Designed to appeal to infants this board book contains high-contrast images which babies of all ages find stimulating. Developed in consultation with mothers this series has been specifically designed to engage babies & hold their interest as they start to make connections with the world around them. ...

Second collection from the poet of powerful emotions & vivid imagery The Zoo Father underlines the authors reputation as a questing poet capable of outstanding imagistic flourishes & surprising associations. This extraordinary & powerful volume is comprised of two sections the first about with the poets relationship with her father the second with her mother. Section One is heavily imbued with imagery of the poets travels in South America & her researches in the cultures & ecology of the Venezuelan. Pain anger bewilderment are refracted through a rich often sensual imagery of fauna hallucinatory drugs & tribal beliefs. This gives the poems their originality & prevents subject matter of childhood abandonment & abuse becoming too harrowing. The imagery adapted from shamanistic beliefs is especially memorable. Section Two is set in southern France in an almost equally exotic location of vineyards & dinosaur plateaux. It concerns the poets family holidays in the vineyard" & her rediscovery & subsequent repossession of that place. Once again the poems delineate a primary relationship (with the poets mother) with the lushness of the imagery putting into surprising context the development of that relationship." ...

Introduce preschool children to the animals & day-to-day life in a big zoo with Ladybird's Zoo Hullaballoo!" This informative big noisy book has eight different realistic sounds that really bring the noises of a zoo to life. Follow Zookeeper Annabel as she goes about her rounds of all the different animal enclosures & zoo areas over the course of a day. From checking on the big cats & hosing down the elephant to feeding the penguins looking after the reptiles & cleaning out the monkeys there's a different part of the zoo to explore with additional labels that pick out interesting features or animals to talk about together & a ladybird to spot on every page. Children will love pressing the colourful sound buttons to join in with the story & making the noises of the zoo buggy roaring lion cheeky monkey trumpeting elephant splashing penguin & more! " Ladybird's Zoo Hullaballoo!" is a fun & educational sound book for all young children interested in wild animals." ...

' For many years I had wanted to start a zoo.. .any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first & obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by tackling it in a logical fashion'. A Zoo in My Luggage" is Gerald Durrell's account of his attempt to set up his own zoo after years spent gathering animals for other zoos. Journeying to Cameroon he & his wife collected numerous mammals birds & reptiles including Cholmondely the chimpanzee & Bug-eye the bush-baby. But their problems really began when they attempted to return with their exotic menagerie. Not only had they to get them safely home to Britain but they also had to find somewhere able &
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- willing to house them. Told with wit & a zest for all things furry & feathered Gerald Durrell's "A Zoo in My Luggage" is a brilliant account of how a pioneer of wildlife preservation came to found a new type of zoo."

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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa a strikingly beautiful red-head contrary highly strung & blazingly angry. The trouble is he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother Poppy. More like sisters than mother & daughter they come as a pair a blistering presence that destroys Guys peace of mind suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them. Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading Guy fears is finished. His publisher fearing the same has committed suicide. His agent like all agents is in hiding. Vanessa in the meantime is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesnt expect her to finish it or even start it but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment & universal despair Guy wonders if its time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead but desire isnt. & out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry elegiac & rude Zoo Time is a novel about love
- love of women love of literature love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
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Concerns about the recent explosions of diseases like HIV the West Nile Virus & other avian & swine flus that originate in animals have encouraged new efforts on a global scale to bridge the gap between animal & human medicine for the benefit of both. Zoobiquity" is the first book to explore many of the human & animal health issues that overlap & provides new insight into the treatment of many diseases including diabetes cancer heart disease & mental illness. But Zoobiquity is even bigger than health & academic medicine & encompasses much more than our diseases & how to cure them. It sheds light on the evolution of hierarchies & similarities between a tribe of apes & a Fortune 500 company. It suggests that the ways we run our political & justice systems may overlap with how animals protect & defend their territories
- & that examining this possibility in a scientifically credible way could help strengthen our institutions. It dangles the possibility that human parenting could be informed by a greater knowledge & respect for how our animal cousins solve issues of childcare sibling rivalry & infertility."
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This bright pink Zoodle pencil case is fun & works hard to protect your contents with a clever hard case exterior. The pencil case opens up fully to lie flat with a black canvas interior. Inside features a 5 pocket area for your pens & pencils & other side 2 mesh pockets for equipment. Comes pre-filled with useful stationery including; scissors pencil double ended ballpen/highlighter pen & a cool 30.5 cm long bright pink flexible eraser! ...

Come on a fantastic adventure to the moon & deep into space! This exciting book is full of amazing astronauts & super space vehicles including moon buggies lunar modules robot spacecraft & lots more! From the creators of the bestselling Dig Dig Digging. ...

Set before the start of the First World War this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives he meets Alexis Zorba a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a family & many lovers has fought in the Balkan wars has lived & loved
- he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully & without shame. As their friendship develops the Englishman is gradually won over transformed & inspired along with the reader.
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Saul David's Zulu: The Heroism & Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879" is a fascinating look at the most controversial & brutal British imperial conflict of the nineteenth century. The real story of the Anglo-Zulu war was one of deception dishonour incompetence & dereliction of duty by Lord Chelmsford who invaded Zululand without the knowledge of the British Government. But it did not go to plan & there were many political repercussions. Using new material from archives in Britain & South Africa Saul David blows the lid on this most sordid of imperial wars & comes to a number of startling new conclusions. " Saul David's brilliant & magisterial account must now be regarded as the definitive history of the Zulu War". (Frank Mc Lynn " Literary Review"). " This meticulously detailed book.. .give[s] a fully rounded & judicious account of this dismal conflict". (" Guardian"). " Fascinating thrilling convincing.. .reads like a novel". (" Economist"). Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham & the author of several critically acclaimed history books including " The Indian Mutiny: 1857" (shortlisted for the Westminster Medal for Military Literature) " Zulu: The Heroism & Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879" (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year) & most recently " Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire"." ...