We live our lives immersed in name brand products It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants car dealerships branded clothing they're all around us What most of us don't know is that the origins of many of the most well-known & beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy drug use & sometimes even addled with blatant racism A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumours & urban legends & paints a picture of the true dark history of famous brands like Coca-Cola Hugo Boss Adidas Ford Bayer Chanel & BMW among others Explore the mystery of the cocaine content of Coca-Cola the Hitler-Henry Ford connection & why Bayer is famous for Asprin but began their journey with Heroin & how Kellogg's Corn Flakes were crafted to deter sexual arousal Thoroughly researched Mc Nabb details first-hand conducted interviews alongside fairly weighed research to present the decisive view of brands histories that you haven't heard of yet ...

Mole discovers that friendship is worth sharing in this fifth title in the best-selling Mole series One hot summer's day when Mole is out exploring he discovers a newcomer to the forest
- a newcomer called Mouse! The two quickly become friends but Mole isn't keen to introduce Mouse to the other forest animals In fact he doesn't want to share her with anyone Meanwhile Rabbit Squirrel & Hedgehog are wondering why they haven't seen Mole for so long When they finally discover his secret they're so pleased to meet Mouse that Mole realizes it's much nicer for everyone to be friends With beautiful illustrations this story is a celebration of friendship & why it's always good to share
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A funny moving love story about facing fears hand in hand
- one snakespiderpotentially unstable fourth-floor balcony at a time
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&A Sense of Home is about making your house a private sanctuary a wonderful feel-good book that offers inspiring advice on creating a home that represents "you"& Sunday Times& Homes should nurture & nourish us be a private sanctuary a deeply personal place where friends & family gather & celebrate My hope is that this book can guide you to create the space you love
- along with great tastes that make eating there a comfort & a pleasure& Helen James From leading Irish designer & food blogger Helen James comes a beautiful book for all who enjoy making their house a home Room by room Helen shares her distinctive design sensibility inspired by the natural world as she considers the spaces where we spend so much of our time
- indoor & out
- from a sensory perspective taste sight scent touch & sound Combining over 60 delicious homely recipes
- from bedroom feasts to &movie-night& suppers
- with essential design principles natural beauty products gardening plans & more A Sense of Home is stunningly illustrated throughout A sumptuous journey that is as pleasurable to browse as it is to put into practice
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1 Howard L Myers during his brief but impressive career was published in all the leading science fiction magazines in the 1960s & 1970s This book is a treasure trove of some of the best writing of that period 2 The Creatures of Man a previous collection of Myers’ stories was praised by Library Bookwatch as “ a 1960s classic All the stories are choice reads”3 Advertising in Locus more 4 Featured book on Baencom &
- ; In a post-apocalyptic world telepaths are common but young Starn had no trace of telepathic ability & was persecuted by those who had the talent—until he discovered he possessed an even more unusual ability &
- ; A criminal mastermind has been captured by the Space Patrol & a Patrol ship is carrying him to a prison planet Escape seems impossible but he has a secret weapon It’s only water—but water with a very unusual property &
- ; In the afterlife it turns out that one’s existence is dependent on being remembered by the living As you are forgotten you shrink How do you avoid this? Why hire an unearthly public relations firm of course These stories & more including two full-length novels fill a large volume of entertaining space adventure & humorous fantasy Inventive by a writer noted for original ideas developed with a sardonic wit About the Author Howard L Myers was a prolific writer of science fiction publishing short fiction in all the leading SF magazines as well as the novel Cloud Chamber His stories also were reprinted in many anthologies His promising career was cut short when he died at the age of 41


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AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' 'A novel that made such a deep impression on me at sixteen that I can still conjure the atmosphere in my fifties of yearning infatuation mingled indistinguishably with envy & remorse' Lionel Shriver An American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II A Separate Peace is a harrowing & luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence Gene is a lonely introverted intellectual Phineas is a handsome taunting daredevil athlete What happens between the two friends one summer like the war itself banishes the innocence of these boys & their world ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The stand out film of the 2011 Berlin Film Festival & winner of the Golden Bear A Separation is a suspenseful & intelligent drama detailing the fractures & tensions at the heart of Iranian society Written & directed by Asghar Farhadi the film boasts a range of superb performances from the ensemble cast who collectively received the Silver Bears for both Best Actor & Best Actress at the Berlinale The compelling narrative is driven by a taut & finely written script rooted in the particular of Iranian society but which transcends its setting to create a stunning morality play with universal resonance When his wife (Leila Hatami) leaves him Nader (Peyman Moadi) hires a young woman (Sareh Bayat) to take care of his suffering father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) But he doesn&t know his new maid is not only pregnant but also working without her unstable husband&s (Shahab Hosseini) permission Soon Nader finds himself entangled in a web of lies manipulation & public confrontations A Separation is the first ever Iranian film to be awarded the Golden Bear In 2001 Iranian born director Asghar Farhadi wrote the screenplay for Ebrahim Hatamikia&s box-office & critical success Low Heights His directorial debut was in 2003 with Dancing in the Dust After Beautiful City in 2004 & Fireworks Wednesday in 2006 Farhadi directed About Elly winning the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2009 Berlinale A Separation is his fifth feature A Separation continued it&s award stealing sweep by picking up the Oscar statuette for Best Foreign Language Film at this years Academy Awards This comes after it&s triumph win at the Golden Globes The British Independent Film Awards & the BBC Four World Cinema Awards Actors Leila Hatami Peyman Moadi Shahab Hosseini Sareh Bayat Sarina Farhadi Babak Karimi Ali-Asghar Shahbazi & Kimia Hosseini Director Asghar Farhadi Certificate PGYear 2011 Languages Persian Subtitles English Duration 2 hours (approx) ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Academy Award winning filmmakers Joel & Ethan Coen bring their famously wicked sense of humor to this every day tale about a moral man who sees the world inexplicably turn against him in this darkest of comedies Larry Nidus is a good man He is a loving husband a committed father & a dedicated professor who always does the fair & just thing in the face of daily temptations But one day everything starts to go wrong His wife leaves him for reasons she can&t explain & her smug new lover manages to convince Larry that he should be the one to move out of the house & into a cheap motel
- all for the children&s benefit of course Then Larry&s career is put into jeopardy by a series of anonymous letters falsely accusing him of unnamed treacheries & when his wife&s new partner dies in a car accident she insists that he should foot the bill for the funeral! Now the cash strapped Larry finds himself paying to bury a man he hates bailing his gambling addicted brother out of jail & desperately trying to save his name & his career in academia Yet in spite of it all we can&t help but laugh as we contemplate Larry&s plight in a world with no silver linings that might just seem uncomfortably familiar to us all Actors Simon Helberg Adam Arkin Richard Kind Michael Stuhlbarg George Wyner Fyvush Finkel Katherine Borowitz Peter Breitmayer Amy Landecker & Stephen Park Director Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages Latin American Spanish ; Canadian French Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Latin American Spanish ; Canadian French Duration 1 hour & 46 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Academy Award winning filmmakers Joel & Ethan Coen bring their famously wicked sense of humour to this every day tale about a moral man who sees the world inexplicably turn against him in this darkest of comedies Larry Nidus is a good man He is a loving husband a committed father & a dedicated professor who always does the fair & just thing in the face of daily temptations But one day everything starts to go wrong His wife leaves him for reasons she can&t explain & her smug new lover manages to convince Larry that he should be the one to move out of the house & into a cheap motel
- all for the children&s benefit of course Then Larry&s career is put into jeopardy by a series of anonymous letters falsely accusing him of unnamed treacheries & when his wife&s new partner dies in a car accident she insists that he should foot the bill for the funeral! Now the cash strapped Larry finds himself paying to bury a man he hates bailing his gambling addicted brother out of jail & desperately trying to save his name & his career in academia Yet in spite of it all we can&t help but laugh as we contemplate Larry&s plight in a world with no silver linings that might just seem uncomfortably familiar to us all Actors Simon Helberg Adam Arkin Richard Kind Michael Stuhlbarg George Wyner Fyvush Finkel Katherine Borowitz Peter Breitmayer Amy Landecker & Stephen Park Director Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 41 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players


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' My name is Finlay Mc Intosh I can see OK can hear perfectly fine & I can write really really well But the thing is I can't speak I'm a st-st-st-stutterer Hilarious isn't it? It's like the word is there in my mouth fully formed & then just as it's ready to leave my lips POP! It jumps & ricochets & bounces around my gob Except it isn't funny at all because there's not a thing I can do about it' Finlay's mother vanished two years ago & ever since then his stutter has become almost unbearable Bullied at school & ignored by his father the only way to get out the words which are bouncing around in his head is by writing long letters to his ma which he knows she will never read & by playing Scrabble online But when Finlay is befriended by an online Scrabble player called Alex everything changes Could it be his mother secretly trying to contact him? Or is there something more sinister going on?A Seven-Letter Word is an evocative & heartfelt story from the multi-award-winning author of Smart Kim Slater ...