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In 1953 pioneering journalist Anne Scott-James started to write a
weekly column for the Sunday Express newspaper. 'The Anne
Scott-James Page' set the bar for a new way of writing. Scott-James
perfected the art of the short, sharp column - and many of the
topics she covered are equally on-trend today. She cogently
expressed her views on men, children, fashion, beauty, food,
interiors, travel, and anything else that took her fancy. Political
opinions might be squashed between thoughts on eyebrow tweezing and
a piece on swimsuit lines. Scott-James was a great believer in
entertaining her readers, and her columns are sharp, witty, to the
point, often very funny, sometimes very moving. In Hold the Front
Page! a selection of the Sunday Express columns is brought together
with a commentary by her daughter, writer Clare Hastings, and with
photographs from the Scott-James/Hastings family albums and
drawings by Osbert Lancaster, Scott-James's third husband, to
provide a fascinating insight into the 1950s - and into the public
and private life of one of the most celebrated columnists of the
twentieth century.
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Ladyhoppers
Scott James Taylor, Sarah Thérèse Pelletier
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R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
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Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons…
When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who
literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie
Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional adventure.
Charlie knows her calling is a weighty one, but she trusts her
mentor’s orders: Travel to another dimension, fix the tear, and
get home to do it all over again. But when she gets stuck on an
alternate Earth, she has to turn to the most unexpected of allies:
a younger, more eccentric, more infamous version of the brilliant
mind that sent her on her mission. This version of Vera Baum is as
much socialite as scientist, who seems to embrace the notion that
curiosity killed the cat, in the way that means she's determined to
use up all nine of her lives blasting through a kaleidoscope of
genre-bending realities. Things are going to get a lot worse before
they get better, especially when they’re pursued by
reality-eating parasites and a biomechanical hound hellbent on
killing Vera. Ladyhoppers is a genre-hopping, multiverse-spanning,
madcap buddy comedy packed full of flaming zeppelins, coffee shop
romances, car chases, dragon punching scientists, and more pirates
than you can shake a multi-limbed death machine at. Grab your
spacesuit, drink an espresso, and hold on tight—it’s gonna be a
bumpy ride!
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The Sower (Hardcover)
Scott James; Illustrated by Stephen Crotts
bundle available
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R406
R331
Discovery Miles 3 310
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Scripture paints a vivid picture of God as gardener and cultivator.
This book introduces this imagery to readers ages 5-10 in a
lyrical, engaging style to help them understand the story of
redemption and see God's creative work in the world.
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El Sembrador
Scott James
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R302
R252
Discovery Miles 2 520
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The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the
comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up
dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity,
the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable
scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe that extends from our
immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. But
when the mind balks at the vertiginous complexity of the universe,
science unveils the elegance amid the chaos. In this book, Thomas
R. Scott ventures into the known and the unknown to explain our
universe and the laws that govern it. The Universe as It Really Is
begins with physics and the building blocks of the universe-time,
gravity, light, and elementary particles-and chemistry's ability to
explain the interactions among them. Scott, with the assistance of
James Lawrence Powell, next tours the earth and atmospheric
sciences to explain the forces that shape our planet and then takes
off for the stars to describe our place in the cosmos. He provides
vivid introductions to our collective scientific inheritance,
narrating discoveries such as the shape of the atom and the nature
of the nucleus or how we use GPS to measure time and what that has
to do with relativity. A clear demonstration of the power of
scientific reasoning to bring the incomprehensible within our
grasp, The Universe as It Really Is gives an engrossing account of
just how much we do understand about the world around us.
Understanding the key components of the diagnosis, assessment and
management of inflammatory arthritis patients is essential to
improving patient care. This book aims to cover these areas. It
places inflammatory arthritis into a historical context; deals with
the epidemiology, pathology, clinical assessment and investigation
of inflammatory arthritis patients and provides a comprehensive
overview of currently available treatment options. It provides
insight into stratified medicine, an area of emerging importance in
the management of heterogeneous diseases like RA. Finally, it
provides an overview of what treatments strategies are in
development.
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Scottish Stories (Hardcover)
Walter Scott, James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, John Buchan, …
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R330
R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
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Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly
literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two
centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis
Stevenson, Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes; side-splittingly
funny stories from Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh; a stylish
offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain Crichton Smith
evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands, George Mackay-Brown the
Orkney islands, Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow; while Leila
Aboulela, originally from Sudan, ponders the relations between
colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is
no one 'Scottishness' that binds the authors together, writes
editor Gerard Carruthers, each has a Scottish footprint or accent.
And perhaps more importantly, all are masters of their form.
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