Written by Ireland's greatest field botanist & published in 1937 this enduring celebration of the Irish landscape is the result of five years of weekends spent walking a mazy 5000 miles across hills & bogs swimming through flooded caverns staying out all night on islands sifting fossil bones & exploring cattle-tramped tombs That was when conservation was still in the future farmers welcomed rambling strangers bogs were intact bungalows cars ESB poles & chain saws were absent & the countryside was largely tourist-free Praeger's journey began in Donegal & ended in Kerry Along the way he discovered much including the passage tombs of Carrowkeel in Sligo which he was the first to enter This is an absolute must for lovers of natural history ...

Get to grips with how things work inside hundreds of machines with this extraordinary book that explains the science behind technologies & inventions In this extensive encyclopedia packed full of simple science for kids David Macaulay&s beautiful illustrations show the inner workings of each machine from clocks & watches to jet engines & the internet From the basic lever to the modern microprocessor this bestseller has been completely updated with the latest technologies & explains every machine you&ve ever wanted to understand & some you&ve probably never thought about With David Macaulay&s inspired illustrations & humorous approach The Way Things Work makes even the most complex technology fun fascinating & accessible for children of all ages ...

Quietly rather movingly Strange was making his plea ' Christ knows why Lewis but Morse will always put himself out for you' As he put the phone down Lewis knew that Strange had been right in the case of the Swedish Maiden the pair of them were in business again They called her the Swedish Maiden
- the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford Twelve months later the case remained unsolved
- pending further developments On holiday in Lyme Regis Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalizing article in The Times about the missing woman An article which lures him back to Wytham Woods near Oxford & straight into the most extraordinary murder investigation of his career

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From the author of Secrets of Nanreath Hall comes this gripping beautifully written historical fiction novel set during World War II-the unforgettable story of a young woman who must leave Singapore & forge a new life in England On the eve of Pearl Harbor impetuous & overindulged Lucy Stanhope the granddaughter of an earl is living a life of pampered luxury in Singapore until one reckless act will change her life forever Exiled to England to stay with an aunt she barely remembers Lucy never dreamed that she would be one of the last people to escape Singapore before war engulfs the entire island & that her parents would disappear in the devastating aftermath Now grief stricken & all alone she must cope with the realities of a grim battle-weary England Then she meets Bill a young evacuee sent to the country to escape the Blitz & in a moment of weakness Lucy agrees to help him find his mother in London The unlikely runaways take off on a seemingly simple journey across the country but her world becomes even more complicated when she is reunited with an invalided soldier she knew in Singapore Now Lucy will be forced to finally confront the choices she has made if she ever hopes to have the future she yearns for ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Way Way Back is the coming of age story of 14-year-old Duncan&s summer vacation with his mother Pam her overbearing boyfriend Trent & his daughter Steph Having a rough time fitting in the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen the gregarious manager of the Water Wizz Water Park Through his funny clandestine friendship with Owen Duncan slowly opens up to & begins to finally find his place in the world
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The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism edited with an introduction & notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility
- using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims But as Melmotte climbs higher in society his web of deceit
- which also draws in characters as diverse as his own daughter Marie & Felix's mother the pulp novelist Lady Carbury
- begins to unravel A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy Frank Kermode's introduction explores the real-life inspiration for Trollope's masterly satire This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes Anthony Trollope (1815-82) had an unhappy childhood characterised by a stark contrast between his family's high social standing & their comparative poverty He wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector but did not meet with success until the publication of the first of his ' Barsetshire novels' The Warden (1855) As well as writing over forty novels including such popular works as Can You Forgive Her? (1865) Phineas Finn (1869) He Knew He Was Right (1869) & The Way We Live Now (1875) Trollope is credited with introducing the postbox to England If you enjoyed The Way We Live Now you might like William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair also available in Penguin Classics' Trollope's masterpiece its examination of how hopes of easy money can corrupt remains relevant today' Observer




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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christ Church College The tough-mindedness of the social satire in & its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career Trollope paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises of the life of 1870s London the loves of those drawn to & through the city & the career of Augustus Melmotte Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's greatest & strangest creations & is an achievement undimmed by the passage of time Trollope's ' Now' might in the twenty-first century look like some distant disenchanted ' Then' but this is still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make proper sense of our today ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play First screened on BBC1 in 2001 The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels This story of ambition centres around Augustus Melmotte an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets & social scene by storm in his efforts to become an " English country gentleman" His rise & fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope & David Yates& direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of sub-plots & character interaction The cast is a strong one with David Suchet&s Melmotte gripping in his recklessness climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie courted by the cream of society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person Cheryl Campbell gives a good account of the feckless Lady Carbury writing vacuous novels to support her family with Matthew Mac Fadyen relishing the part of her rakish son Felix Paloma Baeza is sympathetic as her daughter Hetta whose on-off relationship with entrepreneur Paul Montague ably taken by Cillian Murphy provides the main love interest Douglas Hodge impresses as the loyal & sincere but insipid Roger Carbury The series consists of four generous episodes each lasting 75 minutes This is an absorbing production of what isn&t the most subtle of Victorian novels but which surely remains among the most relevant --Richard Whitehouse --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title ...

A beautiful romance about fate & finding happiness from the Number One bestseller What if you had a second chance at first lovesusannah & Rob were childhood sweethearts But as with most early love affairs they broke up moved on & now find themselves in very different places & not entirely happy
- who is?A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Is fate telling you it's time for a second chance or should you simply walk away & let the past become ancient history? But Susannah & Rob just aren't able to forget the way they were & the world is about to discover the consequences of their reunion' Impossible to finish without tears streaming down your face' Daily Express
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Aspiring writer Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford) & Jewish political activist Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) meet at college in the 1930s Although attracted to each other a romance does not ensue However they meet again during the Second World War beginning an affair which eventually leads to marriage But the relationship comes under strain when Katie begins to feel that Hubbell pursuing his writing career in California is beginning to sell out Marvin Hamlisch won an Oscar for his sweeping score ...