One wealthy bachelor Two Bennet sisters lacking prospects Can either defy expectations? 'A charmingly written evocation of what might have happened to the remaining Bennet sisters Very enjoyable' Katie Fforde Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Mary Bennet does not dream of marriage Much to her mother's horror Mary is determined not to follow in the footsteps of her elder sisters Jane (now Mrs Bingley) & Lizzy (now Mrs Darcy) Living at home with her remaining sister Kitty & her parents Mary does not care for fashions or flattery Her hopes are simple
- a roof over her head music at the piano a book in her hand & the freedom not to marry the first bachelor her mother can snare for her But Mrs Bennet is not accustomed to listening to her daughters While Kitty is presented with tempting choices & left trying to resist old habits May discovers that things are not always what they seem & that happiness has a price But by the time she realises that her perceptions might be false could she have missed her chance at a future she'd never imagined? Perfect for fans of Pride & Prejudice Perception continues the adventures of the Bennet sisters in the Regency world we all know For lovers of Austen & sequels Longbourn & Thornfield Hall to reimaginings like Eligible & Death Comes to Pemberley this is a sweeping historical epic to savour
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Perception is one of the oldest & most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology & it is also raises some profound philosophical questions It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide & control our behaviour as well as to create our particular subjective experiences of the surrounding world In this Very Short Introduction Brian J Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive as well as describing how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of objects & scenes such as their lightness colour form depth & motion What we perceive however does not always correspond to what exists in the world & as Rogers shows the study of illusions can be useful in telling us something about the nature & limitations of our perceptual processes Rogers also explores perception from an evolutionary perspective explaining how evolutionary pressures have shaped the perceptual systems of humans & other animals He shows that perception is not necessarily a separate & independent process but rather part of a 'perceptual system' involving both the extraction of perceptual information & the control of action Rogers goes on to cover the significant progress made recently in the understanding of perception through the use of precise & controlled psychophysical methods single cell recordings & imaging techniques There have also been many insights from attempts to model perceptual processes in artificial systems As Rogers shows these attempts have revealed how difficult it is to programme machines to perform even the most simple of perceptual tasks that we take for granted ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

That Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone is only natural for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension So take one uneasy step & fall headlong into his world a world where lions stalk the plains classics cars rove the streets & spacecraft hover just overhead Here roam musicians magicians vampires monsters toreros extraterrestrials androids & perhaps even the Devil himself Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories including five stories that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes This volume contains an introduction by Ray Bradbury & an afterword by William Shatner two fellow science fiction luminaries who counted themselves among Beaumont's close friends ...

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As every Harry Potter fan knows & Fantastic Beasts& is JK Rowling&s 2001 spin-offprequel to the HP books set some 70 years before the HP stories but in the same world Now that book has been developed into a series of 3 upcoming films starting in November 2016 & with scripts written by Rowling herself We all know how fanatical the Potter following is so we expect these movies to be HUGE A great cast of new characters for all those collectors shelves Please order early These excellent POP! vinyl figures each stand around 9cm tall & come packed in illustrated window boxes ...

Meet mythical creatures from a hidden world of snow & ice high above the clouds … Yetis are about to encounter something they thought didn’t exist a small-footed human Funko is celebrating the world of the upcoming animated adventure Smallfoot from Warner Bros Pictures & Warner Animation Group Because nothing is more adorable than a Pop! Vinyl Yeti the creatures of Smallfoot including Yetis Meechee Fleem Migo Stonekeeper & their human Percy will all be available ...

The son of Poseidon travels the Earth with the hopes of quelling a battle of the gods in this adaptation of the first book in Rick Riordan&s best-selling children&s book series Veteran director Chris Columbus (HOME ALONE HARRY POTTER & THE SORCERER&S STONE) directs from his own script with co-writer Craig Titley 310 TO YUMA&s Logan Lerman toplines a godlike cast that

Includes:: Uma Thurman Pierce Brosnan & Sean Bean

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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 Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school
- but that&s the least of his problems The gods of Mount Olympus & assorted monsters seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy&s Greek mythology texts & into his life
- & they&re not happy Zeus& lightning bolt has been stolen & Percy is the prime suspect Now Percy & his friends must embark on a cross-country adventure to catch the true thief save Percy&s family & unravel a mystery more powerful than the gods themselves

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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 Always trouble-prone the life of teenager Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) gets a lot more complicated when he learns he&s the son of the Greek god Poseidon At a training ground for the children of deities Percy learns to harness his divine powers & prepare for the adventure of a lifetime he must prevent a feud among the Olympians from erupting into a devastating war on Earth & rescue his mother from the clutches of Hades god of the underworld ...

Half Boy Half God ALL Hero Honestly blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do As the son of a Greek God I've had my share of near-death disaster
- & now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth If he succeeds thousands of bloodthirsty monsters will attack So it's goodbye sunshine hello darkness as four of us descend into the terrifying underground & beyond RICK RIORDAN IS THE MYTHMASTER The Greek Gods are alive & kicking
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