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Daffodil Patterson is a small girl with BIG plans - it's really not her fault that they always seem to go wrong! A brilliantly funny new series for young readers, from the author and illustrator of The Worst Class in the World

Calling all fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories! The POCKET POTTERS are the must-have guides to all of your favourite characters from the wizarding world.How many big brothers does Ron have? Where do the Weasley family live, and how exactly do you de-gnome a garden?Find out all this and much more about Ron Weasley! See Ron get sorted into his Hogwarts house, explore his bedroom at The Burrow and meet the rest of the Weasleys. Get set for a flying car, wizard sports, Hogwarts feasts and a houseful of unforgettable pets ...Joyfully illustrated, boisterously brilliant, the POCKET POTTERS are collectable, must-have mini guides to the Harry Potter stories. Whether you are just starting your magical reading journey, or you already know your Sneakoscope from your Snitch, each of the POCKET POTTERS is perfect for sharing together or reading alone.There's magic and mischief waiting inside! Which of the POCKET POTTERS is your favourite?

Calling all fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories! The POCKET POTTERS are the must-have guides to all of your favourite characters from the wizarding world.How old was Harry when he first started at Hogwarts? Who gave him the Marauder's Map, and how big is a Golden Snitch?Find out all this and much more about Harry Potter! Peek at Harry in his spidery cupboard under the stairs, find out what he buys in Diagon Alley and explore the Gryffindor dormitory. Get set for dragon encounters, Quidditch thrills, secret passwords and a wand from Ollivanders ...Joyfully illustrated, boisterously brilliant, the POCKET POTTERS are collectable, must-have mini-guides to the Harry Potter stories. Whether you are just starting your reading journey with Harry, or you already know your Nimbus Two Thousand from your Firebolt, each of the POCKET POTTERS is perfect for sharing together or reading alone.There's magic and mischief waiting inside! Which of the POCKET POTTERS is your favourite?

Challenges the near-universal acceptance of a US-style Western constitutional paradigm as the best basis for comparative constitutional studies

A compelling new joint biography of Churchill and de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

This book studies relations between Muslims and non-Muslims where it matters most, diverse inner cities. Residents' insights prove relevant for both community relations and cohesion.

Could this be the moment they've both been waiting for?Eve has always loved antiques. She loves the way an item from the past can offer a glimpse of another world, of another time. It's why she painstakingly researches the stories behind every item in Rainy Day Antiques, her little Cambridge shop, to share with their new owners. It's her way of honouring the past and cherishing the present.Adam is firmly focussed on the future. He's only in town to sort his late grandfather's affairs. When he discovers that his grandfather hired Eve to manage his house clearance, he can only hope her methods don't delay his return to London. What neither of them know is that Adam's grandfather chose Eve for a reason. It's finally the right place and the right time for the two of them to meet. But what did he have planned for them?Readers love Ali McNamara...'I utterly love this author''I always enjoy reading books from this author''Wow. I love Ali McNamara books''I really do love this author's books''I want to read anything with Ali McNamara's name on it'

"People kept saying there's no smoke without fire, but it's not our fire is it khala? it's like we're just choking on all the fumes." Between the 1990s and 2010s hundreds of young girls were sexually exploited in northern towns by gangs of predatory men. Two sisters grapple with the impact on their community as the men around them are embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal. Playwright Emteaz Hussain's Expendable spotlights the often-overlooked voices of Pakistani women, delving into the shortcomings of law enforcement, politicians, and the media. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2024.

"This book questions the cultural capital of traditional archetypes, explores the experience of romance readers, and examines how romance and cultural studies researchers create quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research"--

From the bestselling Ukrainian cookery writer comes a profound meditation on the hopes and fears across generations amid political upheaval

Since the Industrial Revolution, capitalism has unleashed unimaginable opportunity and prosperity. However, at key points, economic disruption has led to a greater role for government to protect against capitalism's excesses. Gramm and Boudreaux argue that government interference and policies pose the most significant threat to economic freedom.

A police detective and an investigative journalist team up in secret to try and solve a series of rapes and murders from the early 1980s on Florida's Gulf Coast, hoping to crack the cold case that has passed through generations of detectives.

Nothing about wool is warm and fuzzy. The history of wool is intertwined with the history of war.Fleeced explains how competition for wool in wartime helped create our current unsustainable and environmentally disastrous reliance on petrochemical fibers.

This volume explores late ancient and Byzantine media from an ecological view point and with a special focus on non-human agencies. How are such agencies entangled in the human elements - whether in the human media itself or the human characters of literary texts? How were these media once weathered by concrete ancient elements, and how can we re-expose them - to the weather of ecological readings? To what degree do these media imply the agency of landscapes, plants, animals, and other natural phenomena? To what degree do they comprise literary exploitations of other species?By applying an interdisciplinary approach that merges the fields of literature, history, and religious studies in the service of ecocriticism, the chapters highlight diverse ways in which premodern writers engaged with the non-human world. The integration of ecological perspectives into late ancient and Byzantine studies is a remarkably recent development. This book pioneers the interweaving of late ancient and Byzantine studies with ecocriticism. From the ancient treatises on dreams to monastic tales, from the Hexameron literature to the Byzantine romance, from the Exeter Book to a mysterious Byzantine icon, the book investigates a diverse range of media to uncover the intricacies of relationships in the natural world. It illustrates how these media are not only repositories of cultural and intellectual history but also valuable chests of ecological awareness, by overcoming the binary antinomy of culture and nature, human and non-human.

This book examines the links between experiencing immersion in antiquity and modernity. Immersive experiences are big business within today's creative economy. Forms range from immersive museum exhibitions, theatrical performances, art installations and experiences facilitated through virtual and augmented reality technologies. Yet the idea of immersion is not new; paintings, sculpture and theatre have all been theorised historically in terms of illusion, realism and immersion. From antiquity to modernity, there has been an interest in theorising the relationship between reality and virtual realities, and in contemplating whether feeling present in an alternate universe is a sought-after experience or something problematic and dangerous. The chapters in this volume explore the warnings against immersion voiced by Plato and embodied in the figure of the Homeric sirens, contrasted with the pro-immersion perspectives championed by Aristotelian mimesis and embodied in the concept of enargeia. The volume also examines the integration of the ancient world into immersive novels, games, museum exhibitions and theatrical performances. Practice-as-Research contributions explore the benefits of this synergy from practitioner perspectives. Contributors from diverse fields - including classical reception studies, art history, game studies, heritage studies and theatre studies - approach the interplay between antiquity and modernity from varied standpoints. Together, they uncover previously unforeseen connections across disciplines and lay the groundwork for future research and additional classically inflected immersive experiences.

A reconceptualization of the concept of humanism that places dialectical humanism as the core philosophical and political project capable of resisting and overcoming capitalism.

Santi and Naz - one Sikh, one Muslim - are best friends living in a village in pre-partition India, coming of age and coming out in a country soon to be changed forever.

When someone wraps a poo in a cake box and drops it on Colin's doorstep, he and his sister Lisa and her husband Brian are frantically determined to unmask the culprit.