This is the first premium-quality illustrated biography of Amelia Earhart published to coincide with upcoming major motion picture Amelia" starring Hilary Swank Richard Gere & Ewan Mc Gregor. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean the first person to fly solo across the Pacific & the first person to cross both oceans alone in an airplane. She was also a photographer poet hospital worker truck hauler fashion designer student of science social worker & mechanic
- not to mention a wife friend & lover. " Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It" celebrates all facets of this woman who has become an American icon featuring never-before-seen photographs artefacts letters documents & maps."
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New editions with new illustrations & new format of all four Amelia Jane titles. Amelia Jane is big bad & the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book she gives the toys some terrible scares with her mischief & gets poor Teddy to carry her home without him knowing it. Sometimes the toys get their own back... Ages 5+. ...

New editions with new illustrations & new format of all four Amelia Jane titles. Amelia Jane is big bad & the terror of the toy cupboard! In this book Sidney the selfish teddy bear has just come to the toy-cupboard. The toys are at their wits' end. If only they could teach Amelia Jane a lesson once & for all! Ages 5+. ...

Amelia Jane one of the most memorable & certainly the naughtiest of Enid Blytons creations is back
- & shes as big as bad & as
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Rachel & Kirsty must find Amelias magic star. Without it nobody can sing in tune & the auditions for the Tippington Variety Show will be a disaster! Could the badly behaved green-footed band Thrillz & Chillz have something to do with the missing star...? ...

This book follows the life story of Amenhotep III one of the most important rulers of ancient Egypt from his birth & into the afterlife. Amenhotep III ruled for thirty-eight years from ca.1391-1353 BC during the apex of Egypts international & artistic power. Arielle P. Kozloff situates Amenhotep in his time chronicling not only his life but also the key political & military events that occurred during his lifetime & reign as well as the evolution of religious rituals & the cult of the pharaoh. She further examines the art & culture of the court including its palaces villas furnishings & fashions. Through the exploration of abundant evidence from the period in the form of both textual & material culture Kozloff richly re-creates all aspects of Egyptian civilization at the height of the Mediterranean Bronze Age. ...

In America Frances leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways to produce a collection of travelers tales from the land of hyperreality. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York & LA by night-- a sort of luminous geometric incandescent immensity A--Baudrillard mixes apercus & observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates the world. In this new edition leading cultural critic & novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful & perceptive take on the continuing resonance of Baudrillards book in Obamas America." ...

This title is the New York Times" bestseller
- now in paperback. In " America Alone" Mark Steyn uses his trademark
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Power can corrupt a nation as surely as it corrupts an individual. To borrow from Lord Acton's dictum power corrupts & superpower corrupts absolutely. When the Second World War ended the military & economic supremacy of the USA was without parallel in history. American incomprehension of the outside world has been the chief problem in international affairs since the end of World War II. In America & the Imperialism of Ignorance veteran political journalist Andrew Alexander constructs a meticulous case including evidence gleaned from the steady opening up of Soviet archives demonstrating why this is so. From starting the Cold War to revisiting unlearned lessons upon Cuba & Vietnam the Middle East has latterly become the arena in which the American foreign policy approach proved wretchedly consistent. This has created six decades in which war was not the last resort of diplomacy but an early option & where peace & order breaking out was thought to be the natural conclusion of military intervention. Alexander traces this 'shoot-first' tendency from 1945 arguing that on a grand scale the Cold War was a red herring in which the US & her proxies set out to counter a Soviet expansionism that never truly existed & that by the time of the George W Bush era the ' Industrial-Military- Complex' was in office offering little hope of a change in approach. ...

In America the Edible" Travel Channel host Adam Richman tackles the ins & outs of American cuisine demonstrating his own unique brand of culinary anthropology. Believing that regional cuisine reveals far more than just our taste for chicken fried steak or 3-way chilli Richman explores the ethnic economic & cultural factors that shape the way we eat
- & how food in turn reflects who we are as a nation. Richman uses his signature wit & casual charm to take you on a tour around the country explaining such curiosities as why bagels are shaped like circles why fried chicken is so popular in the South & how some of the most iconic American food
- hot dogs fries & soda
- are not really American at all. Writing with passion curiosity & a desire to share his knowledge he

Includes:: recipes secret addresses for fun & tasty finds & tips on how to eat like a local from coast to coast."




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