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See, Touch, Feel: 123 is a fantastic first concepts book from Priddy Books. This cased board book introduces numbers to young children in a fun and simple way. With raised textures to explore, and lively rhyming text, it is a joy to share and enjoy together.The See, Touch, Feel series is specially designed to stimulate toddlers through creative play, encouraging the development of motor skills and word and picture recognition. Designed to be a sensory experience, each image i...

Wyrusz w niezwykłą podróż po odległych galaktykach! „Przygody w kosmosie” to kolorowanka, która zabiera dzieci w świat rakiet, astronautów, planet, gwiazd i tajemniczych kosmicznych stworzeń.Na małych odkrywców czekają:- dynamiczne sceny startów rakiet- kolorowe planety i księżyce- astronauci w kosmicznych misjach- abawne istoty z innych światów- kosmiczne pejzaże i fantastyczne pojazdyDodatkowo w środku znajduje się aż 60 barwnych naklejek, które dziecko może wykorzystać do ...

In her later years, Jane Austen made a patch­work quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs these slivers of cloth to illustrate Jane Austen's life story.Evans teases apart the threads that connect Austen's beloved novels, the events of her life, and the fabric of society in Regency England. Patchwork is a major new work of graphic biography. Kate Evans has an unparallel...

Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data-the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or...

In these nine life-fulfilling lessons, learn how your cat can bring you peace, comfort and a unique happiness.A home without a cat is just a house, as they say. There is something special about our feline friends the comfort they bring, their intuition, their famously comedic side that contributes to a household's average happiness index. In fact, just looking at your cat can ease anxiety and bring a sense of understanding and calm but why is that? What are these curious qual...

In a recent survey (CNBC), 57% of Gen Zers said they would like to become an influencer if given the chance. Some 53% of Gen Zers believe becoming an influencer is a reputable career choice (and would quit their jobs if they could earn enough to pay for their current lifestyle). In business, 77% of companies use social media to reach their customers.It’s undeniable that influencers and their content has become a mainstream part of our social and business world today. This boo...

'Another genteel but compelling murder mystery in a glorious setting that deserves a huge readership'  A devastating accident An isolated hotel A murdered guest… When Miss Atalanta Ashford learns that her dear friend Raoul Lemont has had a serious accident, she rushes to his remote hotel in the Alps only to discover he has no memory of her – or his life before. Atalanta is determined to stay undercover while she helps Raoul recover. But when another resident is found dead, sh...

First flown in 1982, the Boeing 757 was an impressive accomplishment. The aircraft was fast, quiet, and fuel efficient while still exhibiting stellar takeoff, climb, and landing performance. Hear firsthand accounts from the leaders of the 757 program who skillfully established an extraordinary culture within their organization. This team, empowered by the program's expert guidance, overcame the challenges of producing a new aircraft type in an environment that was fast paced ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the i...

For years, Emelle has been a cupid - The ultimate matchmaker to help others fall in love. But this job means that she has no physical body and can't be seen by anyone. Or be able to fall in love herself.Unfortunately, she becomes responsible for some rather bad matchmaking. So much so, she's punished and exiled from the human world.Fed up she angrily fires Love Arrows at a fae prince, but he retaliates, and suddenly, she's pushed out of the Veil.Now, she has a real body. A re...

Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across many centuries.

Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing o...

When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the ...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existe...

Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg declared there were only two great Holocaust heroes - the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mordechai Anielewicz) and Rudolf Vrba. After he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April of 1944, Vrba and his co-escapee Alfréd Wetzler co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report, credited with saving 200,000 Hungarian Jews. "No other single act in the Second World War," according to World War II historian Sir Martin Gilbert, "saved so many Jews from the fa...

Today, a Ferrari is still an object of art, one of the most beautiful demonstrations of the link that can unite artist and craftsman: creativity. Very few books dedicated to the Ferrari brand devote most of their pages to the image and, likewise, few are aimed at the general public, who admire these fabulous cars in all their simplicity, often without knowing them and sometimes even without being able to identify them. If you simply wish to enjoy these cars, which are rarely ...

A beautifully curated tribute to the Nordic way of building where nature leads and design listens. Nordic Wonders captures light, space, and simplicity with elegance, offering a stunning vision of architecture rooted in place.Nordic Wonders is a celebration of Scandinavian architecture and interior design in dialogue with nature. Through a curated selection of homes and spaces, this book captures how the Nordic spirit transforms challenging terrains, dramatic climates, and fl...

Many businesses are rooted in creating desirable products and services for users, but fail to consider the consumer. How can they create products and services that work for users? This book has the answers. User experience research, (UX research) focuses on understanding user behaviours, needs and motivations through a range of observational techniques, task analysis and other methodologies.User Research is a practical guide that shows mid-career professionals and academic re...

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history - THE BOOK THAT WON ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superfluous...

Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squal...

'... ever-present, phantom thing;My slave, my comrade, and my king'Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poemsIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian...

She spent years in the Veil as an invisible cupid. Unable to talk, touch or love anyone, which made her a little bitter.Now, Emelle has a life . . . and a bounty on her head. The fae prince wants her dead, and her three gorgeous genfins are arrested. The royal culling trials are about to begin, but Emelle isn't going to let everything be taken from her without a fight.There's rebellion in the air, a princess who's not all she appears to be and a lamassu fae who claims to be E...

‘Deceptive and darkly compelling’ T.M Logan'Audaciously twisty and achingly tender' Erin Kelly'Brilliant and addictive' K L Slater___________________________________________ A story of obsession, love and murder – and not the one you’re expecting. . . Discover a gripping new thriller with a killer twist at its core.When Claire surprises her fiancé, Noah, at work for their anniversary, she’s the one who ends up being shocked to her core …Because Noah left the company nine mont...

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened – while Giovanni’s life descends into tragedy. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and ...