The sequel to the international bestseller City of Masks . The time periodis the same - C16 Talia as a parallel world version of Italy - but thesetting has moved from Bellezza (Venice) to Remora (Sien...
The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase ...
This unique encyclopedia provides a fascinating and fully comprehensive description of stars and their natures and is filled with beautiful color images. The book begins by telling the story of astron...
Whether you are succeeding a much-admired boss or charged with implementing sweeping, potentially unsettling change initiatives, a new role is fraught with obstacles. To ensure that your first steps i...
It is winter and snow is falling soft as petals. Woken by their mother, two young sea mice gaze at a sky sparkling with falling stars. These stars are pieces of magic, their uncle tells them, gifts to...
The space vehicle spectaculars of recent years have been revealing the full scope and beauty of our own solar system but have also shown that a growing number of other stars too have planetary bodies ...
Tracing the rise of two great theories, relativity and quantum mechanics, which meet head on in black holes, "Empire of the Stars" is the dramatic story of an intellectual feud and its implications fo...
"If you want to propel your success and dreams to realization, read Kick Start Your Success." —Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul and coautho...
.NET Kick Start is the book for developers interested in making the jump to .NET, working programmers already familiar with another programming language or the previous version of Visual Studio. .NET ...
A series of twenty non-fiction science readers which engages children in the world around them. What makes up our galaxy? What is the Milky Way? What is the solar system? You can find the answers to t...
We're going to be fine. He looks around, but there nothing out here: nothing but the bottomless black universe on their left, the Earth suspended in glorious technicolour to their right. Carys and Max...
Anita Brookner?s first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. ?Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.? Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intell...
An atmospheric and romantic debut fantasy perfect for fans of Ash and The Winner’s Curse. Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds...
Without warning, Benjamin Sisko is living another life. No longer a Starfleet captain, commander of space station Deep Space Nine, he is Benny Russell, a struggling science fiction writer living in 19...
In 1979, a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all knownmilitary practice - and indeed the laws of physics - they believed that asoldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass clean...
Animal poems by Nick Toczek. He works as a poet, storyteller, journalist, lecturer, political researcher, novelist and stand-up comedian. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, pamphlets, maga...
The mysterious Inspector O is once again drawn into a web of concessions and cover-ups in the newest mystery from critically acclaimed author James Church. Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O...
All Stars a new two-level intermediate and upper-intermediate course for younger students.
This superbly illustrated encyclopedia provides both a practical introduction to astronomy and a detailed guide to observing the night sky. All the illustrations are a combination of detailed studies ...
Topsy and Tim Learnabout Storybooks Mini hardback storybooks dealing with real-life issues that Topsy and Tim experience in a fun and reassuring way. Age: up to 4 years.
A wipe-clean book intended to support very first maths skills, including maths words, counting and adding. Children can match shapes, find patterns sort the tallest or highest objects on each page. Th...
Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term 'Big Bang' as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recognize that DNA identifies individuals and will know that...
Tori Springer is in limbo with no job and finally decides to close the lease on her apartment and look up her longtime friend Felicity Morten. Even though Tori knows about the polyamorous relationship...
Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong—the Reduction—decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Eighteen-year-old Luddite Elliot North has always kn...
All Stars a new two-level intermediate and upper-intermediate course for younger students.
For almost 20 years and under its previous title as the Lloyds TSB Small Business Guide, this book was the start up bible for over a million people. Last year this bestselling guide was rebranded as t...
Mama's away one night, and her son can't sleep. He tries to relax by counting stars, but the more of them he sees, the more determined he is to count every single one. Then the boy finds that Daddy ca...