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Across the Board

How Games Make Us Human

by Tim Clare ...

Across the Board is a rollicking journey through the history and culture of tabletop games and the unparalleled way that they bring people together"Rich with enticing origin stories, and a shining treatise on why games are so universal, so important, and so foundational to the human experience. This book beautifully explores their rich and textured legacy as everything from simple play to divine ... Read more

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Across the Board is a rollicking journey through the history and culture of tabletop games and the unparalleled way that they bring people together"Rich with enticing origin stories, and a shining treatise on why games are so universal, so important, and so foundational to the human experience. This book beautifully explores their rich and textured legacy as everything from simple play to divine
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Coward

Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It

by Tim Clare ...

After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself – he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine.His year of treatments took him from anti-depressants to hypnosis, running to extreme diets, ice baths to faecal transplants. At the end of it he discovers what helps him (and what doesn’t), and what might help others. Most of all, ... Read more

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After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself – he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine.His year of treatments took him from anti-depressants to hypnosis, running to extreme diets, ice baths to faecal transplants. At the end of it he discovers what helps him (and what doesn’t), and what might help others. Most of all,
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The Ice House

by Tim Clare ...

War doesn't end. It sleeps.Delphine Venner remembers everything. She remembers what it is to be a child of war, and what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago.And in that other world, Avalonia, someone waits for Delphine. Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, daily paying a terrible price for her unending youth, is planning one final death, the death that will ... Read more

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War doesn't end. It sleeps.Delphine Venner remembers everything. She remembers what it is to be a child of war, and what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago.And in that other world, Avalonia, someone waits for Delphine. Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, daily paying a terrible price for her unending youth, is planning one final death, the death that will
... Read more
The Honours

by Tim Clare ...

The award-winning poet and author of The Ice House offers "a gorgeously entertaining fantasy novel set in Norfolk between the wars" ( The Guardian).Norfolk, 1935. World War II is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of ... Read more

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The award-winning poet and author of The Ice House offers "a gorgeously entertaining fantasy novel set in Norfolk between the wars" ( The Guardian).Norfolk, 1935. World War II is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, thirteen-year-old Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of
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Coward

Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It

by Tim Clare ...

Narrated by Tim Clare ...

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14 hours 32 min

Tim Clare has suffered from anxiety and panic attacks for over a decade. At their worst, his attacks would see him curled on the floor, screaming to his wife for help. When they became more than he and his family could manage, Tim made a promise to himself – he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine.In Coward, Tim Clare explores all the possible treatments for ... Read more

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Tim Clare has suffered from anxiety and panic attacks for over a decade. At their worst, his attacks would see him curled on the floor, screaming to his wife for help. When they became more than he and his family could manage, Tim made a promise to himself – he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine.In Coward, Tim Clare explores all the possible treatments for
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Across the Board

How Games Make Us Human

by Tim Clare ...

Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

Tabletop games are ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because they're everywhere: played in bars and cafés, churches and casinos, through sunless winters in polar research stations and in the sweltering summer heat of Tanzanian villages and streamed live over Twitch to millions of viewers. They fill the activity pages of children's magazines and the halls of senior centers. They appear as ... Read more

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Tabletop games are ordinary and extraordinary. Ordinary because they're everywhere: played in bars and cafés, churches and casinos, through sunless winters in polar research stations and in the sweltering summer heat of Tanzanian villages and streamed live over Twitch to millions of viewers. They fill the activity pages of children's magazines and the halls of senior centers. They appear as
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How I Wish I'd Taught Writing

by Dr Tim Mills, Clare Sealy ...

There are four myths that hinder the teaching of writing. First, that it is so cognitively complex that there can be no established pedagogy that captures that complexity in a rational and teachable progression. Second, that the research on teaching writing is so thin as to be almost irrelevant. Third, that reading and writing are inverses and so long as we teach reading we are per se teaching ... Read more

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There are four myths that hinder the teaching of writing. First, that it is so cognitively complex that there can be no established pedagogy that captures that complexity in a rational and teachable progression. Second, that the research on teaching writing is so thin as to be almost irrelevant. Third, that reading and writing are inverses and so long as we teach reading we are per se teaching
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Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1: The Murder of Mary Jones

by Tim Vicary, Clare West ...

Series Book 1 - Oxford Bookworms Library
The court room is full for today’s trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, ‘Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?’ ‘Not guilty!’ they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon’s face. If the court finds them guilty, they will go to prison for a very long time. Can the lawyers ... Read more

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The court room is full for today’s trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, ‘Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?’ ‘Not guilty!’ they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon’s face. If the court finds them guilty, they will go to prison for a very long time. Can the lawyers
... Read more
Languages of Water

by Eugen Bacon, Francesca Rendle-Short, David Carlin, Dominique Hecq, Quyen Nguyen-Hoang, Erin Latimer, Andrew Chin, Oz Hardwick, Aldegunda Matoyo, Clara Chow, Tamantha Smith, Clare Rhoden, Cheng Tim Tim, Stephen Embelton, Nicki Bacon, Seb Doubinski, Pandora, E. Don Harpe, Ramya Jirashinghe, Kyongmi Park, Zephyr Li, Nuzo Onoh, Andrew Hook, Sudeep Chatterjee ...

Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du ... Read more

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Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du
... Read more
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Undersong

by Kathleen Winter ...

Narrated by Tim Bruce, Nneka Okoye, Clare Kissane ...

Unabridged

8 hours 17 min

“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." —Toronto StarFrom Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel): A stunning novel reimagining the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth.When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recently returned from the Battle of Waterloo, meets Dorothy Wordsworth, he quickly realizes he’s never met ... Read more

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“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." —Toronto StarFrom Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel): A stunning novel reimagining the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth.When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recently returned from the Battle of Waterloo, meets Dorothy Wordsworth, he quickly realizes he’s never met
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Cold Blood & other stories

Four Full-Cast BBC Radio Sci-Fi Thrillers

by Simon Bovey ...

Narrated by Tom Mannion, Tim McMullan, Clare Corbett, Rory Kinnear, Tony Bell, Helen Longworth, Ben Crowe, Ndidi Del Fatti, Matthew Dyktinski, Ania Sowinski, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon BoveySimon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror...Cold Blood – Recorded in 2005 but set in 2015, this chilling serial follows a group of scientists conducting research in ... Read more

$19.11 USD

Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon BoveySimon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror...Cold Blood – Recorded in 2005 but set in 2015, this chilling serial follows a group of scientists conducting research in
... Read more

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The Hummingbirds' Gift

Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings

by Sy Montgomery ...

Narrated by Sy Montgomery ...

Unabridged

2 hours 5 min

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the “fascinating…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, a charmingly perfect gem of a book about the most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures—hummingbirds.As one of the most beautiful and intriguing birds found in nature, hummin... ... Read more

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From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the “fascinating…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, a charmingly perfect gem of a book about the most exquisite and extraordinary of winged creatures—hummingbirds.As one of the most beautiful and intriguing birds found in nature, hummin...
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