Ernest is now on the maintenance team of the local shopping centre. When six of his colleagues form a basketball team, with the chance of playing an exhibition against the NBA, Ernest wants to be a part of the team, but always feels left out. But when the Basketball Angel arrives to give him the ' Magic Shoes', he becomes one of the stars of the showdown. ...

Top Score is a clever new series that combines sports facts & statistics with fun maths puzzles & activities. Perfect for students aged 7 years & over, & older students who are reluctant readers or struggling mathematicians. Each title

Includes:: a wide range of maths activities across all areas of the maths curriculum.

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An inside look at the American performance poetry competition the National Poetry Slam, filmed during the course of the 1996 event in Portl&, Oregon. The literary equivalent of an Olympic diving competition or the Eurovision Song Contest, the Slam sees a poet read out a poem lasting no more than three minutes & a panel of judges award the poet a score from 0 to 10. The film looks at both the boisterously competitive nature of the performances onstage, & the more contemplative & philosophical side of the performers offstage. ...

Comedy penned by the Broken Lizard writing team. Slammin' Cleon Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan), former Heavyweight Champion of the World turned restaurateur, owes $20, 000 to a Japanese gang. To raise the money, he challenges his waiting staff (played by the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe, Cobie Smulders & April Bowlby) to a contest in which the top-selling waiter will win $10, 000, while the waiter in last place gets a punch in the ribs from the Champ himself. ...

Changing a consumer's telephone service provider without his/her knowledge or consent is known as 'slamming'. The telecommunications industry has condemned intentional slamming & is also taking steps to eliminate the practice. This book examines this rip-off practice. ...

Epineux-le-Rainsouin is a sleepy little village in France, where the local gossips have little more to get excited over than the spectacle of a resident amateur historian from Canada washing her windows. But that's before Didier Blot, Epineux's "garde-champetre" & all-round dogsbody, disappears without a word. ...