From excavators to dumpers & everything in between! Find all about 30 different types of diggers & dumpers
- bulldozers tipper
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From fire trucks to ambulances & everything in between! Find out all about 30 types of emergency vehicles
- police cars helicopters
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Discover everything you ever wanted to know about anything with this first reference for young readers & writers An inspiring & comprehensive collection of the best in the DK First Reference series all gathered together in one superb volume From prehistoric life to space travel bacteria to the human brain help your child discover all about the world we live in They'll discover how life on Earth began how the human body works how people lived in Ancient Egypt why some dinosaurs were so huge what makes machines work the countries of the world & much much more Full of fantastic photos bite-sized facts & quiz questions kids will love getting their teeth into there's lots to see & explore Perfect for homework or just for fun Go ahead; let your child find out more about everything! ...

The iconic Christmas figurine has got to be Santa Claus! Our department 56 Possible Dreams Santa hanging ornaments capture the best of Christmas for your home Unique variations should be expected as this product is hand painted Packed in a branded gift box Not a toy or children's product Intended for adults only ...

Daisy Wells & Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the world-famous Orient Express
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Little children will enjoy bringing charming Christmas scenes to life in this fun colouring book Scenes to colour include Santa's workshop a Christmas tree Santa delivering presents & lots more The backgrounds are already coloured so children can focus on the fun parts 16 pages full colour throughout Greenwell Jessica ...

This exciting activity book is full of amazing dinosaurs to colour from friendly sauropods to a family of Triceratops & a fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex The backgrounds are already coloured in so little children can focus on the exciting parts 16 pages black & white with spot colour Taplin Sam ...

There are lots of horses & ponies to colour in this lovely activity book for little children Scenes include the stables grooming before a show a paddock & show jumping The backgrounds are already coloured in so children can focus on the fun parts ...

The second in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes books! If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans then A Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels Here it is the entire John Grimes
- Far Traveller Courier" saga collected in one volume These are the tales of John Grimes& action-packed merchantman & courier years After moving on from the Terran Navy Grimes tries his hand at leading a private life & finds he likes being his own man The only problem is his ship The Far Traveller has a (very stubborn & very feminine) mind of its own
- & a penchant for getting Grimes into the worse sort of interplanetary pickles

Includes:: The Far Traveller (with the classic John Grimes stories that started it all) Star Courier To Keep the Ship Matilda Stepchildren Star Loot The Anarch Lords The Last Amazon & The Wild Ones



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NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight' & provide retrospective justification for their careers That is not the case with this book ' It occurred to me that to track down myself would enable me to discuss an issue that had begun to intrigue me namely the relationship between politics & identity the things that had shaped me & whether & how they had come to reflect my life & opinions As I wrote the question of identity moved from the wings to centre stage & roiled politics & nations on both sides of the Atlantic'' Who am I? Who are we?' Chris Patten's career has taken him from the outer London suburbs to the House of Commons a seat in the Cabinet last Governor of Hong Kong Chairman of the BBC & Chancellor of Oxford University About all of these he is enlightening & entertaining He has unexpected & telling things to say about each of the three Prime Ministers for whom he worked
- Edward Heath Margaret Thatcher & John Major But his political heroes
- Baldwin Macmillan Butler
- came from an earlier time he is proud to be 'wet' & reckons all his paladins were pretty damp themselves But more Patten uses each phase of his life as a spur to reflect upon its contemporary situation
- education America conservatism Ireland China Europe & finally the question of links between violence & religion Unlike one No 10 press secretary Patten definitely 'does God' At the end the reader has an impression of someone who knows himself as well as any of us can & who continues to think passionately & intelligently about the world around him Wise funny & opinionated First Confession is a different sort of memoir a meditation on personal & political identity which in an age of simplification reminds us of the complexities of both



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