Compton Valance - The Most Powerful Boy in the Universe

Author: Matt Brown
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409579484
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
How to become the most POWERFUL BOY IN THE UNIVERSE. 1. Leave cheese-and-pickled-egg SANDWICH in lunchbox for thirteen weeks. 2. Open lunchbox to find that sandwich has turned into a TIME MACHINE. 3. Accidentally wipe out the DINOSAURS with a packet of custard creams. 4. Try to stop someone evil stealing the most POWERFUL SANDWICH of all TIME and changing the history of the universe FOR EVER.

Compton Valance - Revenge of the Fancy-Pants Time Pirate

Author: Matt Brown
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474919243
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
How to battle an evil TIME-TRAVELLING PIRATE: 1. Jump 600 years into the future. 2. Find out that MEGA-BADDY Gussage St Vincent is back from the dead... with a time-travelling PIRATE SHIP. 3. Do battle to stop Gussage becoming OVERLORD OF THE UNIVERSE. 4. Show him you're no COWARDY CUSTARD and make him eat pie.

Compton Valance - The Time-travelling Sandwich Bites Back

Author: Matt Brown
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409579638
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
How to get into the BIGGEST PICKLE ever. 1. Create a TIME MACHINE SANDWICH. 2. Accidentally let your evil older brother steal the sandwich and travel through time CHANGING ALL OF HISTORY. 3. Set out to STEAL BACK the sandwich with the help of a secret agent FROM THE FUTURE. 4. Save the world from TOTAL DESTRUCTION... (Probably.)

Ulysses

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Languages : en
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The Maya

Author: Jerome MARTIN
Publisher: Beginners
ISBN: 9781474921824
Category : Juvenile nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
This information book provides a simple introductionto the world of the ancient Maya. It describes their bustling cities and talltemples, their religious beliefs, the customs of their kings and nobles, andtheir passion for cacao. Perfectly suited to beginner readers, it is full offacts, illustrations, and photographs of historical artefacts. Illustrations: Full colourthroughout

Killer Vending Machines Wrecked My Lunch

Author: Matt Brown
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474971237
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Drishya Samode has always loved building robots. So when Dreary Inkling Primary School gets some brand-new hi-tech vending machines that can walk, talk and have eyes, Drishya is VERY excited. But after a freak electrical surge hits the school, something strange seems to happen to the machines... Can whizz-kid Drishya step in to save the day, the school, and lunch?

Mooncop

Author: Tom Gauld
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770463550
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
The Guardian cartoonist relates the daily deadpan adventures of the last policeman living on the moon "Living on the moon...Whatever were we thinking? ...It seems so silly now.” The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier. As in Goliath, Tom Gauld’s retelling of the Bible story, the focus in Gauld's science fiction is personal—no big explosions or grand reveals, just the incremental dissolution of an abandoned project and a person’s slow awakening to his own uselessness. Depicted in the distinctive, matter-of-fact style of his beloved Guardian strips, Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. Gauld captures essential truths about humanity, making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one.

Spacekid ILK

Author: Andrew Hammond
Publisher: Spacekid iLK
ISBN: 9781916471337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
iLK is an alien child who is put in charge of Earth and must protect the planet from being destroyed by his dad.

Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings

Author: Trench H. Johnson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
'Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings' is a one-of-a-kind encyclopedic work that offers plain statements of facts on the origins of popular phrases and names, alphabetically organized for easy reference. Trench H. Johnson's expertise in the subject matter, acquired through years of omnivorous reading and patient inquiry, has culminated in a comprehensive and fascinating compilation of linguistic curiosities that is sure to satisfy the curiosity of any word lover. From the history of place-names to the evolution of expressions, including a plethora of slang terms and Americanisms, this book offers a wealth of knowledge that opens up the history of peoples and civilizing influences.

The Eight Technologies of Otherness

Author: Dr Sue Golding
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134758901
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, and dwelling. But why only eight technologies? And why these eight, in particular? Included are thirty-three artists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, photographers, political militants, and 'pulp-theory' practitioners whose work (or life) has contributed to the re-thinking of 'otherness,' to which this book bears witness, throw out a few clues.