Join a dumb dog a flea-ridden cat & a duck with no sense of direction in this fantastic collection of stories from Jonathan Long & Korky Paul. The stories are told in rhyme with many spreads featuring comic-strip styling & are perfect for reading aloud & sharing. Three entertaining escapades are here for young animal lovers to enjoy in one bright & beautiful book. ...

A father & daughter discover the joys of his crazy hair in this brilliant picture book. Bonnie tries to tame her father's hair but to no avail as birds & beasts of every type jostle for space amongst the curls & tresses of this hirsute book. A warm & funny conversational text combine beautifully with Dave Mc Kean's edgy & dramatic illustrations to make this another perfect picture book by Gaiman & Mc Kean. ...

On June 25 1876 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode towards the banks of the Little Bighorn where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great war leaders would soon become forever linked: Crazy Horse leader of the Oglala Sioux & General George Armstrong Custer. This masterly dual biography tells the epic story of the lives of these two men: both were fighters of legendary daring both became honoured leaders in their societies when still astonishingly young & both died when close to the supreme political heights. Yet they
- like the nations they represented
- were as different as day & night. Custer had won his spurs in the American Civil War; his watchword was To promotion
- or death! & his restless ambition characterized a white nation in search of expansion & progress. Crazy Horse fought for a nomadic way of life fast yielding before the buffalo-hunters & the incursions of the white man. The Great Plains of North America provided the stage
- & the prize.



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This colourful & entertaining book the first comprehensive history of drag racing in the UK is a must for all fans of this exciting sport. Dramatically illustrated it traces the roots of drag racing from its UK sprinting & American speed trial & hot-rodding origins in the early 1900s moving on to the landmark opening of Santa Pod in 1966 through the boom periods of the 1970s & 1980s & finishing with the sports rejuvenation in recent years. Meticulously researched this book features many historic photographs & a wealth of first-hand memories from the leading protagonists. ...

Beyonce Knowles first rose to fame as lead singer of Destinys Child one of the most successful girl groups of all time. Since striking out on her own as a solo artist in 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album Dangerously in Love Knowles career has gone from strength to strength. This biography tells the full story of a fantastically talented artist detailing the ups & downs of her early career with Destinys Child the groups success & disbandment her move into the solo spotlight & the commercial & critical acclaim that has followed. The book also examines key events in Beyonces personal life A--including her marriage to hip-hop entrepreneur Jay-Z. ...

It is well known that US culture is a dominant force & its exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a world-wide phenomenon. But it is possible that its most troubling export has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us" Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of US culture has been the bulldozing of the human psyche itself: it is in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments & modern theories of the human psyche. It exports psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that its biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering & stigma of mental illness. It categorises disorders thereby defining mental illness & health & then parades these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world. The outcome of these efforts is just now coming to light: It turns out that the US has not only been changing the way the world talks about & treats mental illness
- it has been changing the mental illnesses themselves. For millennia local beliefs in different cultures have shaped the experience of mental illness into endless varieties. " Crazy Like Us" documents how American interventions have discounted & worked to change those indigenous beliefs often at a dizzying rate. Over the last decades mental illnesses popularized in America have been spreading across the globe with the speed of contagious diseases. Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home the unsettling conclusion that the virus is the US. As Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses are introduced it is in fact spreading the diseases. In post-tsunami Sri Lanka Watters reports on the Western trauma counselors who in their rush to help inadvertently trampled local expressions of grief suffering & healing. In Hong Kong he retraces the last steps of the teenager whose death sparked an epidemic of the American version of anorexia nervosa. Watters reveals the truth about a multi-million-dollar campaign by one of the worlds biggest drug companies to change the Japanese experience of depression
- literally marketing the disease along with the drug. But this book is not just about the damage the US has caused abroad he also examines how US culture constantly shapes & sometimes creates the mental illnesses of our time. By setting aside its role as the worlds therapist the US may come to accept that it has as much to learn from other cultures beliefs about the mind as it has to teach."

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GBP55 000 & a 520i with alloy wheels at 28
- that's success. A high-flying executive to all appearances happily married with a
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Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum" is packed with all sorts of poems & rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes action rhymes noisy rhymes & more thoughtful pieces too. A real joy. Noisy Garden If tigerlilies & dandelions growled & cowslips mooed & dogroses howled & snapdragons roared & catmint miaowed My garden would be extremely loud." ...

Your One-Stop Source for Crazy Quilting Know-How From Victorian quilts to contemporary works of art crazy quilting has evolved into a beautiful mixture of piecing embroidery & fabric techniques. Crazy Quilting: The Complete Guide tells you everything you need to know to create your own beautiful heirloom crazy quilts including: 10 different methods for piecing More than 100 embroidery stitches for ribbons flosses & threads Techniques for dyeing painting stamping printing & embroidering on silk cotton rayon wool & linen Instructions for adding buttons beads tassels cording & other dimensional embellishments Tips for finishing your quilts Whether you are just getting started or have been quilting for years Crazy Quilting: The Complete Guide is guaranteed to be the most crazy quilting resource you turn to the most. ...