Books

With a new foreword by Ken BlanchardAdapting One Minute Manager techniques to enable successful leadership to happen. Using different ways to motivate different kinds of people. Leadership and The One Minute Manager goes straight to the heart of...

“The T. Rex was strong, with teeth sharp as knives. When most dinos saw him, they ran for their lives!” And so Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat introduces young readers to the fiercest of all the many extinct reptiles featured in this exciting exploration of...

The third book from the most gifted young travel writer at work today, author of the best-selling In Xanadu (‘one of the best travel books produced in the last twenty years’ – Scotland on Sunday) and City of Djinns (‘the best travel book I have ever...

In the second instalment of The Conclave of Shadows. The Conclave demands its membership price from their new protégé: Tal must gather information on the sinister magician Laso Varen. But, to do this means service with the sorcerer's master, Duke Kaspar...

This classic children’s book is perfect for young and reluctant readers, thanks to its clever repetition and use of only 24 words! Out of Bed, To the Window, Through the Woods… Whoooo!It’s scares for little bears in this classic children’s book for...

'Deary's storytelling is simple, historically accurate and compelling.' - The i newspaper on The Silver HandFrom the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, which is now a TV show and movie, and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide...

'Deary's storytelling is simple, historically accurate and compelling.' - The i newspaper on The Silver HandFrom the author of the blockbuster Horrible Histories series, which is now a TV show and movie, and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide...

Everything you need to succeed as a SENCo in one handy guide.Starting Out as a Primary SENCo is a completely introductory and accessible guide to your first SENCo role. With detailed step-by-step guides for finding your first post through to your first...

A rules-light, skirmish wargame set in a bombastic, post-apocalyptic world of mutants and cartoon violence.FREAKZ! pits savage mutant gangs against each other as they pillage the ruins of a devastated world in pursuit of hallowed Artefactz. These objects...

The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering.Beautiful, remote and dangerous - for generations we have looked to the mountains in awe. Yet, for most, that is where...

Every society has its hierarchy, and college student Suchan Jang is at the top of the human one. Though popular and well-liked, he has a secret that keeps him from getting close to others: under his clothes lies a pair of hidden insect wings. But when...

A great deal has changed since Jaehwan's battle with Catastrophe, but his goal remains the same-form the second Abyss Expedition! In order to do so, he will need to gather the strongest warriors in Chaos, and what better way to gauge their skills than...

The oasis of Dunhuang, at the edge of the Gobi Desert, was once a bustling town on the famous Silk Road connecting China and the Mediterranean. But there was more to this verdant oasis than trade. For more than 1,000 years, Dunhuang was also an important...

A quiet rural town until World War I, Zaporizhzhia exploded into a major industrial centre in the 1920s following construction of the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station. This book looks at a later period in the history of what is now one of the largest cities...

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Aesthetic program, literary genre, philosophy, and subculture, Steampunk embraces a universal vision that questions our relationship with time itself...