The shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science green hype corporate greed & political opportunism led to the biggest
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Watership Down" by Richard Adams is a true classic. This stirring tale of courage & survival against the odds has become one of the best-loved animal adventures of all time. ' We've got to go away before it's too late.' Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren
- he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel for Fiver's sixth sense was never wrong. They had to leave immediately & they had to persuade the other rabbits to join them. & so begins a long & perilous journey of a small band of rabbits in search of a safe home. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down but here they face their most difficult challenge of all..." Watership Down" is an epic journey a stirring tale of adventure courage & survival against the odds. First published in 1972 this paperback reissue with a stunning new cover celebrates its 40th anniversary. Winner of the Carnegie Medal & the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. "A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren & the subsequent adventures of the rebels. Adams has a poetic eye & a gift for storytelling which will speak to readers of all ages for many years to come". (" Sunday Times"). "A masterpiece. The best story about wild animals since " The Wind in the Willows". Very funny exciting often moving". (" Evening Standard"). "A great book. A whole world is created perfectly real in itself yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs". (" Guardian"). Richard Adams grew up in Berkshire the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford he spent six years in the army & then went into the Civil Service. He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters & they insisted he publish it as a book. It quickly became a huge success with both children & adults & won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award & the Carnegie Medal in 1972. Richard Adams has written many novels & short stories including " Shardik" & " The Plague Dogs"."
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40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits
- Watership Down" is one of the most
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Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren
- he felt sure of it. So did his brother Hazel for
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30 great family walks around the Derbyshire Peak District centred on rivers reservoirs & canals. A fascinating insight into how the various water features operate & evolve combined with stunning scenery & interesting landmarks. A complete walking experience. The walks visit all the major water features in the Peak District organised into five areas with clear instructions on travel as well on the walk route itself. Once completed the reader will have enjoyed & understood the key aspects of how rivers (with mills weirs & underground caverns) shape the landscape how the canals were built & supplied with water & how our drinking water reservoirs are managed. ...

Left impoverished upon the death of her aunt Emma Watson has no option but to be reunited with her estranged father & siblings. Initially delighted with her new life
- including the fashionable society balls she now has access to
- Emma soon realises that her family harbour many ill feelings not least those springing from the sisters hopes
- & disappointments
- in snaring a husb&. So when the eligible & suitably rich Tom Musgrove begins to transfer his affections from her sister Margaret to her the result can only be further sibling rivalry & unrest.



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Laurie isnt sure what to make of The Wave. It had begun as a simple history experiment to liven up their World War II studies & had become a craze that was taking over their lives. Lauries classmates were changing from normal teenagers into chanting saluting fanatics. The Wave was sweeping through the school
- & it was out of control. Lauries friends scoff at her warnings but she knows she must make them see what they have become before its too late. This book is based on a nightmarish true episode in a Californian high school.
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The book opens & we are inside the wave: thirty feet high moving at twenty-five mph racing two miles inl&. & from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story
- the loss of her two boys her husband & her parents
- without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow anger & guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; & then reluctantly emerging & over the ensuing years slowly allowing her memory to function again. Then she goes back through the rich & joyous life she's mourning from her family's home in London to the birth of her children to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge to her childhood in Colombo while learning the balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss & her fundamental need to keep her family somehow still with her.

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The book opens & we are inside the wave: thirty feet high moving at twenty-five mph racing two miles inl&. & from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story
- the loss of her two boys her husband & her parents
- without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow anger & guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; & then reluctantly emerging & over the ensuing years slowly allowing her memory to function again. Then she goes back through the rich & joyous life she's mourning from her family's home in London to the birth of her children to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge to her childhood in Colombo while learning the balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss & her fundamental need to keep her family somehow still with her.

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This introduction to wavelet analysis from the ground level & up & to wavelet-based statistical analysis of time series focuses on practical discrete time techniques with detailed descriptions of the theory & algorithms needed to understand & implement the discrete wavelet transforms. Numerous examples illustrate the techniques on actual time series. The many embedded exercises
- with complete solutions provided in the Appendix
- allow readers to use the book for self-guided study. Additional exercises can be used in a classroom setting. A Web site offers access to the time series & wavelets used in the book as well as information on accessing software in S-Plus & other languages. Students & researchers wishing to use wavelet methods to analyze time series will find this book essential.

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