Contains lavish full-colour photographs throughout; discerning coverage of the city's best eateries, from bistrots du quartier to Michelin-starred restaurants; where to track down the city's hottest nightlife; themed walking tours to guide you to the real Paris; and a special section on Paris' outstanding architecture.
Jack Knight returns to Opal City from his adventure in space, only to find the Shade has reverted to his villainous ways. Knight suspects that he is even committing murders, all this while many of Jack's friends seem to be missing. Before he can fully investigate, he witnesses his most horrible nightmare become reality--his beloved Opal City ...
The classic super-hero series STARMAN, starring a Gen-X super-hero, is re-presented in high quality format. The super-heroic legacy of Starman is renewed in these stories, in which Jack Knight - antiques collector and dealer - inherits the name and powers of his father's old Starman identity from his older brother, who has been assassinated. In ...
For Professor and Channel 4 personality Mick Aston, landscape archaeology remains his first love, because it provides so much information about how ordinary communities lived in the past. Environmental archaeology, experimental archaeology, the archaeology of buildings, and his great project at the village of Shapwick in Somerset are just some of ...
This is the story of a fantasy dig. Readers are invited to undertake in their back gardens to find out what is buried underneath it. Their initial small trench gradually gets bigger until they are compelled to destroy their garden shed. Then they come down on the remains of a Roman Villa. Their excavation extends into their neighbour's back garden ...
As befits the man behind Baldrick, Tony Robinson has uncovered life in the underbelly of history. Whether it's swilling out the crotch of a knight's soiled armour after the battle of Agincourt, risking his neck in the rigging of HMS Victory, or as 'Groomer of the Stool' going to places where none of Henry VIII's six wives would venture, Tony ...
All of the workbooks in the "MyPolitics Series" allow instructors to bring the current political season right into the classroom, making it relevant, engaging, and assignable to students. The First 100 Days Workbook provides dynamic, easy-to-assign week-by-week interactive exercises that help readers follow, research, and participate in the new ...
All of the workbooks in the new "MyPolitics Series" allow instructors to bring the current political season right into the classroom, making it relevant, engaging, and assignable to students. The first in the series, The 2008 Presidential Campaign Workbook provides dynamic, easy-to-assign week-by-week interactive exercises -- for the entire fall ...
Estelle Thompson is one of the most highly regarded painters of her generation. In her latest works-many published here for the first time-her rigorous pursuit of order in abstraction has led her to the laying down of color in stripes that seem to pulsate with life, hovering above the ground on which they are painted, escaping any association with ...
"The Worst Jobs in History" takes you back to the days when being a kid was no excuse for getting out of hard labour. This book tells the stories of all the children whose work fed the nation, kept trains running, and put clothes on everyone's backs, over the last few hundred years of Britain's history. No longer will you have to listen to your ...
The motorcycle-riding, two-gun hero known as The Vigilante stars in this graphic novel set in 1940s Las Vegas! Greg Saunders - a.k.a. The Vigilante - hits Los Angeles to appear in a Western shoot-'em-up. But when his sidekick, Stuff, runs afoul of mobster Ben "Bugsy" Siegel and is killed, The Vigilante swings into action. This gritty tale ...
/James Robinson /Tony Harris and Wade Von Grawbadger, illustrators From the author of BATMAN/DEADMAN: DEATH AND GLORY. In this powerful story, the new Starman's greatest foe, the beautiful but deadly new Mist, has captured his greatest weapon in an attempt to kill him. At the same time, the original Starman proves himself onc
"British Legends" investigates five heroes of British history: Boudicca, Macbeth, King Harold, William Wallace (better known as Braveheart) and Robin Hood. Although all but one died a failure, each was seen as symbolizing something great during their lifetime. Tony Robinson journeys into history to trace the true stories of some of the greatest ...
Darkly humorous, "Captain Pamphile" is a thrilling adventure story, full of sea battles, mutiny, and exotic animals--all led by one of Dumas' most intriguing creations. In the fashionable social circles of 1831, the vogue is to collect one's own menagerie, and there is soon a demand for exotic animals from the four corners of the world. Musing on ...
As peace finally returns to this last corner of Indochina, visitors are once again making their way to the magnificent Hindu-Buddhist ruins of Angkor. This new title has been developed from the Travel Survival Kit to Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia. 16 pages of color photos.
A study of Macbeth in all his manifestations: historical, mythological and dramatic. Drawing upon a wide range of material, it begins by contextualizing the historical Macbeth in the turbulent politics of 11th century Scotland, then traces the origins of the myths surrounding the king before culminating in the dramatic figure immortalized by ...
This first book in a new series introduces the very clean, very domesticated Teddy Bear, who explores a farm and meets the animals that live there with all of the wonder and candor of a child in this magically illustrated book. Full color.
The peasants in Worksop village are persecuted by the Sheriff of Nottingham and his men. They clearly need someone to fight for their rights and set them free, but who can it be? If you thought it was Robin Hood, think again. You are about to meet the amazing Maid Marian.
This volume runs chonologically from the earliest of Byron's productions, through those of his early maturity, to those of his fullest development. It covers his output in both poetry and prose, and considers many works that do not generally claim, or have not generally claimed, serious critical attention.The general theme running throughout the ...
Jack Knight is finally coming into his own as Starman, protector of Opal City. In this collection, Jack is lured into battle with the world's mightiest mortal- Captain Marvel!
The fifth collection from the critically acclaimed "Starman" series, featuring the Eisner Award-winning team of James Robinson, Tony Harris and Wade von Grawbadger. Young Jack Knight, hero of Opal City, must stop the evil of Dr. Pip and save the enigmatic giant known as Solomon Grundy in this epic that guest-stars Batman and the Golden Age Green ...
This guide to Paris provides advice for travellers on any budget, with detailed maps, sections on Versailles and Disneyland Paris, and information on restaurants, cafes and brasseries. There is also coverage of theatre, music, entertainment, shopping, galleries and museums.
To educate children to become active global citizens wanting to achieve sustainable lifestyles requires the replacement of school effectiveness and improvement models with process models: with how schools educate. A focus on learning through doing and on action-focused education features significantly in the agenda for the United Nations' decade ...
Jack Knight, the current holder of the Cosmic Rod, was not the first Starman; there was Jack's brother, David; a castaway from the stars called Mikaal; Gavyn, the prince of a distant galactic empire; and, of course, Jack's father, Ted Knight - the first Starman. 'Times Past' recounts tales of all these heroes: Jack's messy, loving relationship ...
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