Amici is a fully-integrated Italian course for beginners to GCSE. Packed with cultural information not just on Italy but on the Italian-speaking world in general. Carole Shepherd & Derek Aust are both respected Italianists & experienced writers so you can be sure that you will find everything you need in Amici to motivate & inspire your students. Amici contains the following components: Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Book; CDs. The Workbook contains a variety of exercises including listening exercises to give further practice of key points in the Students' Book. ...

Tom's quest to free the Mistress of the Beasts brings him to a sweltering jungle. There he must defeat cunning Amictus. But what chance does Tom have against the Beast's incredible speed? & what is the secret his father & Wizard Aduro are keeping from him? Don't miss KRABB MASTER OF THE SEA
- HAWKITE ARROW OF THE AIR
- KOLDO THE ARCTIC WARRIOR
- ROKK THE WALKING MOUNTAIN
- TREMA THE EARTH LORD



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Fight the Beasts Fear the Magic! A clash of Beasts is about to begin! Evil Max is using the magical Golden Gauntlet to turn Tagus the Horse-man & Amictus the Bug Queen into mortal enemies. Meet a new Avantian hero... Evan must ride forth & take on a new Quest to rescue these noble Beasts from a terrible fate. Who will be victorious in this Battle of the Beasts? A brand new Beast Quest is about to begin! ...

Features 30 all-new fun & easy-to-make designs you can take with you anywhere Amigurumi is back & better than ever! Amigurumi on the Go" features 30 projects
- including bags backpacks purses pencilcases & totes
- that are super simple fun to make & let you show off your love for amigurumi everywhere. Designs include an owl book bag mushroom purses an octopus tote a monkey backpack.. .and more!"

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Amir Khan is a hard-working twenty-first-century hero: a standard bearer for his Pakistani heritage his Lancashire upbringing & the future of British boxing. At just seventeen he won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens & when he turned professional in 2005 he won his first fight in 109 seconds. Tickets to his fights sell out in hours & he is watched by millions on prime-time television. But his feet are still firmly on the ground
- he lives at home with his parents in Bolton fasts in the holy month of Ramadan & can sometimes be spotted helping out at his uncle & aunties curry house. Here he tells his story: of a boy from Bolton who just happens to be a world-class boxer.
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When ten Pakistani men walk into Kathleen Jamie's small Scottish town on a peace march in November 2001 she is thrown back to her own travels in Northern Pakistan & a book she wrote a decade earlier. Among Muslims" is the account of Jamie's time travelling alone & living among the Shia & Ismaili Muslims in the Northern Areas
- the mountainous regions wedged between Afghanistan India & China & one of the most volatile borderlands in the world. A bold sympathetic & superbly written book " Among Muslims" delves into Jamie's own Scottish upbringing to find links with the purdah-observing lifestyle of her Shia Muslim hosts. It is a privileged account from an acclaimed poet who during her travels was often literally the only woman on the bus. " Among Muslims" was originally published as " The Golden Peak". For this edition Kathleen Jamie returned to Pakistan to write an Afterword & Preface."
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Virginia Nicholsons Among the Bohemians" is a portrait of Englands artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century engaged in a grand experiment. Subversive eccentric & flamboyant
- the Bohemians ate garlic & didnt always wash; they painted & danced & didnt care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality & Free Love. They were often drunk broke & hungry but they were rebels. In this fascinating book Virginia Nicholson examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives. " Interesting gorgeous wonderful...this book displays the best of bohemia itself
- playful dazzling original". (Julie Burchill " Spectator"). " Racy vivacious warm-hearted. Offers an illuminating & well-researched portrait of life among the artists a century ago". ("TLS"). Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She has worked as a documentary researcher for BBC Television & her first book " Charleston
- A Bloomsbury House & Garden" (written in collaboration with her father Quentin Bell) was an account of the Sussex home of her grandmother the painter Vanessa Bell. Her second book " Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939" was published by Penguin in 2002. She lives in Sussex."


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In this absorbing memoir Duff Hart Davies looks back over fifty years of watching stalking & writing about deer. From his first experience of fallow in South-East England to his many sojourns among the reds of the Scottish highlands he has spent countless hours in the woods & on the hill learning more with every excursion. Along the way he describes some memorable characters & captures the grace & mystery of this elusive quarry. ...

Journalist think-tank report writer & mother Harriet Sergeant befriended a teenage gang when she was researching a report on why so many black Caribbean & white working class boys are failing. Gangs like this are responsible for the majority of crime in our inner cities. During the riots of August 2011 they were the young men setting our streets ablaze. All the issues we all associate with Britains gang culture
- single mothers absent fathers lack of education & social mobility the criminal justice system
- take on a new meaning for Harriet as she enters their world & sees institutions through their eyes. It is a revelation. By the end of the book Tuggy Tug was found guilty of committing over a hundred street robberies. He & two other gang members are in prison one is in mental hospital & one appears to be a successful criminal. In this remarkable challenging angry book Harriet Sergeant reports from a world of teenagers who have been abandoned by the state & in many cases their parents & provides a valuable insight into an ignored corner of our society. As Britain faces up to the aftermath of the riots this book should be required reading for us all.

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They changed me a lot more than I changed them...I went in as Anne Widdecombe & came out an anarchist." In 2008 Harriet Sergeant
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