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THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURE VIDEO GAME

CHRISTOPHER CARTON

Discover the origins of adventure gaming, from their origins in the 70s to modern day. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! Adventure video games have provided players with epic and hilarious storytelling for over fifty years. What started from the humble beginnings of text adventures led to a blast of point-and-click and graphic adventure games throughout the '80s and '9...

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THE DREAMCAST ENCYCLOPEDIA

CHRIS SCULLION

The newest installment in Chris Scullion's video game encyclopedias! The Dreamcast Encyclopedia is the fifth book in Scottish author and games journalist Chris Scullion's critically-acclaimed series of video game encyclopedias. The Sega Dreamcast is fondly remembered by players as a games console that was ahead of its time, almost to a fault. Its incredible graphics offered a l...

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FROM BICYCLE TO BENTLEY

STEPHEN LITTLE / MARK PRESCOTT

Stephen takes the reader from his earliest school days when it became clear he was academically bright, especially in math, attending prep school, winning a scholarship to major public school Uppingham where he won math prizes and, aged 16, passed 3 S (scholarship) levels. By then he had decided to be a bookie. He attended an interview for Cambridge University only because it w...

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THE BEST NON-VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES

JAMES BATCHELOR

A comprehensive guide to over 300 non-violent video games, from AAA studios to beloved indies. What if there were video games that weren't about killing things? The world's biggest entertainment medium has come under decades of scrutiny because of its violent content. But here's a little known fact: from the very beginning, non-violent video games have done as much, if not more...

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BRAM STOKER: AUTHOR OF DRACULA

NEIL R. STOREY

Previously unpublished research sheds new light on how Bram Stoker researched and wrote Dracula and the people who inspired his characters. Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in li...

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THE REAL SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

ANDREW NORMAN

In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels, champion of the oppressed and, most notably, the creator of that honorable, fearless, and eminently sensible master-detective Sherlock Holmes. Every new Holmes story was greeted with great anticipation and confidence in the knowledge that...

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THE EARLY YEARS OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN

LISA STEIN HAVEN

A thorough look into the early life and career of Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin's career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin's music hall career, his career at Keystone Studios and the Mutual Studios. Somehow, his tenure with First National studios, however, has been largely neglected, even though it was during this severa...

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A GUIDE TO MOVIE BASED VIDEO GAMES, 1982–2000

CHRISTOPHER CARTON

Explore two decades of licensed video games based on blockbuster movies! You've seen the movie, now PLAY the movie! Long before gaming came to the big screen, cinema arrived in the homes of millions in the form of licensed video games; playable merchandise that tied in to some of the major tentpoles of cinematic history. Many of these games followed the storylines of the movies...

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HOW TO COLLECT ART

VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to collecting across the board, from grand Old Masters to humble kitchenalia. People have always made art and people have always collected art. But it is only recently that collecting became possible for everyone, not just the very rich. Indeed, collecting has never been more popular, as the rise of art fairs, antique fairs, television progr...

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THE SECRET LIFE OF A MEADOW

WILSON WALL / DAVID MORGAN

Glorious flower meadows were part of our life force for 2000 years or more before we swept them away last century on the altar of progress. Is there to be no more drinking from their font of well being? This book says not. Lavishly illustrated, it describes their history and, from the few remaining examples, it shows us how beautiful they are, how rich in plants and animals. It...

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YEARBOOK OF ASTRONOMY 2024

BRIAN JONES

Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2024 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and ...

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THE MURDER OF ALEXANDER LITVINENKO

BORIS VOLODARSKY

In his famous Moonlight and Vodka, Chris de Burgh got it right: Espionage is a serious business. And like every serious business, it must be taken seriously. Less than two decades after the untimely death of Sasha Litvinenko, poisoned at the heart of London's Mayfair by Russian secret agents by the previously unknown radioactive substance containing a fatal dose of Polonium-210...

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YEARBOOK OF ASTRONOMY 2023

BRIAN JONES

Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2023 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and ...

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HOMEBREW GAME DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXTRA LIVES OF CONSOLES

ROBIN WILDE

The games industry moves fast, with release schedules flying by in a blur and hardware constantly changing and updating. But outside the official world of licences and publishing deals, hundreds of games every year find a new home on consoles which have since been abandoned by their manufacturers. This is the hobbyist's playground of homebrew gaming. The first book by freelance...

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MAKE YOUR OWN MOSAICS

HELEN MILES

Explore the powerful medium of mosaic in this book which offers a fresh perspective on the ancient art. Packed with photographs, clear instructions, and new ideas about how to create stunning mosaic pieces for indoors and outdoors, Make Your Own Mosaics explains the principles of mosaic making as practiced since Roman times. This easy-to-follow book contains step by step instru...

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THE MOVIE LOVER'S GUIDE TO LONDON

CHARLOTTE BOOTH / BRIAN BILLINGTON

London is a magical place which has intrigued people for more than 2,000 years, and never is this more apparent than in the past 130 years following the invention of the moving image. London has been a draw for filmmakers for decades, and this book guides you through the locations, in the shadow of some of your favorite movies. Take a tour by movie, go on a movie pub crawl, a l...

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THE CREATOR OF THE WOMBLES

KATE ROBERTSON

This is the extraordinary story of Elisabeth Beresford, creator of The Wombles, the furry, fun-loving recyclers of rubbish which became a children's publishing and television sensation in the 1970s. What drove this imaginative and prolific writer of children's books to invent The Wombles? From her birth in Paris in 1926 to her death in the Channel Islands in 2010, Beresford's w...

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R.E.M. ALBUM BY ALBUM

MAX PILLEY

From cowering, introverted founders of the alternative rock movement to one of the twenty best-selling American bands of all time, the story of R.E.M. covers three decades, two generations and the passions of millions. First, they lifted a humble, Southern college town into myth, re-calibrating rock music at the moment that it threatened to reach the point of terminal excess, a...

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WALKING LITERARY LONDON

STEPHEN BROWNING

"Meant for travelers and general readers, this book belongs to adventurers of all sorts, whether on the road or in their minds." - Library Journal London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part unrivalled in any city in the world. In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, ...

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RECYCLING IN THE GARDEN

ANGELA YOUNGMAN

People are becoming more aware of the environment and their impact on it. Over the past decades we have become an increasingly consumerist based society. From a world in which recycling was common, single use became the norm. This throwaway society is unsustainable. Sustainable gardening results in the creation of an environmentally friendly area in which natural predators thri...

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THE N64 ENCYCLOPEDIA

CHRIS SCULLION

The fourth book in Chris Scullion's critically acclaimed series of video game encyclopedias, The N64 Encyclopedia is dedicated to the Nintendo 64, one of the most well-loved games consoles ever released. Although the Nintendo 64 didn't sell as well as some of Nintendo's other systems, and it struggled in the shadow of the bold newcomer that was the Sony PlayStation, nearly ever...

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THE SECRET LIFE OF A WOODLAND HABITAT

CHLOÉ VALERIE HARMSWORTH

Delve deep into the trees and find wonder in our UK woodlands. Step back from the pressures of everyday life and reconnect with nature and its mindful magic with this absorbing and engaging guide. Learn what you can see at different times of the year and recognize the stunning trees, flowers and plants, multi-hued birds and insects, and mysterious mammals that call these habita...

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SECRETS OF VIDEO GAME CONSOLES

MICHAEL HART

Did you know the Nintendo Wii had a medical condition named after it? Or that the Sega Saturn almost had the Nintendo 64's graphics chip? Did you realize the Atari Jaguar contained five different processors? Are you aware that a fake website about beekeeping was used to promote an Xbox game? Learn about all of this and more in this unique trivia book about the history of video ...

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SECRETS OF VIDEO GAME CONSOLES

MICHAEL HART

Did you know the Nintendo Wii had a medical condition named after it? Or that the Sega Saturn almost had the Nintendo 64's graphics chip? Did you realize the Atari Jaguar contained five different processors? Are you aware that a fake website about beekeeping was used to promote an Xbox game? Learn about all of this and more in this unique trivia book about the history of video ...

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THE SECRET LIFE OF A WOODLAND HABITAT

CHLOÉ VALERIE HARMSWORTH

Delve deep into the trees and find wonder in our UK woodlands. Step back from the pressures of everyday life and reconnect with nature and its mindful magic with this absorbing and engaging guide. Learn what you can see at different times of the year and recognize the stunning trees, flowers and plants, multi-hued birds and insects, and mysterious mammals that call these habita...

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MEDIEVAL PLANTS AND THEIR USES

MICHAEL BROWN

Plants were an essential part of medieval life. Most people lived in houses made of wood and thatch, which often accidentally burned down when they cooked their food or huddled over wood fires to keep warm. People wore linen clothing dyed with plants. They drank ale, cider and wine as they danced to music played on wooden instruments. Beauty, love and seduction could all be mad...

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MEDIEVAL PLANTS AND THEIR USES

MICHAEL BROWN

Plants were an essential part of medieval life. Most people lived in houses made of wood and thatch, which often accidentally burned down when they cooked their food or huddled over wood fires to keep warm. People wore linen clothing dyed with plants. They drank ale, cider and wine as they danced to music played on wooden instruments. Beauty, love and seduction could all be mad...

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LET'S MAKE ART

ALICE HENDY / KAREN LOUISE DAVIES

This book offers families a cherry picked selection of Alice and Karen's tried and tested art projects with clear instructions on how to make them at home. They reveal their top tips for creating stunning art work that parents and children will want to keep and display (rather than consign to the recycling bin)! All the projects use a household item as the starting point, makin...

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PLAYFUL PEG LOOM WEAVING

STEPHANIE FRADETTE

There has been a recent renaissance in our relationship and interaction with textiles in interior design. Playful Peg Loom Weaving breathes new life into an ancient traditional craft form with a choice of contemporary projects presented for a modern lifestyle. Fiber artist Stephanie Fradette introduces you to weaving with the peg loom and sticks in this vibrant and fun guide. H...

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HIGHER THAN EVEREST

FLORE DUSSEY

Higher than Everest paints an uncompromising portrait of Tendi Sherpa, who has successfully climbed twenty-one mountains over 8,000m, including fourteen ascents of Everest. This young father, part of the elite group of Nepalese guides, embodies the new generation of Sherpas who are taking their destiny into their own hands. In the numerous conferences he holds throughout the wo...

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