A brilliant companion volume to the mega-bestselling Holes. Armpit & X-Ray are living in Austin Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre & Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes he is going to school & he is enjoying his first proper romance but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him? ...

A wonderful gift set of Laurence Anholt's classic artists series now featuring five miniature hardback editions in a beautiful slipcase. All the stories are told through the eyes of children who knew the artists: Camille & the Sunflowers
- A Story about Vincent van Gogh Degas & the Little Dancer Leonardo & the Flying Boy Picasso & the Girl with a Ponytail The Magical Garden of Claude Monet.
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The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills & clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggles. He takes us on a historical journey from Palestine to Pakistan from Cuba to Indo-China & reframes mid-20th century history by forcing us to look away from the Cold War to the hot wars that continue to afflict us. The result is a dazzling work of history which examines the death of colonialism with passion insight & genuine understanding of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of realpolitik. ...

The body of a prostitute is found at Glasgow s Queen Street Station her hands pointing towards her feet placed as if in prayer a small flower pressed between the palms. Psychologist Solomon Brightman is called to assist DCI Lorimer in the murder hunt with the hope that his lateral thinking will shine a light on the case from a different angle. But before any conclusions can be drawn the body of a nurse is discovered at The Grange a private clinic. Aside from the careful arrangement of the corpses there is no obvious connection between the victims; Lorimer & Solomon are still very much in the dark. Then a third body turns up & it seems increasingly clear that they have a serial killer on their hands. ...

' On my desk sits a beautiful engraving published in another century that promises me: Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony & beauty." Promises & prayers contain their own kinds of answer as consecrated aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection written in the aftermath of September 11th the author of High Tide In Tucson & The Poisonwood Bible brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way the book moves on to consider a world of surprising & hopeful prospects ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter" ...

Small Signal Audio Design is a unique guide to the design of high-quality circuitry for preamplifiers mixing consoles & a host of other signal-processing devices. Learn to use inexpensive & readily available parts to obtain state-of-the-art performance in all the vital parameters of noise distortion crosstalk & so on. Focusing mainly on preamplifiers & mixers this practical handbook gives you an extensive repertoire of circuits that can be put together to make almost any type of audio system. A resource packed full of valuable information with virtually every page revealing nuggets of specialized knowledge never before published. Essential points of theory that bear on practical performance are lucidly & thoroughly explained with the mathematics kept to an essential minimum. Douglas background in design for manufacture ensures he keeps a wary eye on the cost of things.

Includes:: a chapter on power-supplies full of practical ways to keep both the ripple & the cost down showing how to power everything. Douglas wears his learning lightly & this book features the engaging prose style familiar to readers of his other books The Audio Power Amplifier Design Handbook & Self on Audio. You will learn why mercury cables are not a good idea the pitfalls of plating gold on copper & what"es from Star Trek have to do with PCB design. * Provides an enormous amount of knowledge in one unique volume making it an essential guide to design principles & practice in the wide are of small-signal audio *
Includes: numerous circuit blocks with all component values given so you can build on them & easily adapt them to your own requirements * Lavishly illustrated with diagrams & graphs & full of practical measurements on real circuitry so you can be sure just how well it will perform Learn how to: make amplifiers with apparently impossibly low noise design discrete circuitry that can handle enormous signals with vanishingly low distortion use humble low-gain transistors to make an amplifier with an input impedance of more than 50 Megohms transform the performance of low-cost-opamps how to make filters with very low noise & distortion make incredibly accurate volume controls make a huge variety of audio equalisers make magnetic cartridge preamplifiers that have noise so low it is limited by basic physics sum switch clip compress & route audio signals


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Small-scale Outdoor Pig Breeding" is a comprehensive guide to breeding & rearing pigs in natural conditions without compromising their wellbeing. This book provides support for novice pig-keepers hoping to breed their own pigs. Moreover it also acts as a valuable reference for more experienced breeders & offers information about different breeds of pigs & their respective needs." ...

Ruby Genie is an orphan. Everyone expects her to have the same fantastic magical powers as her famous parents did but Ruby cant do any magic at all
- or so she thinks. & feels a complete failure. Then she begins to get smaller.. .and smaller.. .and smaller. With a cast of unforgettable characters such as the self-important magician the Great Alfonso & Aunt Hat the kindly lady conjuror who is hopeless at doing tricks this wonderful story is full of adventure & shows how a little girl who is so tiny that she fits into a handbag can still be clever & brave & find people to love & value her. The second book in Sally Gardners Magical Children series about children empowered by special gifts is utterly charming full of feeling & very funny. Her own delightful line drawings all the way through make it a very attractive package.
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A fun comedy about a girl & a very special horse
- the smallest horse in the world! Swan calls Bella mean names & shows off about
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Whether you are an established smallholder or just starting to take the first tentative steps towards farming at your home this book contains a wealth of useful information on all the key aspects of small-scale agriculture. The book covers the rural property
- buying a small farm preparing outbuildings & equipping it with machinery & tools; the land
- the kitchen garden protected cultivation orchards & pasture; livestock
- from bees rabbits & chickens to goats cattle & exotic species; & commercial considerations regulations & organic farming.


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