Charlie & Lola explore the world of numbers in a new way with a range of activities including counting, number recogition & simple sums. Each activity page provides suggestions as to how to complete the activity creatively using brilliantly fun stickers. Helping Lola practise her numbers & her sums is the perfect way to improve & build confidence in the first stages of early learning. From Children`s Laureate & Kate Greenaway Medal winner Lauren Child. ...

Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon & as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged & essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical & intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives
- a camera, phone, computer, bicycle, car, a dishwasher perhaps
- all sport components that fit together with precision & operate with near perfection. We also assume that the more precise a device the better it is. & yet whilst we live lives peppered & larded with precision, we are not, when we come to think about it, entirely sure what precision is, or what it means. How & when did it begin to build the modern world? Simon Winchester seeks to answer these questions through stories of precision`s pioneers. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John ` Iron-Mad` Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, & Joseph Whitworth. Thomas Jefferson exported their discoveries to the United States as manufacturing developed in the early twentieth century, with Britain`s Henry Royce developing the Rolls Royce & Henry Ford mass producing cars, Hattori`s Seiko & Leica lenses, to today`s cutting-edge developments from Europe, Asia & North America. As he introduces the minds & methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented & perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, & high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? & can the precise & the natural co-exist in society?

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` From the point of view of the nation, it`s a good thing that he died.` Great Barwick`s least popular man is murdered on a train. Twelve jurors sit in court. Four suspects are identified
- but which of them is on trial? This novel has all the makings of a classic murder mystery, but with a twist: as Attorney-General Anstruther Blayton leads the court through prosecution & defence, Inspector Fenby carries out his investigation. All this occurs while the identity of the figure in the dock is kept tantalisingly out of reach. Excellent Intentions is a classic crime novel laced with irreverent wit, first published in 1939.
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Mildred Lathbury is one of those `excellent women` who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, `capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life
- birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather`. As such, she often gets herself embroiled in other people`s lives
- especially those of her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, whose marriage seems to be on the rocks. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred, teetering on the edge of spinsterhood, has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym`s world at its funniest & most touching.

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Pellegrino Artusi is the original icon of Italian cookery, whose legendary 1891 book Science in the Kitchen & the Art of Eating Well defined its national cuisine & is still a bestseller today. He was also a passionate gastronome, renowned host & brilliant raconteur, who filled his books with tasty recipes & rumbustious anecdotes. From an unfortunate incident regarding Minestrone in Livorno & a proud defence of the humble meat loaf, to digressions on the unusual history of ice-cream, the side-effects of cabbage & the Florentines' weak constitutions, these writings brim with gossip, good cheer & an inexhaustible zest for life. ...

A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning, & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari
- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building, his investigation stumbles onto Sicily`s brutal ` New Mafia`, which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before.
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Seemingly destined for desk bound travelers given the luxurious wood box. Yet such compasses were originally essential instruments ...

Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes`s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge & delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes`s Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature through a combination of comic irony, moral ambiguity, realism, & sheer mirth. With acute narrative skill & deft characterisation, drawing on colloquial language & farce, Cervantes creates a tension between the everyday & the literary, the plausible & the improbable. While encouraging us to reach our own moral conclusions, he also persuades us to accept the coincidental & the incredible: two boys indulge their life of crime at a time of public prayer; a young nobleman undergoes a change of identity at the behest of not a princess but a mere gipsy girl, &, most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize in a ward full of syphilitics. By placing the extraordinary within the contexts of the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory & demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative & innovative. This new translation captures the full vigour of Cervantes`s wit & makes available two rarely printed tales, ` The Illustrious Kitchen Maid` & ` The Power of Blood`. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World`s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford`s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, & much more. ...

A detailed topographic map from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Crediton, Tiverton & Dulverton.. Edition B1 with minor changes; Publication date April 2007 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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