Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect's life and her triumph over adversity from celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter.
As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson piqued your interest, then Why The Universe Exists will take you deeper into the world of particle physics, with leading physicists and New Scientist exploring how the universe functions at...
Sometimes all it takes is someone showing you that you can.'Remember how you used to draw with confidence and joy as a child? You never questioned your ability to make pictures of a cat, or a house. It was simple, and it was fun.And then most of us learned to write and stopped drawing altogether.This book will help you harness that natural skill, and give you all the necessary tools to draw anything.Along the way you will discover how drawing ...
What can Roger Federer teach us about the secret of longevity? What do the All Blacks have in common with improvised jazz musicians? What can cognitive neuroscientists tell us about what happens to the brains of sportspeople when they perform?And why did Johan Cruyff believe that beauty was more important than winning? Matthew Syed, the 'Sports Journalist of the Year 2016', answers these questions and more in a fascinating, wide-ranging and pr...
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien—based on the enormously popular Twitter account, @jonnysun.Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a home on our planet after ...
The Life Application Study Bible is a great step forward in helping Christians apply the Bible's life-changing message in their own lives.'Billy GrahamThe bestselling Life Application Study Bible is unparalleled among study Bibles as an invaluable aid to daily devotional reading. The rich combination of study features - including verse-by-verse notes, book introductions, personality profiles and a Bible dictionary - demystify the Scriptures, h...
Provides all the tools necessary to be successful at managing up and down the line of any company or organisation. A revised and updated edition, it includes seven new chapters.
A BOOK TO READ NOW, WALL STREET JOURNAL'Powerful, charming and clever' THE TIMES'Witty and brilliant' O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'A memoir with heft . . . this story soars' PEOPLE, Best New BooksTrevor Noah was BORN A CRIME - not because he could answer back in five languages, not because his mother threw him out of the window of a moving car, not because he shoplifted, not because he accidentally burnt down someone's house with a magnifying glass, ...
The Irish Bestselling author of With Our Blessing and Beneath the SurfaceThe inspector frowned and examined the earth under the trees. As he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth disturbed under the tent. Somebody had cleared the earth of its natural layer and sown their own flowers. In five places. Five graves.A young woman, Fiona Holland, has gone missing from a small Irish village. ...
A fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, weird, and unsettling ingenuity of evolution. On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and s...
A mysterious keepsake, a murdered bride, a legacy of secrets...One balmy June evening in 1881, Phoebe Stanbury stands before the guests at her engagement party: this is her moment, when she will join the renowned Raycraft family and ascend to polite society.As she takes her fiancé's hand, a stranger brandishing a knife steps forward and ends the poor girl's life. Amid the tumult, he turns to her aristocratic groom and mouths: 'I promised I wou...
MY MOTHER'S SHADOW by Nikola Scott is the enthralling, heartbreaking and mysterious story of a lost child, a mother's secret, and one golden summer that changed a woman's life for ever... If you love the novels of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore, you will love MY MOTHER'S SHADOW.It is 1958. Elizabeth has been sent away from her London home to the beautiful Hartland House in Sussex. Over an idyllic summer by the coast, she grows close to the confid...
A thrilling new adventure series: what would happen if dinosaurs never died out?Imagine a world where dinosaurs never died out and have evolved into . . . supersaurs. In this world, mankind lives side by side with supersaurs, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in conflict. Different species of supersaurs are farmed like cattle, ridden like horses, and mistreated, experimented on and worshipped around the world, just like other animals. This is th...
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the first of over 150, 000 Allied soldiers stormed five beaches in Normandy against fierce German resistance. They were specially trained and task-organized in a range of different landing teams depending on their means of transport, their tasks, and the resistance they anticipated. The first assault infantry were accompanied by tankers, combat engineers, and other specialist personnel, to breach German obst...
One of the UK's most prolific foster mothers, having fostered more than 300 children, she now faces one of her most challenging moments of her career as she is forced to choose between two children in her care.
From an award-winning writer comes a remarkable new novel set in near-future London. It follows Charlie, a dreamhacker who can enter your dreams and mould their direction.
Shortly after her thirteenth birthday, Ritva is sent away to Seili, an island in the far north of Finland. A former leper colony, Seili is now home to 'hopeless cases' - to women the doctors call mad. But Ritva knows she doesn't belong there. As biting winter follows biting winter, she longs to be near to her sister, and wonders why her father ever allowed her to be taken to this desolate place. Hope arrives in the form of Martta, a headstrong...
Fleeing to America following a terrible crime, Irish-born fighter, Danny McCabe, throws in his lot with Nicolas and Lucia Mariani, siblings who have emigrated from Corsica in search of their fortunes. Adrift in the tough and unforgiving world of 1930s New York, they rely on Danny's bareknuckle fighting skills to survive. While Nicolas is tempted ever deeper into the underworld, Lucia can think of little but her obsessive drive to succeed in Ho...
NMR Case Studies: Data Analysis of Complicated Molecules provides a detailed discussion of the full logical flow associated with assigning the NMR spectra of complex molecules, also helping readers further develop their NMR spectral assignment skills. The robust case studies present the logic of each assignment, from beginning to end, fully exploring the available range of potential solutions. Readers will gain a better appreciation of various...
Die »Schroedel Interpretationen« bieten anspruchsvolle, doch verständlich und interessant geschriebene Darstellungen und Deutungen von wichtigen Werken der deutschen Literatur. Die Bände der Reihe eignen sich besonders zur Vorbereitung auf Referate, Hausarbeiten, Klausuren und Prüfungen.Auf psychologisch eindringliche Weise erzählt Hermann Hesse in seinem Roman »Der Steppenwolf« (1927) von der Sinn- und Lebenskrise eines alternden Mannes. Der ...
