This is a super-fun interactive book with a gorgeous Spot hand puppet. The large soft plush puppet is one size fits all
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This title comes from inspired picture-book creator Polly Dunbar the first in the colourful charming soon-to-be televised series following the escapades of Tilly & her friends. Tilly lives in a little yellow house with her best friends. In this first book of the series meet Tiptoe & Hector Doodle Pru & Tumpty as they play the trumpet bang the drum eat a feast & dance the Wiggle Wiggle Woo! Whump! Bump! Whoops! Exciting news! Tilly & Friends" has been scheduled for TV transmission on CBeebies beginning autumn 2012.. .52 delicious episodes. Utterly charming artwork delicious palette gentle humour & winsome characters have deservedly made this a series of winners. This title comes from the bestselling author & illustrator of " Penguin" (9781844280650) which was the winner of the 0-5 Nestle Silver Award 2007 & the 2007 Booktrust Early Years Award in the pre-school category." ...

Hello World" is Alice Rawsthorns definitive guide to design & modern life. Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. When deployed wisely it can bring us pleasure choice strength decency & much more. But if its power is abused the outcome can be wasteful confusing humiliating even dangerous. None of us can avoid being affected by design whether or not we wish to. It is so ubiquitous that it determines how we feel & what we do often without our noticing. " Hello World" explores designs influence on our lives. Written by the renowned design critic Alice Rawsthorn & designed by the award-winning book designer Irma Boom it describes how warlords scientists farmers hackers activists & designers have used design to different ends throughout history: from the macabre symbol invented by 18th century pirates to terrorise their victims into surrender to one womans quest for the best possible prosthetic legs & the evolution of the World Cup ball. At a time when we face colossal changes unprecedented in their speed scale & intensity
- from the deepening environmental crisis to giant leaps in science & technology
- " Hello World" explains how design can help us to make sense of them andto turn them to our advantage. "" Hello World" is a new book by Alice Rawsthorn the one & only the best design critic in the entire world. She keeps the banner of design flying high. Irma Boom designed it & Irma is simply the best book designer alive". (Paola Antonelli Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art New York). Praise for Alice Rawsthorns " Yves Saint Laurent": " As gripping as a thriller packed with plot character & atmosphere". (" The Times"). " Rawsthorns excellent biography isnt merely a story about clothes but of crises comebacks & drug clinics & as a document of the time it is compulsive". (" Evening Standard"). " The best book I have ever read about the mesmerising cruelty of fashion". (" The Spectator"). " Intelligent & pragmatic.. .this is a page-turner of a book". (" New Statesman"). " What a story! A skilful interweaving of the artistic business & emotional life of a great couture house". (" Mail on Sunday"). Alice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the " International Herald Tribune" the global edition of the " New York Times". Her weekly Design column is syndicated worldwide. A trustee of Arts Council England & the Whitechapel Gallery in London she is chair of trustees at the Chisenhale Gallery & the author of an acclaimed biography of " Yves Saint Laurent"."

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HELLO! is the original glossy weekly & will deliver all the best celebrity news & interviews directly to your door. We feature stories on royalty supermodels Hollywood stars & all the A-List celebrities. HELLO! Is the magazine that celebrities trust. Cover shown for illustrative purposes only. ...

God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell. Richard Burton. I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. & its true I never looked back to see the casualties. Richard Harris. Booze is the most outrageous of all drugs which is why I chose it. Peter OToole. I dont have a drink problem. But if that was the case & doctors told me I had to stop Id like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave. Oliver Reed. This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked
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- off a film set into a pub. Its a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions parties & orgies broken marriages drugs riots & wanton sexual conquests. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent & because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed the last of the movie hellraisers.

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During their tour of Afghanistan in 2008 a number of soldiers kept personal diaries of their experiences & now for the first time Osprey Publishing have collected them together to provide a gripping first-hand account of life in the front line in modern warfare. Although these soldiers were on the same tour they all encountered different experiences & so while the time frame is the same their perspectives are inevitably different. Included here are the diaries of Lt John Thornton who sadly lost his life just two weeks before the end of the tour a Padre a CO a 2IC & a member of Lt Thornton's section. With a narrative that pulls the diaries together & puts them in context this book provides a chance to look at what changes when the men & women come home & what they learned from the tour. The diary of Lt Thornton's brother Ian who is currently serving in Helmand provides an example of the war 4 years on & provides further context to the original tour diaries. ...

This map is part of the Landranger (Pink) series & is designed for people who really want to get to know an area. It



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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

The biggest most lavish book production of the 20th century is back! Sumo" was a titanic book in every respect: a 480-page tribute to the 20th century's most influential intriguing & controversial photographer it broke records for weight

Dimensions & resale price. Helmut Newton (1920-2004) always demonstrated a healthy disdain for easy or predictable solutions. " Sumo"
- a bold & unprecedented publishing venture
- was an irresistible project. The idea of a spectacular compendium of images a book with the

Dimensions of a private exhibition reproduced to exceptional page size & to state-of-the-art origination & printing standards emerged from an open exploratory dialogue between photographer & publisher. With the physically commanding " Sumo" weighing in
- boxed & shrink-wrapped
- at 35.4 kilos Newton created a landmark book that stood head & shoulders above anything previously attempted either in terms of conceptual extravagance or technical specifications. Published in an edition of 10 000 signed & numbered copies " Sumo" sold out soon after publication & quickly multiplied its value. This worldwide publishing sensation now features in numerous important collections around the world including New York's Museum of Modern Art. Legendary " Sumo" copy number one autographed by over 100 of the book's featured celebrities also broke the record for the most expensive book published in the 20th century selling at auction in Berlin on April 6 2000 for 620 000 German Marks
- Approx. $430 000. " Sumo" established new standards for the art monograph genre & secured a prominent place in photo-book history. This new edition is the fulfillment of an ambition conceived some years ago by Helmut Newton. He would surely be pleased that a decade on from its first publication " Sumo"
- now in a format that allows for a more democratic distribution
- will reach the widest possible audience. However proud owners of the new edition won't wrestle with their copy of " Sumo"."










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The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished & unjust world: Jackson Mississippi 1962. Where black maids raise white children but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen raising her seventeenth white child & nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; & white Miss Skeeter home from College who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter Aibileen & Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries they come to depend & rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. & together they have an extraordinary story to tell..." The other side of " Gone with the Wind"
- & just as unputdownable". (" The Sunday Times"). "A big warm girlfriend of a book". (" The Times"). " Harper Lee's classic novel " To Kill a Mockingbird" has changed lives. Its direct descendent " The Help" has the same potential.. .an astonishing feat of accomplishment". (" Daily Express"). Kathryn Stockett was born & raised in Jackson Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing & marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband & daughter. " The Help" is her first novel."
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