Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Wayne & Garth the horny heavy metal-loving teenage heroes of the popular " Saturday Night Live" skit hit the big screen They&re still doing their cable-access show out of the Wayne&s basement in Aurora Illinois; only now a sleazy TV executive named Benjamin Oliver wants a piece of the action As the babe &n& band obsessed adolescents negotiate the shark-infested waters of network television Wayne finds &amore& in the form of a heavy metal femme fatale with a penchant for skin-tight costumes But can Wayne keep his new lady love out of Oliver&s unsavory clutches? ...

Ways into History Houses & Homes looks at the life & achievements of the great Victorian engineer & architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel It also explores his powerful legacy Several of his main engineering achievements are examined through photographs drawings & other historical objects including the Clifton Suspension Bridge the Thames Tunnel & the incredible influence he had on the railways travel by ship & even the Crimean War A simple timeline helps readers see the span of his achievements over time In the Ways into History series original illustrations & simple text bring the past alive while questions & activities encourage historical research & build up confidence & enthusiasm for British history at Key stage 1 For children aged 5 Teaching & literacy notes are included to help parents & teachers use the book in a classroom setting & for home learning ...

Ways into History Florence Nightingale tells the story of the famous nurse & her battle to make nursing a respected profession It also looks at why we remember Florence Nightingale today It

Includes:: a timeline of key events buildings & inventions that changed holidays over the years at the back of the book In the Ways into History series original illustrations & simple text bring the past alive while questions & activities encourage historical research & build up confidence & enthusiasm The series encourages Key Stage 1 readers aged 5 to begin to think like a historian & look for clues in descriptions & pictures that will help them answer questions about the past The books include ' Talk About' sections that encourage readers to describe events or what people might have thought or felt at the time Teaching & literacy notes help teachers & parents get the most out of the curriculum links in these books in a classroom or at home

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A first science series that introduces young readers to basic science principles in a friendly & accessible way Early scientific skills are taught through a combination of experiments activities & key questions designed to get young scientists thinking! Everyday Materials introduces readers to different materials & their properties ...

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With their pioneering method using dots the artists of Pointillism no longer directed their gaze only towards the imitation of reality In their paintings between 1886 & 1930 their dots colour & light assumed an independent existence to create masterpieces of unprecedented brightness & colour diversity The works by the inventors of this technique Georges Seurat & Paul Signac marked the beginning of this exuberant outburst of colour Works by Henri Matisse Pablo Picasso Carlo Carra Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Piet Mondrian & Paul Klee demonstrate how artists made a study of Pointillism during the 20th century Vincent van Gogh contributed to the way that modernist painters abandoned Pointillism More than 100 selected works including paintings watercolours & drawings illuminate the dawn of a new era which this art movement was responsible for bringing about the beginning of modern painting ...

Based on the BBC television series John Berger&s Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics& Seeing comes before words The child looks & recognizes before it can speak&& But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it The relation between what we see & what we know is never settled& John Berger&s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating & influential books on art in any language First published in 1972 it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented & This is an eye-opener in more ways than one by concentrating on how we look at paintings he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures& By now he has John Berger (b 1926) is an art critic painter & novelistborn in Hackney London His novel G (1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize & the Booker Prize If you enjoyed Ways of Seeing you might like Susan Sontag&s On Photography also available in Penguin Modern Classics& Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of professional art critics he is a liberator of images & once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation& Peter Fuller Arts Review& The influence of the series & the book was enormous It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace& Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling& One of the most influential intellectuals of our time& Observer ...

My name is Sam I am eleven years old I collect stories & fantastic facts By the time you read this I will probably be dead Sam loves facts He wants to know about UFOs & horror movies & airships & ghosts & scientists & how it feels to kiss a girl & because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer Funny & honest it is one of the most powerful & uplifting books you will ever read ...

An inspiring visual adventure Driven by curiosity restlessness & a desire to better understand her own country artist Alice Stevenson spent two years exploring & drawing Great Britain With an eye for the odd & an antenna for the unexpectedly beautiful she documented her slow attentive forays Her journeying was wide steam trains in Snowdonia art galleries on remove Scottish islands Kent coastlines Dorset villages East Anglian saltmarshes the erstwhile utopias of Harlow & Portmeirion & the wild fells of eastern Cumbria Yet she found many hidden delights in the dense populations of cities from Hull & Plymouth to Belfast & Edinburgh The result is a book celebrating detail of landscape & architecture & creativity an essential human urge A rich artistic journey through a land deep in natural & man-made puzzles & wonders ...

All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside was closed to get rid of the infestation of cows! Now the kids are back & the fun begins again on every floor Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked liver in violet sauce & it is pet day on the 30th floor There are dogs & cats & frogs & skunks & an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion But the biggest surprise of all is that Mrs Jewls is expecting a baby & a substitute teacher is coming & everyone knows what that means Wayside School is going to get a little stranger ...