' Some bright kid's got a gun & 2000 rounds of live ammo. & that gun's no peashooter. It'll go through a brick wall at a quarter of a mile.' Chas Mc Gill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth & he desperately wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the remains of a German bomber crashed in the woods
- its shiny black machine-gun still intact
- he grabs his chance. Soon he's masterminding his own war effort with dangerous & unexpected results......not just the best book so far written for children about the Second World War but also a metaphor for now."
- Aidan Chambers " Times Literary Supplement"."


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Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as a creative medium & is part of a flourishing creative industry both in design & production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department which has been instrumental in artistic & educational innovations in this area since the 1960s. The lecturers graduates & students have remarkable expertise in machine embroidery & MMU is home to a rich & unique archive of machines samples & artwork both historical & contemporary. This book will celebrate this archive as well as providing the only definitive record (and exploring the potential) of the huge number of machines currently in use from the traditional Irish Embroidery machine to the new generation of computerised sewing machines. The book will demonstrate how key machines can be applied to the artistic industrial & domestic practice & shows machine embroiderers how to combine techniques & develop their ideas using machine embroidery. Each contributor gives their own individual perspective on machine stitch. ...

' You talk as if a god had made the Machine cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it do not forget that.' E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In The Machine Stops" humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground enmeshed in automated comforts & in " The Celestial Omnibus" a young boy takes a trip his parents believe impossible. This book contains " The Machine Stops" & "A Celestial Omnibus"." ...

When James Womack Daniel Jones & Daniel Roos wrote THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in 1990 Japanese automakers & Toyota in particular were making a strong showing by applying the principles of lean production. However the full power of lean principles was unproven & they had not been applied outside of the auto industry. Today the power of lean production has been conclusively proved by Toyota's unparalleled success & the concepts have been widely applied in many industries. Based on MIT's pioneering global study of industrial competition THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD offers a groundbreaking analysis of the entire lean business system including product development supplier management sales service & production
- an analysis even more relevant today as GM & Ford struggle to survive & a wide range of British abd American companies embrace lean production. A new Foreword by the authors brings the story up to date & details how their predictions were right. As a result this reissue of a classic is as insightful & instructive today as when it was first published.
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The diversity of horticulture & its machinery is catered for in this book by sections on two & four-wheeled tractors cultivation sowing crop protection & harvesting equipment. Further chapters cover grass cutting turf care grounds maintenance irrigation & glasshouse equipment. ...

Have you ever wondered where comedians come from? Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? & where does all that material come from? Well young Lee Mc Killop used to wonder that too. Growing up in his parents' pub small & wiry in a world of bigger & chunkier specimens Lee quickly learned that cracking jokes was a way to get attention. After a somewhat random series of jobs which included being Red Rum's stableboy & a bingo hall barman it was as a Great Yarmouth holiday camp entertainer that he had his first crack at telling jokes on stage. It got him some laughs the sack & a punch in the face.* Now as Lee Mack he's one of our best loved & most successful comedians both as a live st&-up & on television. In Mack the Life Lee tells the story of how he got there & gives extraordinary insight into what really makes comics tick. Hilarious & brilliant it's the kind of book which reminds you why you learned to read in the first place. * Nearly. ...

Have you ever wondered where comedians come from? Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? & where does all that material come from? Well young Lee Mc Killop used to wonder that too. Growing up in his parents' pub small & wiry in a world of bigger & chunkier specimens Lee quickly learned that cracking jokes was a way to get attention. After a somewhat random series of jobs which included being Red Rum's stableboy & a bingo hall barman it was as a Great Yarmouth holiday camp entertainer that he had his first crack at telling jokes on stage. It got him some laughs the sack & a punch in the face. Now as Lee Mack he's one of our best loved & most successful comedians both as a live st&-up & on television. In Mack the Life Lee tells the story of how he got there & gives extraordinary insight into what really makes comics tick. Hilarious & brilliant it's the kind of book which reminds you why you learned to read in the first place. Nearly. ...

This title is Highly Commended in the 2006 British Medical Association Awards! an incredibly thorough book which is very well illustrated
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The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles

Includes:: great stories from both contemporary & classic authors. Chief Inspector Wexford had been sure that the murder of an old lady was carried out by her employee Herbert Painter & the courts had agreed with him. But then Henry Archery whose son is engaged to marry Painters daughter starts questioning the case...

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Kresley Cole delves deeper into the mysterious Clan Mac Rieve a family tormented by ancient agonies & forbidden wolven hungers… Uilleam Mac Rieve a centuries-old Lykae warrior was captured caged & experimented on by a shadowy human order along with other immortals. During a prison break that devolved into one of the bloodiest massacres in recent history he escapes. But the aftermath of his unspeakable torture preys on his damaged mind while the wolf inside him roars for vengeance & carnage. In the days leading up to the full moon can Mac Rieve rein in his beast even when he encounters his mate
- a vexingly impossible female unlike anything he'd ever dreamed for himself?
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