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Animals at Home: Match 27 animals to their homes
Match a rabbit to its warren, a fox to her den and a hamster to his hutch in this colourful matching game. Including 27 animals and 27 different homes, your task it to help each animal find its nest, den, shell or burrow as quickly as you can!
Cat`s Guide to the Night Sky
If you look up at the sky on a dark night, what do you see? There`s a whole universe staring back at you. In the company of Felicity the cat discover the phases of the moon, the constellations and how to spot the Northern Lights and the Milky Way. This beautiful, fun book will introduce
Into the Wild: An Exotic Animal Colouring Book
Journey through dream-like forest scenes and encounter real and fabulous creatures in this gorgeous new colouring book by Daisy Fletcher, creator of Birdtopia . Beginning in a woodland world of otters, badgers, foxes and deer, the pages gradually transport you deeper into a flower forest, a magical environment populated with rare and mythical animals such
The Fate of Food: What We`ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Is the future of food looking bleak – or better than ever?At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world.She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-control crops, vertical farms, robot weedkillers,
Superhero Snap!: Card Game
BAM! POW! SNAP! This simple and fun card game based on Jason Ford`s brilliant superheroes and dastardly villains is a must for all superhero fans. With the cards divided equally and held face down, players turn over their top cards into a pile in the middle. When players turn over matching superheroes or villains, the
The New Wilderness
From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel `brutal and beautiful in equal measure` (Emily St. John Mandel) Bea`s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away. The smog and pollution of the overdeveloped, overpopulated metropolis they call home is ravaging her lungs. Bea knows she cannot stay in the City, but
Element in the Room: Investigating the Atomic Ingredients that Make Up Your Home
Did you know that without the `lead` in your pencil, there would be no life on Earth? Just about everything in the universe is made from only 92 elements – and from aluminium to zinc, many of them are hiding in your very own home! This funny and fascinating guide is bursting with brilliant facts
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
What`s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree?We`ve never been good at sharing the planet… In the past, when wild animals `broke the law`, they might be given lawyers and put on trial. But now, what`s the solution when nature gets in our way? In
Wonder Women: A Happy Families Card Game:A Happy Families Card Ga
Team up Serena Williams with Simone Biles, match Amelia Earhart with Valentina Tereshkova, join Malala Yousafzai with Emmeline Pankhurst. Collect illustrated cards of 44 of the most inspirational women of all time and place them into groups including aviation, sport, activism, art, science and fashion. See which of your friends knows the most about awesome
Little Eyes
A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling taleA Guardian & Observer Best Fiction Book of 2020 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR Best
I Saw It First! Jungle: A Family Spotting Game
Three hundred jungle animals – from the aardvark to the wire-tailed manakin – populate the board of this game. Some are familiar, like the leopard or the hippopotamus, others less so, like the eyelash viper or the giraffe weevil. Pull a counter from the bag and be the first to spot that animal!This beautifully designed
Is Capitalism Broken?
`We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.`- Yanis Varoufakis`Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.`- David BrooksThe Munk debate on capitalismThere is a growing belief that the capitalist system no longer works. Inequality is rampant.
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
As seen on Sky News All Out Politics`There`s no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.` – Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics* The richest eight people control more wealth than the
Biased
`Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.` BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH`Poignant… striking… important and illuminating.` NEW YORK TIMES No matter how fair-minded we think we are, we still
David Bowie: A Life
** Shortlisted for the NME Best Music Book Award 2018 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARA HERALD BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR`The definitive book on Bowie` The Times Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three
A Good Night for Shooting Zombies: with glow-in-the-dark cover
Sometimes the end is just the beginning of a new adventure. Martin`s life changes the day his dad is killed in a car accident. No one talks about it. His mum refuses to leave the house. His sister is only interested in her boyfriend. And Martin? He spends his afternoons alone with the family chickens
Damnation
Dead clients are bad for business, something that Tom Winter, head of security at a private Swiss bank, knows only too well. When a helicopter explosion kills a valuable client and a close colleague, Winter teams up with the mysterious Egyptian businesswoman Fatima Hakim to expose the truth behind their deaths.Together they follow the money
The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future
We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can`t be given a monetary value. We`re stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it`s getting harder to find space for the things that really matter but money can`t buy, including our
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy AstorThey terrorised the establishment.They fought for the vote.They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world.For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the franchise was finally extended to women, here is a selection of suffragette and suffragist activists and pioneering MPs from the
Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond
Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions?In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw connections between the cutting edge of modern maths and life as we understand it, delving into the strange – would we like alien music? – and
