These enchanting wise & strangely moving tales of life in Italy's Emilia-Romagna continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world In this newly translated volume many are available in English for the very first time 272 pages 30 line cartoons Guareschi Giovanni ...

Artist Liz Climo has charmed her fans with her comic world of whimsical animal characters where everyone from grizzly bears dinosaurs rabbits & anteaters grapple with everyday life with wit & humour Through her comics we discover that an armadillo can dress for Halloween a dinosaur can be a loving parent & a rhino can squeeze orange juice! This new collection features more than 100 of her comics starring her beloved characters in all kinds of funny situations from celebrating holidays to helping friends ...

Bring Liz Climo's hilarious cartoons to your fridge or office with The Little World of Liz Climo magnetic kit This charming kit



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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 When Blitzen announces his retirement on December 21st a miniature horse has 3 days to fulfill his lifelong dream of earning a spot on Santa&s team at the North Pole try-outs Actors Josh Hutcherson (voice) John Cleese (voice) Martin Short (voice) Jeff Dunham (voice) Samantha Bee (voice) Directors Jennifer Westcott Language English Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

Have you ever wondered how many stars there are in the great big sky? I want to tell you about the littlest star He wasn't as sparkly or as exciting as some of the other stars but one night the littlest star was given the biggest most important job of all This enchanting Christmas tale about the star that shone down on the baby Jesus was originally written illustrated designed printed & placed on sale within three weeks to raise money for the Shooting Star Chase children's hospices This edition of Richard Littledale's delightful story has been reillustrated with beautiful artwork Dubravka Kolanovic & makes a charming Christmas gift evoking the wonder of the special night ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A visually spectacular ground-breaking TV event presented by Dermot O& Leary broadcast live from the International Space Station & Mission Control in Houston With unique access to the International Space Station Live From Space follows the day-to-day life of three astronauts Rick Mastracchio Koichi Wakata & Mike Hopkins who have been living & working whilst orbiting 250 miles above the earth Here for the first time filmed by themselves & in their own words is the incredible story of their out-of-this-world experiences of living in space from eating sleeping & science experiments to the consequences of a broken valve which could threaten their very presence on the ISS Share an unrivalled astronaut&s eye view of the earth as they see it from their privileged vantage point as they orbit the earth at 17500mph With specially shot behind the scenes footage of the work of NASA&s Mission Control in Houston combined with unseen images from spacewalks & candid first-hand testimony Live From Space shows what happens when missions go wrong & how the ground team respond to keep the astronauts safe in space ...

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye humans especially meat-eating ones seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms & in slaughterhouses factories & laboratories across the world Costello's son a physics professor admires her literary achievements but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated & that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority At the dinner that follows her first lecture the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic & skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights touching on broad philosophical anthropological & religious perspectives Painfully for her son Elizabeth Costello seems offensive & flaky but--dare he admit it?--strangely on target In this landmark book Nobel Prize-winning writer J M Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality her compassion for animals & her alienation from humans even from her own family In his fable presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university Literature philosophy performance & deep human conviction--Coetzee brings all these elements into play As in the story of Elizabeth Costello the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives delivered by leading thinkers in different fields Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann & responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger primatologist Barbara Smuts literary theorist Marjorie Garber & moral philosopher Peter Singer author of Animal Liberation Together the lecture-fable & the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict & confrontation ...

The Lives of Captain Jack is Big Finish's first Doctor Who spin-off featuring the immensely popular character of Captain Jack Harkness played by John Barrowman MBEThe Captain Jack character went on from Doctor Who to head up world-spanning spin-off Torchwood & star John Barrowman has since recreated the role along with his fellow co-stars in a number of popular Torchwood audio productions for Big Finish Co-star Alexander Vlahos has been seen most recently in BBC2's epic historical drama Versailles
- but he's also played Dorian Gray in a run of Big Finish audio releases Russell Tovey & Camille Coduri return to play their fan-favourite roles of Midshipman Alonso Frame & Jackie Tyler
- mother of Billie Piper's Rose Tyler the first companion in 2005's returned Doctor Who

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Glorious new rejacket of a Diana Wynne Jones favourite exploring the childhood of Chrestmanci
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The result of six years of research & some 1200 interviews this book takes fans deep into Lennon's secretive world from his traumatic childhood to his Beatles days to his hidden life with Yoko Ono While the Lennon of legend enjoyed a gifted & inspired life the private Lennon lived in torment poisoning himself with drugs & self-hatred The Lives of John Lennon exposed for the first time all of his various lives from idealist to cynic from ascetic to junkie It is a lasting tribute to his brilliant achievements & a revelation of the price he paid for them ...