Product Description: The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise...read more

Product Description: The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves up as television participants for others to watch and criticise...read more

Product Description: How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we understand this intense manipulation of feeling? This bookexamines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means...read more

Product Description: Liz has a quiet determination to overcome the obstacles that have beset her with the collapse of her husband's property business when the economic climate drastically struck. She has many new hurdles to surmount before she finds happiness, but through it all is still the lovely warm hearted girl...read more

Product Description: The numbers of unmarried cohabiting couples continue to increase. As a result for family lawyers and private client lawyers, law and practice relating to this area continues to grow in significance. This fifth edition of Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents has been extensively revised to take account of the UK's Family Procedure Rules 2010 and includes a new section on welfare benefits, as well as analysis of significant UK case law, such as the Supreme Court's ruling in Kernott v Jones...read more

Product Description: An introduction to science for young children. It includes simple, safe projects which use easily-obtainable household equipment. There are photographs and illustrations designed to appeal to readers and pre-readers, along with links to Web sites containing additional information...read more

Product Description: The fascinating world of space is vividly presented to young children here in a combination of remarkable images and simple everyday language.

Television talk shows have fueled debates about television's faltering role as a medium for social interaction, but this book points out that many viewers don't just absorb the shows; they react to them and even talk back to their televisions. By observing and analyzing the daily viewing habits of a dozen women viewers, Helen Wood interprets these experiences as daily rituals of self-reflexivity, focusing on the performance of gender as a doubling of place in contemporary conditions of modernity. Directly challenging the fundamental assumption that new media forms are uniquely interactive, Talking with Television reveals that televisual styles, particularly talk-based TV, have always sought to encourage a participatory relationship with viewers at home.

Product Description: Usborne Phonics Flashcards have been created with a language expert, taking into account the latest research on the most effective ways of teaching reading. This pack includes: 44 cards, one for each of the basic phonemes in English, a guide to synthetic phonics, ideas for using the cards and a list of all the phonemes...read more

Collects fourteen stories featuring princesses, fairies, and dolls.

This guide explains the process of civil litigation in the High Court and county courts. Over 40 chapters guide the reader through each step of the claim. Each chapter sets out clearly the requirements of the CPR with a discussion of the relevant case law, together with the practical demands of the how the rules operate in practice. In addition there is valuable advice on core litigation skills such as interviewing, drafting, research and advocacy. Written by a team of district judges and a barrister who also have considerable experience in the provision of legal education,"A Practical Guide to Civil Litigation" provides useful commentary on the process of conducting litigation, whether for the claimant or defendant.

Goes into aspects of the daily lives of knights, including their training, armor, battles, and historical circumstances, and includes examples of famous knights from history and legend.

Follows mermaids as they play, travel, aid fish needing help, hunt for pearls, and visit the Mermaid Queen.

Describes and illustrates the way of life of medieval knights; discusses their weapons, armor, training, siegecraft, tournaments, heraldry, chivalry, and the Crusades; and suggests Web addresses to enhance the reader's research. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The fascinating world of space is vividly presented to young children here in a combination of remarkable images and simple everyday language. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides information on telescopes, space travel, the planets of the solar system, stars, and related topics, and offers Internet addresses for further research. (view table of contents)