Encyclopedia of Garden Design: Planning, Building and Planting Your Perfect Outdoor Space

In full color, with over 750 images to enhance and clarify the concepts, this thought-provoking resource is for graphic designers, professors, and students • This Third Edition, wholly revised and updated with essays on design thinking by seven industry leaders and a wealth of new images, provides designers, art directors, and students-regardless of experience-with a unique approach to thoughtful, convincing design. In full color with guidance on the rules of design and how to break them for the reader's benefit • Contributing essayists are Niklaus Troxler, Geray Gencer, Ashley Schofield, Brian D. Miller, Fons Hickman, Max Shangle, and Tad Crawford • The Elements of Graphic Design, Third Edition describes how to • - Employ white space as a significant component of design • - Define and reveal dominant images, words, and concepts • - Use scale, position, and color to guide readers through levels of importance • - Use type for maximum comprehension and value to the reader • Educator, author, and thirty-five-year design veteran Alex W

A complete and comprehensive children's book about sport that combines facts and figures with the inspiring stories of sporting legends and icons • This exciting book for children is packed with fun facts about a range of popular sports such as football, karate, badminton, and skiing, as well as ones you might never have heard of like biathlon or cheese rolling. Whether you're a fan of team sports, winter sports, water sports, extreme sports, and even board games such as chess and go, this book has it all. My Encyclopedia of Very Important Sport also celebrates the unique talents, lives, and careers of sporting heroes such as Usain Bolt, Serena Williams, Yuna Kim, Lin Dan, and Donald Bradman, and chronicles the most celebrated stories in sporting history, such as breaking the Four-minute mile, Nadia Comaneci's Perfect 10, and Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics

Travel into space with this comprehensive visual encyclopedia of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the Extremely Large Telescope. Full of galactic facts, dramatic photographs, and CGI artwork, and based on the latest astronomical research, this is a definitive guide to our Solar System, the Universe, and beyond

A charming children's encyclopedia that takes you back in time to discover the prehistoric world! • The world is so much bigger than young minds can fathom and there is always more to learn • My Encyclopedia of Very Important Dinosaurs is a vibrant encyclopedia for curious 5-9 year olds, who want to know everything there is to know about dinosaurs! Easily accessible to young readers through a balance of striking images and conversational, age-appropriate text, this dinosaur encyclopedia will tap into every child's natural curiosity and answer all their biggest questions about this amazing lost world • Bursting with up-to-date facts and discoveries, this exciting kid's encyclopedia includes everything from an in-depth exploration of the triassic, jurassic, and cretaceous periods and how fossils are made, to detailed profiles of popular dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus, to more unfamiliar species such as Microraptor, Guanlong, and Spinosaurus

Running out of space for the clothes you can't stop buying? Curious about how you can make a difference to the environmental challenges our planet faces? Join Orsola's care revolution and learn to make the clothes you love, last longer • This book will equip you with a myriad of ways to mend, rewear and breathe new life into your wardrobe to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle. By teaching you to scrutinise your shopping habits and make sustainable purchases, she will inspire you to buy better, care more and reduce your carbon footprint by simply making your loved clothes last longer • Following Orsola's practical tips to lavish care and attention on the clothes you already own will not only have a positive environmental impact, but will be personally rewarding too: hand wash, steam and spot clean your clothes, air dry instead of tumble drying, or revive your clothes by sewing or crocheting

National Book Award Finalist!Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family.But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role.Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.But it's not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best friend, Lorena, and her first love (first everything), Connor, Julia is determined to find out

Cleaning isn't just necessary; it can be incredibly therapeutic, too. A domestic guru who makes household chores fun, Mrs Hinch reveals how to get your home sparkling with her top cleaning hacks and the best cleaning products, most of which are available for no more than e1 on the high street. Whilst her pals Minkeh the Sponge, Doris the Duster and her loyal and trusty steed, Sharon the Shark have captured an audience of 1 million, Mrs Hinch addresses something much more profound and shows that cleaning is a brilliant way to taper anxiety and manage your mental health. She has captivated a legion of followers by reminding us of our deep-rooted desire for a calm and orderly space in an increasingly chaotic world. Including daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal cleaning plans and a list of must-have products, Mrs Hinch will guide you effortlessly room by room to a cleaner house and a calmer you

A charming children's encyclopedia that takes you on a journey into the deep blue to discover the wonders of the world's oceans! • The world is so much bigger than young minds can fathom and there is always more to learn • My Encyclopedia of Very Important Oceans is a vibrant encyclopedia for curious 5-9 year olds, who want to know everything there is to know about life on and under the waves. Easily accessible to young readers through a balance of striking images and conversational, age-appropriate text, this ocean encyclopedia will tap into every child's natural curiosity and answer all their biggest questions about this amazing world under the water • Bursting with up-to-date facts and discoveries, this exciting kid's encyclopedia includes everything from the spectacular seabirds soaring over Earth's vast oceans, to the tiny creatures lurking on the ocean floor

Take a journey through the garden and discover the bugs that are living there. What's that under the flowerpot? And what's that moving across the ground? Try to guess the animal from the clues, then turn the page to discover it's name and lots of fun facts about it! • With detailed illustrations and easy to understand text, young readers will love learning about identifying creatures in the garden • My First Book of Garden Bugs is the perfect introduction to common garden insects for budding wildlife explorers and naturalists • Book band: White • Ideal for ages: 5+

A beautiful picture book about garden wildlife that will appeal to young readers and will help them to discover and identify wildlife in nature around them • Each creature is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from • the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the creature's identity. The reader then turns the page to discover who it is and learn fun and interesting facts about them! • With twenty common garden animals, birds and insects to learn about, My First Book of Garden Wildlife is perfect for budding wildlife explorers • Published in collaboration with the RSPB, the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe • Book band: White • Ideal for ages: 5+

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics • A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sisters and father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated uprising; and the lives of every ordinary person since 1789 are recreated in the almighty Encyclopedia of the Dead. These stories about love and death, truth and lies, myth and reality range across many epochs and settings. Brilliantly combining fact and fiction, epic and miniature, horror and comedy, this was Danilo Kis final work, published in Serbo-Croatian in 1983

A beautiful picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Rachel Lockwood's wonderful illustrations will delight children aged from two to seven, and will help them to discover and identify the most common birds in their everyday surroundings • Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird's identity. The reader then turns the page to find out more • With twenty common garden birds to learn about, My First Book of Garden Birds is perfect for budding wildlife explorers. Published in collaboration with the RSPB, the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe