A charming alphabet book for everyone who loves Elsa Beskow's classic picture books Journey through the world of Elsa Beskow from Accordian to Zzz with everything in between -- Cow & Elephant Flowers & Igloo & even Jack Frost & Queen This beautifully presented gift book brings together illustrations from Elsa Beskow's lesser known & most famous work including The Flowers' Festival The Sun Egg Pelle's New Suit & Woody Hazel & Little Pip ...

This beautiful baby record book is illustrated throughout with Elsa Beskow's classic artwork With plenty of room for photographs & keepsakes parents & grandparents can record all the important developments & happy memories in their child's early life to share in the years to come Each page is fully illustrated with Beskow's charming depictions of children taken from her picture books which have been loved for over a century ...

Highly anticipated sequel to the Blue Peter Book Award winner The Emporium has been stolen Will it ever reappear? Return to a magical world where imagination is power & anything is possible 264 pages Mac Kenzie Ross ...

Stan & Jan are shoemakers by day dancers by night! But when they run out of money it seems their dancing days are over Then one morning they find the most magnificent pair of shoes But who has made them & why? My First Fairy Tales are a magical introduction to the well-loved stories that are a key part of every childhood With fresh & fun illustrations these simple re-tellings of classic fairy tales make a perfect read for young & old alike! ...

Based on the classic fairy tale A poor shoemaker finds that someone is making beautiful shoes for him
- two little elves! However
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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 Collection of six classic films starring Elvis Presley In ' Jailhouse Rock' (1957) Presley plays Vince Everett a youngster sent to prison for accidentally killing a man While behind bars he takes up music & learns to be a rock & roll singer Eventually he attracts the attention of a beautiful record company talent scout (Judy Tyler) & the path to fame appears before him ' Viva Las Vegas' (1963) operates as a celebration of the gambling capital of America Presley plays Lucky Jackson a racing driver who finds that he can't keep his mind on the Las Vegas Grand Prix after he meets a sexy swimming instructor Rusty Martin (Ann-Margret) Lucky must fend off Count Elmo Mancini (Cesare Danova) who also has his eye on grand prix victory & Rusty In ' Spinout' (1966) freewheeling singer & racing driver Mike Mc Coy (Presley) has three beautiful women competing to get him down the aisle Cynthia Foxhugh (Shelley Fabares) is a spoiled rich kid used to getting her own way Les (Deborah Walley) is a drummer who believes her musical inclinations may win Mc Coy's heart & Diana (Diane Mc Bain) is an author seeking out the perfect man She believes she has found him but Mc Coy's determination to drive an experimental new car in a race poses a danger to the plans of all three women In ' Speedway' (1968) racing driver Steve Grayson (Presley) owes a debt to the US government of 145000 He decides that the only way to pay the bill is to win the Charlotte 500 race & enters determined to triumph & to win the heart of IRS agent Susan Jack (Nancy Sinatra) in the process In ' It Happened at the World's Fair' (1962) the livelihood of crop dusters Mike (Presley) & Danny (Gary Lockwood) is stolen away from them when a sheriff impounds their plane because of Danny's gambling debts The pair head to the World's Fair in Seattle where Danny tries to earn the money back playing poker & Mike ends up looking after a little girl Sue-Lin (Vicky Tiu) Finally ' Harum Scarum' (1965) features Presley as action movie star Johnny Tyrone whose real life becomes adventurous when he is drugged & kidnapped by underground assassins while on a goodwill tour of the Middle East The assassins have seen Johnny's films & want to employ him to carry out the assassination of a desert king for them Naturally Johnny refuses & attempts a daring escape across the desert in the company of the beautiful Princess Shalimar (Mary Ann Mobley) Actors Elvis Presley Format PAL Subtitled Language English Subtitles German Dutch French English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Italian German Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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Ian Watsons brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British sf in the 1970s Intellectually bracing & grippingly written it is the story of three experiments in linguistics & is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication Fiercely intelligent energetic & challenging it immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power & vision & is now recognized as a modern classic ...

A new & up-to-date edition of the immensely successful stitch bible by bestselling needlework designer & author Betty Barnden Trends in embroidery styles come & go but the basic stitches & techniques remain the same In this essential directory hand sewers will have a collection of over 200 stitches at their fingertips
- from basic chain worked into fabric through to Florentine work on a canvas Each one is explained with written step-by-step instructions & how-to techniques to get you started & are accompanied by clear artwork & a photo of the finished stitch Follow the diagrams & instructions in this beautifully illustrated & jam-packed book to discover the wonderful variety of effects that can be created with just a needle & thread & discover
- or rediscover
- the sensuous tactile wearable art of embroidery


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Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate & the evolutionary trajectory of life Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time' plants are dynamic components of our world shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them In The Emerald Planet David Beerling puts plants centre stage revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment in recording hidden facets of Earth's history & in helping us to predict its future His account draws together evidence from fossil plants from experiments with their living counterparts & from computer models of the ' Earth System' to illuminate the history of our planet & its biodiversity This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how plants played a starring role in pushing oxygen levels upwards allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; & it strengthens fascinating & contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer Along the way Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these & the other puzzles This understanding of our planet's past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities & offers clues to what our climatic & ecological futures might look like There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants & to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas & shaped the way we think ...

How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalism During & after the Second World War public intellectuals in Britain & the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy the prospects of liberty & the decline of the imperial system Without using the term "globalization" they identified a shift toward technological economic cultural & political interconnectedness & developed a "globalist" ideology to reflect this new postwar reality The Emergence of Globalism examines the competing visions of world order that shaped these debates & led to the development of globalism as a modern political concept Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war & expatriation in the 1940s & how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy geopolitics economics imperial thought constitutional law theology & philosophy of science She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron Owen Lattimore Lionel Robbins Barbara Wootton Friedrich Hayek Lionel Curtis Richard Mc Keon Michael Polanyi Lewis Mumford Jacques Maritain Reinhold Niebuhr H G Wells & others Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand & an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other An engaging look at the ideas that have shaped today's world The Emergence of Globalism is a major work of intellectual history that is certain to fundamentally transform our understanding of the globalist ideal & its origins ...