The letters page of Old Git magazine continues to offer its readers an opportunity to ask & provide answers to the most pressing questions of our times. Questions such as: Would it help global warming if I left my fridge door open? Whats the riskiest game of risk ever played? If I fell down a disused mineshaft would Lassie really run & get help or just sit there licking his balls? Do Bats Have Bollocks? features a host of completely new & untrue questions & answers. With bags more rude jokes shaggy dog stories & the odd entry from a new bewildered editor whos wondering what the hell hes got himself into this book is every bit as laugh-out-loud funny as last years hugely successful volume Do Ants Have Arseholes? ...

This title is suitable for children aged up to 3 years old. Do cows sing? Do cows cuckoo? All I know is cows go MOO! Simple rhythmic & lots of fun this big brightly illustrated board book will have kids happily imitating all kinds of animal talk. For each creature including a sheep duck frog & cat a giant mouth flap lifts up to reveal a new animal sound that will surely inspire a symphony of baa-ing ribbiting & meowing. & at the end children can open two barnyard gates to see & say all the animal sounds again. ...

People have a great curiosity & many misunderstandings about how dogs think act & perceive the world. They are also curious about the social & emotional lives of dogs. They wonder whether dogs dream if they recognise themselves in the mirror or understand what theyre seeing on television or if they are more intelligent than cats. Stanley Coren brings decades of scientific research on dogs to bear in his unprecedented foray into the inner lives of our canine companions dispelling many common myths in the process. In a conversational format with illustrations Coren answers Approx. 75 questions often asked of him during his nearly fifty-year career as a dog researcher combining the authority of an expert with the engaging delivery of a guest at a cocktail party. ...

How Design CAN CHANGE the World Today everyone is a designer. & the future of civilization is our common design project. How does design help choose our leaders? Why do we really have an environmental crisis? How can accessible design broaden your audience? Why does the U.S. economy now struggle to compete? How has design thinking added to the bottom line of the worlds most valuable companies? Design matters. As it never has before. Design creates so much of what we see what we use & what we experience. In a time of unprecedented environmental social & economic crises designers must now choose what their young profession will be about: deploying weapons of mass deception
- or helping repair the world. Do Good Design is a call to action: This book alerts us to the role design plays in persuading global audiences to fulfill invented needs. The book then outlines a sustainable approach to both the practice & the consumption of design. All professionals will be inspired by the message of how we can feel better & do better while holding onto our principles. In a time when anything has become possible design thinking offers a way forward for us all. What will you do?
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I believe that one defines oneself by re-invention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. Using his trademark wit insight & verve hardcore punk rock icon Henry Rollins interviews Jerry Lee Lewis John Lee Hooker & Isaac Hayes

Includes:: articles on Roky Erickson & David Lee Roth & reproduces his 1991 Lollapalooza tour journals.

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In simple & reassuring terms this entertaining book explores for young children aged Approx. 3-6 what it is like to start school & how the reader might feel about it. Discussion boxes offer an adult opportunities to discuss the issues directly with their child audience. Charmingly clear illustrations give readers immediate access to complex situations & feelings & provide further stimulus for discussion. Notes for teachers & parents plus suggested further resources help adults to make the most of the learning opportunities inherent in the book. Written by a trained psychotherapist journalist & parent & illustrated by a very experienced children's book artist this is part of an acclaimed & successful series of picture-book non-fiction for Early Years. ...

Ever wondered.. . Why are slugs so slimy? Why does your skin go wrinkly in the bath? How clever is your right foot? What is the best thing to do if you fall into quicksand? & do igloos have loos? Mitchell Symons knows the answers.. .and now you will too! ...

A FAMILY HELD TOGETHER BY LIES BUT ABOUT TO BE TORN APART BY A DEVASTATING SECRET.. . When her teenage son Robbies drink is spiked Olivia Somers is devastated. She has spent her adult life trying to protect people & keep them safe
- not only as a mother but also in her chosen profession as a doctor. So she tries to put it down to a horrible accident in spite of the evidence suggesting malicious intent & simply hopes no-one tries to endanger those she loves again. But someone from the past is after revenge. Someone closer to her family than she could possibly realise. Someone who will stop at nothing until they get the vengeance they crave. & as she & her family come under increasing threat the oath that Olivia took when she first became a doctor
- to do no harm to others
- will be tested to its very limits.JULIE CORBINS GRIPPING THIRD NOVEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE IS PERFECT FOR FANS OF SOPHIE HANNAH & NICCI FRENCH.


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Abandoned tunnels derelict stations old trackbeds & much more; all are included in Do Not Alight Here" an entertaining & informative book that guides the reader through London's many remaining disused Underground & main line railway structures. They can be viewed in a series of 12 guided walks & short tube & train journeys devised & investigated by the author each of which takes in a sample of these forgotten & fascinating remains with most of the entries illustrated with recently taken colour photographs." ...

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" is the third compilation of readers answers to the questions in the Last Word column of " New Scientist" the worlds best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of " Does Anything Eat Wasps?" (2005) & the even more spectacularly successful " Why Dont Penguins Feet Freeze?" (2006) this latest collection

Includes:: a bumper crop of wise & wonderful answers never before seen in book form. As usual the simplest questions often have the most complex answers
- while some that seem the knottiest have very simple explanations. " New Scientist"s Last Word is regularly voted the magazines most popular section as it celebrates all questions
- the trivial idiosyncratic baffling & strange. This all-new & eagerly awaited selection of the best again presents popular science at its most entertaining & enlightening."



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