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Jeong - The Spirit of Korean Craft and Design
The first book to explore the full scope and beauty of Korean design - from traditional craft to celebrated contemporary creations
Characterized by a unique blend of tradition and innovation, and by a focus on sustainability and efficiency, Korean design is recognized for its creativity, quality, and beauty. Jeong: The Spirit of Korean Craft and Design is the first book to present an immersive visual exploration of the country's fascinating craft and design scene to an international audience.
A Korean concept with no direct translation in English, jeong conveys a deep affection, emotional connection, and a sense of attachment that develops over time through shared experiences, care, and familiarity. In the context of craft and design, jeong is revealed through attention to detail and the profound connection between maker, object and user.
This elegant volume presents 175 inspiring and important objects, from anonymous folk crafts to celebrated masterpieces, including lacquerware, ceramics, embroidery, furniture, textiles and more. Each illustrated with a striking full-page image, featured pieces include traditional moon jars, intricately woven baskets, delicate textiles, and cutting-edge contemporary furniture.
Printed on tactile craft paper and stitch-bound in traditional Korean style, the book is itself a stunning object that invites exploration. Design-obsessed readers will also find in-depth essays by contemporary Korean design prodigy Teo Yang; curator Beth McKillop; and J Kathryn Hong, Chairperson of the Arumjigi Foundation in Seoul.
This special book reveals the spirit and sensibility of jeong to readers around the world.
How Does it Work?
Follow Maddie Moate as she takes a look inside everyday objects and machines – from fridges to fire engines!Starting in the home, you''ll find out how microwaves heat your food and how smart speakers react to voice commands. Then take a trip to the supermarket and discover how the checkout works, before heading to the playground and learning why a roundabout makes you feel dizzy!As you learn about difference machines and objects, you''ll go on four mini adventures – from finding missing parts of a toy car, to preparing a birthday picnic. And there are puzzles to solve too, including a spot the difference, a maze and a word ladder.The marvellous machines featured in this book range from objects in the home (including a smart speaker, a microwave, a dishwasher, a fridge and a toilet!) to machines in the workplace (a dentist''s chair, an X-ray machine, a digger and a fire hose), as well as in the playground, at the shops, on holiday and beyond.Written and researched by Maddie Moate, the star of CBeebies Do You Know?, this book is packed with awesome facts and key STEM concepts - perfect for nurturing curious minds aged 6 and above.
My Mummies Built a Treehouse
When one boy sets out to build the treehouse of his dreams, there’s so much to consider – from finding the perfect tree to drawing up the plans. There are certainly challenges along the way, and a lot of spilt paint! But one thing is for sure – he won’t go far wrong with his two mummies to support him.
Once Upon An Island
Travel across oceans and through time with award-winning historian and storyteller Alice Albinia in her first children's book, Once Upon an Island. Discover 20 wondrous islands - from the rugged landscape of the Orkney islands that people of the Stone Age once called home, to the sunny coasts of the Isles of Scilly. This captivating journey reveals islands as places of wonder and warning, rich with histories that have shaped the world far beyond their shores. Perfect for curious explorers, map lovers and anyone enchanted by the magic of faraway places, Once Upon an Island is an unforgettable voyage through geography, history and story. Featuring first person narratives and read-aloud maps, all brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Helen Cann. Islands include:1. Chiloé2. Waiheke3. Madagascar4. Lake Titicaca5. Samoa6. Tiwi7. Seychelles8. Amazon River Islands9. Mumbai10. Hawai'i11. Isla Mujeres12. Yonaguni13. Putuo14. Sicily15. Lesbos16. Vis17. Scilly18. Texel19. Orkney20. Baffin
Little Rhino Lost
Little Rhino is lost in the big, crowded city and he's afraid his mummy will never find him, far from home, with no tall trees, yummy leaves or green grass anywhere. Maya wants to help but what can she do to make her home a place that Little Rhino's mummy will come to? Can Maya and everyone around her turn their homes and their city into a welcoming green space, with flowers, plants and trees - somewhere a little rhinoceros could call hom? his enchanting story shows how kindness, determination and community spirit can come together to bring about real change and make our cities greener.
Quietly . . . Quietly . . . QUACK!
A fun, playful farmyard adventure that’s perfect for reading out loud. The little ducks were wide awake, but Mama duck was still asleep. So they snuck out of the duck house. Quietly... Quietly... QUACK! One day, three little ducklings sneak out to explore the farm while their mother sleeps. But the littlest duckling is just no good at going sneakily, silently or carefully . . . causing chaos at every turn! With a wobble, stumble and rustle along the way, can the brave trio manage to make it home before Mama duck finds out they are missing? A laugh-out-loud picture book inviting children (and their grown-ups) to quack along with the ducklings – quietly . . . or not so quietly!
I See You in the Stars
2026 CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL HOT OFF THE PRESS PICKA rhyming primer for budding astrologists that introduces both astronomy and astrology to the youngest readers—and comes with a fun interactive coverHey, baby, what’s your sign? Learn each astrological sign and their associated personality traits and quirks in this beautiful board book. Spot the constellations within the illustrations and find your star sign. With simple text by Kelly Conroy and ethereal illustrations by Sadie Han, I See You in the Stars is the perfect introduction to astrology for little ones. And it comes with an interactive spinning wheel right on the cover!
The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
From social media sensations Cate Osborn and Erik Gude, with Rennie Dyball, comes a fresh and practical guide to managing ADHD for adults. Just shy of her thirtieth birthday, Cate Osborn, a teaching artist with two master''s degrees, started to have difficulty remembering her lines. Suddenly, things that had seemed routine before were falling through the cracks. An evaluation finally led to a diagnosis: ADHD.Erik Gude had a slightly different path. Diagnosed in his teens, it would take years before he understood the myriad of ways ADHD affected his life. When they connected as adults, it didn''t take long before they realized other people might feel just as lost as they had.The ADHD Field Guide for Adults is a witty, thoughtful, and practical guide to living with ADHD in adulthood, from two people who actually know what it''s like. Featuring the most important foundational information about ADHD, as well as interviews with expert medical professionals, it is carefully designed, with Q&As, definition breaks and expert takes, to be genuinely engaging for people with ADHD, offering bite-sized pieces of knowledge in an accessible format.From testing, evaluations, and diagnoses, to hacks for work and productivity, and advice on navigating relationships, sex and loved ones, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults is an empowering guide with real-life suggestions from lived experience on every page.
Winnie and Wilbur: Looking for Wilbur
In Winnie and Wilbur''s latest adventure, Winnie wakes up from an afternoon nap to find her beloved black cat, Wilbur, has vanished. She can''t find him anywhere and her friends haven''t seen him either. Can Winnie use her magic to track down her missing pet? The best-selling Winnie and Wilbur series has been delighting readers both young and old since 1987 and Winnie and Wilbur have become favourite characters in homes and schools all over the world. Why not try another Winnie and Wilbur picture book-there are over 25 to choose from!
Chasing Freedom
In my home country, they call me a ''bornfree''.Simukai Chigudu was born in Zimbabwe, two years after the end of its bitter war of liberation - a war in which his father had fought. This is the story of his childhood journey through the chaos of that new country''s birth to Britain, where he arrived alone, a teenager, burning with ambition but utterly lost in ways he had yet even to discover.Told with astonishing insight, his memoir describes the drama of his quest to belong and to succeed, and how his worldview was both shaped and shattered by Britain, ultimately setting him on a quest to uncover the truth of his parents'' past.In excavating their story alongside his own, he brings us closer than ever before to understanding one of the greatest upheavals in modern times - the freeing of a continent from colonial rule - not as history or politics but as a psychological and emotional force, one that divides families from within, even while those same divisions bind them fiercely together across time.
Rocket
The closest you will get to a rocket launch without actually being there!When rocket engines fire, they burn through thousands of tonnes of fuel in seconds. Most spectators will be watching from a safe distance away, but this book takes you beyond the safety railing and gives you an all-access pass to the jaw-dropping sight of a rocket blasting off. See behind the scenes and into the hangar as engineers fine-tune the machinery ready for launch. Meet the transporter vehicles that haul these enormous engines to the launchpad. Then strap in and get ready for lift off!Space rockets are the most powerful machines ever built. As tall as a 15-storey building, they will soon send the next generation of astronauts to the Moon and beyond. This book is a celebration of the machines that make space exploration possible, using sheer power to blast spacecraft off Earth’s surface and into orbit.Alongside the breathtaking photographs, supporting sections lay out the history of rocketry, compare notable launch vehicles from history, and explain the science behind space flight.
The Infamous Gilberts
''Completely captivating: I absolutely loved it. A compelling, ingenious, mischievous blend of tragedy, comedy and intrigue'' Nina Stibbe‘We shall be forgotten.’ he said. ‘We shall be lost. They will scrub us away like a set of dirty fingerprints on a plastic kettle.’The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury ‘historic’ hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every ‘improvement’, what will be lost? What value can there possibly be in a threadbare carpet, a tarnished spoon and a thousand empty jam jars?Before the hotel people arrive, with their clipboards and their skips and their bottles of bleach, Maximus, loyal guardian of the Gilberts’ legacy, invites us on a final tour of the once-stately home, where each room holds a secret. From the bolt on the blue room door to the tiny dents in the bars at the nursery window … these are the keys that will unlock the lives of the five fatherless Gilbert children.A frustrated romantic, a stubborn traditionalist, a dreamer, a diva and an explorer: The Infamous Gilberts will be cast adrift on the irresistible tides of the twentieth century, buoyed by love, buffeted by loss, and tangled together in an unputdownable story where the lines between eccentricity and madness, cruelty and love become hilariously, heartbreakingly blurred.
Underspin
''An electric debut'' Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of Four Treasures of the Sky''Zhao''s prose is a marvel'' Rob Franklin, author of Great Black HopeRyan Lo begins playing table tennis at age eight. His brilliant but ruthless coach sees a talent in him that might be nurtured into greatness.Through an adolescence marked by hours of practice, matches away from home, clandestine relationships and a determination to win, Ryan ascends to the highest echelons of the game, just as he was supposed to.But here he is now, dead before his twenty-fifth birthday, leaving grief and confusion in his wake.Ryan Lo was meant to be great. What happened?Underspin delves beneath the pressure that forges a champion, and the vulnerability that makes a coming of age: the crackling intensity of a match, the push and pull of first love, and the great injustices committed within our closest relationships.''An unconventional and stylish portrait of a table tennis wunderkind . . . this book will immerse you in its high-stakes world until the very last page'' Alina Grabowski, author of Women and Children First
We Do Not Part
Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history.
Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.
Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.
There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.
We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.
A Poem for Every Spring Day
Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Spring Day, you will find verse that will transport you to vivid spring-time scenes, taking you from the first sighting of blossoms to Easter.
The poems are selected from Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year.
Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, this book dazzles with an array of familiar favourites and remarkable new discoveries. These seasonal poems – together with introductory paragraphs – have a link to the date on which they appear.
Includes poems by William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, John Donne and Emily Dickinson who sit alongside Ted Hughes, John Agard, Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, John Cooper Clarke and Carol Ann Duffy.
This soul-enhancing book will keep you company for every day and night of the Spring.
Chladný Casanova
Miliardář Riggs Bates ví, že peníze štěstí nekoupí, a své bohatství tají. Když ho při aférce
s vdanou novinářkou nachytá její asistentka Duffy, ambiciózní Britka bez platného víza, nabídne se nečekané řešení: falešné zasnoubení výhodné pro oba. Přísná pravidla a vzájemná nevraživost však dlouho nevydrží. Riggs i Duffy brzy zjišťují, že jiskru mezi nimi už nelze popřít – a jejich „hraní na lásku“ začíná být až příliš skutečné.
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Hvězdy fotbalového hřiště - Ronaldo, 2. vydání
Cristiano Ronaldo je díky své brilantní technice a neutuchající vášni pro hru zbožňován miliony fotbalových fanoušků. Získal trofeje jako útočník Manchesteru United i jako kapitán portugalské reprezentace a je považován za jednoho z nejlepších hráčů všech dob.
Jeho cesta na vrchol však nebyla snadná. Potýkal se se zraněními, vysokými nároky i s nelítostným britským bulvárem. Nech se jím inspirovat a třeba se dostaneš také tak daleko jako on!
Wages for Housework
*Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize*
What would women do with their lives if they had more time?
The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valued
'The women of the world are serving notice. We want wages for every dirty toilet, every indecent assault, every painful childbirth, every cup of coffee and every smile. And if we don't get what we want, we will simply refuse to work any longer!'
Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand: Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provocative idea, and an unfulfilled promise.
Here historian Emily Callaci tells the story of this campaign by exploring the lives and ideas of its key creators, tracing their wildly creative political vision over the past five decades: from the early 1970s, when Selma James, a working-class political organizer, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a scholar-activist, started laying the foundations of Wages for Housework in London and Italy; through philosopher Silvia Federici reframing the campaign in the context of New York City's fiscal crisis; to Wilmette Brown, lesbian poet and anti-war activist, and Margaret Prescod, community organizer, who brought the insights of Black feminism to the movement.
Drawing on new archival research and extensive interviews, Callaci takes us deep inside the heart of the movement as it reached across Europe, America, Africa and the Caribbean. For these women, the wage was more than a demand for money: it was a starting point for remaking the world as we know it, imagining potential futures under capitalism - and beyond. Then as now, Wages for Housework poses profound questions. What would it be like to live in a society that prioritizes care rather than production? How would this change our relationship with the natural world? And what would women do with their lives if they had more time?
DK Top 10 Cyprus
Make the most of your trip to Cyprus with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Cyprus has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.
Inside this guide to Cyprus, you'll find:
- Top 10 lists of Cyprus's must-sees and must-dos, including relaxing on Ayia Napa's beaches, visiting the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and exploring the Roman ruins of Kourion
- Cyprus's most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping
- Themed lists, including the best beaches, scenic villages, walking trails, local dishes and much more
- Brand-new itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week
- A laminated pull-out map of Cyprus, plus five full-colour area maps
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