Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905 The master mariner & his crew
- Dougie the mate Macphail the engineer Sunny Jim & the Tar
- all play their part in evoking the irresistible atmosphere of a bygone age when puffers sailed between West Highland ports & the great city of Glasgow This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author's lifetime as well as those that were unpublished & a new story which was discovered in 2001 Extensive notes accompany each story providing fascinating insights into colloquialisms place-names & historical events This volume also

Includes:: a wealth of contemporary photographs depicting the harbours steamers & puffers from the age of the Vital Spark



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Originally developed for parachute suspension lines during World War II durable lightweight paracord has even been used by Space Shuttle astronauts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope You can weave & braid this versatile cord in an array of fashion colours to create attractive & useful accessories Parachute Cord Craft ties everything together with 22 clever projects & step-by-step instructions for making fashionable bracelets & necklaces belts lanyards dog collars key fobs & more Discover the knots you need to know get practical advice on tools & materials learn the right way to melt & fuse the cut ends of your cord & experiment with jewellery findings ...

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Make six beautiful bracelets easily with step by step directions! This package contains six 9 foot lengths of parachute cord in red orange black pink variegated camo & variegated multicolour four 58 x 1- 34 inches buckles (two black one blue & one violet) two 38 x 1- 18 inches buckles (one orange & one yellow) & a twenty-four page mini book that gives complete instructions for three different styles of bracelets ...

With a preface by Will Eisner Paracuellos is a work of great courage created at a time when telling the truth about Spain&s political past could get one killed It is arguably the most important graphic memoir ever created in comics Carlos Gimenez’s autobiographical account of the plight of children in post-World War II Fascist Spain has won virtually every comics award in Europe including “ Best Album” at the 1981 Angoulême Festival & the “ Heritage Award” at Angoulême in 2010 In the late 1930s when Spanish fascists led by Franco & aided by Hitler & Mussolini overthrew the elected government almost 200000 men & women fell in battle were executed or died in prison Their orphaned children—and others ripped from the homes of the defeated—were shuttled from Church-run “home” to “home” & fed a steady diet of torture & disinformation by a totalitarian state bent on making them “productive” citizens Carlos Gimenez was one of those children In 1975 after Franco’s death Carlos began to tell his story Breaking the code of silence proved to be a milestone both for the comics medium & for a country coming to terms with its past An illustrated essay by Carmen Moreno-Nuño Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky places the comics in historical perspective “ The stories transcend just being about a historical moment in Spain Their humanity will speak to everyone The stories are heartbreakers but Carlos never loses his sense of humor”— William Stout ...

The characters of Alice in Wonderland are having a Parade! All players are producers of this parade Characters from Lewis Carroll&s books such as Alice The White Rabbit & The Mad Hatter are steadily invited to join this weird procession On your turn you play a card (from your hand of five) to the end of the parade Unfortunately that card might cause other cards to walk off the parade These cards count as negative points in the end The length of parade line is important If the number of the card you just played is less than the line length you may receive the excess cards (counting from last played to the first of the line) But you do not take all cards only the cards that meet one of these requirements 1 color is the same as just played or 2 number is the same or lower than just played The game ends when the draw deck is exhausted or when one player has collected all six colors in their point piles Then everyone plays one last card From the four cards remaining in their hand players choose two cards to add to his or her point piles The player who has the least negative points after this is the winner Scoring Normally negative points are same the number on the card But if you have the most cards in a certain color each of your cards of that color counts only 1 negative point! Thus play your cards well! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Made-for-TV semi-documentary from legendary French director & comedian Jacques Tati The film which was Tati&s last before his death in 1982 gives a jovial observation of the circus including the shenanigans that go on behind the scenes of the production ...

Parade's End is the great British war novel & Ford Madox Ford's major achievement as a novelist Originally published as four linked novels between 1924 & 1928 it follows the story of Christopher Tietjens as his life is shattered by his wife's infidelities & overturned by the mud blood & destruction of the First World War ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ford Madox Ford&s Edwardian love story PARADE&S END is lavishly adapted for the screen by acclaimed playwright & screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard Benedict Cumberbatch (WAR HORSE) & Rebecca Hall (THE AWAKENING) lead the star-studded cast as English aristocrats Christopher & Sylvia Tietjens As the decadence of the Edwardian era makes way for the destruction of the First World War the Tietjens& marriage grows ever more unstable Christopher is determined to stay loyal to his wife despite her numerous infidelities but finds his resolve tested when he meets courageous young suffragette Valentine Wannop (Adelaide Clemens) This absorbing love triangle plays out across the events of the tumultuous period from the stiff-upper-lip of high society London to the harrowing battlefields of France Actors Benedict Cumberbatch Rebecca Hall Roger Allam Adelaide Clemens Anne-Marie Duff Rupert Everett Stephen Graham Janet Mc Teer & Miranda Richardson Director Susanna White Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen 1781 Languages English ...

Being an expert in information searches image processing & enhancement pattern matching & data forensics earned Jason Wood a lot of money
- from private contracts & working with the police & it was a nice comfortable job most of the time But then an informant showed up dead on his doorstep a photograph didn&t show someone who&d been in the viewfinder when the picture was taken & Jason&s world is suddenly turned upside-down Against things that violate the very reality he thought he understood Jason has only three weapons his best friend Sylvie his talent for seeing patterns & his ability to think beyond the pattern & see a solution that no one else imagined Against the darkness of the unknown the greatest weapon is the light of reason A vastly expanded & revised edition of Digital Knight Ryk E Spoor&s first published novel Paradigms Lost adds two br&-new adventures for Jason &

Includes:: many chapters of additional material within the originals


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