With over 1,000 illustrations, including 47 color plates, this guide provides the most comprehensive coverage of any book on the signs of many European birds, resident, visiting or vagrant.
Empowering women to reclaim their respect, this book explores the importance of self-advocacy and confidence. It addresses societal challenges and encourages women to assert their rights and dignity. Through inspiring stories and actionable strategies, readers are motivated to challenge norms and foster a culture of respect. The narrative emphasizes unity and the collective strength of women, aiming to inspire a movement towards equality and empowerment in various aspects of life.
This ninth Jiggy McCue story sees Jiggy entering an alternative reality when he hides in the school caretaker's broom cupboard. In this new world, Jiggy finds he has swapped places with a boy called Juggy who is about to go on a school trip—a trip to compete in the UK Extreme Ironing Championships.
This illustrated tale is a fun and wacky story about Jiggy McCue, the boy who things seem to happen to...
Murderous mayhem with the original Jiggy McCue!
1. Amboo: Enacting Speed and Risk-Film Genre, Female Performance and the Indian Stunt Film; Anupama Kapse.- 2. K.L. Saigal: From Street Singer to Tansen; Neepa Majumdar.- 3. The Lady and the Tramp: The Star Couple of Raj Kapoor and Nargis; Rachel Dwyer.- 4. Johnny Walker: Every Man's Comic Star; Radha Dayal.- 5. Dharmendra: A Critical Study of the Eclipse of a Classical Hindi Film Star; Anustup Basu.- 6. From Son of India to Teen King: Sajid Khan and Transnational Stardom; Meenasarani Murugun.- 7. Goodbye Neverland: Child Star Rattan Kumar and the Move to Pakistan; Salma Siddique.- 8. Star's 'Dust': Miss Kumari and the Fossilized Memory of the 'First Malayalam Female Star'; Darshana Sreedhar.- 9. The Chin Chin Chu Girl: Helen and the Scandalous Other of Popular Hindi Cinema; Sudesh Mishra.- 10. 'She's Everything that's Unpardonable': Hema Malini, Dream Girl on a Motorbike; Rosie Thomas.- 11. Rajkumar and Kannada Cinema; M K Raghavendra.- 12. 'The Queen of Comedy': The Voice and Comic Performances of Sridevi in Popular Hindi Film; Nandana Bose.- 13. Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha: Stardom and Scandal before and after Silsila (1980); Michael Lawrence.- 14. The Feudal Lord Reincarnate: Mohanlal and the Politics of Masculinity in Malayalam Cinema; Meena T. Pillai.- 15. 'The B Grade King': Mithun Chakraborty and the Politics of Cult Stardom, Iain Robert Smith.- 16. The Other Street Singer: Kanan Devi, the Unsung Co-star of Barua and Saigal; Ranita Chatterjee.- 17. The Irrepressible Badness of Salman Khan; Shohini Ghosh.- 18. Harbhajan Maan: the Transnational Migrant Success Story of Punjabi Cinema; Harjant S. Gill.- 19. 'SRK Starring as SRK'-King Khan's Performance Style: Audience Expectations and the Emergence of Self-Parody; Charlie Henniker
Programming Graphical User Interfaces with R introduces each of the major R packages for GUI programming: RGtk2, qtbase, Tcl/Tk, and gWidgets. With examples woven through the text as well as stand-alone demonstrations of simple yet reasonably complete applications, the book features topics especially relevant to statisticians who aim to provide a practical interface to functionality implemented in R. The book offers: A how-to guide for developing GUIs within R The fundamentals for users with limited knowledge of programming within R and other languages GUI design for specific functions or as learning tools The accompanying package, ProgGUIinR, includes the complete code for all examples as well as functions for browsing the examples from the respective chapters. Accessible to seasoned, novice, and occasional R users, this book shows that for many purposes, adding a graphical interface to one’s work is not terribly sophisticated or time consuming.
Jiggy McCue is the unluckiest kid in town. He wants some good luck for a change, but instead of luck he gets a genie. A teenage genie who turns against him. Then the maggoty dreams start. Dreams which, with his luck and this genie, might just come true.
The classic laugh-out-loud horror that inspired the hit BBC series Young Dracula, now in an attractive low reading age edition, gloriously illustrated by Chris Mould throughout. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 7+
First in a new trilogy, by the author of the Jiggy McCue books. Two years ago, Alaric's mother died in an accident, and his world fell apart. Then one winter's day, Alaric finds himself drawn into a parallel world - a world in which his mother didn't die. The only problem is that in the other world she has a daughter, not a son. 14+.
