Step into two million years of human history & explore the wonders of the ancient world. Discover how out Stone Age ancestors lived & how hunters became farmers & began to settle down. Explore the culture & beliefs of the Egyptian people & enter into an amazing world of gold-topped pyramids & mummified pharaohs. Take a trip to see a tragic play in Ancient Greece, marvel at the Roman feats of engineering, & find out how one small city became the heart of a huge & powerful empire. Ancient World is a panoramic survey of the way people lived in the Stone Age, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece & the Roman Empire. More than 800 photographs, cross-sections, pictorial timelines & historical maps illustrate every aspect of the ancient world, while 40 fact boxes provide extra insights & highlight links with the present day. Throughout the book, 60 step-by-step practical projects bring ancient history to life. The size of this book is 22cm in height & 17cm wide with 256 pages ...

The path of human progress is one of enlightenment & cruelty, achievement & bloodshed, creation & destruction. This title tells the epic story of civilization, & the cities that made us who we are. It reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its glorious & terrible people & places. ...

In & Another Thing... the outspoken & outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything.



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Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate

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May 1817: In the stables of the Old Eclipse Inn in Mansfield Tom Stone, aged 16, works as ostler, like his father & grandfather before him. His sister, Ann, has recently given birth to a son but her husb&, a framework knitter, is suffering the effects of the economic climate. ...

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A sweeping saga spanning 1898 to 1984 stretching from the mining fields of South Wales to the film sets of

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In & God Created Cricket, award-winning writer & broadcaster Simon Hughes casts his expert eye over this most English of sports, evaluating how the game took shape in eighteenth & nineteenth century England & assessing how the rest of the world soon started beating them at it. With his unique blend of sharp humour, biting analysis & deep affection for cricket, Hughes revisits its history & delves into the characters who have given the game its unique fascination. & through it all runs the seam of the Ashes, ending, rather conveniently, as England beat the Aussies again in 2009. ...

Messrs Barker & Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, & despite the work that went into writing, rehearsing & broadcasting almost a hundred episodes to millions of viewers each week, the pair never shared a cross word. This work tells the story of their rise from theatre, through The Frost Report & into their own legendary show. ...

Idealistic young lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) is determined to bypass the topsy-turvy madness of the US legal system & do his best for his clients. However, Arthur's idealism takes a battering when he is pressured to defend a judge (John Forsythe) he knows to be guilty of raping a young girl. Arthur now has to make the most important choice of his life
- the choice between his career & his conscience. Directed by Norman Jewison, with a screenplay by husb&-&-wife writing team Barry Levinson & Valerie Curtin.
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Calling all of Britain! We finally introduce to you, the first official BBC Weather book!

Celebrating the highs, lows,

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