This Stamp book has everything you need to collect enjoy & enhance your World Stamp Collection. It has 64 pages showing country name capital population & currency. A handy guide on how to collect stamps is included as well as a space for your details & a running total. There’s even a guide to mounting & a reference for helping you match stamps with old country names to their new countries!

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Dimensions of the book are approximately: H 298 x W 210mm There is a grid on each page measuring approximately: H 225 x W 194mm



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Create your own designs for light coloured T-shirts
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Are you always late? Do you frequently lose your keys or important documents? Do you double-book appointments by mistake? Everyone does these things occasionally but if disorganisation becomes a habit you may find it hard to change your ways. While most organising books simply offer good tips for changing the symptoms of disorganisation in WHY AM I SO DISORGANISED? Dr Marilyn Paul helps you identify & transform the root causes by teaching you how to recognise habits of thought & action that contribute to disorder & by motivating you to make changes that direct you to a more rewarding way of life. By combining practical how-to tips (such as how to organise your paperwork) with a holistic & insightful approach in to the way you might want to live your life Dr Marilyn Paul shows you a unique way to develop inner calm by constructively dealing with the disorder that surrounds you. ...

This Classic New Scientist Q& As
- now fully illustrated. Illustrated for the first time with eighty full-colour photographs
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One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights a free press & the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the West is essentially a force for good in the wider world. Why Are We The Good Guys? is a provocative challenge of this false ideology. David Cromwell digs beneath standard accounts of crucial issues such as foreign policy climate change & the constant struggle between state-corporate power & genuine democracy. The powerful evidence-based analysis of current affairs is leavened by some of the formative experiences that led the author to question the basic myth of Western benevolence: from schoolroom experiments in democracy exposure to radical ideas at home & a mercy mission while at sea; to an unexpected encounter with former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook the struggles to publish hard-hitting journalism & the founding of Media Lens in 2001. ...

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington an adopted child & the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story a painful past written over & repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt & humour & a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness about lessons in love the search for a mother & a journey into madness & out again. It is generous honest & true." ...

In 1985 Jeanette Wintersons first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up & be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award become an international bestseller & inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. " Oranges" was semi-autobiographical. Mrs Winterson a thwarted giantess loomed over that novel & its authors life. When Jeanette finally left her home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman Mrs Winterson asked her: why be happy when you could be normal? This book is the story of a lifes work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother who has two sets of false teeth & a revolver in the duster drawer waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition part of a community now vanished; & about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over & repainted returned to haunt her later life & sent her on a journey into madness & out again in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other peoples stories showing how fiction & poetry can form a string of guiding lights a life-raft which supports us when we are sinking. Funny acute fierce & celebratory this is a tough-minded search for belonging for love an identity a home & a mother." ...

By tackling the most central ideas in chemistry Why Chemical Reactions Happen provides the reader with all the tools & concepts needed to think like a chemist. The text takes a unified approach to the subject aiming to help the reader develop a real overview of chemical processes by avoiding the traditional divisions of physical inorganic & organic chemistry. To understand how chemical reactions happen we need to know about the bonding in molecules how molecules interact what determines whether an interaction is favourable or not & what the outcome will be. Answering these questions requires an understanding of topics from quantum mechanics through thermodynamics to curly arrows". In this book all of these topics are presented in a coherent & coordinated fashion showing how each leads to a deeper understanding of chemical reactions." ...

Christians & Muslims together make up about 57% of the worlds population today & by the end of the century they will constitute about 66% of the worlds population. More than any other single factor the wellbeing of our children & grandchildren may depend on how well Christians learn to relate to Muslims
- & Hindus the next largest faith not to mention Buddhists Jews people of indigenous faiths & the nonreligious. We know how to have a strong Christian identity that is intolerant of or belligerent towards other faiths & we know how to have a weak Christian identity that is tolerant & benevolent. But is there a third alternative? How do we discover live teach & practise a Christian identity that is both strong & benevolent towards other faiths? In this provocative & inspiring book author Brian McLaren tackles some of the hardest questions around the issue of interfaith relations & shares a hopeful vision of the reconciliation that Jesus offers to our multi-faith world.
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WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME...that the gurus dont always know best.. .that you dont have to get your figure back six weeks after birth.. .that you dont need to worry about the other parents at the school gates.. .that its okay to let them eat dirt.. .that you dont have to have a naughty step & most importantly.. .that you should never buy a guinea pig? Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com & based on the assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to be helpful then you can be pretty sure its worth knowing this book shapes that collective wisdom into dozens of dos & donts that will lead you through the minefield that is twenty-first-century parenting. ...