This is an artist-led picture book which introduces young children to the vastness of the universe how far away the moon is what gravity is & the concept of space travel through a gentle & captivating story about an imaginative little girl Combining full colour illustrations with NASA photographs from the surface of the moon this beautifully illustrated picture book takes young children on an amazing journey into outer space The story's use of rhythmic text generates an evocative & friendly tale taking children on a magical & informative journey ...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report ' Sacks will go far if he does not go too far' It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles & speed On the Move is infused with his restless energy As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s first in California & then in New York where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital as well as with a group of patients who would define his life it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters & travels
- sending him through bars & alleys over oceans & across continents With unbridled honesty & humour Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions
- bodybuilding weightlifting & swimming
- also drives his cerebral passions He writes about his love affairs both romantic & intellectual his guilt over leaving his family to come to America his bond with his schizophrenic brother & the writers & scientists
- Thom Gunn A R Luria W H Auden Gerald M Edelman Francis Crick
- who influenced him On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician & writer
- & of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human





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Polly the train driver needs to take passengers into town Sarah the builder needs to dig a deep hole & Mo the vet needs to take a horse back to the farm Can you help everyone do their work today by picking the right vehicle for each job? When you've found all the right vehicles choose your favourite & pick the job you would like to do! Pre-schoolers can lift the flaps match vehicles to jobs explore busy scenes & learn key first words in this interactive board book series With 16 colourful sturdy flaps to lift perfect for little hands the Busy Little World board book series uses an inventive combination of interactive play story & learning Also available help the emergency teams save the day in On the Move Rescue ...

Alice the firefighter needs to put out the fire quickly Max the police officer is chasing a burglar & Freddy the ambulance driver needs to take someone to hospital Can you help everyone do their work today by picking the right vehicle for each job? When you've found all the right vehicles choose your favorite & pick the rescue job you would like to do! Pre-schoolers can lift the flaps match vehicles to jobs explore busy scenes & learn key first words in this interactive board book series Children will love choosing the right vehicle to help the emergency teams save the day With 16 colorful sturdy flaps to lift perfect for little hands this is a great board book for toddlers learning to read combining interactive play story & learning ...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius 10643 BCE) Roman lawyer orator politician & philosopher of whom we know more than of any other Roman lived through the stirring era which saw the rise dictatorship & death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic In his political speeches especially & in his correspondence we see the excitement tension & intrigue of politics & the part he played in the turmoil of the time Of about 106 speeches delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political before jurors if judicial 58 survive (a few of them incompletely) In the fourteenth century Petrarch & other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero & nearly 100 by others to him These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication Six rhetorical works survive & another in fragments Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions & a number of others; & some lost There is also poetry some original some as translations from the Greek The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes ...

A charming picture book about loneliness & making friends from an bestselling author & illustrator From bestselling author Amy Hest & illustrator Jenni Desmond comes a charming picture book about loneliness & making friends Bunny & Dog live on opposite sides of the fence No one says hello Or hi But on the night of the shooting star two doors open ...

On the night you were bornthe moon smiled with such wonderthat the stars peeked in to see youand the night wind whispered Life will never be the same On the night you were born the whole world came alive with thanksgiving The moon stayed up till morning The geese flew home to celebrate Polar bears danced On the night you were born you brought wonder & magic to the world Here is a book that celebrates you It is meant to be carried wherever life takes you over all the roads through all the years This debut picture book by Nancy Tillman has touched the hearts of readers of all ages from the youngest readers to new mothers to grandparents A New York Times & Publishers Weekly bestselling book On the Night You Were Born is sure to be a beloved addition to family libraries ...

For humans the sea is & always has been an alien environment Ever moving & ever changing in mood it is a place without time in contrast to the land which is fixed & scarred by human activity giving it a visible history While the land is familiar even reassuring the sea is unknown & threatening By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing & cajoling The sea may give but it takes Why then did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals we like to acquire rare materials & we are eager for esoteric knowledge & society rewards us well for both Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there
- a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean & the Atlantic two contrasting seas
- the Mediterranean without a significant tide enclosed & soon to become familiar the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges an ocean without end We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete & we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain Portugal & England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia The message is that the contest between humans & the sea has been a driving force perhaps the driving force in human history

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On the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator but had arisen from a single common ancestor & had evolved over time through the process of natural selection Received with both enthusiasm & hostility on its publication it triggered a seismic shift in our understanding of humanity's place in the natural world It is not only a brilliant work of science but also a clear vivid sometimes moving piece of popular writing that reflects both Darwin's genius & his boundless enthusiasm for our planet & its species This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of On the Origin of Species is complete & unabridged & features an afterword by Oliver Francis Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

'can we doubt that individuals having any advantage however slight over others would have the best chance of surviving & of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world His insistence on the immense length of the past & on the abundance of life-forms present & extinct dislodged man from his central position in creation & called into question the role of the Creator He showed that new species are achieved by natural selection & that absence of plan is an inherent part of the evolutionary process Darwin's prodigious reading experimentation & observations on his travels fed into his great work which draws on material from the Galapagos Islands to rural Staffordshire from English back gardens to colonial encounters The present edition provides a detailed & accessible discussion of his theories & adds an account of the immediate responses to the book on publication The resistances as well as the enthusiasms of the first readers cast light on recent controversies particularly concerning questions of design & descent ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...