This luxury advent calendar contains a beautifully illustrated storybook behind each window.

Count down the days to Christmas with magical tales of princes and princesses, elves and emperors and many more enchanting characters. As the big day approaches, there are plenty of festive treats including The 12 Days of Christmas and the timeless story of The Nativity.

The full set of 24 mini-books forms a little library that can be treasured and enjoyed for many years to come.

From fronted adverbials to isosceles triangles, this book is packed with activities to build children's confidence around key English and Maths concepts. Friendly animal guides make the learning process engaging and fun. Topics are explained with clear visuals and plenty of practice questions, and there are notes for parents at the end of each section. Includes six sections: grammar and punctuation, spelling, comprehension, fractions, decimals and geometry. Ideal for school support, exam preparation or holiday practice.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me... Here are all twelve days of Christmas, from the festive rhyme, wonderfully illustrated by Violeta Dabija and full of extra details for little ones to spot. With online audio.

Welcome to an amazing world of incredible creatures, funny monsters and daring explorers. Guide a kayak through the Arctic ice, solve the riddles of the Sphinx and put the bucking broncos into separate pens. Then follow the steps to draw little aliens, write a story about superpowers and make an impressively loud noise with just a thin piece of paper.

This luxury advent calendar contains a beautifully illustrated storybook behind each window. Count down the days to Christmas with magical tales of princes and princesses, dragons and dinosaurs. As the big day approaches, there are festive treats, including a retelling of Jingle Bells, with a QR code so you can sing along; and Charles Dickens' classic ghost story, A Christmas Carol, specially rewritten for little ones. The full set of 24 books forms a miniature library that can be treasured and enjoyed for many years to come.

Did you know there’s a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first computer bugs were actual insects and that most of the internet is under water? This fascinating book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, bright, infographic illustrations, a glossary and index, and links to specially selected websites to find out more.

Ali and Ayeesha are excited. It is Ramadan, and that means it will soon be time for the whole family to come together and celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Join them as they prepare for the festival. Add over 200 stickers to bring the beautifully illustrated scenes to life.

Make children maths stars with this fun-packed book, bursting with multiplying and dividing activities. Puzzles include using times tables to complete a jungle maze, dividing treasure between pirates, and lots more. Includes spaces for working out, extra practice pages and quick quizzes to check what's been learned.

This enchanting advent boxset contains a wonderful, ready-made library of 24 beautifully illustrated storybooks. Count down the days to Christmas with magical tales of princes and princesses, elves and emperors, a puppet and even a dinosaur. A mix of fairy tales, traditional stories and timeless classics, the stories offer something for everyone. As the big day approaches, there are plenty of festive treats to share, including The 12 Days of Christmas, A Christmas Carol and, of course, the story of the nativity. Even after the excitement of Christmas has faded, the exciting stories in the boxset can be enjoyed again and again, for many years to come. Titles in this set: Cinderella The Dinosaur Who Lost His Roar Little Red Riding Hood The Emperor and the Nightingale The Three Little Pigs The Nutcracker The Gingerbread Man The Ant and the Grasshopper Jack And the Beanstalk The Frog Prince The Jungle Book The Twelve Days of Christmas Goldilocks and the Three Bears The Elves and the Shoemaker The Wizard of Oz The Princess and the Pea The Story of Pinocchio Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs The Emperor's New Clothes Picture Books: Aladdin 'Twas the Night before Christmas The Story of Baby Jesus A Christmas Carol The Snow Queen

This work explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in Europe in this period. By taking a gendered approach, criminal prosecution and punishment are discussed in relation to the victims and perpretrators. This volume investigates various representations of femininity by assessing female experiences including wife-beating, divorce, abortion, prostitution, property crime and embezzlement at the work place. In addition, issues such as neglect, sexual abuse and the invention of the juvenile offender are analyzed.

An engaging and accessible introduction with information on exactly 100 science topics that will fascinate and inspire children - and adults too. Packed with facts and colorful infographics on both familiar and less familiar topics from the Earth's magnetic poles to spider venom and black holes. A brilliant and wide-ranging introduction to an important school subject - and essential for general knowledge too. Includes internet links to specially selected websites where readers can discover even more surprising science facts.

A pocket-sized book packed full of fun, mind-bending puzzles and games. Children can put their brain power to the test by figuring out a pattern puzzle, doing space sums on Saturn and solving riddles. Full of colorful illustrations and space to draw, color and complete the brain teasers, this book is perfect for long journeys and other quiet times. Includes a page of answers at the back of the book.

This colourful write-in book is packed with maths tips and puzzles, including doodling, dot-to-dots, mazes and more. It covers adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, times tables, fractions, measuring and shapes, with all the answers at the back of the book.

Ali and Ayeesha are excited. It is Ramadan, and that means it will soon be time for the whole family to come together and celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Join them as they prepare for the festival. Add over 200 stickers to bring the beautifully illustrated scenes to life.

Learn about all kinds of measuring with this entertaining activity book, including length, perimeter, volume, mass and time. Puzzles include working out the area of gingerbread houses, measuring the length of a maze, seeing how much animals weigh and more. There's even a cut-out ruler for hands-on practice. Quizzes after each section let children test what they've learned.

It's Christmas Eve. The children are snuggled, safe in their beds. Not even a mouse is stirring when something is heard outside... What could it be? Wonderful illustrations by John Joven introduce the famous Christmas rhyme about a very special visitor to a new generation of readers and listeners. With free online audio.

A beautifully illustrated book filled with high-contrast black-and-white images proven to be easy for babies to focus on. Babies will love looking at the animals and hearing their names from the simple labels above. The padded 'soft touch' hardback format make this book an ideal gift for sharing.

Did you know you cry two types of tears? And up to 30 trillion red blood cells pass through your heart in a minute? With colorful, infographic-style illustrations this informative book is packed with surprising facts and useful information on exactly 100 topics about the human body. A useful reference book for home, school and general knowledge quizzes.

This work explores the construction of gender norms and examines how they were reflected and reinforced by legal institutional practices in Europe in this period. By taking a gendered approach, criminal prosecution and punishment are discussed in relation to the victims and perpretrators. This volume investigates various representations of femininity by assessing female experiences including wife-beating, divorce, abortion, prostitution, property crime and embezzlement at the work place. In addition, issues such as neglect, sexual abuse and the "invention" of the juvenile offender are analyzed.

Everything a good spy needs to know about secret codes, disguises, shadowing and observation skills. This essential guide to spying is packed with useful skills and tips, such as shaking off a trail, scrambling secret messages and creating amazing disguises. Spies in training can use the activity pages to create camouflage headbands, decode messages and spot enemy spies in crowds of people. A brand new edition of a much-loved Usborne classic, sure to entertain and delight a brand new generation of spies.

A pocket-sized book packed full of fun, mind-bending puzzles and games. Children can put their brain power to the test by figuring out a pattern puzzle, doing space sums on Saturn and solving riddles. Full of colourful illustrations and space to draw, colour and complete the brain teasers, this book is perfect for long journeys and other quiet times. Includes a page of answers at the back of the book.

Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by cultural anxieties of a modernity in crisis. Based on an exceptionally rich source material (e.g., criminal court cases, doctors' case books, personal diaries, feature films, plays and literary works), this study explores different attitudes and experiences of those women who sought to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and those who helped or hindered them. It analyzes the dichotomy between medical theory and practice, and questions common assumptions, i.e. that abortion was "a necessary evil," which needed strict regulation and medical control; or that all back-street abortions were dangerous and bad. Above all, the book reveals women's own voices, frequently contradictory and ambiguous: having internalized medical ideas they often also adhered to older notions of reproduction which opposed scientific approaches.

A pioneering contribution to the cultural history of medicine exploring issues as diverse as dissection of the heart, childbirth, masturbation, animal care, hermaphrodites, orthopedics, "miracle" drugs, smallpox and sex advice in different European cultures from the 1600s to the present day. Each case study illustrates various roles of mediation; reconciling conflicting ideas in the medical encounter; as an instrument of domination, or conversely, of resistance. Roy Porter's brilliant foreword conveys the methodological significance as well as the pleasure of these essays.

In the first three decades of this century Germany was concerned to protect its Volkskorper, the body politic, from the ravages of a social "disease" which affected all western Europe. This "disease" was a decline in the birth rate. The "solution" to this "disease" involved interfering with the Frauenkorper, the female body. German women's sexuality was to be controlled so that the number of healthy children required for a powerful state would be produced. However the politics of reproduction carried a potential conflict between Volkskorper and Frauenkorper, between collective and individual interests. This conflict is central to this study which analyses the tactics which the German state and its agencies used to regulate the size and balance of population to accord with their social, economic and political beliefs rather than with the views and wishes of individuals. During the Weimar Republic individual women and families were the target of intervention in four different areas of policy those of maternity, sexuality, contraception and abortion. In this study birth control is understood to encompass all the popular practices of avoiding unwanted children as well as the two differ

This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised abortion laws offered women a new measure of control over their lives. But the new politics of the body also increased state intervention, the power of the medical profession and the tendency to sacrifice women's rights to national interests whenever the Volk seemed in danger of 'racial decline'.