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Sixty years after a disparate group of railway enthusiasts came together in a remote corner of rural Wales to run a train service - a true story that inspired the Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt - 'heritage railways' are a serious matter, bringing visitors, employment and a sense of local identity to regions throughout Britain. Bob Gwynne tells the story of this phenomenon and looks at the range of challenges that have been overcome to create the vibrant world of the Heritage railway that we enjoy today. The book ranges from the origins of railway preservation through to 'new build'...

Flying Scotsman is probably the most famous railway locomotive in the world. When it was new in 1923 it caused a sensation for its beauty and its speed, and the engine found itself at the center of media attention that continued throughout the decade and made it a household name - to see it was the ambition of every young trainspotter.

But The Flying Scotsman was also a train. Since 1862 the 10am departure from London Kings Cross and Edinburgh Waverley had been the fastest and most comfortable way of travelling the length of the nation, and in 1923 it was officially titled The...

Ty nejlepší ságy jsou napsané krví. Uplynulo celé století od doby, kdy spolu bohové bojovali a navzájem se vyhubili. Zůstaly pouze jejich kosti, slibující velkou moc těm, kdo jsou dost stateční na to, aby se je vydali hledat. Vigrídem se šíří zvěsti o válce a osud následuje kroky tří bojovníků: lovkyně na nebezpečné výpravě, urozené ženy toužící po válečnické slávě a otroka, který usiluje o pomstu mezi žoldnéři známými jako Krvopřísežní. Všichni tři budou utvářet osud světa, když na něj opět padne stín bohů. Stín bohů zahajuje...

When teachers and parents are looking for snack ideas, you can highly recommend this book and tie in children's literature. Talk about reinforcing learning--there's nothing so motivating as fun food, so captivating as the story linked to it

Equipment lists and safety rules for fixing the snacks are included

Each recipe tied to a children's picture book

These snacks are also simple, cheap, easy to serve, and child-pleasers

For teachers and parents of preschool and elementary kids, and for use in middle and high school nutrition and child-development classes

Sample recipes...

Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if individually they have been examined by many, their connected lives have rarely been considered. It is these, the ties that bind them, that constitute the subject of this illuminating book.

They were born within six years of each other and, as Gwynne Edwards reveals, their childhood circumstances were very similar, each being affected...

• A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience'
• This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, Daoism
• Takes a thematic, comparative and practical approach; each chapter explores a...

Druhá kniha z kultovní série Věrní a padlí od uznávaného autora fantasy Johna Gwynna. Země vyhnanců jsou rozervány válkou, nejvyšší král Nathair táhne říší a bojuje proti každému, kdo se jeho svatému tažení staví na odpor. Mladá dívka Cywen, která byla ponechána vlastnímu osudu, musí bojovat o přežití. Veškerá její naděje na únik se stává marnou ve chvíli, kdy si Nathair uvědomí, kým Cywen je. Nehodlá dopustit, aby mu tak cenný úlovek vyklouzl z rukou. Neboť právě Cywen může být klíčem k zabití toho, kdo nejvíc ohrožuje jeho...