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this title is out of print. THE ILLUSION is available in an acting edition ISBN 9780881452310, and SLAVS! is also available in an acting edition ISBN 9780881451245

Surveys the Soviet Union's century, its socialist revolution that failed and the flirtation with market economics.

Good/Good; Large Print former library book with normal library markings.

Today the news is full of reports of Middle East conflict, at the heart of which lies the state of Israel, hero to some and villain to others. In this book the actor, presenter, director and writer, Tony Robinson, presents an account of the background to this ancient and never-ending story, and reveals how little life has changed over the centuries. He retells Bible stories involving characters such as Samuel, Saul, David and Goliath, and in his search for the Promised Land he finds blood and honey, instead of the milk and honey he was expecting.

This is the story of five legends of British history: Boudicca, Robin Hood, Macbeth, King Harold and William Wallace. All five of them can be said, by their lives and deaths, to have changed Britain for ever. Not because they were hugely successful (in fact, all but one died a failure) but because, even in their lifetimes, they were seen as symbolizing something greater than themselves. They lived during some of the most important periods of British history and at times of great change: the Roman occupation, the Saxon period at the time of the Viking raids and settlements, pre-Norman Britain and, finally, the high medieval age of chivalry, and the Scottish struggle for independence.

In Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: Pets , Sir Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining and smelly bits about pets. It's history, but not as we know it! Find out everything you ever needed to know about pets through time in this brilliant illustrated, action-packed, fact-filled book, including: - The fact that Egyptians worshipped cats and shaved off their eyebrows to mourn them when they died - The brilliant and extremely useful jobs that animals did and still do for us in times of war - A whole array of bizarre animals through time, including medieval squirrels! - Pet fashions and fashionable pets And lots of other facts about the amazing pets that we spend our lives with. What are you waiting for? Let's get going . . . For more funny history facts discover the whole series!

Tallulah is always being told what she cannot do because of the kind of girl people perceive her to be, but with the help of the new boy in school, she finds a way just to be herself.

This is the story of Mara, a Jewish girl from Riverside Drive, and a hippie from Israel whom everyone distrusts, and the Orthodox wedding that unites them.

In Israel, militant settlers establish a secessionist kingdom on the West Bank. They are led by Jerry Goldberg, a onetime Bronx social worker who becomes king. When the Israeli army moves in, the militants gather in the necropolis under Hebron to stage a second Masada. A tragicomedy by the author of Mara.

Hazop and hazan were developed to identify and assess hazards in the process industries. The use of these techniques leads to safer plants, the elimination of many operational problems at the design stage and improvement in reliability. Understanding the practical issues involved in the correct implementation of these techniques is the theme of this book. It provides the basics of applying hazard and operability study (Hazop) and hazard analysis (Hazan).

This is Trevor Kletz's follow up to his extremely successful What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters. In it, Kletz reinforces the messages in his now-classic book of famous case histories, but the majority of the book covers points not covered in the original. This new volume will focus more on procedural changes that can be made, not only at the technical or engineering levels, but at the managerial level, to prevent disasters from happening. * This volume follows up on the cases and strategies outlined in the original million-dollar seller: "What Went Wrong" * Contains many new cases and areas for improvement, including the hazards of rust, corrosion, and many more new topics * Written by the world's leading expert on industrial safety

"Jane has it all. Clothes, money, and a beautiful home high above the city. But her safe little world is shattered the minute she meets Silver. Brilliant, witty, a gifted musician, kind, understanding, and gorgeous, Silver is the perfect man - except that he is a robot. Jane wants Silver like she's never wanted anything or anyone before. But it's different with robots - you can't just ask them out, you have to buy them! Jane's best friend, Egyptia, already owns him and she is enjoying her new toy very much. Consumed by love's fever, Jane sells everything she has and makes promises she can't keep to possess Silver. She leaves her suburban mansion in the clouds for the ancient inner-city slums. Jane and her silver metal lover rent a dingy apartment. Together they scrape for a living and sing for their supper. But people and robots were not meant to be lovers. The powers-that-be are jealous of machine love. Will Jane and Silver escape the robophobe's revenge? Can their flesh and metal union survive the slings and arrows of an intolerant, high-tech world?"--Cover.

"The study of western racism has tended to concentrate either on the hatred and murder of Jews or the hatred and enslavement of black people. As chief objects of racism Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries, peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In medieval Europe Jews were often perceived as Blacks, and the conflation of Jews and Blacks continued throughout the period of the Enlightenment. With the discovery of a community of Black Jews in Loango in west Africa in 1777, and later of black Jews in India, the Middle East and other parts of Africa, the figure of the hybrid black Jew was thrust into the maelstrom of evolving theories about race hierarchies and taxonomies. The new hybrid played a particular role in the great battle between monogenists and polygenists as they sought to establish the unitary or disparate origins of humankind. From the mid-nineteenth century to the period of the Third Reich Jews and Blacks were increasingly conflated in a racist discourse which combined the two fundamental racial hatreds of the west. While Hitler considered Jews 'Negroid parasites', in Nazi Germany as in Fascist Italy, through texts, laws and cartoons, Jews and Blacks were combined in the figure of the Black/Jew, the mortal foe of the Aryan race"-- Provided by publisher