Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas - Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them (Parkinson Judy)(Paperback / softback)

Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas - Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them (Parkinson Judy)(Paperback / softback)

How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? And what do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and

The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize?First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our

The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them (DeYoung Kevin)(Pevná vazba)

Are the 10 Commandments still relevant today? Do they still apply? Which ones? What do they mean in light of God's mercy revealed in Jesus? Highlighting the timelessness and goodness of God's commands, pastor Kevin DeYoung delivers critical truth about the 10 Commandments as he makes clear what

Where We Belong - The heart-breaking new novel from the bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club author (Harris Anstey)(Paperback / softback)

Shopping! (Stockham Jess)(Paperback)

What items do we need from the shops? Where shall we go to buy them? And who's going to help? Helping with real tasks is a natural progression from pretend play, and is a crucial stage in a child's development. Achieving a shared goal encourages a sense of responsibility, and develops many skills

Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) - Amazing women on what the F-word means to them (Curtis Scarlett)(Paperback / softback)

This is the must-read book that every woman needs.We asked 52 women: what does the F word mean to you?The result is extraordinary.Warning: contains a lot of feminism and some explicit content!**Published in partnership with Girl Up, the UN women's foundation, royalties will benefit this amazing

Gaming Mind - A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play (Kriss Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

A new popular psychology title looking at where video games come from, why we play them, and taking a balanced, clinical view of whether they are healthy or not, depending on our individual player-game

Story of More - How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Jahren Hope)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Lab Girl: a passionate scientist's uniquely personal take on the defining issue of our

Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation (Baggott Jim)(Paperback)

What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This

Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past (Reich David (Professor of Genetics Professor of Genetics Harvard University))(Paperback / softback)

Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations. David Reich explains the science, and tells the emerging story of our complex and often surprising ancestry - the extraordinary ancient migrations and mixtures of populations

Your Literacy Standards Companion, Grades 3-5: What They Mean and How to Teach Them (Blauman Leslie A.)(Spiral)

Standards-based learning just got a lot easier This new version of The Common Core Companion provides an index for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see in an instant which of your standards are the same as CCSS, which differ and how--and which page

What Clara Saw (Meserve Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

The animal community is both clever and kind, and we humans can learn so much from them - if we only look, and

For a Left Populism (Mouffe Chantal)(Paperback)

What is the 'populist moment' and what does it mean for the left?We are currently witnessing in Western Europe a 'populist moment' that signals the crisis of neoliberal hegemony. The central axis of the political conflict will be between right- and left-wing populism. By establishing a frontier

Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Attfield Judy)(Paperback)

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to

World, the Flesh and the Devil - What Do We Do With Evil? (Rohr Richard)(Paperback / softback)

What's Inside?: Spacecraft (West David)(Paperback / softback)

Explore the inner-workings of six types of popular vehicles and find out what makes them

Miracle (Leask Amanda)(Paperback / softback)

As seen on ITV's Britain's Got Talent, where they captured the hearts of the nation, this is Amanda and Miracle's incredible story of survival, love and hopeSnatched from the streets of Thailand, loaded onto a truck with hundreds of other stolen dogs and destined for the restaurants of Hanoi,

On Royalty (Paxman Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them? This title looks at our present incumbents to find out just what makes them

Doctors and Healers (Nathan Tobie)(Paperback)

We think we know what healers do: they build on patients' irrational beliefs and treat them in a 'symbolic' way. If they get results, it's thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what modern medicine is: a highly

Trouble with Physics - The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next (Smolin Lee)(Paperback / softback)

Presents an account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple

The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them (Rogers Alex)(Paperback)

There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious . . . Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world's leading experts in marine biology and oceanology, and has spent his life studying the deep ocean - and in

Revolutions: How They Changed History and What They Mean Today (Furtado Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as ‘liberty, fraternity, equality’, articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because we are shocked by the destructive forces unleashed when social conventions break down. Yet each

This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean (Stephen Alain)(Paperback)

We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes, and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous aphorisms? This book explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers, examining their core beliefs and presenting choice quotes that

Fabric of the Cosmos - Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Greene Brian)(Paperback / softback)

What is reality? Could we exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? What are the limits of the universe? This title takes us on an irresistible and revelatory journey through the biggest of the big