Do you have keen powers of observation? Do you enjoy near-impossible challenges? Then this great big book is right for you! A great many animals are hiding among its pages, inside gigantic mazes, and once you enter one, only the most astute will be able to find the way out! Find the only possible route, and, instead of getting distracted by the hundreds of colorful animals, keep track and count…
Featuring the most recent, best, and even startling images with detailed captions highlighting accessible text, Galaxies shows the restless universe beyond our atmosphere. Photographs are from more than 30 of the world's largest ground-based telescopes.
Incredible women of every era have fought to fulfill their dreams of adventure without allowing fear or social norms to dampen their spirits. In this book, you can retrace the journeys of these extraordinary explorers who, fearless and resolute, have challenged the social conventions of their eras out of love for knowledge and freedom. They have scaled mountains, like Edurne Pasaban, studied ra…
Ethics for Life is a straightforward guide to the main ethical theories and thinkers. We all face questions on an almost daily basis related to truth and post-truth, particularly in the political sphere, terrorism, globalization, immigration and asylum, social responsibility, media and social-media ethics, and gender issues. So how do you navigate this minefield? Ethics for Life is an accessibl…
In July of 1969, three astronauts set off on a historic mission to land on the moon. Fifty years later, this book celebrates the achievement of the Apollo missions, detailing an incredible period of science and engineering history. The book tells the unique personal stories of over 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program possible. The eight years from…
A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. This is the epic 4 billion year story of the place we call home.
It's playtime once again for Woody and the gang! When a spork comes to life, Woody is suddenly thrown into a new adventure where he comes face to face with his past. Will the cowboy risk everything to find his purpose? Find out in this unforgettable tale.
Most people know that Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was a towering figure of American literature, a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner and author of novels including The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea. What, perhaps, they don?t know is that he was an ambulance driver in the World War I and suffered 227 shrapnel wounds; that he wrote 47 different endings to A Farewell to Arms; that he hu…