Discover the riotous world of Ancient Rome with this rip-roaring facts and jokes book, perfect for 7-9 year olds!Laugh along as you learn in this hilarious, fact-packed joke book all about Ancient Rome.
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- 2024
- 2024
Discover the riotous world of Ancient Egypt with this rip-roaring facts and jokes book, perfect for 7-9 year olds!Laugh along as you learn in this hilarious, fact-packed joke book all about Ancient Egypt.
- 2024
Bridge Hunt chronicles a young man's unforgettable quest to discover the 42 revolutionary bridges designed by Robert Maillart, a pioneering Swiss engineer and architectural luminary, between 1899 to 1940. Many of these graceful structures still hide along remote back roads and alpine valleys, while a few iconic landmarks endure in Bern, Geneva, and Zurich. Maillart's breathtaking Salginatobel Bridge was recently designated as a Swiss heritage site for its national significance. It has also been named an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This visually rich travelogue presents the only complete published collection of photos and descriptions of all Maillart's extant European bridges, capturing his unique engineering artistry. It will appeal to civil engineers, architects, and students, as well as travellers, adventure-seekers and anyone fascinated by treasures that unite rather than divide our world. More than a precious record of a unique chapter in infrastructure history, the book is at heart a human story. Through one young man's eyes, we rediscover Maillart's timeless bridges, which embody the soaring of imagination transformed into structures that bring people together.
- 2023
A Defence of The Reformation, in Answer to a Book Entitled Just Prejudices Against The Calvinists
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Originally published in the late 17th century, John Townsend's A Defence of the Reformation is a classic apologetic work that argues for the principles of the Reformation over the Catholic Church. Townsend specifically addresses the arguments made against the Calvinists in a book by the name of Just Prejudices. This book is as relevant today as it was then and is a must-read for anyone interested in theology, history, or philosophy.
- 2023
The manual provides detailed solutions to all blue-numbered exercises in the corresponding text, allowing readers to verify their answers and understand the correct problem-solving methods. This resource is designed to enhance learning by offering clear, step-by-step guidance for each exercise.
- 2023
Birdlip, Cold Slad, Crickey Hill and the Air Balloon Inn: John Townsend's humble childhood is full of hardships and adventures in the rough Cotswold hills. His later career is in antiques. Warm and full of character, this is an invaluable picture of life in rural Gloucestershire in the 1940s, 1950s and beyond
- 2022
Discover how people have used dung all through history, what happens to poo after you've flushed it away, and how it contributes to global warming. Explore how we can use poo to power our cars, homes and even rockets, and how scientists are using other ingenious sources of renewable energy.
- 2022
Interviews with the ghosts of pirates
- 178 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Live from the Crypt is a hilarious information series with an undead chat-show format where ghostly historical figures are interviewed by the crew of the show about their lives and experiences. In this volume, the ghosts of famous and fearsome pirates, including Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ching Shih are interviewed about their criminal careers and often horrible fates
- 2022
Hello Dragon
- 12 pages
- 1 hour of reading
Simple, rhyming text and illustrations tell a story about magical dragons
- 2022
How The Bear Lost His Tail and Other Animal Stories of the Forest
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Inspired by traditional folktales from around the world, this volume in the Animal Stories for Bedtime series features fantastical, mesmerizing tales about how different forest animals came to resemble the species that we know today. Told over generations, often around campfires in the dead of night, these tales come from many cultures around the world. Whether beginning in the forests of Africa, America, Australia, or Europe, the stories in this book go back a long way, but here they are retold with new twists and turns for the bedtimes of today. This collection contains eight engaging stories including "How the Frog Became King of the Marshes," "Why Owls Stare," and "Why Dogs Became Our Friends." They mix humor, suspense, a few scares, and charming full-color artwork to irresistible effect.