Dorling Kindersley
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Teach your baby all about farms with touch and feel textures. Stroke, tickle and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about farms. Oink oink! Quack quack! Let their little hands roam and feel how feathery the ducklings are and how soft the piglets feel. They'll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.

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Baby Touch and Feel "I Love You" is a fun DK baby book that helps little ones learn new words. With touchy-feely pictures and word labels, it makes an ideal baby gift. Baby Touch and Feel I Love You contains stunning photos with foil or textured areas that expand your baby's senses, while the simple visuals and labels promote language skills. From shiny love hearts beside a little girl hugging her toy to a baby with a fleecy heart on his vest, you can introduce your baby to the concept of love with touch and feel textures. All this is packed in a handy, small format that's just perfect for preschoolers to hold, and helps develop their fine motor skills.

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This is the Story of Philosophy is the ultimate exploration of 2,500 years of Western philosophy. From the Ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, the Story of Philosophy brings a stunning and simple approach to tackle history's biggest ideas. Professor Bryan Magee takes you from the origins of philosophy to the present day, from Plato to Popper and into the future. This essential guide is fully updated to include thoughts on our modern society, exploring science and democracy, and posing the question: where do we go from here? You can celebrate the world's most revolutionary concepts and understand how these ideas continue to shape our world. Develop your own perspectives and explore relevant issues such as modern logic and religion with this wonderfully comprehensive illustrated guide. In a world of evolving ideas, the Story of Philosophy is a fantastic resource to revisit again and again.

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From works by Botticelli and Raphael to Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo, discover the paintings that have shaken the art world through the centuries and across continents. Great Paintings takes you on your own personal gallery tour of over 60 of the world's best-loved paintings. Unlock the hidden meanings and symbols behind each painting, with over 700 photographs to bring the pictures to life and help you understand the key features, composition and techniques that have made these paintings stand out. Plus, biographies of the artists provide the background to each art work, inspiring you to paint your own picture of the historical and social context behind each masterpiece. Updated for 2018, Great Paintings is a beautiful guide to the paintings, both familiar and new, that have changed the world - it really is like having a gallery of all the great paintings at your fingertips.

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The Planets is an awe-inspiring and informative journey through the Solar System, with all-new 3D globes and models built using the latest data gathered by NASA and the European Space Agency that can be viewed from any angle and layer by layer. You can even move in for a closer look with 3D terrain models that take you on a trip to the surfaces of the rocky planets. As well as covering the Sun, the planets, hundreds of moons and thousands of asteroids and comets, The Planets includes all the major Solar System missions, right up to the latest Mars rovers. Timelines explore our relationship with each planet and infographics present fascinating Solar System facts and planet facts. The Planets is ideal for anyone interested in space exploration and all armchair astronauts or astronomers.

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Learn everything you need to know about the first war to shake the world and change the course of history. World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles, through beautifully illustrated and easy to understand timelines. Recreate the experience of some of the most prominent battles, such as the Somme and Verdun, through compelling direct accounts from soldiers who fought as well as civilians who lived through the First World War. Marvel at the impressive weaponry and equipment used throughout the war, and learn more about the key figures, such as David Lloyd George and Joseph Joffre. Packed with images, maps, portraits, key artefacts and unforgettable first person accounts, World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide is an uniquely accessible military history of one of the world's most devastating conflicts.

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This title helps you learn all about the alphabet with touch and feel textures in this chunky board book. You can learn your ABC with the twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package that will help your child discover all about the alphabet. A is for apple - but how does it feel? Touch the skin on C (for crocodile) - it's bumpy! Let their little hands roam, read it together - they'll learn as they play. These Touch and Feel chunky padded board books will help encourage your child's early learning and language. It is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and great for sensory development.

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Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. Books That Changed History is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE to the modern day. Chronological chapters show the evolution of human knowledge and the changing ways in which books are made. Discover incredible coverage of history's most influential books including the Mahabharata, Shakespeare's First Folio, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Penguin's first ever paperbacks. From Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species to Louis Braille's conception of the Braille system that we still use today, these are world famous books that have had the biggest impact on history. Every book is presented with breathtaking photography and fascinating biographies of those who created them. Books That Changed History gathers dictionaries, diaries, plays, poems, treaties, and religious texts into one stunning celebration of the undisputed power of books.

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Step onto the streets of cities around the world, and understand the cultures and civilizations that created them with Great City Maps. This beautifully illustrated book explores the world's most celebrated historical city maps. Richly detailed ancient and modern maps of important cities take you on a journey across the globe in stunning detail, from Athens to Alexandria and Cape Town to Cairo, with close up views of each city's most intriguing features. Great City Maps gives you more than just a bird's-eye-view, telling the tales behind the city from the hubs of ancient civilization to modern mega-cities. Follow the history of maps and their stories, with profiles of iconic cartographers and artists showing you who created each map, how, and why. Perfect for history, geography and cartography enthusiasts and a stunning gift for armchair explorers of all ages, Great City Maps is your window into the world's most fascinating cities.

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From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most famous battles in history. This military history book takes you on a journey through the battlefields of history, from the ancient world to the American Civil War, World War 1, World War 2, the Cold War, and beyond. Maps, paintings, and photographs reveal the stories behind more than 90 of the most important battles ever to take place, and show how fateful decisions led to glorious victories and crushing defeats. From medieval battles and great naval battles to the era of high-tech air battles, key campaigns are illustrated and analysed in detail - the weapons, the soldiers, and the military strategy. Famous military leaders are profiled, including Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and Rommel, and crucial arms, armour, and equipment are explained. Whether at Marathon, Agincourt, Gettysburg, or Stalingrad, Battles that Changed History takes you into the thick of combat and shows how kingdoms and empires have been won and lost on the battlefield.

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The Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential vocabulary guide to the world around you. With over 10,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, language learning has never been easier. Perfect for tourist and business travellers alike, DK's Bilingual Visual Dictionary series is by your side when buying food, talking about work, discussing health, and studying language. Stunning visuals and comprehensive indexes combine to make the Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary your indispensable Italian language companion. Fully updated to reflect recent changes in technology and clothing, the Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary also features an easy-to-use audio app, enabling you to hear terms spoken out loud in both Italian and English. Learn and retain all the key phrases you need to know, and perfect your pronunciation with audio help.

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DK's Pop-up Peekaboo! series has been shortlisted for the Best Preschool Reading Range in The Progressive Preschool Awards 2018. A Halloween pop-up baby book with flaps and friendly pop-up surprises to engage toddlers and help them join in the halloween fun through hands-on learning. Little ones can help find Little Black Cat and her friends hiding under the flaps with Pop-up Peekaboo Pumpkin, a playful Halloween pop-up book that has fun rhymes, five large flaps, and five friendly pop-up surprises that toddlers will love to discover again and again. While the flaps promote hands-on learning, the simple rhyming text encourages little ones to use their imagination and guess which friendly Halloween character is hiding next. As they lift the flaps to find out, they will surely be delighted and say, "Peeka... BOO!" With a pop-up surprise under every flap, DK's Pop-up Peekaboo series help develop memory and imagination, and encourage hands-on play. Children and parents will enjoy the rhyming text and hide-and-seek surprises over and over again and meet lots of new characters along the way.

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One Marvel book to guide them all. If you want to understand the Marvel Comics Universe in all it's complex glory, The Marvel Book is the only book you need. It is a unique exploration of the vast, interconnected Marvel Comics Multiverse from it's birth to the end of everything and beyond. Meticulously researched and expertly written, The Marvel Book is packed with vivid, carefully sourced artwork, illuminating infographics, and incisive, specially curated essays that shed new light on the myriad wonders of the Marvel Comics universe. From iconic Super Heroes such as the Avengers, Spider-Man, and the Black Panther, to revolutionary technology like Iron Man's armors and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarriers, to enduring villains such as Thanos and Loki, The Marvel Book explores the key concepts, characters, and events that have defined and shaped Marvel Comics over the past 80 years. The book's content is divided into key subject areas The Multiverse, Science and Technology, War and Peace, Cosmic Forces, Magic and the Supernatural, and Alternate Realities that form the foundations of Marvel Comics. The Marvel Book is a revealing and invaluable roadmap to a boundless comics universe that no Marvel fan will want to miss!

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The Arabic English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential vocabulary guide to the world around you. With over 10,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, language learning has never been easier. Perfect for tourist and business travellers alike, DK's Bilingual Visual Dictionary series is by your side when buying food, talking about work, discussing health, and studying language. Stunning visuals and comprehensive indexes combine to make the Arabic English Bilingual Visual Dictionary your indispensable Arabic language companion. Fully updated to reflect recent changes in technology and clothing, the Arabic English Bilingual Visual Dictionary also features an easy-to-use audio app, enabling you to hear terms spoken out loud. Learn and retain all the key phrases you need to know, and perfect your pronunciation with audio help.

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Discover everything you need to know to improve your management skills, and understand key management and business theories with this uniquely visual guide. Combining clear, jargon-free language and bold, eye-catching graphics, "How Management Works" is a definitive and user-friendly guide to every aspect of organizational management - from effective communication and negotiation to improving leadership, and getting the best from your staff. Packed with graphics and diagrams that demystify complex management concepts like Kaizen or lean production, alongside clear and simple strategies for improving innovation, optimizing operations, and getting and staying ahead of competitors, this book is essential reading if you are an established or aspiring manager, or are studying a course in business or management. Much more than a standard business-management or self-help book, "How Management Works" shows you what other titles only tell you, combining solid reference with no-nonsense advice. It is the perfect primer for anyone looking to start their own business, become a more effective leader, or simply learn more about the world of business and management.

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Join artist Sarah Simblet on an inspirational journey of discovery as she makes drawings of every type of plant. From the tiniest mosses to exotic flowers and majestic trees, this book shows how understanding botany will give your portraits of plants vibrancy and life. In "Botany for the Artist", Sarah Simblet takes you on a personal tour of the kingdom of plants, encouraging you to observe them more closely and draw them more accurately. Complemented by beautiful photographs, Sarah's drawings reveal the structure of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits as she explains how plants breathe, feed, and produce fruits. If you have ever wondered how photosynthesis works, why leaves change colour in the autumn, or how seeds know when to grow, "Botany for the Artist" has all the answers. Step-by-step drawing classes and detailed pages from Sarah's sketchbooks guide you through all the techniques that you need to draw plants successfully. Masterclasses by famous artists - from Renaissance masters to contemporary illustrators - showcase different approaches to botanical illustration over the centuries. "Botany for the Artist" is a visual feast, not just for anyone wishing to master drawing plants, but for gardeners, photographers, and everyone who is passionate about plants and how they are portrayed in art.

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Cut the clutter, live better with less, give yourself headspace, and enjoy life more. "Create Space" shows you how to turn chaos into calm and discover the health and wellbeing benefits of living in an organised home. Inside the pages of this informative, minimalism book, you'll discover: - A room-by-room guide to organising your home; - Step-by-step guides and quick tips for simple sorting and storage solutions; - A fresh, relatable take on the link between mental wellbeing and decluttering; - The author and founder of Declutter Dollies, Dilly Carter's inspirational personal story.

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Learn how to green your business with the help of one of the UK's leading corporate activists. Running a sustainable business doesn't mean that you can't make a profit. In this inspiring book, readers that own businesses of all sizes will learn the value of pursuing ethical policies through the journey of the author's quest to "do it right". Inside the pages of this sustainable business book, you'll find: - Expert advice on practical ways that businesses can help reverse climate change and promote social justice while generating a profit; - Chapters addressing plastics, responsible supply chains, the impact of COVID-19, and building a legacy that inspires the next generation; - Real-life examples from Iceland's ongoing quest to be sustainable give insights into leadership and sustainable business. In the face of global warming, companies are moving towards more eco-friendly business practices and embracing their corporate social responsibility. The Green Grocer explores how one business owner did just that. Richard Walker, who owns a GBP3bn supermarket chain, Iceland, is disrupting this critical sector with his own brand of corporate activism. From restricting single-use plastic to eradicating palm oil from products in his supermarkets, he explains how you too can make genuine progress on sustainable initiatives while being realistic about profit margins, and obligations to customers and employees. This intimate, challenging, and encouraging book, offers clear sighted experience and inspiration for any business, whether a large corporation, a start up, a kitchen table entrepreneur, or a sole trader, to make a difference.

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The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St Petersburg will lead you straight to the best attractions St Petersburg has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the citys stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. Youll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets in this fully updated and expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best entertainment to the top guided walks. Founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, St Petersburg quickly became a magnificent city reflecting the majesty of the Russian Empire. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: St Petersburg includes in-depth coverage of the wonderfully preserved heritage of Russias cultural capital, and comes complete with a free pull-out city map, clearly marked with sights from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. The map has detailed street views of all the key areas, plus there are transport maps and information on how to get around the city, and theres even a chart showing the distances between major sights for walkers.