Guy Deutscher is that rare beast an academic who talks good sense about linguistics...he argues in a playful & provocative way that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think & just as important how we perceive the world
- Observer". Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? In " Through the Language Glass" acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today the answer to all these questions is
- yes. A delightful amalgam of cultural history & popular science this book explores some of the most fascinating & controversial questions about language culture & the human mind."

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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics. ' It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.' In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre & nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror & enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty Through the Looking Glass follows Alice on her curious adventure & shows Carroll's great skill at creating an imaginary world full of the fantastical & extraordinary. ...

Alice is back in her room stroking her cats
- but not for long. Slipping through the Looking-Glass she meets another wild collection
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This is a new edition of master illustrator Anthony Brownes first book full of visual surprises. Toby is fed up. Fed up with books fed up with toys fed up with everything. But when he walks through the magic mirror things are amazingly different. Toby can hardly believe his eyes! Anthony Brownes first book is full of the surreal details & visual humour that have made him one of the worlds most popular & acclaimed picture book artists. ...

Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrongs memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960s. With gentleness & honesty Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision at the age of seventeen to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training she encountered a frightening & oppressive world fossilized by tradition which moulded isolated & pushed her to the limit of what she could endure. ...

In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British French & American writers who have meant most to him as well as the cross-currents & overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq Julian Barnes considers what fiction is & what it can do. As he writes in his preface ' Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is how we live it what it might be for how we enjoy & value it & how we lose it.' When his Letters from London" came out in 1995 the " Financial Times" called him "our best essayist". This wise & deft collection confirms that judgment." ...

With his infectious energy & charisma Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves
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This book sheds new light on the extraordinary healing potential of past life therapy. It builds on the pioneering work Dr Weiss described in his first book the worldwide bestseller Many Lives Many Masters. Authoritative accessible & based on extensive clinical experience. Uses vivid past life case studies to show the many benefits of regression therapy
- how it can overcome problems of obesity & substance abuse create more loving relationships uncover hidden talents open the mind to mystical experiences & much more.

Includes:: techniques to explore past lives & access higher wisdom. Compelling & thought provoking Through Time Into Healing shows us how to help ourselves lead healthy productive lives secure in the knowledge that death is not the final word & that healing & wholeness are inside us.


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When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class & rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior he must enter the world of suburbia & marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringing Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia he must either terrorise blackmail & potentially kill an entire street of his tenants or attempt to find his unknown & elusive father in order to inherit the estate. However with the belief that he was dropped into his mother's arms by a stork killing a street of people may be the wiser option for the socially inept young man. He is also under mounting pressure as it may all be in vain if his gold-digging mother-in-law has her way. Now the wife of Flawse Senior she has decided that if Lockhart's wealthy grandfather can't have the decency to die on his own she will take matters into her own hands. ...

It's the May Day holiday & a fair has come to the village of Thrush Green. The residents of Thrush Green all have their own views about the fair. For young Paul just recovered from an illness it is a joy to be allowed out to play at the fair; for Ruth who returned to the soothing tranquillity of Thrush Green nursing a broken heart the fair is a welcome distraction from her own problems. & for Dr Lovell the fair brings an unexpected new patient. Then there is Mrs Curdle the long-standing matriarch of the fair. For her this year's visit to Thrush Green awakens mixed feelings & a difficulty she doesn't want to face... Full of Miss Read's inimitable charm & humour THRUSH GREEN is a wonderful introduction to this bestselling series. ...