This is the hilarious clever & much-anticipated follow-up to the breakout hit The Strange Case of Origami Yoda". Tom is an exciting new voice in middle grade fiction. His spot-on portrayals of secondary school & the dynamics that exist between kids are realistic & humorous. Hes definitely a rising author to watch. This is the fantastic book for boys & reluctant readers especially. Publishers " Weekly" said Toms writing included spot-on boy banter "100 Scope Notes" called Yoda reluctant reader platinum & " Fuse No. 8" said Its been a while since I found a book that can truly be called genderless (in that it has wide appeal across the board). Lucasfilm is enthusiastically back on board with us for the second book. It

Includes:: instructions for making your own original origami Darth Vader. Darth Vader is the most popular " Star Wars" character their Mickey Mouse according to Lucas."

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This is the hilarious clever & much-anticipated follow-up to the breakout hit The Strange Case of Origami Yoda". Tom is an exciting new voice in middle grade fiction. His spot-on portrayals of secondary school & the dynamics that exist between kids are realistic & humorous. He's definitely a rising author to watch. This is the fantastic book for boys & reluctant readers especially. " Publishers Weekly" said Tom's writing included 'spot-on boy banter' "100 Scope Notes" called Yoda 'reluctant reader platinum' & " Fuse Number 8" said ' It's been a while since I found a book that can truly be called genderless (in that it has wide appeal across the board)'. " Lucasfilm" is enthusiastically back on board with us for the second book. It

Includes:: instructions for making your own original origami Darth Vader. Darth Vader is the most popular " Star Wars" character their ' Mickey Mouse' according to Lucas."

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What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if ' Luke I am your father' was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious & sweet comic reimagining Darth Vader is a dad like any other- except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith. Celebrated comic artist Jeffrey Brown's delightful comics give a fresh twist to classic Star Wars TM moments presenting the trials & joys of parenting through the lens of a galaxy far far away including lightsaber baseball practice using the Force to raid the cookie jar & Take Your Child to Work Day on the Death Star (' Er he looks just like you Lord Vadern & the special bond shared between any father & son. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

New Naturalist Dartmoor explores the complex & fascinating history of one of southern Englands greatest National Parks an area of enormous interest to naturalists & tourists alike. Dartmoor is said to be the loneliest wilderness in Engl&. This has been said more often of Dartmoor than any other part of our country. Traditionally in the world of fiction as well as that of fact Dartmoor has been renowned as a vast & empty moorland area the property of nature rather than of man. It has always been the publics idea of a lonely place. Not many generations ago it was regarded with a certain amount of awe & nowadays it is one of our most important centres of recreation an island in upland England of abundant interest to the naturalist. In 1951 it became a National Park one of the first of several places that have been so designated in Great Britain helping to conserve & promote both its beauty & cultural heritage. Spanning miles of open moorland whilst also hiding small secluded river valleys rare plants & endangered birds Dartmoor is a place of variety & has evolved in the publics mind from a forbidding place to that of romance & mystery. In the latest addition to the long-running New Naturalist series Ian Mercer sets out to explore every aspect of this important area of southern Devon. Focusing not only on its extensive history & physical landscape but also its cultural place within Great Britain this is both a comprehensive & engaging look at the wild & rugged landscape that has inspired so many poets painters & musicians over countless centuries. ...

This book provides a new perspective on a striking & famous feature of the English landscape Dartmoor. In the middle ages intensive practical use was made from its resources. Its extensive moorlands provided summer pasture for thousands of cattle from the Devon lowlands which flowed in a seasonal tide up in the spring & down in the autumn. How was the grazing organised when so many of the people who wished to use it were peasant farmers living many miles from the moor? In the later middle ages the Crown manorial lords & Dartmoor farmers provided a service of keeping the cattle gaining substantial revenues from the cattle owners who were pleased to pay for the care & feed of their animals. By contrast in the early middle ages Harold Foxs evidence shows that the lowlanders migrated with their cattle & lived on the moors in the summer. This book describes for the first time the social organisation & farming practices associated with this annual transfer of livestock. It presents evidence for a previously unsuspected Anglo-Saxon pattern of transhumance. Harold Fox died before completing the final stages of the book. Devonian by origin he researched many aspects of the countys history. Written with elegance & authority the book distills a lifetimes work in original medieval records & draws together evidence from a remarkable variety of sources. Foxs colleagues at Leicesters Centre for English Local History: Matthew Tompkins & Christopher Dyer have seen the book through to publication. ...

With five previous books & more than 1.5 million copies sold The Darwin Awards" is a pop culture phenomenon. Honoring those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it " The Darwin Awards" countdown (to human extinction) is well under way
- & we wont exit this mortal coil without one last laugh. In " The Darwin Awards: Countdown to Extinction" readers will find all-new stories chronicling humans who step onto the lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder including: nine nos with power tools; eight ways to incinerate yourself; seven safety warnings you should not ignore; six romance tips for safe sex... Featuring illustrations & brilliant science-of-evolution essays this latest volume of " The Darwin Awards" enumerates just how uncommon common sense still is."
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The God Delusion" is a clarion call to the faithless the waverers & even firm religious believers to follow the author into radical atheism not merely as a private conviction but as a public profession. Wouldnt humankind be better off without religion he asks. John Cornwells " Darwins Angel" is not so much a combative repudiation of Dawkins arguments as a playful conversation with them posing alternative view-points exposing lapses in logic & errors of fact from the vantage point of a friendly Guardian Angel." ...

Ten years ago Darwins Black Box" launched the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design beyond Darwinian randomness. Today the movement is stronger than ever & the book is a classic & an international bestseller. At last Michael Behe has updated the book with a major new afterword on the state of the debate. The Intelligent Design movement was born when a handful of scientists realized that nature exhibits characteristics that could not have evolved by random mutation. Prominent among them was Michael Behe a microbiologist working in a field that Darwin could not even have imagined existing. Microbiology has discovered staggering complexity at the cellular level of life & during his research Behe made a stunning discovery: some parts of life are irreducibly complex. They cannot function without all of their parts. Yet step-by-step genetic mutations would never produce all of those parts together at once. Some parts of the biological world must have been designed. From one end of the spectrum to the other " Darwins Black Box" has established itself as the key text in the intelligent design movement the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it or not." ...

Roundworld is in trouble again & this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator
- they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now its all gone wrong
- Victorian England has stagnated & the pace of progress would embarrass a limping snail. Unless something drastic is done there wont be time for anyone to invent spaceflight & the human race will be turned into ice-pops. Why though did history come adrift? Was it Sir Arthur Nightingales dismal book about natural selection? Or was it the devastating response by an obscure country vicar called Charles Darwin whose bestselling Theology of Species" made it impossible to refute the divine design of living creatures? Either way its no easy task to change history as the wizards discover to their cost. Can the God of Evolution come to humanitys aid & ensure Darwin writes a very different book? & who stopped him writing it in the first place? " The hard science is as gripping as the fiction."
- " The Times." " Entertaining & illuminating."
- " New Scientist.""



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