![]() ![]() ![]() This is an American book so some of the cars, trucks and fire engines may look a little unfamiliar. Prepare to be dazzled along the journey by more vehicles than you ever thought existed all illustrated and labelled. That’s a quiet page in Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. In and around Ma and Pa Pig’s house there are no less than seven motors. The pig family are heading out for a picnic and – goodness – they are going to have some ride! This is the loose storyline that functions as a vehicle (pun intended) to introduce a mind-boggling array of ‘things that go’. Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books This is a special anniversary edition clad in a Paul Smith designer wrap adding style and interactive fun to this 70’s classic. ![]() Summary: Fasten your seat belt for a bumpy ride with Richard Scarry and his ‘Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sherlock Holmes guides us through the evidence and accusations, while you decide 'who dunnit?' Seller Inventory Number #00870SH Condition: Très bon état, Condition: Very good. The inspector, the accused, the prostitute, the asylum-keeper and eight other witnesses give their evidence. Book in slightly creased ''One Mutilated body One Unlikely suspect Twelve Accounts of the crime. David & Charles 1989 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top of spine else fine. David & Charles 1989 First Edition First Printing, 1989. Numéro de l'objet: 114563242136 Sherlock Holmes Investigates the Murder in Euston Square by Ronald Pearsall. A first edition of this modern Sherlock Holmes tale, written by Ronald Pearsall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Firstly, given that Sandy has never had a bad dream, how can MiM convince him how important this new role is to the happy-being of children everywhere? And secondly, how can MiM keep this snoozy ally awake long enough to help? So Sanderson Mansnoozie seems the perfect choice. Since good dreams always trump bad ones, this means Pitch, the Nightmare King, will be further thwarted in his nefarious quest to terrorize children. ![]() His keen eye falls upon a sleepy little fellow living on a sleepy little island who is a sweet-dreamer extraordinaire. ![]() One foggy night, the Man in the Moon has a startling thought: When the moon is less than full and bright, who will keep children safe at night? He needs a backup plan! Or a backup Guardian, as it were. The second picture book in Academy Award winner William Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood series tells how the Sandman dreamed up his sweet-dreams legacy. Don't miss The Rise of the Guardians, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters November 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What would it really be like to meet an alternate version of yourself, another you who had made different choices and lived a completely different life as a result? That's the question facing Jessica Jones, as what seemed like a routine investigation instead has her encountering other incarnations of herself from across the Multiverse. Can Jessica get along with herself? Will she want to kill her other selves? And will seeing the lives she could have led drive her into a self-destructive spiral? This is what happens when you meet…the Variants! ![]() ![]() ![]() If you fall short of that 10X goal, there’s a pretty high chance you’ll be above your original goal. ![]() And that is when you take for example, how much money you want to earn, say $100,000, you should multiply that by 10, and figure out the steps you’ll want to take and the amount of time it will take to get that goal. On the other side of the coin Is 10X thinking. This is just one part of the 10X rule though. It’s better to be pleasantly surprised then greatly disappointed. ![]() And if it doesn’t take 10 times more effort then you anticipated, great. That way you have a more accurate idea of how much time and effort it will actually take. The 10X rule is based on the idea you should figure out what you want to do, what goal you have, be it making a certain amount of money, finding your ideal loved one, achieving a certain body fat percentage, and multiply the effort and time you think it’ll take to do by 10. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, Luis’ play Valley of the Heart had its world-premiere on the stage of El Teatro Campesino in rural San Juan Bautista, California. His involvement with Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the early Chicano Movement left an indelible mark that remains embodied in all his work even after he left the UFW in 1967: his early actos Las Dos Caras del Patroncito and Quinta Temporada, (short plays written to encourage campesinos to leave the fields and join the UFW), his mitos (mythic plays) Bernabe and La Carpa de los Rasquachis that gave Chicanos their own contemporary mythology, his examinations of Chicano urban life in I Don’t Have To Show You No Stinkin’ Badges, his Chicano re-visioning of classic Mexican folktales Corridos, his exploration of his Indigenous Yaqui roots in Mummified Deer, and – of course – the play that re-exams the “Sleepy Lagoon Trial of 1942” and the “Zoot Suit Riots of 1943”, two of the darkest moments in LA urban history – Zoot Suit – considered a masterpiece of the American Theater as well as the first Chicano play on Broadway and the first Chicano major feature film. His internationally renowned, and Obie award-winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers’ Theater) was founded by Luis in 1965 – in the heat of the United Farm Workers (UFW) struggle and the Great Delano Grape Strike in California’s Central Valley. ![]() ![]() LUIS VALDEZ (Playwright/Director) is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Feminism, history, 19thC England, all these are good tags for me. It tells the real story of Mary Anning, a paleontologist and her struggle to reach recognition in a men’s world and in a world where science was for upper classes. It is the story of a friendship between two women who have a very unladylike passion for fossils. It happens in the King George era, like Austen’s novels. ![]() It is set in Lyme Regis, England, a place I visited last year and it’s always nice to read a book when you know the setting. In appearance, Remarkable Creatures has several ingredients of a book I should like. That was the final blow, I stopped exactly at page 111 and the book has 415 pages. But I had to acknowledge that I started to shy away from the book and I’d rather not read at all than read it. Of course, I feel guilty and at the beginning I wanted to stick with it and endure it until the end for the sake of that readalong. I’m afraid this review is going to be a breach in the book blogging etiquette: I abandoned the book of my own readalong. Remarkable Creatures is this month read for our book club Les Copines d’abord and it is also a readalong for other bloggers interested in reading this novel. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. With unprecedented access to 42 men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils - like never before - a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. ![]() Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion, and yes, assassination. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. When diplomacy fails and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly classified branch of the CIA and the most effective black-operations force in the world. Vanish.without a trace.įrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, Clive has worked on other projects but has continued to paint for Abarat and there's an astonishing The second volume - Abarat : Days of Magic, Nights of War. ![]() The first volume - called simply Abarat - arrived on UK & US shelves in October 2002 and then spread across the world inįoreign language editions with additional text-only softback versions in the UK and US. With the burgeoning storyline, caused Abarat to split into 4, then 5, separate The Book Of Hours became Abarat and the proliferation of paintings, Autumn 2002 brought with it Abarat the first volume of a project thatīegan as an intensely private series of paintings, then coalesced intoĪn idea for 25 modestly illustrated tales collected as The Book ![]() |