Welcome to Absurdia a strange & wonderful land where nothing is quite what it seems Trees are birds umbrellas are trees & the sky is thick with snoring fish Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters dragons
- & amazing adventure This gloriously rich & beautiful picture book comes from Chris Riddell a uniquely talented artist at the height of his powers With a story to enchant the youngest reader & pictures to gasp & pore over whatever your age The Emperor of Absurdia is an extraordinary achievement & one to savour
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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee doctor researcher & award-winning science writer examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision a historian's perspective & a biographer's passion The result is an astonishingly lucid & eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with
- & perished from
- for more than five thousand years The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity resilience & perseverance but also of hubris arrogance & misperception all leveraged against a disease that just three decades ago was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out war against cancer' Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries setbacks victories & deaths told through the eyes of predecessors & peers training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary From the Persian Queen Atossa whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation & chemotherapy & Mukherjee's own leukemia patient Carla The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic bruising & draining regimes to survive & to increase the store of human knowledge Riveting & magesterial The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments & a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors scientists philosophers & lay people have observed & understood the human body for millennia

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The Emperor of Nihon-Ja is the tenth thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief & James Gleick's Genius The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin an utterly unusual stubborn scientist his otherworldly gift for perfume his brilliant quixotic theory of how we smell & his struggle to set before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses ...

The Emperor's Blades is the first novel in Brain Staveley's epic Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne series The circle is closing The stakes are high & old truths will live again The Emperor has been murdered leaving the Annurian Empire in turmoil Now his progeny must prepare to unmask a conspiracy His son Valyn training for the empire's deadliest fighting force hears the news an ocean away & after several 'accidents' & a dying soldier's warning he realizes his life is also in danger Yet before Valyn can act he must survive the mercenaries' brutal final initiation The Emperor's daughter Minister Adare hunts her father's murderer in the capital Court politics can be fatal but she needs justice Lastly Kaden heir to the empire studies in a remote monastery Here the Blank God's disciples teach their harsh ways which Kaden must master to unlock ancient powers But when an imperial delegation arrives has he learnt enough to keep him alive as long-hidden powers make their move? ...

Based on the classic fairy tale The vain emperor has some beautiful new clothes made that only clever people can see
- or can they?
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For many decades the proponents of 'artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do In his bestselling work of popular science Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics cosmology mathematics & philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas & shaped the way we think ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In everyone&s life there&s that one person who makes all the difference ; ; William Hundert a retired &old-school& classics teacher is passionate about his subject Moreover he strongly believes in moulding his students by using principles However his methods are put to the test by a new student Sedgewick Bell who shakes Hundert&s controlled world & threatens to undermine all that he stands for Hundert&s challenge is to change this young man while maintaining his integrity Lessons abound for the students & teacher culminating in a reunion 25 years later ...

Track List The Bittersweet Sound Of Goodbye Avalanche Girl Never Got Over You I&m Your Man Cornfield Palace Brand New Heart Of Stone Cruel Love Ways Sweep Away Pinery Boy Bless The Weather ...

Sue Wilsher author of When My Ship Comes In makes an emotional return to 1950s Essex Tilbury 1950s The Empire is a boarding house run by Vi Doris's mother
- the Empire Girls of the title When Doris becomes pregnant out of marriage she is kicked out of the house & forced to fend for herself Desperate to look after her daughter she takes any job going She falls in with the Windrush immigrants & finds herself helping one to a new life in Britain
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