Rosie's walk around the farmyard pursued by the hungry but clumsy fox has become a beacon in the world of children's picture books an ever-popular classic which generations have enjoyed. Children love the humour of this near-wordless story. One disaster after another befalls the poor fox while Rosie goes on her way supremely unaware of the danger behind her. Now at a wonderful larger size this re-issue will bring the joy of Rosie's tale & Pat's bold artwork to a new generation of fans. ...

This is the paperback edition of the extraordinary & genuine account of Rosemary Say
- a courageous young Englishwoman whose emigration
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This popular workbook is based on the best-selling text Ross & Wilson: Anatomy & Physiology in Health & Illness" a favourite with an array of students including nurses nursing students students of the professions allied to medicine paramedics ambulance technicians & complementary therapists whose course

Includes:: study of anatomy & physiology. It has been written to appeal to the same audience & to be used in combination with the main text or with course notes or other anatomy & physiology textbooks. It complements different styles of learning & will assist the student by providing stimulating learning activities to facilitate & reinforce learning or revision."

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The anatomy & physiology resource of choice for nursing & healthcare students around the world. The 11th edition of Ross & Wilson Anatomy & Physiology" now

Includes:: even more valuable resources including: " Ross & Wilson Textbook"
- highly illustrated clear & easy to understand language; " Ross & Wilson e Book"
- fully searchable & customisable e Book; " Ross & Wilson e Resources"; over 100 animations; 400 self assessment questions; crosswords drag & drop hangman & other test yourself games; & colouring in exercises labelling exercises & case studies. By using all of these fantastic resources you will find Anatomy & Physiology makes sense!"



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He has played an East End hardman an SAS soldier & investigated vicious world gangs. Now Ross Kemp is taking on perhaps his hardest assignment of all
- the Taliban. In order to prepare for this life-threatening ordeal Ross Kemp trains with the First Battalion Royal Anglians in Englands subzero temperatures practicing firing SA 80 rifles &. 50 caliber machine guns getting to know the soldiers & learning the tactics they use to stay alive. Sent with them to Camp Bastion in Afghanistans Helmand province he immerses himself fully: he endures the stifling heat the constant threat of snipers RPG attacks suicide bombers & land mines. In short he discovers first hand what its like to fight on the front line. Its the closest hes ever come to dying
- bullets fizzing inches from his head as they hit the ground on either side of him. After two harrowing & arduous months Ross returns to England but there is little relief to be had as he meets the mothers of soldiers killed in the conflict. Then in September 2008 he goes back to the war zone to see how the men he grew so close to are faring to check how many of them are still alive. Its a fascinating horrifying & often moving insight into the brutal reality ordinary soldiers have to face in one of the worlds most dangerous & volatile regions.

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Coal mining is the second oldest industry in Britain after agriculture. As big coalmines developed to cope with the output to feed the Industrial Revolution many small-scale moorland pits
- including those around Rawtenstall Bacup Rochdale Littleborough & Heywood
- were still worked to provide fuel for local markets households farms mills factories & foundries. These small private coal mines were often worked on a shoestring budget & the miners themselves toiled in extreme conditions using methods of mining hundreds of years old. Written by a former miner this book recalls an industry now long gone of accidents & deaths of child labour & the owners of these mines as well as the proud men who toiled below ground sometimes hundreds of feet down others in coal seams less than eighteen inches high. Illustrated with 50 images this book a lasting record of the East Lancashire Coalfields.

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The exiled Italian poet Gabriele Rossetti arrived in London in 1824 with a few letters of introduction little money & less English. But within one generation he would bequeath his new city with a remark- able cultural legacy through the accomplishments of his children. There was the poet & Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel the poet & religious thinker Christina the nun & Dante Alighieri scholar Maria & William who combined a life of English letters with a successful career in finance. The lives & achievements of the Rossettis are placed within the wider context of the artistic literary & spiritual communities that inspired them & that they shaped in their turn. They worked with each other & in collaboration with the most famous figures of their day
- the Barrett-Brownings Tennyson Swinburne & Ruskin
- as well as within significant groups like the Pre-Raphaelites Anglo-Catholics Freemasons & suffragists.

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1947 Ten-year-old Fay Allen of Roswell New Mexico witnesses the fiery crash of an extraordinary craft unlike anything shes ever seen...2012 More than sixty years later army engineer Tyler Locke rescues Fay from a pair of assassins. She says they were after a piece of wreckage she obtained from the Roswell crash
- & she claims to know secrets about that incident that have never previously been revealed. Tyler is initially sceptical but after he is kidnapped by a mysterious band of mercenaries he comes to believe that Roswell holds the key to his & his countrymens survival. & he realises that there is a desperate race against time for him to uncover its secrets... Fast-paced & thrilling The Roswell Conspiracy draws on actual details from the Roswell Incident to create a page-turning & thought-provoking thriller.
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Nearly fourteen years ago a freak virus swept across the world turning those infected from the living into the undead. Benny Imura has grown-up never knowing anything different; his last memories of his parents tainted by the image of them becoming zombies. Now Benny is fifteen & his brother Tom wants him to join the family business" & train as a zombie killer. The last thing Benny wants is to work with Tom --- but at least the job should be an easy ride. Then the brothers head into the Rot & Ruin an area full of wandering zombies & Benny realises that being a bounty hunter isnt just about whacking zombies. As hes confronted with the truths about the world around him Benny finds his beliefs challenged & makes the most terrifying discovery of all that sometimes the worst monsters you can imagine are human..." ...

This book gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in Rotherham over the past 100 years. It recalls houses & public buildings shops factories & pubs that have vanished or been changed almost beyond recognition. The pictures show changing types of transport & fashion & the developing character of streets & districts as they took on the form that is familiar today. The astonishing periods of growth that occurred during the late Victorian & Edwardian eras & since the Second World War are particularly well illustrated. Many aspects of the changing town are recalled
- hospitals & schools places of work & recreation parks & squares suburban streets & the main thoroughfares
- & the pictures record the ceaseless building & rebuilding that characterises the town today. The author has combined a remarkable selection of archive photographs with modern views of the same scenes in order to record the transformation that has occurred. The book will add to the knowledge appreciation & enjoyment of all those who take an interest in this distinctive town.

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