The new IRiver Story e Book Reader is one of the most stylish e Book readers available with its slim design fresh white colour & full QWERTY keyboard. The 6” e-Ink display that can be viewed in a portrait or landscape mode makes the IRiver Story easy to use & comfortable to read especially as it only weighs 284g. The IRiver supports a huge range of file formats including e Books (e Pub PDF TXT) Office Files (XLS PPT DOC) & Music files (MP3 WMV) all of which are viewable with no conversion needed. The QWERTY keyboard means that you can edit text make entries into the personal diary feature & perform book searches across your device. With a capacity of up to 8000 books on an external SD card the book search feature is invaluable. Other features that make the IRiver Story a must have e Book Reader include a battery life of 9000 page turns a voice recorder & an audio player Technical Specifications
- Compatibility
- Windows XP Vista 7 (Not Compatible with Macs)
- Capacity &8211; 2GB (Internal) up to 32GB (External)
- Dimensions/ Weight &8211; 203x 127x 9mm (Hx Wx D)/284g
- Connection Type &8211; USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0
- Menu Language &8211; 15 Languages (English German French Russian Spanish Italian Polish Korean Turkish Dutch Swedish Czech Chinese (Simplified & Traditional & Japanese)
- Playback Time &8211; Reading: 9000 pages Music: 20 Hours Recording: 5 Hours (all times are approximations)
- Display/ Resolution &8211; 6” E-Ink Display/800x 600 pixels
- Files Supported
- e Book Reader &8211; PDF & EPUB
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- Comic Viewer &8211; Zip (JPEG BMP & PNG)
- Audio &8211; MP3 WMA OGG
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- Text Editor/ Diary Included














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In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors industrialists & entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery & the factory & thereby changed the whole of human society bringing into being new methods of social & economic organisation new social classes & new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's relation to the natural world & embedded the belief that change not stasis is the necessary backdrop for human existence. Iron Steam & Money" tells the thrilling story of those few decades the moments of inspiration the rivalries skulduggery & death threats & the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen. Richard Arkwright James Watt Richard Trevithick & Josiah Wedgwood are among the giants whose achievements & tragedies fill these pages. In this authoritative study Roger Osborne also shows how & why the revolution happened revealing pre-industrial Britain as a surprisingly affluent society with wealth spread widely through the population & with craft industries in every town village & front parlour. The combination of disposable income widespread demand for industrial goods & a generation of time-served artisans created the unique conditions that propelled humanity into the modern world. The industrial revolution was arguably the most important episode in modern human history; " Iron Steam & Money" reminds us of its central role while showing the extraordinary excitement of those tumultuous decades." ...

Jiggy only jumped into the school broom cupboard for two minutes to avoid a teacher. So when he emerges from his hasty hiding spot into a parallel universe hes not impressed! & theres not a lion or a witch in sight... In this new world Jiggy finds he has swapped places with a boy called Juggy who is about to go on a school trip
- a trip to compete in the UK Extreme Ironing Championships...
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This is a story of triumph disaster & eventual survival ' against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill daring & incredible luck saw him safely through to the end of the war. His is an epic & chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on the Atlantic convoys. But easy success ebbed away in the face of ever-improving Allied detection & attack techniques. The hunters became the prey to suffer appalling losses. Of 842 U-boats launched 779 were sunk 'iron-coffins' to 28 000 men. Herbert Werner's graphic account of war waged from beneath the sea of horror & cold cruel death is dedicated to the seamen of all nations who died in the Battle of the Atlantic. ...

It is a time of revolts & revolutions conflict & intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without & within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh & rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion while treachery & violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation a small group of renegades escapes from the city & crosses strange & alien continents in the search for a lost hope an undying legend. In the blood & violence of New Crobuzons most dangerous hour there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council. ...

This is chosen 16 times as a ' Book of the Year'
- the top non-fiction pick of 2012. The best work of modern history I have ever
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Half Summer faery princess half human Meghan has never fitted in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer & Winter Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey
- ironbound faeries that only she & her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her. Worse Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting the prince who betrayed her deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron Meghan can't help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.
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Edie said George were going to do this together. Ill be right there with you. Anything anyone trying to get you is going to have to come past me first. But when George makes his promise he is not aware that high on the rooftops an unseen gargoyle is watching them hungrily quivering with anticipation for the moment when it will unfold its stone wings & pounce. The thing on the roof knows that nothing is over; nothing is finished. Ironhand takes us deeper into the layers of un-London the place where the good & the bad statues the spits & the taints walk & war. George & Edie must repay the debt which they owe the Gunner for his sacrifice. They must face unspeakable danger & doubt if they are to save him. This second title in the Stoneheart sequence by Charlie Fletcher will shake you with its imaginative grasp & vision. It is an epic excitement not to be missed.. . ...

AD 71. Germania Libera: dark dripping forests inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians & legendary wild beasts a furious prophetess who terrorises Rome & the ghostly spirits of slaughtered Roman legionaries. Enter Marcus Didius Falco an Imperial agent on a special mission: to find the absconding commander of a legion whose loyalty is suspect. Easier said than done thinks Marcus as he makes his uneasy way down the Rhenus trying to forget that back in sunny Rome his girlfriend Helena Justina is being hotly pursued by Titus Caesar. His mood is not enhanced when he discovers his only allies are a woefully inadequate bunch of recruits their embittered centurion a rogue dog & its innocent young master; just the right kind of support for an agent unwillingly trying to tame the Celtic hordes. ...

In many ways this book tells a familiar story in British industry: of innovation & enterprise in the early decades.. .of worldwide dominance at a time when Britain was the workshop of the world.. .of wars & economic downturns.. .of foreign competition.. .and of relative & absolute decline on the path of de-industrialisation in the latter part of the twentieth century. For most of this period the farm machine industry grew & matured. It is an inspiring story of technological achievement & of industrial success as farmers & engineers brought iron & steel to fields which had previously been the domain of locally made timber implements & power provided by horses. Agricultural technology moved on inexorably from broad-cast seed & the sound of the threshing flail via the portable steam engine & the threshing machine right through to the modern world of giant tractors
- each with the power of 200 horses
- combine harvesters & impressively efficient farming methods. This book traces the broad sweep of the whole industry over 200 years looking at many individual companies & products to explain how & why the farm machinery industry developed in the way it did. Important individual machines are described & illustrated in detail. The British farm machine industry is unlikely ever again to be large by world standards nor to dominate the world stage as once it did. Yet the author traces a rich vein of innovation enterprise & technological inspiration often taking place within the large number of relatively small-scale craft-based workshops which were so prevalent in the early decades. Rather than mere manufacturing therefore perhaps it is this tradition of technical innovation & invention which marked out the British farm machinery industry for historical greatness & perhaps it is this tradition which will continue to mark it out in the future.

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