lacey minna the story of the olympics
Lacey Minna The Story of the Olympics
A brilliant introduction to the history of The Olympics, from the traditional games of Ancient Greece, to their revival by Pierre de Coubertin and the pomp and ceremony of the modern Games. Internet links to carefully selected websites allow children to access the very best sites to support this book and enhance their learning experience. Specially written for children growing in reading confidence and ability. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
647 Руб.
Lacey Minna Big Book of The Body
Open up the huge fold-out pages of this vividly illustrated book to discover the remarkable ways the human body works. Explore a giant skeleton, learn how your heart pumps blood, find out what’s inside your head and see what happens to the food you eat. A fun and engaging introduction to a UK National Curriculum subject.
1492 Руб.
Goscinny Rene, Uderzo Albert Asterix and the Class Act
The latest action-packed adventure from our indomitable Gauls, Asterix and the Griffin! Vintage Asterix! Fourteen short stories including tales of: – The day Asterix and Obelix were born (in the middle of a village fish fight) – How Obelix goes back to school – Fashion in Ancient Gaul – How Dogamatirx helps the village cockerel win a duel – And how he is adopted as a Roman mascot – Asterix as you’ve never seen him before – Obelix’s adventures under the mistletoe – The bid for the very first Gaulish Olympics – The birth of an idea – the story of the creation of Asterix And much, much more.
2246 Руб.
Brownlee Alistair, Brownlee Jonathan Swim, Bike, Run. Our Triathlon Story
Swim, Bike, Run - The ultimate guide to triathlon by Olympics heroes Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee A Number One Bestseller This is the story of how two skinny lads from west Yorkshire became the best triathletes in the world. Meet the Brownlees: Olympic Champion Alistair, World Champion Jonny. Brothers, training partners, rivals. They have obliterated the competition and set new standards for swimming, biking and running. In this revealing, often very funny book they take us inside their world. It's both a riveting story of the races, the success and the brotherly rivalry, as well as a guide to triathlon with sections on how to swim, bike and run and packed with advice on nutrition, injury, and mental approach.
3486 Руб.
Catozzella Giuseppe Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid
Based on a remarkable true story, Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope. Samia Omar grows up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter. She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her bed and trains hard. After achieving a place on the national team to compete in the Beijing Olympics, she sets her sights on the 2012 games in London. But with the war encroaching on the lives of her family, Samia decides to join her sister and make the treacherous journey to Europe, putting her life and her dreams in the hands of traffickers.
1619 Руб.
Domeneghetti Roger Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Britain, Sport and the 1980s
A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time. Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the Brixton riots; the Moscow Olympics and the miners' strike; the Crucible Theatre and the Falklands - to explore how we got to where we are now. Discover how sport became fully entwined in our national story; how sporting heroes were made, and destroyed; how 'wars' were fought on the pitch; and how sport responded to - and drove cultural change in - our society. From Sebastian Coe to Margaret Thatcher, John Barnes to the ZX Spectrum, Martina Navratilova to Section 28, Everybody Wants to Rule the World speaks to our treasured memories of eighties sports while also throwing light on where things went deeply wrong. In so doing it tells nothing less than the story of how British sport came into the modern era.
4774 Руб.
Meadows Daisy Gemma the Gymnastic Fairy
Join Rachel and Kirsty, together with the Sporty Fairies, for lots of fun and magic! The Sporty Fairies are in need of Rachel and Kirsty's help. Everyone in Fairyland is preparing for the Fairy Olympics, but Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen the magic sporty items so they can win by cheating! What's more, with the items missing, everyone in the human world is playing sports really badly, and so the human Olympics is in danger of being ruined too! Gemma's Magic Ribbon is the last item that Rachel and Kirsty must rescue to ensure the Olympics, both in Fairyland and the human world, will go ahead smoothly. But how can they get it back from Jack Frost?
1144 Руб.
McCarthy Cormac All the Pretty Horses
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. The first volume in McCarthy's legendary Border Trilogy, All The Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece and a grand love story: a novel about the passing of childhood, of innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
2270 Руб.
Fox C. Gathering Dark
Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who finds solace in rebelliously taking to drink and shop lifting; and shy, bookish Minna who in the safety of shepherd’s hut shares with her surrogate granddaughter Rose her passion for reading. The outlook of all three women subtly alters when through their encounters with each other they discover that the past is always with us and that we go on learning and changing until the very end.
552 Руб.
Fox C. Gathering Dark
Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who finds solace in rebelliously taking to drink and shop lifting; and shy, bookish Minna who in the safety of shepherd’s hut shares with her surrogate granddaughter Rose her passion for reading. The outlook of all three women subtly alters when through their encounters with each other they discover that the past is always with us and that we go on learning and changing until the very end.
552 Руб.
Atxaga Bernardo Water over Stones
A polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty years Their lives run into each other, like water running over stones As the Basque mining town of Ugarte moves from the hazy summer of the 1972 Olympics, through the mining strikes of the turbulent Eighties and into the modern day, her people navigate the silences, secrets, joys and tragedies of their lives. From the story of a traumatised teenage boy at the town's bakery, to the tale of a group of comrades on an army base in the twilight of Franco's dictatorship, the interconnected narratives of Water Over Stones confront the changes time brings to Ugarte's close-knit community, as the lives of its inhabitants run into to each other like water running between stones. This extraordinary novel of friendship, nature, love and the immensity of death shows Bernardo Atxaga's mastery of his craft, and his ability to create places and characters that are impossible to forget.
4539 Руб.
Lacey Minna Look Inside the Woods
Look through the trees, see under leaves and discover what's lurking behind the bushes in this beautifully illustrated flap-book. Young readers will enjoy opening the flaps to discover hidden animals and amazing facts. Look out for birds, squirrels, foxes and bears and find out how trees and woods help make our planet a better place to live.
1166 Руб.
Lacey Minna Look Inside the Jungle
Children can explore the jungles of the world and meet the plants, animals and insects that live there in this colourful lift-the-flap book. Peep under the flaps to discover iguanas warming themselves in the sun in the Amazon, orangutans swinging through the trees in Borneo, forest buffaloes crossing a river in West Africa, and fruit bats flitting over the treetops in South East Asia. With over 80 flaps to lift, this is an exciting introduction to rainforests and rainforest wildlife.
1166 Руб.
Vickers Salley Grandmothers
Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who finds solace in rebelliously taking to drink and shop lifting; and shy, bookish Minna who in the safety of shepherd's hut shares with her surrogate granddaughter Rose her passion for reading. The outlook of all three women subtly alters when through their encounters with each other they discover that the past is always with us and that we go on learning and changing until the very end. Grandmothers is a beautifully observed, sometimes subversive, often tender and elegiac novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian.
2314 Руб.
Vickers S. Grandmothers
Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson, Billy, how to lie; cosseted Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter, Kitty, by her hostile daughter-in-law, who for the first time in her life rebels by drinking and shoplifting; and shy, bookish Minna, who in the sanctuary of her shepherds hut, shares with her surrogate granddaughter, Rose, her passion for reading. As the novel unfolds we observe how the web of family life binds and affects us, how friendship can sustain us in adversity, and how these powerful intergenerational relationships may alter and enrich us to the very end.
773 Руб.
Vickers S. Grandmothers
Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson, Billy, how to lie; cosseted Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter, Kitty, by her hostile daughter-in-law, who for the first time in her life rebels by drinking and shoplifting; and shy, bookish Minna, who in the sanctuary of her shepherds hut, shares with her surrogate granddaughter, Rose, her passion for reading. As the novel unfolds we observe how the web of family life binds and affects us, how friendship can sustain us in adversity, and how these powerful intergenerational relationships may alter and enrich us to the very end.
773 Руб.