Scoop

Evelyn Waugh was one of literature's great curmudgeons and a scathingly funny satirist. Scoop is a comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s and the story of William Boot, a innocent hick from the country who writes careful essays about the habits of the badger. Through a series of accidents and mistaken identity, Boot is hired as a war correspondent for a Fleet Street newspaper. The …

Brideshead Revisited

he most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles com…

Scoop

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the …

I Wish I Knew That

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9781606523407

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23x20 cm; hc; ill; bw; 143p

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031.02 MAR i

Planet Earth

In Flip The Flaps: Planet Earth by Dr Mike Goldsmith, illustrated by Nicki Palin, children zoom up through protective layers of the atmosphere from the surface to outer space, following the Earth as it makes its yearly journey around the Sun. Young explorers lift the flaps to reveal answers about everything from the inner workings of our planet and why volcanoes erupt to finding animals in the …

Asal Mula Terjadinya Alam Semesta, Galaksi, Tata Surya, dan Kita

Manusia berusaha mencari tahu asal mula dirinya dan segalanya sejak dulu. Penelitian sains telah mengungkap bahwa asal mula manusia bukan hanya dari Bumi, melainkan juga bintang-bintang dan alam semesta. Kisah asal mula kita merentang sampai awal waktu serta kelahiran ruang dan seluruh zat. Asal Mula menceritakan bagaimana terjadinya alam semesta, bintang-bintang, planet-planet, dan kehidupan b…

Collins junior thesaurus

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9780007154289

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423.1 GOL j

8 Buddies, 8 Countries, 8 Stories

"8 Buddies, 8 Countries, 8 Stories", menceritakan delapan orang sobat yang masing-masing menjelajahi negara yang berbeda dengan kisah-kisah menarik yang mengiringi perjalanan mereka ketika berada di negara lain.

Fantastic Future

In 30 years' time will you spend holiday on the moon? in 100 years' time could you genetically engineer your own pet? In 1000 years' time will you travel through space in an anti-matter-drive spaceship? This eye-opening guide predicts the future with a time-travelling trip through, well, time... Inside, visit vast skycraper cities, make friends with robots and cyborgs, colognize far distant g…

Riotous Robots

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