Category Archives: Globes
Flags Around the World Ultimate Sticker Book
Learn all about flags from around the world, in DK`s amazing Flags Around the World Ultimate Sticker Book, with more than 250 reusable stickers. Travel through the continents and discover the colourful and symbolic flags that represent our world. Create your own flag with colourful stickers and take the quiz to test your knowledge. Fact
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World`s First Air Force
`Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights … a masterful historian of air power` Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world`s first air force. This is the story of its founding in 1918, as a response to the new terror of aerial warfare, the struggles to keep it alive amid controversy and opposition,
Lawless World: Making and Breaking Global Rules
International lawyer Philippe Sands has a unique insider`s view of the elites who govern our lives. His sensational revelations in Lawless World changed the political agenda overnight, forcing Tony Blair to publish damning mterial that he`d tried to hide. Now, in this updated edition with a shocking new chapter, you can get the full story
My Poems Won`t Change the World
Two hours ago I fell in loveand trembled, and tremble still,and haven`t a clue whom I should tell.Any hall she reads her poetry in is invariably filled to the gills. In Italy, Patrizia Cavalli is as beloved as Wislawa Szymborska is in Poland, and if Italy were Japan she`d be designated a national treasure. The
It`s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
In It`s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going, Chelsea Clinton tackles some of the biggest challenges facing our world today, especially for kids. Using data, charts and stories she unpacks challenges related to Poverty, Climate Change, Gender Equality, Health, Endangered Species and more. She also talks about what`s being done to make
Demigods and Magicians: Three Stories from the World of Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles
Join Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase and Carter and Sadie Kane as they do battle with an ancient Egyptian magician determined to become a god. Against impossible odds, the four demigods and magicians team up to prevent the apocalypse. This book contains the short stories The Son of Sobek, The Staff of Serapis and The Crown
Dirty Beasts
Dirty Beasts is a collection of hilarious animal rhymes from the World`s NUMBER ONE Storyteller! Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding. A collection of (mainly) grisly beasts out for human blood, ranging from Gocky-Wock the crocodile to Sting-A-Ling the scorpion. Described in verse with all Dahl`s usual gusto and illustrated in suitably lurid
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography
In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War.
Conversations with Stalin
This is a mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider – with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and after the Second World War. Djilas brilliantly describes the dictator in his lair –
The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916
A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front – “The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read”. (Ernest Hemingway). Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan: I
`A bold anthology …alive with provocations and insights` John Carey, Sunday Times `The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I`ve had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see` The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world`s most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Late Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower – the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also many forms of peaceful interaction across the surprisingly porous
Danny the Champion of the World
“A true genius…Roald Dahl is my hero”. (David Walliams). Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world`s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake`s inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to
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The Second World War has officially ended, but the streets are still a battleground – for food, for shelter, for protection…Felix is in hiding to stay safe, but finds he has been left holding the baby – literally. An orphaned infant has been left in his care and he will do everything he can to
A-Z of Hell: Ross Kemp`s Worst Places in the World
Ross Kemp`s fascinating guide of the worst places in the world. Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world`s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps? Well this is not the book for you. But if you want to know
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
It is short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. It is a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication,
The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War
Hasek`s most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army — dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his own troops). A mischief-maker, bohemian and drunk, Hasek demonstrated his wit in
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or simply live well? In this epic journey into our past, Jared Diamond reveals that traditional societies around the world offer an extraordinary window into how our ancestors lived
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice
From Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, “Making Globalization Work” gives real, concrete ways to deal with third world debt, make trade fair and tackle global warming. In “Globalization and its Discontents” Joseph Stiglitz changed the views of the public and world leaders alike by showing why globalization doesn`t work for the world`s poor. In this
