Where do tigers live? What do they eat? Can tigers swim? Beginner readers can find out the answers to these questions & lots more in this fascinating book Each double page features stunning wildlife photography alongside vivid illustrations & accessible facts

Includes:: a glossary of interesting words & a list of recommended website where children can find out more about tigers

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Find out what it was like to be a Viking & learn about Viking homes feasts boats gods & much more in this fascinating book Written with the help of a reading expert the book

Includes:: short informative text vivid full colour illustrations & photographs on every page

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Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) continues to be one of the leading Java technologies & platforms Beginning Java EE 7 is the first tutorial book on Java EE 7 Step by step & easy to follow this book describes many of the Java EE 7 specifications & reference implementations & shows them in action using practical examples This definitive book also uses the newest version of Glass Fish to deploy & administer the code examples Written by an expert member of the Java EE

Specification request & review board in the Java Community Process (JCP) this book contains the best information possible from an expert's perspective on enterprise Java technologies

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Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting popular & stimulating fields of literary & cultural studies in recent years Yet the variety of approaches the range of debate & the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time & has become an established international best-seller in the field In this fully revised & updated second edition John Mc Leod introduces the major areas of concern in a clear accessible & organised fashion He provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline & closely examines its many established critical approaches while also exploring important recent initiatives in the field In particular Beginning Postcolonialism demonstrates how many key postcolonial ideas & concepts can be effectively applied when reading texts & enables students to develop their own independent thinking about the possibilities & pitfalls of postcolonial critique -- ...

A title within the Nursing & Health Care Practice series Beginning Reflective Practice provides pre-registration nursing & health care students with all the tools required to fully understand & develop skills for reflective practice with the goal of becoming a successful reflective practitioner Clearly written & highly accessible this new edition

Includes:: a wide number of examples & illustrations to assist with learning & understanding simple introductions to theoretical perspectives along with key developments in nursing including the growing role of e-learning technologies the relationship between reflective learning & evidence-based practice & the increasingly recognised linkage between reflection professional judgment & accountability Fully up-to-date in line with NMC standards this is an indispensable text for every trainee reflective practitioner This textbook is autopackaged with Course Mate Course Mate brings course concepts to life with interactive learning study & exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook & the textbook-specific website Course Mate

Includes:: an integrated e Book & interactive teaching & learning tools including quizzes flashcards videos & more & an Engagement Tracker a first-of-its-kind tool that monitors student engagement in the course



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Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over what is the "right" way to help children learn to read Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over the "right" way to help children learn to read Drawing on a rich array of research on the nature & development of reading proficiency Adams shows educators that they need not remain trapped in the phonics versus teaching-for-meaning dilemma She proposes that phonics can work together with the whole language approach to teaching reading & provides an integrated treatment of the knowledge & process involved in skillful reading the issues surrounding their acquisition & the implications for reading instruction A Bradford Book ...

From multi-award-winning Irish author Celine Kiernan comes a dark fantasy adventure about witches" Ireland's answer to JK Rowling" Sunday Independent A middle-grade fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge Katherine Rundell & Sally Gardner On the night that Aunty dies the Raggedy Witches come for Mup's mam Pale cold relentless they will do anything to coax Mam back to Witches Borough When they kidnap Mup's dad Mup & her mam must leave the mundane world to rescue him But Mam is strange on this side of the border
- striding powerful & distant Even if they can save Dad Mup is not sure anything will ever be the same again
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Bill Denny is followed home by a cute Welsh terrier unaware that the whole of gangland has its eye on the dog With the police on the look out for the gangsters & a suspicious mother-in-law thrown into the mix it all adds up to mayhem! Farley Granger William Calhoun ' Bill' Denny Shelley Winters Kate Denny William Demarest Officer O' Ryan Francis L Sullivan Fat Freddy Margalo Gillmore Mother Lon Chaney Jr Pinky Hans Conried Gillie the Blade Written & directed by George Beck DVD 5 PAL Black &38; White Actors Farley Granger Shelley Winters Directors George Beck Language English Aspect Ratio 43
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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 Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to try & win the heart of Nina Pennington Even if this means dealing with a mobster&s son a group of strippers his best friend&s horny mother his drug abusing boss a perverted principal a priest with a secret his suicidal mother & a patron saint who dispenses cryptic advice No one ever said love was easy ...

When Mad was turned into a magazine in 1954 every publisher & his uncle came up with his own version often using the same talent Behaving Madly presents 200 pages of never reprinted material by Bill Elder Jack Davis John Severin Al Jaffee Joe Maneely Jack Kirby Ross Andru Joe Kubert Russ Heath Bob Powell Howard Nostrand Basil Wolverton Steve Ditko Lee Elias & many others This coffee table art book is produced by comic strip historian Ger Apeldoorn & Eisner winner Craig Yoe Looking for a little more excitement in your life? Get mad & get Snafu Lunatickle Cockeyed Crazy Thimk Frenzy Frantic Loco Panic & Zany too! Meet the Author Vice magazine has called Criag Yoe the " Indiana Jones of comics historians" Publisher Weekly says he&s the "archivist of the ridiculous & the sublime" & calls his work "brilliant" The Onion calls him "the celebrated designer" The Library Journal "a comics guru" Boing Boing hails him "a fine cartoonist & a comig book historian of the first water" Yoe was Creative Director Vice President General Manager of Jim Henson&s Muppets & a Creative Director at Nickelodeon & Disney Craig has won an Eisner Award & the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators Ger Apeldoorn is a write for television stage & screen in the Netherlands writing & translating comics on the side As a comic book historian he has contributed to Alter Ego & Hogan&s Alley & runs the celebrated blog The Fabulous Fifties A lifelong fan of stire magazines he started his career translating for the Dutch Mad at 17 Forty years later he edited a revival of the Dutch Mad which ran for six glorious issues ...