Pyjamas are just pyjamas. Right? Not when theyre Cosmic Pyjamas! Something strange has happened to Rosie & her brothers! Rosies new pyjamas have led them to a dangerous discovery... Doctor Starkly-Bonkers has invented the Doombuster & history is all muddled up
- & now the machine has been stolen! Can Rosie & the boys beat the Pharaohs & dinosaurs & will rice pudding really stop the Vikings?
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In 1910 Cora Crippen an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore was murdered by her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen an American quack doctor at their London home. During a search of the house Scotland Yard found the remains of her body under the floor of the cellar. The crime was probably the most famous murder of the twentieth century. Crippen's attempt to escape across the Atlantic with his young mistress Ethel Le Neve disguised as a boy fascinated the world as did his subsequent Old Bailey trial & execution. Nicholas Connell provides a complete & accurate account of the notorious ' North London Cellar Murder' compiled from the surviving files of Scotland Yard the Central Criminal Court the Director of Public Prosecutions & the Home Office. This book draws on a variety of new material including previously unseen official government documents memoirs of journalists who reported on the story in 1910 contemporary English Canadian & American newspapers & four important long-forgotten & extensive sets of autobiographical articles by Ethel Le Neve. ...

Weary of academic study an eminent scholar turns to magic & makes a deal with the Devil. Mephistopheles will serve him & give him whatever he wants but after twenty-four years Faustus must keep his side of the bargain. This edition contains a detailed introductory section that puts the play in its historical context in-depth textual notes extracts from key critical works & exam-style questions. ...

'...make me immortal with a kiss' Doctor Faustus is a play about desire: for the best in life for knowledge power material comfort & influence. Faustus sells his soul to the devil hoping to learn the secrets of the universe but is fobbed off with explanations which he knows to be inadequate. He is obsessed with fame but his achievement as a devil-assisted celebrity magician is less substantial than it was previously as a scholar. Marlowe's most famous play is a tragedy but also extremely funny. It involves hideous representations of the Seven Deadly Sins & of Helen of Troy the world's most beautiful woman. With its fireworks & special effects it was one of the most spectacular & popular on the Elizabethan stage. Yet ever since Marlowe's death it has been regularly rewritten. Its mix of fantastical story slapstick & raw human emotion still arouses conflicting interpretations & presents us with endlessly fascinating problems. This student edition is based on the earlier so-called A-text of the play with the B-text scenes included in an appendix. It contains a lengthy Introduction with interpretation of the play in its historical & cultural context stage history discussion of the complex textual problems & background on the author date & sources. ...

Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn is one of the most convincing accounts of genius ever written. Thomas Mann charts Leverkuhn's extraordinary career: from his precious childhood to his tragic death
- when Leverkuhn reveals the horrifying price he had to pay for his achievement. Zeitbolm the narrator tells his friend's story against the background of the 1939-45 war which in turn acts as counterpoint to Mann's vast theme: the discord between genius & sanity.
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) a man of extreme passions & a playwright of immense talent is the most important of Shakespeares contempories. This edition offers his five major plays which show the radicalism & vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One & Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy & revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeares Richard II. Doctor Faustus perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil is here in both its A- & its B- text showing the enormous & fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York the texts of the plays have been newly edited & are presented with modernized spelling & punctuation. In addition there is a scholarly introduction & detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands setting up & running the field hospital at Ajax Bay where he & his Royal Marine & Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties of which only 3 died of wounds. The building itself was a derelict meat-packing factory hastily converted to treat incoming wounded
- both British & Argentine
- even though two unexploded bombs lay at the back of the building. Rick's diary of the campaign & its aftermath is a fast-paced & gripping account of war experience that covers the entire conflict from initial preparations & passage to the South Atlantic on the requisitioned liner Canberra to daily action reports & observations & interaction with the key players of the conflict
- Col. H. Jones Brian Hanrahan Julian Thompson & Max Hastings. Incredible human stories abound as Rick a trained commando dangles from the rescue winch of a Sea King helicopter saving lives on a daily basis. Yet he also confronts death in a thoughtful reflective & considered way helping others to deal with the trauma of war. Now revised & brought fully up to date this book is a unique first-hand narrative of a conflict that inspired individual & collective heroism among British armed forces inspiring great pride in 'our boys' by the public back at home but which also provoked
- & continues to provoke
- fierce debate.




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Monster Drawing Machine is a book for boys hosted by the master of flattened freaks
- Dr. Frankensketch! The book comes loaded
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Authors OKeefe & Macdonald have studied Underhills grand defence & yeoman service to meet a medical challenge unique in our history. Their timely story comes exactly one century after Underhill was appointed Vancouvers first medical health officer & in the lingering shadow of SARS an ominous indicator of how vulnerable we remain to new viral diseases. With a proven record of grand storytelling Betty & Ian celebrate the public-health achievements of one man while giving contemporary meaning to an 85-year-old mystery. This is a compelling read that may both educate & scare the hell out of you. ...

Theres an emergency phone-call at Kiss-it-Better Hospital. Its Tom Cat.. .hes hurt his leg! Can Doctor Miaow & Ambulance Driver Woof please come straightaway? Of course they can! Doctor Miaow & Ambulance Driver Woof are always there to help others & save the day & children are invited to follow the gentle reassuring drama of the exciting yet caring world of Kiss-it-Better Hospital. ...