As we try to get to grips with the latest technology & keep up with today's speedy pace of life, many of the domestic skills we used to have at our fingertips are being lost. But, as " Granny's Book of Good Old-Fashioned Common Sense" will show you, traditional home crafts are not incompatible with modern lifestyles. Here you can rediscover all sorts of things that will not only make your life greener & easier but more fun too. " Granny's" hints & tips will help you realise that household chores become almost effortless & more environmentally friendly than you could imagine. You'll find that providing nourishing home-cooked meals doesn't have to be time-consuming & that growing your own organic fruit & vegetables brings a sense of fulfillment like no other. " Granny" can also teach you how to knit & sew
- just think of the feeling of achievement you'll have when you finish your first knitted garment or piece of embroidery! & children can learn a thing or two from " Granny" as well. Simple games using just paper & pencils will help to pass those rainy days &, for the more adventurous, there are dolls & puppets to make & stories to invent. The kids will love it & so will you!" Granny" presents everything in easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions with comprehensive diagrams & photographs to accompany the text so, whether you need a helping hand in the kitchen, the garden, the parlor or the nursery, you can trust " Granny" to show you the way.
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Read With Biff, Chip & Kipper is the UK's best-selling home reading series. It is based on Oxford Reading Tree which is used in 80% of primary schools. Read With Biff, Chip & Kipper Level 5 Phonics storybooks have been specially written to allow children to practise their letters & sounds as they do at school. Fun plots, familiar characters & carefully levelled text create the perfect combination to build children's confidence & enjoyment of reading. The Level 6 stories practice various spellings of sounds such as 'oo' as in blue, cool, shoe, new as well as revising sounds introduced at the earlier levels. Level 6: oo ue ew oe; ow; s ss se ce c; air; ou ow; u oo oul; ear eer; le; oi oy. The stories are slightly longer at this level to increase reading stamina & fluency. Each book also

Includes:: practical tips & ideas for you to use when you reading with your child & fun activities. This series also provides essential support for parents through www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Visit the Oxford Owl for practical advice for helping children learn to read, all you need to know about phonics & lots of fun activities & free e Books. With plenty of support available inside the book & online phonics practice at home has never been so fun or so easy!

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In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances & negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition & class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography & art, Granta's Britain explores landscape, identities & stories of the British Isles. In ' Silt', Robert Macfarlane writes of the beauty & danger of a stretch of coastline in Essex. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of Irish revolutionary nationalist Roger Casement, executed at Pentonville Prison in 1916. Memoirs by Gary Younge, Andrea Stuart & Nikolai Khalezin & Natalia Kaliada focus on the upheavals & migrations that brought them & their families to (and from) Britain. Rachel Seiffert, Ross Raisin, Cynan Jones & Jim Crace provide extracts of their new novels: Seiffert describes Glasgow & Northern Ireland in the 1990s; Raisin paints a portrait of a young footballer struggling with his identity; Jones follows a boy on a strange, dangerous outing with his father; Crace shows how the lives of English farmers changed during the Enclosures in the late 1700s & early 1800s. The issue

Includes:: original short fiction by Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Tania James & Jon Mc Gregor as well as poems by Simon Armitage, Jamie Mc Kendrick, Don Paterson & Robin Robertson. It also introduces a new voice, Sam Byers, with an extract from his darkly comic debut novel, Idiopathy.

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OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking, horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active, a tough, versatile version of OS Explorer.
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An evocation of the suffering & hardship caused by the Great Depression, & a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma & Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad & his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised l&. ...

Packed with practical guidance & beautifully illustrated throughout, Graphic Design School provides a solid foundation for the design student as well as offering a back-to-basics tool for more advanced designers in search of solutions to graphic problems. The book is divided into three clear sections, beginning with ' The Language of Design', which introduces the basic design skills, giving encouragement & advice on thinking up ideas & expressing them visually. I n ' Principles & Techniques', the reader is shown how to start developing these ideas & learns new methods of giving form to their vision by experimentation with colour, typography & computer techniques. Finally, ' Commercial Practice' shows how these skills are applied in the workplace, whether in editorial design, advertising or in the creation of corporate identities. Throughout, the book highlights real examples of students' work, from the design of logos & websites to product packaging, providing points of reference so the reader can continually compare their own progress & enhance their potential in this competitive field. Graphic Design School is a must-buy, all-encompassing guide to this fast-evolving subject. ...

Gasp as a violent thunderstorm & a vicious Torvosaurus threaten to take the life of a young Brachiosaurus! Be amazed as the long-limbed dinosaur breaks free from his shell & takes his first steps in a dangerous world! From the ' Beak Snout' to the ' Super Lizard', discover how we know about dinosaurs & what might have happened to them. " Graphic Dinosaurs: Brachiosuarus" takes the form of a comic, telling a stories of the perilous lives of these armoured beasts with vivid, full-colour illustrations.

Includes:: a scientific description & comparison of the creatures are featured in this title. Accompanied by a full glossary & index, this makes the book both fun & informative to use.

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Where America leads, the rest of the world follows. Over the decades its cities have lured adventurous souls from around the world with the irresistible promise of the American Dream. Its histories have been built, knocked down & rebuilt bigger & better. This is the New World. & who better to take you around the New World than its artists? Following on from Graphic Europe, Graphic USA is an alternative guide to 25 cities, written & illustrated by designers living in those cities. Following a user-friendly format, the book lists places to stay, bars, restaurants, galleries & clubs with a distinctly alternative edge. From Austin to Boston & Miami to Memphis its the book that will tell you where to find blue collar dive bars with wood panelling serving up tumblers of local whiskey. It picks out the uber-slick hotels designed by the hippest architects, & the weird restaurant in the strip mall that serves the best breakfast burrito this side of the border. Accompanying these nuggets of insider knowledge are brilliantly vivid illustrations that reflect the designers experiences of their city. A beautiful object, a useful guide, it offers a truly unique insight into the heart of American culture. ...

Presents information through charts & graphs, to build on student's ability to organize data while also reinforcing learning of key Science & Geography concepts. This title helps readers learn to interpret & create different types of tables & graphs & develop understanding of which type is appropriate for each application. ...