Multi-award-winning, bestselling duo Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen conspire again on a slyly funny tale about some very sneaky shapes.” Picture book lovers will find much to like in Triangle” Guardian From the award-winning team behind Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, & illustrated by Jon Klassen, the Kate Greenaway-winning creator of This Is Not My Hat & I Want My Hat Back, comes the first tale in an exciting new trilogy. Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks... Visually stunning & full of wry humour, here is a perfectly-paced treat that flips the traditional concept book, & approaches it from a whole new angle. ...

A French globe that is mounted on a decorative h&-polished & distressed rosewood stand with accents of polished brass. Made using original charts & researched for historical accuracy & visual appeal. Admittedly, Marie Antoinette wasn’t remembered for her intellectual exploits. But during her time France sent expeditions around the globe. Undoubtedly a globe of some kind, probably similar to our Trianon, adorned, or perhaps dominated her library. 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 ...

Enjoy the power of the written word. This elegant set comes with three styluses, interchangeable nibs, five colors of ink, seal wax, & sealing tools. Encasing these h&-crafted tools is a French finished wooden box with bronze hardware details. A writer’s dream. French finish boxes filled with writing instruments. 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 ...

Compose a meaningful letter that will delight. Enjoy the wood boxes finished in rich & lustrous black, locking with solid bronze hardware. This portable kit comes with two pens, 10 interchangeable nibs, five colors of ink, & a bronze reading glass. 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 ...

Now available in paperback, ” Tribe” tells the story of Bruce Parry`s time spent understanding 15 remote native tribes around the world, a remarkable journey that became a successful BBC series. Over several years, Parry spent a month living with 15 different tribes in remote regions of the world. The result is an insight into wildly differing cultures that are vibrant, hospitable & full of spirit despite numerous hardships. Parry`s insatiable curiosity takes him deep into the heart of each community, whether they be forest people, cannibals or nomadic herders, where beyond the obvious differences, he finds the same loves, trials & issues we have the world over. His encounters also throw up some thought-provoking & challenging questions: is change good? Should we protect tribes people? &, more importantly, who are we to impose our own cultural sensitivities in our judgement of their customs? Along the way, Parry takes part in some ridiculously dangerous rituals, which include taking mammoth amounts of a potentially lethal hallucinogen, having his penis forced back into his body & eating rats` livers cake. He also forges new friendships that will last him a lifetime. ...

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM & WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, & what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder & the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they`ve suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return. One of the most puzzling things about veterans who experience PTSD is that the majority never even saw combat-and yet they feel deeply alienated & out of place back home. The reason may lie in our natural inclination, as a species, to live in groups of thirty to fifty people who are entirely reliant on one another for safety, comfort & a sense of meaning: in short, the life of a soldier. It is one of the ironies of the modern age that as affluence rises in a society, so do rates of suicide, depression & of course PTSD. In a wealthy society people don`t need to cooperate with one another, so they often lead much lonelier lives that lead to psychological distress. There is a way for modern society to reverse this trend, however, & studying how veterans react to coming home may provide a clue to how to do it. But it won`t be easy. ...

” Tribes of the Great Rift Valley” is a celebration & photographic study of the traditional peoples who occupy the tiny, remote villages scattered across the deserts, plains, hills & forests of the Great Rift Valley. From the red-ochre-painted warriors of Samburu to the Mursi with their jutting lip-plates to the guinea-fowl-painted faces of the Karo, the people of the Rift Valley remain among the most untouched & unchanged on the planet. This gorgeously illustrated book provides sweeping views of this wild landscape & its people, from the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Eritrea, across the Ethiopian highlands, & down to the great lakes & primordial forests of Kenya, Tanzania & Malawi. These fascinating cultures are remarkably diverse, yet nearly all of their communities & traditions face extinction due to Western influence. For the people of the Rift Valley, this book serves as a historic record of the living traditions they have carried with them into the twenty-first century. For those outside of Africa`s borders, it serves as a family reunion, bringing the viewer into the world of their lost African relatives. This journey into the heart of Africa is designed to be a broad profile of tribal humanity to which every reader has a connection & provides a lasting record, perhaps even the last record, of a quickly disappearing way of life. ...

Tribes of the World depicts the faces, the hands, restores the voice & the immense cultural heritage that we own to tribes worldwide, undervalued, hidden if not threatened by the greed of men & what we sometimes quickly call ` Progress`. From Australia to Senegal, from Peru to Quebec, from Laos to Ethiopia, from Greenland to Ladakh, from Lapland to Malaysia, Anne de Vandiere documents skills, philosophies, harmonious & altruistic lifestyles, all of which are based on an affinity between men & the Earth, & lead to the future as much as others. ...

The same blood runs through their veins. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator at the peak of his career. The other, Mario, is his four-year-old grandson who has barely learned to talk but has a few tricks up his loose-fitting sleeves all the same. The older combatant has lived for years in almost complete solitude. The younger one has been dumped with a grandfather he barely knows for 72 hours. ...

When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college
- a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride & wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his bloodstained body into the river. Charlie doesn`t know who sent the package, or why, yet she can`t get the crime out of her head. But as she delves deeper, & steps back into the mysterious world of Oxford colleges, she realises that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye...
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