Charlie Chaplin grew up in & around the music hall. His parents aunt & their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage & Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence shaping his style of acting & the films he made most famously Limelight which tells the story of a failing variety performer & which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers lives were ruined when their audience turned against them & he was relieved to exchange the stresses of live performance for screen comedy. Barry Anthony here tells the story of the lives & careers of Chaplins family & their music-hall circle
- from dashing Eva Lester to the great Fred Karno & from Chaplins parents Hannah Hill & Charles Chaplin to The Great Calvero himself. He reveals the difficult & often-tragic lives of Londons variety community in the late-Victorian & Edwardian years a time of great change in the music hall & entertainment scene & in doing so sheds important new light on the inspiration behind Chaplins genius providing a fascinatingly fresh perspective on this popular cultural icon of the twentieth century.
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The long-established galactic order is passing. The Honoured Matres ruthless & all-conquering have destroyed the planet Dune. In opposition hard-pressed but still fighting back the Bene Gesserit sisterhood co-ordinate their resistance from their as-yet undiscovered home world Chapter House. Now as a new Scattering is planned they still have one carefully nurtured asset: the sandworms offspring of the only giant worm salvaged from Dune. Chapter House is to about to turn into a barren wasteland: Chapter House will be the new Dune. ...

Character Cake Toppers: Learn how to make amazing fondant cake topper designs with over 65 fun ideas for sugar characters bases & accessories. Whether its a pirate with his treasure chest & parrot or a kitten with a comfy cushion & a ball of yarn to play with each cake topper design has three unique features for you to make
- use these individually or mix & match from different designs to create your own unique cake toppers! Basic cake decorating techniques are explained with clear illustrated step-by-step instructions so everyone can make fun cake toppers for birthdays weddings & any occasion! From Maisie Parrish author of the bestselling Fun & Original series!
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The great game of charades has been redesigned for kids from 4 years old & upward to play & enjoy. Children can have fun looking at the cards & acting out things such as dogs chickens trains & acting out things such as opening a present & frying a pancake. There is great fun as the whole family try to guess before the egg timer runs out. Requires 3 or more players. Carries EU Toy Safety Directive not suitable for children under 4 years ...

Charcuterie
- a culinary specialty that originally referred to the creation of pork products such as salami sausages & prosciutto
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Welcome to the Cretaceous! This prehistoric world is pretty amazing as Jamie & Tom discover when they follow the fossilized footprints & end up in a land of real-life dinosaurs. Together with their little dinosaur friend Wanna the boys set off to explore the Cretaceous. They spy a triceratops but know they have nothing to fear
- after all this giant beast is a herbivore. But when there are lots of triceratops & theyre spooked by something its best not to get in their way.. .as the boys discover when they end up in the middle of a triceratops charge! This is the second book in the hugely popular Dinosaur Cove series which has now sold over a million copies. This new edition

Includes:: a set of Cretaceous collector cards.


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When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father hes looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he & his friend Tom discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints it takes them to another world.. .a world of dinosaurs. Jamie & Tom return to their secret dinosaur world & find their friend Wanna the Wannanosaurus waiting for them. They spot what looks like a village in the distance & set off to investigate. On the way they meet a herd of Triceratops & it seems the only way to avoid being trampled is to hitch a ride on their backs. But as they approach the village the boys realize too late that what they thought were huts are in fact termite hills. With insects swarming all over them the Triceratops charge! Can the boys hang on? Will they fall under the feet of the giant dinosaurs? & how can they get away from the huge biting termites? ...

September AD 80. Flavia & her friends go to Rome to celebrate the Festival of Jupiter at Senator Cornixs town house. When a famous racehorse goes missing Nubia sets out to recover it. The four friends find themselves caught up in a plot against one of the rival factions the Greens. Who is trying to sabotage the charioteers? Could it be an inside job or someone with a grudge from long ago? & how many men & horses will die before the killer is caught? ...

An expert in the fields of charisma & leadership Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured at Stanford Yale Harvard MIT & the United Nations. A frequent keynote speaker & executive coach to the leadership of major companies she helps people increase their ability to influence persuade & inspire others. In The Charisma Myth" Fox Cabane breaks charisma down into its fundamental components revealing the secrets to what charisma really is & how it works. From a base of thorough behavioral science Fox Cabane extracts practical tools for business giving you the charisma-enhancing techniques she originally developed for Harvard & MIT." ...

In The Charisma Myth Olivia Fox Cabane provides powerful advice to make absolutely anyone more charismatic. What if charisma could be taught? Charisma can be a huge asset if you're applying for a job improving your relationships or leading other people. The Charisma Myth shows you how to become more influential more persuasive & more inspiring. Soon you'll be able to move through a room & have people say: ' Wow who's that?' Many people believe that charisma is unchangeable
- you either have it or you don't. But that's simply not true. This groundbreaking bestselling book reveals how charismatic behaviour can be learned by anyone. Olivia Fox Cabane helps some of the world's best-known people become more charismatic. Here she breaks charisma down into its fundamental components revealing the secrets to how it works. Improving your charisma doesn't mean transforming your personality: it's about adopting a series of practices that suit you. So what are you waiting for? Charisma is not a gift it's a tool. Cabane makes a big promise with this book & delivers on it". (Seth Godin). " Until I encountered Olivia Fox Cabane I'd naively believed charisma was an intangible magical aura.. .around a couple of hours can transform a reasonably personable person into someone magnetic". (Sunday Telegraph). " If you are interested in increasing your ability to be charismatic this book will give you direct skills to use". (Psychology Today). Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured at Harvard Yale Stanford MIT & the United Nations. She is a frequent keynote speaker & executive coach to the leadership of Fortune 500 companies. From a base of thorough behavioural science Cabane extracts the most practical tools for business giving her clients techniques she originally developed for Harvard & MIT. She has been featured in media such as Forbes The New York Times Business Week & The Wall Street Journal."
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