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Oxford University Press Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 12: Class Pack of 48
These books have been specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary and support comprehension. This pack contains 6 copies of each of the 8 titles at Oxford Level 12. The titles are: The Great Canal Clean Up; The Wrong Instruments; Mind That Meteor!; The Foolish Hare and The Mango Tree; Who's Got Talent?; Diamond Dazzle; Amazing Animal Discoveries; Painting Jungles.
£337.28
Oxford University Press Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 11: Mixed Pack of 8
These books have been specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary and support comprehension. This pack contains 1 copy of each of the 8 titles at Oxford Level 11. The titles are: The Worst Kite; Plant Pandemonium; Sugar Power!; Alexei and the Firebird; The Great Ukulele Hunt; Rock Star Robbery; Weird Work; Building Bridges.
£73.21
Signal Books Ltd Keeping the Barbarians at Bay: The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer
Kenneth Allsop was a writer, journalist and broadcaster who in the 1960s and early 70s became one of Britain's first television celebrities. Voted the 'fifth most handsome man in the world', he enjoyed the high life of fast cars, jazz and smart London parties, moving among the nation's glitterati from the arts, media and politics. But he was also an accomplished naturalist and a passionate conservationist who fought fiercely to hold back mounting threats to Britain's wildlife and landscapes. He played a key role in raising the public's concern for the environment long before the advent of the UK's now-powerful green movement. Keeping the Barbarians at Bay focuses on the last few years of Allsop's short life, when he escaped London to live in a seventeenth- century watermill in the secret, crumpled landscape of West Dorset. The book describes how the threat of oil and gas exploration in this protected area of outstanding natural beauty forced him to become an environmental activist, and how his grassroots campaigning led him to the BBC's first environmentalist TV series Down to Earth, and to a radical 'green' column in The Sunday Times. Not surprisingly, he made powerful enemies in government and big business, at a time when there were few other environmental champions to lend him support. Using his unpublished diaries and papers, Keeping the Barbarians at Bay reveals the inside story of Allsop's struggles on three fronts: with 'the barbarians'; with the constant physical pain from his amputated right leg; and with his despair at the huge environmental challenges facing the planet. In the end, they were battles he could not win, and in May 1973 he took his own life at the tragically early age of 53.
£12.99
