See the night sky like you have never seen it before with this all-encompassing guide to astronomy. Learn all there is to know about the layout of the skies the positions of the main constellations & the names of the brightest stars so you can become a backyard astronomer in no time at all. With easy-to-use star charts photographs & observational drawings of objects visible from both hemispheres The Star Book will take your understanding & enjoyment of stargazing to the next level. Whether you use binoculars or a telescope or even if you have no optical aid at all there are enough celestial sights to keep anyone enthralled for a lifetime. The Star Book provides a quick & simple reference to the major stars & constellations with easy-to-use star charts finder charts high-quality images & observational drawings covering the key stars viewable from all over the world. Author Peter Grego also

Includes:: a brief introduction to the history of astronomy an easy-to-follow explanation of the life-cycle of stars from ignition to collapse & information about deep sky objects such as nebulae & globular clusters. This fascinating attractive & accessible book will become a trusted resource to make sense of the night skies & is a wonderful gift for anyone with even a passing interest in astronomy.

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Born in the Dublin slums of 1901 his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer & settler of scores Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk hes out robbing & begging often cold & always hungry but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday 1916 hes fourteen years old & already six-foot-two a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later hes ready to die for Ireland again a rebel a Fenian & a killer. With his fathers wooden leg as his weapon Henry becomes a Republican legend
- one of Michael Collins boys a cop killer an assassin on a stolen bike.
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This title contains two sparkling Magic Kitten stories! In Star Dreams" Jemmas biggest dreams become possible when she discovers silky cream & brown kitten Flame & theres Double Trouble for Kim when silver tabby kitten Flame comes to stay!" ...

It is the year 5012 & the Milky Way galaxy is under attack. After the Universal War a war that almost brought about the destruction of every known universe the planets in the Milky Way banded together to create the Intergalactic Force
- an elite fighting team sworn to protect & defend the galaxy. Only the brightest & most promising students are accepted into the Intergalactic Force Academy & only the very best cadets reach the highest of their ranks & become.. .STAR FIGHTERS! Summoned by a strange distress signal Peri & the rest of the Phoenix's crew head to the remote desert planet Westrenia to see if they can help. At first the main town seems devoid of life. Then the crew realise that the inhabitants are in hiding. The sheriff of Westrania has been kidnapped & a gang of outlaws is terrorising the town. It's up to Peri to think of a way to outwit the outlaws & get the sheriff back!
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Who are the best graphic designers today? Who are the emerging new superstars of the moment? Where do they get their ideas from? What are their best pieces of work? In what direction is contemporary graphic design heading? What new sources are used for inspiration? You will find the answers to these questions in Star Graphic Designers: a compilation of more than 80 of the best current international graphic designers with the aim of offering a comprehensive showcase of their most prominent works & becoming a reference manual for graphic design in the 21st Century. The result of this research is a careful presentation of 400 projects that show the path that graphic design will take in the next decade. ...

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug-fuelled disaster. Her stunt double Ann travels everywhere with her throwing paparazzi off the scent when they get too close. But one night Anns resemblance to Cherry Pye proves too convincing
- she is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo who only realises his mistake once it is too late to go back... From there its a fast funny & furious race against time to rescue Ann from a terrible fate. An international bestseller acclaimed as Hiaasens most hilarious gripping novel to date Star Island is an addictive read.
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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill gazing curiously at the stars. The next he is whirling through the firmament & perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledons other great work LAST & FIRST MEN pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe encompassing billions of years. ...

In 1896 in a pilgrim church in the Alps an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook & a housemaid. They take her home & Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. & sure enough one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt & searching Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat & whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling spooky Spittal Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family. Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining story is a timeless classic for readers young & old. ...

Richard the Second is losing his hold on the crown & Henry of Bolingbroke previously exiled by the king returns to England to claim it. Richard is deposed & dies mysteriously murdered some say on the orders of Bolingbroke now King Henry the Fourth. But Henry finds the crown harder to hold onto than it was to win. He is beset by enemies hampered by disease & concerned about the rebellious behaviour of his son. Dominating the court & with his eye on the crown is Harry of Monmouth whose reckless conduct in low-class taverns with his crony Sir John Oldcastle causes scandal. When the king dies Harry became King Henry the Fifth & the change is dramatic for both him & Oldcastle. The licentious youth becomes a great king & Oldcastle the rake turns into a religious reformer. Oldcastle dies a martyr & Harry becomes the conquering hero of Agincourt. The Star of Lancaster is in the ascendant. Harry has brought France to her knees & married her princess. It seems that the long war was at an end. But a greater enemy than the French awaits Harry... ...

Shy Mia loves the idea of entering a school talent contest for singer/songwriters but just isn't confident enough until her friends persuade her to give it a go. She's thrilled to make it through the auditions but when she realizes that another entrant might be cheating will she be brave enough to tell the judges what's going on? Filled with secrets hopes dreams & above all the power of friendship School Friends" is addictive reading for girls." ...