From rubbish-filled streets and gone-off food to bloody gladiator fights and deadly punishments, daily life in Rome was really rotten. Get ready to explore the nasty side of life in ancient Rome.
One of a new series of popular stories from the Bible presented with beautiful, traditional illustrations. The perfect introduction for young children, these books will be a treasured keepsake. Find out what happened when an ordinary boy took on the mighty Goliath warrior- and won.
Amazing art projects that will keep kids busy for hours!
With the fun and creative drawing activities in This is Not a Maths Book, you’ll be able to make your very own designs to amaze your family and friends. The projects are explained with diagrams and step-by-step instructions, making them simple and fun to complete. As you sketch, you’ll discover the amazing maths principles in each challenge that makes it work. Each page has lots of space to draw, and there’s a section of graph paper at the back of the book so that you can keep on creating!
You’ll discover how to make:
Your own optical illusions
Perfect circles
Parabolic curves
Mandalas
Tiled patterns
Fractals
Snowflakes
Stomachion puzzles
Tessellations
Loop-de-loops
Golden spirals
Square-tangles
Sketches on a slant
3-D webs
Impossible triangles
Get ready to find out how art can be maths, and maths can be art! But remember – this is absolutely NOT a maths book.
Or is it…?
Winner of a British Book Design and Production Award 2015, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Category
Winner of the ALCS Educational Writers Award, 2016
An inspiring picture book about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather worksWhen Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high, its wings almost touched them. And when World War II began and Joanne moved to the University of Chicago, a professor asked her to teach Air Force officers about those very clouds and the weather-changing winds.As soon as the war ended, Joanne decided to seriously study the clouds she had grown to love so much. Her professors laughed. They told her to go home. They told her she was no longer needed. They told her, ""No woman ever got a doctorate in meteorology. And no woman ever will.""But Joanne was stubborn. She sold her boat. She flew her last flight. She saved her money so that she could study clouds. She worked so hard and discovered so much that—despite what the professors said—she received a doctorate in meteorology. She was the first woman in the world to do so.Breaking Through the Clouds tells the story of a trailblazing scientist whose discoveries about clouds and how they work changed everything we know about weather today.
Imagine your home is bombed one Sunday afternoon by a horde of enemy planes. Imagine your family has gone and you are left behind. This is the fate of five-year-old Peter and two teenagers Yuri and Tanya.
Imagine being ordered to leave school to fight the terrifying Nazis in WWII. Imagine you are right in the middle of a battle; it’s you or them – you have no choice. This is the fate of Vlad and his three classmates.
The battlefield is the city of Stalingrad, the pride of Russia. Germany’s Adolf Hitler wants the city badly, but Josef Stalin refuses to let go.
Nobody has managed to stop the triumphant Nazi invasion across Europe. It all depends on one city – Stalingrad – her citizens, her soldiers and her children.
In this book Miriam Edwards teaches the basics of quilting and goes on to show in easy steps how to make fun projects such as a phone pouch, a book cover, bags and a wild and wonderful wall hanging.
With facts about Formula 1, World Rally, NASCAR, and MotoGP this book reveals the fastest vehicles, unusual racers, the trouble a kangaroo can cause, great male and female drivers, and more! Themed boxes, captions and labels make the text in this book easy to read and absorb. The engaging design will draw readers in and keep them hooked.
Each World Sport book reveals an ideal location for learning a particular technique essential for mastering the sport, from trimming a surfboard along a wave in Windansea, California, to catching big air on a snowboard in the half-pipes of Whistler, Canada.
Opening with perfect beginner locations and techniques, the complexity develops, leading readers through to expert-only locations and techniques, building an understanding of technique and equipment as they go.
With hundreds of wildlife photographs and insights into animal behaviour, this guide takes readers on a global safari with an expert naturalist. It deals with four groups of mammals; you can swim with grey whales and learn about giant pandas, big cats and elephants.
