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After Dark
"Eyes mark the shape of the cityi>he midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner. Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed- a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel, and needs Mari's help. Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep, heavy slee...
My Inventions & Other Writings
Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authoritative volume of "My Inventions" includes three additional articles by Tesla which were published in "T...
Natural History: A Selection
Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of d...
The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC ...
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood
"I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school." (Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now). Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he's called th...
Isis: The Terror Nation
An updated, revised and expanded edition of Loretta Napoleoni's bestselling book on ISIS, The Islamist Phoenix (Seven Stories, 2014). In ISIS: The Terror Nation, world-renowned terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni takes us beyond the headlines, demonstrating that while Western media portrays the Islamic S...
Phosphorescence: The inspiring bestseller and multi award-winning book from the author of Bright Shining
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett...
Gardening (Puffin Little Environmentalist)
Penguin Random House Australia
Just because we're little doesn't mean we can't learn BIG facts. Have you ever wondered why plants need sunlight? If you're a Little Environmentalist who is ready to garden, then you're about to GROW A JUNGLE with Puffin Little!...
Creative Acts for Curious People - How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
A vibrantly-illustrated collection of captivating and practical models to help you bring creativity to any challenge you face, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.schoolWhat do they teach you at the most prestigious design school in the world? For the first time readers have the opportunity to f...
Stalin's War
'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict, which poses new questions and provides new and often unexpected answers to the old ones' ...
LGB Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography
This Little Golden Book about Taylor Swift - the singer and songwriter whose distinctive talent for storytelling has made her one of the biggest superstars in both country and pop music - is an inspiring read-aloud for young children as well as their Swiftie parents!...
Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye...
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