In STUFF THAT SCARES YOUR PANTS OFF! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is OK to be scared & that there are very good reasons why we are able to feel fear. He looks closely at our most common fears including natural disasters predators spiders disease needles dentists crashes darkness speaking in public heights ghosts & monsters to show us how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary. The result is a fun carefully pitched popular-science title that mixes great true-life stories with the psychology of fear the statistical probabilities of things happening & a lot of reassurance. ...

The Hutton Report in 2004 created todays BBC. It cost the corporation its Chairman & Director General & ushered in an age of self-doubt & caution. It was also the end of the most extraordinary experiment in news management Britain has ever seen the decade of Alastair Campbell
- the Blair courtier who delivered new Labours mission to create the truth. But Lord Hutton condemned the BBC & its journalism without hearing a single word from the man who put the sexed-up dossier story on air
- Today editor Kevin Marsh. Had he done so his conclusions would have been very different. Now outside the BBC Marsh can tell for the first time the inside story of Andrew Gilligans infamous 0607 broadcast on the Today programme. He explains how he was certain the story was true but also how Gilligans flawed reporting fatally damaged the BBCs case. & he tells of his growing disillusion with the British medias ability & appetite for holding power to account
- or even telling the truth. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the toe-to-toe confrontations between Tony Blairs government & the BBC & the fight to keep BBC journalism independent in the face of unprecedented government pressure.


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The Royal School of Needlework (RSN) teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard & is well respected all over the world. It not only upholds the traditions of English embroidery that go back many hundreds of years but is constantly taking embroidery forwards in new & innovative ways. This series of Essential Stitch Guides has been produced in close collaboration with the RSN with the aim of providing a set of definitive works on traditional embroidery techniques. All of the authors were chosen by the RSN & all are graduate apprentices of the Royal School. In Stumpwork Kate Sinton brings together all of the major techniques & stitches associated with stumpwork embroidery to produce a stunning book that reflects both her expertise as an embroiderer & her artistic talent. For both expert advice & innovation this book is second to none. ...

Jane Nicholas' fascination with beetles became an absolute passion when she discovered Evans' & Bellamy's book An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles" in a store in Indianapolis in 1998. As she turned each page her imagination was captured visualising the stumpwork beetles that could be stitched using the photographs for inspiration. Hence the stumpwork beetle specimen box was born. Jane has always recorded ideas & drawn sketches in a notebook & as the months went by the entries burgeoned to interpret the beetle not only in stumpwork but in many other forms of embroidery: glittering goldwork beetles inspired by Art Nouveau jewellery; beaded beetles from mosaic buttons; redwork beetles first seen on an antique quilt on display in Omaha Nebraska; & beetles in surface stitchery using lustrous silk & metallic threads. Jane's hope is that this book will "delight & inspire" & that readers may find an idea that they just have to stitch!" ...

In a world in crisis children are the future. Part of the cure. Not now. Children are deadly. Marked one to ten. Fiona is a TEN. She just doesn't know it yet.. . She doesn't know her true strength. Fiona doesn't remember going to sleep. But she has woken to find her entire world has changed
- her house is abandoned & broken & her neighbourhood is barren & dead. Even stranger is the tattoo on her right wrist that she doesn't remember getting but somehow knows she must cover at any cost. & she's right. When the honeybee population collapsed a worldwide pandemic occurred & the government tried to bio-engineer a cure. But instead the vaccination turned people into ferocious deadly beasts. They have been branded as a warning to unvaccinated survivors. Key people needed to rebuild society are protected inside a fortress-like wall. Fiona has awakened branded alone & on the wrong side of the wall.. .
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS2 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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A fun interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage & motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun magical characters & fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities. * Motivating activities based on the KS2 National Curriculum * Step-by-step learning introduced by fun characters *
Includes: gold stickers to reward achievement
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John Murphys sock creations have been featured in such publications as the Washington Post & Readymade magazine. Crafters with a sense of humor a taste for the weird wacky & way-out & a hunger for the outrageous will find themselves captured by this wildly creative menagerie of sock monsters. Possessed of irresistible charm these creatures offer all the inspiration anyone needs to transform cast-off socks into wickedly funny toys. Theres Claude with his perplexed expression & tiny tail that stands at full attention. Jordans always on the prowl; hes got three eyes so nothing escapes him. & theres something really odd about Estelle. Maybe its her silly conical head balanced precariously on four tiny feet--or perhaps its just that shes always sticking out her bright red tongue. Great instructions & charming illustrations make it easy to bring these unique personalities to life. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club."" ...

Now with more than three million copies sold Oscar-winning filmmaker & political activist Michael Moores bestseller Stupid White Men" tells you everything you need to know about how the great & the good screw us over. It reveals
- among other things
- how President Bush stole an election aided only by his brother cousin & dads cronies electoral fraud & tame judges; how the rich stay rich while forcing the rest of us to live in economic fear; & how politicians have whored themselves to big business. Whether hes calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta calling on African-Americans to place whites-only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man " Stupid White Men" is Michael Moores Manifesto on Malfeasance & Mediocrity. A hilarious must-read for anyone who wants to know what the con is & how they get away with it " Stupid White Men" is only available uncensored because public pressure forced the original publishers to publish a book they felt was too hot to handle. Now its time to find out why. "A really great hilarious rollicking fantastic read". (" Newsnight Review"). " Caustic breakneck tell-it-like-it-is... Hes a genuine populist; a twenty-first-century pamphleteer". (" Observer"). " Furious & funny. A great book". (" Time Out"). " Hysterically funny. The angrier Moore gets the funnier he gets. Sensational". (" San Francisco Chronicle"). Author of international bestsellers " Stupid White Men" & " Dude Wheres My Country" Michael Moores 2002 film " Bowling for Columbine" won the Anniversary Prize at the Cannes Film Festival & the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary. His 2004 film " Fahrenheit 9-11" won the 2004 Palme d Or at the Cannes Film Festival & is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Released in 2007 Moores documentary " Sicko" focused on the American healthcare system was nominated for an Oscar."

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As a result of the heavy losses in armoured vehicles & tanks in particular on the Eastern Front the assault gun units played an increasingly vital role in supporting the beleaguered infantry & countering Allied armour The Stumgeschutz was one of the most numerously produced & effectively deployed of the German armoured vehicles. Total production of the Ausf G alone was close to 7000 vehicles; a further 1299 were equipped with the 10.5cm gun as self-propelled howitzers. This book reveals how the Sturmgeschutz provided the backbone of Germanys amoured forces in every theatre & on every front during the long fighting-retreat of the final years of the war. ...