Travel back into the measly Middle Ages where the world was full of wild women mad monks naughty knights & crazy kings & queens! Discover a genuine jester's joke why chickens had their bottoms shaved & what ten-year-old treacle was used for. With a bold accessible new look these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans. Revised by the author to make Horrible Histories more accessible to young readers. 2013 is HORRIBLE HISTORIES twentieth anniversary. ...

In the hope of saving her brothers life should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy with reconciliations forgiveness & marriages it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeares problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity & mercy between sexual repression & decadence & between political vigilance & social manipulation. These problems remain topical & in Measure for Measure they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts & memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeares most probing & powerful works. ...

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand & enjoy Shakespeares plays. As well as the complete & unabridged text each play in this series has an extensive range of students notes. These include detailed & clear explanations of difficult words & passages a synopsis of the plot summaries of individual scenes & notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions & activities for work in class together with the historical background to Shakespeares England a brief biography of Shakespeare & a complete list of his plays. This topical & relevant play is a new addition to the Oxford School Shakespeare. The text follows the redesign of the series photographs of recent stage productions have been included & the attractive cover design follows the revised series style. Roma Gill the series editor has taught Shakespeare at all levels. She has acted in & directed Shakespeares plays & has lectured on Shakespeare all over the world. ...

In the Dukes absence from Vienna his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside marriage. The young Claudio whose fiancee is pregnant is condemned to death by the law. His sister Isabella soon to become a nun pleads with Lord Angelo for her brothers life. But her purity so excites Angelo that he offers her a monstrous bargain he will save Claudio if Isabella will visit him that night. ...

1916. England is at war & the Morland family is in the thick of it with two men already in France & three more soon to go. Tragedy strikes Morland Place when Jessie's husband Ned is reported missing on the Western Front. His father launches a desperate bid to find him but the family fear the worst. Jessie in mourning & frustrated by her job as an auxiliary nurse goes to London to work in a military hospital. There she is reunited with her old friend Oliver posted to the capital under the RAMC. Also in London is violet whose affair with the brilliant artist Octavian Laidislaw is about to erupt in scandal.. . The Measure of Days paints a portrait of a family & a nation at war at a pivotal point in history. With the onset of conscription no one is left unaffected. Every man must hold himself in readiness; & every woman knows that when she says goodbye it might be for the last time. ...

Chef Adrian Richardson is passionate about meat. Whether its simple minute steak or slow-cooked brisket with red wine & mushrooms he knows what makes it great & how to give home-cooked dishes that restaurant-quality edge with minimum fuss. Covering all the basics Richardson imparts his extensive knowledge of beef pork poultry venison & much more. With recipes such as Barbecued Butterflied Lamb with Honey & Rosemary Twice-cooked Pork Belly with Toffee Crisp Crackling Roast Duck with Pomegranate Glaze & even the perfect meat pie Meat" is a comprehensive but friendly cookbook for making great meals at home full of great tips for both the novice & the confident cook." ...

For 26 years John Nicholson was a vegetarian following a seriously healthy diet that included no cholesterol or animal fats but plenty of brown rice & lentils. His diet defined him. It was the one thing that was definably unshakeably him throughout half a century. However for 26 years John Nicholson was ill
- tormented year after year by apparently untreatable IBS. He was eating the healthiest diet known to mankind yet his digestive system was breaking down. His illness was affecting his life so badly that eventually he & his partner considered doing the unthinkable
- eating meat. The results were spectacular. 24 hours after eating meat he was better. After 48 hours he was totally well. All his symptoms had gone
- the IBS the headaches the mid-afternoon tiredness achy knees
- the lot. Even his eyesight enhanced to the point he no longer needed to use reading glasses. Twelve months on he feels like a new person. The Meat Fix details John Nicholsons remarkable transformation with the characteristic wit & humour that saw his We Ate All the Pies nominated for the 2010 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. It is the story of how eating meat again after 26 vegetarian years changed his life powerfully for the better & his quest to understand why the supposedly healthy diet he had existed on was actually damaging him. He is not a scientist & this is not your standard diet book. Rather it is an explanation of how Nicholson discovered what works for him & why we should all look at nutritional advice through a clear lens not the warped prism of what has become conventional dietary advice over the past three decades. This is a fascinating surprising often hilarious & shocking journey of discovery.



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For twenty-six long years John Nicholson was a vegetarian. No meat no fish no guilt. He was a walking advert for healthy eating. Brown rice lentils tofu fruit vegetables low fat & low cholesterol
- in the battle of good food versus bad he should have been on the winning side. But the exact opposite was true: his diet was making him ill. Really ill. Joint pain? Tick. Exhaustion? Tick. Chronic IBS & piles? Tick tick. Not to mention the fat belly & the sky-high cholesterol. His mind may have forgotten its taste for flesh & blood but had his body? Tired of being sick John decided to do the unthinkable: eat meat & eat lots of it. Going against all the official healthy-eating advice he returned to an old fashioned red-blooded full-fat high-cholesterol diet. The results were spectacular. Twenty-four hours later he felt better. After forty-eight hours he was fighting fit. Twelve months on he had become a new person. His health was utterly transformed. He was first shocked then delighted then damn angry. The Meat Fix charts one man's journey to the top of the food chain uncovering in the process an alternate universe of research condemning everything we think we know about healthy eating as little more than illusion guesswork & marketing. The body is a temple
- but as John Nicholson discovered we may have forgotten how to worship it.

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This is a delightful collection of recipes from Weight Watchers. This latest Mini Series is handbag sized & thus to pick up on your way home from work. Small but perfectly formed each book is themed with a selection of recipes for delicious meals that are healthy too. ...

It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons & called it Meccano coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage & is now known all over the world. Hornbys vision of an educational toy became the basis of perhaps the most successful British toy business of the twentieth century. Meccano has amused generations of children encouraging many to become successful engineers. Roger Marriott here explores the long history of Meccano charting the development of the various sets & components which for decades have been interchangeable & explains the endless fascination of this iconic construction toy. ...