Escaping to Planet B to avoid environmental catastrophe is pure fantasy This book is for anyone who yearns for a realistic alternative to the destructive path the world is on at the moment & wants practical advice on how they can make things better 302 pages Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Tables black & white; 4 Maps; 31 Halftones black & Berners-Lee Mike (Lancaster University) ...

A remarkable story about love loss & the power of the imagination from an award-winning celebrated writer for children On a frozen Christmas Eve Mouse Mallory & his family set off across a snow-white valley to visit his grandparents They never arrive As the wheels skid off the icy road Mouse is thrown from the car When he wakes he finds himself in a magical landscape with only a talkative sheep & a very bossy horse for company And they tell him this is your story now So begins Mouse's extraordinary quest through a world of wonder A world of monsters minstrels dangerous knights & mysterious wizards; a world of terrifying danger but also more excitement than Mouse has ever known All to find a castle somewhere beyond But why is Mouse looking for a castle? As thoughts of his family back at the car begin to surface Mouse realises this might be the most important journey he will ever make This is a novel about love & death It's about the power of stories to change the way we view the world
- & it's about the power of a child to change their own world Emotionally arresting but ultimately uplifting this is a remarkable novel for our times
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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 Unseen for over fifty years this exceptionally rare feature sees comedy legend Norman Wisdom at his best playing a naïve explosives expert who finds himself involved with a criminal gang after uncovering nefarious dealings by a prominent industrialist! Hailed as one of Wisdom&s finest films it was one of two features he made independently & marked a departure from his more familiar & endlessly popular comic creation &the Gump& Co-starring Alfred Marks & Susannah York There Was a Crooked Man was directed by the BAFTA-nominated Stuart Burge ...

On the day the Second World War broke out Frank White was a 12-year-old schoolboy in Manchester On the day it ended he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean In 20113 he started to write this novel' What I wanted to do' he says 'was to capture that feeling of those times & remind people of what the country went through'' Fabulous often funny the authentic freewheeling atmosphere of a time when all bets were off' Daily Mail As Churchill & the nation face their darkest hour in 1940 a Lincolnshire village wakes up to a glorious summer's morning Following Dunkirk the fate of the whole war will soon rest with the RAF & their desperate effort to win the Battle of Britain If they fail Hitler's next step will be invasion And as the scene comes to life before us over the next six months this shadow of war will not disappear From the pub to the church struggling single mother to the lady of the manor the paper boy to a traumatised bomb disposal volunteer this superb jewel of a novel portrays a community of people & weaves together their stories with passion betrayal intrigue & suspense There Was a Time is a triumph of the storyteller's art This edition

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This is a gift set containing a plush doll & a mini edition of the book ' There was a wee lassie who swallowed a midgie I don't know why she swallowed the midgie So teeny & squidgy!' In this hilarious twist on a much-loved rhyme the wee lassie swallows a succession of Scotland's favourite creatures to catch that peskie midgie -- including a puffin a Scottie dog a seal & even Nessie! After all that she can't still be hungry Can she? Kate Mc Lelland's funny engaging illustrations bring to life this uniquely Scottish version of a classic rhyme ...

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever Ingenious die-cut holes bring this iconic nursery rhyme to life & Pam Adams' fabulous illustrations lend humour & vibrancy to the proceedings Bouncy images innovative die cutting & favourite rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child Available in three formats suitable for babies toddlers pre-schoolers & the nursery or classroom ...

Forty years after its first publication this much-loved Child's Play classic is as popular as ever Ingenious die-cut holes bring this iconic nursery rhyme to life & Pam Adams' fabulous illustrations lend humour & vibrancy to the proceedings Bouncy images innovative die cutting & favourite rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child Available in three formats suitable for babies toddlers pre-schoolers & the nursery or classroom ...

There were 10 in the bed & the little one said Join in the fun as your all-time favourite children's nursery rhymes are brought to life by Wendy Straw's charming illustrations This fantastic collection will put the excitement into reading as well as being an ideal way for children to learn the classics ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Director Paul Thomas Anderson&s There Will Be Blood is a masterly unflinching examination of a consummately evil man Daniel Plainview (via a transcendent performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis) is as he likes to remind those around him an oil man he finds it he drills for it & he makes money from it Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil Plainview travels to the town of New Boston California with his young son Sunday&s preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview&s ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church As Plainview&s plans come to fruition a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself pitting Plainview against Sunday & forcing him to become even more vindictive & ruthless Anderson proved with Boogie Nights & Magnolia that he was adept at handling expansive storylines & layered plots; however he stakes out a claim here as a new master of the cinematic epic The film is visually stunning & alternates between lush widescreen shots of the desert & meticulously composed darkly lit close-up of his actors presenting complex images of the American landscape & the souls that dot it As a narrative There Will Be Blood is told with a sense of economy yet never at the expense of the film&s inherently grand scope It&s difficult to determine precisely what Anderson wants his viewers to take from the experience the film is in the end appropriately complex & ambiguous There Will Be Blood forces us to confront Plainville who seems to be a larger-than-life personification of evil; that we don&t entirely understand him at the film&s conclusion is not a shortcoming but rather a tribute to the depths of this most vile creature & this most brilliant film Note There Will Be Blood will be packaged in environmentally-friendly cardboard made from recycled paper ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A brutal bloody & gripping saga of obsession corruption & poisonous greed; Paul Thomas Anderson&s Award Winning There Will Be Blood is a masterly unwavering inspection of a consummately evil man whose trailblazing spirit is equalled only by his murderous ambition In the dying years of the nineteenth century Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) a struggling silver miner realises that true wealth lies in oil extraction Driven by a passionate hatred for others & an intense psychological need to see competitors fail he heads for the oil-rich land of California in a bid to manipulate & exploit the landowners of dust-worn Little Boston in to selling him their properties Forefront of the town is self-styled 'faith healer& Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) who is structuring his own sinister plan to funnel the residents& impending wealth into his self-founded church As Plainview&s empire expands so does his obsession with the intrinsic value of power & he becomes increasingly irascible & paranoid along the way What follows is a vindictive ruthless & violent chain of events as Plainview fails to deliver on promises as he pits himself against the town&s perturbed & unstable charismatic teenage preacher In addition to stunning visuals & an exceptional captivating score from accomplished composer (and Radiohead guitarist) Jonny Greenwood director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia) owes his best work to date to the incredible Academy Award winning performance as Plainview by Daniel Day-Lewis & the staggering portrayal of Eli Sunday by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine) Bearing similarities to Citizen Kane & Giant There Will Be Blood is an intelligent thought-provoking & powerfully-eccentric epic masterpiece that is as enchanting as it is timeless ...