Discover the history of the world thanks to this detailed book with lots of timelines to help children understand the chronology of world history The history of the world is outlined in this remarkable reference book from the earliest settlements of around 9000BC right up to the turn of the millennium Wars & revolutions inventions & discoveries are presented chronologically to give the readers a full global overview of what was taking place at any given time Illustrations Full colour throughout ...

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001 It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991 making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu & a total loss of free will
- not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest & most hollow decades With his trademark wicked wit Vonnegut addresses memory suicide the Great Depression the loss of American eloquence & the obsolescent thrill of reading books
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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 Emma Caulfield stars in this offbeat sci-fi romantic comedy as Oona a single woman who is literally counting the minutes until she meets the love of her life In Oona&s world it is possible to have a timer fitted on your wrist that accurately predicts the day you will meet your soul mate She has already taken numerous men to get timers fitted to see if they match up with hers; & her growing desperation
- & the influence of her promiscuous step-sister Steph (Michelle Borth) whose timer will not go off until she is over 40
- leads Oona to a embark on a fling with much younger hopelessly unambitious shop assistant Mikey (John Patrick Amedori)

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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 Emma Caulfield stars in this offbeat sci-fi romantic comedy as Oona a single woman who is literally counting the minutes until she meets the love of her life In Oona&s world it is possible to have a timer fitted on your wrist that accurately predicts the day you will meet your soul mate She has already taken numerous men to get timers fitted to see if they match up with hers; & her growing desperation
- & the influence of her promiscuous step-sister Steph (Michelle Borth) whose timer will not go off until she is over 40
- leads Oona to a embark on a fling with much younger hopelessly unambitious shop assistant Mikey (John Patrick Amedori)

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This is book one in Alex Scarrow's exciting science fiction Time Riders series Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912 Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010 Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029 Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared & said ' Take my hand ' But Liam Maddy & Sal aren't rescued They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists with only one purpose
- to fix broken history Because time travel is here & there are those who would go back in time & change the past That's why the Time Riders exist to protect us To stop time travel from destroying the world The Time Riders series Time Riders; Day of the Predator; The Doomsday Code; The Eternal War; Gates of Rome; City of Shadows; The Pirate Kings Alex's thrillers for adults A Thousand Suns; Last Light; October Skies; Afterlight; The Candle Man
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Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912 Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010 Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029 But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no-one knows exists Its purpose
- to prevent time travel destroying history When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where & when she shouldn't have Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly
- & until now
- undiscovered species of predator Can Liam make contact with Maddy & Sal before he's torn to pieces by dinosaurs
- & without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?




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Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912 Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010 Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026 But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists Its purpose to prevent time travel destroying history Project Exodus
- a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman Empire
- has gone catastrophically wrong Half have arrived seventeen years earlier during the reign of Caligula Liam goes to investigate but when Maddy & Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office all of the Time Riders become trapped in the Roman past Armed with knowledge of the future Caligula is now more powerful than ever But with the office unmanned
- & under threat
- how will the Time Riders make it back to 2001 & put history right? Book five in the bestselling Time Riders series by Alex Scarrow Ancient Rome gets a time-travel makeover! Time Riders (Book 1) won the Red House Book Award older readers category & was Penguin UK's first ever number one on the i Bookstore wwwtime-riderscouk




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Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912 Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010 Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026 But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists Its purpose to prevent time travel destroying history In 1993 British computer hacker Adam Lewis finds his name in a coded manuscript that is almost one thousand years old How did Adam's name get in there & why? Confronted by Adam in 2001 the Time Riders travel back to Sherwood Forest in 1193 to discover the origins of the ancient message But when a strange hooded man appears interested in the same thing they begin to wonder what terrible threat this cryptic link from the past holds for the future
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Liam O' Connor should have died at sea in 1912 Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010 Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026 But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists Its purpose to prevent time travel destroying history A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831
- & now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo If the Time Riders can't return Lincoln to the past the Civil War will never end Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no man's land to cease fire long enough to save the future?

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Liam O& Connor should have died at sea in 1912 Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010 Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026 But all three have been given a second chance
- to work for an agency that no one knows exists Its purpose to prevent time travel destroying history The end is approaching for the Time Riders In a final effort to prevent time travel destroying history Liam & Maddy jump forward to 2070 to confront the enigmatic Waldstein & prove once & for all if he is friend or foe What they discover is more shocking than anyone could have imagined & soon the Time Riders are on one final mission
- back to Biblical times to save the whole of humanity

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