GCHQ Puzzle Book
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GCHQ, the top-secret intelligence and security agency, is opening up its archives of decades' worth of codes, puzzles and challenges for everyone to try. Over the years, their codebreakers have helped keep our country safe, from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day...
Bletchley Park Brainteasers
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Would Bletchley Park have recruited you? When scouring the land for top-level code breakers, the Bletchley Park recruiters left no stone un-turned. As well as approaching some of the country's finest mathematicians, they cast their nets wider, interviewing music students, chess masters, poets, linguists, hieroglyphics...
The Chopin Liszt
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A 50-page pad of Chopin Liszts! Printed with ruled lines and a part of the manuscript of Liszt's Hungarian March. 50 tear-off pagesmeasures 20.8 x 9.6 x 0.6 cm
Harmonograph: Mathematical Music
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Why did Pythagoras pause outside a Blacksmith's workshop? Can the nature of harmony really be understood visually? Why do harmonies leave gaps or 'commas' when added together? In this charming little book Ashton uses a Victorian device called a Harmonograph to tell the story of...
Evolution Bookmarks
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Mark your progress in a book with these re-imagined stages of human evolution. Colourful and easy to spot this set of bookmarks make a fantastic gift. Measurements: 16 x 0.2 x 12.5 cm.Set of steel bookmark/paper clips.
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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A brilliant book to get you started in STEM. It explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1,000 (or the ten hundred) most common words. From how a microwave works and toll bridges to the solar system and tectonic plates, this...
Cooking for Geeks
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Have you ever wondered why a medium-rare steak is so popular? Why do we bake some things at 175°C and others at 190°C? And do you prefer to follow a recipe or are you more interested in finding out "what would happen if..."? More than...
Protest Knits
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Knitting and handicrafts have a long history in protesting - the pussy hat project has been particularly successful but it joins a long tradition of crafty activism. From yarn bombing to protest scarfs and political pin cushions to shy anarchist socks, make your point with...
Tequila Mockingbird - Literary Cocktails
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Try out a set of literary themed cocktails. The perfect companion to any literary party, this witty collection of 65 different recipes includes classics like Love in the Time Of Kalhua, Vermouth the Bell Tolls and A Rum of One's Own. Recipes are paired with...
Twitterature
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Here you will find over sixty of the greatest works of western literature – from Beowulf to Bronte, from Kafka to Kerouac, and from Dostoevsky to Dickens– each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest 140-character essence:"FALLING INTO THE ABYSS!!!! I'll talk...
Perspective and other Optical Illusions
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Can something really be visible but not there at all? Do things always look smaller when they are further away? Is it ever possible to have a direct and true experience of reality? Are you totally sure? McNaughton takes us on a classical journey through...
The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret
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What was the great and golden secret known to Leonardo Da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Why were they forbidden to reveal it? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume, divine proportion supersleuth...
Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps
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The sea monsters on early maps are one of their most visually engaging elements, and yet they have never before been carefully studied. These creatures shine light not only on the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also on the history and geography...
Maps that Changed the World
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Some of the world's most famous maps, stretching back to a time when cartography was in its infancy and the 'edge of the world' was a barrier to exploration. The book includes details of how Lewis and Clark helped map the American West, and how...
The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness
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The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. An innovative and tongue-in-cheek use by Ladybird's of its own archived material. Hardback, 54...
Grids & Guides: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers
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An essential desktop tool for anyone who's thoughts expand beyond a linear path. With this notebook you can plan, thumbnail, dream, note, list and develop all your ideas. The grids include: cartesian, isometric, log-log, reticle and architectural as well as ledger tables, storyboard grids and...
It's Gonna Be Okay Journal
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Science has proven that optimism is actually good for your heart, and this amusing writer’s journal affirms the notion that it’s also good for your brain. With playful prompts and witty quotations, It’s Gonna Be Okay is smart yet comforting—like a pair of horn-rimmed, rose-coloured glasses. Paperback...
100 Diagrams that Changed the World
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A fascinating collection of the most significant plans, sketches, drawings, and illustrations that have influenced and shaped the way we think about the world. From primitive cave paintings to Leonardo da Vincis Vitruvian Man to the complicated DNA helix drawn by Crick and Watson to...
So Many Books! Bookends
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For anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by their to-read pile, these metal bookends carry the phrase 'so many books' on one and 'so little time' on the other. They are crafted from cut metal. Black metal, 15cm high. Each pair of bookends comes boxed.
100 Documents that Changed the World
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We live in an age of documents, and throughout time these have acted as signposts to the way our world has changed. This book takes us through nearly 5000 years of history via 100 key documents, from the I Ching to Edward Snowden's Wikileaks files...
"Careful or you'll end up in my next novel" Observational Notebook
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A wonderful notebook for novelists; this is the perfect place to store all your writerly observations. The notebook features an elasticated pen holder at the side, a blue ribbon pager marker, and a handy elastic closure/page holder. 160 blank pages. Measures 21 x 14cm with...
Notes For Women
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We demand Notes For Women! A fantastic Suffragette-themed notebook. Measurements: A5.Paperback64 ruled pages.
We Go To The Gallery
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A reinterpretation of classic Ladybird books. Mummy takes John and Susan to the gallery so that they can learn about sex, death and other key themes in contemporary art. From the introduction: "The Jolly colourful illustrations will enable your child to smoothly internalize all of...
Periodic Tales
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Unlocking astonishing secrets and colourful pasts, this book is a voyage of wonder and discovery, showing that the elements' stories are our stories, that their lives are inextricable from our own. Here you will meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that...
Stargazing Pocket Notebook
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A notebook which contains star charts, guides and a tear-out astrolabe to help you record your astronomical adventuring. 64 lined page notebook with a card cover. Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
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An acclaimed history of the world through 100 things we have either admired and preserved, or used, broken and thrown away. This book will take you on a journey back in time to see how we humans have shaped our world, and been shaped by...
Medieval Cookbook
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Drawn from 14th- and 15th-century sources, including works by Geoffrey Chaucer, and carefully adapted to suit the modern kitchen, this beautifully illustrated cookbook explores the traditions and tastes of authentic medieval cookery. This book is a brand new treatment of a mouth-watering collection of recipes inspired...
Evolution Bookends
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If you are naturally selective when it comes to organising your books then try these Darwinian bookends. Perfect for supporting your evolving reading habits. Measurements: 18.5 x 12.5 x 19 cm.Boxed metal bookends
My Portable Therapist
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Go everywhere accompanied by the reassuring, and sometimes worried, voice or your therapist. This 50-page notebook is peppered with comments and questions like "What do you think it means? or "Well, if that happened to me, I'd be paranoid, too" 50 sheets, spiral bound.20.4 x...
Little Red Notebook
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A really revolutionary notebook. Use these blood-red pages to note down your 5 year plan for world domination. 192 page notebook with glossy plastic cover and ribbon.Measures 12 x 9cm.
Human Brain Colouring Book
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Are you fascinated by the structure and processes of the human brain? Both fun and functional, this book includes state-of-the-art knowledge about the brain and how it works, and is designed for amateurs and professionals alike. As we grow up do we ever lose the...
Classical Cookbook
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By Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger An updated edition of this best-selling cookbook, which was the first to explore the menus and manners of ancient Greece and Rome. Featuring fifty recipes from every stratum of classical civilization, this book covers everything from wedding feasts and...
Musical Ruler
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Master a musical instrument at your desk in just a few hours. This plastic ruler has printed finger markings and note positions. Also included is a lavishly printed and fully illustrated tongue-in-cheek guide to ruler playing, done in the style of a classic guitar teaching...
My Dysfunctions Journal
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Journals have long provided a much-needed place for unalloyed honesty, and, after all, what else do we scribble about other than our neuroses? The perfect gift for all your dysfunctional friends. Paperback book, 128 pp. Measures 24 x 17.5cm.
Mars Passport Notebook
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This brilliant notebook is also a passport to the red planet, with travel advice and a detailed passport information page (stardate of issue, carbon based or silicon, etc.). 64 lined page notebook with a card cover.Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
Essential Elements
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What is everything around us made of, and how did it get there? What arcane secrets hide in the modern alchemist's lab? Is there a hidden order to matter itself, known only to a select few? You hold in your hands the probably the smallest...
Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae
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By Matthew Watkins Equations are the magical invocations of millions of modern mathemagicians. Have you ever needed one fast? Mathemusican Watkins and wizardly illustrator Matt Tweed have compiled nearly 3000 years of cogitation into one amazing little book. Mathemagical! Paperback, 58 pp. Illustrated throughout. Measures 12.5 x...
Plant Pot Bookends
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Create ever growing and changing bookends with this fantastic planter set: just add plants. This clever two-pot planter is designed to look like a traditional flower pot split into two. The books are held together by discreet L-shaped metal supports; the pots slide off the...
School of Thought Notebooks - Anti-Capitalists
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The Anti-Capitalists: Rousseau, Marx, Adorno. The School of Life has created three sets of notebooks, each dedicated to a Great Thinker. Each notebook carries an introduction to that thinker on the inside front page, his or her name beautifully printed on the cover, and otherwise empty pages...
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
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"Do you have...Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe?""Are all your books for sale, or just some of them?""Do you have any piano sheet music, but for guitars?""Is this book edible?""Do you have any books by Jane Eyre?" And many more... A unique collection of bizarre, outrageous, disturbing,...
This Book Thinks You're A Scientist
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A fun way to approach science for children. This interactive book will inform, but more importantly encourage and help children to enjoy science. A creative workbook that encourages children to think like a scientist by noticing details, questioning everything and, crucially, dreaming up new ideas....
Hummingbird Bookend
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This bookend is perfect for any shelf. The tiny poised silhouette of the hummingbird seems to hold up the row of books 27cm high, 23cm deep, 5cm wide, 1.5mm thick. Laser cut powder coated mild steel. Each pack contains a single bookend.
Simple Shelters
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In this unique and exquisite little book, Horning examines basic shelters from all around the world: mud-brick adobe structures, nomads' tents, travellers' quick fixes, timber frame buidlings, and more modern solutions, including strawbale designs and geodesic domes. Find out the difference between a yurt and a...
The Guerilla Art Kit by Keri Smith
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Everything you need to put your message into the world. Includes how to make your own stickers, seed bombs, portable idea dispenser, stencils and more. This quirky kit is exploding with ideas to make guerilla art whether your artistic message is fun, non-profit, silly or...
Bad Girls Through History
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Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Aphra Behn, Sojourner Truth and many more famous women who changed the world enter in this fantastic book. These women went above and beyond to change the world they were in and we recognize their success in 'Bad Girls Through History'....
My Crazy Inventions Sketchbook
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This brilliant sketchbook has Andrew Rae's drawings which shows all sorts of real inventions that seem too weird to work. Use his drawings to inspire your own crazy inventions. 100 Colour illustrations.Paperback 128 pages.Measurements: 24cm x 24cm.
This Book Thinks You're A Maths Genius
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A fun way to approach maths for children. An interactive book that helps children to think like a mathematician by introducing key mathematical concepts in a highly visual and entertaining way. Measures 19.8 x 1.3 x 25.1 cm.Hardback 96 pages.Suitable for 8-12 year olds.
Cloudspotting Notebook
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Head in the clouds? This pocket-sized notebook to help you identify and record all the different types of clouds around us, with a full guide to cloud types. 64 lined page notebook with a card cover. Measures 12.5 x 9cm.
