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Superpowered Plants
Inspired by books of world records, this vividly illustrated guide teaches young readers about Earth's most incredible plants
Discover the green superheroes who rule our planet, from Neptune grass, whose super-photosynthesising leaves help us battle climate change, to the Titan arum, whose gigantic flowers attract pollinators by mimicking the stench of rotting flesh.
This stylish and informative non-fiction book features 22 incredible species of flora, each presented with a stunning visual portrait, a fun 'hero' name, fascinating facts about the unique skills they use to survive and thrive, and key information about their habitats and enemies.
With its frame-worthy art, irresistible 'superhero' concept, and awe-inspiring information, Superpowered Plants is perfect for all plant and nature lovers, budding gardeners, and would-be biologists.
Ages 7-12
Tadao Ando - Light and Space
A stunning portfolio of work by Japan’s leading contemporary architect, showcasing exquisite photography of 28 extraordinary projects selected by Ando
Following the acclaimed first volume in Tadao Ando’s monograph series with Phaidon, Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light (1996), this new volume showcases the continual collaboration between Ando and photographer Richard Pare.
Beginning with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, and concluding with the Bourse de Commerce project, located in Paris, the book features Pare’s stunning photographs of 28 contemporary projects in locations around the world, including Japan, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, Italy, and the United States. Pare’s images, most of which have never been published, expertly capture Ando’s quietly powerful approach to architectural design.
Created in close collaboration with Ando and his studio, Light and Space opens with a foreword by the architect, an introduction by architect Dominique Perrault, and four original drawings Ando created specifically for this book, printed on thin tissue paper.
The Plates section features spare layouts and immersive gatefolds throughout, with Pare’s images offering unique insights into Ando’s acute attention to light and volume and how they engage with one another. An appendix, printed on textured paper, offers additional information about each project, including technical specifications, a brief descriptive text, as well as detailed sections and plans.
This clothbound, jacketed book closely aligns with the packaging of the first volume, creating an elegant companion set.
Mid-Century Modern Designers
An homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware, ceramics and textiles
More than 50 years later, the fascination with mid-century design is stronger than ever before. Explore the popular movement’s distinctive style in this A-Z guide to the 300 influential designers who helped to define it.
From popular icons such as Alvar Aalto, Lina Bo Bardi, Tony Duquette, Charles & Ray Eames, Pierre Jeanneret, Florence Knoll, and Gio Ponti to the movement’s lesser-known figures, the book showcases an expansive, richly illustrated portrait of Mid-Century Modernism across the globe.
Detailed texts about each designer appear alongside hundreds of images of post-war designs, from furniture to glassware, lighting to textiles, ceramics to tableware, revealing the vibrant cross-pollination of ideas among the designers who defined the era’s aesthetic.
Alessandro Mendini: Imagination Takes Command
The first complete monograph on the provocative work of influential Italian designer, architect, and critic Alessandro Mendini
Born in Milan in 1931, Alessandro Mendini created vivid, boundary-pushing, eccentric work that sits in an aesthetic universe of its own. He was at the heart of Italy’s Radical design movement in the 1960s and 1970s and, later, Postmodernism, championing a sensitive and intellectual approach to design; he edited Domus magazine in the early 1980s; and he collaborated with brands ranging from Alessi, Swarovski, and Hermes to Supreme. Along with his contemporaries Ettore Sottsass and Gaetano Pesce, Mendini helped to redefine the concept of Italian design and architecture.
This comprehensive monograph – the first on Mendini’s complete portfolio of work – features a wealth of previously unpublished documents and images. Written by critic Stefano Casciani, who worked with Mendini for many years, the book offers a uniquely personal account illustrated by photographs, ephemera, and many of Mendini’s idiosyncratic and playful sketches.
Presented in a dynamic package inspired by Mendini’s distinctive aesthetic, the book is a design object in its own right, with a pink cloth cover featuring one of Mendini’s iconic magazine covers on the front, a sketch of his famous Proost chair on the back, and die-cut laminated tip-in chapter openers with wavy edges.
Natures Tiny Champions
A fact-filled, vividly illustrated exploration of the big impact made by some of Earth’s smallest species
We hear a lot about the importance of the amazing, large animals of our world, but what about the little creatures whose roles are just as vital? Nature’s Tiny Champions sheds light on some of the animal kingdom’s most unlikely heroes.
Featuring 20 fascinating animals, from the nocturnal dung beetle, cape dwarf chameleon, and golden poison frog to the bumblebee bat, reef starfish, and bee hummingbird, this fascinating non-fiction guide reveals how even the tiniest insects, invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds can play key roles in natural phenomena such as migration, food chains, and pollination.
The book’s vibrant illustrations and generous oversized format allows young readers to see its subjects in stunning detail. Each miniature miracle-worker is represented with a life-size diagram, offering a clear sense of scale and detailed view of its unique attributes. Filled with fun, bite-size facts, Nature’s Tiny Champions is an engaging, inspiring celebration of our planet’s awe-inspiring inhabitants.
Ages 6-9
Tao Te Ching
The Tao Te Ching came into existence some 2500 years ago, since when it has become the most influential text of Eastern philosophy. Best translated as The Classic of the Way and its Power (or Virtue), its teachings are of simplicity, humility and 'non-action', and its cadenced poetry is at once spare and profound. This beautiful compact hardback edition, with gilded edges and foil on the cover, makes a wonderful gift.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
A Blink of the Screen
A must-have collection of shorter fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld novels.
A brilliant collection of short stories and short form fiction from the pen of one of the world's best-loved authors. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.
Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas, all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.
With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
Hold Everything Dear
A powerful meditation on political resistance and the global search for justice
From the ‘ War on Terror’ to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering.
These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and at the center of human existence itself.
Everything to Play For
An insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good.
Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with accessible language and personal anecdotes, industry insider Marijam Did engages both novices and seasoned connoisseurs. From the innovations of Pong and Doom to the intricate multiplayer or narrative-driven games, the author highlights the multifaceted stories of the gaming communities and the political actors who organise among them. Crucially, the focus also includes the people who make the games, shedding light on the brutal processes necessary to bring titles to the public.
The videogame industry, now larger than the film and music industries combined, has a proven ability to challenge the status quo. With a rich array of examples, Did argues for a nuanced understanding of gaming’s influence so that this extraordinary power can be harnessed for good.
Classes
Questions of class, power and distribution have reemerged as central concerns in the public discourse. When we talk about class, we don’t always know what is meant. Is class about income or affect or the ownership of the means of production? Perhaps it is about authority or autonomy? But what happens when, as is often the case in complex advanced economies, people can occupy social and economic roles that seem to indicate membership in more than one class? And what does this mean for the supposed relationship between class and potential political capacity and affinity?
In Classes, Erik Olin Wright, the greatest American Marxist sociologists, rises to the twofold challenge of both clarifying the abstract, structural account of class implicit in Marx, and of applying and refining the account in the light of contemporary developments in advanced capitalist societies. What Wright calls “contradictory class locations” can make the class landscape appear much more complex than the simple model presented in Marx. Despite this complexity, common interests and therefore political alliances can still be found. In a society, like the US, characterized by extreme inequality, Classes provides not just a useful descriptive account of the operation of class but also the tools to understand the interplay of class interests and political (re)alignment.
Scot and Bothered
A swoon-worthy Scottish romance set on the picturesque Isle of Skye. From the author of Kilt Trip.
Scot on the Trail!
Brooke Sinclair's dream of being a published author derailed when she was expelled from the University of Edinburgh seven years ago. Now a ghostwriter, she sticks to other people's stories. But when her college mentor Mhairi McCallister needs a co-writer for her memoir about Scotland's most challenging trek, Brooke would do anything for the opportunity - including agreeing to hike the rugged Skye Trail for authenticity's sake. What she doesn't know is that the nature photographer who'll join her is Jack Sutherland, the man who shattered Brooke's writing career - and her heart.
Between getting sacked from the university and walking away from his family's tour-guiding business to follow his photography dreams, Jack is desperate to prove he didn't disappoint his family for nothing. Even if it means acting as guide and storyteller for the one who got away.
As Jack and Brooke head into the solitude of the sweeping Scottish landscape, they're forced to confront old feelings. But can two weeks and eighty miles heal years of unspoken hurt and offer a second chance at love?
The Cat Operators Manual
Get the most out of your domestic cat with this helpful and handy Cuddle Unit 5™ operating instruction manual.
The Cat Operator's Manual is a fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with assembly, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet. We recommend that you read these operating instructions thoroughly to quickly become acquainted with your Cuddle Unit 5™ and enjoy all of its features.
In these pages, you'll find many useful tips and information concerning your safety, how to care for your Cuddle Unit 5™, and how to maintain Cuddle Unit 5™’s interest in you, including:
Decipher your Cuddle Unit 5™'s Mood Mode Indicator.
Understand when your unit is in Eco Mode and when it's time for Solar Charging.
Learn more about how Turbo Mode is activated.
Read up on how your Cuddle Unit 5™ will interface with robotic vacuum cleaners and recreational catnip.
With tongue-in-cheek advice and spot-on illustrations that feel just like browsing a real user manual, this book gets two opposable thumbs up. We hope you enjoy your Cuddle Unit 5™ and wish you safe and pleasant petting.
Thank you for choosing Cuddle Unit 5™—we value your trust in us.
Perfect for:
Cat lovers
Gift-giving from the cat, for first-time cat owners, or to celebrate a pet adoption
Engineers, technical writers, and anyone who enjoys spending time with a good operations manual
Fans of quirky books and popular animal humor books such as I Could Pee on This, The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, and How to Pet a Cat
Post-Growth Living
If we are to avert the catastrophic effects of climate change, then we need to fundamentally change how and why we live and consume in the ways that we do. But, rather than restricting our freedom, could this actually result in a new and more fulfilling way of life?
Post-Growth Living is urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from the cult of endless growth. In it, philosopher Kate Soper calls for a renewed emphasis on solidarity and the joys of being, in which we might cultivate an ability for collective happiness and a more fulfilled existence. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change, one that offers a compelling vision of a life that is capable of changing the future for all of us.
Oasis The Masterplan
How does a band come into being? What are the myriad forces that shape their sound, look and identity? In 1993, Oasis signed to Creation Records and were shortly to begin recording their first album. The following year began with a masterplan - the creation of Oasis. At the centre of this enterprise was celebrated photographer Kevin Cummins, brought on board to help the band find a look that fitted their sound. In Oasis: The Masterplan we follow Cummins as he photographs the band as they cement their identity.
Noel Gallagher's thoughts on football, fashion and music and his recollections of that formative year sit alongside those of Cummins himself. Throughout, we see how Oasis played with fashion and were taught how to pose and present themselves as they approached the summer when their first album, Definitely Maybe was released. The story from that moment on is well-known. Featuring 75% previously unseen images the book reveals just how effective the masterplan was to get them to that point.
Oligarchy
When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst.
While she spends her time at the lake and the stables, a few hand-picked girls are invited to join the Headmaster at his house for extra lessons. Then her friend Bianca mysteriously vanishes, and the routines of her dormmates seem darker and more alien than ever before.
Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space
This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre’s theory of space and of the urban.
Henri Lefebvre belongs to the generation of the great French intellectuals and philosophers, together with his contemporaries Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre. His theory has experienced a remarkable revival over the last two decades, and is discussed and applied today in many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, particularly in urban studies, geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology, architecture and planning. Lefebvre, together with David Harvey, is one of the leading and most read theoreticians in these fields.
This book explains in an accessible way the theoretical and epistemological context of this work in French philosophy and in the German dialectic (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche), and reconstructs in detail the historical development of its different elements. It also gives an overview on the receptions of Lefebvre and discusses a wide range of applications of this theory in many research fields, such as urban and regional development, urbanization, urbanity, social space, and everyday life.
3 Doughs, 60 Recipes
Learn how to make bread simply and deliciously with three easy-to-master doughs for SANDWICH BREAD, FOCACCIA and PIZZA from the queen of dough behind your favourite viral bread-making videos on social media, Lacey Ostermann (@_lacebakes_).
Lacey presents 20 creative yet easily achievable recipes for each dough, whether you’re baking, topping, using up leftover bread or reworking the doughs into a variety of bread products. Every dough also has practical step-by-step instructions, detailed photography and QR codes to video tutorials that will fill you with confidence as you learn to make bread.
* Focaccia dough can be baked into flavourful Chimichurri Focaccia, or turned into Cinnamon Raisin Bread or Roman-style Pizza. Any leftover focaccia can be turned into a Panzanella Salad.
* Sandwich Bread chapter teaches you how to make the perfect White or Wholewheat Sandwich Bread to top with Grilled Nectarine, Burrata and Hot Honey. Try rolling the dough into Cheesy Garlic Swirls or Cinnamon Caramel Monkey Bread for a fun twist.
* Pizza dough is prime time for topping creativity – make sure to try Lacey’s Roasted Pumpkin Pizza with Fresh Basil Pesto and use any leftover dough to make Flatbreads with Creamy Tzatziki Dip or fluffy Doughnuts.
Bonus recipes for toppings, dips and sauces are included within the recipes to elevate your bakes – Hot Honey, Pink Pickled Onions, Homemade Ranch Dressing, Everything Bagel Seasoning and One-Minute Pizza Sauce are a few flavourful highlights.
Lacey has taken her most-asked questions and feedback from home bakers and streamlined techniques to give you confidence and excitement about making and baking dough. There are even timelines to make sure you know how to make the bread work for you, so you don’t have to work for the bread.
Whether you’re a newbie to breadmaking or a seasoned pro, grab a bag of flour, pop on an apron and let’s dough!
Chopping Onions on My Heart
Samantha’s mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture – and when to let it go
The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that’s now on the verge of extinction.
The realisation that she won’t be able to tell her son he’s ‘living in the days of the aubergines’ or ‘chopping onions on my heart’ opens the floodgates. The questions keep coming. How can she pass on the stories without passing on the trauma of displacement? Will her son ever love mango pickle?
In her search for answers Samantha encounters demon bowls, the perils of kohl and the unexpected joys of fusion food. Her journey transports us from the clamour of Noah’s Ark to the calm of the British Museum, from the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages to the banks of the River Tigris. As Samantha considers what we lose and keep, she also asks what we might need to let go of to preserve our culture and ourselves.
This is a life-affirming memoir about resilience and repair, and the healing power of dancing to our ancestors’ music, cooking up their recipes and sharing their stories.
Gathering Blossoms Under Fir
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire presents four decades' worth of personal journals to offer a passionate, intimate record of Alice Walker's intellectual, artistic and political development.
Walker writes in an unvarnished and singular voice about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with civil rights foot soldiers, marrying a Jewish lawyer and defying 1960s anti-interracial marriage laws, writing her first novel, experiencing the trials and triumphs of the women's movement, being both admired and maligned for her work and activism, burying her mother and estrangement from her daughter. Her journals reveal an inextricable intertwining of the personal and political, exploring her thoughts and feelings in real time as a woman, writer, African American, wife, daughter, mother, lover, sister, friend and citizen of the world.
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