This is Liam. Every day Liam eats lots of good food. Each time Liam eats his tummy gets fuller & fuller...and fuller...until Liam's tummy starts to stretch". Successful toilet training is a time of celebration for both parents & child. It marks the end of dirty diapers & a forward step in the development of a child. Fraught with both stress & triumph the period of toilet training can take from days to months. For a typical child learning to gain control over the body's internal stimuli can be at best challenging. For many children however these internal cues can be overwhelming & confusing leading to both a frustrating & traumatic toileting experience." Liam Goes Poo in the Toilet" illustrates the relationship between eating & excreting. It provides visual instructions on how to 'relax & push'. After much fanfare Liam finally masters going 'poo' in the toilet & both he & Mum bask in the glory of a job well done." ...

Bursting with exclusive photos & gossip this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to discover all there is to know about Hollywoods new prince Liam Hemsworth. Growing up in suburban Melbourne Liam was born into a star-studded family with brothers Chris & Luke also having careers as successful actors. From here we follow Liams journey to the top. Find out how Liam got his big break & won his first big TV role in cult show Neighbours as well as what made him choose to move to the big screen starring opposite his now girlfriend Miley in The Last Song. & most importantly find out all the gossip behind the scenes of the greatest trilogy of all time: The Hunger Games. This is a book no fan of Liam Hemsworth & The Hunger Games will want to be without. ...

Liam Lynch joined the Irish Volunteers after the Easter Rising of 1916 & quickly rose through its ranks. He reorganised the Cork Brigade in 1919 & in 1921 became the commanding officer of the First Southern Division which controlled all the Volunteer Brigades in the south of the country. A prominant opponent of the Treaty of 1921 he became chief of staff of the anti-Treaty IRA leading the fight against the pro-Treaty forces until his death in 1923. With the aid of Liam Lynchs personal letters private documents & historical records Liam Lynch: The Real Chief traces the turbulent career of one of Irelands greatest guerrilla commanders from his birth in 1893 until his death twenty-nine years later in the Civil War when he was killed in action on the Knockmealdown mountains. This book demonstrates Liam Lynchs importance in Irish history including his efforts with Michael Collins Richard Mulcahy & others to avoid a civil war & his unwavering efforts to achieve a thirty-two county republic rather than a partitioned state. Part of the Irish Revolutionaries series being published in the run-up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising. ...

Stephen Frys breathtakingly outrageous debut novel by turns eccentric shocking brilliantly comic & achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders & wholly unprepared for the truth. ...

Georges (the s is silent) has a lot going on. Hes having trouble with some boys at school his dad lost his job & so his mum has started working all the time
- & they had to sell their house & move into an apartment. But moving into the apartment block does bring one good thing
- Safer an unusual boy who lives on the top floor. He runs a spy club & is determined to teach Georges everything he knows. Their current case is to spy on the mysterious Mr X in the apartment above Georges. But as Georges & Safer go deeper into their Mr X plan the line between games lies & reality begin to blur.

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From mere trainee to lowly geek to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York & London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful & profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities funny frightening breathless & heartless his is a tale of hysterical greed & ambition set in an obsessed enclosed world. ...

With his second collection of short stories Richard Yates continues to extend his range as a writer of stunning power & eloquence. ...

He was a traitor a rabble-leader a rebel a liar & a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here. For fans of The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ" by Phillip Pulman Naomi Aldermans " The Liars Gospel" is the story of a Jewish man Yehoshuah who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons & healing the sick. Now a year after his death four people tell their stories. His mother flashes between grief & rage while trouble brews between her village & the occupying soldiers. Iehuda who was once Yehoshuahs friend recalls how he came to lose his faith & find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem tries to hold the peace between Rome & Judea. Bar-Avo a rebel strives to bring that peace tumbling down. " The Liars Gospel" makes the oldest story entirely new. Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the realities of the period: massacres & riots animal sacrifice & human betrayal it finds echoes of the present in the past. It was a time of political power-play & brutal tyranny & occupation. Young men & women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread from mouth to mouth. Rebels attacked the greatest Empire the world has ever known. The Empire gathered its forces to make those rebels pay. & in the midst of all of that one inconsequential preacher died. & either something miraculous happened or someone lied. " Remarkable. Alderman is a supremely talented writer". (Joanne Harris). "A glittering style a compulsive pleasure". (" Metro"). " Witty dark & compelling". (Charlotte Mendelson). Naomi Alderman grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community in northwest London. Her first novel " Disobedience" was published in 10 languages & won the Orange Award for New Writers & the " Sunday Times" Young Writer of the Year prize. Like her second novel " The Lessons" it was broadcast as Radio 4s " Book at Bedtime". She is a frequent radio broadcaster & a regular contributor to the " Guardian" & " Prospect". She lives in London." ...

In this critical intervention against those liberal commentators who fervently beat the war drums
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A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values & ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? & if not what are the consequences for justice as a moral & political ideal? These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism. Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant & focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the most important challenge yet to Rawls' theory of justice Sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it & argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows. ...