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From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to today,...

Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography PEN Literary Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Notable Book Boston Globe Best...

For young readers who grew up with the bestselling picture books, Nancy Clancy is now starring in her own chapter books! Nancy thinks she may be able to read the...

Nancy Clancy and her best friend, Bree, have love on the brain-after all, they're learning about the human heart in science class! But when the girls decide to play matchmaker,...

This new mini hardback edition completes the series of collectable Miss Marple hardbacks - the first time all 14 Marple books have had their own uniform hardback series. A weekly...

The story of international football star Tim Cahill, one of the most admired Australian sportsmen of all time. It's an unlikely footballing fairytale. Born in Sydney to a Samoan mother...

TV's new fashion guru Gok Wan, presenter of Channel 4's 'How to Look Good Naked', shows women of all shapes and sizes how to look great with their clothes on...

This definitive handbook, written by one of the world's leading authorities on C.S. Lewis, is a meticulous, informative and enjoyable resource for study and general reference. It includes: A chronology...

This is the story of a failed attempt by the British, in 1793, to open the Chinese Empire to Western trade. Led by Lord Macartney, whose distinguished diplomatic posts included...

This book brings into focus the new-look universe that the Hubble Telescope is revealing day by day, With an expert commentary by one of the worlds leading astronmy writers complements...

This work examines aspects of garden history and fashion. It traces the development of some key themes from their earliest origins to their present-day manifestations. Along with the cottage garden,...

Over the last twenty years David Lyons has e stablished himself as a location and travel photographer of international standing. In this book he combines colour phot ographs with classic...

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750-1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has...

Ranging from the largest terrestrial carnivore, the Polar Bear, and hyper-predatory wild cats, to the tiny Least Weasel that can squeeze through a wedding ring, the true carnivores - order...

The virus is spreading and nowhere is safe. It's a scramble for survival as the number of zombies grows with every turn of the page. From a hospital under quarantine...

Designs for every style of garden: patios, low-maintenance, family, Japanese, rock, water, wildlife and kitchen.

Victor Tuchman - a power-hungry real estate developer and an all-round bad man - is finally on his deathbed. His daughter Alex feels she can finally unearth the secrets of...

Powerful, moving, simple and forceful, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights speaks to us all - about hope, about our ideals, about the sort of world we want to...

Experience endless entertainment with this laugh-out-loud book! In these pages you'll find knock-knock jokes, puns, silly riddles, and more! Plus, with jokes organized by topic, you'll have no trouble finding...

From the author of the widely praised Raising America --a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math...

Q.E.D. presents some of the most famous mathematical proofs in a charming book that will appeal to nonmathematicians and math experts alike. Grasp in an instant why Pythagoras's theorem must...

Improve your life fearlessly with this essential guide to kaizen--the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps. The philosophy is simple: Great change is made through...

There was a sailor's graveyard in Moon Beach. This was where the funeral business first started. Rumour had it that the witch's fingers used to reach out and sink ships....

This is a description of England by the novelist Peter Vansittart, beginning with the mythical land of Albion, of Jack the Giant Killer, Arthur and Merlin. This idealized view of...

The definitive collection of correspondence from a legendary writer, providing new perspectives on his extraordinary life. The celebrated author of such beloved works as "In Patagonia" and "The Songlines," Bruce...

Zack and his friends discover the Secret Parent's Handbook and with it all the means to subvert the irrational rules and petty tyranny of their home lives. No more clean...

Hailed as a 'great accomplishment' by the philadelphia Inquirer', Susan Moeller's Compassion Fatigue' warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the...

Late in 1664, the musketeer DArtagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man...

Winnie the Witch is very pleased when she magics her cardboard robot into a real one. Beep, beep! But when the naughty robot takes Winnie's wand, things start to get...

Charlie Bass is a horse-mad ten-year-old who dreams of owning her own pony. So when she accidentally manages to buy a racehorse, Charlie is thrilled. The horse she buys, Noble...

Popular blogger Karen Alpert shares her hysterical take on the many "joys" of parenting- I Heart My Little A-Holes is full of hilarious stories, lists, thoughts and pictures that will...

For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their laughter and tears, when they've found love and...

Old men have been grumbling since the dawn of time...Now this book will chart their top gripes, from too many soap operas on TV to tattoos and pointless speed restrictions....

After the phenomenal success of Decorate, Holly Becker offers a very personal approach to decorating advice in the Decorate Workshop. Taking the same friendly and approachable tone that has made...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Light of Falling Stars and The Funnies, a beautifully written story about a man who reluctantly accepts his birthright in a sheep-ranching family...

An atlas of the great heroes and heroines of world mythology.