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Pootjies (Afrikaans, Hardcover)
Richard Jones; Illustrated by Richard Jones; Translated by Kristel de Weerd
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R163
Discovery Miles 1 630
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Ships in 4 - 8 working days
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Soms voel die wêreld so reusagtig, en jy so klein. En dan is ’n onverwagse vriend, en ’n titseltjie toorkuns, net wat jy nodig het om die dapperheid uit jou uit te bring.
Dié pragtige verhaal gaan oor Kara en haar ma wat na ’n nuwe huis trek. In die huis ontmoet sy haar denkbeeldige vriend, die sneeuleeu, wat haar stadig maar seker aanmoedig om nuwe maats te maak. Dis ’n klassieke, betowerende boek oor vriendskap.
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Quiet
Richard Jones; Tom Percival
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R168
Discovery Miles 1 680
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Quiet is a touching tale of courage and how sometimes the
smallest voice can deliver the biggest message. From highly
acclaimed creators Tom Percival  and Richard Jones,
collaborating for the first time. Also by Tom Percival: The Sea Saw
The Invisible The River Also by Richard Jones: Perdu Little Bear
Where Have You Been, Little Cat? Â
The official children's book to the Netflix original documentary
series, Our Planet, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. This
glorious visual celebration of the natural world combines
extraordinary photography from the series with stunning
illustrations from acclaimed artist, Richard Jones. Lose yourself
in icy landscapes, dense jungles and endless oceans. Learn how our
fascinating habitats, and the plants and creatures living there,
interconnect to create the one place we all call home - Our Planet.
This beautifully written and informative book for children has an
uplifting message of hope that will strike a chord with all the
family. The perfect gift for families the world over to treasure
forever. 'You will be among the next characters who can, if they
wish, tell the most extraordinary story of all - how human beings
in the twenty-first century came to their senses and started to
protect Planet Earth' Sir David Attenborough
"A wonderful book for kids to curl up with at bedtime" - The
Observer "Full of delight and warmth and tenderness" - Sunday Times
On Monday, a boy finds a polar bear in his garden... only, this
polar bear is so small he can fit in the palm of the boy's hand.
"Are you lost, Little Bear?" the boy asks. "Can I help you?" Day by
day the bear grows - and so does their friendship - until the boy
realises that it's time for the bear to go home. A tender,
stunningly illustrated fable about letting go with love from the
creator of Perdu. Also by Richard Jones: Perdu Where Have You Been
Little Cat? Written by Jim Helmore and illustrated by Richard Jones
The Snow Lion Paper Planes
A spectacular advent calendar book filled with festive poems,
hidden surprises and a magical fold-out frieze! Count down to
Christmas with well-loved poets, including Ogden Nash, Nikki
Giovanni, John Agard and Christina Rossetti and joyful artwork from
Richard Jones. Peek inside the windows of the house to find a
family wrapping presents, take a look behind a holly bush to find a
little mouse and see what's happening in the town behind a
glittering Christmas tree! This classic Christmas collection has a
flap to lift alongside a special poem for every day of advent and a
fold-out concertina displaying a beautiful snowy landscape. With
sturdy flaps, sparkling foil and a ribbon tie closure, this
beautiful gift book from the National Trust is designed to be
shared together as the days get closer to Christmas - filling your
family with festive cheer, year after year.
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Quiet
Richard Jones; Tom Percival
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R263
Discovery Miles 2 630
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Quiet is a touching tale of courage and how sometimes the
smallest voice can deliver the biggest message. From highly
acclaimed creators Tom Percival and Richard Jones, collaborating
for the first time. Also by Tom Percival: The Sea Saw The Invisible
The River Also by Richard Jones: Perdu Little Bear Where Have You
Been, Little Cat?
Universally acclaimed as the book on garbage collection. A complete
and up-to-date revision of the 2012 Garbage Collection Handbook.
Thorough coverage of parallel, concurrent and real-time garbage
collection algortithms including C4, Garbage First, LXR,
Shenandoah, Transactional Sapphire and ZGC, and garbage collection
on the GPU. Clear explanation of the trickier aspects of garbage
collection, including the interface to the run-time system,
handling of finalisation and weak references, and support for
dynamic languages. New chapters on energy aware garbage collection,
and persistence and garbage collection. The e-book includes more
than 40,000 hyperlinks to algorithms, figures, glossary entries,
indexed items, original research papers and much more. Backed by a
comprehensive online database of over 3,400 garbage
collection-related publications
A collection of “how-to” poems on all sorts of subjects and from all around the world, edited and illustrated by two major talents.
Find a patch of unbroken snow; dye your hair green with purple spots; slowly breathe in and out; bounce in your space-boots ... and don’t take off your helmet, whatever you do! A “how-to” poem shows the steps in a process – here, award-winning anthologist Paul B. Janeczko presents charming examples of the genre. There are over thirty poems in this beautiful, memorable treasury, each one illustrated with elegance and flair by picture-book talent Richard Jones. The poets featured are from around the world and through history, bringing together classic writers like Christina Rossetti and modern stars such as Kwame Alexander. And their poems pose all sorts of questions. Some are lyrical (How do you build a poem?), others seemingly practical (How do you mix a pancake?), many more wry (How do you pay attention?). But they all share something in common: answers that are certain to delight and intrigue...
The adorable new picture book from the internationally acclaimed
author of Perdu and Little Bear celebrates senses and emotions as
readers are invited into Little Cat's world... As a little cat
rushes in from a day's adventuring, her owner asks her where she's
been and what she's seen. Was she happy? Was she brave? Was she
kind? The richly imagined answers, depicted in beautifully
nostalgic illustrations and a direct, simple text, encourage
empathy, conversation and imagination. It has all the hallmarks of
a modern classic. Praise for Little Bear by Richard Jones: "Full of
delight and warmth and tenderness" - Sunday Times "A wonderful book
for kids to curl up with at bedtime" - Observer Also by Richard
Jones: Perdu Little Bear Illustrated by Richard Jones and written
by Jim Helmore: The Snow Lion Paper Planes
10th anniversary edition. New entries and citizenship test.
Tangent's biggest selling local book. Perfect gift book for young
and old. Harry Stoke and Vinny Green launched the Dictionary of
Bristle in 2003 to celebrate the remarkable success of their
thatbebristle website a hilarious spoof news page with a passing
similarity to the Bristol Evening Post's thisisbristol website. At
its peak, the website enjoyed astonishing success and the
Dictionary was originally published to help readers understand the
nuances of the Bristolian words and phrases. The website is long
gone, but the Dictionary goes from strength to strength and sells
particularly strongly at Christmas through supermarkets as well as
the traditional booktrade and in gift shops. Tangent Books acquired
the Dictionary from Broadcast books in 2009 and released a third
edition. The updated fourth edition celebrates the 10th anniversary
of the original Dictionary. The book is now accepted worldwide as
the authoritative guide to speaking Bristolian and has been
responsible for a whole new generation of Bristolians reclaiming
their distinctive dialect. Within two years of the publication of
the Dictionary of Bristle the Bristolian word 'lush' was added to
the Oxford English Dictionary.
Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a
milestone in the area of automatic memory management. The field has
grown considerably since then, sparking a need for an updated look
at the latest state-of-the-art developments. The Garbage Collection
Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management brings together a
wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management
researchers and developers over the past fifty years. The authors
compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art
techniques in a single, accessible framework. The book addresses
new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in
hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these
changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage
collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book
covers parallel, incremental, concurrent, and real-time garbage
collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with
pseudocode and illustrations. The nearly universal adoption of
garbage collection by modern programming languages makes a thorough
understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This
authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different
collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing
garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge, programmers can
confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage
collectors. Web ResourceThe book's online bibliographic database at
www.gchandbook.org includes over 2,500 garbage collection-related
publications. Continually updated, it contains abstracts for some
entries and URLs or DOIs for most of the electronically available
ones. The database can be searched online or downloaded as BibTeX,
PostScript, or PDF. E-bookThis edition enhances the print version
with copious clickable links to algorithms, figures, original
papers and definitions of technical terms. In addition, each index
entry links back to where it was mentioned in the text, and each
entry in the bibliography includes links back to where it was
cited.
An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series. The
shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with diversity
in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology and
behaviour. But they are not commonly known, outside of specialist
circles. Richard Jones’ groundbreaking New Naturalist volume on
shieldbugs encourages those enthusiasts who would otherwise be put
off by the, to date, rather technical literature that has dominated
the field, providing a comprehensive natural history of this
fascinating and beautiful group of insects.
An autobiography of Big Issue seller, Graham Walker.
The shieldbug is an amazing and beautiful species, rich with
diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology
and behaviour. But they are not commonly known, outside of
specialist circles. Richard Jones’ groundbreaking New Naturalist
volume on shieldbugs encourages those enthusiasts who would
otherwise be put off by the, to date, rather technical literature
that has dominated the field, providing a comprehensive natural
history of this fascinating and beautiful group of insects.
A wildlife-friendly garden provides year round entertainment whilst
providing food, drink and shelter for a range of species. This
volume gives clear and practical advice on how to create a wildlife
haven in your back garden and how to enjoy it through the changing
seasons.
Information technology has served to revolutionise the use,
exchange, and protection of information. The growth of the
internet, the convergence of technologies as well as the
development of user generated and social networking sites has meant
that significant amounts of person data as well as copyrighted
materials are now readily accessible. Within this changing cultural
landscape the legal concepts of privacy, data protection,
intellectual property and criminality have necessarily had to
develop and adapt. In this volume a number of international
scholars consider this process and whether it has merely been a
question of the law adapting to technology or whether technology
has been forced to adapt to law. Technologies have wrought a
culture shift it is therefore apposite to ask whether legal
concepts, as reflections of culture, should also change. It is in
this volume where papers on privacy date protection, intellectual
protection and cyber crime begin address this question.
This book was published as a special issue of International
review of Law Computers and Technology.
Originally published in 1976, Supply in a Market Economy was a new
kind of introductory micro-economics text which both assesses the
usefulness of traditional theory in tackling social and economic
problems and compares and contrasts the alternative approaches to
the practical problems inherent in the allocation of scarce
resources. Richard Jones has succeeded in bringing together the
most useful features of a standard microeconomics theory book with
empirical and applied material more usually dealt with separately
in second year surveys of industrial organisation. The book gives
full coverage to the standard theories of the firm, of production,
of cost and scale, and of location, to recent critiques of these
theories and to alternative approaches now being proposed.
Integrated into this theoretical background is a clear analysis of
the relationship of these theories to market structures and the
economics of industry, and a ‘real-world’ examination of
markets in action – with individual sections on the control of
rents, on the water supply industry, on the effect of taxation on
commodities, and on the economics of crime and its prevention.
Supply in a Market Economy would prove to be an invaluable new
course-book for first and second year students of microeconomics at
the time and particularly for those non-specialists who were
impatient to see the relevance and applications of traditional
theory to real problems. Now it can be read in its historical
context.
'A wonderful book for kids to curl up with at bedtime, as cosy as
an embrace from a fluffy polar bear' - Observer 'Full of delight
and warmth and tenderness' - Sunday Times On Monday, a boy finds a
polar bear in his garden... only, this polar bear is so small he
can fit in the palm of the boy's hand. "Are you lost, Little Bear?"
the boy asks. "Can I help you?" Day by day the bear grows - and so
does their friendship - until the boy realises that it's time for
the bear to go home. A tender, stunningly illustrated fable about
letting go with love from the creator of Perdu. Also by Richard
Jones: Perdu Written by Jim Helmore and illustrated by Richard
Jones The Snow Lion Paper Planes
Includes atmospheric pictures and information on dates and times
when ghosts are most likely to appear, practical data on opening
times and transport and easy-to-follow route map for each walk Now
made available again in paperback and written for the most intrepid
London visitors and residents, this spine-chilling guide wends it
way through eerie and, in many cases, long-forgotten parts of
England's capital city. From Deadman's Walk and the Screaming Wood
to Dick Turpin and Jack the Ripper, professional tour guide and
inveterate ghost hunter Richard Jones leaves no haunted house or
lost soul unmentioned. Join him on a hair-raising journey through
the shadowed alleyways, sleepy pubs and the darkest recesses of
London's historic homes.
A pond serves as a visual focus for any garden whilst providing a
cool oasis where you can get away from it all. This volume gives
you clear, concise advice on how to plan, build and maintain a pond
even in the most modest garden - and without spending a fortune.
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