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Unworry Doodle Book
Alice James; Illustrated by Harry Briggs, Cristina Martins Recasens
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R272
R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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This simple book is full of starter doodles and lots of space, to
help children feel calmer and leave their worries on the page. It
includes mindfulness tips and reassurance.
For fans of My Brother is a Superhero and The Demon Headmaster
comes an outrageously funny story of brain control, friends,
enemies and saving the world, even if you don't really want to.
*From the award-winning writer of The Unbelievable Biscuit Factory*
Leeza's parents are ordinary. Unfit, grumpy, a bit embarrassing.
Totally normal, right? Until today. Today they are jogging. Eating
salads and enjoying them. Smiling all the time. They're happy.
Really, really happy. Who could complain about that? Leeza, that's
who. Because it looks like someone's brainwashing everyone in town.
Who's going to save the world? Oh no! It looks like it might have
to be Leeza. OK then. Let's do this. You coming? By the author of
The Unbelievable Biscuit Factory, winner of the Children's Novel
category in the Northern Writers' Awards, this book is a must for
anyone who wants something to make them snort with laughter.
This is the first fully comprehensive survey and analysis of masted
structures and covers examples that have evolved during the past
three decades. Masted Structures are one of the most interesting
developments in post-war architecture resulting from a combination
of technology, structural engineering theory and a collaboration
between architects and engineers. This is an essential guide for
architects to the structural and constructional implications of
masted forms in relation to space enclosure, patterns of loading
and use of differing materials and techniques. This useful volume
will enable architects and engineers to understand the origins,
development and nature of masted structures and will provide a
stimulating basis for future design.
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Unworry Doodle Book (Paperback)
Alice James; Illustrated by Harry Briggs, Cristina Martins Recasens
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R180
R144
Discovery Miles 1 440
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This simple book is full of starter doodles and lots of space, to
help children feel calmer and leave their worries on the page. It
includes mindfulness tips and reassurance.
In pre-modern religions from Asia we encounter unique scripts,
number systems, calendars, and naming conventions. These make the
Western-built world of consumer technology an ill fit to our needs.
Even tools specifically developed for Digital Humanities often do
not support our needs. The problems we face are particularly
specific, and therefore solutions are not going to come from anyone
but ourselves. However, the barrier to entry is still high for
graduate students and scholars without prior experience of digital
methods. Our volume aims to guide the enthusiastic colleague
through the first perilous phases of folding digital tools into
their toolset. We shall explain how to set the right expectations,
what type of work can be easiest automated or digitized, how you
set up and execute a digital project, and what the specific
pitfalls are that we need to look out for. We cover five religious
domains: 1) Judaism and Christianity, 2) Islam, 3) Hinduism and
Jainism, 4) Buddhism, and 5) Shintoism and Daoism. Concomitantly we
have identified eight topical domains: 1) mapping, 2) databases, 3)
cataloging, 4) corpus analysis, 5) encoding and editing, 6) online
media, 7) manuscript tagging, 8) reflections on the methodological
shift.
The biscuit factory in Haddie's hometown is absolutely 100% NOT a
Super-Secret Science Lab. Or a portal to another dimension. With
orange fluffy monsters. OH NO. DEFINITELY NOT. Or ... is it? A
laugh-out-loud biscuit-bonkers adventure for fans of My Brother is
a Superhero and Kid Normal. *Winner of the Northern Writers' Award*
I live near a biscuit factory. Sounds like a dream come true,
right? But it's not all fun and jammie dodgers. You see, the
biscuit factory is really a Super-Secret Science Lab. Everyone
pretends it makes biscuits. It just makes life easier. Until today.
Because the biscuit factory tore a hole through dimensions, and now
HUGE ORANGE MONSTERS are climbing through. Oh, and if we don't do
something, the world is going to go KABLOOEY in the next thirty
minutes. NOT ON MY WATCH. You coming? 'So funny you'll snort
custard creams out of your nose' Mr J Dodger
This is the first fully comprehensive survey and analysis of masted
structures and covers examples that have evolved during the past
three decades. Masted Structures are one of the most interesting
developments in post-war architecture resulting from a combination
of technology, structural engineering theory and a collaboration
between architects and engineers. This is an essential guide for
architects to the structural and constructional implications of
masted forms in relation to space enclosure, patterns of loading
and use of differing materials and techniques. This useful volume
will enable architects and engineers to understand the origins,
development and nature of masted structures and will provide a
stimulating basis for future design.
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Cockneys Vs Zombies (DVD)
Michelle Ryan, Georgia King, Honor Blackman, Harry Treadaway, Lee Asquith-Coe, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Bank-robbers unwittingly let loose a zombie horde onto the streets
of London, in this comedy horror from director Matthias Hoene. Andy
(Harry Treadaway) and Terry (Rasmus Hardiker) are determined to
save their grandad Ray (Alan Ford)'s care home by robbing a bank.
But when they break into a 350-year-old underground vault, the gang
of robbers realise they've bitten off more than they can chew when
they unleash a zombie army. With the undead looking for their next
meal, the gang, led by Katy (Michelle Ryan), must rescue the old
folks, all the while battling their way to freedom with their
hard-earned dosh.
The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often
polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial
portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new
assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking 2005 study,
leading international experts challenge many assumptions about
Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years with
contributions ranging across the political, economic, social,
cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era.
The volume provides a deeper understanding of the nature of
Stalin's power and of the role of ideas in his politics, presenting
a more complex and nuanced image of one of the most important
leaders of the twentieth century. This study is without precedent
in the field of Russian history and will prove invaluable reading
for students of Stalin and Stalinism.
The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often
polarized debate. The recent declassification of a substantial
portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new
assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking 2005 study,
leading international experts challenge many assumptions about
Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years with
contributions ranging across the political, economic, social,
cultural, ideological and international history of the Stalin era.
The volume provides a deeper understanding of the nature of
Stalin's power and of the role of ideas in his politics, presenting
a more complex and nuanced image of one of the most important
leaders of the twentieth century. This study is without precedent
in the field of Russian history and will prove invaluable reading
for students of Stalin and Stalinism.
Atlas of Comparative Vertebrate Histology looks at the histology of
a wide range of vertebrates, representative of all the major
classes and families, with examples ranging from amphioxus to
primates. The authors focus their microscope on commonly seen
vertebrates as well as 'non-standard' species, such as lamprey,
hagfish, dogfish, skate, rock bass, cod, river catfish, toad,
amphiuma, leopard and bull frog, garter and brown snake, Coturnix
quail and cowbird. The study of comparative histology in the
vertebrates helps students and researchers alike understand how
various groups have addressed similar problems, opening doors to
interesting research possibilities. Not all vertebrates follow the
mammalian model of tissue and organ structure. When dealing with
unique species, we see some structures taken beyond their 'normal'
function. Comparative histology allows us to understand the
structural responses underlying the physiology unique to each
vertebrate group.
When the Catholic Inquisitors persecuted Galileo for teaching that
the Earth moves through space, they did so because Galileo insisted
that this was the truth. The Church was quite prepared to tolerate
the notion of a moving Earth, so long as it was regarded as an
instrument useful for calculation, as true merely within a
particular framework which might be adopted or discarded for
reasons of convenience. For centuries Galilieo has been seen as a
heroic fighter for enlightenment against benighted tyranny, but
strangely enough, recent years have seen the rise, within Western
philosophy, of a wave of relativism, according to which Galileo was
wrong and his persecutors were correct. In the view of this new
relativism, which has roots in both the continental and analytic
traditions, there are no universal or trans-cultural standards of
rationality. Among the sources of the new relativism are the
failure of logical positivism and the shift within anthropology
from a single evolutionary model to several models for
understanding human culture. In this critique of relativism,
Professor Harris turns the techniques of relativism against
relativism, showing that it is ultimately self-refuting or
ineffectual. A number of methodological points are stressed in the
book. Quine's rejection of the anaytic-synthetic distinction
appeals to the very analytic truths Quine hopes to dispel. The
relativism arising from Goodman's "grue paradox" is innocuous,
since the paradox is not really concerned with induction. Kuhn's
theory of paradigms must be either self-refuting or
incomprehensible. Winch grossly distorts Wittgenstein's theory and
fails to show that basic notions of rationality are culturally
relative. Rorty cannot avoid presupposing the epistemological
principles he is attacking. Finally, feminist criticism of science
can exert a welcome corrective, but the notion of a distinctive
"feminist science" is indefensible (and counter-productive for
feminism).
Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately
three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary
execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy
terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror',
it is also among the most misunderstood moments in the history of
the twentieth century. The Terror gutted the ranks of factory
directors and engineers after three years in which all major plan
targets were met. It raged through the armed forces on the eve of
the Nazi invasion. The wholesale slaughter of party and state
officials was in danger of making the Soviet state ungovernable.
The majority of these victims of state repression in this period
were accused of participating in counter-revolutionary
conspiracies. Almost without exception, there was no substance to
the claims and no material evidence to support them. By the time
the terror was brought to a close, most of its victims were
ordinary Soviet citizens for whom 'counter-revolution' was an
unfathomable abstraction. In short, the Terror was wholly
destructive, not merely in terms of the incalculable human cost,
but also in terms of the interests of the Soviet leaders,
principally Joseph Stalin, who directed and managed it. The Great
Fear presents a new and original explanation of Stalin's Terror
based on intelligence materials in Russian archives. It shows how
Soviet leaders developed a grossly exaggerated fear of conspiracy
and foreign invasion and lashed out at enemies largely of their own
making.
2012 Reprint of Original 1946 Edition. Exact facsimile of the
original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
In the U.S. there was little activity in the field of lapidary
until the 1930s, when European craftsmen emigrated to New York to
serve the jewelry industry. In 1935 J. Harry Howard compiled all
the available information into his "Handbook for the Amateur
Lapidary." The demand for the book was great, so great that in 1946
the book was re-issued, with illustrations, as "Revised Lapidary
Handbook." It remains a classic book in the field.
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Tulip (Paperback)
Theodore James, Harry Haralambou
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R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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One of the most popular of all spring-flowering bulbs, the tulip
has a history that is as colourful as the flower itself. In the
1600s, in the heyday of "tulipomania", these blooms were rare, very
expensive and considered status symbols by European aristocrats.
Today, just about all of us can afford to "tiptoe through the
tulips" right in our own gardens. This easy-to-use, abundantly
illustrated guide tells novice and expert gardeners everything they
need to know to successfully grow many exquisite varieties of
tulip, from the bizarre Parrot to the classic Rembrandt.
Throughout history, nature has served as an inspiration for
architecture and designers have tried to incorporate the harmonies
and patterns of nature into architectural form. Alberti, Charles
Renee Macintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Courbusier are just a
few of the well- known figures who have taken this approach and
written on this theme. With the development of fractal geometry
-the study of intricate and interesting self- similar mathematical
patterns -in the last part of the twentieth century, the quest to
replicate nature's creative code took a stunning new turn. Using
computers, it is now possible to model and create the organic,
self-similar forms of nature in a way never previously realised. In
Fractal Architecture, architect James Harris presents a definitive,
lavishly illustrated guide that explains both the ""how"" and
""why"" of incorporating fractal geometry into architectural
design.
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