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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn...
Little Miss Curious V27: Mr Men and Little Miss
Little Miss Curious is a very curious person! She wants to know the how? why? and what? of everything. The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics. Bold illustrations and funny stories make Mr Men and Little Miss the perfect story time ex...
Arabella
A dashing and thrilling romance from one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists. An enchanting debutante and the eldest daughter of an impoverished country parson, Arabella embarks on her first London season. Armed with beauty, virtue and a benevolent godmother (as well as a notoriousl...
Goodbye to Berlin
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o...
Angelica Sprocket's Pockets
Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore! And you'll never guess what's in them...Prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket's never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps in them....
Doctor Zhivago
"From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. anned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during ...
Sons of Thunder - Writing from the Fast Lane - A Motorcycling Anthology
Robert Pirsig, in his groundbreaking "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", wrote about the relationship of rider and machine, the fact of 'seeing deeply into the nature of things by direct experience'. T.E. Lawrence described 'the lustfulness of moving swiftly', the sensation of feeling 'the eart...
Bonsai (HB)
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Know, grow, and create beautiful bonsaiBonsai is the ultimate introduction to bonsai trees, with illustrated step-by-step projects to make bonsai for beginners simple and achievable. With an A-Z directory of bonsai tree care, you'll learn the key techniques needed to create your own beautiful miniature ...
American Interior - The Quixotic Journey of John Evans, His Search for a Lost Tribe and How, Fuelled by Fantasy and (Possibly) Booze, He Accidentally Annexed a Third of North America
American Interior is a psychedelic historical travelogue from Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys. This book was longlisted for the guardian first book and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize in 1972, John Evans, a twenty-two-year-old farmhand from Snowdonia, Wales, travelled to America to discover whether th...
Color Me Crazy: Insanely Detailed Creations to Challenge Your Skills and Blow Your Mind
Color Me Crazy isn t your average coloring book. Filled with intricately detailed line art, Color Me Crazy features 44 hand-drawn creations awaiting colored pencils or markers. From the mind and expert hand of popular illustrator Peter Deligdisch, this stunning book will appeal to anyone who likes to do...
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature
For the many amateurs and professionals who write about themselves - bloggers, journal-keepers, aspiring essayists and memoirists - this book offers inspiration, encouragement and pithy, practical advice. Twenty of America's bestselling memoirists share their innermost thoughts and hard-earned tips with...
American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (the Library of America)
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith was the most widely read sportswriter of the last century and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. From the 1940s to the 1980s, his nationally syndicated columns for the "New York Herald Tribune" and later for "The New York Times" traversed the world of sports...
The Great God Pan
'I will not read it; I should never sleep again' A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow: sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's wei...
Pocket Eyewitness Ancient Rome
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
The series that packs a world of knowledge into your pocketGet fast facts at your fingertips with DK Pocket Eyewitness Ancient Rome, packed with bite-sized chunks of information that make learning about the Roman Empire even more fun. Find out what Romans ate at their banquets and what bloody spectacles...
Is the Moon Upside Down?
During his younger days working as a bush mechanic and pearl diver in remote WA, Greg Quick spent countless nights lying in a swag and staring at the stars. That daily distraction grew into a passion that has seen him become one of Australia's best known and most engaging astronomers. In recent years Gr...
Digital Photography Complete Course: Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks
Grab your camera and learn everything you need to know to improve your photography in just 20 weeks.The perfect one-on-one learning programme for any aspiring photographer, Digital Photography Complete Course teaches you everything you need to know in 20 weeks through easy-to-understand tutorials. If yo...
Stuff - Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Things
Maddie Moate; Paul Boston (Illustrator)
The first children's book from CBBC presenter Maddie Moate, this is a collection of incredible stories about everyday things and how they are made, used and re-used This is the first children's book from CBBC presenter Maddie Moate- a collection of incredible stories about STUFF. Discover mind-boggling...
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
A beautiful collectable gift edition celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ultimate cult feminist classic Within every woman, there lies a powerful force of energy, creativity and self-knowing: their wild woman. For centuries, she has been repressed by a male-orientated value system that trivialise...
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