Helliconia is a planet that due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring flourish in the Summer & then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle. In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe & understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact. Massive thoroughly researched minutely organised full of action pulp references & deep drama this is a classic trilogy. ...

The second book in the seventh series of the exciting adventure stories that are as gripping as a computer game! Great for boys with a huge collectability factor bolstered by the collectors' cards in the back of the books & links to an excellent interactive website. Tom & his companions face a new challenge in the mysterious land of Tavania. Raging forest fires are destroying all in their path. Tom knows a Beast is to blame but can he defeat Hellion a creature made entirely of flames & escape with his life...? Don't miss CONVOL THE COLD-BLOODED?BRUTE KRESTOR THE CRUSHING TERROR MADARA THE MIDNIGHT WARRIOR ELLIK THE LIGHTNING HORROR CARNIVORA THE WINGED SCAVENGER ...

Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones created by Google & the Open Handset Alliance. Its inside millions of cell phones & other mobile devices making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices. Getting started developing with Android is easy. You dont even need access to an Android phone just a computer where you can install the Android SDK & the phone emulator that comes with it. Within minutes Hello Android" will get you creating your first working application: Androids version of " Hello World." From there youll build up a more substantial example: an Android Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game youll learn about many aspects of Android programming such as creating user interfaces (including touch D-pad & keyboard input) building location-based services (including GPS & cell-tower triangulation) & working with sensors (harnessing the compass & the accelerometer). Youll also learn how to publish your applications to the Android Market. This third edition has been revised for Android 2.1 (Eclair MR1) & 2.0/2.0.1 (Eclair). It also covers Android 1.6 (Cupcake) & 1.5 (Donut). Every page & example was reviewed & updated for compatibility with the latest versions & streamlined based on reader feedback. Freshly added material covers the new multi-touch & live wallpaper programming interfaces in addition to best practices on supporting the wide variety of screen resolutions & Android versions in use today. If youd rather be coding than reading about coding this book is for you." ...

This title offers witty one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candy & sweets from the local store. Karen Tack & Alan Richardson show how to create funny scary & sophisticated masterpieces using common sweets & snack items. With these easy-to-follow techniques even the most kitchen-challenged cooks can: raise a big-top circus cupcake tier for a childs birthday; trot out a line of confectionery pupcakes for a dog fancier; serve sausage & pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fools Day; & bewitch trick-or-treaters with chilly ghost chocolate cupcakes a white cupcake Christmas wreath & Easter egg cupcakes. No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment is required. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliant photos is at least half the fun. ...

A tree stood quietly in the sunshine. A big brown bear stepped up. Hello!" he said very loudly. " Hello! Hello!" come little voices squeaky voices & deep-down voices from all over the tree. But when it begins to rain what do you think they say?" ...

14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBCs first ever broadcast & the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand & follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of economic depression war & austerity to the swinging Sixties & up to the digital era. Above all it celebrates the great the forgotten & the notorious voices of radio from the last nine decades & the programmes they made famous: Marion Cran in the 1920s who pioneered the first gardening programme; Lord Haw Haw whose sinister catchphrase Germany calling punctuated broadcasts throughout the Second World War; the Goons & Kenneth Horne comedy greats of the 1950s; John Peel Alan Freeman Kenny Everett & other heroes of Radio Caroline & the pirate stations; all the way up to Eddie Mair Fi Glover & Danny Baker the much-loved voices of today. The result is a wonderful blend of insight history & nostalgia that will appeal to radios many aficionados. ...

It's now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast & the British love affair with radio began. This book is a journey through that fascinating history & a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran who pioneered the first gardening programme in the 1920s; The Goons & Kenneth Horne comedy greats of the 1950s; John Peel Alan Freeman Kenny Everett & other heroes of the pirate stations; all the way up to Eddie Mair Fi Glover & Danny Baker the much-loved voices of today. A delightful blend of insight history & nostalgia Hello Again will appeal to any radio aficionado. ...

On a winter night in a cottage far away from the town Mums baby is ready to be born. The midwife arrives & the whole family prepare for the home birth. In this honest & moving portrayal Jenni Overend & Julie Vivas celebrate the birth of a baby at home with warmth & joy. This is a book for the whole family to share in preparation for a home birth or the arrival of a new baby. ...

In Hello Dudley" we meet Dudley a little violet monster. The text asks Dudley a question
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In 1960 Barbra Streisand was just a seventeenyear- old Jewish kid with plenty of talent & even more ambition. Four years later she had taken over Broadway as the star of Funny Girl & had three platinum albums. In Hello Gorgeous Mann charts that climb to fame. He takes us back to her formative years: her relationship with her mother her early lovers & her husband Elliott Gould. With access to the previously sealed private collections of Jerome Robbins Bob Fosse & many others Mann lays out the first-ever accurate account of the making of Funny Girl fills in an incomplete record of Streisands early nightclub & television appearances & takes us behind the scenes of the canny marketing team whose strategies made her stardom seem inevitable. He also re-creates a vibrant piece of New York theatrical history
- the dinner clubs & the birth of Off-Off-Broadway. Everyone of a certain age remembers when the phenomenon of Barbra Streisand rewrote all the rules of stardom. In this intimate portrait Mann incisively illuminates the woman before she became the icon.
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