An authoritative new guide from the great Oz Clarke! Illustrated with more than 50 panoramic maps, Oz Clarke's World of Wine reveals all you need to know about his favorite wines and grapes. In lively and opinionated prose, Clarke introduces the great wine regions and the top vineyards, growers, and winemakers. He explains the flavors behind different wines--so you can find exactly what you want.
A stupendous celebration of the pencil, exploring all the wonderful things you can do with this humble but amazing tool, including drawing, sketching, shading, doodling, and much, much more.
Alan Turing - a mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. Widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. In this book, Dermot Turing takes a fresh look at the influences on Turing's life and creativity.
Science is Beautiful collects the most fascinating microscopic photographs of our diseases along with the medicines we use to treat them.Featured are some of the most illuminating microscopic images of bacteria, viruses and cancers ever captured. These photographs are profoundly fascinating - and also beautiful.
Our growing appetite for veg-focused and meat-free food requires recipes that are simple, practical and full of fantastic fresh ingredients; and award-winning food writer Sybil Kapoor has developed a collection of dishes to help us eat our fill.
Young Annabel lives in the 1950s and dreams of a future with jetpacks, flying cars and robots. However, little does she know that she is living under an evil spell that could mean she has no future at all... This feminist retelling of a classic fairy tale will awe and delight.
This fun, absorbing book, packed with quirky bite-sized lists, quizzes and trivia, is an exploration of the Latin language, aiming to prove that it is as vibrant and relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago.