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A look inside a dancer\'s world Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer\'s continual quest to discover who they

Indecent Exposure, Tom Sharpe\'s second South African novel, is a brilliant follow-up to his Riotous Assembly, which the Sunday Mirror called, \"One of the most savagely hilarious satires ever, a startlingly original first novel.\" Once again the setting is Piemburg, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els, and Luitenant Verkramp continue to

Materials are explored through illustrated scenes showing science in action in everyday

As the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter, troubled times have come to Hogwarts in a year filled with secrets, subterfuge and suspicion. The deliciously dark fifth instalment of Jim Kay\'s inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling\'s classic series is an epic artistic achievement, featuring over 160 illustrations in an astonishing range of visual styles. Now an exciting new collaboration

With her signature charm and sense of humor, bestselling author Helena Hunting creates a novel about love, family, and second chances in Make a Wish. Ever have a defining life moment you wish you could do over? Harley Spark has one. The time she almost kissed the widowed father of the toddler she nannied for. It was so bad they moved across the state and she never saw them again. Fast forward seven

What is landscape? How does it differ from land? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is nature? Is it everything that isn\'t art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. Implying

From the director of Dragged Across ConcreteDecades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a \"mannequin,\" that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted. Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects a variety of notable minds, pulling the deceased back from

Imagine if EVERYONE could hear your thoughts: your best friend, your worst enemy, your secret

The definitive biography of the radical feminist from one of America\'s leading biographers--essential reading for our #MeToo era \"You may think you know Dworkin, and there may indeed be things that you can\'t stand about Dworkin . . . but there is so much about her work that is prescient, terrifying in its acuity, raucous and daring and very much of this moment.\" --Rebecca Traister Fifteen years

The eighth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary\'s series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around

This very giftable Bible introduces the very simplest of concepts from key Bible stories for babies aged 9 months to 2

The third in an acclaimed historical trilogy set in the Iron Age, The Stone Stories. Former slave, indomitable survivor and now matriarch Rian returns with her daughters to her Celtic homeland, navigating plundered riches, feuding warlords and a menacing

This edition brings together Jonson\'s four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes,

The World of Science series engages, educates and entertains children, imparting scientific facts, while nurturing the love of Science through dynamic, full-colour comics enriched by Augmented Reality. All topics covered are in line with the Singapore primary Science syllabus and the Cambridge primary Science curriculum, and also offer beyond-the-syllabus insights designed to stretch inquiring young