Download or read book Box of Tricks written by Katie Cleminson and published by Red Fox Picture Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is given a box of tricks for her birthday and conjures up a polar bear, lots of rabbits and a big party.
Download or read book Little Box of Magic Tricks written by Janet Sacks and published by Barrons Juveniles. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact and sturdy little box contains equipment and props for budding junior magicians. Includes a card deck, a scarf and disappearing egg set, a trick rope, and a set of eight miniature 24-page instruction books for performing a number of tricks. Pkg. Consumable.
Download or read book The Last Quiz Night on Earth written by Alison Carr and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the end of the world. The last night on Earth. An asteroid is heading straight for us and there's nothing we can do about it. Except for maybe host a pub quiz - which is exactly what landlady Kathy and her quizmaster Rav are doing. But, with time ticking, some unexpected guests explode on the scene - Bobby wants to settle old scores, and Fran wants one last shot at love. The Last Quiz Night on Earth is an innovative comedy-drama featuring a fully interactive pub quiz for the audience to participate in, complete with real teams, real questions and real swapping each other's answers for marking. It was premiered by Box of Tricks in 2020 on a UK tour, taking in a host of theatres, community venues and pubs. Ideal for performance by amateurs - either in theatres or more unconventional spaces (such as theatre bars and local pubs) - this play offers rich opportunities for audience participation. Quizzing compulsory, alcohol optional.
Download or read book Dr Riley s Box of Tricks written by Douglas A. Riley and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A licensed clinical psychologist presents this guide for exasperated parents, offering creative solutions for persistent parenting problems from messy rooms to homework procrastination and from sibling combat to cell phone abuse.
Download or read book Clear written by Nicola Barker and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 5, 2003, illusionist David Blaine entered a small Perspex box adjacent to London's Thames River and began starving himself. Forty-four days later, on October 19, he left the box, fifty pounds lighter. That much, at least, is clear. And the rest? The crowds? The chaos? The hype? The rage? The fights? The lust? The filth? The bullshit? The hypocrisy? Nicola Barker fearlessly crams all that and more into this ribald and outrageous peep show of a novel, her most irreverent, caustic, up-to-the-minute work yet, laying bare the heart of our contemporary world, a world of illusion, delusion, celebrity, and hunger.
Download or read book Box of Tricks written by Ellie Boswell and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie and Katy shouldn't be friends: witches and witch-hunters just aren't meant to get along Now that their friendship is out in the open, both girls are in danger but if they stick together, they feel like they can overcome anything. But then Katy starts acting strangely mean. Sophie is totally confused: it's like her BFF has had a personality transplant. And that's not possible - is it?
Download or read book Undercover Magic written by Ellie Boswell and published by Atom Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worst Witch meets Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging in this exciting new tween series!
Download or read book Everything I Own written by Daniel Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know? Unless you fill it yourself. With a little burn mout. Or a little tune. Errol lost his dad last year. Listening to his old man's Spotify playlist, he remembers his dad's passion over the 1981 Brixton uprising and his certainty that change was coming. Errol is tired of the fight and, as his son takes up the fight with the BLM movement, he questions if this is a revolution or a repetition. A thought-provoking journey of loss, history and uprising in Everything I Own, an intimate yet provocative intergenerational conversation between father and son written by Daniel Ward. This edition was published to coincide with the run at London's Brixton House in June 2024.
Download or read book Plastic Figurines written by Ella Carmen Greenhill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mum told me that there was something in his brain that was different, she said that he liked to put his toys in lines and that was a symptom or whatever. I used to go in his room and see all his stuffed animals in a line and I'd mess them up. I'd mess the line up. Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but he hates change. When their mum is diagnosed with leukaemia, their world is plunged into chaos. Rose returns home to find a very different brother to when she left. But today is his eighteenth birthday and Rose wants everything to be perfect, though life with Mikey isn't ever that simple. Inspired by events in the playwright's own life, Plastic Figurines is a funny and moving play that explores the relationship between siblings with very different views of the world. This edition was published for the first revival of the play at the New Diorama, London, in September 2016.
Download or read book A Bag of Tricks written by Will L. Lindhorst and published by David De Angelis. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents How to Balance Glass on Playing Card How 'Spirit Trick' Is Performed With Names Written in Squares How to Transfer a Coin From One Hand to Another How to Tell Card Taken From Pack by Trick 'Spirit Writing* How to Dip Hand Into Water and Take It Out Dry Trouble to Spin an Egg Magician Lindhorst's Method How to Remove Dime Under Glass Without Touching Either Magician Tells How to Hang Hat on Wall Without Nail or Hook How to Invert Glass of Water Without Spilling It How to Tell in Which Hand Coin Is Concealed How to Fill Glass Twice Without Emptying First Contents Tells How to Blow Candle Out Through Bottle Here's How You Can Add Five Matches to Six and Make Nine Magician Tells How to Change Pack of Cards from Black to Red Trick of Unsmashable Match Box Trick of Swallowing a Knife Magician Tells How Ringand Cord Trick Is Worked Three Matches Can Be Lifted With One How to Make a Dime Disappear How You Can Smoke a Pipe Without Lighting It Magician Tells How to Grasp Two Corks Between Fingers How to Make an Ace Disappear in Deck Taking a Coin from Under a Hat Without Touching Hat—Yourself Magician Explains How to Change Playing Card Into Box of Matches How to Balance Two Coins Between Your Fingers Rubber Sponge Used to Perform Magic in Hand of Spectator Tells How to Find a Selected Card in a Pack Magician Breaks Stick Held Up By Paper Suspended on Knives Clever Trick Performed With Ordinary Ruler How to Get Water Into Glass When It Is Held Upside Down Walking Hair Pin Trick Is Done With Knife and Quiver of Hand Magician Makes a Cane Dance Apparently Without Support How to Pick Up Five Bricks With One Hand Explained by Magician Paper Placed Over Board Defies Attempt to Move It With Blow How to Write Spectator's Initial on Cube and Then Make Letter Appear in How To Make Needle Float in Glass of Water Tiny Card Standing on Edge Defies Effort to Blow It Over Tells How to Make a Boomerang Circle Room and Land at the Feet The Magic Egg, a Clever Trick How to Light Candle Without Touching Flame to Its Wick How to Knock a Card Through Table How to Get a Loose Cork Out of Bottle Without Touching Either How to Break Pencil With Dollar Bill Did You Know That a Child Can Step Through a Playing Card? Thread Supporting a Ring Can Be Burned but Still Hold It Suspended Mysterious No. 3 Almost Always Chosen From List Marked 1,2,3, 4 How to Fill a Tobacco Can Twice Without Emptying First Contents Card Can Be Taken From Under Quarter Without Moving the Coin It's Easy to Make a Dime on Plate Vanish, Then Find It Underneath How to Place Spoon in a Glass Without Touching Either Foretelling the Ending Numbers in a Domino Game Is Simple Trick How to Perform Trick of the Mesmerized Ring Much more...
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Download or read book The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English presents all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. Containing over 60,000 entries, this concise new edition of the authoritative work details the slang and unconventional English of from around the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge’s own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning. New to this second edition: a new preface noting slang trends of the last eight years over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia, reflecting important developments in language and culture new terms from the language of social networking from a range of digital communities including texting, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and online forums many entries now revised to include new dating and new glosses, ensuring maximum accuracy of content. The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the subject, this Dictionary - available again in its eighth edition - gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and will entertain and inform all language-lovers.
Download or read book The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Terry Victor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 2232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of the two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2005: The king is dead. Long live the king! The old Partridge is not really dead; it remains the best record of British slang antedating 1945 Now, however, the preferred source for information about English slang of the past 60 years is the New Partridge. James Rettig, Booklist, American Library Association Most slang dictionaries are no better than momgrams or a rub of the brush, put together by shmegegges looking to make some moola. The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, on the other hand, is the wee babes. Ian Sansom, The Guardian The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning its rude, its delightful, and its a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Download or read book In Doggerland written by Tom Morton-Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round ... over and over. I've got that right now ... only it's not a piece of music ... it's not a tune ... it's a phrase: home is where the heart is ... home is where the heart is." A coastline erodes, a house falls into the sea. A mysterious brother and sister arrive looking for answers. Marnie clings to her camera, taking photographs of strangers and places. She has come to say goodbye to a life she never knew whilst her brother Linus is keen to make a fresh start. But when they find Simon and daughter Kelly, reeling in the wake of tragedy, all four lives are to become inextricably linked under the weight of the past.
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1929-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
