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Classic crime, at its very best.With a new introduction by Gyles Brandreth.The Red House is a country residence far removed from the world of the Hundred Acre Wood but its story has much of the same charm and wit. There is, of course, a murder, and when the local police fail to solve the crime, an amateur sleuth readily steps in. What follows is a delightful whodunnit with humour, excitement and a suitably surprising twist at the end.A. A. Milne loved detective stories and pays homage to Sherlock Holmes in his detective - the clever and charismatic Anthony Gillingham- and his assistant, Bill Beverley. This is classic crime at its very best.'I love his writing' P.G.Wodehouse

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On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound familiar?Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at Esquire, Jacobs had built up a rather impressive knowledge of celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time. While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend, Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. All 33,000 pages of it. Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.

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A beloved classic adult novel skilfully abridged to inspire and engage a new generation of middle-grade readers, from a multi-award-winning author.Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards he is invited to play at the gloomy, cobwebbed house of unhappy Miss Havisham, where he is humiliated by her beautiful ward, Estella. Pip falls in love with the girl, despite her disdain for his ignorance and rough appearance, and begins his apprenticeship to his blacksmith brother-in-law feeling ashamed of his lowly home.Then Pip is told he is to be brought up as a wealthy gentleman, and he delightedly assumes his secret benefactor to be Miss Havisham, planning him as a match him for Estella. When he discovers this is not the case, his heart is broken and his loyalties torn.What is the connection between Miss Havisham and the mysterious convict? And will Pip ever win Estella

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Wondering what to do on a rainy day? Pooh and his friends have lots of ideas!It rained and it rained and it rained. Piglet told himself that never in all his life, and he was goodness knows how old - three, was it, or four? - never had he seen so much rain. Days and days and days.The friends of the Hundred Acre Wood have 50 things to try on rainy days. Join Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Owl as they build a rain gauge, find Eeyore’s tail and take part in a scavenger hunt. With step-by-step instructions and helpful hints, plus room for drawings and photos of your adventures, this handbook is filled with perfect ideas for the greyest of days. How long will it take to finish all 50 things?Also available:Winnie-the-Pooh's 50 Things to do before you're 5 3/4 9781405289535.

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Explore the whole county and area extending into Devon as far as Great Torrington, Tavistock and Plymouth. This detailed and up-to-date map contains more than 1,000 places of interest and an index to 3,000 towns and villages.Published at a clear 2.5 miles to 1 inch scale (1.6 kms to 1 cm), a handy road map includes primary route destinations, selected caravan and camping sites, visitor attractions and places of interest.Town centre street maps of Bodmin, Bude, Falmouth, Fowey, Launceston, Liskeard, Looe, Newquay, Padstow, Penzance,Plymouth, St. Ives and Truro are also included, plus detailed informative text for Bodmin Moor, Land's End and Isles of Scilly.The perfect map for exploring Cornwall whether you are a local or a tourist.

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Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children, Prince Albert. But while Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, it was Prince Albert, A. N. Wilson expertly argues, who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain's transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary centre of political, technological, scientific and intellectual advancement. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist and bibliophile, Prince Albert, more than any other royal, was truly a 'genius'.

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The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary – among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age at which you can marry, gamble, join the army and must pay taxes if you work) – to ensure the intentions of such a constitution could not be subverted or ignored. As democracies around the world show signs of decay, the issue of what makes a good state, one that is democratic in the fullest sense of the word, could not be more important. To take just one example: by the simplest of measures, neither Britain nor the United States can claim to be truly democratic. The most basic tenet of democracy is that no voice be louder than any other. Yet in our ‘first past the post’ electoral systems a voter supporting a losing candidate is unrepresented, his or her voice unequal to one supporting a winning candidate, who frequently does not gain a majority of the votes cast. This is just one of a number of problems, all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world.

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In the Empire of the Saviours, the People are forced to live in fortified towns. Their walls are guarded by an army of Heroes, whose task is to keep marauding pagans out as much as it is to keep the People inside. Several times a year, living Saints visit the towns to exact the Saviours' tithe from all those coming of age - a tithe often paid in blood.When a young boy, Jillan, unleashes pagan magicks in an accident, his whole town turns against him. He goes on the run, but what hope can there be when the Saviours and the entire Empire decide he must be caught?Jillan is initially hunted by just the soldiers of the Saint of his region, but others soon begin to hear of his increasing power and seek to use him for their own ends. Some want Jillan to join the fight against the Empire, others wish to steal his power for themselves and others still want Jillan to lead them to the Geas, the source of all life and power in the world. There are very few Jillan can trust, except for a ragtag group of outcasts.His parents threatened, his life in tatters, his beliefs shaken to the core, Jillan must decide which side he is on, and whether to fight or run ...

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Le volume "Images de Platon et lectures de ses oeuvres" rassemble vingt et une contributions consacrees a diverses relectures qui ont ete faites de l'oeuvre ecrite de Platon entre le IIIe siecle (Diogene Laerce, Plotin) et le XXe sievle (K. Popper). Dans l'introduction, Ada Neschke met en lumiere le cheminement de ces relectures et souligne le fait que les lectures de Platon sont constamment alimentees par des preoccupations propres a ses lecteurs. Dans un premier temps, l'oeuvre de Platon est integree dans une optique essentiellement theologique; apres l'avenement du kantisme, elle s'inscrit dans un cadre de pensee qui se veut critique et philosophique, c'est-a-dire emancipe de l'ancienne metaphysique. Ainsi, l'oeuvre de Platon represente, d'une part, pour les penseurs chretiens une source d'inspiration concernant les sujets les plus divers: la theologie chretienne (Clement d'Alexandrie, Ficin, les Platoniciens de Cambridge), la mytho-theologie neo-platonicienne (Plethon), l'iconographie de la trinite (Francisco di Hollanda), la politique catholique et le calviniste (Jean Bodin, Jean de Serres), le scepticisme face aux debats theologiques (Montaigne). D'autre part, Platon a la valeur d'une autorite pour les penseurs postkantiens, que ce soit pour construire une philosophie de la nature (Schelling), une ethique (Hegel), une epistemologie (les neo-kantiens Cohen et Natorp) ou encore une ontologie (Heidegger). Enfin, Platon sert de reference dans les debats politiques modernes et contemporains, en particulier dans les discussions sur le liberalisme (J. St. Mill) et le totalitarisme (Popper et ses successeurs). De l'antiquite jusqu'a nos jours, Platon reste donc un auteur qui interpelle son lecteur et lui lance meme souvent un defi.

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This book examines private associations from the Pontic Greek cities (6th century BC-3rd century AD), based on epigraphic evidence (205 inscriptions which record 114 associations). The approach is that of an ancient social historian and takes into consideration the participants, the practices and the impact of the phenomenon of these organisations, in order to understand Pontic society and the way it functioned at a smaller scale, that of the associations. It is arranged as chapters, plus a Glossary and two extensive appendices (catalogues of epigraphic sources and members). The book reveals that, in the Pontic area, the associations had a fragmentary character and were influenced by the political, social and economic evolution of the region, with a couple of cities on the western and northern shores pre-eminent; and secondly, that the Pontic associative phenomenon had, overall, a relatively marginal and time-limited role when compared with other parts of the ancient world (due not only to the state of the research of the Greek Black Sea settlements themselves but also to local characteristics).

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This volume brings together twelve essays by Angela Kim Harkins that use integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to contribute new insights to the understanding of religious experience in ancient Judaism and Christianity. Building on the text-centered work that characterizes much of Second Temple studies, Harkins seeks to reintegrate ancient Jewish and Christian texts with various aspects of the flesh-and-blood experience of religion by using performance-based methods, ritual studies, integrative cognitive science approaches, and emotion studies. This volume aims to overcome the common mind-body dualism that dominates the study of ancient texts by offering ways to imagine the integrative phenomenological experience of these texts for ancient peoples.

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Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these sculptures. How and why were they originally displayed or kept invisible, transported, transformed or buried? New discoveries, the re-contextualisation of earlier excavated statues as well as recent scientific analyses provide significant new insights into the production, meaning and (re-)uses of statues. This collection of papers encompasses the full typological and chronological range – from the Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity – and includes statuary of all scales, from colossi to figurines. The studies cover statues mainly set up in temples, palaces, houses and tombs, and the later biographies of statues’ assemblages.

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Uber die Literaturen des christlichen Orients verstreut finden sich Erzahlungen, die von einer christlichen Taufe mancher iranischer Konige berichten, an prominentester Stelle des Ardasir, des Begrunders der Dynastie der Sasaniden, sowie ihrer herausragendster Vertreter des 6. und beginnenden 7. Jahrhunderts, Husraw Anusirwan und Husraw Abarwez. Erst wenn diese Erzahlungen in Beziehung gesetzt werden zu einer Aussage aus dem Schulerkreis des Katholikos Mar Aba, bei den Sasaniden handle es sich um die Nachfahren der Magier aus der Geburtsgeschichte Jesu, lasst sich ein Sinnzusammenhang rekonstruieren. Auf dessen Grundlage werden im vorliegenden Buch die genannten Erzahlungen und ihr geistesgeschichtliches Umfeld analysiert und als Ansatze zu einer politischen Theologie der persischen Christenheit aus der Mitte des 6. Jahrhunderts bis in die Zeit der Kreuzzuge, in ihrer Wirkung bis nach Europa und Zentralasien, verfolgt; ausfuhrliche Register gestatten den Zugriff auf zitierte Quellenstellen sowie auf Namen, Orte, Sachen und Begriffe.

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La question des "revoltes egyptiennes" a un long passe et reste encore aujourd'hui tres debattue. Se fondant sur une double documentation, grecque et egyptienne, ce livre propose un deplacement de l'opposition usuelle entre revoltes "nationales" et revoltes "sociales". Il s'attache tout d'abord a donner un etat des sources et a proposer un cadre chronologique et geographique pour chaque periode de revolte. Il aborde ensuite la question de l'identite et des objectifs des revoltes en distinguant entre les meneurs des rebellions et la masse, le plus souvent anonyme, de leurs partisans. Une place importante est egalement consacree a l'attitude face aux troubles du pouvoir lagide et du clerge egyptien. Ces reactions revelent aussi, a leur maniere, la nature des soulevements, de meme qu'elles confirment l'etroitesse des liens tisses entre le roi et les pretres a l'epoque ptolemaique.

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Ce livre, consacre a l'etude de la prosodie en francais parle, interroge les traces linguistiques, plus particulierement intonosyntaxiques, que laisse la dimension intersubjective de l'enonciation. L'hypothese unificatrice du travail consiste a refuter l'autonomie et le primat de la syntaxe pour deriver les structures prosodiques: les constructions intonosyntaxiques, fondamentalement determinees par la visee communicative, refletent d'abord la gestion de l'information dans le flux discursif et le degre d'implication du locuteur. Dans cette perspective, la notion de structure communicative est centrale, le role de cette derniere etant d'enrichir les connaissances du co-enonciateur. Son etude implique la mise en relation de marqueurs linguistiques, notamment prosodiques, avec les representations mentales des interlocuteurs. Cette thematique est abordee dans une perspective constructiviste et situee de l'espace langagier, selon laquelle l'enonciation a pour fonction de construire une scene verbale qui se situe dans un espace intersubjectif partage par les interlocuteurs. Dans ce contexte, les donnees prosodiques contribuent largement a la construction de la scene, puisqu'elles servent soit a evoquer des entites ou des evenements sur cette scene, soit a en modifier le point de vue. Une telle conception de l'interlocution est illustree ici par l'observation empirique d'un phenomene particulier: les schemas prosodiques portes par les complements circonstanciels en francais parle.

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"Atelier Sur Flore, Vegetation Et Biodiversite Au Sahel" contains text in French.

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