Explore the world of astronomy with key"es & bold graphics to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas The Astronomy Book is an exciting voyage of discovery through the cosmos Venture from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe to the mind-boggling theories of recent science including those of Albert Einstein & Stephen Hawking Learn about the incredible histories of Halley's comet Hubble's telescope & NASA's modern-day trailblazing as well as the discoveries of famous figures including Ptolemy Isaac Newton Walter Adams Carl Sagan & Alan Stern The Astronomy Book part of DK's bestselling Big Ideas series is is the perfect introduction to our ideas about space time & the physics of the cosmos ...

The hunt for the seven shards of the Shattered Star continues with the heroes following the trail across the face of Varisia & into the notorious City of Strangers
- Kaer Maga! There the heroes encounter strange enemies & stranger allies as their quest for the ancient Thassilonian artifact embroils them in the politics of Varisia&s most exotic city What secrets lie hidden in the dark & deadly realms deep under Kaer Maga where things best shunned from day&s light & sane minds lie in wait? Will the heroes survive their descent below or will the Dark Rider claim their heads for his ever-growing collection? Continuing the Shattered Star Adventure Path The Asylum Stone is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 7th-level characters The Asylum Stone

Includes:: several short bonus city-based encounters & side-quests & a look at the strange factions of Kaer Maga New monsters fill the Pathfinder Bestiary while Bill Ward (Return of the Sword) continues a new novella in the Pathfinder&s Journal


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' This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever'A stunning pair of ...

70000 years ago the human race almost went extinct We survived but no one knows how Now the next stage of human evolution is beginning Will we survive this time? Geneticist Kate Warner & counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity
- but the struggle to survive is far from over The Atlantis World stretches deep into space & time harbouring an enemy greater than anyone had imagined Now Kate & David must race through galaxies past space stations & into the past of a mysterious culture whose secrets could save humanity in its darkest hour This is the blockbusting final instalment in the Origin Mysteries
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Photographs & stories of 500 women from around the world based on the author's hugely popular website Since 2013 Mihaela Noroc has travelled the world with her backpack & camera taking photos of everyday women to showcase the diversity & beauty all around us The Atlas of Beauty is a collection of her photographs that celebrates women from fifty countries across the globe & shows that beauty is everywhere regardless of money race or social status & comes in many different sizes & colours Mihaela's portraits feature women in their native environments from the Amazon rain forest to markets in India London city streets & parks in Harlem creating a mirror of our varied cultures & proving that beauty has no rules' Stunning aims to challenge the ideals of beauty dictated by the women's fashion magazine industry' Independent'A startling & revealing project' Daily Mail' Scrolling through The Atlas of Beauty beauty becomes not a universal standard but a complicated tapestry' Huffington Post ...

Find your way through every part of JRR Tolkien's great creation from the Middle-earth of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings to the undying lands of the West The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-earth is an essential guide to the geography of Middle-earth from its founding in the Elder Days
- as recounted in The Silmarillion
- to the Third Age of The Lord of the Rings including the journeys of Bilbo Frodo & the Fellowship of the Ring Hundreds of maps & diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters day by day
- including all the battles & key locations of the First Second & Third Ages Plans & descriptions of castles buildings & distinctive landforms accompany thematic maps describing climate vegetation languages & population throughout the history of Middle-earth


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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Collection of seven films from Canadian writerdirector Atom Egoyan

Includes:: EXOTICA THE ADJUSTER FAMILY VIEWING THE SWEET HEREAFTER CALENDAR NEXT OF KIN & SPEAKING PARTS Actors Bruce Greenwood Mia Kirshner Elias Koteas Sarah Polley Ian Holm Directors Atom Egoyan Format Import Blu-ray Language English Subtitles English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 7

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When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country Narrated by a country girl from the north the novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament Her observations & experiences expose the bourgeois society of the south as rootless & shallow & in stark contrast to the age-old culture of the solid & less fanciful north ...

NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency While his colleagues are out saving the world Bob's under a desk restoring lost data His world was dull & safe
- but then he went & got Noticed Now Bob is up to his neck in spycraft parallel universes dimension-hopping terrorists monstrous elder gods & the end of the world Only one thing is certain it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out This is the first novel in the Laundry Files
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A prophetic & experimental masterpiece by J G Ballard the acclaimed author of Crash' & Super-Cannes' This edition

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