Donald Grant

The Directory of Light Railways of Great Britain is a record in an easy to access format of all of the light railway companies who sought to build a light railway in Great Britain. The directory includes light railways that were approved and subsequently built, light railways that were approved but not built, light railways that were submitted to the Light Railway Commissioners but rejected and light railways that were gazetted but not submitted to the Commissioners. The directory includes the route of each railway, estimated costings and all of the key dates. Gauge is included and axle loadings are also included where available The directory is laid out in alphabetical order for easy reference. In an appendix, Acts of Parliament relating specifically to light Railways is included, as well as information on the Light Railway Commissioners themselves.

Prepare for take-off! Board one of the biggest passenger planes in the world and visit the captain’s cockpit. Hover above ground in a helicopter, soar through the sky in a glider, rise above the clouds in a hot air balloon, and shoot into space in a rocket. Children will learn about different types of aircraft – past and present – fuelling their curiosity about how these mighty machines work. This title is part of the My First Discovery paperback series – a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7, with simple language to aid learning and realistic artwork to inspire young minds. There are 8 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises and make the pages come alive. With free access to a brand new audio app, children can listen and read along at their own pace, page by page.

Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant asks what it is about murder that fascinates us. Is it a chill whisper of fear reminding us we too can kill?Grant describes ten true murder cases, each different, each complex, each with unique triggers. Fact leaves fiction for dead. For those directly affected, murder is a sombre and scarring event. For most of us, murder is an arm's length experience, close enough to frighten and fascinate yet far enough not to traumatise.Grant proposes that our restless chatter about it, our state of heightened alert, our endless viewing, may be play therapy, reassuring us that our own killer instinct is under control.

This encyclopedia of dinosaurs has been created especially to allow young children to discover the lush natural world in which different species of dinosaurs evolved. The beautiful illustrations provide a detailed guide for readers to observe and identify the many different kinds of dinosaurs and giant sea and flying reptiles. The archeology of fossil finds and of painstaking reconstruction of skeletons is vividly portrayed.

See how the heat, the cold and the wind shape the landscape. Discover how people, plants, and animals survive in these desolate regions of the earth.

Have you wondered what it would be like to meet dinosaurs on land, under the sea and in the air? Travel back in time to the dark distant past and meet plateosaurus, diplodocus, pterosaurs and the great sea monsters.

Find out how people first learned to fly hot air balloons and small planes. Visit the cockpit of a large passenger airliner. Parachute out of a plane and ride in a helicopter and a glider. Learn about about all the different types of aircraft that we use today. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of beautifully illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.

An Introduction to Diabolo Techniques