Piccadilly is a meticulously researched history of this important area of central London, from 1612, when Robert Baker, a tailor, erected the first buildings on what is now known as Piccadilly, to the end of the nineteenth century. Arthur Irwin Dasent charts the arrival of the aristocracy in the later seventeenth century, which led to it being regarded as a very fashionable area from the eighteenth century onwards, the burgeoning of the gentlemen's clubs for which the vicinity remains famous, & the lives & intrigues of some of its better-known residents. Full of fascinating anecdotes about both the buildings & the people who lived in them, Piccadilly will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the great city of London. ...

Peter York, co-author of the 80s bestseller, The Sloane Ranger Handbook, charts the progress of the dream of grandeur & aspiration in London
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. ” Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O` Farrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually they`re delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city”. (Evening Standard). ” Exquisitely diverse”. (The Times). ” Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed”. (Tom Cox, Observer). ”A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent, as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books.” (”A Common Reader blog”).` The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw”. (Londonist). ”A series of short, sharp, city-based vignettes
- some personal, some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected, full of wit, & just the right amount of grit” (Fabric Magazine). ”A collection of beautiful books”. (Grazia). Peter York is one of the UK`s leading strategic researchers. As Peter York, the writer, author & broadcaster on social styles & trends, he writes regularly for the Independent & other broadsheets. His books include co-authoring the 80s bestseller The Sloane Ranger Handbook & Dictators` Homes. His latest BBC documentary, ` The Rise & Fall of the Ad-Man`, was shown on BBC2 in 2011. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London. His latest book Jim Lee: Arrested will be published in May 2012.

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Piccole Dolomiti
- Pasubio area in a series of Tabacco maps at 1:25, 000 covering the Dolomites & the mountains of north-eastern
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Do you struggle to tell a foxglove from a snapdraggon, or a crocus from a gladiolus? This game will make you an expert in no time! Pair up the flowers with their typical uses & meanings in this beautiful & simple memory game. To play, simply place the cards face down & see if you can remember where the matching pairs are located. Collect more pairs than your opponent to win! With all kinds of flowers included
- from marigolds in Mexican Day of the Dead displays to Japan`s cherry blossom season, & from Van Gogh`s Sunflowers to the first flower germinated in space
- this fun & educational game is an ideal gift for nature lovers everywhere.

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Pick a pine tree from the lot
- slim & tall, or short & squat! Long straight limbs or branches bent
- Mmm! Just smell that

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Mix & match the split pages of this ingenious board book to make your own amazing farmyard creatures! Mary Murphy`s brilliant split page board book is perfect for helping little ones learn to mix & match. What do you call a cross between a lamb & a calf? How on earth do you make a ”googlet”? Children will love to mix up the heads & tails of different farmyard animals to invent hilarious new ones, while developing their matching skills as they work out how the animals should look. Mary Murphy`s adorable creatures & colourful art style are sure to delight readers & help develop a lifelong love of books. ...

From the star writer & illustrator team of the Mango & Bambang series comes a funny, heartwarming picture book all about choosing the right dog It can be a pickle to pick the right dog. Take a guided tour of the dogs` home with one characterful canine
- he`s been there the longest & knows everyone, so he`ll make sure you bring home the perfect companion. Will it be hungry Harvey, who eats everything? Or clever Dumpling, who can chew through the crossword in record time? Or sporty Boo-Boo, as bouncy as a ball? How about Poochy Petunia Wuffles-Winstanley, the poshest pet in the pound? Oh it`s so hard to choose. What a pickle! With gorgeous illustrations from Clara Vulliamy, & laugh-out-loud text from Polly Faber, this book is guaranteed to be your favourite, whichever dog you choose!
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The Pickwick Papers is Dickens` first novel & widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40, 000 by the final part. In the century & a half since its first appearance, the characters of Mr Pickwick, Sam Weller & the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general, & the works of Dickens in particular. ...

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared. They never returned. Whether ” Picnic at Hanging Rock” is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves. ...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA spellbinding examination of the nature of reality, by one of the brightest thinkers of today. Cognitive science proposes that we have evolved to build mental maps of the world not according to its actual, physical nature, but according to what allows us to thrive. In other words, our individual & collective realities are fictions
- carefully constructed to enable us to maintain our particular perspectives. It used to be that our fictions were rooted to reasonably solid things: to people, places & memories. Today, in an age of online personas, alternative truths, constant surveillance & an increasingly hysterical news cycle, our realities are becoming more flimsy & more vulnerable than ever before. Ours is now a zoomed-in perspective, where the backstage is centre stage. We are both camera person & subject, with new powers & new weaknesses. Our personal & political spheres are dangerously merging. How will the form & grammar of our feelings have to change in this over-exposed environment? Should any of our stories remain secret? How are these phenomena changing the way we live? How do we maintain a sense of reality in an increasingly fantastic world? Picnic Comma Lightning is an innovative examination of the nature of reality in the twenty-first century, one that explores the key ethical, political & neurological forces contouring our inner selves, but also the old influences of grief & desire, memory & imagination. In it, award-winning author Laurence Scott provides a lively & accessible new philosophy for this epoch in Western civilisation, one that will change the way you see the world, & your place within it.
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