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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
The Folk of the Air series, now in a paperback boxset.
Welcome to the museum that is always open to explore… Step inside the pages of Anatomicum to enjoy the experience of a museum from the comfort of your own home. The 2019 offering from Welcome to the Museum guides readers through the human body, from the muscles we use to show emotion, to the delicate workings of…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
SWEDENA country that defies the laws of economic gravity. A land with high wages, strong unions and generous welfare. A dream location for business and a bastion of social responsibility, coming out on top for childcare, equality and quality of life.
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IT?Having lived in Sweden for six…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturvetenskap och teknik Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
Welcome to the museum that is always open to explore… Step inside the pages of this beautiful book to discover galleries of galactic matter, expertly curated to bring you the experience of a fascinating exhibition from the comfort of your own home. Planetarium features all aspects of space, from the Sun and our…
A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William Shawn and New Yorker founder Harold Ross.
Together: they invented…
A runaway queen. A reluctant prince. And a quest that may destroy them both.
Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth, has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her…
Originally published 25 years ago (happy anniversary!) from a list that Barbara Ann Kipfer started making as a child, it’s the book that marries obsession with happiness. And it now has 2,000 fresh and more current reasons to be happy: Rabbit tracks in the snow. Kiteboarding and kitesurfing. Caramel gelato.…
This large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with images from Katie Scott’s Botanicum. Featuring plantlife of all kinds, from right around the world, it’s a stunning celebration of all things botanical.
Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.One terrible morning, Jude and her…
Interest in home design has been on the rise for some time, but Kinfolk’s focus on slowing down and creating a more intentional, beautiful home is where the attention is shifting. Through luscious photographs and insightful interviews, the author takes us into 40 homes around the world, from the Americas to…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: naturkunskap Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Faktaböcker barn och ungdom
This elegant mini edition of Botanicum is the perfect gift for nature-lovers or anyone who appreciates beautiful books. Wander the galleries – open 365 days a year – and discover a collection of curated exhibits on every page, accompanied by informative text. Each chapter features a different branch of the…
This beautiful large-format poster book lets you decorate your walls with the gorgeous images from Big Picture Press’s Historium. This is a stunning celebration of the history of the world.
How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase ’carbon footprint’ for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally…
A transdimensional anthropologist can’t keep herself from interfering with Earth’s darkest period of history in this brilliant science fiction debut. In medieval Italy, Niccolucio, a young Florentine Carthusian monk, leads a devout life until the Black Death kills all of his brothers, leaving him alone and…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking…
A lone figure stands silhouetted atop the Mausoleum of Hadrian. Behind him, the sun is setting over the centre of the known world. Far below, the river is in full flood. The City of Rome lies spread out before him on the far bank.
Footsteps pound up the stairs. He’s been set up. An enemy is closing in; he is…
Germany, World War II. Two English pilots are shot down and crash land behind enemy lines. The area swarming with German troops, they have only minutes to crawl from the wreckage and make their escape. Boarding a train reserved for wounded SS men on the way home from the eastern front, they ditch their clothing and…
Using the incredible Anatomicum as inspiration, this activity book is bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles, perfect for budding artists and science enthusiasts. Activities include amazing mazes, mix-and-match brain-teasers, colouring, drawing and much, much more. With pull-out pages, readers can easily tear out…
’Bookended by tragedy, shot through with violence, ultimately uplifting’ Guardian’An insight into a singular artist’ New Statesman’Fierce, funny and indomitable’ Observer’My tears were relentlessly pricked by Tricky’s memoir’ Daily Telegraph Tricky is one of the…
The first book in a highly original and delightfully clever crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties.
From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Kiyoko Murata comes a dazzling historical novel about the courtesans whose strike brought down a red-light district
’Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world’ YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri Shibun
The year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Personliga berättelser
’Ugly is not only a must read, it’s an urgent read’ – Farrah Storr ’This book unravels what we think we know about beauty’ – Poora Bell
Where did the word ’pretty’ come from? Why do we shave our armpits? When did cosmetic surgery move from being functional to…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
A funny, moving love story about facing fears hand in hand – one snake/spider/potentially unstable fourth-floor balcony at a time.
From acclaimed author of OUR CHEMICAL HEARTS, Krystal Sutherland. Esther Solar’s family is . . . unusual.
Her father hasn’t left the basement in six years. Her brother…
Ella runs Happily Ever After, a bookshop nestled in the cobbled streets of York. She’s a wife, a mother and a successful novelist. But something is missing . . . One day a strange girl comes into Ella’s shop. Bryony is shy and unsure, and Ella feels a strange connection to her. With the help of one very…
Eyes missing, two bodies lie deep in the forest near a remote Swedish town.
Tuva Moodyson, a deaf reporter on a small-time local paper, is looking for the story that could make her career.
A web of secrets. And an unsolved murder from twenty years ago. Can Tuva outwit the killer before she becomes the final victim?…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
Nessa and her friends attend Boyle College to train for the most dangerous time of their lives – THE CALL. Without warning, each one of them will wake in a terrifying land, alone and hunted, with a one-in-ten chance of returning alive. No one believes Nessa can make it, but she’s determined to prove them…
The sequel to Lynda La Plante’s groundbreaking thriller, Widows – now a major feature film. DOLLY, LINDA, SHIRLEY AND BELLA ARE BACK. AND THIS TIME IT’S A FIGHT TO THE FINISH.
Against all the odds, Dolly Rawlins and her gangland widows managed the impossible: a heist their husbands had failed to…
Readers LOVE One Puzzling Afternoon:’I loved it. I loved it. I loved it’’Wow . . . one of my books of the year’’A beautiful and touching novel that will completely grab you’’Edie Green is one special character & I think I’ll remember her for a long time…
An enemies to lovers romance set in bonnie Scotland where one woman discovers more than the just the magic of the heartland’s lochs and landscapes – but not before clashing with the proud Scotsman she’s forced to work with.
Ready or Scot . . .
Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust.…
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the world in 2017, The Accusation provides a unique and shocking window on this most…
Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I’ve been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and…
Current business wisdom holds that to forge a powerfully original solution to problems, we must think outside the box. But, as Goldenberg and Boyd reveal, based on expertise and experience in both corporate and academic worlds, this is utterly wrong. It may seem counterintuitive – but faster, better and more…