An essay with the reach & momentum of a novel Kate Briggs's THIS LITTLE ART is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation offering fresh fierce & timely thinking on reading writing & living with the works of others Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling complex & intensely relational activity She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann & their posthumous vilification She writes about the loving relationship between Andre Gide & his translator Dorothy Bussy She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table for him for the first time on an undeserted island With THIS LITTLE ART a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer distinctive wise frank funny & utterly original ...

The little bird is flying all about the garden Read to find out where the little bird goes 16 pages Gaffney Kelly ...

This Little Pebble begins with a child finding a small forgotten pebble in his pocket It uses this simple premise as a jumping-off point to explore what rocks are where they come from & how fundamental they are to life here on Earth For readers aged six & up This Little Pebble uses beautiful artwork to show the rich diversity of rocks all around us with friendly narrative text by award-winning children's writer Anna Claybourne making the book feel like a journey It explores topics as fascinating & as wide-ranging as Earth's formation the rock cycle volcanoes & earthquakes where precious stones come from & what fossils are It also provides great support for for the topic of rocks in both the geography & science curriculum ...

No parent teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury There are songs rhymes & games for every occasion all chosen for their proven popularity with young children Collected from all over Britain the contents reflect the cultural diversity of the nation making it an outstandingly rich & stimulating collection Since the first edition of This Little Puffin was published over thirty years ago it has been revised & updated allowing it to remain the most invaluable book of its kind ...

A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art science & poetry award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries through much of Europe & into the lively company of many earlier biographers Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific & literary some well-known & others almost lost Margaret Cavendish Mary Somerville Germaine de Stael Mary Wollstonecraft & Zelide He investigates the love-stunned John Keats the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence the opium-soaked genius Coleridge & the mad-visionary bard William Blake The diversity of Holmes's material is testimony to his empathy erudition & at times his mischievous streak This is his most personal & seductive writing yet ...

The pulse-pounding conclusion to the Top Ten bestselling THIS MAN trilogyperfect for fans of Crossfire & Fifty Shades of Grey 528 pages Malpas Jodi Ellen ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require either a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play STAR TREK&S Chris Pine & Tom Hardy (BRONSON) portray two spies whose close friendship is torn when an alluring female (Reese Witherspoon) comes between them in this 20th Century Fox comedy Mc G directs from a script by Timothy Dowling ...

Chris Pine (Star Trek) & Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) co-star with Oscar-Winner Reese Witherspoon in this fast-paced mix of explosive action & laugh-out-loud comedy FDR (Pine) & Tuck (Hardy) both fall for the charming & lovely Lauren (Witherspoon) As Lauren struggles to choose between them
- with help from her sassy friend Trish (Chelsea Handler)
- FDR & Tuck wage an epic battle for Lauren&s affection Using their surveillance skills & an array of high-tech gadgetry
- may the best spy win! Actors Tom Hardy Reese Witherspoon Chris Pine Rebel Wilson Laura Vandervoort Til Schweiger Angela Bassett David Koechner Marie Avgeropoulos Chelsea Handler Warren Christie Leela Savasta Kevan Ohtsji & Aleks Paunovic Director Mc G Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 2401 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx)


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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 A team of PMCs known as Black Knights are ambushed & taken hostage while on a top-secret mission in Sector 4 the most dangerous area in the Middle East Team leader Nash Olsen (Olivier Gruner) escapes captivity & is rescued by the US government only to discover that Black Knight Commander (Eric Roberts) believes a rescue mission is impossible Forced to choose between his family or upholding the Black Knight motto No One is Left Behind Nash begins a one-man rescue attempt to save his team discovering there may be more to this mission than he thought ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play STAR TREK&S Chris Pine & Tom Hardy (BRONSON) portray two spies whose close friendship is torn when an alluring female (Reese Witherspoon) comes between them in this 20th Century Fox comedy Mc G directs from a script by Timothy Dowling ...