This title features triangular pennants diamond-shaped kites circular moons & a great big gold star for Freddie the bunnys perfect quiz! Thats just the start as Richard Scarry goes on to explore lines (zig-zag parallel); directions (left right around between); sizes (big elephant small mouse); amounts (full & empty); & opposites (soft pillow hard wooden stool). With so much fun throughout learning is a delight. ...

Toddlers love to learn about themselves & this book celebrates the wonderful people they are & all the things they can do
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The newest titles in our bestselling Richard Scarry series are these fun sticker & poster books. Richard Scarry books are popular with children throughout the world. Over 100 million copies of his books have been sold in 30 different languages.

Includes:: more than 80 fun stickers featuring Richard Scarrys original artwork & popular characters from Busytown.

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Children will love these colourful cars trucks & cycles including a bananamobile & 'bugdozer'. It is suitable for children aged 3 to 5 years old. Beep beep! Honk honk! Busytown's residents are on the go! Richard Scarry's wacky introduction to vehicles both realistic & fanciful brims with his trademark humour. Every one of these colourful cars trucks & cycles from the Cat family's bright red convertible & Postman Pig's mail van to Banana Gorilla's yellow bananamobile Wilbur Rabbit's drivable hot dog & Lowly Worm's bugdozer-will delight car-loving children. ...

Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composers birth in 2013 & written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world this will be the Wagner book of the bicentenary. Richard Wagner (18131883) is one of the most influential & also one of the most polarizing composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness & tonal experimentation ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of Wagners life work & times. Making use of the very latest scholarship much of it undertaken by the author himself in connection with his editorship of The Wagner Journal Millington reassesses received notions about Wagner & his work demolishing ill-informed opinion in favour of proper critical understanding It is a radical & occasionally controversial reappraisal of this most perplexing of composers. The book considers a whole range of themes including the composers original sources of inspiration; his fetish for exotic silks; his relationship with his wife Cosima & with his mistress Mathilde Wesendonck; his anti-semitism; the operas proto-cinematic nature; & the turbulent legacy both of the Bayreuth Festival & of Wagnerism itself. The volumes arrangement unique among books on the composer combines an accessible text intriguing images & original documents in carefully co-ordinated sections thus ensuring a consistently fresh approach. ...

Richer Than God is an authoritative emotional provocative account of Manchester City's takeover by Sheikh Mansour culminating in their remarkable last minute Premier League title victory in May 2012. By placing the club's extraordinary current rise in the wider context of its patchy modern history this is also the story of English football's transformation
- from the battlegrounds of the 1980s to today's moneyed seated global entertainment. Conn is led to question the very nature of football clubs & being a supporter the underlying values & running of what used to be called 'the people's game'. A labour of love this powerfully told account of Manchester City's fall & rise based on meticulous research over many years & exclusive access & interviews with key figures is written in the gripping revelatory style Conn has made his trademark.
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This fantastic practical business book is packed full of useful ideas to help businessmen & motivate their staff. A poor performer at school Julian Richer has built from scratch a GBP 200m+ group of businesses. His best known company Richer Sounds is the biggest & most profitable hi-fi retailer in the UK with the highest sales per square foot of any retailer in the world (Guinness Book of Records 10 years running). His advice is sought by Chief Executives of some of Europes biggest organisations & his ideas on staff motivation have been described by the press as legendary. In this book Julian explains his original thoughts & advice which have been used successfully in companies of widely differing types & sizes. Written from first-hand experience of running businesses readers will find this a practical book full of useful ideas. ...

The beach read just got bigger! Get even further away this summer with this globe-trotting back-stabbing boy-snaring snog-busting follow up to FORTUNE. CELINE has all of Buenos Aires -- especially the boys -- at her feet. Shes hot shes talented & she has a glittering future as a fashion designer ahead of her. Well if she can get her pushy parents off her back. JHUMPA is this close to breaking into Bollywood. Shes moved out of her dads house in Mumbai & into an apartment paid for by her agent -- shes so confident shes going to be a star that shes not looking back. LUCI has the looks & the brains. Gorgeous darling of the Tatler crowd equally at home on a pheasant shoot or on the dancefloor shes also studying archaeology at Oxford. Three very different girls! suddenly united by one terrible tragedy. The question is can they solve the mystery that united their parents -- a mystery that involves the most valuable jewel in the world? You wouldnt want to bet against them. Sisters might be doing it for themselves -- but get them to work together & theres nothing they cant do! ...

In this riveting book Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank explores the lives & lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires & billionaires
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Undoubtedly the most famous of any nations aviation units in World War I was the legendary Jagdgeschwader Nr I or The Flying Circus as its respectful foes labelled it. Germanys first true fighter wing it would always be associated with its first commander the charismatic & revered Manfred von Richthofen. JG I was formed in July 1917 & for sixteen months the units young pilots in their colourful aircraft battled for aerial dominance of the Western Front. From its ranks emerged many of Germanys most successful airmen including the Red Barons brother Lothar; Ernst Udet; Werner Voss; Erich Lowenhardt & Hermann Goring. This book charts the World War I experiences of JG I. ...