A radical work of philosophy which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche & Marx the Western tradition has been based on arrogant & erroneous beliefs about human beings & their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism & Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits & conquer the Earth. Even in the present day despite Darwins discoveries nearly all schools of thought take as their starting point the belief that humans are radically different from other animals. John Gray argues that this humanist belief in human difference is an illusion & explores how the world & human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. ...

Michael Marshalls unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot combining dazzling narrative a white-hot pace & a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy. Sarah tries to struggle but the man holds her. The scream never makes it out of her throat. Nobody watching the man says with hateful calm. I made it this way. I can walk where nobody sees. The Straw Men. They kill people. Any people. & soon theyll get around to you. Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found her long hair will be hacked off & she will be tortured. She has about a week to live. Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator -- his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago. But the key to Sarahs whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. His parents have just died in a car accident but they leave Ward a very strange message that leads him to question everything he once believed to be true. As he begins to investigate his own past Ward finds himself drawn into the shadowy sinister world of the Straw Men -- & into the desperate race to find Sarah before her time runs out. ...

A musical merry-go-round of 51 of the best-known & best-loved traditional songs from around the British Isles including Cockles & mussels the Skye boat song Danny Boy Charlie is my darling Loch Lomond & many more.. . The book

Includes:: piano & guitar accompaniments & playalong percussion ideas as well as historical notes & useful background information to enrich the learning experience.

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Liverpool: Christmas Day 1924. When twelve-year-old Sara Cordwainer the unloved child of rich & fashionable parents sees a ragged girl with a baby in her arms outside her church she stops to talk to her pressing her collection money into the girl's icy h&. But from this generous act comes a tragedy which will haunt her for years. When years later Sara meets Brogan a young Irishman working in England she feels she has found a friend at last. But Brogan has a secret which he dare tell no one not even Sara. & in a Dublin slum Brogan's little sister Polly is growing up. The only girl in a family of boys she knows herself to be much loved but it is not until Sara begins to work at the Salvation Army children's home Strawberry Fields that the two girls meet
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Eighteen-year-old Jenna is sharing a flat in Brohl Germany with her friends Caro & Merle when a girl is killed nearby. The murder seems to have parallels with two other frightening crimes. Then one day Caro is found murdered
- stabbed seven times & with her necklace missing just like the other girls. At the funeral Jenna swears revenge in front of everybody & in turn attracts the attention of Nat a handsome & mysterious strawberry picker. With Jenna sidetracked by love Merle sets about solving Caros murder herself. But as the answer dawns on her another horrifying reality emerges.
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Dont look back. It wants you to look back. Londons soul has gone missing. Lost? Kidnapped? Murdered? Nobody knows
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Campbell Road was home to the most notorious criminals: thieves prostitutes fraudsters -- every sort of rogue & vagabond drifted through this slum. Life was tough! but so were they Alice Keiver is a sensitive girl growing up in one of the roughest parts of North London. As the daughter of an alcoholic mother & niece of an abusive uncle she dreams that one day she & her baby sister will escape their rotten surroundings. Alices father Jack Keiver works day & night to provide for his family. But his hopes for a better life are dashed each time he returns home to find the money-jar raided & his feisty wife Tilly collapsed drunk in the corner. In the room below Alices downtrodden Aunt Fran spends most of her days nursing the injuries inflicted on her by her cruel husband Jimmy -- but this time hes pushed the family too far & theyre not going to let him get away with it. Revenge is going to be sweet. ...

A message from Dave the Chimp: Colouring books are boring! Grown-ups have no idea what us kids want to see & do. We know that painting & drawing & making things is fun! Luckily some grown-ups never forget this & thats why they become artists so that the fun of making & doing never stops! All the drawings in this book are made by artists that usually make their art in the street (sometimes called Graffiti or Street artists). They put art in places its not supposed to be make art to make the world smile like to have fun & dont care about the rules. & they dont care if you colour inside or outside of the lines. So have fun with this book. Fill the pages with colour. Add your own drawings or copy the ones that are here. Cut them out & stick them on your bedroom walls. Help us to make this world a more colourful place. & remember
- outside the lines is fine! Outside the Lines" enables you to find your inner street artist without leaving your home. Aimed at children small & large this book challenges you to create your own street art on the page inspired by some of the best street artists from around the world."
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San Franciscos legendary Mission District boasts a greater concentration of street art than any other neighbourhood in the world. Beginning in the early 1970s as a form of social & political activism a vibrant public mural movement has flourished in this dynamic multicultural community. The result is a spectacular ever-changing urban landscape transformed by the artistic convergence of traditional Mexican mural painting folk art Surrealism Pop art underground comics advertising & graffiti. With 900 stunning photographs this provocative book showcases more than three decades of work by a diverse array of artists from the conspicuously anonymous to the internationally famous. Gronk Rigo Las Mujeres Muralistas Barry Mc Gee (Twist) R. Crumb Spain Rodriguez Michael Rio Chuy Campusano Susan Cervantes & Neckface are among the many who have made the streets of the Mission their public gallery. Both reverent & subversive essays & commentaries by writers & artists involved with the movement document the artistic social & political forces that have shaped Mission Muralismo. ...

This book is a pure celebration of the art of the stencil. It is a book of stencils that can be used & treasured or just simply be an inspiration to others to create. The 20 stencils featured printed on perforated card stock so that they can be torn out & used have been created by an impressive list of international street artists from the masters to the new kids on the block. Each artist has created an in-situ photograph to accompany their stencil showing how they would use it along with other imagery. There is also a short biography for each artist. The book opens with an interview with the founder of stencil art the Paris-based artist Blek Le Rat who has also created a stencil for the book. A collectors item in its own right the book is a must for artists illustrators & anyone who loves street art. ...