George has always wished he wasn't the scruffiest giant in town So one day when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized clothes he decides it's time for a new look With smart trousers a smart shirt a stripy tie & shiny shoes George is a new giant But on his way home he meets all sorts of animals who desperately need his help & his clothes! Perfect for classroom use The Smartest Giant in Town Big Book is a giant-sized edition of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler's The Smartest Giant in Town &

Includes:: activity ideas & words & music for the Smartest Giant Song

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A beautifully designed book & CD edition of this heartwarming tale of a friendly giant 32 pages Donaldson Julia ...

What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century? Until the spring of 2001 Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy Feared by rivals worshipped by investors Enron seemingly could do no wrong Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries Then a young Fortune writer Bethany Mc Lean wrote an article posing a simple question
- how exactly does Enron make its money? Within a year Enron was facing humiliation & bankruptcy the largest in US history which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars while small investors lost everything It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was This book
- fully updated for the paperback
- tells the extraordinary story of Enron's fall


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America has long compared its students to top-performing kids of other nations But how do the world's education superpowers look through the eyes of an American high school student? Author Amanda Ripley follows three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living & learning in Finland South Korea & Poland Through their adventures Ripley discovers startling truths about how attitudes parenting & rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results In The Smartest Kids in the World Ripley's astonishing new insights reveal that top-performing countries have achieved greatness only in the past several decades; that the kids who live there are learning to think for themselves partly through failing early & often; & that persistence hard work & resilience matter more to our children's life chances than self-esteem or sports Ripley's investigative work seamlessly weaves narrative & research providing in-depth analysis & gripping details that will keep you turning the pages Written in a clear & engaging style The Smartest Kids in the World will enliven public as well as dinner table debates over what makes for brighter & better students ...

Artists The Smashing Pumpkins Label Napalm Recordings Format Vinyl 12 Album (Gatefold Cover) Running Time Vinyl 12 Album (Gatefold Cover) Tracks 1 Knights of Malta 2 Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)3 Travels 4 Solara 5 Alienation 6 Marchin' On 7 With Sympathy 8 Seek & You Shall Destroy ...

Alaska 1970 growing up here is like nowhere else Ruth wants to be remembered by her grieving mother Dora wishes she was invisible to her abusive father Alyce is staying at home to please her parents Hank is running away for the sake of his brothers Four very different lives are about to become entangled Because if we don't save each other how can we begin to save ourselves? Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock's extraordinary stunning debut is both moving & deeply authentic These intertwining stories of love tragedy wild luck & salvation on the edge of America's Last Frontier introduce a writer of rare & wonderful talent ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A decidedly irreverent satire about the wages of greed & an enchanting comic adventure that riffs on an iconic theme the American salesman with a twist For this tale of door-to-door marketers takes place in a world heretofore never seen on screen that of 1960s manure salesmen AKA the Men of Manure Actors Billy Bob Thornton Tea Leoni Mark Polish Ed Helms Kyle Mac Lachlan Pruitt Taylor Vince Frances Conroy Rest of cast listed alphabetically Aria Alpert & Sean Andrews Director Michael Polish Certificate 12 years & over Languages English
- Dolby Digital Stereo (20) Duration 1 hour & 36 minutes (approx)
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All he wants is to find a home but thrown out into the snow on Christmas day the smelly sprout comes up against a terribly rude Christmas tree an awfully impolite snowman & worst of all
- a greedy fox But will a chance encounter with someone as small as the sprout change everything? 48 pages full colour illustrations Plenderleith Allan
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Josh has a problem There's a new little person in the house his baby brother Charlie It's supposed to be a happy thing
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The 1960s were a period of radical cultural social & political upheaval in the United States & around the globe; yet in just three years between 1969 & 1972 Village Voice Scenes columnist WPLJ FM radio host & cult figure Howard Smith got to the heart of it all by talking it out--both on &--off the record As famous as those who passed through the airwaves Smith encapsulated the end of an era through personal conversations & hard-hitting interviews with Mick Jagger Frank Zappa Andy Warhol Buckminster Fuller leaders of the feminist movement & the Gay Liberation Front a NARC agent John Lennon & Yoko Ono & scores of other iconic & influential personalities including musicians artists filmmakers actors writers politicians & social activists from countercultural luminaries to everyday revolutionaries & everyone in between The Smith Tapes transcribes for the first time ever sixty-one of those recorded sessions from an archive of more than one hundred fifty reels unearthed after more than forty years Edited by documentary film writer & directorproducer Ezra Bookstein this book reveals the time capsule that Smith ingeniously captured & contains raw & unscripted talks that take you right into the midst of a transformative cultural & musical explosion ...