The animals went in two by two hurrah hurrah! Join in the fun as your all-time favourite children's nursery rhymes are brought to life by Wendy Straw's charming illustrations This fantastic collection will put the excitement into reading as well as being an ideal way for children to learn the classics ...

This is the one book every animator should have on their desk
- whether they work in film computer graphics or video game animation
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Animation is one of the hottest & most creative areas of film-making today During his more than 40 years in the business Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators & serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand & the new computer animation successes In this book based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States & across Europe Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator
- from beginner to expert classic animator to computer animation whiz
- needs Using hundreds of drawings Williams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals students & fans This new expanded edition

Includes:: more on animal action invention & realism with sophisticated animation examples



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His last work regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth & insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century AD This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68 With clarity & vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero & the wars poisonings scandals conspiracies & murders that were part of imperial life Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses & fearful for the future of Imperial Rome while also filled with a longing for its past glories Michael Grant's translation vividly captures the emotional patriotism of Tacitus' moral tone offset by a lucid understanding that Rome is doomed & conveys with cinematic vigour the lives of the great Emperors who laid the foundations of modern Europe Tacitus (56-117) studied rhetoric in Rome & rose to eminence as a pleader at the Roman Bar In 77 he married the daughter of Agricola conqueror of Britain of whom he later wrote a biography Agricola His other works all available in Penguin Classics include the Germania & the The Histories If you enjoyed The Annals of Imperial Rome you might like Herodotus' The Histories also available in Penguin Classics ...

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER Dr Mo O' Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry' When occult powers threaten the realm they'll be there to clean up the mess & deal with the witnesses But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack & when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers the police are called in to help Mo is appointed as official police liaison but in between dealing with police bureaucracy superpowered members of the public & disgruntled politicians Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work the possessed violin known as ' Lecter' If this wasn't bad enough a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists & sending increasingly threatening messages to the police Who is Freudstein & what is he planning? ...

Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years Already a dedicated prose writer & influential critic he became a poet only in December 1914 at the age of 36 In April 1917 he was killed at Arras Often viewed as a 'war poet' he wrote nothing directly about the trenches; also seen as a 'nature poet' his symbolic reach & generic range expose the limits of that category too A central figure in modern poetry he is among the half-dozen poets who remade English poetry in the early 20th century Edna Longley published an acclaimed edition of Edward Thomas' " Poems" & " Last Poems" in 1973 Her work advanced Thomas' reputation as a major modern poet Now she has produced a revised version which

Includes:: all his poems & draws on freshly available archive material The extensive notes contain substantial"ations from Thomas' prose letters & notebooks as well as a new commentary on the poems The prose hinterland behind Edward Thomas' poems helps us to understand their depth & complexity together with their contexts in his troubled personal life in wartime England & in English poetry Edna Longley also shows how Thomas' criticism feeds into his poetry & how he prefigured critical approaches such as 'ecocriticism' that are now applied to his poems The text of this edition which has a detailed textual apparatus differs in small but significant ways from that of other extant collections of Thomas' poems The Bloodaxe edition is larger (with more comprehensive notes) than Faber's " Collected Poems" by Edward Thomas as well as a pound cheaper More importantly for academic sales the Bloodaxe text is more authoritative than Faber's (which uses R George Thomas' 1978 text) Edna Longley has used manuscripts proofs & newly available archive material to establish a text for Edward Thomas' complete poetry which will now be used by scholars & students in all future discussions of his work

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In The Anointing Benny Hinn shows those of you who hunger for this precious anointing on your life how to prepare for it & the marvelous effects God's touch will have on your life The Anointing picks up where the international bestseller Good Morning Holy Spirit leaves off
- leading you to a vital life-changing experience with the Father Son & Holy Spirit & introducing you to the power of God so you can act in that power
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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 Noel Clarke & Ian Somerhalder star in this sci-fi thriller When ex-soldier Ryan (Somerhalder) wakes up in a van next to a young boy who appears to have been kidnapped Ryan manages to set the boy free just as he discovers that his life expectancy has been downgraded to nine minutes & 47 seconds Ryan must now fight to save his own life as after every nine minutes & 47 seconds his brain gets rebooted Is Ryan part of some grand scientific experiment? Is this all just payback for leaving the military? Only Ryan can figure it out but he&s running out of time ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Noel Clarke & Ian Somerhalder star in this sci-fi thriller When ex-soldier Ryan (Somerhalder) wakes up in a van next to a young boy who appears to have been kidnapped Ryan manages to set the boy free just as he discovers that his life expectancy has been downgraded to nine minutes & 47 seconds Ryan must now fight to save his own life as after every nine minutes & 47 seconds his brain gets rebooted Is Ryan part of some grand scientific experiment? Is this all just payback for leaving the military? Only Ryan can figure it out but he&s running out of time ...

An utterly gripping action adventure for fans of Michael Crichton Indiana Jones & the The X Files THE ANOMALY will leave you breathless until the final page has been turned'A taut take-no-prisoners thriller lean & fast as an express train 384 pages Rutger Michael ...