A treasure trove of human creativity from around the world. History of the World in 1000 Objects takes a fresh look at world history, viewing cultures and early civilizations through the objects that they created. Humanity is defined by our talent for making things from everyday objects to inventions that changed the world. From a Viking wooden comb to a 1950s fridge-freezer you can uncover what the people's priorities were at the time from what they created. Each culture's objects are grouped under key themes, from art to the history of technology and together build a story that gives real insight into civilization, plus the accessible visual approach to history makes it easy to compare how people lived at different times and in different parts of the world. The objects, from swords and spears to astrolabes and maritime atlases, are showcased through stunning photography from around the world. Celebrate our extraordinary legacy of creativity with History of the World in 1000 Objects.

Get under your skin with this access-all-areas guide to the human body. Discover a breathtaking portrait of the human body as it's never been seen before, using the latest medical and microscopic imaging. The Complete Human Body covers the development, form, function and disorders of the human body, all brought to life by incredible state-of-the-art 3D computer-generated artworks. Take a detailed look at how your respiratory system works, discover the anatomy up-close and learn about over 200 diseases and how they afflict the human body. It is perfect for students, families and health professionals.

This title features all new activity collection with the ultimate blend of facts and fun. With the Spider-Man Ultimate Factivity Collection, learning has never been this fun! Engaging reference notes guide you through activities, while fun challenges and interesting puzzles are designed to inspire creativity. It is packed with puzzles, games, doodles and over 500 stickers to accompany amazing facts and information. Are your spider-senses tingling? Young fans of the Spider-Man films and comics will love this fact-packed super hero activity book. Spot the villains in Peter Parker's photos, draw your own Spider-Man comic strip, or design a new Spidey suit for the webbed-wonder. The combination of fun activities and educational information will help improve your child's social, emotional, cognitive, and language skills — and they'll have fun while doing it! Get caught in the Wall-crawler's web with Spider-Man Ultimate Factivity Collection.

A fact-packed activity book full of Star Wars™ funStar Wars™: Ultimate Factivity Collection in an amazing interactive book for your child, packed with games and activities. Your child will learn about all the amazing Star Wars™ characters from the complete Star Wars saga through loads of fun activities including games, colouring, drawing, puzzles and more. They'll get to write, draw and colour their way through the Star Wars characters, such as the Sith and the Jedi, enjoying activities like designing their own Zabrak. This book is also bursting with over 500 stickers to use with it, plus extras for decoration and even more sticker fun. And there's no fuss or mess as your child can do all the activities directly onto the pages, so no need for any extra workbooks. Perfect for Star Wars fans, Star Wars™: Ultimate Factivity Collection can keep your kids entertained for hours.

«Help your child be top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman. Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed at spelling. Spelling Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about spelling easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. This book supports the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, Spelling Made Easy is a great way to improve your child's spelling skills — «the more you practise, the better you'll be!» (Carol Vorderman).»

«Help your child be top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman. Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed at spelling. Spelling Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about spelling easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. This book supports the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, Spelling Made Easy is a great way to improve your child's spelling skills — «the more you practise, the better you'll be!» (Carol Vorderman).»

«Help your child be top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman. Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed at spelling. Spelling Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about spelling easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. This book supports the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, Spelling Made Easy is a great way to improve your child's spelling skills — «the more you practise, the better you'll be!» (Carol Vorderman).»

«Help your child be top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman. Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed at spelling. Spelling Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about spelling easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. This book supports the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, Spelling Made Easy is a great way to improve your child's spelling skills — «the more you practice, the better you'll be!» (Carol Vorderman).»

All the big ideas in science, simply explained Part of the popular Big Ideas series, The Science Book explores the history of science, how scientists have sought to explain our incredible universe and how amazing scientific discoveries have been made. Discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theories of motion and inertia, why Copernicus' ideas were contentious and what the discovery of DNA meant. All the big scientific ideas and discoveries are brought to life with quirky graphics, pithy quotes and step-by-step 'mind maps', plus every area of science is covered, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, maths and physics. You'll be brought up-to-date on scientific ideas from black holes to genetic engineering with eye-catching artworks showing how the ideas of key scientists have impacted our understanding of the world. Whether you are a science student or just have an interest in scientific ideas, The Science Book is a perfect way to explore this fascinating subject.

This title features all new activity collection with the ultimate blend of facts and fun. With Ultimate Factivity Collection Dinosaur, learning has never been this fun! Engaging reference notes guide you through activities, while fun challenges and interesting puzzles are designed to inspire creativity. It is packed with puzzles, games, doodles and over 500 stickers to accompany amazing facts and information. Dig yourself into this wild world of prehistoric creatures and tackle activities on the terrible T.Rex, the stout stegosaurus, the giant brachiosaurus, and more. Go on an amazing adventure, make an origami dinosaur, or hunt for fossils in this incredible, fact-filled adventure. The combination of fun activities and educational information will help improve your child's social, emotional, cognitive, and language skills — and they'll have fun while doing it! Take a trip back in time with Ultimate Factivity Collection Dinosaur.

«Help your child be top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman. Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed in English. English Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about English easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. This book focuses on the letters of the alphabet. It encourages your child to recognise the sound and name of each letter and draw letter shapes. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, English Made Easy (previous ISBN 9781405363563) is a great way to improve your child's English skills — «the more you practice, the better you'll be!» (Carol Vorderman).»

«Help your child be top of the class with the best-selling home-study series from Carol Vorderman. Let Carol Vorderman help your child succeed in English. English Made Easy is one of Carol Vorderman's series of workbooks packed with notes and tips to make learning about English easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Each title contains a progress chart so your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed and parents' notes explain what children need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the curriculum so you can support your child. This book helps children to understand clauses in sentences and how to use apostrophes. It also looks at persuasive writing, poetry, and classic novels. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support curriculum learning, English Made Easy (previous ISBN 9781405363679 ) is a great way to improve your child's English skills — «the more you practise, the better you'll be!» (Carol Vorderman).»

This is the definitive visual guide to the history of firearms and guns. The Illustrated History of Firearms charts the evolution and history of the gun, from the pistol, flintlock musket and rifle to the shotgun, machine gun and revolver. This book features over 300 firearms and guns spanning centuries of development, with the world's most iconic gun brands such as Colt, Smith and Wesson, Maxim and the Kalashnikov AK-47 covered with amazing photographic features. You can appreciate the incredible engineering behind guns through stunning visuals with close-up details of key weapons, from the intricate inlaid shotgun to the modern army sniper rifle, tracing the history of the gun from army flintlocks to modern day military guns. If you are interested in military history and the history of weapons, The Illustrated History of Firearms is ideal for you.

Batman: A Visual History follows the DC Comics Super Hero from his 1939 beginnings as a crime-fighting vigilante to his present status as a worldwide cultural icon approaching his 75th anniversary. The book celebrates Batman's greatest stories and the writers and artists that created them. It also charts the careers of the Super Heroes and super-villains — Robin, the Justice League, the Joker, Catwoman — associated with Gotham City's Dark Knight. The debuts of every key Batman character are featured, as well as some details of Batman movie and TV series, both live-action and animated. Perfect for any comic book fan, this visually stunning, definitive guide arrives in a slipcase featuring specially commissioned artwork by a top DC Comics artist plus two original prints.

Updated and expanded edition, with 16 new pages to cover 2010-2014! Featuring a new slipcase design along with two NEW prints packed inside. Trace DC's fascinating story: the company's beginnings as National Allied Publications in the 1934, and its subsequent change to Detective Comics, Inc. in 1937. The book details all the major DC publishing landmarks and more, displayed clearly, month by month. Highlighting the debuts of iconic super heroes like Superman and Batman, the geniuses that invented them, and the real-life events, like the Vietnam War, the atom bomb, and the Space Race, that shaped the atmosphere of the times, DC Comics: A Visual History follows the characters' foray into the real world through TV series and blockbuster movies.

Introduce your toddler to farm animals with new DK Pull the Tab Series! Packed with fun for toddlers Pull the Tab Farm is perfect for early learning so your toddler will get to know all the different farm animals. From ducks and lambs to ponies and pigs, all the pages have bright colourful pictures of farm animals to entertain and engage toddlers. This new early learning book from DK is part of a new series perfect for introducing all types of farm animals to toddlers. The easily recognisable images and labels will encourage recognition and naming while the pop outs promote sensory learning. The lively, rhyming text for each farm animal is perfect for parents to read aloud making Pull the Tab Farm even more interactive and fun for toddlers. Perfect early learning for toddlers who can pull the tabs to reveal farm animals!

Let your toddler find out all about animals with new DK Pull the Tab series! Packed with fun for toddlers Pull the Tab Animals is perfect for early learning so your toddler can discover all about animals. From dogs and cats to zoo animals and rainforest animals, all the pages have bright colourful pictures of animals to entertain and engage toddlers. This early learning book from DK is part of a new series perfect for toddlers finding out all about animals. The easily recognisable images and labels will encourage recognition and naming while the pop outs promote sensory learning. The lively, rhyming text for each animal is perfect for parents to read aloud making Pull the Tab Animals even more interactive and fun for toddlers. Perfect early learning for toddlers who can pull the tabs and find out all about animals!

This title presents a slice of history — the definitive exploration of weapons through the ages, now with a fresh new jacket. It is an epic 4,000-year illustrated story of weaponry. From stone axes to heavy machine-guns, swords to sniper rifles, discover the innovative design, range, lethal function and brutal history of arms and armour, and meet the warriors who wielded them. It includes all the important arms from the ages, covering edged weapons, clubs, projectiles and firearms from ancient Egyptian axes, through bows and spears of traditional societies in Africa, Oceania and the Americas, to the machine-guns and missiles of modern infantry forces. Key weapons from every era are presented in sharp detail and the mechanisms that operate them are displayed and explained. Top fighting forces, from the Greek hoplite to the Navy Seal are profiled, and the weapons they have wielded and the tactics and fighting methods they've used are revealed.

Chunky peep hole book full of cuddly animals, perfect for inquisitive toddlers. Who Am I? Cuddly Animals is full of bright, bold pictures of cute cuddly animals that will keep your toddler engaged over and over again. Your child will love discovering who is hiding behind each fun page, as you read the clues together. Reveal a furry rabbit, a fluffy kitten, a little lamb and more! Perfect for reading aloud and encouraging word recognition, your toddler will love the playful and familiar guessing-game format. Watch as they investigate and explore each page — Who Am I? Cuddly Animals is a perfect combination of learning and play.

This is an action-packed sticker activity book full of fun facts and games about deadly animals. Packed with over 250 easy-peel, re-usable full-colour stickers, Sticker Activity Deadly Animals is your perfect introduction to the world of wildlife. They may look cute and cuddly, but some animals are armed to the teeth and could have a nasty sting in the tail. This sticker book is packed with fun activities for kids, you'll find out which animals should definitely be avoided and learn to spot the warning signs. Sort out the tame from the terrifying when it comes to cats, get up close with a snappy crocodile, and beware of big beasts prowling around the savanna. Sticker Activity Deadly Animals is an amazing sticker book with a variety of educational activities for kids. It's perfect for school projects or just for fun — with over 12 to collect in the series there's no end to the sticker games you can play.