Featuring Latinate & Celtic words weasel words & nonce-words ancient word ('loaf') to advanced ('twittersphere') & spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and' 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle') the author takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude the obscure & the downright surprising 288 pages Crystal David ...

Once upon a time in Spain there was a little bull & his name was Ferdinand Unlike all the other little bulls
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An updated edition of the most accessible & compelling history of the cinema yet published now also a fascinating 15-hour film documentary ' The Story of Film An Odyssey' Film critic producer & presenter Mark Cousins shows how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times & by each other He demonstrates for example how Douglas Sirk's Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s influenced Rainer Werner Fassbinder's despairing visions of 1970s Germany; & how George Lucas' Star Wars epics grew out of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress The Story of Film is divided into three main epochs Silent (1885-1928) Sound (1928-1990) & Digital (1990-Present) & within this structure films are discussed within chapters reflecting both the stylistic concerns of the film-makers & the political & social themes of the time Film is an international medium so as well as covering the great American films & film-makers the book explores cinema in Europe Africa Asia Australasia & South America & shows how cinematic ideas & techniques cross national boundaries Avoiding jargon & obscure critical theory the author constantly places himself in the role of the moviegoer watching a film & asks How does a scene or a story affect us & why?' In so doing he gets to the heart of cinematic technique explaining how film-makers use lighting framing focal length & editing to create their effects Clearly written & illustrated with over 400 stills including numerous sequences explaining how scenes work The Story of Film is essential reading for both film students & the general moviegoer ...

The history of man-made flight for children growing in reading confidence From Da Vinci to the Wright Brothers find out how people dreamed of taking to the sky in complex flying machines before inventions such as hot-air balloons airships helicopters & of course aeroplanes made it all possible Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University ...

A lively & engaging history of the beautiful game Tells the story of football from its beginnings in the Roman Army to the modern day premiership including how both American Football & Rugby were born Usborne Young Reading has been developed in conjunction with reading experts from Roehampton University ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play For more than two thousand years India has been a massive component in world history But what are the country&s origins & how did it come to be what it is today? These are just two of the questions that Michael Wood tries to answer during his quest across the country Actors Michael Wood Certificate Exempt from Classification Year 2010 Screen Widescreen 1781 Languages English Duration 5 hours & 30 minutes (approx) ...

Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters shifting allegiances & changing identities 416 pages Hegarty Neil ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Meticulously researched & beautifully filmed The Story of Ireland is the definitive 21st Century account of Ireland’s remarkable past Presented by Fergal Keane this expansive & outward-looking series offers an authoritative reappraisal of Ireland’s dramatic past looking at the evolution of the country in a global context & challenging some of the potent myths that have become an accepted facet of the country’s history It follows the evolution of the modern nation through waves of migration & emigration & highlights the key moments of Irish history from the adoption of Christianity through the Protestant plantation Great Famine & Partition to the Good Friday Agreement It also assesses the influence of prominent figures from Brian Boru Wolfe Tone & Daniel O’ Connell to eamon De Valera Michael Collins & WB Yeats ...

When the young Arthur pulls the embedded sword from the stone his future as the King of England is foretold This imaginative retelling of the classic legends recounts the story of Arthur's formation of the Knights of the Round Table his securing of the enchanted sword Excalibur his wooing of the Lady Guinevere & many other beloved Arthurian tales ...

The world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by JRR Tolkien which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into slavery & who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest & most tragic of all JRR Tolkien's characters Hapless Kullervo' as Tolkien called him is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers & a tragic destiny Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo who killed his father kidnapped his mother & who tries three times to kill him when still a boy Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister Wanona & guarded by the magical powers of the black dog Musti When Kullervo is sold into slavery he swears revenge on the magician but he will learn that even at the point of vengeance there is no escape from the cruellest of fates Tolkien wrote that The Story of Kullervo was the germ of my attempt to write legends of my own' & was a major matter in the legends of the First Age'; his Kullervo was the ancestor of Turin Turambar tragic incestuous hero of The Silmarillion In addition to being a powerful story in its own right The Story of Kullervo
- published here for the first time with the author's drafts notes & lecture-essays on its source-work The Kalevala is a foundation stone in the structure of Tolkien's invented world
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