Scholastic Activities
- a br&-new range of full-colour sticker-activity books for ages 3+, 5+ & 7. Collect them all! A fun-filled
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An adventurous sticker book with over 400 colourful stickers to complete the holiday activity scenes. There`s surfing at the tropical beach, fishing at summer camp, skiing down a snowy mountain, snorkelling over a coral reef & more. An amusing activity with lots to talk about on journeys & long summer days. ...

This drawing, doodling & colouring book makes a sensational seasonal gift for any girl who likes to get creative. Holiday World contains beautiful colour illustrations & pretty patterns designed to inspire budding artists to create their own masterpieces. From sun, surf & sand to flowers, flip-flops & Frisbees, girls can enjoy colouring & completing these pretty pages all holiday long. ...

We all carry memories of holidays from childhood onwards, brought to life by family photographs
- many taken with the first generation
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Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan & the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when P.J. retired from being a war correspondent because he was ”too old to keep being scared stiff & too stiff to keep sleeping on the ground.” Instead he embarked on supposedly more comfortable & allegedly less dangerous travels
- often with family in tow
- which mostly left him wishing he were under artillery fire again. The result is a hilarious & oftentimes moving portrait of life in the fast lane
- only this time as a husband & father of three. Adventures include:
- The first stag hunt in Britain after hunting had been banned. If the British had been half as caring about Indians & American colonists as they are about animals, they`d still rule the world.
- A month-long tour of mainland China`s economic hubs where P.J. learned that the entire Chinese concept of political freedom & individual liberty can be summed up in the words, ` New Buick`.
- A harrowing horseback ride across the mountains of Kyrgyzstan
- no towns, no roads, no people.” If something happened to my horse it would be shot. For me, the medical treatment wouldn`t be that sophisticated.”






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P.J. O` Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe in Holidays in Hell, looking for trouble, the truth, & a good time. After casually sight-seeing in war-torn Lebanon & being pepper-gassed in Korea, P.J. checks out the night life in communist Poland & spends the Christmas holidays in El Salvador. Taking a long look at Nicaragua, P.J. asks, ” Is Nicaragua a Bulgaria with marimba bands or just a misunderstood Massachusetts with Cuban military advisors?”; has a close encounter with a Philippine army officer he describes as ”powerful-looking in a short, compressed way, like an attack hamster”; & concludes, ” Some people are worried about the difference between right & wrong. I`m worried about the difference between wrong & fun.” ...

A fascinating photographic study of the previously overlooked Soviet Sanatoriums & their treatments – stunning eastern bloc ...

Holidaytivity provides all the push-out designs, stencils & creative card components you need to make 25 fun-packed holiday activities. The activities have been specially chosen to complement all-year-round holidays, & include the making of butterfly straws, woven flowers & a jumping frog game. The final project
- a gliding parrot
- is the most ambitious in scope, & is sure to delight fans of card craft of all ages.

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Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes & dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned & occupied by the Coke family since 1612, it is at the centre of a major agricultural estate; a treasure house whose paintings, classical sculpture, books, manuscripts & furniture are of international importance. Using the extensive documents kept by generations of staff & family, recording the daily life of the Hall & estate, Christine Hiskey has traced Holkham`s history through four hundred years, adding considerably to existing knowledge. Surviving vicissitudes & accumulating property, the Coke family were able to establish themselves at Holkham in the seventeenth century. The vision of Thomas Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester, inspired by his exceptionally fruitful Grand Tour, resulted in his spending twenty-five years in the mid-eighteenth century, building & furnishing the Hall, & Christine Hiskey records the work of the staff & craftsmen who brought his ideas to reality: the sourcing of materials, his application of advanced domestic technology, &, after his death, the dedication of his widow to completing his life`s work. During the next 250 years, the Hall adapted to changing fashions, aspirations & economic circumstances in its domestic, social & public life. Fresh light is shed on the attitude towards the Hall of ` Coke of Norfolk`, chiefly celebrated as an agriculturalist, & there are chapters on Victorian & twentieth-century Holkham which explore new areas for research. For the first time, the Hall & its setting are treated as an integrated whole. The creation, development & use of the park are examined, including a neglected area of research: the way in which the process of acquiring land reflected the owners` landscape & farming priorities. The changing fortunes of the two villages of the `town` (subsumed during the eighteenth century but rather later than is often supposed) & the staithe (the origin of the present village) are traced in detail for the first time. New research also reveals the process whereby 350 years of intervention by the Coke family transformed the coastal landscape of marshes, dunes & creeks. A further `overview` chapter discusses the Hall`s relationship with public visitors, from the small groups who came to witness the building work in the 1750s to the tens of thousands who today are welcomed at the Hall by the present generation of the Coke family. ...

Well-known Dutch landscape photographer Martin Kers looks at our environment differently than most of us ever do. That is why he prefers to call himself an outdoor photographer. A heightened sense of symmetry, colour & contrast, combined with a remarkable eye for detail, enables him to successfully capture mundane subjects in suprising ways time & time again. Once he sets off with his camera he seems to spot more than the average passer-by. Although Kers has travelled across the globe, his heart only truly opens in the landscape of Holl&. In Holland he weaves together villages, rivers, landscapes & the North Sea in a single book. The often tranquil villages of Holland are exquisitely combined with its landscapes & meandering rivers. & even though they may be recognisable to many of us, we do not always notice them. ...