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. ...

Winner of the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture & Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017` Relegate anything else you`re reading
- there is no other book to be seen with now` The Times` Obscene, beautiful, moving` New Yorker Centred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge of poverty in 1990s New York City, the stories that make up Sour Heart examine the ways that family & history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother`s role in the Cultural Revolution, to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends & she begins, these vibrant, raw & powerful stories introduce a bold & singular new voice.
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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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Shackleton`s South is one of the great books of exploration. Written by a national hero, about what he called `the last great journey on earth`
- his Antarctic expedition in which his ship, the Endurance, was crushed by the ice, & he & his men made a 600-mile trek across ice & ocean to solid l&. They then embarked on a 700-mile journey in an open boat to South Georgia, followed by an epic crossing of the uncharted mountains of that isl&. His account is superbly written, & the book has never ceased to enthral readers since it was first published in 1919. Since that time, however, Shackleton`s life
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- have been dramatically revalued by scholars & biographers, & it emerges that South conceals much of the truth about his great feat. In this edition Peter King, who has examined the latest research on the entire episode, presents in his additional notes a much more detailed picture of what really occurred. The major defects in Shackleton`s organisation, the inadequate finances, the lack of training provided for his crew in the handling of skis, sledges & dogs, Shackleton`s personal problems (which were considerable), the failure to provide proper supplies of food
- these & many other details are explained, & give a fascinating background to what remains a magnificent drama of leadership. In addition, the book contains over a hundred beautifully produced photographs by Frank Hurley, the official photographer of the expedition as well as other contemporary illustrations. The explanatory captions, & the maps charting the course of the expedition, enable readers to follow Shackleton`s account almost as it they were present themselves.



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