In
support of learning and teaching, and in support of the development of
reading for pleasure, more than 500 items were added to the library
collection between July 2007 and June 2008.
The
following is a selected list of the complete new acquisitions list.
All materials are available for loan.
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Through the looking glass: a history of dress from 1860 to the
present day
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20th century fashion: the complete sourcebook
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The world of masks
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Wedding dress 1740-1970 (from the Victoria
& Albert Museum)
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Native American arts and crafts
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The Arts and Crafts Movement
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Art Nouveau: paintings, jewellery, bric-a-brac, sculpture,
architecture
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Art deco source book
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Bauhaus source book: Bauhaus style and its worldwide influence
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The great Japan
exhibition: art of the Edo Period 1600-1868
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Contemporary architects
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The atlas of Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright (Architecture in focus)
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Henry Moore
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Drawing techniques: pen, charcoal and ink (The art of drawing)
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Drawing hands & feet: form, proportions, gestures and actions
(The art of drawing)
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Drawing portraits: faces and figures (The art of drawing)
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Drawing the clothed figure: portraits of people in everyday life
(The art of drawing)
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Drawing scenery: landscapes, seascapes and buildings (The art of
drawing)
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How to draw a woman in an evening dress
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How to draw manga: monsters
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Henry Moore's sheep sketchbook
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Drawing: seeing and observing
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Draw desert animals
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American folk art
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The book of Kells
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Avantgarde design 1880-1930
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Twentieth century design classics: from the Anglepoise lamp to
the Zippo lighter
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The art of calligraphy
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The Conran directory of design
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Kaffe Fassett at the V&A: knitting and needlepoint
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A complete guide to creative embroidery: designs, textures,
stitches
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Batik: get started in a new craft....
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The Pre-Raphaelites (Investigating artforms)
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The art of Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Masterpiece paintings from the Museum
of Fine Arts,
Boston
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The post-impressionists
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Norman Rockwell, illustrator
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History of Western American art
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David Hockney (Art & Design)
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Turner: later works: the later works of JMW Turner
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Turner: early works: the early works of JMW Turner
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Adrian Wiszniewski: painting and drawings
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Leonardo Da Vinci (Scientists who made history)
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Salvador
Dali 1904-1989
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Picasso (First impressions)
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Images of war: British posters 1939-45
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M.C. Escher: works of art
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Japanese prints (Poster art)
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New Design [Magazine]
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Millais: September 2007 - January 2008 (Tate
Britain
Museum
exhibit booklet)
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How to read a film : the art, technology, language, history and
theory of film and media
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Film & genre
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Moving images in the classroom: a secondary teachers' guide to
using film & television
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English inside the black box: assessment for learning in the English classroom
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Speeches
that changed the world: the stories and transcripts of the moments that made history |
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100 must-read classic novels (2006)
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Good fiction guide: 4000 great books to read (2005)
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How
to study a poet |
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Studying the novel: an introduction
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Dictionary of classical, Biblical & literary allusions
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The Columbia anthology of
American poetry
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The complete poems of Emily Dickinson
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Winter trees: poems from the last year of Sylvia Plath's life
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Our town: a play in three acts
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The novels of John Steinbeck: a critical study
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Jack Kerouac: novelist of the beat generation
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Salinger: a critical and personal portrait
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The hat: poetry of Carol Ann Duffy
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Station
Island:
poetry of Seamus Heaney
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The nation's favourite love poems: a selection of romantic verse
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The Faber book of ballads
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The nation's favourite poems of childhood
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Penguin modern poets 4: Liz Lochhead, Roger McGough, Sharon Olds
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Philip Larkin: the poems (Longman critical essays)
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New connections: plays for young people (2008)
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Shakespeare: the world as a stage
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Health and disease (Shakespeare's world)
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Crime and punishment (Shakespeare's world)
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Daily life (Shakespeare's world)
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Theatre and entertainment (Shakespeare's world)
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "Sunset Song": notes
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Angela
Carter's book of fairy tales |
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Great scientists (Eyewitness guides)
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Galileo (Great lives)
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Isaac Newton (great scientists)
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Thomas Edison (great scientists)
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Marie Curie (Great lives)
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Jonas
Salk and the polio vaccine (Graphic library) |
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Benjamin
Franklin (great scientists) |
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Rosalind
Franklin (Scientists who made history) |
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Louis Pasteur (great scientists)
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Charles Darwin (Spilling the beans on...)
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Climate change (Eyewitness guide)
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Plants and people (Looking at plants)
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Wild flowers of Britain
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Field guide to the trees and shrubs of
Britain
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Animals (1000 facts)
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Bug athletes (Bug zone)
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Waterbugs (Bug zone)
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Bugs that build (Bugs that build)
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Worms
(Looking at minibeasts)
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Crabs and crustaceans (Looking at minibeasts)
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Insects (1000 facts)
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Ladybirds and beetles (Looking at minbeasts)
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Birds (Usborne spotter's guides)
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Insect eaters (Looking at small mammals)
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Multislice CT imaging
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Toshiba Medical Systems Journal
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Finding out about animals in medicines research
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Medicine now (Tomorrow's science)
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Dog (Eyewitness guides)
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Marley & me: the biography of a dog
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Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the personal computer
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The Wright Brothers (great scientists)
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I know you got soul: machines with that certain something, by
Jeremy Clarkson
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On cars, by Jeremy Clarkson
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Born to be riled, by Jeremy Clarkson
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Motorworld, by Jeremy Clarkson
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The Independent environmental map of the world
[Poster]
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Forensic science (Eyewitness guide) [Poster]
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Great scientists (Eyewitness guides) [Poster]
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The periodic table of elements [Poster]
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Crystal
& gem (Eyewitness guide) [Poster]
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Climate change (Eyewitness guide) [Poster]
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Pond life
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Rockpool life
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An easy guide to forest trees and their uses [Poster]
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The tree name trail: a key to common trees [Poster]
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Creepy-crawlies
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British moths
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Britain's
butterflies
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Bats and people (Natural Heritage and the Law)
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Standard Grade Physics
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How to pass higher physics
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Higher Physics revision notes
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Questions in Standard Grade Physics
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Answers to revision questions for Higher Chemistry
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Revision notes for Higher Chemistry
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Assessment tests for Higher Chemistry
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Revision questions for Higher Chemistry
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Higher Chemistry: test your higher chemistry calculations
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Test your higher chemistry calculations
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Standard Grade Chemistry (Success guides)
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Standard Grade Credit Chemistry: official SQA past papers
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Higher Chemistry: official SQA past papers
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Standard Grade General Chemistry: past papers
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Standard Grade Credit Biology: official SQA past papers
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Higher Biology revision notes
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American slavery 1619-1877
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Free at last: a history of the Civil Rights movement...
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The no-nonsense guide to fair trade
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Bravo two zero: the true story of an SAS patrol behind the lines
in Iraq
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Long way down: John O' Groats to
Cape Town, by Ewan McGregor
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Hannah's gift: lessons from a life fully lived
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Titanic: an Edwardian girl's diary 1912 (My story)
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Pirate (Eyewitness guide)
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The Roman cookery book
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Speeches that changed the world: the stories and transcripts of
the moments that made history
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Freaky peaks (Horrible geography)
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Explorer (Eyewitness guide)
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Titanic (Eyewitness guide)
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The Lake District: a celebration of
Cumbria
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Prague
(Lonely planet guide, condensed)
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Paris (Eyewitness travel guide)
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Rome
(Insight compact guide)
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Barcelona
(Rough guide)
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Sweden
(Lonely planet guide)
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Brussels,
Bruges, Ghent
& Antwerp
(Eyewitness travel guide)
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Mongolia
(Lonely planet survival kit)
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For a pagan song: in the footsteps of the man who would be king: India, Pakistan
and
Afghanistan
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Welcome to Iran
(Welcome to my country)
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Iraq
(Countries in the news)
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Seven years in Tibet
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Silk dreams, troubled road: love and war on the Old Silk Road,
on horseback through Central Asia
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Bali & Lombok: travel survival kit
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Running with the moon: a boy's own adventure, riding a motorbike
through Africa
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New York
(Eyewitness travel guide)
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Down under, by Bill Bryson
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Princess of Egypt:
an Egyptian girl's diary 1490 BC (My story)
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Pyramid (Eyewitness guide)
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Tutankhamun and his tombful of treasure (Horribly famous)
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Ancient Egypt [Poster]
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The rotten Romans (Horrible histories)
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Pompeii:
a Roman girl's diary AD 78-79 (My story)
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The groovy Greeks (Horrible histories)
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World War I (Eyewitness guide)
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Road to war: a First World War girl's diary 1916-1917 (My story)
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The trenches: a First World War soldier 1914-1918 (My story)
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Life on the Home Front (Journeys into the past)
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Battle
of Britain:
a Second World War spitfire pilot 1939-1941 (My story)
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The Great Plague: the diary of Alice Paynton,
London
1665-1666 (My story)
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Mill girl: a Victorian girl's diary 1842-1843 (My story)
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Blitz: a wartime girl's diary 1940-1941 (My story)
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Times Past: the story of
Glasgow
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The hunger: an Irish girl's diary 1845-1847 (My story)
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To kill a queen: an Elizabethan girl's diary 1583-1586 ( My
story)
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Bloody Tower: a Tudor girl's diary 1553-1559 (My story)
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The Weimar Republic
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Imperial and Weimar
Germany
1890-1933 (History at source)
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Weimar
and the rise of Hitler
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The Weimar Republic: the crisis of classical
modernity
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Nazi youth and the
Weimar
republic
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Holocaust Memorial Day: imagine reflect, react (2008)
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Standard Grade History (Success guides)
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Standard Grade General & Credit History: past papers
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Higher Modern Studies: official SQA past papers with answers
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Higher History: official SQA past papers
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Standard Grade Modern Studies: course notes
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Geography inside the black box: assessment for learning in the
geography classroom
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Geography: Standard Grade bitesize revision
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How to pass higher geography
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Standard Grade Geography (Success guides)
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Higher Geography: official SQA past papers
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Standard Grade General & Credit Geography, past papers
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