This book Thinks You're a Scientist explores seven key scientific areas in the Science Museum's new interactive gallery for children force & motion electricity & magnetism earth & space light matter sound & mathematics Each spread centres on an open-ended question or activity with space on the page for the child to write draw or interact with the book Imagine dogs are magnetic! Design how you would make a book fly Write a new robot language The book ends with a section for children to record their own guided independent investigations including surveys & experiment logs ...

A new book from the million-selling New Scientist series that will blow your mind & then put it back together again 336 pages New Scientist ...

BE GOOD TO YOURSELFHey! You're doing a great job but it's OK to need some help With strengthening statements witty"es & self-care tips this little book is here to help you love & care for yourself ...

An informative & accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories explained through their most famous"es We may have heard of Socrates Plato Descartes & Nietzsche but what did they believe? What were their famous aphorisms? & what did these actually mean? This Book Will Make You Think Philosophical"es & What They Mean explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers examining their beliefs & presenting choice"es that succinctly distil their most famous theories such as' No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience' Locke' If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him' Voltaire' Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent' Wittgenstein Written in an accessible & informative style this book will help readers get to grips with the complex concepts of philosophy through the ages & help match the theories to the names ...

Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007 An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window threatening the foundations of his house A vivid novel about compassion & transformation This Book Will Save Your Life reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you Since her debut in 1989 AM Homes has been among the boldest & most original voices of her generation acclaimed for the psychological accuracy & unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching & funny new novel her first in six years ...

Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary Not in respect of the poverty which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain but in its transition from two-parent family to single mother & then to no parents at all This is essentially the story of two incredible women Alan's mother Lily who battled against poor health poverty domestic violence & loneliness to try to ensure a better life for her children; & his sister Linda who had to assume an enormous amount of responsibility at a very young age & who fought to keep the family together & out of care when she herself was still only a child Played out against the background of a vanishing community living in condemned housing the story moves from post-war austerity in pre-gentrified Notting Hill through the race riots school on the Kings Road Chelsea in the Swinging 60s to the rock-&-roll years making a record in Denmark Street & becoming a husband & father whilst still in his teens This Boy is one man's story but it is also a story of England & the West London slums which are so hard to imagine in the capital today No matter how harsh the details Alan Johnson writes with a spirit of generous acceptance of humour & openness which makes his book anything but a grim catalogue of miseries ...

A curated collection of some of the most powerful & awe-inspiring Brutalist architecture ever built This Brutal World is a global survey of this compelling & much-admired style of architecture It brings to light virtually unknown Brutalist architectural treasures from across the former eastern bloc & other far flung parts of the world It

Includes:: works by some of the best contemporary architects including Zaha Hadid & David Chipperfield as well as by some of the master architects of the 20th century including Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Paul Rudolph & Marcel Breuer

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Think your cat loves you? Think you have a special connection just the two of you? Think again All cat owners are convinced their cat adores them the loving provider of daily food affection & a warm home But what would your cat tell you if it could speak? Would they shower you with praise for providing them a loving home? Not likely Discover what your cat's really thinking & what the meaning is behind those looks twitches & loving' gestures in this hilarious cat's-eye view of life ...

In a remote house on a hilltop a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event He tries
- & fails
- to flee Left alone with his increasingly

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In a remote house on a hilltop a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event He tries
- & fails
- to flee Left alone with his increasingly

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