Science fiction meets science fact in this fully illustrated hilarious book from one of the UK and Ireland's best-loved comedians. Genuinely qualified space expert, Dara O Briain, is here with all the answers to help you sort your science fiction from your science fact. Includes: * how life begins in the first place * how Earth was created * whether aliens might exist elsewhere in the Solar System * the search for other planets like our own * how we could possibly ever get there and . . . * would we really meet aliens? Alongside this runs the hilarious, but not very true story of Clara and her cat, Sputnik, who will join you on the journey of the book to help take you from novice alien-hunter to bona-fide space expert, with a brilliant final twist! So, is there anybody out there? NO. (Well, maybe.) And do aliens really exist? Probably. (Possibly.) As presenter of STARGAZING LIVE, MOCK THE WEEK and ROBOT WARS, Dara O Briain is one of the UK and Ireland's best-loved comedians and TV stars.

Prepare for the new Cambridge IGCSE (R) Design and Technology syllabus with the only title available on the market. The title follows a skills-building approach that links together the theory and practical parts of the syllabus to effectively build students' key skills and knowledge, while also providing support and guidance for teachers. Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education First teaching: 2018 First examination: 2020 Be fully prepared to teach the Cambridge IGCSE (R) Design and Technology syllabus 0445 for first teaching 2018, first examination 2020 Have confidence in the content and approach of the Student Book, which is written by highly experienced teachers of Design and Technology from around the world Prepare for both the written and practical parts of the exam with guidance on the final project and exam-style questions Provides detailed information that will allow students to develop the skills they need to make the transition from theory to practical application All three optional papers (Resistant Materials, Graphic Products, and Systems and Control) covered in full, in addition to the core Product Design section Additional material for students and teachers available online at Collins Connect, including the full Student Book online, interactive quizzes and activity sheets Meets the needs of English as a Second Language learners with a fresh, visual design and tailored language Provides a fully international course with international examples, contexts and real-life case studies This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. IGCSE (R) is the registered trademark of Cambridge Assessment International Education.

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: D&T First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: June 2019 Build in-depth understanding and inspire your students to tackle design challenges both practically and creatively, with a textbook that delivers the Core Technical plus Specialist Technical and Design & Making Principles needed for the 2017 AQA D&T GCSE. The insight of our author team will build topic knowledge, including the technical principles of materials with which you are less familiar, while focusing on the specialist principles of timber, metal-based materials and polymers in more depth, to ensure you can navigate the specification with confidence whilst your students' ideas flourish. * Trusted author team of specialist teachers and those with examining experience * Build topic knowledge with learning objectives directly linked to the specification and short activities to reinforce understanding * Develop mathematical and scientific knowledge and understanding with activities that link topics to maths and science * Inspire your students as they undertake the iterative design process, with examples of imaginative design-and-make tasks, and a look at how to approach the Non-Exam Assessment * Check knowledge and understanding with end of topic summaries and practice questions for the written exam

Eleanor Estes's "The Hundred Dresses "won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, "Patternmaking for Fashion Design" offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the three major patternmaking and design principles-dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring-it provides students with all the relevant information necessary to create design patterns with accuracy regardless of their complexity. Some innovative, new information in this book include:

• Updated with modern, cutting-edge sketches and designs.
• Ribbing added to the knit section of Chapter 27.
• More materials on children's wear and swim wear.
• Knock offs.
• Fitting corrections
• Advanced design projects
• A practical introduction to patternmaking
• Complete coverage of the three steps of design patterns: dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring.
• Chapter projects

Exam Board: SQA Level: N4/5 Subject: Design & Manufacture The National 4 & 5 Design & Manufacture Course Notes provide comprehensive guidance for the entire CfE programme. Course Notes give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance. Full coverage of National 4 and 5 course with list of learning intentions Attractive layout with clear text features National 5 content clearly marked for differentiation Key questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning intention What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students feel secure Exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners commentary, self-assessment Keep your learning on track/Stretch yourself to encourage self evaluation and provide challenge for higher ability students Active learning ideas: 'You Should Already Know', lists for student to check they are confident with before proceeding AND 'Make the link' highlights links between the topic and other areas of the course and/or across different subjects Assessment questions, exemplar work, model answers, suggested topic work Teacher Notes Answers online. PDF format.

The brand new series for young readers from bestselling author Lucy Hawking. 'The more we find out about the world around us, the more we can work out other, more complicated things, such as how the universe began or how life got started on Earth . . .' Olivia Alez is delighted about finally living a life away from the royal palace in the mountains that used to be her home, after the Kingdom of Alez decides it doesn't want a royal family any more. Now she can finally give up boring princess lessons and learn about real things, like volcanoes and the ocean and space! But Olivia is completely unprepared for the world that awaits her. Thick, dark clouds hang low over the city, and the rivers that she so longed to see are choked with rubbish. And on top of it all, the weather just feels wrong. With scorching hot sun one day and torrential rainfall the next, it seems nearly impossible for the people and animals in Alez to adapt to their extreme climate. Olivia, horrified by what she sees, becomes determined to get to the bottom of Alez's dangerous weather patterns. With the help of some new friends and armed with a scientific lab coat that would make Albert Einstein jealous, Olivia sets out to solve the mystery and save Alez from climate destruction before it's too late . . .

Learn to fly at the Sty in the Sky! Calling all new recruits! Piggles, your expert instructor for all things aviation, is here to teach you everything you need to know about flying machines. Get off the ground and navigate the skies in a variety of aircraft. From the basics (how things go UP!) to tips and tricks (and ejector seats), learn all about aircraft and earn your Pink Wings! 3aEURO| 2aEURO| 1aEURO| Lift OFF! This fun and factual series teaches children about flying machines and aircraft. From forces and thrust to famous flying machines, compliment your STEM curriculum with this exciting title.

The Universal Service Desk (USD) - Implementing, controlling and improving service delivery defines what a USD is, why it is valuable to an organisation and how to build and implement one. It also discusses the evolution of the USD as part of integrated workplace management. Understand the essentials of any USD - buy this book today!

Looking for a new things to do in Minecraft Creative Mode? This is just what you need! This book is packed with fun ideas for making new designs and constructions in Creative Mode. There are sections for everything from gigantic underground lairs to sky-scraping towers, and imposing statues, the coolest home interiors, to watery builds like underwater temples and pirate ships. Lots of fan builds show you just what's possible, and every section is full of cool ideas and useful building techniques you've never thought of before. There's even a dedicated section for making redstone gadgets for all the budding engineers out there. Plus, it's 100% updated with the latest blocks and design skills to make sure you're making the coolest builds ever. It's got everything you need to turn you into a Minecraft master builder!

Take our latest Take-Along Guide outside at night! Planets, Moons and Stars provides an introduction to the bodies in our solar system. Young astronomers and explorers will learn to identify our nine planets and how to seek out the shapes in the sky that our ancestors saw thousands of years ago. This book includes information on which planets and constellations you can see with the naked eye or with binoculars, and which ones require telescopes. Statistics, illustrations, and interesting facts are included in each section. What are shooting stars? How has the night sky changed over time? Which planet has the most moons? How did Orion get its name? How old is our sun? Planets, Moons and Stars provides a fascinating mix of science, history, and legend. This is a perfect first book for a child interested in astronomy, or for a family evening field trip "to the stars."

Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of revision guide for the 2020s. This guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful former teachers of Computer Science, highly experienced examiners and a good dollop of scientific research into what makes revision most effective. Past examinations questions are essential to good preparation, improving understanding and confidence. This guide has combined revision with tips and more practice questions than you could shake a stick at. All the essential ingredients for getting a grade you can be really proud of. Each specification topic has been referenced and distilled into the key points to make in an examination for top marks. Questions on all topics assessing knowledge, application and analysis are all specifically and carefully devised throughout this book.

What inspired the work and works of geniuses like Leonardo, Einstein, Frida and Curie? These books aim to explain it to the little ones, presenting some of the greatest characters of the past in a funny and light-hearted way, to which children can easily relate. The great characters become the most powerful kind of inspiration, to push the little readers to dream a little bigger.

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. Help learners develop essential computing skills with an approach that uses real-life examples, reinforces key vocabulary and provides opportunities to learn, practise and apply throughout. - Encourage learners to become confident in working with information and ideas of their own and those of others with discussion tasks, as well as with What can you do? panels at the end of each unit for self-assessment. - Provide a clear pathway through the learning objectives with Practise tasks in each unit, as well as Go further and Challenge yourself! panels with questions designed to support differentiation. - Recap and activate learners' prior knowledge with Do you remember? activities and introduce new computing skills with Learn and Practise tasks. Contents How to use this book Term 1 Unit 1 Be a game developer Unit 2 Be a data analyst Unit 3 Computers and their functions Term 2 Unit 4 Be an animator Unit 5 Devices and networks Unit 6 Be a designer Unit 7 Be a data scientist Term 3 Unit 8 Be an artist Unit 9 Connected and sharing Unit 10 Be a storyteller Unit 11 Computers and robots Glossary

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education. Help learners develop essential computing skills with an approach that uses real-life examples, reinforces key vocabulary and provides opportunities to learn, practise and apply throughout. - Encourage learners to become confident in working with information and ideas of their own and those of others with discussion tasks, as well as with What can you do? panels at the end of each unit for self-assessment. - Provide a clear pathway through the learning objectives with Practise tasks in each unit, as well as Go further and Challenge yourself! panels with questions designed to support differentiation. - Recap and activate learners' prior knowledge with Do you remember? activities and introduce new computing skills with Learn and Practise tasks. Contents How to use this book Term 1 Unit 1 Making programs clear Unit 2: Hardware and software work together Unit 3: Be a data expert Unit 4: Be a designer Term 2 Unit 5: Networks are everywhere Unit 6: Be a storyteller Unit 7: Computers and robots Unit 8: Be a musician Term 3 Unit 9: Sending secret messages Unit 10: Be a game developer Unit 11: Be a data designer Unit 12: Be an artist Glossary

Inviting all who dare to wonder - come navigate the spectacular treasures of the night sky with bestselling and award-winning Professor Raman Prinja's inspiring look into our galaxy and beyond, published in association with Royal Observatory Greenwich. Encourage your kids to reach for the stars with this inspiring exploration of the night sky. Anyone with a view of the sky and a curious mind can be the next great Universe explorer! Wonders of the Night Sky invites children all over the world to look up - just as curious people before them have done for millennia - and to know why each wonder appears before their eyes. This beautiful book connects readers to the many parts of our Universe visible to the naked eye against the sky, explodes them on the page, then provides inspiring connections to the science behind the stellar backdrop. Professor Raman Prinja is the multi-award-winning Head of Department for Physics and Astronomy at University College London and a celebrated children's author. Professor Prinja pens this definitive look at the wonders above us, following on from the enormous success of his book Planetarium. Illustrator Jan Bielecki's striking depiction of each natural marvel will draw in readers to a lifetime of astronomical wonder. Astronomy starts with just looking up! If you like this, you'll also love the follow-up book, The Future of the Universe. Take what you've learned about the Universe and rocket trillions of years ahead in time to find out some amazing changes to come...

Packed with amazing infographics and awesome stats, this best-selling series has a fun and accessible world-record book approach. With bold and colourful illustrations, eye-catching photographs and the latest expert research, Record Breakers books are the perfect purchase for kids who love brain-bending facts! Kids can't get enough motor action and Car Record Breakers is crammed full of facts, stats, and full-page images of the most amazing automobiles on Earth. Dad will be sneaking a look, too! Extreme autos, speed machines and crazy cars! Not to mention hypercars at the cutting edge of technology, the world's fastest race cars and outrageous one-off autos. Find out what records the Porche 918 Spyder and McLaren F1 cars hold in this exciting and informative book in Carlton's latest addition to the Record Breakers series.

'A beautifully illustrated book which shows the importance of teamwork in developing new ideas' Books for Keeps On 24th November 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, selling out almost immediately. Describing the now well known theory that humans evolved through a process called natural selection, it became an instant classic and cemented Darwin as one of the greatest biologists of all time. However, he couldn't have done it without the support, encouragement and advice from those who believed in him. None more so than Joseph Hooker, his friend, confidant and fellow collector, who supported and helped Darwin when he didn't dare ask anyone else. Hooker, too, had his own adventures and made his own discoveries - many of which not only aided Darwin, but went on to change what the world knew about plants. Becoming head of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he came to be one the world's most influential botanists. Across many years, countless adventures and numerous letters, this captivating and wonderfully illustrated book tells the story of one of greatest friendships to happen to science. Publishing in partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book will show children how teamwork, curiosity, openness and trust can be the greatest tools a scientist will ever need. They might even help you change the world.