Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset. The Essential Manager's Handbook is packed with practical, no-nonsense advice covering everything you need to know about acquiring and developing management skills.

Jam-packed with information on all the key management skills including leadership, negotiation, effective communication and maximising performance, The Essential Manager's Handbook is the indispensable guide to effective management. With key quotes, bright visuals, and breakdowns by subject, The Essential Manager's Handbook is accessible and easy-to-use.

Understand how to deal with challenges with advice from experts and step-by-step instructions to help you gain valuable management skills for life.

Just discovered you're pregnant? Feeling a little bit lost? The Pregnancy Encyclopedia has the answers to all your questions, including the ones you haven't even thought of yet.

From early pregnancy symptoms such as morning sickness to having a baby and breastfeeding, The Pregnancy Encyclopedia covers everything that you need to know. Top experts in the pregnancy field offer up encyclopedic knowledge on every topic from trying for a baby right through to caring for your newborn up to 3 months and everything in between, including pregnancy symptoms. The Pregnancy Encyclopedia is set out in an accessible question-and-answer format so you can find the answer to your burning questions, including information on morning sickness, c-sections, breastfeeding, baby clothes and even a due date pregnancy calculator.

The Pregnancy Encyclopedia is the trusted back-up you need at one of the most important times in your life.

This is a new edition of this ultimate cookbook for curry-lovers.

Take your taste buds on a global curry adventure. Invite top chefs, writers and cooks into your kitchen, from Vivek Singh (The Cinnamon Club), Das Sreedharan (Rasa Restaurants) to David Thompson (Nahm) and they'll share their secrets for authentic, taste-tingling curries that are easy to create at home. Learn how to make authentic dishes like Thai green jungle curry, chicken makhani and South African bunny chow. You'll discover which ingredients make each dish special, and follow step-by-step techniques that make every recipe clear.

This updated edition comes with 20 brand new recipes with new step-by-step sequences. Tried and tested by experts using readily available ingredients and exquisite flavours - red hot results are guaranteed every time.

All new activity collection with the ultimate blend of facts and funPerfect non-fiction books for kids, the Ultimate Factivity Collection is packed with exciting activities, fun challenges and interesting puzzles designed to inspire creativity. Bursting with puzzles, games, drawing activities and more than 500 stickers, alongside amazing facts and information, Marvel The Avengers Ultimate Factivity Collection keeps you entertained for hours. Learn all about Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk and many more Super Heroes, and use the stickers inside to create your own adventures. Packed with all your favourite Super Heroes and their enemies, you'll have so much fun with this exciting, interactive Factivity Collection. With Marvel The Avengers Ultimate Factivity Collection, learning has never been so fun! (c) 2014 MARVEL

DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooks

Discover Italy with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - step back in time in Rome, explore the stunning Tuscan countryside, tuck into pizza in Naples or ride the waterways in Venice. The DK Eyewitness Guide to Italy covers the must-see sights and the hidden backstreets, so you won't miss a thing.

- Gorgeous, all-new colour photography so you can imagine yourself there

- Reasons to love Italy: incredible architecture, natural wonders, breathtaking beaches - what will yours be?

- See Italy from a different angle - 36 pages of fresh ideas for exploring this spectacular country

- A year-long calendar of events in Italy gives a selection of local events and festivals for all seasons

- Expert advice covers the practical stuff: get ready, get around and stay safe

- Over 70 detailed, colour maps help you navigate the country with ease

- Expert tips to make memories that last - where to snap and share the perfect photo, take in stunning views and escape the crowds

- The most authentic places to stay, eat, drink and shop

- Easy-to-follow walks and itineraries take you on a tour of each area, with plenty of eat and drink stops en route

- Hand-drawn illustrations show the inside of the must-see attractions, including Venice's Basilica di San Marco, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Vatican

- Covers Venice; the Veneto and Friuli; Trentino-Alto Adige; Milan; Lombardy and the Lakes; Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont; Liguria; Rome; Lazio; Florence; Tuscany; Umbria; Le Marche; Emilia-Romagna; Naples; Campania; Abruzzo, Molise and Puglia; Basilicata and Calabria; Sicily; and Sardinia

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italy is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you create your own unique trip.

Travelling with kids? Try our DK Eyewitness Family Guide to Italy.

About DK Eyewitness Travel: For 25 years, DK's beautifully practical Eyewitness guides have been combining inspiring ideas and expert advice with easy-to-read maps and vivid photography to inform and enrich your holiday. This year they have been given a stunning new look that you will love even more. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

Meet the colourful unicorns as they explore a magical kingdom in this cute baby board book with flaps to lift and pop-ups to enjoy.

Join Moonbeam the purple unicorn as she searches for a friend in the enchanted forest and Sunshine the yellow unicorn as she discovers a secret castle. Which unicorn is hiding behind the colourful rainbow? Lift the flap to see!

A magical addition to the best-selling Pop-up Peekaboo series, Pop-Up Peekaboo! Unicorn is a read-aloud children's book that encourages first learning by introducing little ones to colours and adorable characters. Both parent and child will have fun turning the pages, lifting the flaps, and playing peekaboo. The perfect gift for preschoolers, this book is certain to make them giggle in delight! This sturdy baby book is ideal for preschool play and will keep toddlers entertained time and time again.

This children's book covers everything you need to know about birds, from eagles, owls, and parrots, to hummingbirds, penguins, and birds of paradise.

Find out how birds from around the world fly, feed, sense the world, communicate, build nests, protect their eggs, raise chicks, keep their feathers in top condition, defend themselves, and travel in search of food and nesting sites.

Packed with information, photographs, and colourful illustrations, DKfindout! Birds is the ultimate kids bird book.

The DKfindout! series introduces children to a range of exciting topics in a fun, engaging way. Checked by specialist consultants and an educational expert this is not only a source of information you can trust, but one that is age-appropriate and supportive of schoolwork. Ranging from core topics, to more specialized subjects, the DKfindout! series will inspire and delight kids.

Find your perfect job here! From social media and IT careers to jobs in architecture, hospitality, medicine, science, law, and the environment, this comprehensive and updated new edition features more than 400 cool careers.

Do you have a passion but can't work out how to make a career out of it? Do you want to change career but don't know where to start? Are you worried about career development? Or are you overwhelmed by so much advice you are lost in a sea of information? You're not the only one!

The Careers Handbook is here to help, offering practical and inspirational advice about our constantly changing job market. This revised edition reveals the most exciting jobs in data science and online platforms, whilst also arming you with all the information you need for career success in more "traditional" areas, from accounting to teaching.

This indispensable guide is ideal for teenagers and newly qualified graduates. Career counsellors will also find this a trustworthy companion for helping students with their future career planning. So, whether you want to become a nurse or computer games developer, a chef or cyber-security analyst (or you simply have no idea!), this book is your ultimate careers source. Concise and combining a user-friendly approach with a bold, graphic design, The Careers Handbook is like having your very own career coach.

Welcome to the world of the Fingerlings! Zoe and Boris the bouncy monkeys, Gigi the bubbly unicorn, Marge the bookworm sloth and all their friends are excited for you to join their adventures. This super-fun activity book is packed with puzzles, games and more than 500 stickers. The perfect book for Fingerlings fans. Fingerlings are mini interactive pet robots that curl around a user's finger and come to life when played with, responding to touch, motion and sound. Each Fingerling comes with over 40 sounds and animations, including blinking eyes, monkey arms that grip, and more.

Your journey starts here. We've reimagined and updated our iconic DK Eyewitness travel guides. This brand new Portugal guide, now in a lightweight format, has been expertly curated with all new photography plus DK's much-loved illustrations and maps. - Gorgeous, all-new colour photography so you can imagine yourself there - Reasons to love Portugal: stunning beaches, colourful azulejos, historic towns - what will yours be? - See Portugal from a different angle: 22 pages of fresh ideas for exploring this spectacular country - A year-long calendar of events in Portugal gives a selection of local events and festivals for all seasons - Expert advice covers the practical stuff: get ready, get around and stay safe - Over 20 detailed colour maps help you navigate the country with ease - Expert tips to make memories that last - where to snap and share the perfect photo, take in stunning views and escape the crowds - The most authentic places to stay, eat, drink and shop - Easy-to-follow walks and itineraries take you on a tour of each area, with plenty of food and drink stops en route - Hand-drawn illustrations show the inside of the must-see attractions, including Sintra's Palacio da Pena, Belem's Mosteiro dos Jeronimos and Coimbra's University - Covers Lisbon - Alfama, Baixa and Avenida, Bairro Alto and Estrela, Belem and Beyond the Centre - the Lisbon Coast, Estremadura and Ribatejo, the Beiras, Porto, Douro and Tras-os-Montes, Minho, Alentejo, the Algarve, Madeira and the Azores DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Portugal is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you create your own unique trip. Planning a city break? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Lisbon. About DK Eyewitness Travel: For 25 years, DK's beautifully practical Eyewitness guides have been combining inspiring ideas and expert advice with easy-to-read maps and vivid photography to inform and enrich your holiday. Now they have a stunning new look that you will love even more. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

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!

An unbeatable, pocket-sized travel guide packed with insider tips and ideas, colour maps, top 10 lists and a laminated pull-out map, all designed to help you see the very best of Corfu and the Ionian Islands. Step back in time at the Mon Repos Estate on Corfu, marvel at the Melissani Cave in Kefallonia, laze on beaches in Zakynthos or explore the elegant shops of Lefkada Town. From top 10 restaurants to top 10 things to do for free, discover the best of the Ionian Islands with this easy-to-use travel guide. Inside Top 10 Corfu and the Ionian Islands: - Six easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week - Top 10 lists showcase the best attractions in the Ionian Islands, covering the Achilleion Palace, Corfu Old Town, Zakynthos Town and more - Free laminated pull-out map of Corfu and the Ionian Islands, plus over four full-colour area maps - In-depth area guides explore the most interesting Ionian Islands, with the best places for shopping, going out and sightseeing - Colour-coded chapters divided by area make it easy to find information quickly and plan your day - Essential travel tips, including our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop and sightsee, plus useful transport, visa and health information - Colour maps help you navigate with ease - Covers Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefallonia, Lefkada, Ithaki, Paxi, Antipaxi and more Staying for longer and looking for a comprehensive guide to the Ionian Islands? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide The Greek Islands.

This children's history book has everything you need to know about medieval castles, including knights, jousting, sieges, drawbridges, and forts.

Learn about castle design, from the earliest motte and bailey styles to stone fortresses and beautiful castles in Japan and India. See some of the most impressive castles in the world, and stock up on amazing facts. Includes information, artefacts, and colourful pages, DKfindout! Castles brings the medieval world to life.

The DKfindout! series introduces children to a range of exciting topics in a fun, engaging way. Checked by specialist consultants and an educational expert this is not only a source of information you can trust, but one that is age-appropriate and supportive of schoolwork. Ranging from core topics, to more specialized subjects, the DKfindout! series will inspire and delight kids.

Bursting with fascinating facts and the latest breathtaking images, this space book for children brings the wonders of the Solar System to life. Find out about the never-ending storms on Jupiter. Learn about the towering volcanoes of Venus - all 1,600 of them, and see the Valles Marineris on Mars - a canyon that is ten times longer than Earth's Grand Canyon. Find out many more fascinating "super" facts about the cosmos with SuperSpace. Based on recent research and discoveries, SuperSpace showcases everything you need to know about the Universe - from the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets as well as the technology used to explore its unimaginable depths. Fabulous cutaway artworks help to reveal the inner workings of the Sun, planets, and moons as well as space stations and space probes. SuperSpace brings the cosmos to life in a visually compelling and informative way, making it a must-have book for every budding space enthusiast.

DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooks

Find your corner of Paris with this essential travel guide to this beautiful city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you've even packed your case - get a bird's eye view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower, admire the art at the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre, or take a stroll along the Canal St-Martin. The DK Eyewitness Guide to Paris covers the must-see sights and the hidden corners, so you won't miss a thing.

- Gorgeous, all-new colour photography so you can imagine yourself there

- Reasons to love Paris: iconic landmarks, mouth-watering cuisine, lively local markets and haute couture - what will yours be?

- See Paris from a different angle - 26 pages of fresh ideas for exploring the city

- A year-long calendar of events in Paris gives a selection of local events and festivals for all seasons

- Sturdy, laminated pull-out city map gives transport information and Metro map

- Expert advice covers the practical stuff: get ready, get around and stay safe

- Over 15 detailed, colour maps help you navigate the city with ease

- Expert tips to make memories that last - where to snap and share the perfect photo, take in stunning views and escape the crowds

- The most authentic places to stay, eat, drink and shop

- Easy-to-follow walks and itineraries take you on a tour of each area, with plenty of eat and drink stops en route.

- Hand-drawn illustrations show the inside of the must-see attractions, including Notre-Dame, Sainte-Chapelle, the Sacré-Coeur and the Panthéon

- Covers Île de la Cité and Île St-Louis; the Marais; Bastille and Oberkampf; République and Canal St-Martin; Belleville and Ménilmontant; La Villette; Montmartre and Pigalle; Opéra and Grands Boulevards; Louvre and Les Halles; Eiffel Tower and Invalides; Champs-Élysées and Chaillot; St-Germain-des-Prés; Latin Quarter; Jardin des Plantes and Place d'Italie; Montparnasse and Jardin du Luxembourg; plus sights beyond the city.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Paris is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you create your own unique trip.

DK Eyewitness: winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017.

Staying for longer? Try our DK Eyewitness guide to France. About DK Eyewitness Travel: For 25 years, DK's beautifully practical Eyewitness guides have been combining inspiring ideas and expert advice with easy-to-read maps and vivid photography to inform and enrich your holiday. This year they have been given a stunning new look that you will love even more. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change. Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers through to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the evolution of modern thinking, from the ideas of Thomas Malthus, Henry Thoreau, and others, right the way through to the political and scientific developments of the modern era, including the birth of the environmental movement and the Paris Agreement. The ideal introduction to one of the most important subjects of our time.

Puzzled by past tenses? Confused by comparatives? This clearly structured and beautifully presented workbook is packed with grammar practice activities that make learning English grammar incredibly easy. The English for Everyone English Grammar Guide Practice Book is an essential companion to the English for Everyone English Grammar Guide, a comprehensive reference book that makes even the trickiest grammar rules clear and simple. The Practice Book mirrors the unit-by-unit structure of the Grammar Guide. Each Practice Book unit is full of carefully graded grammar exercises to drill and reinforce the grammar you have learned in the corresponding English Grammar Guide unit. These exercises will help you build up your confidence and become more fluent, giving you the chance to practise using the most important English grammar constructions again and again. Ideal for learners at all levels, and covering CEFR levels A1 to C1, the English for Everyone English Grammar Guide Practice Book presents basic (beginner), intermediate, and advanced English grammar in one easy-to-navigate book. Like all books in the innovative English for Everyone series, it uses a visual learning method: many of the exercises are accompanied by attractive illustrations that put grammar practice points into context and give you visual cues to help you understand the exercises. Whether you want to improve your grammar for work, study, travel, or exams, the English for Everyone Grammar Guide Practice Book offers you a simple way to learn English grammar, remember it, and use it with confidence.

A bumper children's sticker book covering everything you need to know about all the different dinosaurs, from Diplodocus to Tyrannosaurus Rex, with more than 600 dinosaur stickers for kids to enjoy!

Every page is filled with dinosaur related activities, quizzes and interesting dinosaur facts. Hunt for stickers, learn about all of the creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago and create amazing prehistoric scenes. Take a trip back in time with the Dinosaur Sticker Encyclopedia, the perfect gift for every budding paleontologist!

Do you know your Mike from your Mater? Or your Evelyn from your EVE? Dive into the wonderful world of Disney.Pixar with this colourful, fact-filled guide to your favourite Pixar characters. Find out more about the greatest and funniest heroes, villains, sidekicks and oddballs from across all 21 movies - including the newest characters from Toy Story 4. Whether your favourite character is Woody, Dory, Lightning McQueen, Edna, Bing Bong or Dante, the Disney.Pixar Character Encyclopedia lets you relive their best movie moments and latest adventures, discover special "did you know?" facts, and much more. Now featuring more than 290 characters, this new edition has been updated and expanded to include characters from Monsters University, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, Cars 3, Coco, The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. Wondering what breed of dog lovable Dug is, or who first owned Mrs. Potato Head? Or how far Elastigirl's limbs stretch, or what Sadness does in her spare time? The Disney.Pixar Character Encyclopedia is the book for you!

Discover the world's most incredible things that go with specially commissioned LEGO® models. Children will love learning about their favourite modes of transport, including airplanes, trains, boats, cars, and even futuristic and fantasy vehicles. LEGO® Amazing Vehicles is packed full of fascinating facts and images of more than 100 models of cool things that go. Best of all, it comes with 61 bricks to build four exclusive LEGO mini-vehicles!

Colourful scenes showcase fan-built LEGO vehicle models accompanied by fascinating facts, data, and record-breaking information about the machines. From trains and tractors to aircraft, spacecraft, and automobiles, this book showcases every kind of machine that moves-from past to present, and far into the future. Timelines featuring micro-build models drive readers through the history of transport.

The models are built with mostly standard bricks. Tips and photographic breakdowns will inspire children aged 7-9 to build their own LEGO vehicles. A combination of clear photos, authoritative text, fun facts, and classic LEGO humour help children learn as they build and play.

This trivia-packed book is full of facts and quizzes about all your favourite Marvel Super Heroes and villains, including Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, Captain America, Black Panther, Loki, Scarlet Witch, Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy and the Avengers.

Are you a Marvel comics superfan? Find out and add to your knowledge of Marvel heroes, Super Hero teams and villains with fact-packed spreads and brain-tingling questions! Test your family and entertain your friends with hours of tricky trivia. Learn everything there is to know about the Marvel universe, including characters, vehicles, super-powers, and secret identities. Find out what country is ruled by Black Panther. What is Ant-Man's real name? What is Yondu's super-power? Can you name Doctor Strange's secret base? Discover the answers to these questions - and many, many more - in the Marvel Ultimate Fact Book.

What do you want to be when you grow up? Explore the world of jobs people do with this sturdy tabbed board book for babies and toddlers. With lots of colourful, fun-filled pictures, things to name and talk about, as well as simple questions and activities, this baby book about jobs is ideal for preschool learning. Share it together and help your inquisitive toddler develop their speaking, listening, and observational skills as they learn to identify objects.

Whether your little one dreams of being a doctor, a chef, a mechanic, or a builder, they will love learning about different jobs. 13 picture tabs invite little ones to explore the world of going to work, as they turn the pages by themselves and get hands-on with their learning. Babies can go straight to their favourite pages using the easy-grip picture tabs, which are perfect for little hands, where they'll find vibrant images of everyday objects. Your toddler will enjoy pointing to and naming the clear photographs of objects, from a firefighter with her helmet, torch, and hose pipe, to a zoo keeper with zoo animals, to a pilot, plane, passport, and tickets - there is something for every child to enjoy. Lively questions such as "What meal shall we cook in the kitchen?" and "Can you make a loud noise like a fire engine?" encourage interaction and learning through play.

What are you waiting for? Let's go to work!