Join Peggy and her mother on a delightful day in the garden! Determined to help with every task, Peggy eagerly exclaims, "I'll do it, I'll do it!" as she plants beans, waters seedlings, removes weeds and tastes raspberries. Though the results aren't always perfect, Peggy's cheerful spirit never waivers. This charming book celebrates the small joys of everyday life paired with heart-warming illustrations and endearing messages of persistence and determination. Autorid: Tonka Uzu
When the dastardly Frank Hellman steals priceless fossilised eggs from a Romanian dig site, only Mr Sharp knows him well enough to find his hiding place. Matt and Jo help him on this hair-brained race across spooky Transylvania and uncover a fossil smuggling scheme. But will they catch Hellman before its too late? And what is that mysterious shadow in the window? About The Dinosaur Detectives series: The Dinosaur Detectives is a fun-filled adventure series following the story of Matt Sharp and his family as they hunt for dinosaur eggs. This fact meets fiction series is great for inspiring the young explorer and particularly popular amongst readers aged 7+. Autorid: Stephanie Baudet, Illary Casasanta
The adorable duo are back! In this heartwarming tale of friendship and courage, Mei and her exuberant best friend Tiger eagerly try to help make tea, but their efforts lead to broken tools and panic! Fearing being scolded, they run away, but Mei soon realises the importance of returning home and facing their mistake. They return home with trepidation and are relieved to be met with an important lesson in empathy, forgiveness and patience. Steeped in kindness, this reassuring story is perfect for children navigating how to say sorry, concluding in Tiger and Mei finding the courage to admit to their mistakes and learning that honesty helps to bring the whole family together. Autorid: Daishu Ma
This gorgeous book follows the journey of a little seed as it becomes a flower. Filled with a wealth of novelty elements, including cut-outs and flaps, children will discover cute animals including squirrels gathering acorns, sleepy mice hibernating and busy bees pollinating flowers as they follow a little seed being carried by the breeze. With stunning artwork and lyrical storytelling, this interactive book beautifully explains the magic of natures cycles and will keep little ones captivated for hours. Autorid: Hector Dexet
From its beginnings in a peaceful pond, The Water Flower chronicles the journey of a sleepy seed that awakens in spring, pushing through its shell to grow leaves reaching for the sunlight. As summer arrives, it blooms into a stunning flower, opening and closing its petals each day, attracting passing insects. After completing its beautiful display, the flower fades, revealing new seeds inside a pod, ready to begin the cycle again. This story offers a glimpse into the lotus seed's remarkable transformation across seasons. Autorid: Yingting Chen, Huaqing, Adam Casciaro and Liu Yinan
This standard textbook on modern graph theory combines the authority of a classic with the engaging freshness of style that is the hallmark of active mathematics. It covers the core material of the subject, with concise yet complete proofs, while offering glimpses of more advanced methods in each field via one or two deeper results.This is a major new edition. Among many other improvements, it offers additional tools for applying the regularity lemma, brings the tangle theory of graph minors up to the cutting edge of current research, and addresses new topics such as chi-boundedness in perfect graph theory.The book can be used as a reliable text for an introductory graduate course and is also suitable for self-study.From the reviews:"Deep, clear, wonderful. This is a serious book about the heart of graph theory. It has depth and integrity." Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham, SIAM Review"The book has received a very enthusiastic reception, which it amply deserves. A masterly elucidation of modern graph theory." Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications"Succeeds dramatically ... a hell of a good book." MAA Reviews" ... like listening to someone explain mathematics." Bulletin of the AMS
The Lisbet and Gocken Jobs Set of 3 Mini Notebooks features a collection of three mini, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: Summer, Rose & Lily and Aurora . With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! FSC-certified paper. For most, the name Jobs is synonymous with richly blooming fabrics that have been among the classics of Swedish textile art since the 1940s. Less well known is that Lisbet Jobs (190961) and her sister Gocken Jobs (191495) first trained as potters. As two independent artists they then worked side by side and their works gained international fame. Autorid: Flame Tree Studio
Edward Gibbon"s masterpiece of historical writing, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is presented here in a stunning large-format gift edition with printed page edges and classic illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.The original publication of Edward Gibbon"s Decline and Fall was an exhaustive, six-volume account of a "revolution which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth". Here, this celebrated work of historical scholarship has been abridged to a more digestible length, complete with scabrous and entertaining footnotes detailing the decadence that led to the fall of Rome.This handsome hardback editions is gloriously illustrated by the illustrious Italian artist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. These dramatic neoclassical etchings accompany the text, as well as the printed page edges and full-colour endpapers of this edition.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Epic Classics brings together stunning hardback gift editions of classic works, presented with striking illustrated page edges and illustrated throughout by such greats as Gustave Doré and Harry Clarke.
From the author of Death on the Lusitania, The Spies of Hartlake Hall is a gripping and evocative historical crime novel which shines a light on the codebreakers and spies who helped avert disaster during the First World War.
Maggie Wang, a broke young Asian American writer, needs a lifeline. Ingrid Parker, a veteran white Hollywood producer with her career on the edge, offers an impossible deal: $3 million for ten experimental medical sessions that promise to reverse aging, using Maggie as a transfusion partner. For Ingrid, it's a chance to recapture her youth and save her fading career. For Maggie, it's freedom - money to support her parents and finally finish her novel. What starts as a professional transaction exchanging blood, quickly becomes a complex psychological dance. Maggie gains unprecedented access to Ingrid's hard-earned wisdom, while Ingrid sees in Maggie a potential protégé - and a weapon against an industry that's been trying to sideline her. As their relationship intensifies, they're forced to confront the harsh realities of race, age, and success. Who has the power to tell stories? And what are they willing to sacrifice to succeed?
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the greatest holiday novel ever written, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects. This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
'Think One Day written by (and starring) Virginia Woolf . . . Lyrical and captivating' -The Observer'Radiant, absorbing, sensual' - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre'Beautiful' - Sophie Elmhirst, author of Maurice and MaralynFrom the author of The End We Start From, now a major film starring Jodie Comer, and taking inspiration from the influential Bloomsbury Group, Days of Light is a sweeping, gorgeous story for fans of Mothering Sunday and The Hours.Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. In the idyllic Sussex countryside, her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch, awaiting the arrival of a longed-for guest.It is a single, enchanted afternoon that ends in tragedy.Days later, at a funeral, Ivy is kissed by the man she will marry, and grieves with the woman who will become the love of her life. And this is only the beginning . . .Chronicling six pivotal days across six decades, Days of Light moves through the Second World War and the twentieth century on a radiant journey through a life lived in pursuit of love and in search of an answer.'Wonderful, luminous' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'The characters stay with you in the best way' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Sublime. Wielding tremendous emotional power, it is a novel that is both raw and reverent' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites
Philosophers since Aristotle have studied animals and issues arising from their use. Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in 'Critical Animal Studies': a field that integrates the work of scholars from a range of disciplines - not least philosophy - to shed light on animal--human relations. This is the first textbook to provide a survey of Critical Animal Studies from a distinctly philosophical perspective. Rebekah Humphreys demonstrates how philosophical arguments play a key role in our proper understanding of the field, and synthesises these with a broad web of ideas from other disciplines. Incorporating the ethological research of scientists who study animal behaviour, she reveals what is philosophically at stake philosophically in our understanding of the interactions between humans and animals. A fresh approach is needed if we are to end the worst abuses against animals. Animal Studies and Philosophy is a groundbreaking and invaluable text for students and scholars alike.Philosophers since Aristotle have studied animals and issues arising from their use. Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in 'Critical Animal Studies': a field that integrates the work of scholars from a range of disciplines - not least philosophy - to shed light on animal--human relations. This is the first textbook to provide a survey of Critical Animal Studies from a distinctly philosophical perspective. Rebekah Humphreys demonstrates how philosophical arguments play a key role in our proper understanding of the field, and synthesises these with a broad web of ideas from other disciplines. Incorporating the ethological research of scientists who study animal behaviour, she reveals what is at stake philosophically in our understanding of the interactions between humans and animals. A fresh approach is needed if we are to end the worst abuses against animals. Animal Studies and Philosophy is a groundbreaking and invaluable text for students and scholars alike.
'The most accurate account of becoming a parent I have ever read.' PHILIPPA PERRY'So clever, so funny, so astute, so healing. Becky Barnicoat is a stone cold genius.' LUCY JONESA glorious antidote to parenting books, this darkly humorous, candid and insightful graphic memoir brings the early years of parenthood to life - in all their chaos, wonder and delirium. Intimate, relatable and very funny, Becky Barnicoat explores everything from the anatomy of the hospital bag to the frantic obsession with putting your baby down drowsy but awake, to the tyranny of gentle parenting. From pregnancy to the feral toddler years, Barnicoat extends a sticky hand to all new parents grappling with the impossible but joyous jigsaw puzzle of their lives. Barnicoat gives us permission to cry when the baby cries - and also laugh, snort, lie on the floor naked, drool and generally revel in a deeply strange new world ruled by a tyrannical tiny leader, growing bigger and more loved by the day. 'Tender, moving, beautifully drawn and also, extremely hilarious.' ISABEL GREENBERG'It made me laugh, weep, cheer and howl... essential reading for parents and their peers.' NELL FRIZZELL
