Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress. Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK\'s most comprehensive reading intervention

Japanese Style Companion Planting brings the techniques of a master farmer in Japan to home gardeners all over the world, with over 175 easy-to-follow color illustrations and detailed texts. Japanese gardeners typically work with small plots and are experts at making the most efficient use of available garden space. They have long understood that when compatible vegetables and fruits are grown together,

Best Books of 2019--Scholarly KitchenObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Hashtags can silence as well as shout. They originate in the quiet of the archive and the breathless suspense of the control room, and find voice in the roar of rallies in the streets. The #hashtag is a composite creation, with two separate but related design

Why do some of nature\'s marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun? Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species - but there\'s a catch. Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these \'sleeping beauties\'

Serving as an anthology of poems whose subject is entirely horses. From the classical Greek and Roman writers to contemporary poets; from the rollicking sporting ballad to the subtle and gentle ode; from China to South Africa, from Australia to Scandinavia, this work represents almost every aspect of the poet\'s celebration of the

Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist

What is a thriving, meaningful, and flourishing human life? What practices, associations, policies, and institutions support flourishing lives? These questions are not new ones. Philosophers from Buddha and Socrates onward have stressed that love of wisdom is demonstrated by living well--not by thought or theory alone but by action and practice. In light of new developments in positive psychology,

A simple day at the beach for Evie and her friends quickly spirals into chaos, filled with ice cream, film crews, magical disguises, dogs of all shapes and sizes, and a surprisingly secretive fairy tale figure in The Princess and the Pup, Sam Hay\'s third Agents of H.E.A.R.T. chapter book adventure, illustrated by Genevieve Kote. Evie\'s happily ever after is almost here. Her parents are allowing

Divorce is a difficult topic for any parent or educator to explain to a child, perhaps even more so when the child has Autism Spectrum Disorder or other special needs. This book is designed specifically to help children with these additional needs to understand what divorce means. Using a question and answer format, it explores the changes and feelings a child may experience during a divorce, and provides

In this biographical collection, with stunning portraits and illustrations by Saffa Khan, authors Saadia Faruqi and Aneesa Mumtaz highlight some of the talented Muslim physicians, musicians, athletes, poets, and more who helped make the world we know today. A brilliant surgeon heals patients in the first millennium.A female king rules the Indian subcontinent.A poet pours his joy and grief into the

This is the only English language guide to Equatorial Guinea, one of the last truly unexplored corners of sub Saharan Africa. Ranked by the United Nations among the ten least visited countries in the world, this tiny nation is slowly opening up thanks to the discovery of vast oil reserves in the nineties and the resultant influx of foreign workers and capital. In 2004 Equatorial Guinea gained worldwide

A book for anyone concerned about the level of literacy amongst prisoners. Behind The Lines is the product of some 15 years of working with offenders and people at risk in prison and in the community. It is based on the author\'s extensive experience of using creative writing to change and improve thinking and behaviour to prevent crime. It includes: Easy to read explanations of the method; Dozens

Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is one of the first reference works to come out of Belgrade following the arrival of Tesla\'s inheritance in 1952. Here is a wealth of information in the form of documents drawn from the Nikola Tesla Museum archive, compiled into a single large volume.The purpose of Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents is to acquaint the reader with Nikola Tesla\'s most important works

Caring for someone living with advanced Alzheimer disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you\'re on a hamster wheel--running in circles, trying the same things over and over with no effect on your loved one. You may also find it difficult to connect with your loved one and to understand what those living with Alzheimer disease are going through. In The Busy Caregiver\'s Guide to Advanced

Virginia Woolf famously began one of her greatest novels: \"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.\" Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of celebration and despair. \"We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them,\" writes Kakuzo Okakura. Flowers brighten our homes, our parties, and our rituals

ALL HANDS ON DECK (AND OFF THE CLIENTS)! Yukio, the proprietress of Sno Ball, has a problem--her interspecies meet-ups have gotten a little too popular, and some of the couples are getting a little too enthusiastic. It\'s up to Kimihito and his gaggle of monster girls to keep things from overheating at the coolest spot in

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile--after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel--Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an unlikely rapport. On a whim, Aubrey invites Maturin to join his crew as the Sophie\'s surgeon. And so

When innocent people are threatened, Preacher punishes the guilty, dispensing his own brand of justice--one bullet at a time--as legendary authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone return with their latest installment in the long-running First Mountain Man series. In a North American British province, a group of Norweigan settlers have carved a life for themselves in a lakeshore village called