One of the first Usborne books to be published reissued for the 40th anniversary of Usborne Publishing in 2013 This book is all about keeping secrets It shows you how to set up secret meeting places & a secret post office & how to disguise your messages & maps It shows you lots of secret codes & signals On the first page you will meet the Black Hat Spy Watch out for the tricks he plays in Spy Trick
- these are things real spies have done There are messages in code all through the book
- see if you can work them out As used in evidence at the high court trial of Soviet spy Oleg Gordievsky who testified that this book gave away the KGB's tradecraft

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Maybe it was a viral pandemic or an asteroid strike or perhaps nuclear war Whatever the cause the world as we know it has ended & you & the other survivors must start again What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Once you've scavenged what you can how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food generate power prepare medicines or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment? Living in the modern world we have become disconnected from the basic processes that support our lives as well as the beautiful fundamentals of science that enable you to relearn things for yourself The Knowledge is a journey of discovery a book which explains everything you need to know about everything This is a quickstart guide for rebooting civilisation which will transform your understanding of the world
- & help you prepare for when it's no longer here httpthe-knowledgeorg
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Human reasoning is remarkably shallow
- in fact our thinking & justifications just scratch the surface of the true complexity of
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Masterful Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful & complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation An utterly original exploration of race trust & the cruel truths of human nature this is a landmark in modern American literature Henry Townsend a black farmer boot maker & former slave becomes proprietor of his own plantation
- as well as his own slaves When he dies his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief & things begin to fall apart slaves take to escaping under the cover of night & families who had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray one another Beyond the Townsend household the known world also unravels low-paid white patrollers stand watch as slave speculators' sell free black people into slavery & rumours of slave rebellions set white families against slaves who have served them for years An ambitious luminously written novel that ranges from the past to the present The Known World seamlessly weaves together the lives of the freed & the enslaved
- & allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring multi-dimensional world created by the institution of slavery

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Fans of The Gruffalo & Giraffes Can't Dance will love this feelgood rhyming story portraying a positive message about facing up to change something that young children can sometimes struggle with Sometimes change comes along whether we like it or not but if you let it change can be the making of you Kevin the Koala discovers this & more in this delightful picture book from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside! Stylish art with Jon Klassen appeal & vibrant storytelling from two contemporary stars make this a story to shout about
- it will make you laugh cry & read it every bedtime WINNER of the Evening Standard Oscar's Book Prize 2017!' Fabulous rhymes I'm in love with Kevin & would like to buy this for all my friends' children' Claudia Winkleman'A feel-good rhyming tale Field's Australian animals are a treat'
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Japanese troops landed in northeastern New Guinea in July 1942 & quickly began a march over the forbidding Owen Stanley Mountains toward the vital anchorage & airfield at Port Moresby on the southern coast They ran into Australian infantrymen of the 39th Militia Battalion starting a three-month campaign waged in some of the world&s most forbidding terrain An Australian militia brigade went up the trail to face the Japanese who poured in reinforcements of their own Next the veteran Australian 7th Infantry Division the heroes of Tobruk plunged into the jungles & finally stopped the Japanese attacks While Australian soldiers fought on despite rampant malaria Japanese troops hauled artillery shells over the mountains by hand & resorted to eating Australian prisoners of war Finally in September 1942 the Japanese withdrew from one of the war&s most brutal campaigns The Kokoda Campaign is a complete boxed game in the Panzer Grenadier series Based on these battles it

Includes:: the two maps that appeared in our old Kokoda Trail book & 428 playing pieces that originally appeared in our out-of-print Guadalcanal & Afrika Korps games It has 30 scenarios originally designed by Dave Cheever & re-worked by Matt Ward & Daniel Rouleau plus a campaign game

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Tracklist Take Me For A Little While Baby Don't Leave Me Stubborn Kind Of Fellow Daddy Rolling Stone Somewhere In The Night ...

1 Seaside 2 See The World 3 Sofa Song 4 Eddie&s Gun 5 Ooh La 6 You Don&t Love Me 7 She Moves In Her Own Way 8 Matchbox 9 Naive 10 I Want You 11 If Only 12 Jackie Big Tits 13 Time Awaits 14 Got No Love ...

1 See The Sun 2 Always Where I Need To Be 3 Mr Maker 4 Do You Wanna 5 Gap 6 Love It All 7 Stormy Weather 8 Sway 9 Shine On 10 Down To The Market 11 One Last Time 12 Tick Of Time 13 All Over Town ...

' Across the language barrier Dawood captures the thunder & poetry of the original' The Times The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago Its 114 chapters or surahs recount the narratives central to Muslim belief & together they form one of the world's most influential prophetic works & a literary masterpiece in its own right But above all the Koran provides the rules of conduct that remain fundamental to the Muslim faith today prayer fasting almsgiving pilgrimage to Mecca & absolute faith in God & His apostle Also available from Penguin The Koran with Parallel Text 9780141393841 ...