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Discover how to use astrology to understand yourself, make the best choices, and improve every area of your life.

In her trademark accessible, down-to-earth style, acclaimed astrologer Carole Taylor explains how to use the age-old wisdom of astrology as a powerful tool for self-knowledge and self-enrichment. Using your birth chart as a starting point, you'll learn how to interpret the zodiac signs, planets, and astrological houses to better understand yourself.

Carole shows how astrology can provide psychological insights, then pinpoints ways to use this knowledge to nurture personal and professional relationships, deal with stress, or release your imagination and creativity. You'll discover, too, how star lore can help you when you need it most, with practical advice on negotiating key moments, whether you're changing jobs, starting a family, coping with financial difficulty, or facing retirement.

Authoritative and easy to understand, featuring fascinating case studies and with beautiful, inspiring illustrations throughout, Astrology is your essential guide to making the most of all life's challenges and opportunities.

How Food Works is your own friendly nutritionist, on hand to debunk common food myths and give you the answers to those pressing questions with easy-to-swallow information.

Today's media is full of new discoveries about food - red wine is good for your heart, caffeine will raise your blood pressure - but is there a biological basis to these claims? How Food Works reveals the facts behind your food, evaluates the benefits of superfoods and antioxidants, and explores behind-the-scenes of modern food production.

Delve into the science behind diets including gluten-free and veganism, as well as the benefits of different diets from around the world. Understand what actually makes food organic, how important sell-by dates really are, and how much salt you should actually be eating. Get the answers to dozens more niggling food questions in How Food Works.

Active Learning Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Learn all the essential facts about volcanoes and earthquakes in this illustrated, interactive, and educational activity book for kids. What happens when a volcano erupts? Why do earthquakes hit particular places? How do tsunamis occur? Active Volcanoes & Earthquakes covers all these questions and more! Children will have fun learning through doing, with dozens of different activity types to fully engage with and explore geology. Kids aged 8-12 will be occupied for hours as they pore over the information-packed pages in this natural science book and tackle the wide range of puzzles and activities - including mazes and tangles, code-breakers, matching games, anagrams, word searches, logic games, classification and identification games, quizzes, sudoku, odd one out, drawing, and colouring. This exciting volcanoes and earthquakes book for children - Fascinating facts and information with write-in exercises and activities inspiring children to truly understand and engage with geology. - Over 100 fun activities and puzzles to help children learn and test their knowledge. - Detailed, high-quality illustrations and photography, alongside engaging text. - In-depth information on earthquakes, volanoes and how earth science works. This book on geology for kids is filled with fascinating facts, detailed illustrations, and over 100 write-in activities and puzzles to keep budding volcanologists busy, and to inspire children to truly engage with natural science. Active Learning is a brand new series of interactive, educational activity books combining accessible information with engaging activities and puzzles. Designed to support teachers, educators, and parents around the world, Active Learning books are ideal for supplementing your child's education at home.

The perfect book for anyone who wants to learn German fast and on-the-go, now with a free downloadable audio app for Apple and Android phones, enabling learners to hear words and phrases spoken by native German speakers.

12 themed chapters are broken down into 15-minute daily lessons, spanning a range of practical themes, from socialising to doing business. Each lesson combines German vocabulary and grammar essentials with full-colour photographs for a user-friendly, accessible language guide. The ideal German course for beginners, the 15-Minute language series will teach you how to speak a new language in just 12 weeks.

Topics covered: introductions, eating and drinking, making arrangements, travel, getting about, accommodation, shopping, work and study, health, at home, services, leisure and socialising, with a menu guide and two-language dictionary.

Little scientists will understand science in seconds with this essential homework-helping guide. Learn about everything from molecules and magnetism to rockets and radio waves and find out how a hot-air balloon rises, how erosion flattens mountains, how light waves zip through space, and how the human eye sees colours!

With STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) subjects ever more important in today's technological world, How to be Good at Science, Technology, and Engineering is the perfect book to inspire and educate inquisitive young minds and prepare them for the future. This is the perfect homework guide for parents and their children, with all core curriculum areas of science included.

Cool illustrations show the appliance of science in the real world: see how microchips, tractors, and suspension bridges work. Hands-on projects feature fun experiments to try at home or school: try polishing old coins in vinegar, or make an erupting volcano with baking soda.

This picture word book of 1000 first words will broaden young children's vocabulary and strengthen their early reading and writing skills. Every picture-packed page is full of things children will love to look at, with word labels for each image, plus some simple text that encourages children to explore the book. Topics include Me and My Body, My Family and Friends, Animals in the Wild, All Sorts of Places, Describing People, Colours, Shapes, and Numbers, and Time, Seasons, and Weather. There are also five fun "story style" pages that tell a short narrative and inspire storytelling skills: for example, All in Day is about a young child's typical day, and Favourite Pets looks at a variety of pets, then follows the story of a playful dog looking for his bouncy ball.

1000 Useful Words clearly labels each picture, which encourages picture-and-word association and helps early reading, and each topic features questions that ask children to find things on the page or that stimulate thinking, talking, and early creative writing skills. The words have been chosen with the help of a leading educational consultant, Penny Coltman, and include lots of useful nouns, plus some interesting adjectives, and common verbs.

Young children will be amazed and delighted by all the fascinating real-world photos, things to spot, imaginative pictures to talk about, and incredibly useful words! This fun and educational picture word book is a must-have first reference title for parents who are keen to develop their child's language and literacy skills.

Tired of soft drinks and smoothies? Shake up your tastebuds with Mocktails, Punches, & Shrubs, a truly unique collection of non-alcoholic cocktails that will excite and delight the senses.

Enjoy over 80 simple and sophisticated mocktails, bursting with sweetness, spice, fragrance, and fruitiness. Learn how to mix up everything from Mango, Pineapple, and Chia Punch to Grape Coladas and Cinderella's Chocolate. Impress your friends with utterly unexpected flavour combinations using superfoods, exotic fruit, and spices, and eclectic non-alcoholic recipes like teas, juices, slushies, and energisers.

Packed with stunning photography and easy instructions, Mocktails, Punches, & Shrubs is the essential guide to what to drink when you're not drinking.

How The Body Works is a fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, often without us knowing. Understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving and get to the bottom of such niggling questions as why we get dizzy, why we get butterflies in our stomachs, and why we get jetlag!

How The Body Works is a bold and accessible visual guide to every aspect of how the human body and brain works, combining the science of human anatomy books with beautiful images. Enjoy this enlightening resource that covers everything from skin to bone and even the psychology of dreams and emotions.

DK's Pop-up Peekaboo! series has been shortlisted for the Best Preschool Reading Range in The Progressive Preschool Awards 2018

Turn the pages and lift the flaps of this delightful baby book to meet Diving Dolphin, Stripy Fish, and other exciting sea creatures waiting to pop out!

This exciting read-aloud baby book encourages first learning by introducing little ones to colourful underwater scenes and characters. With the help of parents and carers, toddlers will have fun turning the pages and lifting the flaps of Pop-Up Peekaboo Under the Sea. Each surprise character is certain to make toddlers smile!

Ideal for preschool play, this sturdy baby book will appeal to both parents and children and will keep little ones entertained time and time again!

Toddlers will love the hands-on, early-learning activities in this new Sophie la Giraffe sticker book. Little ones can colour in pages, sort and match, and find lots of stickers!

Preschoolers learn colours as they follow Sophie and her friends playing at home, having a picnic, out and about, painting in the art room, and more. In addition there are counting activities and shapes to spot and identify. A helpful Note for Parents explains how to use the book and encourage your little one to find the missing stickers, sort and match things, colour in pictures, and complete dot-to-dots and mazes.

Learning with Sophie la Giraffe is lots of fun in Sophie's Big Rainbow Colours Sticker Book.

A new, exciting, and intuitive way to learn English, this self-study English practice book for beginners is uniquely visual, engaging, and easy to follow. Packed with listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises that reinforce key language skills, grammar rules, and English vocabulary, the English for Everyone Level 1 Beginner Practice Book offers beginners a clear and simple way to learn English as a second language.

English for Everyone is a comprehensive course that uses innovative visual teaching methods to make the English language easy to learn. Level 1 of the course is suitable for complete beginners and introduces topics such as jobs and routines, leisure activities, and the home. The Level 1 Beginner Practice Book has a huge variety of bite-sized, attractively presented exercises to drill the language skills taught in the Level 1 Beginner Course Book. 

Free, extensive supporting audio featuring native English speakers is available online. The audio provides vital experience of spoken English, making even tricky phrases easy to understand and giving you the chance to perfect your pronunciation.

English for Everyone is aligned to international standards for language learning, and ideal for preparation for major English-language exams. Whether you want to learn English for work, study, or travel, the Level 1 Beginner Practice Book will make teaching yourself English as a foreign language incredibly easy.

DK's Pop-up Peekaboo! series has been shortlisted for the Best Preschool Reading Range in The Progressive Preschool Awards 2018

Play hide and seek and discover lots of exciting things that go in this cute children's pop-up book. This read-aloud book for toddlers encourages first learning by introducing little ones to colourful scenes, adorable cuddly characters, and 5 pop-out surprises.

Watch as a car pops out of a garage and a boat pops out of a wave. Read together and lift the flaps to reveal your baby's favourite toy vehicles popping out from the page.

Perfect for reading aloud and encouraging early word recognition, your baby will love the pop-outs in this award-winning series. Great for developing imagination, early-thinking and memory skills.

A beautiful eleven-book collection celebrating the wonderful world of Disney Princess movies.

DK's Disney Princess: The Enchanted Library is a perfect introduction to the inspiring Disney princesses, their best friends, handsome princes and fearsome foes. In this stunning and unique slipcase, you will relive the classic tales and wonderful adventures of each princess, meeting beloved characters along the way. You'll learn everything you ever wished to know about your favourite Disney princesses, from Tiana to Belle.

See the vehicles of Star Wars: The Force Awakens™ in unparalleled detail with this newest addition to the Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections series. Twelve breathtaking artworks bring the new craft to life, showing all the weapons, engines, and technology, while engaging text explains each vehicle's backstory and key features.

This stunning visual guide explores and explains the greatest inventions, ideas, and discoveries throughout the ages, and introduces their inventors.

Discover the first inventions, from fire, stone tools, and the wheel to ploughs and paper, that shaped societies and grew mighty civilizations and empires such as those in ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and ancient China.

In the centuries that followed, "Eureka" moments abounded, with James Watt's steam engine during the Industrial Revolution, Henry Ford's car assembly line at the start of the 20th century, the Wright brothers' flying machines, Thomas Edison's light bulb, John Logie Baird's television, and so much more.

Read about more recent, era-defining moments during the Digital Revolution, such as the first website developed by Tim Berners-Lee, and the growth in the use of robotics in industry and at home.

Inventions A Children's Encyclopedia reveals the stories behind crucial and quirky contraptions, products of the world's most brilliant minds.

This playful preschool activity book will unleash your child's curiosity and creativity as they play their way through amazing STEM projects.

Perfect for kids ages 3-6, this early learning children's book will excite little ones by revealing the everyday ways they can be an engineer. Children are born with everything they need to be great engineers: inquisitive minds, unlimited imagination, and super senses. With Look I'm an Engineer, little readers are encouraged to use their senses to investigate how to make the strongest paper bridges, how to power a tugboat with an elastic band, which materials make the best parachutes, and much more. Every fun project features a mixture of bright photography and charming illustrations which support the easy-to-follow activity instructions. These brilliantly hands-on activities align with Early Years and KS1 subjects taught at school, including science, maths, and technology. 

Little ones have the opportunity to do what they do best: imagine, create, learn, problem solve, and above all, play their way to engineering discovery.

The ideal first animal picture book for babies and toddlers. Build little ones' vocabulary with 100 important animals, all with bold photographs and beautiful illustrations. Bright and colourful themed pages cover pets, farm animals, big beasts, cute baby animals, and animal colours and patterns. 100 First Animals is a large board book with a padded cover and makes an ideal first gift for babies. Crystal-clear photos show the wonder of the animal world, while engaging illustrations tell simple stories that stimulate talking, from a swan with her cygnets to a fish being chased by a smiley shark! Word labels encourage pointing, naming, and picture-and-word association. Cleverly designed to inform and entertain, 100 First Animals makes learning an exciting adventure for your baby.

The ideal first book to introduce parts of the body to toddlers. My First Body is packed with colourful images to help build the foundation of early learning.

Help your toddler learn all about the human body in My First Body. With colourful, bright pictures of parts of the body alongside clear word-labels your little one will discover faces, legs, arms and feet. My First Body keeps early learning simple and fun for your little one.

Perfect for encouraging children to build vocabulary and language skills, My First Body helps toddlers grasp early concepts. Your little one will love discovering different parts of the body while holding the chunky pages of this tactile board book. Read it together and help them turn the pages and learn all about body parts.

From Mozart to Mendelssohn, this comprehensive guide to classical music history and classical music biography is the perfect latest addition to the bestselling Big Ideas series.

Easy to understand and clear to follow, this history of classical music explores and explains music theory and the impact of seminal pieces, while also providing fascinating stories about the lives of crucial composers and performers.

Including an insightful foreword by Katie Derham, The Classical Music Book analyses over 90 works by famous composers. From Thomas Tallis in the early period to baroque masters like Bach and Handel, to the classical genius of Beethoven and Wagner and beyond to the modern day, The Classical Music Book explores the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, and defines their importance to the musical canon, placing them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context.

The unique approach to the subject makes this book the perfect classical music guide for everyone. Regardless of whether you are relatively new to the subject and want to learn or if you are a classical music aficionado, there is plenty to discover in The Classical Music Book.

Learn how to code in Python by building and playing your own computer games, from creative quizzes to perplexing puzzles with explosive sound effects and zany graphics.

Whether you're a seasoned programmer or a beginner hoping to learn Python, you'll find Computer Coding Python Games for Kids fun to read and easy to follow. Each chapter shows you how to construct a complete working game in simple numbered steps. Using freely available resources such as Pygame, Pygame Zero, and a downloadable pack of images and sounds, you can add animations, music, scrolling backgrounds, scenery, and other exciting professional touches.

After building the game, find out how to adapt it to create your own personalised version with secret hacks and cheat codes!

Along the way, you'll master the key concepts that programmers need to write code - not just in Python, but in all programming languages. Find out what bugs, loops, flags, strings, and turtles are. Learn how to plan and design the ultimate game, and then play it to destruction as you test and debug it. Before you know it, you'll be a coding genius!

Winner of the School Library Association (SLA) Information Book Award 2018.

This playful preschool project book will unleash your child's creativity as they play their way through 14 amazing STEM activities. Perfect for kids ages 3-6, this early learning children's book will excite little ones by revealing the every day ways they can be scientists.

Children are born with everything they need to be amazing scientists: a curious brain and super senses. Look I'm a Scientist is bursting with exciting, easy-peasy science fun to do at home. Little scientists are invited to use their senses to discover why water goes stiff in the freezer, what makes slime super stretchy, how to make a fizzing potion, and lots, more. Every fun project features a mixture of bright photography and charming illustrations, which support the easy-to-follow activity instructions. These brilliantly hands-on activities align with Early Years and Key Stage One subjects taught at school, including Science, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design.

With Look I'm a Scientist, children can touch, smell, see, hear, taste, and above all, play their way to scientific amazement!

Explore the human mind and understand the science behind how you and other people in your life think and act in a wide range of everyday situations with this brand new visual guide to applied psychology.

Using straightforward definitions and clear, striking visuals, The Psychology Handbook makes the workings of the brain easy to understand and shows what happens when things go wrong, with information on disorders such as anxiety and paranoia, as well as explanations of the different therapies that are used to treat them, from CBT to psychoanalysis, group therapy to art therapy.

Clear and easy to understand for both students and readers with a general interest, this book explores and explains the various approaches that psychologists use to study how people think and behave, such as behaviourism, cognitive psychology, and humanism. It also shows how these approaches can be applied to real-world situations, with examples from the workplace to the sports field, the courtroom to the classroom. Learn why psychology plays a huge role in all of our lives and develop a greater understanding of what influences our behaviour, thoughts and feelings, and those of others, in a variety of environments and scenarios.

Answering all your burning scientific questions, from what it means to be alive to why things explode, How Science Works explains science facts throughout amazing diagrams and infographics. Unlock the secrets of the universe, such as whether a robot takeover is possible, and marvel at the surprising simplicity of gravity. Dazzle your friends and family with answers to their everyday science questions such as; why do sirens change pitch as they pass by?

How do planes stay in the air? Plus many more! Learn how to explain the mind-boggling concepts that eluded you at school, all the way through to more recent fascinating topics such as the discovery of the Higgs Boson- this really is science made simple.

From brainy biologists and clever chemists to magnificent mathematicians and pioneering physicists, discover 100 remarkable scientists who shaped our world. 

Containing a universe of knowledge, 100 Scientists Who Made History tells the story of the people who increased our grasp of almost everything around us. From Aristotle and Rosalind Franklin, to Marie Curie and Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox, get the low down on the people whose thirst for knowledge has shaped the way we live today. 

With beautiful photography and illustrations, 100 Scientists Who Made History is a fascinating look at the most important scientists and their discoveries. It's the perfect way for kids to meet science's most important people.

Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo. This is the ideal first book to introduce toddlers to numbers - packed with colourful images and clear word-labels to encourage early learning. Help your toddler learn all about numbers and counting in My First 123. Count from 1 to 10, then up to 100 with your toddler, and introduce adding and taking away with this engaging board book which keeps early learning simple.

With colourful, bright photographs alongside clear word-labels your little one will master numbers in no time. Perfect for encouraging children to build numeracy skills My First 123 helps toddlers grasp early concepts. Your little one will love discovering numbers while holding the chunky pages of this tactile board book. Read it together and help them turn the pages, practise counting, then take a look at adding up and taking away.

Dive into the ocean and discover the different sharks and sea creatures who hunt in this watery world. This book presents a dazzling visual tour of the sea revealing the remarkable monsters that dwell in the ocean depths, from the deadliest predators to the most venomous creatures. With amazing and detailed 3D digital pictures of sharks, spectacular photography and stripped away images you'll see into the ocean depths. Take a virtual tour amongst the most monstrous sharks and deadliest creatures in the ocean.

Ever wondered how a Hammerhead shark breaths? Or which sea creature is the most venomous? "SuperShark" will tell you, with each feature profiling these super creatures, giving you the stats, the cross-sections and the images that will show you how and tell you why. You can take a trip through the deadliest depths of the ocean, from the biting reef worm to the colossal squid. You can go on a truly amazing journey with "SuperShark".