Fiddle Time Starters is a great beginner book for the budding violinist. Carefully paced to suit young learners it supports players through the important early stages step by step-from how to hold your instrument & bow through basic notation to exciting pieces in a range of styles. With plenty of entertaining illustrations & a CD to play along to with Fiddle Time Starters it really is fun to play! ...

FIDEL & CHE: A REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIP is the story of the remarkable friendship between two iconic figures. Not yet thirty Fidel Castro & Ernesto (Che) Guevara met in 1955 while both in exile in Mexico City. Guevara the Argentine doctor plagued by asthma had reached the end of the travels he began by motorcycle several years before. Fidel Castro peasants son scholar & rebel had just fled Cuba fearing for his life. Over the next twelve years until Guevaras death in 1967 their journey together would take them from the safe houses of Mexicos political underground to war in the Cuban mountains & ultimately into the heart of the Cold War. Drawing on extensive research including declassified material & interviews with key figures in Havana Moscow & Washington Simon Reid-Henry uncovers for the first time the full story behind the central relationship of the Cuban revolution: their shared revolutionary ambitions their conflicting personalities the wilfulness that bound them together & the pressures that would tear them apart. FIDEL & CHE is set against the tide of revolution that swept across the world during the middle of the twentieth century. It is the story of two men who shared a common dream; who became friends comrades & brothers-in-arms; & who finally would make an epic choice between their friendship & their beliefs. ...

A book which gives scientific proof of the paranormal. Psychic activity remote viewing the power of prayer & homeopathy are all discussed in this book which The Ecologist called one of the most thought-provoking reads of the year & which has already gained a almost cult following. Sales Handles: * A highly readable scientific detective story which reveals how the Field a vast cobweb of energy connecting everything in the universe past & present is responsible for many of the most profound human mysteries How psychics can read the future & the past; how remote viewing works -- & how such techniques have been used by the CIA; how energy healing works; why homeopathy works & all sorts of other mysteries are explored by the frontier scientists Lynne Mc Taggart has interviewed. ...

The modern visitor to Devon travelling west into the region is greeted by a panorama of the high ground & rocky outcrops of Dartmoor. In a county renowned for its rolling hills Dartmoors high moors topped by granite tors preside over the massive folds of its peripheral valleys incised by the fast-moving moorland rivers & streams as they flow towards the hinterl&. Dartmoor was designated as one of Englands first National Parks in 1951. It is this natural beauty & tranquil rural landscape that initially attracts visitors but a fuller appreciation of this landscape is enhanced by knowledge of its cultural past. Dartmoor is southern Englands largest upland tract often promoted as Englands last wilderness. Nevertheless it is a maintained landscape. Its management began with traditional forms of hill farming & woodland management in the Neolithic & continues to the present day. The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor describes & narrates Dartmoors landscape history from 4000 BC to the present analysing & summarising archaeological & historical studies from the 19th century onwards. A brief section describes Dartmoors geological shape. Then its prehistoric settlement Romano-British organisation medieval character & early tin industry are described in turn. Next Dartmoors 19th- & 20th-century industrial landscape & heritage (tin copper silver-lead & China clay) & how they co-existed with traditional forms of upland farming are described. Subsidiary industries (peat gunpowder mills ice works & tramways) & the moors use for military training bring the narrative up to the present. A concluding summary assesses Dartmoors history & ponders its future. ...

Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon & grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful & evocative memoir she recounts her life within a loving extended family & small but close-knit community. From early memories of her father bringing home oranges during the war to the simple beauty of a field full of butterflies on a hot summer's day Rosemary's stunningly elegant narrative captures the love & losses hopes & struggles traditions & prejudices that bound her to her family & helped her adapt to a fast-changing world. Rosemary's story is a moving testament to a forgotten world & a rapidly disappearing way of life. ...

We are very proud (and a bit wary) to announce the publication of The Spiderwick Chronicles. But beware the faeries will use all their power to stop you from reading these books. Book 1 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory Simon & Jared get acquainted with their new home but find many unexpected things. It all starts when Jared Grace find their great uncles book Arthur Spiderwicks Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You." & realises that are not alone in their new house. Now the Grace kids want to tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them... Its up to you to spread the word about their discovery. But heed their warnings wear some red turn your clothes inside out
- all anti-faerie devices
- & get ready to enter a world that you never knew existed... Its closer than you think!"

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This is a completely revised & expanded edition of the international bestseller. If you met a werewolf in a forest at night would you be able to tell what he really was? Could you resist the dark charms of a vampire or the lure of a fallen angel? Seductive thrilling & often highly dangerous you may recognize these inhuman beings in books & movies
- but if you came across one in real life would you know how to escape their clutches? We have already been sucked in by vampires & eaten up by zombies & this year angels werewolves & demons of all kinds are poised to cast their spells over us. No self-respecting lover the otherworldly can afford to be without this indispensable guide which will help you navigate the shadowy realms of these subversive spirits & tell apart the mysterious from the mischievous; & the virtuous from the vengeful.
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost" is an investigation into loss losing & being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory & mapmaking Hitchcock movies & Renaissance painting Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Beautifully written this book combines memoir history & philosophy shedding glittering new light on the way we live now." ...

The ultimate breed resource this volume provides detailed descriptions of more that twenty goat breeds from the popular Nubian Pygmy & Boer to the rare & beautiful Golden Guernsey. Illustrated with 150 colour photographs this convenient easy-to-use field guide

Includes:: exhaustive information about behaviour characteristics breeding history as well as a glossary of caprine terms & a list of breed associations.

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Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species a total of 337
- all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field
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