A & C Black A Beginner’s Guide to Life on Earth Арбатнотт Джилл

"Путеводитель по жизни на Земле" Фрэнка Коттрелла-Бойса - это приключение о Блайтах: большой, теплой семье, которая живет на маленькой ферме и воспитывает приемных детей. През переехал жить к ним. Но, хотя он кажется веселым и услужливым, он никогда не произносит ни слова • И вот однажды През открывает дверь человеку, который утверждает, что является его родственником. Этот маленький, шумный незнакомец носит рюкзак, ходит развязной походкой и известен под именем Спутник • С появлением в доме Спутника начинается хаос: внезапно оживают предметы домашнего обихода - например, пульт от телевизора, который ускоряет перемотку людей, и игрушечный световой меч, которым развлекают гостей на детской вечеринке - пока один из них не оказывается почти обезглавлен, - и Презу придется наконец заговорить, чтобы объясниться

Руководство для начинающих по периодической таблице Менделеева - это умопомрачительное руководство по элементам, составляющим периодическую таблицу Менделеева. Связывая каждый элемент с историей, дурацкой научной аналогией или захватывающим фактом, Джилл Арбанотт создает уникальную первую ссылку на периодическую таблицу Менделеева. От вонючей серы и взрывающегося водорода до того, почему Стиви Уандер слепой, и всего, что между ними, Джилл легко объясняет ошеломляющие 92 элемента, которые заставят вас взглянуть на периодическую таблицу Менделеева в совершенно новом свете! • Приготовьтесь к тому, что вы будете поражены самым необычным и информативным первым введением в периодическую таблицу Менделеева за всю историю! • Книга на английском языке • A Beginners Guide to the Periodic Table is a mind-blowing guide to the elements that make up the periodic table

Почти весь мир зависит от надежного источника электроэнергии - но как часто мы останавливаемся и задумываемся о том, что на самом деле происходит, когда вы включаете свет, включаете телевизор или включаете компьютер? • В удивительной книге "Руководство для начинающих по электричеству и магнетизму" Джилл Арбутнотт рассказывает все об истории электричества, о том, как оно попадает от своего первоначального источника к вашей розетке и что может произойти в будущем • Книга на английском языке • Almost the entire world depends on a reliable electricity source - but how often do we stop and think about what actually happens when you switch on the light, flick on the T.V or turn on your computer? • In this amazing introduction to electricity and magnetism Gill Arbuthnott explains all about the history of electricity, how it gets from its original source to your plug socket and what might happen in the future

A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.David Attenborough’s unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural world setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a generation of nature lovers.Told through an examination of animal and plant life, this is an astonishing celebration of the evolution of life on earth, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of organisms that have ever lived on this planet. Attenborough’s perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of millions of species of living organisms takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of discovery from the very first spark of life to the blue and green wonder we know today

It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird • The bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a single day spent in the company of swifts • Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivated, Mark Cocker sets out to capture their essence • Over the course of one day in midsummer he devotes himself to his beloved black birds as they spiral overhead. Yet this is also a book about so much more

What is the most personal thing you've asked the Internet? Illustrator Hazel Mead turns to Google to uncover what we secretly ask search bars about our relationships, bodies and identities. With hundreds of demystifying and empowering illustrations, she offers a fun, shame-free and inclusive guide to life's big questions. This is the emotional curriculum you'll wish was taught in every classroom • What if there was a book that explored the big lessons of life? Sure, formal education will equip you with requisite knowledge on photosynthesis. But when it comes to spotting the green flags in a prospective partner, navigating yours or a loved one's grief, knowing how to prepare for a cervical screening, or to practicing self-defense, it can feel like total guesswork

A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message • The Arctic treeline is the frontline of climate change, where the trees have been creeping towards the pole for fifty years already • Scientists are only just beginning to understand the astonishing significance of these northern forests for all life on Earth. At the treeline, Rawlence witnesses the accelerating impact of climate change and the devastating legacies of colonialism and capitalism. But he also finds reasons for hope. Humans are creatures of the forest; we have always evolved with trees and The Treeline asks us where our co-evolution might take us next

With a foreword from the inimitable Spice Girl Melanie Brown and contributions from inspirational Black women such as Diane Abbott MP, Dorothy Koomson and Candice Carty-Williams and illustrations from Dorcas Magbadelo, Grown is a celebration of Black British girlhood that will empower teens everywhere • Being a teenager and trying to understand who you are and what you stand for is hard. Period. But if you're a Black girl and don't always see yourself represented in the books you read, the films you watch, the adverts you see or the history you're taught, it can be even tougher. Grown: The Black Girls' Guide to Glowing Up was written with one thing in mind sis. You • From understanding identity to the politics of hair to maintaining squad goals to dealing with microaggressions to consent to figuring out what career you might want, Grown has got your back

For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea • From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted

A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet • Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to make the most of ice cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. These adaptations can be truly extraordinary: fish that walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air; snakes that fly; flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears that grow hair on the soles of their feet • In The Living Planet, David Attenborough’s searching eye, unfailing curiosity and infectious enthusiasm explain and illuminate the intricate lives of the these colonies, from the lonely heights of the Himalayas to the wild creatures that have established themselves in the most recent of environments, the city

Brain: We left the oven on! • Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this! • Brain: The house is probably on fire! • Me: Stop it, I need to write this book description • Brain: But the blazing fire • Me: We didn't even use the oven today • Brain: But what if - • Me: No. We're not doing this, I'm finishing this description • Hello there! Hayley Morris here. Or you might know me as the Brain Girl, and don't be fooled...it's not because I'm outrageously smart. Just an avid overthinker. I'm on a mission to prove once and for all that You. Are. Normal. Running through imaginary arguments whilst showering, hiding your knickers in the nurse's office before they look directly into your vagina, or not knowing how to be a normal human when you have the plumber over

As summer blooms in Edinburgh's gardens and Bertie Pollock's birthday appears on the horizon, all at 44 Scotland Street is not cake and sunshine. Newlywed Angus Lordie has been booked by his bride into what he must not call the loony bin; Bruce's first encounter with hot wax brings more anguish than he bargained for; and Bertie's birthday dreams of scout camp and a penknife look set to be replaced by a game of Royal Weddings and a gender-neutral doll. But fate, an amorous Bedouin and the Dubai Tourist Authority conspire to transport Bertie's mother Irene to a warmer - if not a better - place, and once again in Scotland Street the triumph of human kindness over adversity gives cause for celebration