Which creepy critters wear their skeleton outside of their body? Who breathes through their slimy skin? Which blood-sucking bug attacks at night? In Focus Bugs has the answers! In Focus is a cool new information series that's perfect for curious kids These fun books feature modern magazine-style pages including top 10 lists fast facts quickfire quizzes & more! With pages packed with vivid photography & fun facts kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page glossary & index plus front & end gatefold flaps on the cover ...

What ocean animal dances every morning? Who plays with their food? Where can you find fish that light up? In Focus Oceans & Seas has the answers! In Focus is a cool new information series that's perfect for curious kids These fun books feature modern magazine-style pages including top 10 lists fast facts quickfire quizzes & more! With pages packed with vivid photography & fun facts kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page glossary & index plus front & end gatefold flaps on the cover ...

Which amazing animal can change the color of its skin? Which terrifying creature is so big it was confused for a dragon? Which tricksy reptile pretends to be a toad? In Focus Reptiles has the answers! In Focus is a cool new information series that's perfect for curious kids These fun books feature modern magazine-style pages including top 10 lists fast facts quickfire quizzes & more! With pages packed with vivid photography & fun facts kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page glossary & index plus front & end gatefold flaps on the cover ...

Which moon in the solar system has more water than Earth? How are black holes made? What's our full address in the Universe? In Focus Space by Raman Prinja has the answers! In Focus is a cool information series that's perfect for curious kids These fun books feature modern magazine-style pages including top 10 lists fast facts quickfire quizzes & more! With pages packed with vivid photography & fun facts kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page glossary & index plus front & end gatefold flaps on the cover ...

Where is the hottest place on the Earth? Which animals love the hot weather? Where would you see a mirage? In Focus Tropical Lands has the answers! In Focus is a cool new information series that's perfect for curious kids These fun books feature modern magazine-style pages including top 10 lists fast facts quickfire quizzes & more! With pages packed with vivid photography & fun facts kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page glossary & index plus front & end gatefold flaps on the cover ...

In just over a hundred years-from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750-the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East North Africa & Spain Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe & the Tang Empire in China The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion & it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires states & armies in such a short period of time is a question that has perplexed historians for centuries Most recent popular accounts have been based almost solely on the early Muslim sources which were composed centuries later for the purpose of demonstrating that God had chosen the Arabs as his vehicle for spreading Islam throughout the world In this ground-breaking new history distinguished Middle East expert Robert G Hoyland assimilates not only the rich biographical & geographical information of the early Muslim sources but also the many non-Arabic sources contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous with the conquests The story of the conquests traditionally begins with the revelation of Islam to Muhammad In God's Path however begins with a broad picture of the Late Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival a world dominated by the two superpowers of Byzantium & Sasanian Persia the two eyes of the world In between these empires in western (Saudi) Arabia emerged a distinct Arab identity which helped weld its members into a formidable fighting force The Arabs are the principal actors in this drama yet as Hoyland shows the peoples along the edges of Byzantium & Persia-the Khazars Bulgars Avars & Turks-also played important roles in the remaking of the old world order The new faith propagated by Muhammad & his successors made it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in creating the first Islamic Empire Well-paced & accessible In God's Path presents a pioneering new narrative of one the great transformational periods in all of history ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In his previous effort & About A Boy& writer-director Paul Weitz managed to smoothly blend elements of dark comedy with heart-warming drama to deftly undercut both of the genre&s undesirable excesses & In Good Company& is Weitz&s solo directorial debut sans his brother Chris with whom he co-helmed the aforementioned film & the wildly successful & American Pie& series Here he perfects his gift for the so-called "dramedy" softening the jagged sometimes ugly edges of corporate satire with warmth & sentiment Dennis Quaid is perfectly cast as Dan Foreman a slightly weary yet still dashing advertising boss & dedicated family man He seems to have it all as a wholesome & admirable father an existence which smacks of the archetypical mid-century sitcom dad that he so brilliantly portrayed as the secretly homosexual husb&-father in Todd Haynes& & Far From Heaven& Enter Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) a cocky young upstart hired to replace him Before long Dan is forced to be deferential to his new baby-faced boss not only in the office but also at his own dinner table when Dan begins dating his lovely daughter Alex (Scarlett Johanssen) This old-fashioned slightly soap-operatic twist is the perfect catalyst for the integration of humanity into an environment (and cinematic genre) that is so often devoid of it & the film simultaneously lightens in spirit & deepens in emotion as a slow-yet-sure father-&-son bond develops between the former adversaries ...

The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality Embarrassment at first to the exclusion of all other feelings But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness I got a joke in So
- we'd better get cooking the meth' I said to the Poet In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer & given two or three years' to live She didn't know how to react All responses felt scripted laden with cliche Being a writer she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) & also to tell a story she has not yet told that of being taken in aged fifteen by the author Doris Lessing & the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship In September 2014 Jenny Diski began writing in the London Review of Books describing her experience of living with terminal cancer examining her life & history with Doris Lessing the fairy-tale rescue from the bin' as a teenager the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family & the influence this had on her Swooping from one memory to the next
- alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home her expulsion from school stacking shelves in Banbury & the drug-taking twenty-something in & out of psychiatric hospitals Diski paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers
- Lessing & herself From one of our most original voices comes a book like no other a cerebral witty dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory & writing ingratitude & anger; about living with illness & facing death


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' One of the most inventive original & disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer & given two or three years' to live Being a writer she decided to write about her experience
- & to tell a story she had not yet told that of being taken in aged fifteen by the author Doris Lessing & the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers
- Lessing & herself Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude A cerebral witty dazzlingly candid memoir it is her final masterpiece

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New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti ' s (The Vanishing Year) latest novel follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation 432 pages Moretti Kate ...