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Dyslexia: A Parent's Guide to Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Other Learning Difficulties
Dr Valerie Muter & Dr Helen Likierman
Many children spend their entire school lives struggling with their work. Research has shown that at least 10-15 per cent of children with apparently normal learning ability, will show a significant problem with school learning. They may feel that whatever they do it is not good enough - either for thei...
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition)
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning...
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber mai...
What Are The Odds? The Bill Waterhouse Story
"The tell-all tale - on and off the track - of a legendary man and his extraordinary family.The Waterhouse name is synonymous with Australian horse racing and bookmaking. For the first time, the family s patriarch, Bill Waterhouse, tells the story of his remarkable life playing the odds . Bill Waterhous...
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as told to Ralph Leighton
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possi...
Orientalism
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not...
Women in Love
"Women in Love" is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where: "The Rainbow" left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. T...
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
The dramatic story of global warming, politics, and the scientist Al Gore calls the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment.Censoring Science is the gripping story of the world's preeminent climatologist, Dr. James Hansen, the apivotal chara...
Borgia Ring
When builders dig up an ancient skeleton in the City of London, they have no idea of the poisonous legacy they have just unleashed. For on the skeleton's finger is a beautiful emerald ring that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia, the most powerful - and most evil - woman of the Renaissance. Hours later th...
A Special Providence
Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life. From his compelling portraits of these two damaged souls, Richard Yates creates a brilliant novel of ...
The House of Mirth
Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final de...
Spook Country
What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's m...
The French Market Cookbook - Vegetarian Recipes from My Parisian Kitchen
Cook from the farmer's market with inspired vegetarian recipes--many of which are gluten-free and dairy-free--with a French twist, all highlighting seasonal produce. Beloved ChocolateAndZucchini.com food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier is not a vegetarian. But she has, like many of us, chosen to eat less mea...
The Story of Billy Young
A powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war. Award-winning author Anthony Hill takes us into the hearts and minds of the POWs, who refused to ever wholly submit to their captors. Billy Young was a boy of 15 when he joined the AIF in 1941. He was an orphan - hungry, broke, with nowher...
Amazinger Face
Sometimes a lady just needs to know the most flattering lipstick for her skin tone, or how to correctly use sunscreen, or a very quick hairstyle to conceal her unwashed hair. And there's no reason she shouldn't know which foundation or mascara is best for her, either. All the answers are here, in this t...
Villette
In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Bront''s crowning achievement With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette....
My Name Is Lucy Barton
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N...
The Female Lead: Women Who Shape Our World
Sixty inspirational women, from many walks of life. All have changed the world in a variety of fields. Among them are politicians and artists, journalists and teachers, engineers and campaigners, fire fighters and film stars. Together they form an arresting gallery of portraits, each one illustrated wit...
A Farewell to Ice : A Report from the Arctic
'Astonishing ... beautiful, compelling and terrifying' Observer'Wadhams' writing sparkles ... a lyrical sense of wonder at the natural world ... essential reading ... may be the best reader-friendly account of the greenhouse effect available to date' John Burnside, New StatesmanIce is beautiful and comp...
Mosaic Mind Bender Puzzle - An Ancient Roman Mosaic Jigsaw Puzzle and Mini-Poster
T. H. E. Getty MUSEUM; Getty Museum Staff
Whether you are a die-hard puzzler or just looking to unplug and chill, this puzzle will provide hours of entrancing, mind-boggling entertainment. The puzzle features a geometric floor mosaic from Ancient Rome that is bordered by smaller geometrical fragments that making the puzzle a little more difficu...
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of...
Metal - Dark Knights Rising
Grant Morrison; Scott Snyder; Peter J. Tomasi; Francis Manapul (Illustrator)
Dark Nights- Metal- Dark Knights Rising introduces- The Batman Who Laughs- a lunatic driven mad by his world's Joker. The Red Death- a thief who stole his reality's Speed Force power. The Drowned- a female, amphibious Batman. The Dawnbreaker- a twisted Green Lantern. The Murder Machine- a deranged, dead...
Visual Galaxy
National Geographic Learning Staff
Galaxia is a deep dive into the past, present, and future of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. In this mind-expanding visual tour through the cosmos, spectacular photographs are converted into interpretive graphics, starting with the sun and moving outward into space where stars are born, black holes lurk...
Death in the East (Wyndham and Bannerjee #4)
** Selected by the Telegraph, FT and Guardian as one of the best crime books of 2019** **'A skilfully blended dual narrative: twice the intrigue, twice the fun. Mukherjee is at the top of his game' Mick Herron, author of the Jackson Lamb series, on Death in the East** **'The gloriously atmospheric Dea...
Against All Odds: The inside account of the Thai cave rescue and the courageous Australians at the heart of it
‘I just want to warn you. You’re going to dive to the end of the cave. You’re going to see these kids. They’re all looking healthy and happy and smiley. Then, you’re going to swim away, and they’re probably all going to die.’ In June 2018, for seventeen days, the world watched and held its breath as the...
The Body Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the Human Body
The Body Atlas takes you on a head-to-toe tour through your own anatomy. How well do you know your own body? Do you know what happens under your skin? Where exactly is your stomach? What does your liver do? How can ears help your balance? The Body Atlas answers all these questions and many more. This ...
Five Bush Weddings
As a photographer, Stevie's been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When's it going to be all about her? With her ex soon to be married, her mum back on the dating scene, and her best friend threatening to settle down with the Most Boring Man Alive, Stevie is feeling left behind. To top it off,...
Monster Island
Jurassic Park meets Stranger Things in a story where the creatures are out of this world! After following his mum to her top-secret new job, Bernie finds himself on a mysterious remote island inside the Bass Strait Triangle. The scientists working there call it Monster Island, and Bernie soon discovers...
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