Reference

This comprehensive visual guide to World War I is a leading title in the best-selling Eyewitness series of reference books for children. Real-life photographs and accessible text are designed to give younger readers an insight into one of the worst conflicts in history.

From the causes of the war to the challenges in battle and the consequences afterwards, Eyewitness World War I covers the duration of this intense four-year battle on land, sea, and sky. Details of life in the muddy trenches and stories told by soldiers help girls and boys today understand the scale of the loss of life, how the world was changed forever, and why the victims must never be forgotten.

Whether children are looking for help on a school project or are simply interested in global history, this book provides all the information and interaction they need in the form of pictures, illustrations, facts, statistics, and timelines.

Included with this groundbreaking book is a giant wall chart documenting the history of World War I, together with more than 250 photographs of people and places involved in the conflict.

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“This comprehensive visual encyclopedia explores World War II in fascinating detail and explains why this global event must never be forgotten.?

World War II: Visual Encyclopedia shows children the causes, battles, people, and aftermath, while cutting-edge CGI technology brings infamous events back to life. Learn about weaponry, tanks, ships, aircraft, campaigns, and military strategies. Read firsthand accounts of major campaigns and battles throughout the war. Uncover hundreds of biographies of wartime leaders and brave soldiers who served on the battlefields. Find out how technological advances influenced the final outcome.

?Key information is available at a glance, alongside data boxes, facts and stats, and inspiring quotations. From the fastest fighter plane to the longest battle, you’ll discover everything you ever wanted to know, and much, much more.

Whether you’re a history buff or simply want help on a school project, this standout reference covers every aspect of World War II and the important part it has played in world history.”

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Whether you’re travelling long haul with leatherback turtles across the Pacific, snoozing with sea otters or ice bathing with a walrus, this book celebrates the very prescient topic of the world’s oceans with LucyLetherland’s animal characters.

Each section begins with an infographic map of the ocean it explores – Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic – followed by richly detailed two-page spreads exploring its depths and the denizens within, as well as seabirds, coral reefs and shoreline critters. Discover saltwater crocodiles lurking in the Andaman Islands, hammerheads gathering in the Atlantic, and the awe-inspiring colossal squid that calls the Ross Sea home.

Lucy Letherland’s illuminating artwork shows how these oceans teem with life, forming part of complex and fascinating ecosystems, all in a quirky, characterful style.

Interesting facts and figures pepper the scenes. Did you know that spinner dolphins can swim up to 400 kilometres a day? Or that some sea snails can grow up to half a metre long? Or that in the deepest depths, fish can glow in the dark? A natural history lesson in an adventure book, each spread features 10 captions and and facts about every destination. The 5th title in the best-selling Atlas of Adventures series that has now been translated into 31 languages. A ‘Can you find?’ page at the back challenges you to explore the pages even deeper by locating the pictured scenes and scene-stealers.

Children and adults alike will be amazed by the incredible creatures that await in the world’s oceans.

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From Tsunamis and sea turtles to riptides and reefs, learn all about the creatures, science, and ecology of our oceans, which cover more of the planet than all the continents and are just as important!

Travel through all parts of the ocean to learn how it affects our world, including storms and climate. Amazing facts, photos, illustrations, and diagrams are found throughout this book, along with conservation tips, weird-but-true facts, and a mini ocean atlas. Challenges to the health of our ocean and its creatures are also presented along with what people are doing to keep it pristine for generations to come!.

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Delve into the world of the four Hogwarts school houses – Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw – in this enchanting guide featuring recent LEGO® Harry Potter™ sets and minifigures. Learn all about the Sorting Ceremony, when each young witch and wizard is put in the house they naturally belong to.

Explore the magical world of Hogwart’s houses:

– Key characters, locations, events, and items.
– Presents the Hogwarts founders and their history.
– Comes with an exclusive Percy Weasley minifigure in his prefect robes.

Find out about the four founders of Hogwarts and the personality traits associated with each house’s students. From Ron Weasley to Draco Malfoy, learn which house your favourite LEGO Harry Potter minifigures are in, and discover fun facts about students, teachers, creatures, and locations. Explore the school’s magical classrooms, the cosy Gryffindor common room, and the Great Hall with its house tables. Plus, join students for a game of Quidditch. LEGO Harry Potter: A Spellbinding Guide to Hogwarts Houses comes with an exclusive Percy Weasley minifigure, too.

A must-have book for children aged 7-9 years, and a perfect addition to the library of any young LEGO Harry Potter fans, LEGO Harry Potter: A Spellbinding Guide to Hogwarts Houses is sure to delight.

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Introduce toddlers to first vehicle words with this bright, contemporary board book.

Featuring first vehicle words and brightly-coloured themed pages, this gorgeous book will build your toddler’s vocabulary and help them as they begin to talk. From cars, trucks and trains, to boats, aeroplanes and diggers, young children will love discovering all sorts of vehicles on the go!

With clear labels and simple questions to spark your child’s curiosity on each spread, this is the perfect first words book to support your child’s language development.

Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre

Also available:
A World of Words treasury
My First 100 Words (A World of Words)
My First Animals (A World of Words)

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From the basic program, file, online, browser, URL to the more technical toolbar, sprite, variable, Boolean, JavaScript, CMYK, sequence and simulation, this book supports parents and teachers as well as children with the key vocabulary needed to learn about computing and work with computers in the classroom and in their everyday lives. A fully illustrated supplement provides extended information and builds vocabulary on topics ranging from computer components, hardware and software to computer games, how the Internet works, and coding terminology in block coding and Scratch going on to Python.

This dictionary sits alongside the Oxford Primary Illustrated reference titles (the Primary Illustrated Dictionary, Thesaurus, Maths and Science titles), as well as supporting transition and lower secondary. It is also ideal for use with the International Primary Computing series for age 8+ and the Matrix Computing series for age 11+, and can be a key reference tool at school and at home.

For free downloadable activity worksheets, go to www.oxfordschooldictionaries.com http://www.oxfordschooldictionaries.com

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The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers – which, like Schrödinger’s famous dead-and-alive cat, rely on entities like electrons existing in a mixture of states – is starting to turn the computing world on its head.

In his fascinating study of this cutting-edge technology (first published as Computing with Quantum Cats and now featuring a new foreword), John Gribbin updates his previous views on the nature of quantum reality, arguing for a universe of many parallel worlds where ‘everything is real’. Looking back to Alan Turing’s work on the Enigma machine and the first electronic computer, Gribbin explains how quantum theory developed to make quantum computers work in practice as well as in principle. He takes us beyond the arena of theoretical physics to explore their practical applications – from machines which learn through ‘intuition’ and trial and error to unhackable laptops and smartphones. And he investigates the potential for this extraordinary science to allow communication faster than light and even teleportation, as we step into a world of infinite possibility.

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The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning.

Learn how to write 250 of the commonest Chinese characters, with stroke by stroke guidance on every page.

With thousands of characters to learn, beginning to read and write Chinese is a daunting task. Aimed at learners, this book takes you through 250 of the commonest characters in a clear and accessible way.

The meaning of every character is explained along with information about its radical, the compound words it can form, its history, and more. There is a practice grid on every page, showing how the character is written, with space for you to practise writing the character for yourself.

It is generally agreed that learners of Chinese need a working knowledge of about 100 characters in order to make themselves at all understood and to travel in China, so Easy Learning Chinese Characters is a great place to start.

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Do you want to learn the world’s most spoken language? This easy-to-use beginner’s guide and audio app will get you speaking basic Mandarin in no time.

With useful tips, practice exercises, and fascinating insights into Chinese culture, Easy Peasy Chinese teaches you how to read, write, and speak Mandarin Chinese step by step. The accompanying audio app will help you perfect your pronunciation and quickly get to grips with the Mandarin tones. Aimed at children aged 8+, but of appeal to beginners of all ages, it will teach you all the words and phrases you’ll need to get by in China, so you can introduce yourself, read and write numbers, and chat about the weather, food, and interests. What’s more, you can give yourself a Chinese name, haggle over shop prices, and learn all about the national culture.

The book covers Pinyin, the system used to spell out Chinese characters using Roman letters, and introduces the Chinese writing system, including more than 200 of the most frequently used Chinese characters. Bold illustrations and photographs, and a compact, super-stylish design help make the process of learning fun and accessible. There is no Great Wall stopping you from learning now.

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The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning.

A handy, affordable Chinese to English and English to Chinese reference for every day, including a guide to the most common expressions in both languages.

This dictionary offers extensive and up-to-date coverage of Chinese and English to travellers and learners at home, school or in the office.

28,000 translations.

Designed for all those studying Mandarin Chinese who need maximum information in a handy travel format.

Offers comprehensive and updated coverage of Chinese and English.

To help with the pronunciation of Chinese words, the dictionary includes Pinyin for all Chinese headwords, translations, phrases and examples. Pinyin is the official phonetic system for transcribing Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet, and is accepted in all Chinese-speaking countries.

Contains a radical index – a clear guide to looking up Chinese characters, helping the user to navigate the dictionary and find these without knowing their pronunciation.

Also includes both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Simplified characters are generally used in mainland China and Singapore, while traditional characters are mainly used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

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This newly updated edition of The Football Encyclopedia (FIFA) will make you an expert of the most popular game in the world. The pages are brimming with the latest facts, stats and records, plus punchy profiles of the best international teams on the planet, as well as essential info about the top leagues and tournaments in world football. What’s more, you can get the lowdown on all the FIFA competitions from the World Cup to the eWorld Cup and the latest recipients of the FIFA awards.

With a comprehensive list of honours citing every international and intercontinental competition, FIFA’s The Football Encyclopedia is a must-have for every young fan of the sport.

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Discover everything there is to know about your favourite football heroes in the Match Attax Annual 2024!

Featuring Europe’s greatest teams, from Atalanta to Zenit, this action-packed title covers all the highlights from the Champions League, Europa League and Euro Conference.

Discover profiles on the hottest players such as Mo Salah, Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe, relive the greatest goals and revisit the most exciting European nights, including the finals of the major tournaments.

With dozens of puzzles too, this footy book will keep readers busy for hours on end.

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Written by the team at MUNDIAL, the celebrated football lifestyle magazine, and filled with fun, colourful illustrations, The Big Book of Football by Mundial covers it all:

• The basics and the lingo that will have you talking like a football expert in no time.
• History of football, including how we got from playing with a ball made of feathers to using high-tech footballs, the greatest teams of all time and the evolution of football boots.
• The great players, including Paolo Maldini, Lev Yashin, Joy Fawcett, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff, Michelle Akers, Sir Stanley Matthews and Marta Vieira da Silva.
• Legendary managers and how they did it – learn the favourite killer formations of greats like Rinus Michels and Sir Alex Ferguson.
• The big cups, with their histories and greatest players.
• The world’s most amazing stadiums, including Wembley, Melbourne Cricket Ground and San Siro.
• Kits hall of fame, from the USSR’s (now Russia) classic red sweatshirt with ‘CCCP’ written across the front to Mexico’s green home shirt with Aztec patterns and the giant face of the Aztec god of death.
• How to take the perfect shot like Ji So-yun, take the perfect set piece like David Beckham, take penalties like Matt Le Tissier, beat the offside trap like Fernando Torres, do the perfect attacking header like Didier Drogba and more.
• Weird and wonderful, from the way we describe things that happen in the game (a fox in the box) to the way we celebrate a goal (by pretending to be a robot) or do our hair (shaving it all off except for a triangle at the front).
• The culture and people surrounding the game, from traditional pre-game food to the referee, commentator and all-important crowd.

This great big book is your essential guide to the wonderful world of football.

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Become an expert on sports, just in time for the 2016 Olympics! From archery to zip lining this book covers EVERYTHING about the world’s favourite team and individual sports.

With stunning visuals and energetic, impactful design, readers won’t stop until they’ve learned everything there is to know about the history, rules and regs, training, and practice of dozens of athletic pursuits. Includes popular sports such as baseball, basketball, football, soccer, tennis, and quirkier sports such as fencing, curling, and table tennis.

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A charming children’s encyclopedia bursting with fun facts about the world of sport, for little learners who want to know everything!

The world is so much bigger than young minds can fathom and there is always more to learn. My Encyclopedia of Very Important Sport is a vibrant encyclopedia for curious 5-9 year olds, with a unique approach to the subject of sport that combines facts and figures with the inspiring stories of sporting legends and icons.

This exciting book for children is packed with fun facts about a range of popular sportssuch as football, karate, badminton, and skiing, as well as ones you might never have heard of like biathlon or cheese rolling. Whether you’re a fan of team sports, winter sports, water sports, extreme sports, and even board games such as chess and go, this reference book has it all!

My Encyclopedia of Very Important Sport also celebrates the unique talents, lives, and careers of sporting
heroes such as Usain Bolt, Serena Williams, Yuna Kim, Lin Dan, and Donald Bradman, and chronicles the most celebrated stories in sporting history, such as breaking the Four-minute mile, Nadia Comaneci’s Perfect 10, and Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics. Featuring everything from obscure rules and strange equipment, to moments of triumph and sporting events like The World Cup, Superbowl, Olympics, Paralympics, and more – this is the perfect book for budding superstars everywhere.

Celebrate your child’s curiosity as they:

– Read all about individual sports, team sports, motor sports, and winter sports
– Learn the stories of sporting legends such as Usain Bolt, Serena Williams and more
– Discover key moments in sporting history

Our encyclopedia for children is the perfect blend of striking illustrations and educational text, written in a friendly, witty and fun manner, featuring a combination of fact-files, detailed paragraphs, labels, and speech bubbles. Topics are simple to navigate – perfect for knowledgeable sports fans who want to read about their favourites as well as readers who are unfamiliar with sport and are looking to learn.

Encourage early learners to go on a journey to explore a world of information, making this the ideal first reference book for kids aged 5-9 to enjoy for hours on end, whether for shared reading with the family or reading alone, this fun fact book for children also doubles up as the perfect gift for curious kids who love to learn.

Tell the story of the world one page at a time, by uncovering:

– Educational content written in a friendly and fun manner
– Beautifully padded cover with several high-quality finishes, including padding and foil
– Features a built-in ribbon bookmark so you never lose your place whilst reading

More in the Series

My Encyclopedia of Very Important Sport is part of the educational kid’s book series My Very Encyclopedia series. Complete the series and nurture your child’s curiosity with My Encyclopedia of Very Important Adventures, teach them about different species with My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals, or let them walk with the dinosaurs who ruled the earth before them in My Encyclopedia of Very Important Dinosaurs.

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A captivating exploration of world religions, from the perspective of a curious kid.

Religion around the World: A Curious Kid’s Guide to the World’s Great Faiths explores the world’s major faiths, making the traditions, beliefs, practices, and history of each accessible to kids ages 8-12. This visually compelling book presents each religion as a rich tradition that has served as a force for human connection and good in the world. Colorful illustrations, charts, graphs, maps, and other infographics, along with clear, age-appropriate text, make this an appealing book for browsing, research, and learning.

Curious Kids’ Guides present cool and surprising information about Christian and other religions’ history and beliefs in an entertaining, visually engaging way.

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Uncover fascinating tidbits about countries, cities, mountains, deserts, and forests, as you explore the hidden gems of our planet’s geography. Delve into captivating stories about historical landmarks, renowned architectural marvels, and awe-inspiring natural formations that have captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers for centuries.

Inside the Book:

• Discover incredible facts about countries, cities, mountains, deserts, and forests from around the world.
• Unravel the mysteries of renowned historical landmarks and architectural wonders.
• Explore the diverse cultures and traditions that shape different regions.
• Delve into lesser-known facts that will surprise even the most seasoned globetrotter.
• Best for readers of all ages, from curious children to lifelong learners seeking a deeper understanding of our planet’s geography.
• Eye-catching photos

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