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The Quiz Book For Kids is the follow-up to Quizzes For Kids and continues to ask relevant and challenging questions about our world and beyond to young people in the 10-16 age range.There are 500 NEW questions to stimulate thinking in young people, and for them to also have fun and enjoy the challenging questions presented to them.The Quiz Book For Kids can become a useful resource in classrooms and allows teachers to use it as a formal quiz book made up of teams and scoring, or used informally to gauge students' knowledge of a wide range of topics in each quiz.The Quiz Book For Kids contains: 20 full quizzes each with 25 questions 500 NEW and different questions Quizzes that have a mixture of easy, unusual, difficult and fun questions covering topics such as entertainment, sport, current events, science, history and geography Answers to all questions Photocopiable answer sheets for teams or individuals to play. About The Author Tom is a teacher with over 30 years' experience, especially in the senior primary level. He conducted many quizzes with his students over the years, either on a formal basis, or informally to challenge his students. Tom is the author of Pub Quizzes Ready To Use, Quizzes For Kids and Quiz Nights Ready To Use. His passion for quizzes continues with The Quiz Book For Kids.

Not even the imminent threat of a Japanese invasion can stop the notorious Lady Emily Gascoigne-Ridley from courting disaster - or even death - wherever she goes. When she decides to spend the winter of 1943 in Bexford North, simply to spite her relative, Annie Watson, she begins to wreak havoc in the villagers' lives. Within a week, she has the village in turmoil with her insinuations, her Russian Communist propaganda and her evil tale-bearing. When murder is discovered, Inspector Peters and his team do not have to search for the suspects - they are in bewildering abundance.

1944. King's Cross. The red light district of Sydney is alive with noise, bright lights, American soldiers on leave - and vice. Nearby, Annie Watson is hoping for a few days' vacation with her cousin, Monica Jeffrey. But when Annie intervenes to save an orphan girl, she is enmeshed in a murder conspiracy involving gangsters, drug addicts, thugs and prostitutes. Discovering the time and place of the arranged murder, Annie tries desperately, in her inimitable manner, to avert the tragedy. Unorthodox methods are called for, and Annie, as usual, is not afraid to use them.

'Finding Heraan' is a work of fiction about a young man, Ageres, who is tasked with delivering a powerful message. The task proves a lot harder than he expects. He is confronted with many challenges, not least the fact that many greet his message with disinterest!Finally, he finds the village of Heraan, and there, his message has a powerful impact. But the impact is not what he'd expected. And even after the message is delivered, he faces challenges and temptations that threaten to destroy the very truth-telling that his message has unleashed. It's an allegory, of course; a philosophical fable. We live in an increasingly diverse world, where differences of religion, race, gender, and even beliefs, threaten to create a cowering silence, or dangerous conflict. We need to find ways that we can genuinely speak to and hear each other, and 'Finding Heraan' gives an opportunity for readers to reflect on what those ways might look like.

O-M-G, Om-inspired poetry? You heard right! Or maybe you didn't hear Written while in an altered state, this is as close to 'divine inspiration' as you can get without getting 'Out of This World' (gee, why does that sound somehow familiar?). Mantras just became a whole lot more useful! Here's hoping this pocket-sized poetry book finds its way into its your permanent (or impermanent) collection - and that Buddhists find a way to 'make it' in the West. There's only one Dalai Lama, but many ignorant Westerners. Don't spend hours contemplating the word 'Om', spend hours contemplating inspiration and insight from the word Om! Your mileage may vary - sorry, no refunds.

Can your difficulties become stepping stones to a successful future? Can a young boy overcome a serious reading difficulty and achieve beyond all expectations?For a few gruelling years in a Catholic boys' school, where the Brothers carry a lash under their gowns ready to strike any boy who offends their strict code, Tim struggles with math and English and keeps mostly to himself. But he has an observant inner life, with hours spent wandering in the cemetery his grandfather tends, learning about death the leveller and the falsity of social class and wealth.Tim has pitch perfect hearing and a voice like an angel, and is marked out by the Principal Brother to become a priest. Not him! Suffering the tragedy of losing the only three close friends he makes over the years, he experiences living with dyslexia as a cross to bear, until he finds the key to a fearless destiny as a paramedic, trauma and emergency nurse, and academic.The gift of dyslexia has taught him to say, "Don't reach for the sky - hell! Go for the stars. You really can do anything you want." Wisdom, he says, is found in the strangest places.

Wanderings of a Ten Pound Pom is about an English emigrant to Australia beginning almost 50 years ago in 1966, until his marriage in 1977. The stories revolve around his work as an electrician in this new country and his travels throughout the world during that time. Those travels include visits to 32 countries with over a hundred locations. There are some funny moments, some are adventurous and some are more than a little embarrassing. Some are serious and some are light-hearted. An entertaining read, for the bus or the train, over a coffee or at bedtime. Bob Horsman's writing of those times has been almost as enjoyable for him as living them. It is his hope that the reading of these anecdotes will do the same for you.

The evolving image of the 18th century English literary giant, Dr. Samuel Johnson, was employed copiously in the fiction and essays of the Romantic and Victorian Periods. References to Johnson were intended to carry profound weight in the narratives, on the assumption of their common understanding. Although still popular today, these narratives have lost much of their initial power due to cultural evolution. A biographical study of Johnson's life does not return to current readers the full weight of the many Johnson references, neither does a critical survey of Johnson's writing. It is necessary to pinpoint the public image of Johnson at the time that the references were made, as it stood in the minds of the writers who used the image to their literary ends and to their intended audiences. This book traces Johnson's public image with triangulations of many sources and various references to Johnson by literary figures who both describe and prescribe the Johnsonian image with their literary uses of the icon.

Religion: fact, or fiction? The chronicle of Creation, or the ramblings of a madman? If you've ever wondered what it's all about but can't bring yourself to actually read a bible, then this book is for you!With irreverent interpretations reflecting the modern, enlightened age we live in, this is the go-to book for when your sleep is rudely interrupted on Sunday mornings and you want some payback, but can never think of anything to question them with. Problem Solved!(You're welcome..!)

'My Daddy's Got Tattoos' is the children's book for the offspring of the inked.The story explores family relationships through a child's imagination, revealing that everybody looks funny to somebody. It is perfect for anybody who feels different or loves somebody who is.

Deep down we don't quite understand why humanity has been so systemically deprived from living in a cleverly designed civilised world. For a species that can land a spacecraft on a soaring asteroid and develop extraordinarily lethal weaponry, why is it that humanity has failed to create a cohesive, functioning and equitable social world? The key focus of investigation in this book is how we are mentally shaped in different social settings and conditioned by our conventional educational systems to live the way we do. There are psychological, social and political lenses adopted by the author to help the reader to recognise the current human challenges from a wider and more holistic social perspective.The reader is given a unique opportunity to identify their life through the viewpoint of a child's eyes as they develop within our current Western social system. This experience enables the reader to objectively reflect on their unfolding journey of mental development and also helps him/her to experience, once again, the psychological power of given social influences and conditioning upon impressionable young minds. Finally, the reader is inspired to rely on his/ her naturally given intelligence and explore possibilities that can help create a well-constructed 21st century civilised social architecture to amicably sustain and support our collective long-term harmonious existence. Deeper insights into our collective social challenges and solutions:¿ Family upbringing¿ Systemic school conditioning¿ Social world contests and pressures ¿ Disillusionments with the social systems¿ Root causes of the current social chaos¿ Finding intelligent solutions to the impending social crises.

A must read for all - but only if you dare!Potato queens are a special breed of Asian males who will only date Caucasian men. Is it because of what we all think it is or is there more than meets the eye?This book exposes the potato queen's secrets and obsessions, the salacious love affairs and the major challenges that he faces in coming to terms with his identity in the white man's world.Certainly not for the faint hearted, this juicy exposé is the definitive textbook for any aspiring potato queen, the admirer of this exotic species or for just about anyone who would relish a fantastic bedtime read."Guaranteed to ruffle some feathers!"