In "The Idle Parent" Tom Hodgkinson provides a revolutionary and wholly sensible approach to childcare, based on the idea of D.H. Lawrence and many others that the best thing we can do for children is to leave them alone. Of course, this doesn''t mean that we should completely neglect them, but rather ...
Philip Pullman returns to the world of HIS DARK MATERIALS with this magnificent first volume of THE BOOK OF DUST. Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his d?mon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns ...
Frey and Rafi are inseparable... two edges of the same knife. But Frey''s very existence is a secret. Frey is Rafi''s twin sister-and her body double. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, ...
Includes double page spreads on mountains, deserts, the oceans, the atmosphere and icy landscapes such as Antarctica, each one with flaps to lift to reveal scientific and natural history information.
Bared to You by Sylvia Day is the first in the Crossfire trilogy featuring Gideon and Eva, two wounded souls who come together in an explosion of lust and passion as intoxicating as it is devastating - the perfect read for fans of bestselling erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. Our journey ...
From the bestselling author of Eating Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it. Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to human survival. And it is happening right now. We all understand that time is running out - but ...
Now even the smallest hands can get in on all the hands-on fun of Hervé Tullet\''s bestselling Press Here. The longest-running picture book on the New York Times bestseller list, this interactive children\''s classic is now available as a sturdy, durable board book to share with a whole new generation ...
Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now a minute''s delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider''s chances over a three-week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. ...
The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now.'' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent''s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, ''H.G.'' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, ...
In tough times, even the criminals are making cut-backs, it seems. Right now, the most significant part of defence lawyer Mickey Haller''''s business is not about keeping clients out of jail but about keeping a roof over their heads, as the foreclosure industry booms. Lisa Trammel had been a client of ...
História puzzle siaha do osemnásteho storočia a za jeho zrodom stojí anglický rytec a kartograf John Spilsbury. Prvé puzzle okolo roku 1760 vytvoril tak, že na mapu pripevnil tenké tvrdé drevo a jemnou ostrou pílkou na vytváranie intarzie z neho vyrezal hranice krajín. Takto vytvorený produkt deťom v ...
Három különböző válság egyszerre zúdul az emberiségre. A petesejtfaló baktérium megakadályozza, hogy a nők kisbabákat szülhessenek. A gazdasági világválság hatására pénzért többé nem kapható táplálék. Továbbá kitör a világháború. Az emberiség elpusztul. Tíz túlélő sodródik a messzi Galápagos-szigetek ...
