Everyone on Club Penguin has an igloo to call home! If your igloo is in need of a new look this book has lots of ideas to inspire you. Whether you want an igloo thats wacky sporty or perfect for throwing a big bash. Use the stickers to decorate the igloos on each page! ...

Everyone on Club Penguin has an igloo to call home! If your igloo is in need of a new look this book has lots of ideas to inspire you. Whether you want an igloo thats wacky sporty or perfect for throwing a big bash. Use the stickers to decorate the igloos on each page! ...

Carefully graded pupil books for years 3 to 6 focus on the core skills & will help pupils develop their ideas & gain confidence in their writing ability. They provide coverage of a range of text types & genres including narrative drama poetry recount instructional reports explanatory persuasive & discursive writing following the NLS objectives for Teaching English at KS2. Designed to support the CDs Igniting Writing Pupils Books" offer a skills-based approach to aid pupils in extended writing tasks for fiction non-fiction & poetry. They use Sue Palmers writing skeletons to help pupils structure both fiction & non-fiction writing. Pupil Books can also be used independently of the CDs as a standalone resource." ...

Carefully graded pupil books for years 3 to 6 focus on the core skills & will help pupils develop their ideas & gain confidence in their writing ability. They provide coverage of a range of text types & genres including narrative drama poetry recount instructional reports explanatory persuasive & discursive writing following the NLS objectives for Teaching English at KS2. Designed to support the CDs Igniting Writing Pupils Books" offer a skills-based approach to aid pupils in extended writing tasks for fiction non-fiction & poetry. They use Sue Palmers writing skeletons to help pupils structure both fiction & non-fiction writing. Pupil Books can also be used independently of the CDs as a standalone resource." ...

In Ignorance Milan Kundera takes up the complex & emotionally charged theme of exile & creates from it a literary masterpiece. A man & a woman meet by chance while returning to their Czech homeland in the early 1990s after twenty years of self-imposed exile. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story interrupted by the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence their memories no longer match. We live our lives sunk in a vast forgetting & we refuse to see it. Only those who return after twenty years like Ulysses returning to his native Ithaca can be dazzled & astounded by observing the goddess of ignorance first-h&. Milan Kundera has taken these dizzying concepts of absence memory forgetting & ignorance & orchestrated them into a polyphonic & moving work. ...

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was the inventor of modern music comparable in versatility & influence to his close friend & contemporary Pablo Picasso. Famous for ballets he composed neo-Classical & serialist works but his style while variable was always highly distinctive. He has been the subject of a vast literature of musical analysis & biographical anecdote & his scores sketches & voluminous personal papers have been much studied. This book sets all of Stravinskys major works into context without using overly academic language making the subject accessible to a wide range of readers. The author devotes particular attention to Stravinskys childhood in pre-Revolutionary Russia the formative influence of which the composer acknowledged in later life. His discovery by the great impresario Diaghilev his fruitful collaborations with such choreographers as Mikhail Fokine & George Balanchine & with many of the great dancers (Nijinsky Karsavina) painters & designers (Bakst Picasso) of his time are fully described as well as his relationships with writers such as Cocteau Gide & WH Auden. Above all the book concentrates on Stavinskys creativity describing how his musical mind worked & relating this to his complex & fascinating personality. ...

Michelin regional maps each contain practical road & route information. Special Michelin reads-like-a-book format for easy use in folding & unfolding. Useful information for planning trips including gas stations 24-hour service stations toll gates rest areas & service plazas. Clear precise cartography. Icons pinpoint important travel information. ...

Homer's Iliad" is the greatest & most influential epic poem ever written telling of the tragic & bloody climax to the ten-year siege of Troy. This " Penguin Classics" edition was originally translated by E.V. Rieu revised & updated with an introduction & notes by Peter Jones & D.C.H. Rieu. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature Homer's " Iliad" tells the story of the darkest episode in the " Trojan War". At its centre is Achilles the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks & his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus he storms back into battle to take revenge
- even though he knows this will ensure his own untimely death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb & flow of battle of the domestic world inside Troy's besieged city of Ilium & of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals. E.V. Rieu's acclaimed translation of " The Iliad" was one of the first titles published in " Penguin Classics" & now has classic status itself. For this edition Rieu's text has been revised & now a new introduction & notes by Peter Jones complement the original introduction. Seven Greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c. 8th-7th century BC) the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad & Odyssey are attributed. " The Iliad" is the oldest surviving work of Western literature but the identity
- or even the existence
- of Homer himself is a complete mystery with no reliable biographical information having survived. If you enjoyed the " Iliad" you might like Homer's " Odyssey" also available in " Penguin Classics"."


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An ancient Greek epic which underpins the whole of western literature Homers The Iliad" is a timeless evocation of the struggle to retain a sense of honour & virtue amidst the horrors of war. This " Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Martin Hammond. " The Iliad" is the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization. The story centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth & final year of the war between the Greeks & the Trojans. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon & Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events which leads to Achilleus killing of Hektor & determines the ultimate fate of Troy. But Homers theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion & humanity he presents a universal & tragic view of the world of human life lived under the shadow of suffering & death set against a vast & largely unpitying divine background. " The Iliad" is the first of the worlds great tragedies. Martin Hammonds acclaimed translation is accompanied by a full introduction & a comprehensive index. Seven Greek cities claim the honour of being the birthplace of Homer (c. 8th-7th century BC) the poet to whom the composition of the Iliad & Odyssey are attributed. " The Iliad" is the oldest surviving work of Western literature but the identity
- or even the existence
- of Homer himself is a complete mystery with no reliable biographical information having survived. If you enjoyed the " Iliad" you might like Homers " Odyssey" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Martin Hammonds modern prose version is the best & most accurate there has ever been". (Peter Levi " Independent"). "A fine Iliad for our times". (Philip Howard " The Times")."

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One of the greatest epics in Western literature The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror & heroism of men & gods battling amidst devastation & destruction as it moves to its tragic conclusion. In his introduction Bernard Knox observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim & relentless it co-exists with both images of civilized life & a poignant yearning for peace." ...