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Creative Company,US Spotlight on Nature Gorilla
A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of gorillas, including their habitats, physical features, and the conservation measures taken to protect them.
£9.99
Mascot Books, Inc The Bear and the Hug
£16.19
North Star Editions Reptiles: Komodo Dragons
£10.99
Jolly Fish Press Sea of Kings
£12.59
Aperture Direct Aperture 197: Winter 2009
£10.64
Currency Press Pty Ltd Stop. Rewind.
£14.99
Stackpole Books InstaKnits for Baby
A collection of approximately 30 quick-to-knit projects for babies newborn to 24 months, each expertly designed and fast and fun to make. Included are hats, socks and booties, sweaters, blankets, and more adorable items for baby. Chapters are divided according to the approximate time to knit, for example “under five hours,” “five to ten hours,” etc. Insta-Knits for Baby is your go-to resource for all those last-minute baby gift ideas!
£17.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Contemporary Kitchens: A Style Portfolio
Hundreds of contemporary kitchens demonstrating a modern aesthetic are shown in over 250 gorgeous color photographs. Sleek space-age designs, minimalist masterpieces, and traditional kitchens with a modern flair all are included. This striking collection will inspire readers to consider innovative ideas in light fixtures, cabinetry features, flooring, backsplashes, and countertops. Actual projects from top designers and cabinetry manufacturers will keep homeowners, architects, and designers turning the pages enthusiastically.
£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Traditional Style Kitchens: Modern Designs Inspired by the Past
Traditional style kitchens blend convenient modern amenities with details that invoke a sense of history, craftsmanship, permanence, and warmth -- including painted and distressed finishes, furniture-grade cabinetry, natural textures, and concealed appliances. Early American, Colonial, Victorian, Shaker, and Arts & Crafts, in addition to Traditional Country and Farmhouse kitchens are shown in over 150 gorgeous color photos. Hundreds of ideas in cabinetry, hardware, light fixtures, appliances, and flooring are featured. Whether you're restoring or renovating a historical home, or want to add nostalgic charm to your contemporary kitchen, this book will provide inspiration with so many Traditional style kitchen designs right at your fingertips.
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Deck Book: Inspirational Design Ideas
Deck design is more exciting than ever! This book explores hundreds of custom-built decks. Over 300 inspiring color photographs show a variety of wood and wood composite decks -- from small and quaint to grand and sprawling designs. Choices in traditional and innovative design elements are illustrated to help you envision the deck of your dreams, and text addresses common design considerations. A plethora of planters, railings, privacy screens, deck skirting, firepits, gazebos, pergolas, built-in spas and barbecue areas, large steps, and lighting options are included. This book is an important resource for homeowners considering their own outdoor additions.
£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Old World Kitchens and Bathrooms: A Design Guide
This book captures today's hottest design trend for the home - textures, design, colors, and craftsmanship that evoke European ideals of a bygone era. Explore kitchens and baths rich in the fine details that characterize Provencal, Tuscan, and English country designs. Massive range hoods and brick hearths, faux finishes, rich natural stone, and tile provide polish and posh to up-to-the-minute home environments. Enjoy hand-carved wood, wrought-iron, and fine crystal chandeliers in spaces filled with the latest appliances and an abundance of workspace. The atmosphere is timeless, and these designs are certain to endure. This is an indispensable design guide for professional designers and discerning homeowners.
£17.09
Manchester University Press Incarceration and Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures
A collection of essays and responses from diverse contributors united in original examination of the intersection between incarceration and human rights. What do human rights concerns dictate about the practices that we tolerate in places of incarceration? And conversely, what can prisons, their hard facts and the ideas underpinning them, tell us about human rights?The book offers a diversity of voices: from the inside view of Her Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons to the words of a poet and former political prisoner; from an international policy overview of abuses of the mentally ill to a socio-economic reading of race and class in prisons. This range of approaches offers a uniquely rounded view of the topic, while each contributor’s eminence in their field gives great depth of expertise.
£76.50
Hyperion Starflight
£9.59
Capstone Global Library Ltd Energy
What is energy? Learn all about the concept of energy and how it plays a part in your everyday life. Find out where it comes from and the forms it can take.
£8.99
Capstone Global Library Ltd Earth Day
Earth Day celebrates our beautiful planet and calls us to act on its behalf. Some people spend the day planting flowers or trees. Others organize neighbourhood clean-ups, go on nature walks or make recycled crafts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.
£8.99
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Adaptogens: A Directory of Over 50 Healing Herbs for Energy, Stress Relief, Beauty, and Overall Well-Being
Learn all you need to know about more than 50 of the most common healing herbs and how to make delicious, nutrient-dense recipes to have you functioning at a higher frequency. Adaptogens are herbs, roots, and other medicinal plants that help the body function better than its natural capacity. In this loud, messy, and oh so stressful modern world, these ancient healing herbs are needed more than ever. Whether the stressor is environmental (originating in your body) or psychological (triggering your fight-or-flight response and causing the release of cortisol), adaptogens are packed with amino acids and/or vitamins that help manage the harmful effects stress has on the body. While relatively new to the western world, adaptogens are at the root of many things in western medicine. Did you know that aspirin comes from willow bark? With this beautifully illustrated reference, discover how to harness the ancient healing power of plants. Divided into three sections, Adaptogens covers: The history and science behind these wonderful herbal remedies in an easy-to-understand format Comprehensive adaptogen directory to help you figure out which products and powders will best work with the stresses of your life Delicious and nutritious recipes, from Energy-Boost Chia Pudding and Pink Heart Cacao Latte to Muscle-Building Yam Soup and Performance-Enhancing Truffles Nature has gifted us with many plants across the globe that are talented at growing in stressful environments. They pass on this talent once consumed. Some of the common effects are: Well-being, calm, and happiness Homeostasis through self-regulation Increased stamina (including in the bedroom!) Mediated cravings Weight loss Reduced inflammation Boosted immunity Clearer skin Sharpened mind and elimination of brain fog These plants are not a quick fix for a stressful situation. Rather, they are a way to help the body better deal with the higher amounts of stress we seem to be seeing a lot of right now. Discover what plants can do for you as you harness nature’s power. Learn how to find the appropriate adaptogenic doses to keep yourself in perfect harmony. Discover today’s top trending health and wellness topics with the Everyday Wellbeing series from Chartwell Books. From smart eating habits to personal growth advice, these engaging lifestyle guides give you the expert tips and life hacks you need to help you make good choices while practicing mindfulness and self-love. Whether you want to explore cooking with new ingredients like adaptogens and CBD, or make it a priority to incorporate self-care into your daily routine, these brightly colored take-along handbooks have the tools you need to succeed. Other titles in the series include: The Celery Juice Cookbook, The CBD Handbook, The Complete Guide to Self-Care, The Instant Pot and Air Fryer Cookbook, and The Plant-Based Cookbook.
£14.99
University of Chicago Press Polished College Class and the Burdens of Social Mobility
£19.17
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Too Much Lip: A Novel
A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life—winner of Australia’s Miles Franklin Award—that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit.Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people—not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Ava’s Island, the family’s spiritual home. On top of that, love may have found Kerry again when a good-looking white fella appears out of nowhere with eyes only for her. As the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present. Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Ava’s legacy and save their ancestral land.
£10.99
Edward Everett Root Bronte Territories: Cornwall and the Unexplored Maternal Legacy, 1760-1870
£45.00
Amazon Publishing Hot Mess Summer
£9.15
Tarcher/Putnam,US Mastering Your Mean Girl: The No-Bs Guide to Silencing Your Inner Critic and Becoming Wildly Wealthy, Fabulously Healthy, and Bursting with Love
£17.77
Random House USA Inc The Nerviest Girl in the World
£7.78
Boom! Studios Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Recharged Vol. 4
The long-awaited DARKEST HOUR begins here-the most monumental event in Power Rangers comics history!Mistress Vile has won. With control of the Morphin Grid and Dark Specter’s infection spreading throughout all of time and space, the separated and stranded Rangers receive help from the last team they’d expect, but the DRAKKON RANGERS may not be the help they were hoping for… Meanwhile, if relationships at their breaking point weren’t enough chaos for Trini, Zack, Kimberly, and Tommy to contend with, it’ll take a team effort with Aisha to break the vile spell cast on their close friend and the current Green Ranger, Matt. And with the Death Ranger, the cadaverously possessed Wild Force Rangers, and the return of an evil bounty hunter also in the mix, their Master plan best not fail… or the Rangers may be erased from existence forever-good thing the HyperForce Rangers are also on the scene! In the tradition of Shattered Grid and coincidi
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC All Among the Barley
‘A masterpiece’ JON MCGREGOR ‘Impossible to forget’ THE TIMES ‘Astonishing’ GUARDIAN ‘Startling’ FINANCIAL TIMES WINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' NEW STATESMAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE The fields were eternal, our life the only way of things, and I would do whatever was required of me to protect it. The autumn of 1933 is the most beautiful Edie Mather can remember, though the Great War still casts a shadow over the cornfields of her beloved home, Wych Farm. When charismatic, outspoken Constance FitzAllen arrives from London to write about fading rural traditions, she takes an interest in fourteen-year-old Edie, showing her a kindness she has never known before. But the older woman isn’t quite what she seems. As harvest time approaches and pressures mount on the whole community, Edie must find a way to trust her instincts and save herself from disaster.
£9.99
University of Hawai'i Press Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection's focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia.The first section, "Good Foods," focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ideas about good foods and good bodies shift at different moments, in some cases privileging local foods and knowledge systems, and in other cases privileging foreign foods and knowledge systems. The second section, "Bad Foods," focuses on what makes foods bad and even dangerous. Bad foods are not simply unpleasant or undesirable for aesthetic or sensory reasons, but they can hinder the stability and development of persons and societies. Bad foods are symbolically polluting, as in the case of foreign foods that threaten not only traditional foods, but also the stability and strength of the nation and its people. The third section, "Moral Foods," focuses on how themes of good versus bad are embedded in projects to make modern persons, subjects, and states, with specific attention to the ambiguities and malleability of foods and health. The malleability of moral foods provides unique opportunities for understanding Asian societies' dynamic position within larger global flows, connections, and disconnections.Collectively, the chapters raise intriguing questions about how foods and the bodies that consume them have been valued politically, economically, culturally, and morally, and about how those values originated and evolved. Consumers in modern Asia are not simply eating to satisfy personal desires or physiological needs, but they are also conscripted into national and global statemaking projects through acts of ingestion. Eating, then, has become about fortifying both the person and the nation.
£34.25
Michel albin SA Les lendemains
£23.75
Pariah Press Exposure Ideal Palace
£15.99
She Writes Press Mt. Moriah's Wake: A Novel
“Mt. Moriah’s Wake is an eloquent novel in which a woman experiences a spiritual homecoming and embraces love.” —Foreword Clarion ReviewsOrphaned at age eight, JoAnna Wilson was raised by her eccentric aunt in the bucolic southern community of Mt. Moriah. Now a twenty-six-year old would-be writer, JoAnna faces several crossroads: in her marriage, in her career, and in her faith. She left home for Chicago in 1997 immediately following the murder of her best friend, Grace. Now she comes back to Mt. Moriah for the first time in four years to attend her aunt’s funeral—and realizes that she must confront both the profound sorrow she feels over Grace’s death and the mysterious guilt she carries. She must finally grieve.A hauntingly sweet story of love and loss that alternates between JoAnna’s childhood in Mt. Moriah, her life in Chicago and her present encounters upon returning home, Mt. Moriah’s Wake ponders deep questions: When we experience unspeakable tragedy, do we see ourselves as victim or survivor? Is it possible to regain happiness in the face of such? And how do we find our faith again, once it is lost? As her past and present worlds collide, JoAnna grapples with these questions—and her journey moves toward an unexpected conclusion.
£15.77
Nova Science Publishers Inc Gender Role Conflict Revisited: An Exploration of Gender Role Expectations & Conflict Among Female Rugby Players
£55.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Personality Traits: Theory, Testing & Influences
£195.29
Nova Science Publishers Inc Children's Social Competence: Theory & Intervention
£47.69
Ivan R Dee, Inc Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880–1925
Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe. Many of them were children. Together with the American-born children of immigrants, they made up a significant part of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Small Strangers recounts and interprets their varied experiences to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization—all related processes—molded modern America. Growing up in crowded tenements, insular mill towns, rural ethnic enclaves, or middle-class homes, as they came of age they found themselves increasingly caught between Old World expectations and New World demands. The encounters of these children with ethnic heritage, American values, and mass culture helped shape the twentieth century in a United States still known symbolically around the world as a nation of immigrants.
£17.99
David & Charles Kawaii Crochet: 40 Super Cute Crochet Patterns for Adorable Amigurumi
Hook up a rainbow of kawaii goodness with this super-cute collection of 40 amigurumi patterns from modern crochet designer Yarn Blossom Boutique. From three adorable peas in a pod, to a winking fortune cookie, these 40 fun and easy amigurumi makes will bring the Japanese culture of cuteness into your hands and your heart.
£14.39
Capstone Global Library Ltd Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
Ramadan is an Islamic holy month. During this holiday, many Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, read from the Quran and pray. Others help the poor, hang lanterns and make crafts and decorations. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.
£14.72
Rowman & Littlefield Physiognomy In Profile: Lavater's Impact On European Culture
The Swiss theologian Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) is best known for his revival of physiognomy, or the ancient art of judging character from physical appearance. His writings on physiognomy, rapidly translated into the major European languages, made him a celebrity in his lifetime. Although they were always controversial, Lavater's theories had a pervasive and long-lasting influence on art, literature, medicine, and the emerging social sciences. Physiognomy in Profile affirms and assesses Lavater's contribution to European culture in the two hundred years since his death. It examines how his vision of physiognomy as a viable method of interpreting the modern world has repeatedly been affirmed and challenged. Even today, at the turn of the twenty-first century, this study reveals that Lavater's ideas have a surprising resilience. The book adopts a cross-disciplinary approach, focusing on the novel, press and periodical literature, painting, drawing, photography, caricature, encyclopedias, and medical texts. It brings together the work of scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia.
£88.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Figural Whiskey Bottles: by Hoffman, Lionstone, McCormick, Ski Country, and others
At long last, here is the figural whiskey decanter reference you've been asking for. Over 1,600 figural whiskey bottles are shown, both vintage and contemporary, including complete collections of Ski Country, Ezra Brooks, and McCormick bottles. Also included are bottles by Wild Turkey, Lionstone, Potters, Kontinental, Daviess County, Poncho Villa, and Louis and Clark. We've even included the complete line of Dugs Nevada Brothels. Political figures, entertainers, historical figures, sports figures, and every imaginable animal and bird have been immortalized as a whiskey decanter. 620 colorful photos will help you identify and accurately price all the bottles and decanters shown. Experienced and novice collectors alike will find this reference invaluable.
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Doorways of Cape May
If eyes are windows to a person's soul, doorways reveal the nature of a place and the people who inhabit it. Welcome to Cape May, New Jersey, home to the nation's largest concentration of historic Victorian architecture! Filled with 65 charming color photos, this book welcomes you to explore some of the most picturesque and historic doorways. They feature wooden scrollwork and bright coats of paint, as well as Cape May's notable custom screen doors, advertising to all a pride of ownership in front porch appointments. This book is the perfect souvenir for Cape May visitors, lovers of Victorian architecture, and homeowners looking for distinctive ideas for their front doors.
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tough Chicks Go to Bed Tabbed Touch-and-Feel Board Book: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids
It is time for Penny, Polly, and Molly to go to sleep - at least Mama Hen says so! But the Tough Chicks are too excited - they've got too many things to do. Penny has the wiggles, Polly has the giggles, and Molly is ready for adventure. How can the very clever Mama Hen get these energetic Tough Chicks to sleep?
£11.85
Crossway Books Lucy and the Saturday Surprise
Through the story of Lucy, a little girl trapped in the pattern of envy—see, covet, take, and hide—this TGC Kids book teaches children ages 3–7 how to confess their sins and live with gratitude.
£10.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Remodeled Kitchens & Baths: Dramatic Makeovers
This book is the perfect companion for anyone planning to redo a kitchen or bath. Images and interviews with professional designers illustrate the dramatic results of changes, big and small, in over 50 projects. Gorgeous color photos display options in countertops, cabinetry, flooring, lighting, appliances, fixtures, and so much more! Floorplans are included to address common structural problems and various solutions that help you envision improvements in your own home. Whether you're planning a modest facelift or a major renovation, this is your first step in the planning process. This book will set you on the right path toward turning your ho-hum kitchen or bath into the room of your dreams.
£20.69
Random House USA Inc Those Are Not My Underpants!
£13.49
New York University Press Privatization: NOMOS LX
A distinguished group of scholars explore the moral values and political consequences of privatization The 21st century has seen a proliferation of privatization across industries in the United States, from security and the military to public transportation and infrastructure. In shifting control from the state to private actors, do we weaken or strengthen structures of governance? Do state-owned enterprises promise to be more equal and fair than their privately-owned rivals? What role can accountability measures play in mediating the effects of privatization; and what role does coercion play in the state governance and control? In this latest installment from the NOMOS series, an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars in political science, law, and philosophy examine the moral and political consequences of transferring state-provided or state-owned goods and services to the private sector. The essays consider how we should evaluate the decision to privatize, both with respect to the quality of outcomes that might be produced, and in terms of the effects of privatization on the core values underlying democratic decision-making. Privatization also affects the structure of governance in a variety of important ways, and these essays evaluate the consequences of privatization on the state. Privatization sheds new light on these highly salient questions of contemporary political life and institutional design.
£52.20
New York University Press Wealth: NOMOS LVIII
An in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies. Wealth, and specifically its distribution, has been a topic of great debate in recent years. Calls for justice against corporations implicated in the 2008 financial crash; populist rallying against “the one percent”; distrust of the influence of wealthy donors on elections and policy—all of these issues have their roots in a larger discussion of how wealth operates in American economic and political life. In Wealth a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars in political science, law and philosophy address the complex set of questions that relate to economic wealth and its implications for social and political life in modern societies. The volume thus brings together a range of perspectives on wealth, inequality, capitalism, oligarchy, and democracy. The essays also cover a number of more specific topics including limitarianism, US Constitutional history, the wealth defense industry, slavery, and tax policy. Wealth offers analysis and prescription including original assessment of existing forms of economic wealth and creative policy responses for the negative implications of wealth inequality. Economic wealth and its distribution is a pressing issue and this latest installment in the NOMOS series offers new and thought provoking insights.
£52.20
Alfred A. Knopf A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
£15.99
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Broadview Press Ltd The Half-Caste
Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his wife, and two daughters, and is treated as little more than a servant in the household. Zillah’s situation is gradually improved when Cassandra Pryor is employed as a governess to the Le Poer daughters and takes an interest in the mysterious “cousin.” Craik explores issues of gender, race, and empire in the Victorian period in this compact and gripping novella.Along with a newly-annotated text, this Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that discusses Craik’s involvement with contemporary racial and imperialist attitudes, her place within the broader genre of Anglo-Indian fiction, and the importance of Zillah Le Poer as a positive symbol of empire. The edition is also enriched with relevant contemporary contextual material, including Dinah Mulock Craik’s writing on gender and female employment, British views on the biracial Eurasian community in India, and writings on the Victorian governess.
£24.38
Capstone Global Library Ltd Pushing Isn't Funny: What to Do About Physical Bullying
Bailey is a raccoon who loves math and the superhero Mighty Raccoon. But Bailey is getting physically bullied by Kim, a dog at school. Young readers watch Bailey struggle with bullying and learn safe ways to make it stop. Sensitive illustrations of gender-neutral animal characters help all children relate to the issue of physical bullying.
£8.23
Workman Publishing Mother to Son: Shared Wisdom from the Heart
Woven out of wisdom, humour, experience, love, charm, and a poetic economy of words, here is one pithy, memorable lesson per page, beginning with the Beginning, and covering toddlerhood, the school years, spirituality, and, of course, love and romance. There are practical matters for first-time mothers of sons: watch out when you're changing his nappy. Baby boys shoot straight in the air. The whimsical yet invaluable suggestion: have tea with him in the afternoons. Serve cookies. Reminders about the importance of your own values: treat his father with love and respect. Show your son that being a man is a good thing.
£10.21