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Discover your favourite creatures in Roger Priddy's First 100 Animals!Packed full of first animal words to read and learn, a padded cover and a small, easy-to-hold size, it's the perfect little book for animal fans.With colourful photographs featuring farmyard favourites, ocean creatures, jungle critters and more, there is no shortage of words for little ones to learn.Learn more first words with the First 100 Soft To Touch series: First Farm Words, First 100 Animals, and Firs...

The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations. Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are f...

In Anthropocene Communism, the philosopher and activist Paul Guillibert proposes a brand-new communism for life: biocommunism. With the aid of this system, he hopes to move us beyond the ecological crisis of late capitalism. In a highly original reading of Karl Marx's exchanges with the populist 'terrorists' in Russia and informed by the cultural studies of Raymond Williams, the Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui, and Ernst Bloch's attachment to the land, the author develops a...

Who is allowed to hate? Hatred, this grating, corrosive feeling, is omnipresent, roaring from the streets or whispered in bourgeois homes. It thrives in parliamentary speeches, conspiracy theorists' fantasies and children's bedrooms - and certainly not in secret, even if many would like to see it restricted there. German bestselling author Seyda Kurt frees hatred from its banishment and sets out on the trail of its potential for resistance.She is particularly interested in pe...

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...

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...

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. Th...

70th Anniversary EditionIn the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse.  Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, being cut off from the outside wor...

Morderstwo to dopiero początek. Mrok kryje się głębiej.Warszawa, 30 kwietnia 2018 roku. Z Wisły zostają wyłowione zwłoki Karli Bielskiej. Śledztwo prowadzi komisarz Jan Grot – samotnik po przejściach, zafascynowany zgłębianiem natury świata. Jego poszukiwania szybko wykraczają poza policyjne procedury.Równolegle na własną rękę działa Bursztyn – partner ofiary i gracz warszawskiego półświatka, który nie cofnie się przed niczym, by znaleźć winnych. Przekracza kolejne granice, u...

Ziemia powoli dogorywa, zmiany klimatyczne zaszły już zbyt daleko. Największe mocarstwa świata szykują się do wojny o kurczące się zasoby naturalne. Wiadomo, że koniec jest bliski, dlatego ludzkość desperacko szuka innej planety zdatnej do zamieszkania. Oficjalnie zajmuje się tym firma Secure Your Future, gigant technologiczny o nieograniczonym budżecie. Aleks zainwestował całe swoje pieniądze w udział w programie ewakuacyjnym. Jest to jedyna szansa dla niego i jego rodziny n...

Co dzieje się, gdy pragnienie macierzyństwa zderza się z rzeczywistością? W prozatorskim debiucie jedna z ważniejszych meksykańskich pisarek szuka odpowiedzi na to pytanie.„Puste domy” to poruszająca opowieść o dwóch kobietach połączonych losem zaginionego dziecka. Pierwsza – matka, która je utraciła – zmaga się z żałobą i własnymi wątpliwościami, czy w ogóle pragnęła mieć dziecko. Druga – mieszkająca na drugim końcu Meksyku kobieta, która po latach pragnienia dziecka decyduj...

„Patologie organizacyjne w obszarze projektów dofinansowanych ze środków UE. W perspektywie koncepcji dojrzałości projektowej organizacji” autorstwa doktora Tomasza Janickiego, to pierwsza książka na rynku ukazująca zjawiska, które wywierają negatywny wpływ na funkcjonowanie organizacji, będące konsekwencją realizacji projektów dofinansowanych przez Unię Europejską. Szczegółowa analiza bibliograficzna (wykonana metodą SPL – systematycznego przeglądu literatury) zaprezentowana...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography | Goldsmith Book Prize 2025 Winner (Trade) | A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 | A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearWith Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising lessons for today’s crises. Seventy-five years after 1984 first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce ‘Orwellian’ untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conserva...

Over one million copies soldToo many broken hearts to count‘A book unlike any other’ – The Guardian‘This novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship’ – Dua LipaThe million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance.JB, Jude, Malcolm and Willem.Four young men move to New York broke, adrift and buoyed only by friendship and ambition. There is ki...

The Hunger Games meets vampires in the third installment of the BookTok fave Crowns of Nyaxia series, a heart-wrenching, epic fantasy romance of love and treachery between mortals and gods . . . truly a vampire-lover’s dream!’ – CosmopolitanIn the descent to the underworld, a bride of the sun must choose between the light of her redemption . . . or a dark love that defies the gods themselves.Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire – her home, her hu...

Roger Priddy's Let's Pretend: Firefighter Set has everything your little firefighter needs to save the day! The alarm bell goes off, there's a fire to put out – time for the firefighters to spring into action!Inside this creative play set, the big board book has three busy scenes as firefighters Ben and Lucy gather their equipment, zoom off in their truck, and fight a fire at the bakery, keeping everyone safe.The set comes with 15 sturdy fire fighting puzzle pieces which can ...

Explore the alphabet through creative pictures and first words in this sturdy board book designed to stimulate your toddler's senses.Perfect for little hands, each page has a colourful illustration made up of footprints, handprints, child friendly art, or a photo. With lots of bright pictures and to explore together and core first words to learn, See, Touch, Feel: ABC is the perfect first book to share with your baby.Continue to encourage their curiosity with See, Touch, Feel...

Więźniowie, którzy tu trafili, szybko orientowali się, gdzie są, bo oprócz woni leśnej ściółki i żywicy czuli coś jeszcze. Mdły odór palonych ciał. Fetor, który był nie do zniesienia. Zapach spalonego tłuszczu i włosów unosił się z niedalekiej górki i rozchodził po całej dolinie, a nawet dalej […]. Ogień na Górze Śmierci płonął stale, dniem i nocą. [Z książki] Pustków – poligon SS i hitlerowski obóz pracy przymusowej, utworzony w 1940 roku pod Dębicą na Podkarpaciu, funkcjono...

'A profoundly moving tribute to courage, dignity, and the enduring power of humanity in the face of evil. Elegantly written and deeply affecting, this is storytelling that honours the truth and ensures it is never forgotten.' Rob Rinder, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Trial'Haunting and beautiful. Excruciatingly vivid, The Teacher of Auschwitz is rigorously researched and true to the history, powerfully conveying what a smart, loving and energetic man Fredy was.' Dr E...

RSVPing yes to an event even though you don't want to go; feeling drained responding to text messages; networking with colleagues that you can't stand. You need to hear that it's okay not to get along with everyone. We live in an era of constant communication and obligation - messages, calls, meet-ups, events - and sometimes it's just too much.The No.1 bestselling author and illustrator Dancing Snail explores the necessity of maintaining a healthy distance in relationships, p...

The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Bald...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD * Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours he...

Niccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, pragmatic handbook on how power really works, made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since.How can a leader be strong and decisive, yet st...