Embark on a journey across millennia and around the world, from the latest understanding of the origins of the universe, the birth of the Earth, the very first life, the age of dinosaurs, the rise of humans, ancient civilizations, colonialism, wars, technology, everyday life, global struggles for freedom and equality, pandemics – and much more. Eye-catching and informative illustrations and photographs throughout join with author Christopher Lloyd’s engaging narrative to bring to life the most remarkable true stories of all time. The 2nd edition is revised for fuller global coverage and updated with the latest research, as well as with events that have occurred since the first edition. The design has received a fresh treatment and many new photographs have been included. 

All 24 episodes from the fourth season of the Golden Globe-winning mockumentary-style sitcom following three branches of a sprawling, cheerfully dysfunctional, multi-cultural family in Los Angeles. In this season, Gloria (Sofía Vergara)'s pregnancy causes some unexpected problems for the rest of the family; Haley (Sarah Hyland) is arrested for under-aged drinking; and Gloria's ex-husband Javiér (Benjamin Bratt) introduces his new fiancée Trish (Paget Brewster) to the family. The episodes are: 'Bringing Up Baby', 'Schooled', 'Snip', 'The Butler's Escape', 'Open House of Horrors', 'Yard Sale', 'Arrested', 'Mistery Date', 'When a Tree Falls', 'Diamond in the Rough', 'New Year's Eve', 'Party Crasher', 'Fulgencio', 'A Slight at the Opera', 'Heart Broken', 'Bad Hair Day', 'Best Men', 'The Wow Factor', 'The Future Dunphys', 'Flip Flop', 'Career Day', 'My Hero', 'Games People Play' and 'Goodnight Gracie'.

All 24 episodes from the fourth season of the Golden Globe-winning mockumentary-style sitcom following three branches of a sprawling, cheerfully dysfunctional, multi-cultural family in Los Angeles. In this season, Gloria (Sofía Vergara)'s pregnancy causes some unexpected problems for the rest of the family; Haley (Sarah Hyland) is arrested for under-aged drinking; and Gloria's ex-husband Javiér (Benjamin Bratt) introduces his new fiancée Trish (Paget Brewster) to the family. The episodes are: 'Bringing Up Baby', 'Schooled', 'Snip', 'The Butler's Escape', 'Open House of Horrors', 'Yard Sale', 'Arrested', 'Mistery Date', 'When a Tree Falls', 'Diamond in the Rough', 'New Year's Eve', 'Party Crasher', 'Fulgencio', 'A Slight at the Opera', 'Heart Broken', 'Bad Hair Day', 'Best Men', 'The Wow Factor', 'The Future Dunphys', 'Flip Flop', 'Career Day', 'My Hero', 'Games People Play' and 'Goodnight Gracie'.

All 24 episodes from the third season of the Golden Globe-winning mockumentary-style sitcom following three branches of a sprawling, cheerfully dysfunctional, multi-cultural family in Los Angeles. Patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) has recently remarried, bringing hot, young, Colombian-born wife Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and her teenaged son, Manny (Rico Rodriguez), into the fold. His daughter, Claire (Julie Bowen), and her husband, Phil (Ty Burrell), have three kids, while his son, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and his gay partner, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), have just adopted a Vietnamese baby. In this season, the family's ranch holiday doesn't run entirely to plan; Claire thinks about running for public office; and Phil believes he's not long for this world. The episodes are: 'Dude Ranch', 'When Good Kids Go Bad', 'Phil On Wire', 'Door to Door', 'Hit and Run', 'Go Bullfrogs!', 'Treehouse', 'After the Fire', 'Punkin Chunkin', 'Express Christmas', 'Lifetime Supply', 'Egg Drop', 'Little Bo Bleep', 'Me? Jealous?', 'Aunt Mommy', 'Virgin Territory', 'Leap Day', 'Send Out the Clowns', 'Election Day', 'The Last Walt', 'Planes, Trains and Cars', 'Disneyland', 'Tableau Vivant' and 'Baby On Board'.

Family adventure loosely based on the novel by Jack London. Christopher Lloyd stars as Bill Hale, a recently widowed man living in Montana who has his nine-year-old granddaughter Ryann (Ariel Gade) to stay for several weeks while her parents go abroad. When Ryann finds a wounded wild dog on the back porch one night, she names him 'Buck' and dreams of taking him back to the city as a pet. But her grandfather knows that the animal will eventually have to return to the wild, and to help her understand this he starts reading Jack London's 'Call of the Wild' aloud to her each night. However, Ryann has hatched a plan of her own, and enlists the help of a local boy to train Buck up as a sled dog champion.

Animated double bill. 'Anastasia' is an animated retelling of the story of the Russian peasant girl who finds out that she is actually the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. After the revolution in 1917, she is spirited away from the Bolshevik executions of her family, and taken in by a family in Siberia. Anastasia soon sets out to reclaim her royal legacy. This version of the allegedly true story features the vocal talents of Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd and Angela Lansbury. In the spin-off 'Bartok the Magnificent', it is up to Bartok and his chum Zozi to rescue the kidnapped Prince Ivan from evil Baba Yaga - but can they act before Royal Regent Ludmilla seizes the throne?

All 24 episodes from the second season of the Golden Globe-winning mockumentary-style sitcom following three branches of a sprawling, cheerfully dysfunctional, multi-cultural family in Los Angeles. Patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) has recently remarried, bringing hot, young, Colombian-born wife Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and her teenaged son, Manny (Rico Rodriguez), into the fold. His daughter, Claire (Julie Bowen), and her husband, Phil (Ty Burrell), have three kids, while his son, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and his gay partner, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), have just adopted a Vietnamese baby. In this season, Gloria evens the score when Jay disrespects her Columbian roots, an unexpected visit from Cameron's mother upsets Mitchell, and Phil, Claire and the kids try to go a day without their electronic gizmos. The episodes comprise: 'The Old Wago', 'The Kiss', 'Earthquake', 'Strangers On a Treadmill', 'Unplugged', 'Halloween', 'Chirp', 'Manny Get Your Gun', 'Mother Tucker', 'Dance Dance Revelation', 'Slow Down Your Neighbours', 'Our Children, Ourselves', 'Caught in the Act', 'Bixby's Back', 'Princess Party', 'Regrets Only', 'Two Monkeys and a Panda', 'Boys' Night', 'The Musical Man', 'Someone to Watch Over Lily', 'Mother's Day', 'Good Cop Bad Dog', 'See You Next Fall' and 'The One That Got Away'.

Disney animated feature. Donald Duck's mischievous nephews Huey, Louie and Dewey go in search of Collie Baba's treasure - a magic lamp and its powerful genie - in the Egyptian desert. The only trouble is, the evil sorcerer Merlock has also set his sights on the priceless lamp.

Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. This handsome publication examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of paper. He used it as a support for autonomous works, including etchings, prints and drawings, as well as for his papier-colle experiments of the 1910s and his revolutionary three-dimensional 'constructions', made of cardboard, paper and string. Sometimes, his use of paper was simply determined by circumstance: in occupied Paris, where art supplies were hard to come by, he ripped up paper tablecloths to make works of art. And, of course, his works on paper comprise the preparatory stages of some of his very greatest paintings, among them Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937). With reproductions of more than 300 works of art and additional texts by Violette Andres, Stephen Coppel, Emmanuelle Hincelin, Christopher Lloyd, Johan Popelard and Claustre Rafart Planas, this sumptuous study reveals the myriad ways in which Picasso's genius seized the potential of paper at different stages throughout his career.

Earth? Space? Animals? History? STEM? Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia has them all. This beautifully illustrated, 424-page compendium of knowledge is a must-have addition to every family bookshelf and library collection! With more than 100 expert consultants from around the world, and over 1000 images, including specially commissioned illustrations and stunning photography, this single-volume Children's Encyclopedia takes Britannica s reputation for authentic, trustworthy information and brings it to a whole new audience. Unlike old encyclopedias that are structured from A to Z, this encyclopedia takes you on a journey from the beginning of time to the present day and even into the future! It explores a wide range of topics and is divided into eight chapters by subject: Universe, Earth, Matter, Life, Humans, Ancient & Medieval Times, Modern Times, and Today & Tomorrow. This book of amazing facts you can trust will provide hundreds of hours of fun learning for curious children and their families.

Best known for their superlative oils on canvas, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and numerous other Impressionists and Post-Impressionists also regularly used paper as a support for works in watercolour, gouache, pencil, tempera and that most elusive of media, pastel. Their practice transformed the status of these works from preparatory studies, to be left in the studio and not shown in public, to works of art in their own right. With insightful texts by acknowledged experts in the field, this sumptuous book brings together some 70 masterworks on paper by leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. Their bold innovations challenged traditional attitudes, radically transformed the future direction of art and ultimately paved the way for later movements such as Abstract Expressionism.

Build your own timeline of all of Shakespeare's plays with this amazing stickerbook that brings his thirty-eight dramas to life! Created in association with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and set in London's iconic Globe Theatre, this totally unique, amazing timeline stickerbook has 100 peel-off stickers of the colourful characters from Shakespeare's life and times. Beautifully illustrated and hugely engaging, the 1.7-metre-long timeline has captioned, white silhouettes showing where to place your stickers to help you build your own Shakespearean drama. Perfect for children 3-7 years old.

Christopher Lloyd, icon and iconoclast of the gardening world, was born at Great Dixter, in East Sussex, in 1921 and died there in 2006. In the years between he developed the garden at Dixter into a mecca for plantsmen and a hub of ideas and connections that spread throughout the world. And from the 1930s almost until his death he was also photographing the garden, recording it in intimate detail as it changed and developed. A carefully chosen selection of Christopher's photographs is published here, the majority for the first time. They are juxtaposed with images from the Lloyd family's earliest days at Dixter, and with photographs taken by Carol Casselden and others of the garden as it is today.

Explore the world from the beginning of time until the present, in this amazing, over-sized timeline book that brings history to life! The timeline is uniquely broken out into 12 sections, including by subject areas (such as sea, land) and continents, as well as by date, with over 1,000 pictures and captions. From the rise of the dinosaur to the creation of the smart phone, the nearly 2-metre timeline allows you to compare events across the world at any given moment in time. An easy-to-read chronicle, written in the form of newspaper articles, highlights key moments from history, such as the rise and fall of Rome and the invention of the steam engine. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a fifty-question quiz, and a pocket magnifier to make it easier to explore all the timeline's details. Perfect for 6-14 year olds, and history buffs of any age!

Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gulf Coast residents and on America as a whole. Details of the devastation were quickly reported-and misreported-by media outlets, and a slew of articles and books followed, offering a spectrum of socio-political commentaries and analyses. But beyond the reportage and the commentary, a series of fictional and creative accounts of the Katrina-experience have emerged in various mediums: novels, plays, films, television shows, songs, graphic novels, collections of photographs, and works of creative non-fiction that blur the lines between reportage, memoir, and poetry. The creative outpouring brings to mind Salman Rushdie's observation that, "Man is the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that tells itself stories to understand what kind of creature it is." This book accepts the urge behind Rushdie's formula: humans tell stories in order to understand ourselves, our world, and our place in it. Indeed, the creative output on Katrina represents efforts to construct a cohesive narrative out of the wreckage of a cataclysmic event. However, this book goes further than merely cataloguing the ways that Katrina narratives support Rushdie's rich claim. This collection represents a concentrated attempt to chart the effects of Katrina on our cultural identity; it seeks to not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but to explore the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. The body of work that sprung out of Katrina offers a unique critical opportunity to better understand the genres that structure our stories and the ways stories reflect and produce culture and identity. These essays raise new questions about the representative genres themselves. The stories are efforts to represent and understand the human condition, but so are the organizing principles that communicate the stories. That is, Katrina-narratives present an opportunity to interrogate the ways that specific narrative structures inform our understanding and develop our cultural identity. This book offers a critical processing of the newly emerging and diverse canon of Katrina texts.

Build you own timeline of all of Shakespeare's plays with this amazing sticker book that brings his thirty-eight dramas to life! Created in association with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and set in London's iconic Globe Theatre, this totally unique, amazing timeline sticker book has 100 peel-off stickers of the colorful characters from Shakespeare's life and times. Beautifully-illustrated and hugely engaging, the 5.5-foot long timeline has captioned, white silhouettes showing where to place your stickers to help you build your own Shakespearean drama. Perfect for children 3 - 7 years old.

A compelling and authoritative overview of the drawings of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most celebrated and intriguing figures in the history of art. Vincent van Gogh’s (1853–1890) drawings are some of the most familiar and expressive in the history of art. Van Gogh believed that drawing was the ‘root of everything’, and this was reflected in his remarkable output of over 1,000 works during his short and tragic life; many of them personal, often lonely explorations of the emerging modern world. This book is the first comprehensive account to celebrate the singularity of the artist’s achievements in this field. Arranged broadly thematically, from drawings of potato harvesters to depictions of knotted poplars, pensive studies from life to a sketch of the famous Yellow House in Arles, eminent art historian and curator Christopher Lloyd encourages readers to consider the artist’s drawings from a fresh viewpoint: documenting successes and failures, experiments, trials and disappointments. Primarily self-taught, Van Gogh’s approach to drawing was instinctual, but he soon recognized the importance of mastering the grammar of art – anatomy, foreshortening, perspective – as well as materials and techniques, in order to express his emotional responses to a subject as vividly as possible. With examples from the artist’s voluminous and emotionally charged family correspondence, sketchbooks, and comparative artworks by the Old Masters and contemporaries, this engaging study outlines why drawing is central to Van Gogh’s oeuvre, and equal to the intensity and reputation of his paintings. Featuring works from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and many other important collections in Europe and the US, this beautifully illustrated volume offers an extensive interpretation of the artist’s drawings, beyond what has been published to date.

'To see a meadow in bloom is a great delight - it's alive and teeming with life, mysterious, dynamic . . .' So Christopher Lloyd began his much-admired instructive and celebratory account of meadows, first published in 2004. Few people knew more about meadow gardening than Lloyd, who spent much of his long life developing the flowering tapestries in his garden at Great Dixter, creating scenes of great beauty and a place of pilgrimage for lovers of wildflowers and wildlife. In Meadows he imparted that lifetime's learning, exploring the development and management of meadow areas, explaining how to establish a meadow in a garden setting, describing the hundreds of beautiful grasses, bulbs and perennials and annuals that thrive in different meadow conditions and detailing how to grow them. Lloyd's classic text remains at the heart of this new book, which also includes - as well as much stunning new photography - an extensive introduction by Fergus Garrett, Lloyd's head gardener.

Explore the history of Great Britain, from Stonehenge to the present day, in this amazing, over-sized timeline book that brings history to life! Created in association with the National Trust, the timeline is uniquely broken out by royal house, as well as by date, with over 1,000 pictures and captions. From the age of the dinosaur to the 2012 London Olympics, the two-metre-long timeline allows you to compare the political, scientific, religious and literary achievements of Brits at any given moment in time. An easy-to-read chronicle, written in the form of newspaper articles, highlights key moments in more detail, such as the battle of Hastings, the London Fire, and Queen Elizabeth II becoming the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a fifty-question quiz, and a pocket magnifier to make it easier to explore all the timeline's details. Perfect for 6-14 year olds, and history buffs of any age!

EXPERIENCE THE AMAZING plays of William Shakespeare on a laminated 10-foot timeline wallchart set in the iconic Globe Theatre. Each one of the thirty-eight plays includes a succinct plot summary, three key dramatic moments, cast members, and famous quotes. The timeline on the bottom describes key events during the life of Shakespeare and around the world. This giant edition is specially designed to be unfolded and stuck up on a wall and makes a spectacular display for any library, bedroom, classroom, or anywhere curious people dwell. What on Earth? Posterbooks are fully laminated to give them extra durability and are easy to mount on a wall. Developed in partnership with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

So you think you're special? You think that just because people have built giant cities, invented pop-up toasters and put a person on the Moon that they are somehow different from other living things? Well it's time to think again! Humanimal shows the inextricable interconnections of the human and animal worlds in ways you never before imagined... Inside you will discover how slime moulds can solve how to navigate through a maze; how rats tickle and laugh out loud; how elephants have funerals for their lost loved ones; how bees vote in elections to decide where to locate their nests; how crows use cars to crack nuts and a whole lot more! This oversized, richly illustrated, mesmerising exploration shows that humans and other animals don't just live on the same planet, they also share many of the same patterns of behaviour, making us all fellow players in the drama that is life on Earth.

In this engaging and fascinating exchange of personal letters, two of the most influential gardeners of all time compare notes on successes and failures in their two very different gardens. As Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto convey their gardening experiences, share gossip and discuss life and nature, the horticultural expertise of these two long-established friends and distinguished gardeners gives these inspirational letters a life of their own. Beth Chatto's garden in East Anglia is a place of pilgrimage for plant lovers, while Christopher Lloyd was one of the major figures in twentieth century gardening, transforming the gardens of his home Great Dixter in East Sussex. Friday 16 February Dear Beth, Today was straight out of my idea of heaven - the first such day this year and the first time that all the winter crocuses have opened wide, in appreciation. Armed with my kneeling pad, I dropped to my knees to savour the honey scent of C. chrysanthus 'Snow Bunting'. Rosemary Alexander, who spends more and more time at Stoneacre (the National Trust property near Maidstone, which she rents), expressed doubts on whether it wouldn't be better to concentrate on snowdrops, seeing that crocuses spend so much of their time in an obstinately closed state, loudly proclaiming 'this isn't good enough for me'. I can see her point, of course. [...] Tuesday 20 February Dear Christo, What a good thing you enjoyed your crocuses when you had the chance! Today we are blanketed in snow once more, with a wild north wind hurling stinging dry snow horizontally past the windows. Your way of having crocuses (and many other bulbs) naturalized in short grass is a far more effective way of growing them than in conventional borders. Left to seed themselves in little knots and ribbons of colour they appear like embroidery across a carpet before something else takes over the design. [...]