Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Young Hercules is challenged by the King to carry out seven labours
- no problem although the King is less impressed when he brings back the evidence & stinks out the palace 32 pages Collins Educational
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This is a party game for families friends & cow rustlers The aim of the game is simple think like the herd & write down the same answers as your friends If your answer is part of the majority you all win cows Yeehaw! If everyone else writes an answer that is matched by at least one other person but yours is the odd one out then you land the angry Pink Cow & your herd of cows is worthless until you can offload it onto someone else The first player to collect eight cows wins ...

The language of genes has become common parlance We know they make your eyes blue your hair curly or your nose straight The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer heart disease alcoholism or Alzheimer's The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred & gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise So we've all heard of genes but how do they actually work? There are 22 metres of DNA inside every one of your cells encoding roughly 20000 genes These are the recipes' that tell our cells how to make the building blocks of life along with myriad control switches ensuring they're turned on & off at the right time & in the right place But rather than a static string of genetic code this is a dynamic writhing biological library Figuring out how it all works
- how your genes build your body
- is a major challenge for researchers around the world & what they're discovering is that far from genes being a fixed deterministic blueprint things are much more random & wobbly than anyone expected Drawing on stories ranging from six toed cats & stickleback hips to Mickey Mouse mice & zombie genes
- told by researchers working at the cutting edge of genetics
- Kat Arney explores the mysteries in our genomes with clarity flair & wit creating a companion reader to the book of life itself



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All of our decorative ceramic picture tiles are individually hand painted by highly skilled artists A pipette is used to draw the lines adding great texture to the tile as it sits proudly on the wall Each & every one of our ceramic picture tiles are fired at extreme temperatures to create permanent images that will not fade whether they are placed in the conservatory in direct sunlight or on the kitchen wall The back of the tile is covered with felt including quality hooks for hanging your tile 8x 8 inch ceramic tile come with a wooden back with a pull out stand but still with a hook for hanging Depth 11cm Weight 1kg Width 8 inches Height 8 inches Packaging Brown Box with Polyfoam Backing Wooden Back with Stand & Hook ...

Here is Richard Mc Guire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name Richard Mc Guire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989 Built in six pages of interlocking panels dated by year it collapsed time & space to tell the story of the corner of a room
- & its inhabitants
- between the years 500957406073 BC & 2033 AD The strip remains one of the most influential & widely discussed contributions to the medium & it has now been developed expanded & reimagined by the artist into this full-length full-colour graphic novel
- a must for any fan of the genre' From now on Mc Guire will be known as the author of the novel Here because it's a work of literature & art unlike any seen or read before A book like this comes along once a decade if not a century' Chris Ware Guardian' Promises to leapfrog immediately to the front ranks of the graphic-novel genre' New York Times Richard Mc Guire is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine He has written & illustrated both children's books & experimental comics His work has appeared in The New York Times Mc Sweeney's Le Monde & Liberation He has written & directed two omnibus feature films designed & manufactured his own line of toys & is also the founder & bass player of the band Liquid Liquid


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Ellie Morgan wants a boy who's all hers Just for once it would be nice to meet someone that Sheila (the cow) hadn't got her claws in to A remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon is hardly the ideal setting for meeting anyone
- unless of course you count her best friend George or creepy Darren (which Ellie doesn't) But when a boy glimpsed through the mist & snow lures her up to the Devil's Bridge Ellie realises the place she knows so well still has its secrets The stronger her feelings for this strange boy become the more she is in danger a battle as old as Snowdon itself has been raging for centuries & now Ellie's caught in the middle Something has left its lair It's out there stalking her Who ever said true love was easy?
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Fearless pirate Captain Cut-Throat doesn't believe in monsters When he & his dastardly crew set sail for a treasure island they must first pass through THE MIST & as legend tells it THERE BE MONSTERS IN THE MIST! But as the Captain says monsters simply don't exist But then who or what is gobbling up the Crew?A thrilling swashbuckling pirate adventure from the award-winning creators of THE PRINCESS & THE PIG & THE SANTA TRAP ...

Explore planet Earth & all its secrets in rhyme They come from planets near & far
- Some big some small some quite bizarre Moving
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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 Nine up-&-coming & established female filmmakers bring you a refreshing variety of shorts that look at all aspects of lesbian life & love from contemporary scenarios of mistaken identity & bedroom hang-ups to period pieces concerning secret rendezvous & forbidden relationships Sobering issues such as racial stereotypes & domestic violence are also touched upon as are tales of wistful romance & teenage friendships boiling over into sexual desire The collection features work from acclaimed writersfilmmakers Guinevere Turner (The L Word Itty Bitty Titty Committee American Psycho) & Roberta Munroe (How Not To Make A Short Film) actresses Nathalie Toriel (Finn&s Girl) & Lucy Liemann (Moving Wallpaper Reggie Perrin) & British performance artists Bird La Bird Dyke Marilyn & Split Britches ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Show business twin sisters Rosemary & Susie one serious & the other a scatterbrain join the WAVES & both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot ...