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sonst. Bücher. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - RSPB ID Spotlight Woodland Birds is a reliable fold-out chart that presents illustrations of 63 of our most widespread and familiar woodland birds by renowned artist Stephen Message.Our landscape has long been shaped by its native tree cover, whether pine, oak, beech or birch. These habitats are full of life, and you'll see many different bird species in all kinds of woodlands throughout the year. But do you know a Nuthatch from a Treecreeper And can you tell the difference between a Goshawk and a Common Buzzard when it's soaring overhead The UK's woodlands are home to a diverse collection of our most beautiful wild bird species.The species are grouped by family and helpfully labelled to assist with identification, while the artworks are shown side by side for quick comparison and easy reference at home or in the field. The reverse of the chart provides information on the habitats, behaviour, life cycles and diets of our woodland birds, as well as the conservation issues they are facing and how the RSPB is working to support the. Information on research and conservation projects aimed at improving habitats for vulnerable woodland birds is also included.The ID Spotlight charts help wildlife enthusiasts identify and learn more about our most common species using accurate colour illustrations and informative, accessible text.

sonst. Bücher. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - RSPB ID Spotlight Caterpillars is a reliable fold-out chart that presents illustrations of 60 of our most widespread and familiar caterpillars by renowned artist Richard Lewington.Whether you are out in the countryside or at work in the garden, you might encounter several different kinds of caterpillars. The larval stages of butterflies and moths, caterpillars come in many shapes, sizes and colours, and each has its own particular charm. But can you tell a Comma from a Small Tortoiseshell Or distinguish between the caterpillar of a Drinker and Fox Moth These are only a few of the hundreds of caterpillars found in the UK, many of which are just as beautiful and varied as their adult counterparts.Species are grouped by family and helpfully labelled to assist with identification, while artworks are shown side by side for quick comparison and easy reference at home or in the field. The reverse of the chart provides information on the habitats, behaviour, life cycles and diets of our caterpillars, as well as the conservation issues they are facing and how the RSPB and other conservation charities are working to support them. Practical tips on how to make your garden more caterpillar-friendly are also includedThe ID Spotlight charts help wildlife enthusiasts identify and learn more about our most common species using accurate colour illustrations and informative, accessible text.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The tiny Tindims are like the Borrowers-on-Sea, who turn our everyday rubbish into treasure. Mother-and-daughter duo, prizewinning Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry, create a fun new world of characters and adventures in their empowering new series for 5-8 year olds inspiring conservation and inventive ways to recycle.In their fourth adventure, the Tindims can hardly see each other! A grumpy Gupper fog is swirling all over Rubbish Island and it won't leave the Tindims alone. And now their world has turned upside down as Ethel B Dina thinks the moon has fallen into the sea! Scrunch me a teabag, how are they going to get out of this pickle Printed in dyslexia-friendly font with pictures on every page and perfect for the reluctant reader, the Tindims show keen young ecologists how to help protect our planet for the future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From leading Early Years expert Penny Tassoni MBE, Time To. picture books use simple words and colourful illustrations to help young children understand all-important everyday skills. Featuring practical advice and tips for practitioners, carers and parents, these books will help you explore positive behaviour with children in a fun and friendly way._______________Getting dressed can be tricky at first, so lots of children need a helping hand. This delightful book shows children how some clothes keep them warm and dry, while others allow them to go swimming and splash in puddles! It also covers the trickier parts of getting dressed, such as buttons and zips.Time to Get Dressed shows children how getting dressed can be fun and interesting, through simple-to-read text and delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four. Children will be able to talk about colour, pattern and size, and even have a go at dressing themselves. From leading Early Years expert Penny Tassoni MBE, Time To. picture books use simple words and colourful illustrations to help young children understand all-important everyday skills. Featuring practical advice and tips for practitioners, carers and parents, these books will help you explore positive behaviour with children in a fun and friendly way._______________'What a great resource - I need these books in my life' - KATE PANKHURST, author of the Fantastically Great Women series'A highly recommended set of books to have in your Early Years setting or on the bookshelf at home.' - KATHY BRODIE, Early Years professional, consultant and trainer.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From leading Early Years expert Penny Tassoni MBE, Time To. picture books use simple words and colourful illustrations to help young children understand all-important everyday skills. Featuring practical advice and tips for practitioners, carers and parents, these books will help you explore positive behaviour with children in a fun and friendly way._______________Everyone needs a little help from time to time, so it's important that children learn how to care for others. This charming book demonstrates to children how they can show they care, such as by helping out at home and saying please and thank you. It explains that all living things need caring for, including plants and animals.Through simple-to-read text and delightful full-colour illustrations, Time to Care explores situations when caring for others is really important, such as when another person is hurt or upset. Sometimes, caring for someone might just mean watching and listening. This book will help children develop empathy and recognise a whole range of emotions._______________'What a great resource - I need these books in my life' - KATE PANKHURST, author of the Fantastically Great Women series'A highly recommended set of books to have in your Early Years setting or on the bookshelf at home.' - KATHY BRODIE, Early Years professional, consultant and trainer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Fantastically, gloriously funny' Katherine Rundell, author of The Explorer'Snort-out-loud charm' Observer'Fantastic! Pitch perfect comedic voice' Katie Tsang, author of Dragon MountainFrom comedian, actor, rapper and screenwriter Ben Bailey Smith comes a blazingly funny, big-hearted story about family, friendship and how far one boy will go to get a laugh. Perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Frank Cottrell-Boyce.For thirteen-year-old Carmichael Taylor, life is one big joke - in a good way. He just can't understand why no one else seems to find everything as funny as he does.When Car is filmed stumbling into performing a piece of hilarious stand-up at the school talent show - targeting his family, school and friends - the footage ends up creating international infamy. But with the promise of fame and fortune comes trouble, and it's up to Car to decide what or who he's willing to risk to chase his comedy dream.Get ready to laugh at life with this heart-warming, unashamedly honest and hilarious look at family, friendship and what really matters.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Frank's long-suffering parents decide it's time for a holiday - looking after a whole zooful of animals is VERY hard work. Leaving Gran in charge, they set off. But the further from home they get, the more anxious Frank gets.What if Gran can't cope What if his animals need him He decides to take drastic action - with dire consequences! A nail-biting follow-up to the bestselling Baby's First Bank Heist and Baby's First Jailbreak.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Never mind the kids, I've had an education from reading this book! . Recommended for any budding scientists, eco-warriors or fans of weird facts' Rachel Riley, TV presenter and mathematician'The best way to get out of being bored is discovering something new. The great thing about this book is it whizzes you off to a world of facts you had never heard of. Result: not being bored. Result!' Michael Rosen, Children's poet and author'Every page bursting with fantastic facts you never thought you needed to know. Indispensable, planet-saving, fact-tastic fun for all the family!' Dallas Campbell, BBC Science presenterIn this new book, TV science expert Dr Emily Grossman answers incredible and important questions about our natural world. You'll find out silly things like why some animals do square-shaped poos and which direction a dog is likely to face while weeing, but you'll also learn what climate change and wildlife loss are actually doing to our planet and what YOU can do to help.Covering a diverse range of key science topics, from human biology and animals and plants to the weather and space, Dr Emily shows readers why Earth is so weird and wonderfully great. Did you know there's a planet in our solar system where it actually rains diamonds Imagine that! If you lived there, you'd always be picking them out of your hair, your pockets and probably your pants!Dr Emily also tackles Earth's BIGGEST problem: climate change. Through clear, sensitive explanations, you'll find out what is actually happening to our Earth and what this means for both humans and wildlife - and what we can all do to help!Written by TV science expert, STEM ambassador and advocate for women in science Dr Emily Grossman, this book will make your eyebrows rise, your jaw drop and your world WHIZZ! It will also give you hope about our future and how we can ALL make a difference.'I love this book! It's funny, accessible and quirky and has exactly the right balance of questions and information to light the flame of scientific inquiry in young minds. A must-read for all budding young scientists' Lucy Hawking, Children's science author'Since we got this book, all my kids want to talk about is diamond rain, tuna fish eyeballs and how to save the planet . thank goodness Emily has written down the answers to their insatiably curious questions in a single handy and hilarious volume' Helen Arney, Science presenter, comedian and authorEmily Grossman's first book Brain-fizzing Facts: Awesome Science Questions Answered was shortlisted for the Teach Primary Book Awards 2020.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Using beautiful illustrations, this new book explores the life and work of Thomas Chippendale, the most famous furniture designer and manufacturer of the eighteenth century.For at least 150 years, Thomas Chippendale has been synonymous with beautifully made eighteenth-century furniture in a variety of styles - Rococo, Chinese, Gothic, and Neoclassical. Born in Otley, Yorkshire, in 1718, Chippendale rose to fame because of his revolutionary design book, The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, published in 1754. That same year he set up his famous workshops in St Martin's Lane, creating some of the most magnificent furniture ever made in Britain. This beautifully illustrated history focuses on Britain's most famous furniture maker and designer, including the worldwide phenomenon 'Chippendale style' that became popular in Europe, North America, and Asia after his death in 1779. Today, his influence lives on with the ongoing production of 'Chippendale' furniture, while the eighteenth-century originals are selling for millions at auction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bath, 1852.As a girl, Nancy Blume would go to Bath's Theatre Royal, sit on the hard wooden benches and stare in awe at the actresses playing men as much as the women dressed in finery. She longed to be a part of it all and when a man promised her parents he could find a role for Nancy in the theatre, they believed him.His lie and betrayal led to her ruin.Francis Carlyle is a theatre manager, an ambitious man always looking for the next big thing to take the country by storm. A self-made man, Francis has finally shed the skin of his painful past and is now rich, successful and in need of a new female star. Never in a million years did he think he'd find her standing on a table in one of Bath's bawdiest pubs.Nancy vowed never to trust a man again. Francis will do anything to make her his star. As they engage in a battle of wits and wills, can either survive with their hearts intact The second in Rachel Brimble's thrilling new Victorian saga series, Trouble for the Leading Lady will whisk you away to the riotous, thriving underbelly of Victorian Bath.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair' Observer'I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.'1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland.But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear - while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow their world whole.A captivating portrait of a lost world, Statues in a Garden is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From leading Early Years expert Penny Tassoni MBE, Time To. picture books use simple words and colourful illustrations to help young children understand all-important everyday skills. Featuring practical advice and tips for practitioners, carers and parents, these books will help you explore positive behaviour with children in a fun and friendly way._______________Starting nursery is a big step, so most children will feel nervous at first. This charming book explains what the day will look like, from saying goodbye to parents to meeting other children and learning new things. It shows children what exciting activities might be on offer, like dressing up in fabulous outfits or playing outdoors on tricycles.With simple-to-read text and delightful full-colour illustrations by Mel Four, Time to Go to Nursery helps children feel confident about going to nursery and reminds them that someone will always be there to help if they're unsure._______________'What a great resource - I need these books in my life' - KATE PANKHURST, author of the Fantastically Great Women series'A highly recommended set of books to have in your Early Years setting or on the bookshelf at home' - KATHY BRODIE, Early Years professional, consultant and trainer.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEARTHE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTHLONGLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 'Vivid and packed with journalistic lore. Mixing pulsating derring-do with painstaking detective work' Sunday Times A Bangladeshi camp. A British ambassador. A Harley Street doctor.Investigative journalist Casey Benedict is used to working on stories that will take her from the bottom to the top of society - stories with a huge human cost. And her latest case is no different.A frantic message is found hidden in clothes manufactured for the British high street. They take the girls. Casey and her team at the Post know they are on the brink of a major exposé but identifying the factories in which the clothes have been made is one challenge, following the trail of those taken is another. Their attempts to find the girls will take Casey from her London newsroom across the world and into the very heart of families who will be destroyed if what she uncovers is ever revealed.The Dead Line is the second book by Holly Watt featuring Casey Benedict.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about yet. Then a brutal attack lands him in hospital, and he meets Jasmine - intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Devastating, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It's about the power of art to transform lives; about working out who you are and what you want. It's a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A meditation on race, and class, and grief . Uplifting, but just wrenching' BARACK OBAMAONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN NON-FICTION'This will be read for many, many years to come as a classic not just of the memoir genre but of contemporary writing' Simon Schama'Astonishing' Thandiwe Newton'As gripping as any thriller' Mail on Sunday'A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert'Powerful' The TimesAt age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother.Heartbreakingly clear-eyed and tender, Memorial Drive is a daughter's act of love - and an unflinching excavation of the wounds that never heal. For as Trethewey tells her story, and reclaims her mother's, she lays bare the indelible scars of slavery and racism on the soul of a troubled nation.'Sheer artistry . Trethewey's masterpiece suggests that the greatest act of defiance a black person can do is to remember' Financial Times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too . Smart and powerfully alive' Tessa Hadley'Superb' Daily Mail'A poignant page-turner, delving deep into our most intimate relationships' Evening StandardAnnie is the great love of Graham's life. Here they are in late middle-age, the photographer and the bookseller, so mismatched and yet so well-matched. Theirs is a happy marriage of nearly thirty years - and even the happiest of marriages, Graham tells himself, have their secrets.Then the unthinkable happens, and suddenly Annie is alone, stumbling in the dark. How much can we ever know the people who love us 'With what exquisite truth Sue Miller writes . I was completely wrapped up in the beautifully, and often so tenderly observed rollercoaster of grief. An invaluably moving book' Juliet Nicolson'It's absolutely wonderful - detailed, precise emotions that Miller gets down in such a tender moving way . Devasting. Brilliant' Claire Fuller.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Welcome back to Mill Grange and the beautiful village of Upwich. The third village romance by Jenny Kane.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The compelling and original debut novel from the Costa Prize-shortlisted author of Confession with Blue Horses.Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When he ends up in a small town in Germany, Selim believes he is finally safe, until the law catches up with him and the clock starts ticking. Selim realises there is only one way to avoid deportation.Fifteen years later, in a town hall in Paris, a Registrar receives an unsettling book: 'The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages' fuels her suspicions surrounding an impending Kurdish wedding. She embarks on an investigation that will bring her uncomfortably close to an old acquaintance.Written with real imaginative flair, heart and humour, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages introduces an unlikely hero who'll prove impossible to forget, and a prodigious new talent in Sophie Hardach.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Kendricks have been making world-famous dolls for over 200 years. But their dolls aren't coveted for the craftmanship alone. Each has an emotion laid on it; a magic that can provoke bucolic bliss or consuming paranoia at a single touch.Persephone Kendrick longs to learn her ancestors' craft, but only men may know the secrets of the workshop. So when a handsome stranger arrives claiming doll-making talent and blood ties to the family she sees a chance to grasp all she desires.But then, one night, the firm's most valuable doll is stolen. Only someone with knowledge of magic could have taken her. Only a Kendrick could have committed this crime.'Captivating, inventive and tender' ADELE PARKS'An atmospheric examination of gender inequality' GUARDIAN'A magical tale that blends very human people with a hidden world of enchantment' WOMAN & HOME'An addictive fantasy with a smart feminist twist' iNEWS.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Social media is a major part of modern life. Most of us can't imagine not using it, and it's unrealistic to assume that's even possible.We are obsessed with social mediaWe share pictures of our food and inspect what everyone else is eating, compare calories and macros, and get involved in wacky and dangerous food challenges. We think we're in control but most of us have no idea how much of an impact it has.Did you realise that posting pics of your meal can actually make it taste better That #cleaneating is giving you anxiety That the influencers you follow are actually shaping government policy around food Pixie Turner is here to arm you with everything you need to know to take back control - and make social media work for you.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pitch-perfect World War Two crime for fans of Agatha Christie and Jasper Fforde.Detective Betty Church is forced to revisit ghosts from her past when a skeleton is found buried in the woods. July, 1914: Sixteen-year-old Etterly, running from something, hides inside the trunk of a tree and disappears. The police search but find no trace. Her family and friends wrack their brains, but come up with nothing. And so slowly life returns to normal. The hole in the tree is boarded up and the town of Sackwater moves on.Only Etterly's best friend, Betty, clings to hope, insisting she can hear her friend crying for help.June, 1940: A skeleton is discovered buried in the woods. Though most clues have long since decayed, it is wearing an unusual necklace.As soon as Inspector Betty Church sees the evidence she recognises it. The necklace belonged to Etterly. Fearing the worst, Betty is determined to solve this strange case once and for all.What happened to Etterly And why has this secret remained buried for so long.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN 'It makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme' - Daisy Goodwin Lover, mother, murderer, Tsarina1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta is sold into labour at the age of fifteen - where in desperation she commits a crime that will force her to go on the run. Cheating death at every turn, she is swept into the current of the Great Northern War. Working as a washer woman at a battle camp, she catches the eye of none other than Peter the Great. Passionate and iron-willed, Peter has a vision for transforming the traditionalist Tsardom of Russia into a modern, Western empire. With nothing but wits, courage and formidable ambition, Marta will rise from nothing to become Catherine I of Russia. But it comes at a steep price and is tied to the destiny of Russia itself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This story has great depths of emotion, highs and lows, and I found it utterly gripping!' Christina Courtenay'A deeply moving story of love in all its forms - I adored it' Mandy BaggotThe secrets of the past won't remain hidden forever.Arthur Pettinger's memory isn't what it used to be. He can't always remember the names of his grandchildren, where he lives or which way round his slippers go. He does remember Maryse though, a woman he hasn't seen for decades, but whose face he will never forget.When Arthur's granddaughter, Maddy, moves in along with her daughter Esther, it's her first step towards pulling her life back together. But when Esther makes a video with Arthur, the hunt for the mysterious Maryse goes viral.There's only one person who can help Maddy track down this woman - the one that got away, Joe. Their quest takes them to France, and into the heart of the French Resistance.When the only way to move forwards is to look back, will this family finally be able to Perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley, Karen Swan and Lorna CookWhat readers are saying about The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger:'Five stars' Poppy Alexander'Fantastic read. I have been completely unable to put this one down. I cannot wait to read more by this author' NetGalley 5\* Review'This is a beautiful account that stops you dead in your tracks' NetGalley 5\* Review'This book is the love story to end all love stories. I was hooked by the end of the first chapter and I didn't want to put this book down' NetGalley 5\* Review'This book broke my heart in all the right places. OMG masterfully written. I could not put this down. Loved everything about this book. Happiness, tears, it had it all' NetGalley 5\* Review'What a read. Beautifully written with the depth and warmth of true love. I could not put this book down. Exceptionally intriguing' NetGalley 5\* Review.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Melding noir with the fantasy genre, this is a rather clever read, one which feels especially prescient for our reality' SCIFINOWThere's power in stories,but stories can be silenced.It's election year and the streets of Fenest are filled with people from every corner of the Union of Realms. But this year is different. The Wayward storyteller has been murdered. Detective Cora Gorderheim has found the man responsible, but now he's dead too, and it's clear that the silenced Wayward is just a small part of a much bigger tale.As her investigation digs ever deeper, Cora pieces together a conspiracy that will take her from the gutter dwellers of the Union right to the top. A conspiracy that will force her to return to her own story, to its very beginning, if she is to have any say in its end.Widow's Welcome, the first book in the Tales of Fenest trilogy, is available now.'It's rare to find such a richly imagined world about the art of myth and storytelling' CHRISTOPHER FOWLER'Like a Philip Pullman rendition of Cloud Atlas. Widow's Welcome is an irresistibly thrilling introduction to a world of stories within stories - and I can't wait for more' TIM MAJOR'There is more than meets the eye in this gripping and inventive debut. Rife with intrigue, deceit and cultural tension' JAMES AITCHESON'An utterly absorbing tale set in a fascinating world. A terrific start to the series' MICK FINLAY'If you love storytelling, you'll love this' SIMON MORDEN.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I loved every page, and ended up admiring David Kynaston, our greatest social historian, even more than I already did' Nick HornbyBrimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on social history to date.David Kynaston was seven and a half years old when he attended his first Aldershot match in the early months of 1959. So began a deep attachment to the game and a lifelong loyalty to an obscure, small-town football club. Though as he sits down to write his diaries almost sixty years on, he reflects that life might have been simpler if his father had never taken him to that first match at the Rec.Shots in the Dark is the diary David Kynaston kept in the football season of 2016/17, detailing the ups and downs of the 'Shots' in the year that saw a divisive referendum in the UK and the impending ascension of Donald Trump. Here Kynaston presents a social history of modern Britain with a difference - all through the prism of the beautiful game.A testament to the ways in which fandom gives solidity and security to our lives, particularly in these bewildering and rapidly changing times, Shots in the Dark gets to the heart of what it means to be a devoted follower of a sports team. This is a diary of the macro and the micro, as questions of loyalty, of identity, of liberalism and of nationalism all rub uncomfortably up against each other during nine charged months.____________________'A master socioeconomic craftsman' Guardian'[A] delightful book . This is a book about football but, like all the best books, it is about a thousand other things as well . This thrilling, intimate, sometimes poignant, often wonderfully funny book shows the workings in real time of a deeply civilised, humane and tolerant mind in an age when those virtues are in short supply. Here is a man with whom you would want to go to a match, and even share a beer afterwards. David Kynaston is one of the good guys, and this is one of the very good books' Daily Mail'A charming diary . He's the sort of fan I want to sit next to: partisan yet civil, eyes on the match but aware there are bigger things to worry about' Financial Times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An FBI agent must expose a Russian mole in this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quirk.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fully updated with a new introduction, this is the story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory, when the world had all but forgotten her.In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, interested mainly in feeding her heroin habit. Local promoter Alan Wise ('Dr Demetrius') hired musicians, rented a van and set off with the band on a tour of Italy. James Young played keyboards for Nico throughout this period.Over six years, until her death in 1988, Nico toured the world, encountering poets, artists, gangsters, losers and drifters. Fellow-spirits including John Cale, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and John Cooper Clarke are among those who appear in this classic memoir of Nico 'the last bohemian'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Wright, Paul (illustrator). Neuware - Though they were never the most glamorous of warships, found US Navy frigates were frequently found on the frontlines of the Cold War at sea. These warships were the descendants of World War II's destroyer escorts, designed primarily to escort convoys. They specialized in anti-submarine warfare, but were intended to be numerous, tough, versatile, and well-armed enough to show US naval power around the world, performing roles that varied from intercepting drug-smugglers to defending aircraft carriers.When the Cold War turned hot, frigates were often there. It was a US Navy frigate, Harold E. Holt, that conducted the US Navy's first hostile boarding action since 1826 during the SS Mayaguez incident. Frigates were at the forefront of operations in the Persian Gulf during the Tanker War, with the frigate USS Stark suffering a notorious Exocet attack by Iraqi warplanes, and proving the Oliver Hazard Perry-class's legendary toughness.This book explains how the technology and design of frigates changed during the Cold War, how the classes were modified to keep up to date, and explores the many varied missions they performed during the Cold War and since.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION'Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.' Gillian Burke'Richly entertaining throughout.' Sunday TimesFor the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call Homo sapiens, and with that, the Earth's natural history came to an abrupt end. We are now living through the post-natural phase, where humans have become the leading force shaping evolution.This thought-provoking book considers the many ways that we've altered the DNA of living things and changed the fate of life on earth. We have carved chihuahuas from wolves and fancy chickens from jungle fowl. We've added spider genes to goats and coral genes to tropical fish. It's possible to buy genetically-modified pets, eat genetically-modified fish and watch cloned ponies thunder up and down the polo field.Now, as our global dominance grows, our influence extends far beyond these species. As we warm our world and radically reshape the biosphere, we affect the evolution of all living things, near and far, from the emergence of novel hybrids such as the pizzly bear, to the entirely new strains of animals and plants that are evolving at breakneck speed to cope with their altered environment.In Life Changing, Helen introduces us to these post-natural creations and talks to the scientists who create, study and tend to them. At a time when the future of so many species is uncertain, we meet some of the conservationists seeking to steer evolution onto firmer footings with novel methods like the 'spermcopter', coral IVF and plans to release wild elephants into Denmark. Helen explores the changing relationship between humans and the natural world, and reveals how, with evidence-based thinking, humans can help life change for the better.