There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell She was known far & wide as Detective Dog Nell Peter's dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work But Nell has other talents too Every Monday she goes to school with Peter & listens to children read So who better to have on hand when they arrive one morning to discover that the school's books have all disappeared! Who could have taken them? & why? There's only one dog for the job & Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit! Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson & stunningly illustrated by the multi-talented illustrator & printmaker Sara Ogilvie The Detective Dog is a fast-paced celebration of books reading libraries & the relationship between a little boy & his rather special dog The Detective Dog Book & CD Pack comes with an audio CD read by actress & singer Floella Benjamin perfect for reading along ...

Features all the episodes from series 2 of the popular comedy series with the ineffectual crime fighting pair of DC Bob Louis & DC David Briggs ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All five episodes from the fourth series of the BBC comedy series expanded from occasional short sketches on Jasper Carrott&s & Canned Carrott& show Jasper Carrot & Robert Powell star as bumbling duo Detective Constables Bob Louis & David Briggs promoted well beyond their crime-fighting talents In the never-ending high-tech war against crime they are the Scud missiles of the police arsenal inefficient unreliable & utterly aimless Episodes are & The Great Escape& & Fur Coat No Knickers& & Back To Class& & Sacked& & & The Wembley Stadium Mystery& ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All six episodes from the first series of the BBC comedy starring Jasper Carrot & Robert Powell as the bumbling duo promoted well beyond their crime fighting talents In this series Briggs (Powell) & Louis (Carrot) have to catch an escaped killer on the same day as the FA Cup Final & are assigned roles as expert consultants to a new police TV drama Episodes are & What the Butler Saw&; & Hostage&; & Teed Off&; & Acting Constables&; & Studs&; & & Strangers in Paradise& ...

The Development of Children's Thinking offers undergraduate & graduate students in psychology & other disciplines an introduction to several core areas of developmental psychology It examines recent empirical research within the context of longstanding theoretical debates In particular it shows how a grasp of classic theories within developmental psychology is vital for a grasp of new areas of research such as cognitive neuroscience that have impacted on our understanding of how children develop The focus of this book will be on infancy & childhood & it looks at Theories & context of development How developmental psychology attempts to reconcile influences of nature & nurture Communication in infancy as a precursor to later thinking Language development in primates & young children Cognitive & social development including the child's understanding of the mind How studies of moral reasoning reflect upon our understanding of development ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When two sisters find a harmless looking object in the woods they cannot know what to what extent it will change their world – & ours – forever The small black sphere – mysterious seductive enticing – conveys a message a deep profound biological message that will reshape our world recasting relationships with the universe beyond our wildest dreams & worst nightmares It holds the key to our destiny It holds the secret to a new kind of life It holds the embryo of a plan of alien invasion It is so much more than just The Device ...

Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can't save his beautiful wife Charlotte from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his 'prayer log' Carl & Sandy Henderson a husb&-&-wife team of serial killers trawl America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph & exterminate The spider-handling preacher Roy & his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law & caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Willard & Charlotte's orphaned son who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right ...

Chase through the streets of Elizabethan London in this thrilling adventure by number one bestselling author Anthony Horowitz London is dirty distant & dangerous but that's where orphan Tom Falconer is heading & he's got a whole assortment of vicious criminals hot on his heels Tom is helpless & alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse a thirteen-year-old pickpocket Together they find themselves chased across the city by the murderous Ratsey But it's only on the first night of a new play
- The Devil & his Boy
- that Tom realizes that the fate of the Queen & indeed the entire country rests in his hand

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The long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy
- Marco Pierre White When Marco Pierre White's mother died when
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WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014 Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014 London 1727
- & Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games brothels & coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors' prison The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own with simple rules those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort Those with none will starve in squalor & disease & those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's rutheless governor & his cronies The trouble is Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules
- even simple ones & the recent grisly murder of a debtor Captain Roberts has brought further terror to the gaol While the Captain's beautiful widow cries for justice the finger of suspicion points only one way to the sly enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet Some call Fleet a devil a man to avoid at all costs But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell Soon Tom's choice is clear get to the truth of the murder
- or be the next to die A twisting mystery a dazzling evocation of early 18th Century London THE DEVIL IN THE MARSHALSEA is a thrilling debut novel full of intrigue & suspense


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