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All You Need To Know...World War Two - A Brilliant Account of the Most Terrible Event in Human History by Max Hastings
Category: Military | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of co ...Show more
All You Need to Know About Our World by Age 7 by Alice James
Category: Children's Reference | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
A perfect first introduction to geography and our planetFollow a cast of curious bugs as they travel the world, finding out what continents and oceans are, what makes a capital city, where people live, and what's happening in the natural world. With interactive questions and activities.
All You Need to Know about Your Body by Age 7 by Alice James
Category: Children's | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
This child-friendly introduction spans a range of topics, from how your body works and staying healthy, to feelings and behaviour, to how to be a good citizen. With a cast of comical bugs to guide readers, activities to try at home, and links to further resources online.
All the Maths You Need to Know by Age 7 by Katie Daynes
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
A fun, friendly introduction to maths, covering all the topics taught in school. Join a cast of entertaining bugs as they explore maths through everyday examples, from handling numbers and times tables to weighing ingredients and telling the time. Fun puzzles allow readers to practise what they've learn ...Show more
All the Science You Need to Know Before Age 7 by Katie Daynes
Category: Educational | Series: All You Need to Know by Age 7 Ser.
Engage in the world around you with this lively and enlightening introduction to science. From materials, light and space to humans, animals and plants, this book covers an impressive range of topics in a simple, accessible way. Friendly, bright illustrations by Stefano Tognetti. Full of fun experiments ...Show more
Christianity - The Faith That Inspired and Shaped the Western World by Thomas Small
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
More than any other, Christianity is the world's first truly global faith. Lying at the heart of Western civilization, Christianity has spread everywhere, and today is still winning converts in Africa, China, and throughout the world. How is it that a movement which began more than 2,000 years ago in Pa ...Show more
How to Read a Poem - A Practical Guide Which Will Open Your Eyes - and Touch Your Heart by Malcom Hebron
Category: Poetry | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Malcolm Hebron writes with one aim in mind: to help you read, understand and appreciate poetry. The English language has an extraordinarily rich stock of poems to its credit, from the epic Beowulf, written perhaps as early as the eighth century, to the poetry of Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and the m ...Show more
How to Write Well (All You Need to Know): Bring Your Prose to Life. Make Your Sentences Sparkle by Tim de Lisle; Nick Newman
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Writing matters. We all do it, and we all admire it when it's done well. It doesn't just express us; it represents us. We write to connect with other people - to make them laugh, or cry, or think. We also write to work out what we think ourselves: there's nothing like it for concentrating the mind. So w ...Show more
Napoleon - A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World? or a Brutal Tyrant? by Adam Zamoyski
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Born in Corsica, and a brilliant military leader during the French revolution, Napoleon became Emperor in 1804 and dominated European and indeed global affairs for the next ten years, leading France against a series of coalitions in what were later called the Napoleonic wars. His victories are the stuff ...Show more
Russia and Its Rulers - The Turbulent History of a Country Which Has Never Come to Terms with the Modern World by Caroline Brooke
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Russia and its Rulers is a book which traces the history of Russia since the last days of the tsars until modern times. Caroline Brooke shows how Alexander II tried to reform his vast, backward and almost entirely rural domain in the second half of the 19th century, reorganising the judiciary, abolishin ...Show more
Sexuality - A History of Human Sexuality from Ancient Greece to the Modern Age by Charlotte McGann
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Charlotte McGann tells the story of human sexuality from the days of the hunter gatherers through to modern times. She explores the attitudes of the ancient Greeks and Romans to sex - and at the many ways in which their attitudes and mores mirrored our own. She takes us rapidly through history, from the ...Show more
Slavery - The History and Legacy of One of the World's Most Brutal Institutions by James Walvin
Category: Popular History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms. Female slaves were called on for sexual services, gaining freedom only when their masters died. This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enfor ...Show more