Can you believe someone who says Im telling the truth now? Can a robot be human? Whats the best way to win a game of chicken? & how do you know youre not dreaming right now? In this book of puzzles & paradoxes Peter Cave introduces some of lifes most important questions with tales & tall stories jokes & arguments common sense & bizarre conclusions. From how to get to heaven to speedy tortoises here are some of the most mind-bending problems in subjects like logic ethics art & politics
- & some tips on how to solve them! Illustrated with quirky cartoons throughout The Unusual Please! takes the reader on a taster tour of the most interesting & delightful parts of philosophy. For everyone who puzzles about the world.
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In 1935 a young woman wrote a letter to Nursery World" magazine expressing her feelings of isolation & loneliness. Women from all over the country experiencing similar frustrations wrote back. To create an outlet for their abundant ideas & opinions they started a private magazine " The Cooperative Correspondence Club". The deep friendships formed through its pages ensured the magazine continued until 1990 fifty-five years after the first issue was put together." ...

Jack is very quiet. His busy rumbustious family is very noisy. Sometimes it seems as if no one really hears what he has to say
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Dr Christian Jessen the unshockable presenter of the hit television shows Embarassing Bodies" & " Supersize Vs Superskinny" is always being tackled by strangers wanting answers to their most private medical questions. Like all doctors Dr Christian finds people sidling up to him with their questions at parties on trains & even in the street. So why dont people ask their own doctors these questions in the more formal setting of the medical surgery? & what are the most common questions? " Can I Just Ask?" provides the answers in a fun & informative book that
Includes:: urban health myths busted; advice for common problems we dont like to talk about; specific sections for male/female health issues curious facts sex diet medicines fitness & more; & plenty of surprising facts & figures to help trivia-hungry readers better understand the mysterious workings of their bodies. Sometimes humorous often surprising & always informative this book will answer all your questions whether you have a worrying health dilemma or just a curious mind!"
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The Can I tell you about...?" series offers simple introductions to a range of limiting conditions. Friendly characters invite readers to learn about their experiences of living with a particular condition & how they would like to be helped & supported. These books serve as excellent starting points for family & classroom discussions. Meet Ben
- a young boy with ADHD. Ben invites readers to learn about ADHD from his perspective. He helps children understand what it means to have ADHD & describes what it is & how it feels. Ben explains how he was diagnosed & what he has learnt about ways to relieve his ADHD symptoms & how friends & adults can help at home & school. This illustrated book is full of useful information & will be an ideal introduction for young people aged 7 upwards as well as parents friends teachers & professionals working with children with ADHD. It is also an excellent starting point for family & classroom discussions."
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Can We Have Our Balls Back Please? is the acclaimed Sunday Times" Sports Book of the Year now updated for the London 2012 Olympics. Americans may like to think they invented baseball (even if Jane Austen wrote about it decades earlier). & the French might be proud of founding the modern Olympics (when in fact a Shropshire doctor beat them to it by forty years). But it was the British that gave sport to the world. From the beginnings of the beautiful game
- raucous matches of folk football with hundreds of players on each side
- to the original bowls
- a thin excuse for drunkenness & gambling
- games grew into sports here in Great Britain. & in " Can We Have Our Balls Back Please?" Julian Norridge tells their stories with wit & good humour. Including all the many sports we Brits have to be proud of
- boxing horse racing cricket football rugby hockey lawn tennis (nearly called sphairistike) & more
- & even those few that got away this is everything you need to know about the very British love of sports & all the great games its produced."





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Can We Still Be Friends" is the debut novel by Alexandra Shulman editor of British Vogue. Its the summer of 1983 & best friends Salome Annie & Kendra have left university to embark on adulthood. Three very different girls with very different paths ahead. Sal the aspiring journalist whose personal demons threaten to destroy everything she has achieved. Annie the capable domestic beauty convinced that marriage will give her everything she wants. Kendra the daughter of chic liberal parents who searching for her own identity encounters a life she never expected. As they navigate the decade of ra-ra skirts & shoulder pads Duran Duran & Margaret Thatcher they discover that the future is what happens to you not what you plan. Their interwoven tale captures brilliantly what it is to learn the exhilarating & painful truths about love work family & the ties of friendship. " Wonderfully evokes that ping-pong between trivial & tremendous so characteristic of the Eighties.. .great on atmosphere... An engaging debut alive with human sympathy". (Wendy Holden " Daily Mail"). " Warm & entertaining.. .captures the excitement of being young & glamorous at a time when the sky really did seem to be the limit". (Kate Saunders " The Times"). " Shulman has a terrific eye for the small yet telling detail". (" Observer Magazine"). Alexandra Shulman has edited British Vogue since 1992. She is a contributor to " The Times" " Daily Mail" " Guardian" & " Daily Telegraph" & lives in London. " Can We Still Be Friends" is her first novel." ...

Can We Travel Through Time? addresses 20 of the most fundamental & frequently asked questions in physics. What is the God particle? Does chaos theory spell disaster? Am I unique in the universe? What is light? Each 3 000 word essay examines these eternally perplexing questions in a way that is comprehensible to everyone providing the ultimate guide to understanding the very nature of the world we live in. ...

The punctuation workout for sticklers & rookies alike. The punctuation panda is back! Armed with a permanent marker a smidgen of confidence & a copy of Can You Eat Shoot & Leave? everyone now has the chance to become a member of the punctuation elite. Established punctuation sticklers: Fine-tune existing skills taking guilty pleasure from testing your (already somewhat unsettling) seventh sense. Confused novices: Never again inflict flawed & perplexing punctuation on your innocent readers. The only official workbook for the international bestseller Eats Shoots & Leaves. * Introductory Cosmo-style questionnaire helps readers identify their level of punctuation prowess. * Mirrors the structure & light-hearted style of Lynne Trusss hugely popular Eats Shoots & Leaves. Topics include apostrophes commas colons & semicolons hyphens & more. * Each chapter concentrates on one particular punctuation mark. Origin usage rules & their exceptions introduce the entertaining activities which have a challenge-yourself format. * The bite-sized exercises in each chapter & longer texts in The Final Challenge put punctuation skills to the test. ...

An ordinary suburban house hides a dark secret in this chilling mystery novel. Leah hates the house & hates living in a mess while her dad does the much needed renovations. The house gives her the creeps & her fears are realised when the ghost of a boy appears in her bedroom. She discovers he lived in the house in the 1970s
- but how did he die? & why does nobody seem to know he is dead? Leahs attempts to unravel the truth lead her into unexpected danger... This is a gripping tale in which Leahs story is interspersed with the ghosts own first person story keeping the reader one step ahead.
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