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The Rock Art of Moab, Utah
The image of the desert bighorn sheep everywhere adorns the canyon walls of the American Southwest. Whether painted or pecked onto the rock, these sheep can take on an amazing variety of box-like or streamlined designs. There are, for instance, sheep with heads that have short horns, sweeping rainbow horns, and, sometimes, iconic, curling ram horns. Sheep have legs that are shown with simple extremities, with bent legs as if they are running, with cloven hooves facing front or back, and even sheep with no legs at all. Are the long-gone artists trying to hint at a hidden code, or are the differences simply a preference in artistic style? We will probably never know the full story, but insights are to be had after a thorough inventory of rock art images are catalogued and studied. This is a matter of increased importance as our heritage of petroglyphs and pictographs is being lost to time and vandalism.
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Bella and the Bio-Bot
Embark on an extraordinary adventure with Bella and Dr. Smith.
With vibrant illustrations and a love for science, Bella and the Bio-Bot ignites curiosity about the wonders of nature and the boundless possibilities of technology.
Perfect for budding scientists, inventors, and dreamers alike!
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The Ginks
Under my bed are a family of ginks.
They’re two feet high and their breath stinks!
Their teeth are THAT long…
Their legs are THAT hairy…
Their eyes are THAT red…
That they look dead scary!
But you don’t need to worry about them – unless you have been naughty.
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Angels Cry Too
Angels Cry Too delves into the profound nature of human relationships. Each person is a universe unto themselves, and when two such universes collide, they create a new constellation, an intricate web of shared stories, experiences, and emotions. Every thinking being on this planet carries a history, a personal narrative shaped by the interactions that define us.
In Angels Cry Too, these interactions are not just exchanges but reflections of our individual journeys. The novel explores how lives intersect, revealing the events and decisions that shape our destinies. While the story is set in the 1970s, its themes are timeless: humans have always been architects of their own fate, choosing paths at life’s crossroads, with each decision carrying its own consequences.
Inspired by the tragic events of the worst air disaster in aviation history, the 1977 collision of two Boeing 747s on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Angels Cry Too is a deeply human story about choices, chance, and the profound connections that shape our lives.
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Antsy Clansy and the Ghostly Encounter
Antsy Clansy is at it again!
Waking on Farmer Footes farm, very thirsty and hot, Old Clansy the donkey sets off to find somewhere to cool off.
At Farmer Foote’s creek he encounters a strange, ghostly phenomenon.
With help from his brother Sebastian, once again, Old Clansy finds himself in a whole world of hilarious trouble!
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Meadow Fog, Burnt Away by a Red Dawn
In 1988, Nick Valko works as a doctor in Glasgow, but also takes on the responsibility of caring for his alcoholic and disorientated father. As the elderly man recounts fragments of his Soviet past, Nick begins to confront a difficult and enigmatic revelation.
Meadow Fog, Burnt Away by a Red Dawn explores Nick Valko’s struggle to untangle the complicated history of his alcoholic father and the reasons for his father’s disillusionment with the Soviet Union. Unsure if his father’s stories are fantasy or reality, Nick grapples with his father’s questionable reliability as he tries to decipher the contradictions and hidden truths within his father’s tales. While Nick cares for his ailing father, fragments emerge of the elder Valko’s eventful life in Moscow and the Ural forests, revealing his participation in clandestine Soviet experiments that led to his realisation about a challenging truth and drove him to betray his homeland.
Told from Nick’s sceptical viewpoint, Meadow Fog, Burnt Away by a Red Dawn unfolds as an adventure, a love story, and a testament to friendship and betrayal against the backdrop of wartime survival. It develops themes of childhood exploration, discovery, and the allure of the natural world, whilst contemplating the sacrifices one makes to uphold personal integrity, in the face of conflicting truths and ideals, when we try to understand and reconcile with the past.
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Stick or Twist
Having never kissed a girl, 16-year-old Niko has a lot on his mind. But things get much worse when returning home from school, he finds his dad being tormented by criminals. They are trying to extract valuable information about secret government testing on the River Thames. With his own life now in danger, Niko must make a decision...
Does he stick or does he twist?
He twists, and makes his escape helped by his friend, Jacinta. Chased by the criminal gang, the teenagers flee along the Thames in a battered old canoe towards London. They try to unlock the mystery held by the water by following a set of weird clues linking old gravestones to pollution, death and even murder!
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Ally and Angel's Backyard Adventure
Five-year-old Ally is enjoying her last summer holidays before starting school when her parents surprise her with a puppy. Ally names the puppy Angel, and the two quickly become inseparable.
But everything changes when Ally receives a tablet. She spends all her time glued to the screen, neglecting her new best friend. One day, Ally is sent outside to play with Angel again, only to discover that an extraordinary adventure awaits them.
What wonders will Ally and Angel uncover right in their own backyard?
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The Queen's Halloween
One day the Queen’s maid, Alice, brings the Queen her usual morning cup of tea to find the Queen looking very glum.
To Alice’s horror, she discovers the Queen would like to put aside her royal duties for one night in order to experience some Halloween fun.
The Queen’s Halloween follows the innocent antics of the Queen who, like many of us, feels the urge to experience a little escapism and spontaneity.
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The Cost of Capital and Company Valuation
The Cost of Capital and Company Valuation fundamentally challenges Modigliani and Miller’s treatment of taxation in their ‘correction’ from 1963. It provides new propositions around how taxes affect the distribution of cash flows and capital values between the suppliers of financial capital, leading to alternative ways of calculating the cost of capital, including, by extension, the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Finally, it explores how to appropriately calculate the intrinsic value of companies and additional projects or investments, under different assumptions.
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Where are all the Animals?
A charming and warming story about animals learning the importance of connection to our human planet, finding their place in the world and taking centre stage.
Engaging the reader’s senses describing the sounds and feel of animals and our understanding of the animal kingdom.
An activity book filled with fun and adventure, humour and playfulness, diversity and inclusion.Less is more – reduce our carbon footprint...
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The Road to Ruins
‘Young man required to drive overland to Australia.’
In October 1963, the 22-year-old Robert Grant, recently invalided out of the army and demoralised by the stifling conformity of postwar Britain, responded to this advertisement in The Times. It had been placed by another young Englishman, Gordon Lindsay, who needed a second driver for an ambitious land journey as far as South Asia, before a planned final leg to Australia by sea. The following year, after meticulous preparation, the two of them would embark on an extraordinary expedition in their customised Land Rover, taking them across Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent – a world of ancient wonders and modern challenges.
The Road to Ruins chronicles their odyssey through some of history’s most significant cultural sites, from Chartres and Granada to the Taj Mahal and the Ganges. They navigated through sandstorms, passed through perilous border crossings, and encountered both danger and extraordinary kindness. Their story encompasses the great archaeological treasures of Giza, Timgad, Leptis Magna, Palmyra, Babylon and Persepolis, many of which have since been damaged or destroyed by conflict.Illustrated with some two hundred colour photographs taken during this journey, The Road to Ruins captures a moment in time when these ancient sites still stood in splendid isolation, waiting to be discovered by two young adventurers armed with curiosity and courage.
£28.99
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