At Home With Numbers is full of learning activities for young children to do at home Children from 3 years old will learn to recognize & understand the numbers 1 to 5 through drawing colouring & matching activities The book uses a variety of fun tasks to get children counting & sequencing identifying sets of particular quantities understanding the terms 'more' & 'less' & doing some basic addition & subtraction The fun illustrations encourage using a pencil in a controlled way & improve h&-eye coordination Useful tips support adults so that they can encourage learning gently
- plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each activity! This book is ideal to build confidence in numeracy for a child's first years at school
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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 All 26 episodes from series 1-4 of the popular ITV comedy drama When forty-year-old Alison Braithwaite (Amanda Redman) wins £38 million on the lottery she decides not to tell her family opting instead to set up a business dedicated to helping others However Alison is not the only family member with a secret her bank manager husband (Peter Davison) is conducting an extra-marital affair one daughter is experimenting with lesbianism & the other is planning to drop out of school & run away with the boy next door The truth will inevitably come out but can the Braithwaite family survive? ...

Classic timeless versatile easily adapted to changing fashions & brilliant for maximizing light
- white can work in every room
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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 Available for the very first time on DVD! Six hours of classic timeless comedy from legendary double act Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones The long-awaited DVD release of the very best material from all four series of Alas Smith & Jones including Granny News In At The Deep End the Businessmen Babies & of course the cream of Head to Head routines Emerging from the phenomenal success of & Not The Nine O& Clock News& Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones forged a double act that was to dominate 80s & 90s comedy & Alas Smith & Jones& became the gold standard for television sketch shows combining superb performances with inspired writing & razor-sharp observation ...

THE THIRD BEAUTIFUL & HEARTWARMING NOVEL FROM MILLY ADAMS ' Well researched with an engaging heroine & a delightful ending' Anna Jacobs Would anyone ever think of her with real love?' It's July 1942 & twenty-three year old nightclub singer Kate Watson has made a home for herself in bombed-blitzed London A motley crew of friends has replaced the family she's not spoken to in years That is until the evening Kate's sister Sarah walks back into her life Sarah has a favour to ask she needs Kate to return home to Dorset for one month to look after her daughter Lizzie Reluctantly Kate agrees even though it means facing the troubled past she hoped she'd escaped Kate is confronted once again by the prejudice & scrutiny of the townsfolk including the new village vicar As the war continues Kate must fight her own battles & find not only the courage to forge a future but perhaps at long last love ' Milly Adams' readers will find the story & its rich cast of characters very appealing' Lizzie Lane ...

Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in The Sunday Times & the Observer'I'd happily cook from this book every night' Bee Wilson Bursting with what will be instant Nigella classics
- not to mention encouraging late-night visits to the fridge for leftovers This is a book for those who see food as sheer pleasure' Good Housekeeping The Sunday Times Bestseller Featuring all the inspiring achievable & delicious recipes from Nigella's BBC TV series
- At My Table plus many more Nigella Lawson is a champion of the home cook & her new book celebrates the food she loves to cook for friends & family The recipes are warming comforting & inspirational from new riffs on classic dishes
- including Chicken Fricassee & Sticky Toffee Pudding
- to adventures in a host of new dishes & ingredients from Aubergine Fatteh to White Miso Hummus AT MY TABLE

Includes:: dishes to inspire all cooks & eaters from Hake with Bacon Peas & Cider to Indian-Spiced Chicken & Potato Traybake & Chilli Mint Lamb Cutlets; plus a host of colourful vegetable dishes like Eastern Mediterranean Chopped Salad & Carrots & Fennel with Harissa No Nigella cookbook would be complete without sweet treats & AT MY TABLE is no exception with Emergency Brownies White Chocolate Cheesecake & a Victoria Sponge with Cardamom Marmalade & Creme Fraiche set to become family favourites As Nigella writes happiness is best shared' & the food in this book will be served & savoured at your own kitchen table just as it is at hers





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Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK
- the first novel in her bestselling
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The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes hurricanes or floods However the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological & cultural myth At Risk questions this myth & argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive & deadly disasters & discusses disaster not as an aberration but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development' Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability One links remote & distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability' The other uses the concepts of 'access' & 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others Examining key natural events & incorporating strategies to create a safer world this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment & development studies ...

The Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new edition ' Weren't you never out for an easy dip?' he asked 'I don't mean the baths I mean with a pal For a lark like' Out at the Forty Foot that great jut of Dublin rock where gentlemen bathe in the scandalous nude two boys meet day after day There they make a pact that Doyler will teach Jim to swim & in a year they will swim the bay to the distant beacon of the Muglins rock to raise the Green & claim it for themselves As a turbulent year drives inexorably towards the Easter Rising of 1916 & Ireland sets forth on a path to uncertain glory a tender secret love story unfolds Written with verve & mastery in a modern Irish tradition descended from James Joyce & Flann O' Brien At Swim Two Boys is a shimmering novel of unforgettable ambition intensity & humanity ' One of the greatest Irish novels ever written' David Marcus ' The music of Jamie O' Neill's prose creates a new Irish symphony' Peter Ackroyd ' Heartachingly beautiful' Independent on Sunday 'A vivid picture of human freedom' Sunday Times ...

Flann O' Brien's innovative metafictional work whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas mythology & nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics Flann O' Brien's first novel tells the story of a young indolent undergraduate who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin & spends far too much time drinking with his friends When not drunk or in bed he likes to invent wild stories peoples with hilarious & unlikely characters
- but somehow his creations won't do what he wants them to A dazzling work of farce satire folklore & absurdity that gives full rein to its author's dancing intellect & Celtic wit At Swim-Two-Birds is both a brilliant comic send-up of Irish literature & culture & a portrayal of Dublin to compare with Joyce's Ulysses Brian O Nuallain (1911-1966) better known by his pseudonym Flann O' Brien was born in Strabane County Tyrone & studied at University College Dublin before joining the Irish Civil Service Ifyou enjoyed At Swim-Two-Birds you might like Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire also available in Penguin Modern Classics' This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud dirty boozy girl' Dylan Thomas' That's a real writer with the true comic spirit' James Joyce author of Ulysses'A brilliant beer-soaked miniature masterpiece' Time
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