FOR NEW PARENTS, THE CHOICE OF A NAME FOR THEIR CHILD IS ONE OF THE MO ST IMPORTANT EARLY DECISIONS THEY MAKE. WITH IT'S FULLY CROSS REFERENCED THEMED & A-Z SECTIONS. THE VIRGIN BOOK OF BABY NAMES TAKES A LESS ORTHODOX & MORE USER FRIENDLY APPROACH TO HELPING PARENTS IN THIS TASK THAN MANY TRADITIONAL BABY NAMES BOOKS. SOME PARENTS WANT TO FOLLOW TRADTION, SOME WANT A POPULAR CONTEMPORARY NAME. OTHERS WANT AN UNUSUAL NAME THAT NO OTHER CHILD IN THE CLASSROOM WILL HAVE, WHILE AN EVER-INCREASING NUMBER WANT A NAME THAT MEANS SOMETHING
- A BIBLICAL NAME, A CELTIC NAME, OR A NAME ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR PLACE, COLOUR OR FLOWER. IT MAY EVEN MEAN DELVING INTO THE WORLD OF GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY OR THE ROMANTIC TALES SURROUNDING KING ARTHUR & CAMELOT. OR IT MAY MEAN CHOOSING A NAME THAT RELATES DIRECTLY TO THE DATE YOUR CHILD IS BORN-THESAINT FOR THAT DAY, THE NAME OF A FAMOUS STAR WHO SHARES THE SAME BIRTHDAY, OR A NAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE DAY OF THE WEEK OR MONTH. THE LIST IS ENDLESS, THE CHOICE IS VAST. BUT, WHATEVER YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, THE VIRGIN BOOK OF BABY NAMES IS THE BOOK TO HAVE TO HELP YOU IN THIS TASK.
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From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO, this indispensable, innovatively designed book celebrates ...

More challenging & more addictive than Su Doku, Kakuro is the new puzzle craze to spellbind the nation.
Kakuro has already become
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Following the massive success of the first two volumes, Virgin Books unleashes another all-new edition of the compulsively addictive puzzle craze, Kakuro.
The rules are simple. Fill the squares using the numbers one to nine, making sure that they add up to the number attached to their tow without reapeating a number. In this third book of Kakuro, there are 100 exclusive puzzzles to do battle with, some easy, some downright difficult.
compiled by on eof the very best puzzle producers in the world, The Virgin Book of Kakuro 3 is another addictive slice of the most compelling puzzle in town.

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The charts are the evening news of the music industry. Collected here, they show the rapid rise or demise of each single as it enters the charts, either winning over a large audience or just making music for its own smaller group of fans. Top 40 Charts is required reading for every music buff, & for anyone else who'd like to know what song was number one on their birthday or any other memorable day.

With every Top 40 singles chart from 1960 to the present day, this is the definitive chart book.

Includes:: the song title, act, record label & total number of weeks on chart for every single, as well as a detailed history of the pre-1960s charts,

Published using data from the Official Charts Company.





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All the facts & informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock & pop history. ...

All the facts & informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock & pop history. ...

From boogie-woogie to bebop & beyond, the sounds & rhythms of Jazz is mercurial: always creative, seldom static, frequently cultish & often contentious.
The latest edition of The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz is the essential companion to making an acquaintance with Jazz. It will inform you & it will not talk down to you. There are over 3, 500 entries detailing every artist who has had an impact on the development of jazz since it headed out from New Orleans & spread to New York, London, Paris, Montreux, Munich & way beyond. Here are all the legends whose genius is evoked in a single name
- Ella, Duke, Satchimo, Bird, Miles, Trane, the Hawk, Monk & Diz
- together with all the younger talent
- Brad mehidau, jacky terrasson, Nicholas Payton & the youngest phenomenon of them all, Norah Jones. They line up with modern-day giants of the genre such as John Schofield, Dave Holl&, Joe Lovano & Keith Jarrett.
All entries have a detailed album chronology, together with a five-star rating system. The text is non-pompous, non-judgemental yet friendly & constructive. All the text has been taken from the gigantic database of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, first published in 1992. the EPM & its spin-off series swiftly & firmly established itself as the undisputed champion of all contemporary-music reference books.




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