Fat unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her fathers headless corpse wearing her best dress & with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: I did it. & I am not sorry & she refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley & DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. & as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals & appalling crimes they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the facade of the peaceful Yorkshire village. ...

This is a new edition of this classic search sure to keep children entertained for hours on end whilst developing important visual recognition matching & counting skills. Each beautifully illustrated scene features a brain-teasing picture puzzle. You can see dinosaurs of all shapes & sizes across the word & through time. It is packed with fascinating facts presented in short easy-to-read captions. ...

In 15 000 B.C. early humankind who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before & spread out to populate the Earth arrived in Siberia during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets several miles thick the levels of the worlds oceans were much lower than they are today & early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait then a land bridge without getting their feet wet & enter the Americas. Then the Ice Age came to an end the Bering Strait re-filled with water & humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division
- with two great populations on Earth each oblivious of the other
- continued until Christopher Columbus discovered America just before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT DIVIDE which compares & contrasts the development of humankind in the Old World & the New between 15 000 B.C. & 1500 A.D. This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that when these factors are taken together they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a masterly & totally original synthesis of archaeology anthropology geology meteorology cosmology & mythology to give a new shape
- & a new understanding
- to human history.



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In 15 000 B.C. early humankind who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before & spread out to populate the Earth arrived in Siberia during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets several miles thick the levels of the worlds oceans were much lower than they are today & early humans were able to walk across the Bering Strait then a land bridge without getting their feet wet & enter the Americas. Then the Ice Age came to an end the Bering Strait refilled with water & humans in the Americas were cut off from humans elsewhere in the world. This division
- with two great populations on Earth each oblivious of the other
- continued until Christopher Columbus discovered America just before 1500 A.D. This is the fascinating subject of THE GREAT DIVIDE which compares & contrasts the development of humankind in the Old World & the New between 15 000 B.C. & 1500 A.D. This unprecedented comparison of early peoples means that when these factors are taken together they offer a uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. THE GREAT DIVIDE offers a masterly & totally original synthesis of archaeology anthropology geology meteorology cosmology & mythology to give a new shape
- & a new understanding
- to human history.



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C.S. Lewis's dazzling allegory about heaven & hell
- & the chasm fixed between them
- is one of his most brilliantly imaginative

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The day has arrived for the Dogs' Summer Ball. It's so high class that each dog must remove their bottom before they are allowed inside the hall. But in the middle of all the frivolity something unexpected happens & the dogs have to make a hasty exit...with or without the correct bottom! ...

Suzannes Great-Great-Aunt Deidra has left her dog to Suzannes Mum in her will. Suzanne is over-the-moon about having a dog again after her old dog Barney was sent away to a farm by her Dad. But when Beatrice the Newfoundland arrives she is a BIG disappointment. Shes smelly & old & miserable & doesnt like walks or catching sticks or any of the things that dogs are meant to like. So Anna & Suzanne devise a plan to turn Beatrice into a proper dog
- but if they dont pull it off soon Suzannes Dad will send Beatrice away too...
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George the hero from M. P. Robertson's The Egg has returned in this brand new dragon adventure. George is bored. When it comes to fighting chickens aren't nearly as much fun as dragons. But when George's dragon returns he whisks him off to a fairytale land on a rescue mission. A wicked witch has captured a baby dragon & George realises that he must outwit the witch in order to free the dragon & prevent himself from being turned into a toad for the witch's barbecue. ...

Flat Stanley is back! Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board there are places he can get to that no one else can. So when Stanley receives a letter from an archaeologist he travels by airmail to Egypt to help find an ancient treasure deep in the heart of a great pyramid. But what if even the flattest boy on earth cant wriggle out of this dark tomb
- & the terrible mess he finds himself in?
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Email is convenient but highly dangerous. With an ill-considered click of the mouse you can humiliate yourself in front of millions lose your job or even end up in court. Great Email Disasters" brings together over 100 of the funniest scariest & weirdest stories of inbox ignominy. Meet the sheepish stars of the world wide web. These stories will make your toes curl! These stories discuss: the man who emailed a woman he met at a party telling her: This is the part where I throw caution to the wind... Your smile is the freshest of my special memories
- & then sat back in horror as his email was circulated round the world; the vengeful wife who mailed 50 of her husbands most important work contacts from his email address telling them: Ive got an extremely small penis that couldnt excite a womans nostril let alone anything else; the numerous couples whose intimate email chats were leaked & read by millions. It also discuss: Jo Moore the government spin doctor who hit the headlines for her good day to bury bad news e-mail on September 11 2001. The ex-employee who thought hed got revenge by wrecking his former companys computer system with a bombardment of emails
- but was discovered & ended up in court; the Pentagon officer who accidentally included a Devon schoolgirl on an email list that discussed top-secret matters; the marketing man who wrote an email mocking his employer
- & sent the message straight to his boss plus numerous blogging buffoons fax failures terrible telephone calls & so much more..."


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