A complete beginning-level course for written Mandarin Chinese designed to teach you to read and write Mandarin quickly and efficiently! The Basic Mandarin Chinese series offers a complete introductory course superior to any other language product for Chinese. These books teach spoken and written Chinese separately, allowing you to focus on the area most important to you, and to learn the spoken and

The Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic space - as relationships shifted between the public and the private worlds, and homes were rapidly adapted to accommodate the additional roles of schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, making-spaces and more.

\"The Orphanage Girls reunite in the second installment of a moving saga series about an orphanage in London\'s East End, from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen Abandoned by her father for the second time, left scarred from the orphanage, Ellen finally finds happiness and hope - reunited with her long-lost gran. But it cannot compensate for being torn apart from her

This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels

The third installment of the gripping Sacramento series from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen

The Arctic was long imagined as an otherworldly place, thousands of miles from the warmth and familiarity of home, and nineteenth-century Britons were fascinated by the notion of the heroic explorer voyaging through harsh terrain in pursuit of the Northwest Passage. But the mapping of this vast uncharted territory was only part of the fascination with the Arctic; Explorers and those who eagerly followed

The little black dress is classic, timeless and a fashion failsafe: in short, no woman should be without one. But where to find a tailor-made LBD, one that fits you perfectly and complements your body shape? The answer is to make it yourself Even if you have never before sewn a stitch, expert dressmaker Simon Henry will guide you through the process of making the perfect little black dress. The book

As world leaders gather and a student demo gathers pace, a small flame takes hold - and suddenly an unquenchable fire bursts into life and an inferno of flames up to l00 metres high tear through the streets, threatening homes and lives. Ben - just learning to fly - finds himself at the controls of a microlite and on the trail of the

From Merry Jane, the leading voice in cannabis culture launched by world-renowned rap icon Snoop Dogg. Merry Jane\'s The CBD Solution: Wellness is an authoritative guide to using cannabis to improve wellness. This book reveals how CBD affects mood and can be used generally in health routines: in bath oils, balms, tinctures, and more. - Explains how cannabis, CBD, and other plants can change your everyday-

Build your child\'s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Mary Anning was one of the greatest fossil hunters in history. Find out how Mary\'s life changed when she found an enormous fossil on her local beach, and how her discoveries transformed the way we think about life on

With simple, step-by-step directions and a visually rich design, this unique series of instruction books for LEGO(R) creations helps young children learn and have fun simultaneously.Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Baby Brontosaurus and more. . .The Build It! series of visually rich instruction books for LEGO(R) creations is perfect for children ages 5 and up. Inside Build It! Dinosaurs,

When it comes to strategy, the mistake most managers make is thinking they have one when they don\'t.Joan Magretta, author of the bestselling book Understanding Michael Porter, has teamed up with illustrator Emile Holmewood to capture essential strategy concepts in a short, easy-to-understand, graphic format.Here you\'ll find the classic Porter frameworks—industry structure and the Five Forces,

.Written with award-winning author Joanna Nadin, with fantastic illustrations from Clare Elsom.\"Champion cyclist Chris Hoy breathes his passion for cycling into this entertaining and imaginative adventure about an ordinary boy and his big cycling

Surveys reveal that most corporations devote considerable resources to risk management. However, while the multiple benefits of enterprise risk management (ERM) are evident, many executives remain unsure how to approach it. Written by two experts on the topic, Empowered Enterprise Risk Management offers organisations a set of tools for implementing the proven holistic risk management practices that

The Superior Spider-Man returns -- but how?! Dan Slott, Mark Bagley and the artists who made Superior Spider-Man the biggest Spider-Man story of the 2010s (Stegman! Ramos! Camuncoli!) celebrate the 10th anniversary of the saga that shocked the world, with a new tale that bridges past continuity and the present day! COLLECTING: Superior Spider-Man (2023) 0,

A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Latif Al Ani\'s photographs and contemporary Iraqi artists continue to challenge the colonial appropriation of Iraq\'s ancient past Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Mesopotamian and early Islamic ruins became the focus of many Western colonial expeditions. These missions, which routinely dismissed the role and knowledge of local communities, came

Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. As they absorbed the brutal new realities of German occupation, Polish boys played at being Gestapo interrogators, and Jewish children at being ghetto guards or the