Bloomsbury The Anti-Boredom Book of Brilliant Outdoor Things to Do Seed Andy

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

This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great's invasion, and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome • As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity

The fox family are back to explore the Museum of Slimy Things! • Following a successful adventure through the Museum of Dead Things, the foxes have returned to explore the world of slime. Curated by the slipperiest experts, this special museum introduces slime found all over the natural world, from the creatures in the depths of the ocean to the slime hiding inside the human body • Learn about the science of slime, meet the gelatinous hagfish and romp through the museum's swamp in this fully illustrated, non-fiction adventure

With over 30 fun, easy to follow and rewarding growing projects, foraging activities, experiments and arts and crafts activities, you'll never be bored again! • From growing your own air plants to foraging for edible flowers, gardener, TV presenter and forager Alys Fowler will take you through a range of indoor and outdoor activities that are sure to ignite a lifelong passion for plants! You don't need a garden or any fancy equipment - a homemade pot and watering can, seeds from the kitchen cupboard and a sunny windowsill will do • With Alys's expert guidance you can grow your own avocado tree, make wildflower seed paper, forage for tasty roots to add to your favourite recipes and even grow neon pink beetroot in the dark! Welcome to the wonderful world of plants - what will you discover?

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls – especially blondes – and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa • Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother's denials, to be Andy's father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church – both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves

A gapper is a bit of a 'burr' but it is a dangerous thing. When it attaches itself to the goats the goats become very unhappy and even stop giving milk. There is nothing gappers like more than goats and nothing goats hate more than gappers. When gappers get your goats it means trouble. In one small town gappers are a real pest and it takes the ingenious approach of Capable to find a soution - if a solution exists at all

Народная песня, один из величайших видов английского народного искусства, может быть болезненной, сатирической, эротической, драматической, печальной или забавной. Эта волшебная новая коллекция объединяет все классические народные песни, а также множество менее известных открытий, дополненных музыкой и комментариями об их первоисточниках и значении • Книга на английском языке • The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms • One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning

Рассказ - один из самых широко представленных жанров американской литературы. В этот сборник вошли многие видные образцы жанра, охватывающие период с раннего девятнадцатого века по настоящее время. На его страницах вы найдёте самых разнообразных персонажей, среди которых встречаются заключённые, люди искусства, труженики сельского хозяйства, рабы, солдаты и торговцы, ведьмы и призраки, родичи и возлюбленные. Их истории рассказывают как главные классики Америки (Натаниэль Готорн, Эдит Уортон, Реймонд Карвер...), так и не столь известные авторы, например, Фэнни Ферн или Чарльз Чеснат. Откройте для себя широко известные рассказы (в том числе уморительную "Знаменитую прыгающую лягушку из Калавераса" Марка Твена и жуткое "Сердце-обличитель" Эдгара Алана По) и истории, заслуживающие более широкую аудиторию (например, рассказ Эрнеста Хемингуэя о недопонимании "Вне сезона" и оду современной любви и остроумию из-под пера Лорри Мур)

You don’t have to do everything on the list to live your best life • Swap FOMO for JOMO and tick off ‘Bucket’, ’ F*ck it’ or ‘Done it’ for each of the 3,669 things to do, depending on whether you intend to do it, couldn’t care less/would rather die than do it or have already accomplished it • Bucket, F*ck it or Done it. Which box would you tick when it comes to … ? • * Drinking banana wine in the Canary Islands • * Eating every shape of pasta at least once • * Settling a dispute with a dance-off • * Naming your boat after the person you lost your virginity to • Checking stuff off just feels good!