This is a fresh new animal book with charming illustration & wonderful tactile features. Come pet the lovely animals feel their lovely fur & feathers! Stroke the lions mane & tickle the monkeys tummy but beware the snapping crocodile! This is a touch & feel animal book with stylish & endearing illustrations. It is one of twenty new exciting books in the Baby Walker" series. It features charming contemporary artwork to stimulate & excite your babys Imagination. This is a perfect introduction to animals." ...

Bridging digital technologies & traditional play Animatazz gives children of all ages the chance to use their imaginations & unlock their own creativity through the magic of animation whilst learning & having fun at the same time. Characterise the poseable figures with modelling clay to make your characters. Video guide & articulated figures. Upload your movies to youtube myspace i-pod or mobile phone. Requires digital camera (camera / phone / web cam) & windows or mac pc (not supplied). ...

If you have a Wild Unruly or Undisciplined Daugher two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter & Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. When Amy & Effie Tribble two charming but impoverished spinster sisters lose out on an inheritance they place this advertisement in The Morning Post" & hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client educating them in their School for Manners. Maria Kendall is seemingly a dream client
- beautiful impeccably mannered effortlessly graceful & extremely well dowered. In short she doesnt seem to need the Tribbles help at all. But then the sisters meet her parents & realise that they do have a problem on their hands
- not with the perfect Maria but with her overweening gauche & socially over-ambitious parents!"

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The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing & Development takes students & animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters developing a television series feature or multimedia project & writing professional premises outlines & scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles & pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of shows already on the air. Animation Writing & Development

Includes:: chapters on animation history on child development (writing for kids) & on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing & finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.

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Animation is one of the hottest & most creative areas of film-making today. During his more than 40 years in the business Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators & serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand & the new computer animation successes. In this book based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States & across Europe" Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator
- from beginner to expert classic animator to computer animation whiz
- needs. Using hundreds of drawings Wiliams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animatiion for professionals students & fans. This new Expanded edition

Includes:: more on animal action invention & realism with sophisticated animation examples."



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This new 2008 edition of this popular course has been fully revised to support the new specifications. This Grammar Workbook & CD is ideal for improving students listening & speaking skills & contains a variety of authentic listening activities including interviews reports dialogues & discussions. ...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington. It's 1972. Meena is nine years old & lives in the village of Tollington 'the jewel of the Black Country'. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers & chips not chapati & dhal; she wants an English Christmas not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities
- but more than anything she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter & her gang. Blonde cool aloof outrageous & sassy Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life but the arrival of a baby brother teenage hormones impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school & a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour. Anita & Me paints a comic poignant compassionate & colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares power cuts glam rock decimalisation & Ted Heath. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies a childhood caught between two cultures each on the brink of change.
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Whether you want to lose weight or find a diet that chimes with your body type to bring you optimum health Anjums Ayurvedic Diet is for you. Its scarcely believable that Anjum Anand could ever have had a weight problem but in her early 20s she was overweight & a serial dieter. She eventually lost all the weight but it took a while to discover the diet she should follow both to lose & to maintain weight loss. Finally she found the solution not from modern Western science or diet experts but in the Indian system of Ayurveda
- the oldest & most holistic medical system on the planet. Translating as the science of living wisely & well Ayurveda teaches us how to maintain optimum health & harmony both within ourselves & with nature. It recognises three body types & once youve established your basic body type you can not only find the diet that will best suit you (and get your body back into shape) but also correct any imbalances to resolve eating & digestive disorders sleep problems & many other illnesses. In this groundbreaking new diet book Anjum shows how to work out your body type the foods you should eat (or avoid) & how to combine them into delicious recipes for every meal. Uniquely this Ayurvedic cookbook

Includes:: recipes from East & West as well as complete food charts stating which foods are best for each dosha. For anyone purely interested in healthy eating the 75 recipes are all low fat & healthy but each is labelled according to its suitability for each body type. Good eating hints & tips a range of meal plans & advice on recommended exercise & lifestyle for each body type complete the book.


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Following the huge success of Anjums television debut in BBCs Indian Food Made Easy" the same team has come together again for a new series & accompanying book this time focusing on regional Indian cooking. Based on the same principles
- light modern Indian food for todays busy cooks
- Anjum has now created a new collection of delicious dishes that are easy & often quick to put together & full of flavour. All the recipes from the television series are here as well as many more divided into chapters on Brunches & Light Meals Seafood Chicken Lamb Vegetables Beans & Lentils Bread & Rice Raitas & Chutneys. In addition Anjum gives tips for using core Indian ingredients & the book

Includes:: features on the cooking of different regions as well as suggestions for menus & entertaining."



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We should all be eating more vegetables & Anjum's plethora of scintillating flavours means even the most carnivorous among us will be happy to give meat a miss. As much of the subcontinent is vegetarian by religion Indian food provides the ideal cuisine in which to discover some seriously tasty new approaches to vegetables grains cheeses & pulses. Anjum adapts the true flavours of India with her trademark concern for healthy eating & a good diet to make dishes that are light bright modern & balanced providing all the protein & other nutrients we all need for perfect health. This book teaches us all how to eat vegetarian for life. Sandwiches grills salads snacks & appetizers & of course main dishes with their accompaniments are all included. Breakfasts brunches & barbecues supply unexpected treats such as mile-high chickpea pancakes with Indian violet coleslaw & Delhi-style chargrilled sweetcorn with a spicy lime rub. Many of Anjum's recipes are family favourites or based on the vibrant street food culture of India adapted to bring them bang up to date. ...