Alfie's painting ' Motorbike Man' has been entered in the children's painting competition at the Harvest Fair. His friends have done paintings too but when the winners are announced not everyone is happy with their prize... Join Alfie on an exciting day at the fair as he comes up with a brilliant solution! ...

From postman to captain of the British & Irish Lions Gareth Thomas' story is a remarkable one. Universally known by his nickname ' Alfie' Thomas has amassed an incredible list of achievements in more than a decade at the top of his sport: in 2005 he racked up not just the Grand Slam but also a Heineken Cup-winner's medal with Toulouse; he stepped into the breach as leader of Sir Clive Woodward's Lions when captain Brian O' Driscoll's tour was prematurely ended; & he reached the milestone of 100 caps the most won by any Wales player during the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Away from the field Thomas' experiences have often read like a real-life soap opera. In 2006 a potentially life-threatening neck injury resulted in a mini-stroke that almost ended his career. There was also a French court appearance for alleged affray the anguish of the saga surrounding Mike Ruddock's controversial departure in 2006 & a Six Nations ban following an altercation with Ulster supporters at a Heineken Cup match. Yet amid the highs & lows of a remarkable rugby odyssey it is Thomas' alternative yet engaging personality that marks him out as a true one-off. Never afraid to speak his mind he has made it to the top simply by being himself. In Alfie!" Thomas reveals the inside story of his incredible life & offers readers an insight into one of the most intriguing personalities in rugby." ...

Splish splash splosh! Alfie has new yellow boots that are perfect for walking through puddles & stamping in mud. Theres something not quite right about them though
- theyre making Alfies feet turn outwards... Join Alfie as he works out whats wrong with his boots in this wonderfully splashy adventure.
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Splish splash splosh! Alfie has new yellow boots that are perfect for walking through puddles & stamping in mud. Theres something not quite right about them though
- theyre making Alfies feet turn outwards... Join Alfie as he works out whats wrong with his boots in this wonderfully splashy adventure.
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This is a gorgeous gift book featuring an exclusive & intimate insight into Alfies world & a br&-new Alfie story. Shirley wrote & illustrated her first Alfie book in 1981. Twenty five years on & the first Alfie books have become classics while new Alfie adventures continue to be incredibly popular. Discover all there is to know about Alfies family the street where he lives his friends his toys & much more. Illustrated with beautiful never-before published sketches paintings & photographs this is a book no Alfie fan should be without. ...

The first book after Doris Lessings Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa & the lives both fictional & factual that her parents lead. I think my fathers rage at the trenches took me over when I was very young & has never left me. Do children feel their parents emotions? Yes we do & it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches & thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emilys great love was a doctor who drowned in the Channel & she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the first half of this book Doris Lessing imagines the lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war at all a story that has them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester as children but leading separate lives. This is followed by a piercing examination of their lives as they actually came to be in the shadow of that war their move to Rhodesia a damaged couple squatting over Doriss childhood in a strange l&. Here I still am says Doris Lessing trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy trying to get free. With the publication of Alfred & Emily she has done just that. ...

In interviews ranging from 1955 to 1980 Alfred Hitchcock talks about the time he was locked in a police cell when he was a child & being typecast as a director of thrillers. He also discusses his early films; the advent of talkies; planning Psycho"; American audiences; cinema techniques; horror films & the influence of real crimes. He considers the difference between making films in America & Britain; the importance of lighting; his female leads & being a practical joker. As well as critics he also touches on avoiding cliches; murder in film; film editing & music; " The Birds"; the star factor in actors & making comedies. BBC Archive Voices: shining a light on the icons of our time. Due to the age & nature of this archive material the sound quality may vary. BBC Archive Voices features interviews with some of the key figures from the fields of entertainment sport politics & literature
- many of which havent been heard since their original transmission. This is a unique window into the past & is a chance for us to hear those who contributed to the richness of our cultural heritage. With access to the entire archive of BBC Radio & television we can now witness some of the most lively entertaining & informative encounters in BBC broadcasting."
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Alfred Tarski is known as the founder of the rigorous study of semantics but little is known about the views he held at the time other than that at one point he calls his position ' Intuitionistic Formalism'. Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language & Logic sets out a detailed account of these views in particular by looking to the work of Tarski's mentors Stanislaw Lesniewski & Tadeusz Kotarbinski. Both subscribed to an account of language on which meaning was a matter of the expression of a thought through symbols governed by conventional rules. In particular Lesniewski held that they best way to express thought was in the form of a rigorously crafted deductive theory. Tarski accepted these views & made it his project to express metatheoretic thought -thought about formal systems themselves
- to intuitionistic formalist standards. He began with simple theories of the relation of logical consequence conceived of in terms of a fixed set of primitively valid rules. Tarski next turned his attention to the semantic concepts that figured in the work of Skolem & Godel as well a group known as the American Postulate Theorists. The result of his study here was his now famous method for the definition of truth by recursion on satisfaction. In light of the reading of Tarski developed in the early chapters of the book the major topics concerning Tarski's semantics are covered: the significance of the T-sentences the meaning & purpose of the famous Convention T & questions about whether or not Tarski held that each language is covered by its own peculiar concept of truth. This work done within a few years Tarski realized that the semantics he had developed could actually replace the intuitionistic formalist conception of meaning. His famous work on logical consequence is read in this light & the shift in his thinking is discussed in detail.
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Alfred is the only English king ever to be called Great. It was not a title given by political supporters not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollards enthralling authoritative account befits Alfred
- a soldier a scholar & statesman like no other in English history. His rule spanned troubled times. His shores were under constant threat from Viking marauders & he faced turmoil at home. Soon after he began his rule a conspiracy erupted & he was hounded out of his kingdom into solitary exile in forests & fens. But his ambition was not felled by adversity. Alone in this damp dangerous half-world of bogs & quicksand Alfred looked within & found the motivation to create a new type of nation. Drawing on the latest historical textual & archaeological research Justin Pollard radically reassesses the key moments in Alfreds life. He offers a new interpretation of what caused this most remarkable king to begin the formation of England & how it coloured the subsequent history of the Western World down to the present day.
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Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Greats reign. This book provides a comprehensive guide with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars through the ages & new introductions by the present author. It looks at every aspect of the topic from land & sea forces to logistics & campaigning from fortifications & the battlefield to the final peacemaking. In so doing it highlights the significance of warfare & its organisation for the late Anglo-Saxon state & the multitude of ways in which it was recorded & remembered. Dr Ryan Lavelle is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. ...