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| "How To Be A Heroine : Or, what I've learned from reading too much" |
| "Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw She was all for wild passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly a snob while courageous Jane makes her own way And that's when Samantha realised that all her life she'd been trying to be Cathy when she should have been trying to be Jane So she decided to look again at her heroines - the girls women books that had shaped her ideas of the world and how to live Some of them stood up to the scrutiny (she will always love Lizzy Bennet); some of them most decidedly did not (turns out Katy Carr from What Katy Did isn't a carefree rebel she's a drip) There were revelations (the real heroine of Gone with the Wind? It's Melanie) joyous reunions (Anne of Green Gables) poignant memories (Sylvia Plath) and tearful goodbyes (Lucy Honeychurch) And then there was Jilly Cooper How To Be A Heroine is Samantha's funny touching inspiring exploration of the role of heroines and our favourite books in all our lives - and how they change over time for better or worse just as we do"
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| "Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Barbecued billygoats!'Can you imagine finding gold? That's just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake But it's a hot and dry summer and water is in scarce supply Worse still for the troubled campers they have competition Squashy Hat Anybody can see he is a prospector And talk about squashy hats! The children have never seen squashier Just who is he and what sort of traps is he laying? Using pigeons to carry messages braving dangerous mines and fires the Swallows Amazons and D's Mining Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival Includes exclusive material In The Backstory' you can test your knowledge of the book and learn all about homing pigeons!Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Price: 6.99 |
| "A Bold and Dangerous Family: One Family’s Fight Against Italian Fascism Paperback" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD Mussolini was not only ruthless he was subtle and manipulative Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him arson murder destruction of homes and offices bribes and intimidation His opponents - including editors union representatives lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far horror spread across Italy and antifascist resistance was born Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence Amelia Carlo and Nello Rosselli Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family - their loves their loyalties their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice"
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| "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER&39;S GUIDE Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974The story of the narrator his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California profoundly affected an entire generationBoth personal and philosophical this book is a compelling study of relationships values madness and eventually enlightenment"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Isambard Kingdom Brunel by L. T. C. Rolt (Paperback, 1990)" |
| "Engineering genius technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions L T C Rolt&39;s masterly biography is the definitive work on Brunel tracing the life times and monumental achivements of the man who helped to build modern Britain"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The Beautiful and Damned" |
| "These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's deathAnthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour A brilliant and magnetic couple they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young rich alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earthBut as money becomes tight their marriage becomes impossible And with their inheritance still distant Anthony and Gloria must grow up and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned"
Price: 11.49 |
| "A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Clothbound Classics) Hardcover" |
| "Part of Penguin&39;s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England There two very different men Charles Darnay an exiled French aristocrat and Sydney Carton a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette From the tranquil lanes of London they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Anne of Green Gables by L. Montgomery (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Anne of Green Gables is the classic children&39;s book by L M Montgomery the inspiration for the Netflix Original series Anne with an E Watch it now! A beautiful edition of the classic story The Cuthberts are in for a shock They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead Highly spirited Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthberts&39; affection with her vivid imagination and constant chatter and soon it&39;s impossible to imagine life without her"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Twits (Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve!"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Very Hungry Caterpillar Baby Record Book by Penguin Books Ltd (Mixed media product, 2017)" |
| "Show your very special baby how much you love them by recording all the fascinating details of their first year from bump to birth and beyond Includes a keepsake envelope and places to stick pictures all in a beautiful box With a luxury padded embroidered cover this book is a perfect baby shower gift"
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| "Revolting Rhymes (Colour Edition) 2016" |
| "Roald Dahl&39;s irreverent and hilarious collection Revolting Rhymes Read along and listen!This book is filled with revolting rhymes (Be warned It&39;s no ordinary Once upon a time)There&39;s poor Cindy whose heart was torn to shreds because her Prince he chops off heads!Snow White&39;s dwarfs although awfully nice are guilty of one shocking vice And what becomes of Goldilocks that nasty thieving little louse when she goes sneaking around the three bear&39;s house Animated film for BBC1 based on the Revolting Rhymes by Magic Light Pictures producers of the Oscar nominated The Gruffalo and Room On The Broom scheduled for Christmas 2016 Roald Dahl&39;s centenary yearListen to REVOLTING RHYMES and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices including Kate Winslet David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits"
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| "Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "'I can promise to be candid not however to be impartial'A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkersIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) Goethe's works available in Penguin Classics are Faust Part I Faust Part II Maxims and Reflections Elective Affinities The Sorrows of Young Werther Selected Poetry amd Italian Journey 1786-1788"
Price: 1.99 |
| "The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "'Desperate-minded villain!'Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening'Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsCharles Dickens (1812-1870) All Dickens' novels and other major works are available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The Fall of Icarus" |
| "'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky he left his guide and soared upwards'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur Daedalus and Icarus the Calydonian Boar-Hunt and many other famous mythsIntroducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world and across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millionsOvid (c43 BCE-17 CE) Ovid's other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems Fasti Heroides and Metamorphoses"
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| "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer" |
| "'So impossibly funny clever demented charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert within three pages Buy it for everyone you know regardless of what you think they like Brilliant stuff' Lucy Mangan Stylist Books of the Year'An eye-opener The more I think about this the higher I esteem it' - Nicholas Lezard Guardian Books of the YearWinner of the British Book Design and Production Award for Graphic NovelsWinner of the Neumann Prize in the History of MathematicsNominated for the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album and Best WriterArtistIn The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses Ada Lovelace daughter of Lord Byron mathematician gambler and proto-programmer whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory a hundred years before an actual computer was built And Charles Babbage eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer if he had ever finished itBut what if things had been different? The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a delightful alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and use it to create runaway economic models battle the scourge of spelling errors explore the wider realms of mathematics and of course fight crime - for the sake of both London and science Extremely funny and utterly unusual The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage comes complete with historical curiosities extensive footnotes and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's mechanical steam-powered computer And ray guns"
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| "The European Union: A Citizen's Guide" |
| "'An indispensable book for these times' - Big Issue'A lucid helpful guide to the EU's structures and operating methods' - Financial TimesFor most of us today 'Europe' refers to the European Union At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis the EU remains a black box closed to public understanding Is Europe ruled by Germany or by European bureaucrats? Does a single European economy exist after all these years of economic integration? And should the EU have been awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2012? Critics tell us the EU undermines democracy Are they right?In this provocative volume political scientist Chris Bickerton provides an answer to all these key questions and more at a time when understanding what the EU is and what it does is more important than ever before"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Lotta Says 'NO!' by Astrid Lindgren (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A collection of fun engaging and gently humorous stories about Lotta the little sister who can find trouble anywhere She and her young siblings get into all sorts of scrapes from falling out of their old neighbour's windows and learning some VERY bad swear words to making their own pancake tree Every day brings a new and funny adventure"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Tales of Olga Da Polga by Michael Bond (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Olga da Polga has left the pet shop to start a new life with her owners Her home is now a large and airy hutch and it's not long before she meets Noel the cat Fangio the hedgehog and Graham the tortoise Her garden companions soon discover that Olga loves an audience and from the moment she arrives she tells them stories about her wild and exciting adventures Although they are not always sure whether to believe everything Olga says one thing is certain - since Olga moved in life is never dull! Whether she's Olga the explorer Olga the prizewinner or Olga the storyteller she is always Olga da Polga! Written by the beloved Michael Bond with wonderful illustrations by Catherine Rayner this is a gift edition for young readers to treasure"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Bond 11+: English: Assessment Papers: 9-10 Years Book 1 by Sarah Lindsay (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Bond is the number 1 provider of 11 practice helping millions of children pass selective entrance exams Bond English Assessment Papers for 9-10 years Book 1 are topic-based practice questions for the 11 exam They have been written to cover the core 11 question types your child will experience in their actual exam building the skills and confidence for exam success Bond English Assessment Papers for 9-10 years Book 2 (ISBN 9780192740045) is also available"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Bond 11+: Maths: Assessment Papers : 12+-13+ years" |
| "Bond is the number 1 provider of 11 practice helping millions of children pass selective entrance exams Bond Maths Assessment Papers for 12-13 years are topic-based practice questions for the 11 exam They have been written to cover the core 11 question types your child will experience in their actual exam building the skills and confidence for exam success"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Oxford Children's Dictionary" |
| "Over 30000 words with clear and accessible meanings and age-appropriate example sentences make this an ideal dictionary for helping children aged 8 with homework Each letter opens with a fun word fact and there are colour illustrations throughout For example did you know that 'almost' is one of the longest words with all the letters in alphabetical order? Compiled using the Oxford Children's Corpus this new edition of the Oxford Children's Dictionary delivers support and help where it is needed New to this edition is a supplement that gives top things to know about spelling as well as about punctuation marks and how grammar can help make writing easy and effective"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (Hardback, 2007)" |
| "Pippi Longstocking is nine years old She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse a monkey and a big suitcase full of gold coins The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should but Pippi has other ideas She would much rather spend her days arranging wild exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbours Tommy and Annika or entertaining everyone she meets with her outrageous stories Pippi thinks nothing of wrestling a circus strongman dancing a polka with burglars or tugging a bull's tail Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking Just like Tommy and Annika readers are instantly charmed by her warmth and sense of fun Astrid Lindgren's children's classic first appeared in 1945 Astrid once commented 'I write to amuse the child within me and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way too' When she was growing up Lauren Child loved Astrid Lindgren's books She remembers 'I discovered Pippi when I was about eight years old and found her completely inspiring'Known and loved as the creator of some equally feisty little girls - notably Clarice Bean and Lola - Lauren has brought her own inimitable style to this beautifully-illustrated edition of Pippi Longstocking"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (Paperback, 1970)" |
| "Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker who abhorred pretention and falsity in others His Songs of Innocence are products of this innocent imagination untainted by worldliness while the Songs of Experience resulted from his feelings of indignation and pity for the sufferings of mankind The Songs of Innocence and Experience containing some of Blake&39;s finest and best-loved poems are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic and artistic aspirations The fifty-four plates which Blake originallly etched and coloured by hand are faithfully reproduced with the same delicacy and dimensions as the artist created them"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan (Paperback, 1983)" |
| "Maurice O&39;Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904 and &39;Twenty Years A-Growing&39; tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends without any thought of a wider public; his style is derived from folk-tales which he heard from his grandfather and sharpened by his own lively imagination The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula Until their evacuation just after the Second World War the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries A rich oral tradition of story-telling poetry and folktales kept alive the legends and history of the islands and has made their literature famous throughout the world The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs and reminiscences from within this literary tradition evoking a way of life which has now vanished"
Price: 5.99 |
| "European Architecture 1750-1890 by Barry Bergdoll (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social economic and political upheaval Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issues of style functioned to make architecture one of the most vitally experimental of art forms in a period of sweeping political social and economic change Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested so thoroughly and with such diversity of invention Bergdoll traces this experimentation in a broad range of contexts focusing in particular on the relation of architectural design to new theories of history new categories of scientific inquiry and the broadening audience for architecture in this period of transformation Unlike traditional surveys with long lists of buildings and architects the themes are elucidated by in-depth coverage of key buildings which in turn are situated in both their local and European context"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects This work is no exception for the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world; that of modern pagan witchcraft which has now spread from English shores across four continents Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism witchcraft and magic in British society since 1800 Its pages reveal village cunning folk Victorian ritual magicians classicists and archaeologists leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements Freemasons and members of rural secret societies We also find some of the leading of figures of English literature from the Romantic poets to WB Yeats DH Lawrence and Robert Graves as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950 Densely researched Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into a hitherto little-known aspect of modern social history"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Oxford Reading Tree: Level 1+: First Sentences: Kipper's Diary by Roderick Hunt, Gill Howell (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "The Level 1 Biff Chip and Kipper Stories written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills First Sentences and More First Sentences A B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading Help with childrens reading development is also available at wwwoxfordowlcouk"
Price: 3.99 |
| "Oxford Reading Tree: Level 7: Stories: Lost in the Jungle by Roderick Hunt (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "The Level 7 Biff Chip and Kipper Stories written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills Stories More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures Longer stories help to build reading stamina which is important for later reading success Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading Help with childrens reading development is also available at wwwoxfordowlcouk"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction" |
| "Over the past sixty years the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience Yet the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community As a scientific discipline computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one of the most significant new sciences of the post Second World War era In this Very Short Introduction Subrata Dasgupta sheds light on these lesser known areas and considers the conceptual basis of computer science Discussing algorithms programming and sequential and parallel processing he considers emerging modern ideas such as biological computing and cognitive modelling challenging the idea of computer science as a science of the artificial ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Games are everywhere Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game The opposing candidates in an election are playing a political game The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game Game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way Even when the players have not thought everything out in advance game theory often works for the same reason that mindless animals sometimes end up behaving very cleverly evolutionary forces eliminate irrational play because it is unfit Game theory has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science This Very Short Introduction introduces the fascinating world of game theory showing how it can be understood without mathematical equations and revealing that everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees can be understood by anyone willing to think seriously about the problem ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable"
Price: 6.99 |
