The three centuries following the conquests of Alexander were perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history Culture ideas & individuals travelled freely over vast areas from the Rhone to the Indus whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander's great empire Thonemann presents a brief history of this globalized world ...

Explore the lives of children all over the world & celebrate one of humanity's greatest achievements written & verbal language With fully illustrated word charts featuring children depicted in their home country & doing ordinary things learn about more than 100 languages from well-known & lesser known indigenous languages that introduce us to some of the world's most remote communities With foreword by ethnobotanist & explorer Professor Wade Davis this unique book comes with a free downloadable app for i OS & Android that means that you can hear the phrases in the book each recorded by a native speaker ...

This book covers difficult identification issues by looking at tricky species pairs or groups of birds & comparing & contrasting their respective features Designed as a field companion it supplements the standard field guides & provides much additional information As well as detailed texts the books include extensive illustrations of allrelevant ages & plummages of the species concerned ...

The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett Enter a vanished & unjust world Jackson Mississippi 1962 Where black maids raise white children but aren't trusted not to steal the silver There's Aibileen raising her seventeenth white child & nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; & white Miss Skeeter home from College who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared Skeeter Aibileen & Minny No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries they come to depend & rely upon one another Each is in a search of a truth & together they have an extraordinary story to tell' The other side of Gone with the Wind
- & just as unputdownable' The Sunday Times'A big warm girlfriend of a book' The Times' Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives It's direct descendent The Help has the same potential an astonishing feat of accomplishment' Daily Express Kathryn Stockett was born & raised in Jackson Mississippi After graduating from the University of Alabama she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing & marketing for nine years She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband & daughter The Help is her first novel
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The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett published as a Penguin Essential for the first time Enter a vanished & unjust world Jackson Mississippi 1962 Where black maids raise white children but aren't trusted not to steal the silver There's Aibileen raising her seventeenth white child & nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; & white Miss Skeeter home from College who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared Skeeter Aibileen & Minny No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries they come to depend & rely upon one another Each is in a search of a truth & together they have an extraordinary story to tell ...

The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett Enter a vanished & unjust world Jackson Mississippi 1962 Where black maids raise white children but aren't trusted not to steal the silver There's Aibileen raising her seventeenth white child & nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; & white Miss Skeeter home from College who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared Skeeter Aibileen & Minny No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries they come to depend & rely upon one another Each is in a search of a truth & together they have an extraordinary story to tell' The other side of Gone with the Wind
- & just as unputdownable' The Sunday Times'A big warm girlfriend of a book' The Times' Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives Its direct descendent The Help has the same potential an astonishing feat of accomplishment' Daily Express Kathryn Stockett was born & raised in Jackson Mississippi After graduating from the University of Alabama she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing & marketing for nine years She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband & daughter The Help is her first novel
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Enter a vanished & unjust world Jackson Mississippi 1962 Where black maids raise white children but aren't trusted not to steal the silver There's Aibileen raising her seventeenth white child & nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; & white Miss Skeeter home from College who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared Skeeter Aibileen & Minny No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries they come to depend & rely upon one another Each is in a search of a truth & together they have an extraordinary story to tell ...

A 1960s-era Mississippi debutante sends her community into an uproar by conducting a series of probing interviews with the black servants behind some of her community&s most prominent families Skeeter (Emma Stone) has just graduated from college & she&s eager to launch her career as a writer In a moment of inspiration Skeeter decides to focus her attention on the black female servants who work in her community Her first subject is Aibileen (Viola Davis) the devoted housekeeper who has been employed by Skeeter&s best friend&s family for years By speaking with Aibileen Skeeter becomes an object of scorn to the wealthy locals who view her actions as directly challenging to the established social order Before long even more servants are coming forward to tell their stories & Skeeter discovers that friendship can blossom under the most unlikely of circumstances Bryce Dallas Howard co-stars in a touching tale of race relations based on author Kathryn Stockett&s best-selling novel of the same name ...

Found-footage horror directed by Chris Stokes A group of seven friends head on a road trip to Las Vegas but along the way encounter a road block leading to some flat tires Leaving the women behind the men then go off in pursuit of help & quickly come across a local rest stop with some very friendly owners As the group are reunited they party with the owners of the rest stop & spend the night in their motel However when they wake they soon realise that these people have other intentions as they are held captive & forced to go through a horrific ordeal at the hands of their helpers Actors Kristen Quintrall Denyce Lawton Christopher Jones Jo Jo Wright Rachel Sterling & Black Thomas Director Chris Stokes Certificate 18 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play ...

An acknowledged classic of narrative nature-writing Donald Watson's The Hen Harrier was the culmination of a lifetime's study of this beautiful upland bird A gentle warm & wonderfully written book The Hen Harrier stems from an age of amateur' conservation from the pen of a man who cared deeply about birds & their habitats especially of the Scottish borders where he conducted much of his research & painting The book was among the last of a dying breed; it would be thirty years or more before writing on our natural history would again reach the heights of accessibility to nature-lovers exemplified by Donald Watson & his peers The book starts with Watson setting down more or less everything known about harriers
- which at that time often consisted of information sent by letter to the author rather than published in a journal
- before moving on to the story of Watson's years studying nests in the south-west of Scotland With a foreword by conservation champion Mark Avery this edition of Watson's greatest work is particularly timely The conflict between grouse-shooting interests which has overseen the virtual extinction of the harrier as a breeding bird in England through illegal persecution & an increasingly vocal conservationist lobby is the number one conservation issue in Britain today Donald Watson's narrative soars like a sky-dancing harrier throughout this book Read it & be taken back to a simpler age of nature conservation by a true master of the art

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