Here comes the fearless granny gang The youngest eighty-two They leap down from their granny van And there's nothing they can't do!A gleeful celebration of why grannies are great! Through wonderfully rhythmical writing & exquisite illustrations Judith Kerr OBE shows us that there is a lot more to this grang of grey-haired grannies than meets the eye! Full of charm & laugh-out-loud fun this is a must for every child's bookshelf ...

Fifty stories of adventure & exploration over more than two hundred years of human history The Great Horizon features those who set out to conquer new territories & claim world records alongside those who contributed to our understanding of the world all but accidentally Published in association with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society & with full access to their extensive records the book

Includes:: unique images & insights from the RSGS archives along with never-before seen material

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100 puzzles inspired by Harry Houdini including puzzles chains that can leave you locked in a circle of puzzles 224 pages 150 clr & b&w illus Dedopulos Tim ...

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era killed over a million people & drove as many more to emigrate to America It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy yet British obtuseness short-sightedness & ignorance'
- & stubborn commitment to laissez-faire solutions'
- largely caused the disaster & prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable the immediate human cost almost inconceivable In this vivid & disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account A moving & terrible book It combines great literary power with great learning It explains much in modern Ireland
- & in modern America' DW Brogan


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' Epic in every sense'
- Sunday Times The Forsaken are loose the Horn of Valere has been found & the Dead are rising from their
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The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz & Pop Singers now approaches the great singers & their greatest work in an innovative & revelatory way through considering their finest albums which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized & presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra Peggy Lee Sarah Vaughan Nat King Cole Judy Garland & the rest of the glorious honor roll of jazz & pop singers have been most tellingly & lastingly appreciated & the history of the album itself as Will Friedwald sketches it can now be seen as a crucial part of musical history We come to understand that at their finest albums have not been mere collections of individual songs strung together arbitrarily but organic phenomena in their own right A Sinatra album a Fitzgerald album was planned & structured to show these artists at their best at a specific moment in their artistic careers Yet the albums Friedwald has chosen to anatomize go about their work in a variety of ways There are studio & solo albums Lee's Black Coffee June Christy's Something Cool Cassandra Wilson's Belly of the Sun There are brilliant collaborations famous ones--Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson--and wonderful surprises like Doris Day & Robert Goulet singing Annie Get Your Gun There are theme albums--Dinah Washington singing Fats Waller Maxine Sullivan singing Andy Razaf Margaret Whiting singing Jerome Kern Barb Jungr singing Bob Dylan & the sublime Jo Stafford singing American & Scottish folk songs There are also stunning concert albums like Ella in Berlin Sarah in Japan Lena at the Waldorf & of course Judy at Carnegie Hall All the greats are on hand from Kay Starr & Carmen Mc Rae to Jimmy Scott & Della Reese (Della Della Cha Cha Cha) & from out of left field the astounding God Bless Tiny Tim Each of the fifty-seven albums discussed here captures the artist at a high point if not at the expected moment of her or his career The individual cuts are evaluated the sequencing explicated the songs & songwriters heralded; anecdotes abound of how songs were born & how artists & producers collaborated & in appraising each album Friedwald balances his own opinions with those of musicians listeners & critics A monumental achievement The Great Jazz & Pop Vocal Albums is an essential book for lovers of American jazz & popular music ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The story of Dr WT Morgan the 19th century dentist who discovered anesthesia Actors Harry Carey & Betty Field Director Preston Sturges Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1944 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Mono Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 18 minutes (approx)
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An exploration of human identity from both scientific & religious perspectives from bestselling author & Andreas Idreos Professor of Science & Religion at Oxford University Alister Mc Grath 256 pages Mc Grath Alister DPhil DD ...

The oft-told story of the rise & fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAIDWith meticulous attention to detail the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade the September 7 1876 robbery of the biggest bank west of the Mississippi in Northfield MN Cliff Robertson plays Cole Younger & Robert Duvall appears as Jesse James herein depicted as a pair of vengeance-driven sociopaths but no worse than the greedy railroad magnates who've driven them into a life of crime Younger is also quite the manipulator convincing the immigrant farmers of Northfield that the bank is completely impervious to robbery thereby increasing the deposits that he intends to steal Duvall's Jesse James is a cold-blooded murderer but like Younger not without his own personal charm ...

The outdoor market has never been hotter This easy introduction to outdoor life will ensure that even a novice won't get lost in the woods while finding an activity he loves to do in the great outdoors
- whether it's hiking a 14er or camping on ice With 400 strategies for engaging in the outdoors & expert tips & tricks The Great Outdoors A User's Guide makes Mother Nature easier to understand than ever before Brendan Leonard writer filmmaker & outdoor adventurer shows the reader how rewarding it can be to live life away from the computer & get outside From mountain climbing to skiing sledding & sailing Leonard shows that you don't need to be a risk taker to enjoy the outdoors & if the reader does find himself at the point of man vs nature Leonard shares survival skills from how to bandage a wound & read a topographical map to how to drive on sand & remove a tick from your skin Organised thematically & written in short takeaway entries with line drawings The Great Outdoors A User's Guide is a friendly way into the outdoor lifestyle for those who want to dabble or go all in
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