Virgin books A Children's Treasury of Milligan. Classic Stories and Poems by Spike Milligan Milligan Spike

Unleash your inner artist and learn to draw with ‘queen of colouring’ Johanna Basford • In this beautiful, accessible guide Johanna shares the fun, simple, no-skills-needed secrets to creating your own flora, fauna and fantasies inspired by her bestselling and beloved colouring books • With step-by-step exercises, inspiring prompts and plenty of pages to colour, let your creativity run wild. How to Draw Inky Wonderlands invites you to develop your personal drawing style and master creating marvellous creatures and landscapes using only the pen or pencil in your hand and the wildest reaches of your imagination

What gives the world's best leaders the edge? • Will Greenwood is best known for being an integral part of the 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning team. Ben Fennell has spent over 16 years helping the world's biggest businesses and brands grow. Together, they have established that world-class performance - in both business and sport - requires a fresh approach, and a new set of behaviours • Having spoken to inspirational leaders across all areas of business and sport, including Michael Johnson, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Rio Ferdinand, Dame Carolyn McCall, Dave Lewis and Sir Clive Woodward, the authors have identified the key characteristics of world-class performance. These guiding principles of celebrating difference, forging togetherness and accelerating growth constitute a new framework for modern leadership

В этой потрясающей книге с компакт-диском вы найдете песни, которые можно спеть с Груффало и его друзьями! • Джулия Дональдсон не только самый успешный британский автор книг с картинками, она еще и автор детских песен. В сборнике Treasury of Songs содержится более двадцати песен, основанных на ее веселых стихотворениях, баснях Эзопа и самых любимых книжках с картинками самой Дональдсон – от «Груффало» до «Места на метле» • Сборник был проиллюстрирован Акселем Шеффлером и снабжен компакт-диском с песнями в исполнении Дональдсон • Treasury of Songs станет прекрасным подарком для любого ребенка • Книга на английском языке • Sing along with the Gruffalo and friends with this stunning treasury and CD, now available in paperback! • As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children

“Day after day, day after day, • We stuck, nor breath nor motion • As idle as a painted ship • Upon a painted ocean.” • Described by his friend Charles Lamb as “an archangel slightly damaged”, Coleridge was deemed a towering genius by many of his contemporaries, and one who, in conversation, had no equal. Fascinated by, among other subjects, psychology, philosophy and chemistry, his mind roamed extravagantly and without restraint, leading Hazlitt to opine that “there is no subject on which he has not touched, none on which he has rested”. Yet, while this literary itinerancy left some to lament his refusal to devote himself to verse, Coleridge remains one of English literature’s most enduringly popular poets • From sonnets and ballads to elegies and intimate blank verse, this collection brings together poetry written throughout Coleridge’s life, particularly his prolific early years, which saw the composition of poems such as ‘Christabel’, ‘The Eolian Harp’ and ‘Frost at Midnight’

In Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant iPod. In China, President Xi Jinping denounces the trend of constructing ‘bizarre’ new buildings in wacky shapes and colours. In Cincinnati, celebrity architect Zaha Hadid is paid millions to design a single ‘iconic’ structure – with the hope of single-handedly transforming the region’s ailing fortunes. These incidents are all part of the same story: the rise of the age of spectacle • Over the last fifty years, there has been a revolution in how our cities operate. In The Age of Spectacle, Tom Dyckhoff tells the story of how architecture became obsessed with the flashy, the monumental and the ostentatious – and how we all have to live with the consequences. Exploring cityscapes from New York to Beijing, and from Bilbao to Portsmouth, Dyckhoff shows that we are not just witnessing a new kind of building: we are living through a fundamental transformation in how our urban spaces work

This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of "child-friends". Carroll's imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his "dream-child", a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up • This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man's need to make a Wonderland in a changing world

Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience? Renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have imagined

Думаете, вы все знаете о динозаврах? • Подумайте еще раз! • Откройте для себя умопомрачительную правду, стоящую за реальной доисторической историей, рассказанной вам лучшим в мире профессором динозавров. Книга "Эпоха динозавров. Расцвет и падение самых замечательных животных в мире" - обязательное приобретение для любого юного любителя динозавров! • Вы, вероятно, видели "Парк Юрского периода", слышали о Годзилле и знаете о Рексе из "Истории игрушек". Динозавры есть везде: по телевизору, в книгах, вы можете поискать их в Интернете и увидеть их кости в музеях. И вы можете думать, что знаете все, что только можно знать о динозаврах; но что, если вы ошибаетесь? • Присоединяйтесь к современному охотнику на динозавров доктору Стиву Брусатте, который отправит вас в блестящее доисторическое путешествие - вооруженный передовыми технологиями, он собирает воедино полную историю о том, как динозавры правили землей в течение 150 миллионов лет

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking refuge from the chaos of wartime. Through the old man, Grizel learns the surprising history of the Dane family and Lark Ingoldsby • Orphaned by a train crash, Lark was taken in by the Danes as an adoptive daughter but soon found herself caught in a web of sibling rivalry, love and attrition. Selina Dane, racked with jealousy, set out to destroy Lark’s dreams of love. When Grizel falls for Pax Masterson, a wounded airman, Rollo urges her to seize her chance for happiness, as he was not able to • A passionate story of romance and tragedy, A Fugue in Time inspired the classic film Enchantment starring David Niven and Teresa Wright

Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success in the late 1980s, it ran its own club, the legendary Hacienda, had a string of international hit records, and was admired and emulated around the world. But by the 1990s the story had changed. The back catalogue was sold off, top bands New Order and Happy Mondays were in disarray, and the Hacienda was shut down by the police • Critically acclaimed on its original publication in 1996, this book tells the complete story of Factory Records' spectacular history, from the label's birth in 1970s Manchester, through its '80s heyday and '90s demise. Now updated to include new material on the re-emergence of Joy Division, the death of Tony Wilson and the legacy of Factory Records, it draws on exclusive interviews with the major players to give a fascinating insight into the unique personalities and chaotic reality behind one of the UK's most influential and successful independent record labels