From one of our greatest science writers this biography of a beech-&-bluebell wood through diverse moods & changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape Guided by his abiding love of nature & a lifetime of scientific expertise Richard Fortey takes us on a journey through ecosystems & time The Wood for the Trees is the story of humankind meeting nature an homage to the mesmerising interactions between flora fauna & fungi Discover the lives of animals & plants; the passage of seasons; visits by fellow enthusiasts; the play of light between branches; the influence of geology; & how woodland has shaped history architecture & industry On every page Fortey shows how an intimate study of one small wood can reveal so much about the natural world & demonstrates his relish for the incomparable pleasures of discovery ...

My son betrayed me It is a family tradition Didn't I do the same to my father? The World War intensifies in Europe In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his childhood in Dublin The voices of his family circling him
- wife son daughter
- carry him to his end as he hears each separate chapter chronicling the power of their passion for their famous father their love their hate their need their sorrows & joys their strangeness & James Joyce has saved for them one last story to delight & defy them The Woodcutter & His Children

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This is the first authoritative account of the history of the wooden bowl It details evidence of the turners craft dating back 4000 years & looks at the development of lathe technology as well as the tools & timbers used The author has been given unprecedented access to study & photograph important collections many of which have never appeared in print before The superb photographs show priceless gold-adorned vessels buried with Saxon Kings Tudor bowls from the wreck of the Mary Rose & even a bowl which some claim to be the Holy Grail ...

The Greek army has been sent to Troy to recapture Helen the most beautiful woman in the world But how can they get inside the heavily defended city? The Greek commander Odysseus comes up with an extraordinary solution
- but will his daring plan really work?
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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 Adapted from the classic novel & The Tunnel Escape& by Eric Williams this is the story of British POWs trying to escape from a Nazi camp through a tunnel underneath their exercise horse As their huts are too far from the boundary one of the officers decides to start a daily gymnastics session close to the boundary in order to make digging a tunnel a lot easier & less likely to arouse suspicion ...

Twenty years ago four teenagers disappeared in the woods at a summercamp Now two decades later everything is changing Paul Copeland's sister went missing 20 years ago Now raising a daughter alone Cope balances family life with a career as a prosecutor But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything Is this body one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Confronting his past Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark & what truths can be brought to light ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A wallflower-like woman begins to bloom when her discovery of a priceless bottle of wine lands her in the middle of international intrigue Actors Agnes Bruckner Emma Campbell Bruce Campbell Patricia Clarkson Lauren Birkell Directors Lucky Mc Kee Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Dubbed None Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description None Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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When Baby Woolly sees some unfamiliar footprints on the path he decides to follow them with Zip It's just the start of a really big adventure full of imagination & awesome contraptions ...

When Baby Woolly finds a toy coin on the grass he declares it must be pirate treasure He sets sail in a woolly ship but when he loses his ball of wool he needs to make a wish on his lucky pirate coin to save his friends A story full of adventure imagination & wool! ...

Language is always changing No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching & editing showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word & the careful poetry needed to construct its definition He challenges both the idea that dictionaries are definitive & the notion that language is falling apart With a sense of humour an ability to laugh at bureaucracy & an inclination to question the status quo John Simpson gives life to the colourful characters at the OED & to the English language itself He splices his stories with entertaining & erudite diversions into the history & origin of words such as 'kangaroo' 'hot-dog' 'pommie' 'bicycle' not ignoring those swearwords often classed as ' Anglo-Saxon'! The book will speak to anyone who uses a dictionary 'word people' history lovers students & parents ...