This book has large pictures for looking & talking surrounded by small labelled pictures of 1000 of the most familiar things to build up & practice German vo cabulary. This is backed up by an alphabetical word list wit h pronunciation guides. ' ...

These are three new additions to the best-selling First Thousand Words Language" series. These books are an excellent way to encourage language learning for beginners. Each book contains an online pronunciation guide through the Usborne Quicklinks website. With 1000 everyday words combined with pictures this is a valuable vocabulary building tool for young children." ...

A fresh bright new edition in the best-selling First Thousand Words series. Stephen Cartwrights delightful pictures encourage direct association of the Russian word with the object ensuring effective learning for language beginners of all ages. Readers can now find out how to pronounce every Russian word in this book by listening to a native Russian speaker on the Usborne Quicklinks website. ...

This book has large pictures for looking & talking surrounded by small labelled pictures of 1000 of the most familiar things to build up & practice Spanish v ocabulary. This is backed up by an alphabetical word list wi th pronunciation guides. ...

Con men & killers aliens & zombies priests & soldiers
- just some of the characters that kill & thrill in this compelling collection
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1899 China. The Mandarins are becoming troublesome again & there are rumors that attacks will soon begin on British trade missions & legations. Captain David Blackwoodof the Royal Marines received a VC in the bloody battle for Benin Africa but is now being packed off to this apparent backwater. But there are plenty of troubles in store for Blackwood in the shape of an errant nephew & a beautiful German Countess who insists he personally escort her up river on a small steamer into the heart of the country. China is a sleeping tiger that will soon awake when the Boxer Rebellion erupts into bloody war in 1900. True to their motto the Royal marines are the first to land
- & the last to leave. This is the second novel in the Blackwood saga spanning 150 years in the history of a great seafaring family & the tradition in which they served.
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The recorded history of the diving industry has been fundamentally corrupted over the past 150 years. The result is a complete misunderstanding of how it all began. Who invented the diving helmet? Refer to any encyclopaedia or history book & the answer you will find will almost certainly be wrong. The First Treasure Divers reveals the true & fascinating story. It blows away the myths & deliberate misinformation that have crept into the historical record. Thanks to the painstaking research the author has carried out over the past 25 years the falsehoods are peeled away to unveil the true definitive account. It follows the lives of two brothers as they struggle to turn their newly-invented diving helmet to advantage & how they wrestle with apathetic & even hostile authorities for recognition of their invention. It thunders through sunken treasure adventures to the heroism & horrors of the Crimean War. The impact of the invention of the diving helmet is immense. In the 180 years since the Deane brothers carried out the first ever commercial helmet dive off the Isle of Wight on the south coast of England the diving business has expanded to a global industry with an annual turnover in excess of $3 000 000 000. From another point of view the life-support technology developed in the diving industry provided the knowledge for keeping the pioneering high altitude pilots alive which in turn evolved into the life-support systems of the astronauts who walked on the moon. ...

His first wife was everything youre not. But was she everything she seemed? Lily a young woman left alone in the world on the death of her grandparents finds purpose when she befriends Harry Summers a grieving widower whose wife Sarah recently took her own life in Barcelona. The pair fall in love & Lily finally finds the security she has never had. But Lilys life takes a darker turn when she realises there may be more to Sarahs death than meets the eye. Anxious to find the truth before she marries her beloved Harry Lily sets off to Barcelona in search of answers. What she discovers is more shocking than she could ever have imagined... ...

Teach your baby first words with touch & feel textures Stroke tickle & touch the textures together with your baby & help them discover some first words. Let their little hands roam & feel how bumpy the strawberry is but how soft & shiny the flowers feel. Theyll learn as you play. Twinkly bumpy scaly silky sandy sticky & shiny textures in a chunky package: perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore & tiny minds to develop. ...

This book is bursting with quizzes games & rhymes to help 3-4 year olds practise & develop first word recognition in a playful & stimulating way. * Quizzes games & rhymes to make step-by-step learning playful & stimulating * Parents' tips to enable you to steer your child successfully through the new & challenging concepts * Further activities provide a wealth of cheerful inexpensive ideas for incorporating learning skills into everyday life. ...