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100 Things to Know About Music by Alex Frith, Jerome Martin, Alice James, Lan Cook
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: 100 Things to Know
A colourful information book filled with 100 fascinating and surprising facts. Which tunes could save a life, and which should come with a health warning? How do talking drums tell the history of Africa? What happens in your brain when you listen to music? Find the answers to these questions and more in ...Show more
100 Things to Know About the Oceans by Alex Frith, Jerome Martin, Alice James, Lan Cook
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: 100 Things to Know
An eye-catching information book filled with one hundred quirky and surprising facts about the seas and oceans. Do fish wear pyjamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster - a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these a ...Show more
100 Things to Know About the Unknown by Alex Frith, Jerome Martin, Alice James, Tom Mumbray, Lan Cook, Micaela Tapsell
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: 100 Things to Know
A colorful information book filled with 100 fascinating and mind-blowing facts. Scientists and historians have discovered a lot about our past, our future and how the world works, but SO MUCH remains unknown. What is dark matter? How fast could a T. rex run? How did Mary Queen of Scots keep her dying wi ...Show more
50 Dark Destinations - Crime and Contemporary Tourism by Orlando Woods (Contribution by); Patrick Berry (Contribution by); Peter Joyce (Contribution by); Robin West (Contribution by); Rowland Atkinson (Contribution by); Sarah Hodgkinson (Contribution by); Sarah Jones (Contribution by); Selina Patel Nascimento (Contribution by); Simon Winlow (Contribution by); Sophie Gregory (Contribution by); Steve Wadley (Contribution by); Tammy Ayres (Contribution by); Tereza Østbø Kuldova (Contribution by); Thomas Raymen (Contribution by); Travis Linnemann (Contribution by); Wendy Laverick (Contribution by); Adam Lynes (Editor); Craig Kelly (Editor); James Treadwell (Editor); Alice Storey (Contribution by); Angus Nurse (Contribution by); Anna Sergi (Contribution by); Anthony Lloyd (Contribution by); Ben Colliver (Contribution by); Craig Ancrum (Contribution by); Dan Rusu (Contribution by); David Wilson (Contribution by); Donna Yates (Contribution by); Duncan John Frankis (Contribution by); Eamonn Carrabine (Contribution by); Emiline Smith (Contribution by); Emma Winlow (Contribution by); Eveleigh Buck-Matthews (Contribution by); Gary Potter (Contribution by); Grace Gallacher (Contribution by); Hannah London (Contribution by); Ian R. Cook (Contribution by); Jane Richards (Contribution by); Jack Denham (Contribution by); Jardar Nuland Østbø (Contribution by); Jenna Page (Contribution by); Joe Garrihy (Contribution by); John Bahadur Lamb (Contribution by); Katie Lowe (Contribution by); Keith Hayward (Contribution by); Kevin Hoffin (Contribution by); Kyla Bavin (Contribution by); Laura Hammond (Contribution by); Lucas Danos (Contribution by); Luke Telford (Contribution by); Max Hart (Contribution by); Melindy Brown (Contribution by); Michael Rowe (Contribution by); Natasha Pope (Contribution by); Neil Chakraborti (Contribution by); Nicholas Gibbs (Contribution by); Oliver Smith (Contribution by)
Category: Travel Writing
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or ...Show more
Barack Obama and the New America - The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics by Larry J. Sabato (Editor); Diana Owen (Contribution by); Geoff Skelley (Contribution by); Michael Toner (Contribution by); Karen E. Trainer (Contribution by); Sean Trende (Contribution by); Alan Abramowitz (Contribution by); Jamelle Bouie (Contribution by); James Campbell (Contribution by); Nate Cohn (Contribution by); Rhodes Cook (Contribution by); Robert Costa (Contribution by); Kyle Kondik (Contribution by); Susan MacManus (Contribution by)
Category: Non-Fiction
Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, has brought together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2012 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible prose ...Show more
Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World, made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768–71 by James Cook
Category: History
Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James Cook (1728-79) was also an excellent surveyor and a meticulous keeper of records. The journal entries presented here cover Cook's first voyage around the world aboard the Endeavour, during which he mapped New Zealand and claimed the eastern ...Show more
Cook's Endeavour Journal : the Inside Story by James Cook
Category: Australian History
Cook's Endeavour Journal : the Inside Story brings to life the record of one of the world's most famous expeditions, the circumnavigation of the globe by Lieutenant James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour. It is a timeless story of courageous exploration - the charting of New Zealand and Australia's eastern sea ...Show more
Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid by David Gerrold; Rick Parker (Illustrator); Miran Kim (Illustrator); Maia Kinney-Petrucha; Marguerite van Cook (Illustrator); John L. Lansdale; Rob Vollmar; Stefan Petrucha; Jim Salicrup; Robert Hack (Illustrator); James Romberger (Illustrator); Tim Smith III (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Tales from the Crypt Graphic Novels Ser.
The Ghoulunatics - The Vault-Keeper, the Old Witch, and everyone's favorite, The Crypt-Keeper are back to offer their twisted takes on "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," the "Twilight"series, and Guitar Hero The cover-featured Stinky Dead Kid stars in two tales - - one that explains exactly how he became a Stinky ...Show more
Hunt for the Southern Continent by James Cook
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges - to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent - but it ...Show more
Kobold Guide to Dungeons by Wolfgang Baur (Contribution by); Erin Roberts (Contribution by); David Cook (Contribution by); Dominique Dickey (Contribution by); Kelsey Dionne (Contribution by); Sadie Lowry (Contribution by); Frank Mentzer (Contribution by); Bruce Nesmith (Contribution by); Lawrence Schick (Contribution by); James L. Sutter (Contribution by)
Category: Gifts
Dungeons Are Half the Game. You can't control what players are going to do. That's half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That's a whole other half! The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters over 100 pages of insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-d ...Show more
Never Get Bored on a Train Puzzles and Games by James Maclaine, Tom Mumbray, Lan Cook
Category: Activity Books | Series: Never Get Bored
A boredom-busting collection of original puzzles and games. The essential companion to every train journey. This write-in book is easy to dip in and out of on short trips, again and again, or distract and entertain you on long journeys for hours and hours. It's bursting with mind-bending puzzles, fun ac ...Show more
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Captain Cook's Journals provide his vivid first-hand account of three extraordinary expeditions. These charted the entire coast of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and brought back detailed descriptions of Tahiti, Tonga and a host of until then unknown islands in the Pacific. The journals am ...Show more