
Children's Parties: Fun Ideas for Fabulous Kids' Parties
Rosie Hammick and Charlotte Packer
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With a little ingenuity and imagination, it is possible to throw a memorable party for your child...

3D Photorealistic Rendering: Interiors & Exteriors with V-Ray and 3Ds Max
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Increase the photorealism of your 3d visualizations with enhanced toolsets of V-ray in 3ds Max....
Understanding Key Education Issues: How We Got Here and Where We Go from Here
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In this age of education innovation and reform, schools must evolve and react to current policy...

Tales from the Kingdoms: Poison, Charm, Beauty
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'This is not your Disney fairy tale. It is much, much better' Wilder's Book Review Snow White,...

Ross (3284 KP) rated Gone in Seconds in Books
Jun 23, 2020
It isn't often I will say this, and especially not during lockdown because I have really struggled with reading, but this is truly a page-turner. Many is the evening I ended up reading just one more chapter etc etc etc.
The pacing is superb, letting the story and character interactions and conflicts unfold organically. The reader is kept guessing almost throughout the whole book - some suspicions will be true, but so many will be surprises.
Excellently written crime fiction which develops well beyond the abduction of a baby.

Briannabrown1019 (799 KP) rated The Cabin in Books
Oct 14, 2020

The Misadventures of Michael McMichaels, Vol 2: The Borrowed Bracelet
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Michael McMichaels just HAD to one-up that Harriet Simpson! He couldn't let her show and tell...

Integrating the Expressive Arts into Counseling Practice: Theory-Based Interventions
Suzanne Degges-White and Nancy L. Davis
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Expanded and revised to reflect a broader understanding of the complementary approach to therapeutic...

EU Energy Law: Volume 10: Insider Trading and Market Manipulation in the European Wholesale Energy Markets - Remit
John Ratliff and Roberto Grasso
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Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Wholesale Energy...

Deborah (162 KP) rated Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses in Books
Dec 21, 2018
Rowse's chapter on Shakespeare must be at least as long, if not longer, than his chapter on Bosworth. The fact that he obviously sincerely believes that one can gain a credible understanding of history from Shakespeare cycle of plays was almost enough to make me drop the book in astonishment! How can one take him seriously?!
He is also ready to give every credit to the supposed work of More. Even here he falls down by claiming that the bodies of the 'princes in the tower' were discovered in the exact place More said! If you read this work you'll find that the opposite is true - they are in the exact place More said they were NOT! The fact that there isn't a shred of evidence that anyone killed the two princes is evidently a small matter to Rowse. He mentions the great turncoat, Sir William Stanley (at this point step-uncle to Henry Tudor) being executed s a result of the Perkin Warbeck debacle, but fails to mention that Sir William is imputed to have said that if Warbeck really was Richard of York, he would not fight against him. Of course he doesn't mention this - he has to keep reminding us that EVERYONE believed Richard III guilty! Really, a credible historian should not pick and choose their facts - something Alison Weir is also very fond of doing.
Another point is that he is quite happy to accept that Katherine of Valois really did marry Owen Tudor, but cannot countenance the much more credible suggestion that Edward IV was married to Eleanor Butler (nee Talbot), who is not even mentioned. He harps on about the morality and piety of the Lancastrians (despite the Beauforts being conceived in double adultery - further hypocrisy) but when Richard III founds a chantry or offers some concession to a religious house that Rowse concludes it much be down to his uneasy concience.
So, overall, not a book I can recommend in the least. He may try to convince us that his unbending traditionalist view is 'sensible' and 'common sense' but anyone with a little knowledge of the subject will see it as laughably absurd and highly prejudiced.
Ross (3284 KP) Jun 23, 2020