 'survival guide' detailing common presentations from primary care and the emergency department. It covers initial and further management of these cases and simple surgical procedures. The practical advice, photographs, and illustrations, as well as detailed procedural tips make this an ideal accompaniment to any junior doctor managing urology patients in emergency, ward and clinic settings. What's inside: * Essentials: Referrals, admissions, anatomy, radiology, drugs and instruments. * Emergency department: Renal colic, UTIs, catheterisation, trauma, pregnancy, paediatrics and more. * Ward: From the round to prescribing, catheters, irrigation, evaluating an acutely unwell patient and post-operative problems. * Clinic: Follow-ups, swellings, haematuria, raised PSA and other male UT symptoms. * Operating theatre: An introduction to getting set up in theatre and consent. * Practical procedures: Cannulation, cultures, gases, dipsticks, catheterisation and paraphimosis reduction.
£21.52
Emerald Publishing Limited Winning Through Platforms: How to Succeed When Every Competitor Has One
Winning through Platforms achieved #1 bestseller status, and is a Best Business Book Awards winner for 2024. It is your new go-to guide for modern competitive advantage. Digital platforms are no longer for just the tech elite. They’re spreading to every company and industry, powered by the growth of customer sensors, streaming data, and artificial intelligence—lighting the valuable customer Use journey that was formerly dark. How will you succeed when your markets get platform-crowded? Three senior advisers to the world’s leading technology companies reveal how to win through platforms when every competitor has one. Winning Through Platforms decodes growth moves from a decade of platform competition, communicates them through a platform playbook. It’s a treasure trove of 24 proven platform strategies—such as customer coalition design, in-use enrichment, AI branding, and much more. These playbook strategies are delivered through engaging stories of over 50 companies, plus proprietary frameworks and workshop-style questions that lead you to act. This game-changing playbook will teach you how to: Revitalize your business through strategic use of platforms Design platforms that are compelling to customers and hard for competitors to match Accelerate in-market growth through brand-and-demand excellence that spans your customer’s entire platform journey Innovate in high-impact benefit areas to differentiate your platform Elevate your customer’s personal platform experience Transform your enterprise and operations to drive superior performance Every CEO, innovator, go-to-market leader, and aspiring professional will gain valuable insight through this book. Whether your company is just starting on its first platform journey or is a born platform disruptor, this book will transform your ability to win. Learn the platform playbook. Find and apply your plays. This book forms part of the American Marketing Association (AMA) leadership series.
£18.28
Puentes The Fight of His Life
£9.24
Penguin Random House Children's UK 5 Funny Animals: a counting and number bonds picture book
Count and spot the animals in this fun, rhyming picture book!From racing bears, to bouncing frogs and sailing goats, this counting and number bonds picture book encourages children to learn basic sums through play and interactivity.The perfect maths book for 4 year olds to 6 year olds. With playful characters to spot and bouncy rhyming text to support their early learning in a fun way.
£8.42
Oxford University Press Civil Litigation
Civil Litigation introduces students to the processes and procedures involved in making and defending civil litigation claims. The text is ideal for students taking the Legal Practice Course or relevant LLB or LLM modules and features case studies on both a personal injury matter and a commercial matter, making it suitable for students with either a high street or a commercial focus. Following the chronological progression of a civil litigation claim, the book offers practical guidance on advising clients whilst ensuring that the latest principles of the SRA Handbook and Code of Conduct are maintained. Students on CILEx courses, new trainees in practice, and paralegals will find this practical guidance of use in both their study and their work. Innovative diagrams at the beginning of chapters clearly illustrate the litigation procedure and help students understand the nature of the process as a whole. Examples provide students with a realistic context for their learning, while issues of cost, best practice, and professional conduct are clearly highlighted. Alternative dispute resolution is given appropriate practical emphasis, and references to the Civil Procedure Rules throughout make sure that students are ready for life in practice. Digital formats and resources This edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - Access to a digital version of this book comes with every purchase to enable a more flexible learning experience--12 months' access to this title on Oxford Learning Link will be available from 15 July 2022. Access must be redeemed by 1 August 2024. - The online resources include: case study documentation to support the fictional scenarios referred to in the book; additional chapters covering injunctions, a practical guide to court hearings, instructions to counsel and enforcements of judgment; annotated forms; appendix (links to key Court forms); litigation train timeline to help students put the litigation process in context; podcasts; weblinks; additional case study materials for lecturers, including suggested answers to case study questions; video clips; and a test bank of over 50 multiple choice questions.
£41.94
Nosy Crow Ltd I'm Thinking of a Sea Creature
Guess the animal from the clues, then pull a slider to reveal the answer! A brilliant non-fiction board book series perfect for little animal lovers. With vibrant energetic artwork and a friendly rhyming text, these interactive books are great for reading aloud. Each child is thinking of sea creature . . . What do they look like? What do they eat? And what noise do they make? Follow the simple clues, make a guess, then spot the animal hiding in the beautifully illustrated scene and pull the slider to reveal the answer! With four favourite sea creatures to find - and animal noises too! Other titles in the series include:I'm Thinking of a PetI'm Thinking of a Jungle AnimalI'n Thinking of a Farm Animal
£7.21
Priddy Books Giant Panda (Young Zoologist): A First Field Guide to the Bamboo-Loving Bear from China
Head to the mountains of China to study panda bears in this beautiful non-fiction field guide for kids. You might know that panda like to snack on bamboo, but there's so much more to discover about this mysterious black-and-white bear! Turn the pages to discover where pandas like to spend their summers, and how cute they are as newly-born cubs. Filled with simple science and plenty of animal facts, this book also explains how poaching and deforestation made pandas an endangered species - and what needs to be done to protect their habitats in the future.
£7.99
Persephone Books Ltd The Young Pretenders
£16.00
University of Wales Press Gender and Social Justice in Wales
This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in Wales. In 1999 the first elections to devolved governments took place in Scotland and Wales. In Wales this resulted in 40 per cent of Assembly Members being women. In 2003 this proportion increased to 50 per cent which makes the National Assembly for Wales 'the first legislative body with equal numbers of men and women in the world' ("The Guardian", 3/5/03). This new gender balance of political representatives is a significant change in the gendering of political institutions and this, together with the creation of a new tier of government, has the potential to create new opportunities for the development of social policies which address gender and other social inequalities. Focusing on distinct policy domains, this book explores gender politics in a devolved Wales. Each chapter investigates a particular aspect of social policy, exploring the way it has developed since devolution and the extent to which considerations of gender and social justice for women are central to this development. The empirical chapters which form the core of the book are situated theoretically and politically by the first chapter which discusses how gender and social justice can be theorised and explores devolution and its relation to gender politics in Wales.
£16.99
D Giles Ltd Gouthière's Candelabras
This third volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Vignon tells the fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthière, the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder. Vignon's essay is paired with a text by De Waal in which he examines what it is to make, own, and desire such complex objects
£14.95
Sweet Cherry Publishing Shirley
‘Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.’ Shirley is an attractive and independent young woman. Caroline is insecure and unsure about her future. They are both in love with two brothers: Robert and Louis. As they navigate love and friendship, will these two women be able to find their place within Victorian society?
£8.99
HarperCollins Publishers Olympic BMX: Band 03 Yellow/Band 14 Ruby (Collins Big Cat Progress)
Riding a BMX, or Bicycle Motocross, is very different to riding an ordinary road bike. Find out all the differences, the tricks, techniques and amazing skills that go into making a great Olympic BMX competitor, in this photographic non-fiction book. Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child
£8.38
Dover Publications Inc. Original Shirley Temple Paper Dolls in Full Colour
£11.99
Manchester University Press Researching Urban Space and the Built Environment
Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written in a clear and lively style, it equips readers with the tools to effectively plan, research and write innovative spatial histories. By outlining and summarizing the theories and methodologies particularly pertinent to spatial research, and by providing hands-on advice on locating evidence and archives, the book supports researchers in the development of their own original projects. Through engagement with a rich array of primary evidence and useful historiographical case-studies, the guide opens up a huge variety of research possibilities. This book is the ideal research companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as independent researchers. It is especially tailored for students in history and related disciplines in the humanities encountering spatial themes and methodologies for the first time.
£12.99
Metropolitan Museum of Art Van Gogh's Cypresses
The first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) immortalized the cypress tree in signature images that have become synonymous with his fiercely original power of expression. This richly illustrated publication illuminates the backstory of his invention for the first time, from his initial investigations of the motif in benchmark drawings from Arles to his realization of their full evocative potential in such iconic canvases as The Starry Night and Wheat Field with Cypresses, painted at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. Susan Alyson Stein retraces the Dutch artist’s inspired response to the flamelike evergreens as they gained ground in his works and artistic thinking over the course of his sojourn in the South of France. The volume provides further insight into Van Gogh’s creative process through a technical study focused on two celebrated works from the artist’s epic painting campaign of June 1889. The visual and literary heritage of the cypresses is featured in a compilation of images and excerpts from nineteenth-century poetry, novels, and travel writing—many translated into English for the first time. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 22–August 27, 2023)
£40.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Architect's Pocket Book
This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis – on-site or in the studio. It provides clear guidance and invaluable detail on a wide range of issues, from planning policy through environmental design to complying with Building Regulations, from structural and services matters to materials characteristics and detailing. This sixth edition includes the updating of regulations, standards and sources across a wide range of topics, with a particular focus on sustainability issues. Compact and easy to use, the Architect’s Pocket Book has sold well over 100,000 copies to the nation’s architects, architecture students, designers and construction professionals who do not have an architectural background but need to understand the basics, fast. This is the famous little blue book that you can’t afford to be without.
£28.99
Pelagic Publishing Animals under logs and stones
Logs, stones and the like provide an interesting interface between the damp depths of the soil and the drier open ground surface, offering refuges for a fascinating array of animals. The communities of organisms that live beneath them are little noticed and even less studied, yet the potential for ecological work here is great. Some of the animals are relatively large and frequently not difficult to find. They exhibit a wide range of lifestyles – from slow slugs or snails to very fast centipedes, from generalist to specialist feeders and from herbivores to carnivores. With chapters covering the cryptosphere environment, species groups, identification, guidelines and ideas for further research, this much-expanded and updated new edition also includes extensive, easy-to-use, comprehensively illustrated keys. Ground-surface debris can be found almost anywhere, often presenting highly accessible microhabitats for study and bringing immediate rewards to the curious: here is the ideal tool to unlock these worlds.
£30.00
HarperCollins Publishers Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds – My Day, Our World: Band 00/Lilac
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. What do you do in your day? Follow different children around the world on a normal day and see all the varied ways they eat, play and explore the world in this wordless non-fiction book. Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop an understanding of how stories work. They support early practice of reading and exploration of familiar themes to further develop curiosity and inspiration for early readers. Images from within each scene are pulled out along the bottom of the pages to focus and promote discussion. These books support Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds. Pages 14 and 15 contain an “I Spy” feature, which uses visual support to help children explore the themes and sounds contained within the book. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
£7.70
Emerald Publishing Limited South Africa’s Democracy at the Crossroads
Since the first elections of 1994, the South African constitution officially guarantees and promotes a wide range of political and civil rights and institutionalizes the separation of powers with an independent judiciary. This has made South Africa a political symbol of change, hope and democracy in Africa and around the world. However, since the introduction of free and fair electoral processes and with ANC dominating the presidency and the parliamentary seats, the political scene has been scattered by democratic challenges. South Africa remains a flawed democracy, combining free elections and respect for basic civil liberties with problems of governance, an underdeveloped political culture, and low levels of public participation. Today, South Africa stands at a crossroads. While the constitutional democracy has survived, South African democracy seems to have weakened by state capture, internal ANC implosion, corruption, societal polarization, social exclusion, xenophobia, and threats of state economic bankruptcy. South Africa faces growing discontent symbolized in intensified societal and political debates, protests and demonstrations providing for the question if this is a sign of dissatisfied citizens demanding deeper democracy or activities questioning the established constitutional democracy from an anti-democratic, populist, and radical point of view. South Africa´s Democracy at the Crossroads explores the question; what are the challenges to future democratization in South Africa?
£74.94
Argobooks Mannerfantasien: / Male Fantasies
£25.00
Transcript Verlag Entanglements of the Maghreb – Cultural and Political Aspects of a Region in Motion
The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. The Maghreb is a heterogeneous region that deserves thorough investigation. This volume focuses on Entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize Entanglements through the description of various thematic fields and actors in motion, addressing culture, politics, social affairs, and economics.
£40.49
Park Books Portugal Lessons: Environmental Objects. Teaching and Research in Architecture
Architectural objects confront their environment. They constitute a boundary, a form with an internalised point of view. Understanding architecture as environmental objects suggests a questioning of these dichotomies of separation between the symbolic landmark and the landscape background. It represents an architecture that amplifies nature, attunes to it and makes us aware of it. Portugal Lessons takes Portugal as a case study for such contextualism going beyond an understanding of design as immunisation. Based on the latest research program conducted by EPFL's Laboratory Basel (laba), it explores the topic of this architectural boundary: with whom we live, to whom we open our house, how permeable the boundary should be. The findings are visualised in striking images, graphics and maps. The book also features proposals for architectural interventions by laba's students, all of them tackling issues of housing.
£40.50
Berbay Publishing Mine!: A Story of Not Sharing
Nico is coming over to play, but Sally doesn't want him to touch her toy squirrel. Or her train. Not her parking garage either. Sally's mom said to put the things she doesn't want to share in the wardrobe. As it turns out, there are quite a lot of things Sally doesn't want to share--including her mom. This fresh and funny approach to sharing shows just how complicated hiding all the things you love can be. In the end, it might be easier to give sharing a try. Maybe.“Kids will find the whole concept a hoot and will come away understanding that greed isn’t actually that good….A paean to the realization that while sharing may be caring, it’s also more fun!” -Kirkus Reviews
£14.71
GB Publishing Org The Ginologist Cook: 150 Delicious Recipes with Gin
150 signature starters, main courses and desserts featuring Gin; introducing "The Ginologist Cook". Written, simmered, grilled, sliced and baked by South African clever food "maker-uppers" who mixed Gin with their food to achieve new flavours, textures and experiences to bring the world a book which gives Tonic Water a run for its money. The famous South African Rose Geranium infused in the Floral Gin becomes delightful and complex, a showpiece of this recipe collection, and has brought new flavour to cooking. Extracts from the flower - also known to have age defying qualities - are used in skin creams. Ginologist Gin was created in 2016 by South African Gin enthusiasts Matt Van Wyk and Richard Kolbe as a hobby. Ginologist Spice, Citrus and Floral Gins each won awards at the 2017 Michaelangelo Wine and Spirits Awards in South Africa. Pieter Carter, the Chief Distiller, is passionate about flavour and created the first recipe before the book was conceived; Floral Gin and Clotted Cream Ice Cream. The family and friends hobby has fast become a household brand distributed internationally. The Ginologist Distiller vows to always give the attention and love to every drop of Gin he creates no matter how many bottles. Realising the amazing flavours Gin can infuse into food The Ginologist Distiller is experimenting with Pantry Essentials to give the discerning home cook even more to get excited about; Gincentrates; tubes of yummy gin reductions. Photographed at the five star Hemmingway's Restaurant & Wine Cellar in Pretoria, South Africa the book includes stunning photographs of the naturally landscaped exotic gardens and woodland. Whoever thought we would be creating dishes using Gin? This book contains recipes cooks can enjoy making for the family, dinner parties and on special occasions. There are starters to savour and divine desserts. Pumpkin Tart, Short Ribs, Savoury Cheesecake, Ice Cream, panacotta, Oysters and a Ginoholic Victoria Sponge! Meat, fish and vegetarian savoury dishes inspired by spicy Cape Malay cuisine from The Cape of South Africa are sitting next to sweet fruity desserts inspired by French Pastry Chefs. This eclectic mix of culinary creations demonstrates South Africa can win the world's heart through its stomach. Gin and Tonic who? The Ginologist Distiller meets The Ginologist Cook, in 150 delicious recipes with Gin.
£22.99
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Negotiating Risk, Seeking Security, Eroding Solidarity: Life and Work on the Border
Through a series of interviews with workers in the automotive parts industry, Negotiating Risk argues that the restructuring of labour markets and welfare states, paired with firm-level work and management reorganization, has exposed working-class families to greater levels of job risk and insecurity. Focusing on workers in Canada and Mexico and using a gender and race analysis, this book paints a bleak portrait of the lives of working people, where workers and their families continually renegotiate the effects of neo-liberal economic and social change. These changes see individuals working harder, longer and travelling further from home to keep their jobs, while straining familial and community relations and eroding the basis for worker solidarity and collective action.
£15.95
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Editions Flammarion Bagatelle: A Princely Residence in Paris
£58.50
Laurence King Publishing Modern Scandinavian Design
£72.00
Octopus Publishing Group Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
Set to become the bible of home decoration, Farrow & Ball How to Decorate provides a highly practical and inspirational guide to the successful use of paint and paper in any home, large or small, urban or country.Published on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the iconic brand, the book brings together the expertise of Joa Studholme and the Farrow & Ball creative team to demystify the nitty-gritty of transforming a home - from deciding which colours work best in a north-facing room to creating accents with paint and making the most of a feature wall.
£31.50
Museum of Modern Art Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
£54.00
Hachette Children's Group Pixies vs Fairies
I'm sure you've heard of fairies. You've probably heard of pixies too. But maybe you thought they only existed in stories.Alice is fed up. Her family have moved to the countryside and there are no adventures to be found at all. Or so she thinks...But everything changes when she meets seven-year-old Max who shares the most wonderful secret. At the bottom of his garden is an oak tree with a tiny door. And through that tiny door live three pixies.The pixies are relieved to meet Alice – as they need her help. Their queen has been frozen by the mean fairies and only the bravest adventurers can come to her rescue and save the day.A delightful new series for 6+ in the tradition of The Magic Faraway Tree.
£8.05
Penguin Books Ltd Shirley
Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in her uncle's home with no prospect of a career. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert's brother, an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled? Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley (1849) is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations.
£9.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc U.S. National Debt: Background, Issues, Significance
£167.39
Dover Publications Inc. The Yellow Wallpaper
£5.03
Dover Publications Inc. The Mabinogion
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Demeter Press Travellin’ Mama:: Mothers, Mothering and Travel
“Don’t women with children travel?” Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael enquire, in their book A Mother’s World: Journeys of the Heart (1998), when discovering the absence of portrayals of travelling mothers. Addressing this absence, our book Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel explores the multiple dimensions of motherhood and travel. Through a variety of compelling creative pieces and critical essays with a global outlook and wide-ranging historical, cultural, and national perspectives, Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel examines the vital contributions made to travel writing and representations of travel by mothers. Autoethnographical approaches inform many of the pieces in this book, illustrating the significance of the personal and writing the self in re-imagining our cultural narratives and representations of travel, and the mothers who undertake it. This book is about mothers who travel, for mothers who travel with their children, and all those readers who have travelled in any capacity, with or without family.
£23.95
University Press of Colorado Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics
£97.60
Nova Science Publishers Inc Forest Certification & Sustainable Management: Programs, Standards & Techniques
£71.09