Five fantastic books - three fiction and two non fiction - with genuine boy appeal, based on the theme of Conflict, with accompanying Guided Reading Notes to support teaching of comprehension skills and help raise literacy standards for all your pupils.[...]

Provides in-depth coverage of the human body, its basic structure, function, the relationship of each system to other organs and systems and their roles in maintaining good health. This book includes up-to-date information and advice on a range of key topics. Fact panels provide depth on topics such[...]

For the first time cameras are going behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum in London to meet the experts who define the world we live in. In spring 2010 the Museum will be the subject of a major new BBC TV series, "Museum of Life". This landmark television series will provide viewers with [...]

Learn how a limpet grips the rock, how a crab grows a new leg, how a prawn becomes invisible, how seabirds catch fish, and how a sea otter sleeps at sea. Discover how long seaweed can grow, why hermit crabs live in secondhand shells, which shells bore holes in solid rock, where a puffin lays its egg[...]

A compendium of shell scripting recipes that can immediately be used, adjusted, and appliedThe shell is the primary way of communicating with the Unix and Linux systems, providing a direct way to program by automating simple-to-intermediate tasks. With this book, Linux expert Steve Parker shares a c[...]

This book is an up-to-date account of the world's most primitive and feared predators. It covers their evolution, their powerful bodies and amazing senses, and how they swim, hunt, feed, breed, hibernate, migrate and survive in the aquatic environment. It is fully illustrated with stunning images ma[...]

Telling the compelling stories behind mankind's never-ending quest to cure every disease, "Kill or Cure" uses an all-new format -- a text-rich narrative combined with DK's beautiful visual design -- to trace the extraordinary history of medicine. Beginning with early healers, chance discoveries, tec[...]

The definitive guide to the great apes and how they compare with us, their closest living relatives. Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans are only a hair's breadth away from us in evolutionary terms; our DNA differs by just a few percent. These fascinating creatures hold up a mirror to huma[...]

From man-eating sharks to snakes that grow longer than buses, this title features the greatest record-breakers of the animal world. It is packed with awesome and extreme creatures, on land, in the sea and in the sky. It also helps you discover the fastest, the biggest, the tiniest and the deadliest [...]

Book 1 in the Space Marines Battles series by up-and-coming author Steve Parker.When the ork hordes of Warlord Snagrod lay waste to the planet of Badlanding and wipe out the Crimson Fists sent to stop them, Chapter Master Kantor prepare a hasty line of defence on the Fists homr planet of Rynn's Worl[...]