Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from Science Superstars (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from Science Superstars (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and 12 other brilliant scientists. Every great scientist started out as a kid. Before their experiments, inventions,

Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other great writers. Every great author started out as a kid. Before the best sellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the

Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and other presidents-to-be faced kid-sized problems growing up in America. Every president started out as a kid Forget the legends, tall tales, and historic

Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how Tiger Woods, Gabby Douglas, Bruce Lee, Billie Jean King, and other budding sports champions faced kid-sized challenges growing up. Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes

Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems. Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless

Tale of Angelino Brown (Almond David)(Pevná vazba)

A warm and witty tale from a master storyteller, author of Carnegie Medal-winning Skellig and internationally bestseller The Boy Who Swam with

The Storm, 2 (Drake David)(Pevná vazba)

THE THRILLING RE-TELLING OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND FROM MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY DAVID DRAKE CONTINUES A young Champion must rescue a friend and battle an enemy at the heart of a chaotic world. The universe has shattered into chaos and monsters. Jon, the Leader, is dedicating his life to

Science vs Natural Disasters (Royston Angela)(Pevná vazba)

Discover how scientists are fighting back against the threat of natural disaster, from hurricanes to tornadoes and explore the incredible weapons they are

Kamala and Maya's Big Idea (Harris Meena)(Pevná vazba)

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of the author's aunt, Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer and policy expert

A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry (Illingworth Sam)(Pevná vazba)

In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by well-known scientists, contextualising it with their work and research, in an effort to better understand how poetry might today be used as an effective tool in both the advancement of

Philosophy of Science for Scientists (Johansson Lars-Gran)(Pevná vazba)

This textbook offers an introduction to the philosophy of science. It helps undergraduate students from the natural, the human and social sciences to gain an understanding of what science is, how it has developed, what its core traits are, how to distinguish between science and pseudo-science and

Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple (Stout Glenn)(Pevná vazba)

The true Jazz Age tale of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from

Science Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the history of science, how scientists have sought to explain our incredible universe and how amazing scientific discoveries have been made. This book helps you discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theories of motion and inertia, why Copernicus' ideas were contentious and what

The Little Book of Cumbria (Ramshaw David)(Pevná vazba)

This is a fact-packed compendium of snippets from the past and present, including historical tales, legends and myths of the Lake District and the rest of the region from Barrow to Carlisle. The towns and villages all have their stories to tell of industries past and present, of natural and

Welsh Folk Tales (Stevenson Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honors unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of

A Square of Sky: A Wartime Childhood: From Ghetto to Convent (David Janina)(Paperback)

The true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Like The Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor who, instead of her own death, has to come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival. Made into a

David Hockney: Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

Brings together some well-known tales - Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin - with others that are less familiar. This title is informed by the art of the past, attuned to idiosyncrasies of character and

Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited (Weiss Brian L.)(Pevná vazba)

A 'beautiful and sensitive' tale of true love that transcends time, from the multi-million bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters (Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul). Recommended by Kendall Jenner. In Many Lives, Many Masters, a skeptical Dr. Brian Weiss found his life changed

David Hockney: A Yorkshire Sketchbook (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

The author has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Executed in watercolour and ink, this title features panoramic scenes that have the spatial complexity of finished paintings - the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land - yet convey

Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes - With an introduction by David Solomons (Ahmed Sufiya)(Pevná vazba)

Large Measure of Snow - A Tale From Kinloch (Meyrick Denzil)(Pevná vazba)

David Roberts' Delightfully Different Fairy Tales (Roberts David)(Pevná vazba)

A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in non-traditional periods, with funky clothes and recognisable settings. All beautifully illustrated by the brilliant David Roberts.A treasury of fairy tales with a difference - feminist, sparky and set in different decades of

Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science (Canales Jimena)(Pevná vazba)

How scientists conjure demons to unlock the secrets of the universeScience may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the

Desmond and the Very Mean Word (Tutu Desmond)(Pevná vazba)

Based on a true story from Archbishop Desmond Tutu's childhood in South Africa, Desmond and the Very Mean Word reveals the power of words and the secret of forgiveness. When Desmond takes his new bicycle out for a ride through his neighborhood, his pride and joy turn to hurt and anger when a group