This is a revised & updated edition of the classic pronunciation title Ship or Sheep? This new edition of Ship or Sheep? an accessible intermediate-level pronunciation course in full colour for students of English provides systematic practice of English pronunciation with an emphasis on minimal pairs through a wide variety of interesting exercises & activities. The course is suitable for classroom use or for self-study & is available accompanied by a set of 4 audio CDs in a pack or separately as a book. This ISBN refers to the book only. For information on the book & CD pack please see 978 0 521 60673 8. ...

When Peter sees the model ship in the shop window he wants it more than anything else on Earth. But this is no ordinary model. The ship takes Peter & the other children on magical flights wherever they ask to go. Time after time the magic ship takes them on different exciting adventures to different countries & to different times. & why should magic ever end? ...

In 1913 the shipyards of Britain were responsible for building half of all the worlds ships; at the Clyde in Scotland at this time a new ship was launched every eighteen hours. For decades Britain was at the forefront of shipbuilding & the history & economy of towns such as Belfast Liverpool & the Clyde in Scotland were dominated by the industry with thousands employed in each. Shipbuilding in Britain" looks at the subjects long history from the Middle Ages through to the heyday of steam providing a comprehensive guide to a transformed industry." ...

The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class highlighting differences between sister-ships & changes in their appearance over their careers. This

Includes:: paint schemes & camouflage featuring colour profiles & highly-detailed line drawings & scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths & weaknesses of available kits lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships & provides hints on modifying & improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & relevant websites. This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more detailed drawings of the many different designs of British MTBs & US PT-boats including their fittings sensors & weapons.J OHN LAMBERT is a well-known draughtsman who provides detailed plans for modelmakers. He has also written widely on naval subjects mostly small warships. His collaborator in this volume is LES BROWN a lifelong modelmaker & a leading light in the Small Ships Group of the International Plastic Modellers Society.


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The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class highlighting differences between sister-ships & changes in their appearance over their careers. This

Includes:: paint schemes & camouflage featuring colour profiles & highly-detailed line drawings & scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths & weaknesses of available kits lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships & provides hints on modifying & improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & relevant websites.rnrn This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs from the Invincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915 & including the hybrid large light cruisers Courageous Glorious & Furious.


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Annie Proulxs highly acclaimed international bestseller & Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless hopeless hack journalist living & working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers
- the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundl&. With the aunt & his delinquent daughters
- Bunny & Sunshine
- in tow Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life & possibility.


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Learn how to draw any kind of ship
- from fishing boats to ocean liners.

Includes:: background information


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This is a new addition to the See Inside" series about ships throughout history from Viking longboats to Spanish galleons ironclads to aircraft carriers. Lifting the flaps reveals the insides of ships from across the ages explaining in simple clear language what they were used for how the crew & passengers lived & how they sailed the oceans. It

Includes:: a gate-fold page of a huge aircraft carrier."

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The White Star Line was one of the most illustrious & controversial names in the history of passenger shipping. Its origins lay in Liverpool in the early 19th century chartering sailing ships to Australia but financial difficulties led to its takeover by Thomas Ismay in the 1860s. He was the founding father of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company the official name of the White Star Line. Despite a number of disasters with heavy loss of life the company grew quickly to dominate the North Atlantic route with famous ships such as Britannic & Germanic taking the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing several times in the late 19th century. At the turn of the century the company established an unrivaled standard of luxury in its new quartet of ships known as the Big Four which led to the construction of the Olympic Class which included Titanic. Despite the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 the Olympic had a long & successful career as the flagship of the White Star Line before the financial pressures of the Depression in the 1930s forced the merger of White Star with its rival Cunard. Ships of the White Star Line" is the fruit of years of research by maritime historian Richard de Kerbrech. In it he tells the story of the company through all 89 ships that served the shipping line each of which is illustrated with photographs along with detailed technical information & vivid accounts of voyages & incidents." ...

Using unpublished diaries Jim Perrin the acclaimed author of The Villain" & " Menlove" tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman & the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa & the Himalayas & found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle explored China with Spender & Auden journeyed down the Oxus River to its source & with no support opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perrin " The journeys of discovery undertaken through two decades by this pair of venturesome ragamuffins are unparallelled in the annals of mountain exploration." Jim Perrin writes of his source-
Material: " These unpublished diaries journals & extensive correspondence have not previously been used to present a portrait of the most productive friendship in the history of mountain exploration. What they reveal is in Shipton's phrase "a random harvest of delight" gathered by two uniquely bold & engaging characters from the great mountain ranges of the world during the golden era of their first western exploration. Between geographical excitement the nature of arduous travel in difficult & uncharted terrain throughout a lost epoch & the quirkiest & most stimulating of friendships the theme is a gift & one that has long been waiting for adequate treatment"."
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