A brother & sister spend their day playing on the beach by a rock pool. They create their own tiny marine world in a bucket & with its wildlife shells oil & even a tin can it is a microcosm of the larger world outside. With a series of stunning watercolours the multi award-winning Michael Foreman makes clear his underlying concern about pollution within the environment. ...

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer & hedge funders online tutoring sessions with his niece who was struggling with algebra into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students parents & teachers use the Khan Academys free videos & software which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; & Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. Like many innovators Khan rethinks existing assumptions & imagines what education could be if freed from them. & his core idea
- liberating teachers from lecturing & state-mandated calendars & opening up class time for truly human interaction
- has become his lifes passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age & people of all ages & backgrounds flock to the site to utilise this fresh approach to learning. In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education as well as his own remarkable story for the first time. More than just a solution THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free universal global education & an explanation of how Khans simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.

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Kipper has made a new year resolution not to throw snowballs at Tiger. He manages to keep to this for a whole month but in February it snows! This wonderful picture book explores the fun that Kipper & Tiger have every month of the year through the photos that Kipper takes. & at the end of the year Kipper finds out that Tiger has a long memory & hasn't forgotten the snowball in February! ...

Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident his tormentors called him ' One Eye' or ' Cyclops'; it could have instilled a victim mentality in him but instead he became a fighter. One by one those who tormented him would get their comeuppance.. . In his turbulent teenage years ' Baz' adopted a criminal lifestyle. He went from Rude Boy to Casual & became a leading figure in Birmingham City FC's Zulu Warriors. When not training in martial arts or proving himself as a cage fighter he also cut a powerful figure in Coventry's clubland where he ran its toughest doors. For all his ferocious reputation ONE-EYED BAZ reveals a character of great warmth & loyalty a charismatic figure strong enough to embrace the combat sport of cage fighting & prove himself ' King of the Ring'. ONE-EYED BAZ will surely be lauded as a classic of the hard-man genre. ...

What really happened during the fall of Troy
- & who was to blame for the war? The answers are here in these captivating stories
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This book shows amateur astronomers how to use one-shot CCD cameras & how to get the best out of equipment that exposes all three color images at once. Because this book is specifically devoted to one-shot imaging One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging" begins by looking at all the basics
- what equipment will be needed how color imaging is done & most importantly what specific steps need to be followed after the one-shot color images are taken. What is one-shot color imaging? Typically astronomical cooled-chip CCD cameras record only one color at a time
- rather like old-fashioned black & white cameras fitted with color filters. Three images are taken in sequence
- in red blue & green light
- & these are then merged by software in a PC to form a color image. Each of the three images must be taken separately through a suitable color filter which means that the total exposure time for every object is more than tripled. When exposure times can run into tens of minutes or even hours for each of the three colors this can be a major drawback for the time-pressed amateur. " One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging" describes the most cost-effective & time-efficient way for any amateur astronomer to begin to photograph the deep-sky."



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Is your son or daughter applying to university? Do they need help making their personal statement stand out? Or perhaps you are a teacher who needs to advise their pupils about making a great UCAS application? For any parents & teachers wishing to offer guidance to anxious Year 12/13 students on completing the hardest part of the UCAS application Creating Your UCAS Personal Statement will prove invaluable. Packed full of unique tips & advice based on first-hand research advice from successful other applicants & insider information direct from the universities themselves this guide will ensure students are given a head start in the all-important race for a place on their chosen degree course. Trotman's One-stop Guides are a series of short booklets providing essential but accessible information to students at the key decision-making points in their school lives. Offering unparalleled value for your money these unique guides supply bite-size chunks of advice on a range of subjects from preparing for university to applying for a first job. They are designed for bulk purchase by schools & colleges for distribution to their relevant year groups parents & teachers
- innovative & inspiring they are easy-to-read yet packed with vital information.
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Walter Benjamin
- philosopher essayist literary & cultural theorist
- was one of the most original writers & thinkers of the

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Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? & trademark originality
- The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique & idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand Walker Evans Kertesz Dorothea Lange Diane Arbus & William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes & objects (benches hats hands roads). In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers ? many of whom never met in their lives ? constantly come into contact with each other. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.
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A compelling novel about four young women in wartime London from the best-selling author of London Belles & My Sweet Valentine. In Article Row in London's Holborn
- four young women Tilly Sally Dulcie & Agnes
- have already been witnesses to the heartache & pain that Hitler's bombs have inflicted on ordinary Londoners. Tilly is desperate to wed her beau Drew. Terrified that something will happen to prevent them from being together her fears seem to be coming true when he is called back home to America. For her mother Olive this only adds to her worries for Tilly. But she has her own hands full when her friend & neighbour Sergeant Dawson gets some terrible news. When Olive lends a hand she finds herself at the sharp end of some unwelcome gossip. For Dulcie the war has brought an old flame David back into her life. But his terrible injuries have changed his life forever. Can something more develop out of their friendship? & for Agnes she is about to find out something that will change her life too. In this seemingly endless war the girls will learn about love loss & heartache. But they like thousands of other Londoners are determined to win the battle on the home front
- no matter what it takes.


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