A presumptuous bear imposing on a coachful of ladies how to behave in the British Museum the dangers of dallying with a black-eyed girl & the Royal Navys inaugural biscuit machine are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox & contained in his Fragmenta. At ninety-four volumes Coxs scrapbook has to be one of the largest collections of journalistic ephemera ever. For sixty years during the late eighteenth & early nineteenth centuries he accumulated articles on everything from duels to playhouses & foreign travel to warfare. Following on from the success of the first volume Simon Murphy has selected more bizarre stories to create another delightful historical miscellany which will intrigue & amuse. ...

Dogs have masters cats have staff. Dogs come when called but cats take a message & get back to you! Angela Tillsworthy's father was wheelchair bound. He was blind & deaf but still had a sense of feel & a very alert & active mind. Sitting in a wheelchair day after day put him in a perpetual state of mental torture until one day her cat jumped up into his lap & put a permanent smile on his face. They became inseparable. Angela came to realise that the therapeutic power of cats had been considerably underestimated until now. She formed a company named it Cozy Cats Cottage plc & employed six cats of varying temperaments & breeds. The cats were then sent to various establishments where young or old needed specialist care. Meet Buckingham Lily Dexter Miss Pretty TC & Bathsheba all star employees who find themselves in many weird & wonderful situations throughout the story which are all mostly inspired by personal experience. This sincere & heartwarming adventure is beautifully illustrated by talented artist Kiran Ahmad & will appeal to animal lovers everywhere. ...

The Clangers are back in town. This adorable character from the classic 70&8217;s TV show is now available as a fully microwavable softy. Simply warm it in a microwave for two minutes to release the wonderfully soothing lavender aroma. This safe alternative to a hot water bottle will help soothe comfort & relax. Popular for all ages. ...

Girls love hair & every pretty thing that can be done with it-and parents spend hours maintaining & styling it for them. SO PRETTY gives insiders info to make this job faster & easier for both parent & daughter. Starting with Hair ID profiles the book recommends the products methods & tools best for each hair type from curly to straight. Expert tips include the best cut for a girls hair type & face instant fixes for bad hair days no-cry haircuts for babies & how to make hair perfect for pictures. Girls themselves will love the fresh photographs of each style-from five-minute dos for rushed school mornings to extra-special looks for weddings & holidays. ...

BPP Learning Media offers a range of learning materials for students working to complete the CPA Programme. Our Passcards Revision Kits & i-Pass products complement the structure & content of the CPA syllabus help focus your revision & hone your exam technique. ...

' Crime writing of the very highest order! Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The Times There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud -- nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect the unexpected. With the unexpected being Richard behind bars Kate seems to be the obvious choice to look after his eight-year-old son -- who proves even more troublesome than his father. Kate finds herself dragged into a world of drug traffickers child pornographers fraudsters & violent gangland enforcers! bringing her face to face with death in the most terrifying investigation of her career. ...

The bastard offspring of cocaine crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade Britain's inner cities were in the midst of a crack epidemic with users being responsible for a massive proportion of crime -- 95% of street shootings are crack-related for example. Communities especially in London were crying out for help but there were only two specialist units in the whole of the capital. One of them Haringey Drugs Squad embarked on a war on crack aiming to shut down all 100 crack houses in their borough in one year. Amazingly they did it. Even more amazingly in the subsequent twelve months all black-on-black killings in Haringey ceased & burglaries & muggings fell massively. Narrated by the leader of this team CRACK HOUSE describes in heart-stopping fashion a series of breathtaking raids as well as arrests beatings stabbings & shootings. Featuring a colourful team of family men who regularly faced death CRACK HOUSE takes the reader into the dark heart of our cities' most violent & terrifying places showing how the war on drugs can only be won by constant & forceful vigilance. ...

Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed
- 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in
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Perfect Parker Fadley isnt so perfect anymore. Shes quit the cheerleading squad shes dumped her perfect boyfriend & shes failing school. Her parents are on a constant suicide watch & her counselors think shes playing games...but what they dont know the real reason for this whole mess isnt something she can say out loud. It isnt even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened & it just might be her fault. ...

Meet Dirty Bertie
- a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! He's the world's grubbiest trouble-magnet & he's full to bursting
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