As a teen girl, you are likely feeling pressure and stress from every direction. Having good, healthy relationships with friends you can count on makes all the difference. In this guide, psychologist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to guide you toward creating and maintaining the social life you want. Even better, the real experts that make this guide special are older teen girls w…
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is bot…
“It is a strange paradox, that many of the clearest, most comforting life lessons are learnt while we are at our lowest. But then we never think about food more than when we are hungry and we never think about life rafts more than when we are thrown overboard.” The Comfort Book is Haig’s life raft: it’s a collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years th…
The Woeful Second World War presents the dire details of a war that affected almost everyone - from old men joining the Dad's Army to the 12 year olds defending Berlin to the bitter end. Find out who made a meal of maggots, or which soldiers were so smelly their enemies could sniff them out.
Sayangku Marwan, kupandang lekuk wajahmu di bawah sinar bulan yang nyaris penuh, Anakku, bulu matamu bagaikan kaligrafi, tertutup dalam tidur yang nyenyak. Dan kukatakan kepadamu, “Genggam erat tanganku. Tidak akan ada hal buruk yang terjadi.” Khaled Hosseini menulis buku ini sebagai keprihatinan atas krisis pengungsi yang saat ini terjadi di dunia. Dia tergugah oleh foto Alan Kurdi…
Now streamlined and updated, the book that has literally put millions on the highway to greater accomplishment and success can show you how to have maximum impact as a speaker--every day, and in every situation that demands winning others over to your point of view.
Discover and explore some of the world's most famous buildings. Looking at famous buildings from across the ages, each illustration opens up to reveal the building's interior as well as fascinating facts. Buildings include the Empire State Building, Versailles Palace and the Blue Mosque.
This is a new paperback edition of "Usborne's Illustrated First Dictionary" with over 2,500 carefully chosen words and definitions. It is packed with lively and humorous illustrations and photographs that help demonstrate the meanings of words. It includes an alphabet sequence on each page to help children find their way around the dictionary, example sentences showing how words are used and wo…
Explore science in a fun new way, with a different activity or experiment for every day of the year. Hands-on science to fascinate children, with often surprising results. Will inspire the scientists of the future. Further resources are available online via the Usborne Quicklinks website. Children can learn which shapes are strongest by building their own structures, discover how emulsification…