Follow the holes to read the story in this interactive deepsea adventure! Little ones will love finding the holes with their fingers, peeping through & turning the page to see what the holes become. With a gentle rhyming text encouraging children to say what they can spy in every scene, this is a journey through the ocean to visit time & time again. ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples & cultures, stark class divisions & unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Lesy`s evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period & our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today. ...

“ Looking East” is a large format portfolio of the best & most poignant portraits by Steve Mc Curry, known & loved the world over for his exquisitely beautiful & enduring images of the landscapes & cultures of Southeast Asia. This marvelous book

Includes:: iconic as well as previously unknown portraits of children, monks, pilgrims, parents & travellers that Mc Curry has encountered on his travels throughout Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Tibet & Myanmar (Burma). Each portrait is illustrated on a large scale, some life-size, rendering the portraits even more engaging & sensuous, making it easy to see why Steve Mc Curry is one of the most admired & well-represented photojournalists working today. This book is a genuine must-have, & would make a sumptuous gift for almost anyone. The images on the right are extracts from the book
- the book itself contains one portrait on one page, ensuring the individuality of the portrait is not lost.


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How do you become an explorer? It`s a question every child has asked. &, Steve Backshall was no different. But after a rainy-day visit to an exhibition of artefacts from Papua New Guinea, it was a question that began to obsess the seven-year old Backshall. Due to this childhood interest, the vast, untamed wildness of Papua New Guinea was where Backshall forged his unlikely path. From crushing lows of early failures to the extraordinary highs of the BBC`s Lost Land of the Volcano expedition, it was this dark island which gave Backshall his opportunity. Full of incredible wildlife, extraordinary wilderness, jungles, cannibals, pitfalls, triumph, danger & excitement, Looking for Adventure is the irresistible, inspiring story of a little boy who let his heart rule his head. ...

The unmissable first novel from bestselling & award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. ” If people were rain, I was drizzle & she was a hurricane.” Miles Halter`s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever & undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world & irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the same again. ` Looking for Alaska` brilliantly captures the exquisite painful joy of living & loving. Poignant, funny, heartbreaking & compelling, this novel will stay with you forever. ...

The rewards you can reap from exploring this amazing planet are incalculable. Every year, more & more of us are discovering the joy, the excitement, the sheer sense of adventure in roaming the world. But travelling, particularly to the more remote & volatile corners of the globe, can be a dangerous business. If you don`t prepare properly
- by looking for potential hazards (or ”lemons”) & learning how best to deal with them
- you may wish you`d never started out. Looking for Lemons is a unique new travel guide & essential reading for anyone planning an overseas trip, whether on business, as a tourist or a gap-year traveller. If you want no-nonsense, easy-to-follow, practical advice on how to recognise the warning signs, how to prevent problems, & how to cope with emergencies (should they occur), this is the book for you.

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In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down & photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Ukraine struggles to achieve complete decommunization. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of this process is the phenomenon of Leninopad (Lenin-fall)—the toppling of Lenin statues. In 2015 the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation banning these monuments as symbols of the obsolete Soviet regime. From an original population of 5500 in 1991, today not a single Lenin statue remains standing in Ukraine. Photographer Niels Ackermann & journalist Sébastien Gobert, both based in Kyiv, have scoured the country in search of the remains of these toppled figures. They found them in the most unlikely of places: Lenin inhabits gardens, scrap yards & store rooms. He has fallen on hard times—cut into pieces; daubed with paint in the colors of the Ukrainian flag; transformed into a Cossack or Darth Vader—but despite these attempts to reduce their status, the statues retain a sinister quality, resisting all efforts to separate them from their history. These compelling images are combined with witness testimonies to form a unique insight, revealing how Ukrainians perceive their country, & how they are grappling with the legacy of their Soviet past to conceive a new vision of the future. ...

Anika has recently emigrated from India & is having a difficult time adjusting to life in a new country, not to mention life in a new school. Remembering the advice her grandmother gave her, she prays to Lord Ganesh, the Hindu elephant god. But Lord Ganesh is slow to respond & Anika takes to the internet to attract his attention. When her problems begin to resolve themselves, she can breathe a sigh of relief. But has Lord Ganesh truly been helping her, or has she been relying on her own inner wisdom all along? This is a sweet & witty story about staying true to one`s beliefs & finding strength in unlikely places. ...

Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in Engl&, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria
- a country she viewed as an annoying
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How can tomorrow ever be as good as today? Afraid of tomorrow, a little boy puts all his scientific knowledge to use in an attempt to turn back time & stay in the wonderful past. Luckily, his grandfather discovers him exploring the wormholes in the garden, trying to find a way back
- & by showing him the photos of some of his wonderful past experiences, reassures the boy that there is plenty to look forward to & that every day gives the chance for a new adventure. Nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2018.
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