Immerse yourself in the fascinating lives of insects. Maurice Pledgers stunning artwork brings every spread to life with intricate ...

Immerse yourself in the depths of the world`s forests, with intricate diorama pop-ups & multi-layered sounds throughout. Listen to a wildcat hiss as it stealthily hunts on the forest floor, step into a clearing to hear a cuckoo call, & clamber over the Rocky Mountains to hear a bear roar! Push the branches aside to reveal he private lives of these creates & how they survive. Featuring creatures from the northern boreal forestm Rocky Mountains & European forests (including a winter scene). ...

The next exciting title in our popular Maurice Pledger series. Immerse yourself in the delights of the seashore, with intricate pop-ups & sounds. Hear a scarlet ibis on a tropical beach, the roar of a polar bear in the Arctic, & the sound of seals as they bask beneath a cliff side in the northern hemisphere. Also featuring a northern hemisphere rock pool & a mangrove swamp. ...

` There are sounds all around you... Which sounds do you like?` This is a simple non-fiction book about the wide variety of sounds we head & how they are made. The text is illustrated with lively photographs of children listening, & making noise! * Blue/ Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns withsequential events & integrated literary & natural language. * Text type
- An information book. * A pictorial index is included on pages 14 & 15, giving the children a chance to recap & discuss the text. * Curriculum links
- Science: ourselves, sound & hearing. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

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The world has failed Syria`s refugees & some of the world`s wealthiest countries have turned their backs on this humanitarian disaster. Syria`s neighbours-Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey & Iraq-have together absorbed more than 3.8 million refugees. The need for food relief is great & growing. Acclaimed chefs & cookbook authors from all corners of the world have come together to help food relief efforts to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees. Each has contributed a recipe to this beautifully illustrated cookbook of delicious soups. Contributors include: Joe Barza, Mark Bittman, Anthony Bourdain, Sally Butcher, Alexis Couquelet, Aglaia Kremenzi, Carolyn Kumpe, Greg Malouf, Yotam Ottolenghi, Claudia Roden, Ana Sortun, Sami Tamimi, Alice Waters, Paula Wolfert, & many others. Profits from the sale of this cookbook will be donated to help fund food relief efforts to Syrian refugees. ...

`I will never forget the first time I read Jenny Zhang.. .I was stunned, moved &
- quite frankly
- a little jealous` Lena Dunham

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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

A concise, authoritative & fully illustrated survey of Antarctic exploration in the early part of the 20th century, focusing on the race to the South Pole, including the epic expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott & Ernest Shackleton. This book retells in vivid detail the dramatic story of the struggle to reach the South Pole & is organized in 7 chapters; including chapters on the race to the Pole, food & supplies used at the time, the subsequent filming of the stories of the explorers & detailed information on each of the major expeditions.
Includes: many contemporary images from expedition photographers & color pictures of selected artifacts & memorabilia from the various expeditions
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