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...? ...

Rachel & Kirsty are visiting Kirsty's grandmother by the sea for their spring break. One morning they spot a very sparkly shell on the beach & it whisks them away to Fairyland! It's the occasion of the yearly Ocean Gala where Shannon the Ocean Fairy plays her Magical Golden Conch Shell to ensure that the seas & oceans remain peaceful & ordered for the year ahead. But Jack Frost is there to ruin things for everyone! His pesky goblins break the Magical Golden Conch Shell into seven pieces as they try to steal it & the pieces are whisked away into the oceans of the human world. Queen Titania uses her magic to send seven magical sea creatures to guard the pieces of the shell but the Ocean Fairies & Rachel & Kirsty must get the pieces back before chaos takes over the oceans! Can they outwit Jack Frost & his goblins & make the oceans a safe & happy place for everyone once again...? In this second story in the series Amelie the Seal Fairy must find her magical seal Silky & the second piece of the missing shell... ...

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." ...

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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The plan was simple. Go to America. Buy a second-hand car. Drive coast-to-coast without giving any money to The Man'. What could possibly go wrong? Dismayed by the relentless onslaught of faceless American chains muscling in where local businesses had once thrived Dave Gorman set off on the ultimate American road trip
- in search of the true independent heart of the U S of A. He would eat cherry pie from local diners re-fuel at dusty gas stations & stock up on supplies from Mom & Pop's grocery store. At least that was the idea. But when did you last see an independent gas station? Gamely Dave beds down in a Colorado trailer park sleeps in an Oregon forest treehouse & even spends Thanksgiving with a Mexican family in Kansas. But when his road trip mutates into an odyssey of near-epic proportions & he finds himself being threatened at gun point in Mississippi Dave starts to worry about what's going to break down next. The car...or him?
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The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla
- Mr Butterfly. He is a discreet gentleman who spends
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The Japanese High Command realised that the loss of Okinawa would give the Americans a base for the invasion of Japan. Its desperate response was to unleash the full force of the Special Attack Units known in the west as the Kamikaze (Divine Wind"). In a series of mass attacks in between April & June 1945 more than 900 Kamikaze aeroplanes were shot down. Conventional fighters & bombers accompanied the Special Attack Units as escorts & to add their own weight to the attacks on the US fleet. In the air battles leading up to the invasion of Okinawa as well as those that raged over the island in the three months that followed the Japanese lost more than 7000 aircraft both in the air & on the ground. In the course of the fighting 67 Navy 21 Marine & three USAAF pilots became aces. In many ways it was an uneven combat & on numerous occasions following these uneven contests American fighter pilots would return from combat having shot down up to six Japanese aeroplanes during a single mission." ...