Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social & Ecological Concerns" provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social & natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal & metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size & isolation limits their recreational capacity & makes them ecologically less valuable than large city & county parks. This manual is arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions contradictions or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks natural systems & human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design." ...

Sound is just as crucial an aspect to your animation as your visuals. Whether you're looking to create a score ambient noise dialog or a complete soundtrack you'll need sound for your piece. This nuts-&-bolts guide to sound design for animation will explain to you the theory & workings behind sound for image & provide an overview of the stems & production path to help you create your soundtrack. Follow the sound design process along animated shorts & learn how to use the tools & techniques of the trade. Enhance your piece & learn how to design sound for animation. ...

Ornamental grasses are the ultimate success story as garden plants & tick all the boxes for today's gardeners. As well as providing a glorious visual impact with their swaying stems & feathery seedheads they also provide a dynamic sense of movement & calming background rustle as the wind catches their leaves. On top of all this they are easy to care for provide excellent wildlife habitats & are truly sustainable if you plant the right one in the right place. ...

A touching comedy from a Carnegie Medal winning author is given a brand new package. George's birthday is as uneventful as ever. Until he opens his grandad's present & finds some aftershave & cufflinks from 1982. George's mum wants to recycle it but for some strange reason George wants to hang on to it. & when he opens it some very strange things start happening
- Hilarious comedy from Carnegie Medal winner Frank Cottrell Boyce. With a reading age of 8 it is particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers.
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Give in to desire... Kara Crawford doesn't expect to find anyone who can fulfill her dark fantasies until she experiences one of the most incredible nights of her life with a man she's always admired from afar. Dante De Matteo may be a master of control now but his troubled past means he won't let anyone ever get too close...A dark sensual romantic novel perfect for fans of E.L. James from the acclaimed author of The Dark Garden" & " Pleasure's Edge"." ...

For hundreds of years the stone heads of Easter Island have sat perched on their platforms gazing mystically out over land & sea. Now the impressive Pacific site can be viewed on a desktop near you! This kit comes with four miniature replicas of stone heads of Easter Island in various shapes & sizes. One can stare back above a computer screen like a micromanaging boss while others act as paperweights or mesmerize co-workers to turn away each time they reach for your candy dish. Those heads will never let a cubicle or office feel lonely again! ...

Patrick OBrians Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame Captain Jack Aubrey & his friend & surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful & dangerous spy -- & a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful & dramatic OBrian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty & terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jacks ship under-manned & out-gunned is the quarry not the hunter. ...

Self-satisfied delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But then a chance meeting with a man he believes to be his double reveals a frightening 'split' in Hermann's nature. With shattering immediacy Nabokov takes us into a deranged world one full of an impudent startling humour dominated by the egotistical & scornful figure of a murderer who thinks himself an artist. ...

Ten-year-old twins Kirsty & David Murray love their crofting life in the north of Scotl&. They collect shellfish milk the cows & help their father grow oats & vegetables. Then one day the Countesss men come & burn their house saying they must leave. The family travel across Scotland to Glasgow. City life is dirty & overcrowded & work in the mills is hard & dangerous. The chance comes to join a ship sailing for Hudson Bay in Canada & once again they start a long perilous journey. Will they survive the treacherous Atlantic crossing & what will they find in the strange new land? Kathleen Fidler had a gift for bringing characters from history to life for todays children. The Desperate Journey is her best-known story a true Scottish classic whose thrilling plot will keep children gripped from start to end. ...

In 1963 the fast-moving suspenseful serial The Desperate People kept TV audiences hooked as they tried to piece together the clues to Rex Holts mysterious death. Now in this exciting novelisation the truth is revealed... Rex Holt
- a nice lad carefree brimming with over-confidence
- is found dead in a hotel room out in the country. It seems as though he has committed suicide. But Philip Holt is convinced that his brother has been murdered; & his conviction brings him up against those who cheat who rob who go to the utmost lengths to achieve their aim
- the desperate people to whom murder is one of the norms of life. Full of his trademark ingenious plotting & with red herrings aplenty this classic crime novel will appeal to all fans of Paul Temple.


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