Category Archives: Accessories
Easy Peasy Chinese Workbook
This book includes a complete visual workbook for beginners learning Mandarin Chinese, the perfect companion to DK`s Easy Peasy Chinese. Learning Mandarin will be easy peasy with this practical workbook. From ordering at a restaurant to buying a train ticket Easy Peasy Chinese Workbook helps you master the language through practical exercises and hands-on activities.
Disney Pixar The Inside Out Essential Guide
From an adventurous balloon ride above the clouds to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award[registered]-winning director Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc.,” “Up”) has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In Disney Pixar`s original movie “Inside Out,” he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind.
Noisy Animal Peekaboo!
Hear a lion, an orangutan and more in this fun peekaboo title, one of DK`s exciting new noisy lift-the-flap books. It helps you to read about the sounds animals make, including owls going twit-twoo, bees buzzing, snakes hissing, and penguins honking! Then listen to an exciting animal noise on each page – from a ribbiting
Paperscapes – The Cat
This sumptuous book celebrates the sheer variety of cats around the world, with beautiful photography accompanied by a lyrical and expertly-written text that describes the key characteristics of over 50 species.It also features paper press-outs, enabling you to view the cats in relief and create the most spectacular book art. Press out the cats, fan
Noisy Digger Peekaboo!
Hear a dump truck, a heavy roller and more in this fun peekaboo title, one of DK`s exciting new noisy lift-the-flap books. You can listen to a busy diggers go chug chug, hear the crane truck go beep beep and find out what truck goes rumble rumble in Noisy Peekaboo Digger. From rumbling rollers and
The Tree
Step into a forest in your home with this beautifully designed book. The Tree invites the steadfast, calming and meditative atmosphere of the woodland into your hands and home. From the sturdy oak to the fragrant magnolia, the sweet orange and enticing cocoa, these green companions are brought to life with an innovative paper design
Paperscapes – The Dog
Dogs are the most popular pets in the world. Their friendliness, loyalty and adorability is legendary. This sumptuous book celebrates the sheer variety of dogs, with beautiful photography accompanied by a lyrical and expertly-written text that describes the key characteristics and personality traits of each of over 50 species. It also features paper press-outs, enabling
First Animal Encyclopedia
Bursting with animal facts for kids, First Animal Encyclopedia reveals everything kids want to know about the animal kingdom. From tiny critters that live on the jungle floor to giant creatures that dwell in the depths of the ocean, First Animal Encyclopedia reveals the mysteries of the animal world. Watch animals in action, investigate their
Mars
All eyes are on Mars. NASA`s new lander, InSight, has touched down on the red planet, and in two years Mars 2020 rover will depart Cape Canaveral bound for the red planet. The ultimate challenge is to enable crewed missions to Mars by the 2030s – the next giant leap for mankind. In Mars: A
Victory: An Island Tale
Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
“A fun, fascinating, and original book that will challenge you to become a better version of yourself.” (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). What does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and fortune or the respect of our friends and family? How can we make the world a better place? Two
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
“Genuinely moving.” (Guardian). “Delightful.” (Mail on Sunday). “Charming, fresh, touching…cuts through to the heart.” (Sunday Times). `Tell me about home, please. Tell me about the weather. About the heat or dust or still-ness. Anything. And tell me about you. I keep your photo on the side without the gun. For balance.` This is a love
Do Less, Get More: Guilt-Free Ways to Make Time for the Things (and People) That Matter
“Really interesting …a very, very good book”. (Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2). In Do Less, Get More, entrepreneur and bestselling author Shaa Wasmund reveals that the key to fulfilment isn`t doing more, it`s doing what matters. Is your life how you imagined it would be, or is the reality more stressful than you planned? Do
Strolls with Pushkin
Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to Dubrovlag, a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a time to his wife. His irreverent portrait of Pushkin outraged emigres and Soviet scholars alike, yet his “disrespect” was meant only to rescue Pushkin from the stifling cult of personality that had risen
Between Dog and Wolf
Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.” Sokolov`s second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex puns, rhymes, and neologisms. Language rather than plot
Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview
One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose, is on full display
Sisters of the Cross
Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status brings him into contact with a number of women-the titular “sisters of
Across the Lines of Conflict: Facilitating Cooperation to Build Peace
Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided countries, including Burundi, Cyprus, Estonia, Guyana, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, that have experienced communal conflicts in
The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Notes
Written by his trusted friend and companion, Dr John Watson, The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Case Notes chronicles nine of the most fascinating cases solved by the world`s most famous detective. Based on the many notes and evidence gathered during the course of Sherlock Holmes`s investigations, this fantastic collection is painstakingly presented as a
The Human Condition: Second Edition
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of
