From the biggest to the closest & from the driest to the fastest, this book looks at the amazing record-breakers in the Universe. It uses stunning icons, graphics & visualisations to show you how these amazing planets, stars, comets & asteroids are true galactic greats. See what is inside a volcano & discover how violent a volcanic eruption can be. Discover why conditions on our planets are just right for life to exist. Find out about the planets that exist outside the Solar System & measure how big they are. Weigh how much Moon rock was brought back by the Apollo missions. ...

From the tallest to the shortest, the fastest to the strongest, & the oldest to the richest, this book looks at amazing human record-breakers. It uses stunning icons, graphics & visualisations to show you how human beings keep pushing their potential to the absolute limits. Meet the tallest & shortest people & compare your hand to the biggest in the world! See just how far some divers can swim underwater on a single breath of air. Compare the size of the largest film cast with the population of Icel&. Measure the world`s largest book next to a giraffe. ...

This attractive gift set contains a bright red recorder & a delightfully illustrated step-by-step instruction book. Children learning their first musical instrument can find out how to play their first notes & play more than a dozen tunes. They can listen to the tunes at the Usborne Quicklinks website to hear how they go. ...

In February 1822 the writer & adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley & Byron, leaving a broken marriage & an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them & their circle, & this collection of his reminiscences is one of the most fresh & intriguing documents of the Romantic age. It records his initial meeting with a cynical & flippant Byron, his impressions of a youthful, otherworldly Shelley &, most memorably, the poet`s death at sea & the subsequent burning of his body on the s&. Trelawny`s Records combine vigorous prose, vivid description & mythmaking to create one of the most memorable portraits of an age. Rosemary Hill`s new introduction explores the mysterious life & quixotic character of Trelawny, & this edition

Includes:: all the author`s later revisions. Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881) was one of the most curious figures of the English Romantic Movement, & spent his long life travelling extensively as a naval officer, biographer & adventurer. After a brief education, Trelawny was assigned as a volunteer in the Royal Navy by the age of thirteen, & led an unaccomplished naval career until his resignation at nineteen. He met Shelley & Byron in Italy in 1822, where he became fascinated, almost hypnotized, by the two poets. His Records of Shelley, Byron & the Author, written after both their deaths, is the end-product of this strange obsession. An incorrigible romancer, Trelawny had three marriages
- the second of which was to Tersitza, sister of the Greek warlord Odysseus Androutsos, whose cause he had joined & whose mountain fortress he looked after when Odysseus was arrested. He died after a fall at the age of eighty-eight, in Engl&, & his ashes were buried in Rome in a plot adjacent to Shelley`s grave. Rosemary Ashton was educated at the universities of Aberdeen, Heidelberg & Cambridge. She taught English literature at University College London from 1974 to 2012, & is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language & Literature & an Honorary Fellow of UCL. She has published critical biographies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas & Jane Carlyle, George Eliot, & George Henry Lewes, two books on Anglo-German literary & cultural relations in the nineteenth century, The German Idea: Four English Writers & the Reception of German Thought 1800-1860 (1980) & Little Germany: Exile & Asylum in Victorian England (1986), & two books about Victorian radicalism, 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London (2006) & Victorian Bloomsbury (2012).


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One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

Pick a place. Choose a creature. Discover its story & the danger it faces. Then find out how to help it survive. 15 wild & wonderful creatures, all on the IUCN Red List, need our help
- this important book is interactive, engaging & informative, & will inspire children to save their planet! Red Alert! is inspired & endorsed by the ` Red List` database maintained by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently the list

Includes:: over 70, 000 species known to be at risk, but it grows larger all the time.” Absolutely beautiful & perfectly targeted for its audience. We are delighted to be involved.”
- Dr Craig Hilton-Taylor, Head of Red List Unit, IUCNThe IUCN Red List is supported by Sir David Attenborough.



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The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred & mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small town of Ayacucho understand that death has once more returned to their l&. Only now the terror emanates not from the government death squads, nor from the guerrillas in the mountains, but from a single source. A serial murderer. & now everyone is afraid. Everyone is a suspect. ...

A work of refreshing originality & vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia`s massive campaign to explore & develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John Mc Cannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions-conducted by foot, ship, & plane-that were the pride of Stalinist Russia, in order to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, & the eventual rise of the Gulag as the dominant force in the North. Red Arctic also traces the development of the polar-based popular culture of the decade, making use of memoirs, films, radio broadcasts, children`s books, & cultural ephemera ranging from placards to postage stamps to show how Russia`s ” Arctic Myth” became an integral part of the overall socialist-realist aesthetic that animated Stalinist culture throughout the 1930s. ...

1 handmade in recycled sheet iron, 2 all designs copyrighted by AM & completely unique, 3 expertly h&-painted & finished to look like the real antique ones. 4 molded on bronze cast molds in two halves, then welded, 5 functioning skyhook replicas of 18 & 19th C. classic seasonal accessories If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

A powerful novel about war, family & love, from the bestselling, prize-winning author dubbed ` Pakistan`s brightest voice` (Guardian) An American pilot crash lands in the desert & takes refuge in the very camp he was supposed to bomb. Hallucinating palm trees & worrying about dehydrating to death isn`t what Major Ellie expected from this mission. Still, it`s an improvement on the constant squabbles with his wife back home. In the camp, teenager Momo`s money-making schemes are failing. His brother left for his first day at work & never returned, his parents are at each other`s throats, his dog is having a very bad day, & an aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Written with his trademark wit, keen eye for absurdity & telling important truths about the world today, Red Birds reveals master storyteller Mohammed Hanif at the height of his powers. ...