Reference Books

Celebrate the first decade of James Cameron's Avatar and the beginnings of an epic cinematic journey. Delve into the majestic world of Pandora and discover the incredible wealth of creativity that led this story to become the highest-grossing film of all time and the winner of three Academy Awards. The World of Avatar celebrates, explores, and explains the spectacular world of Pandora-its extraordinary geology, flora and fauna, and the customs and beliefs of its people, the mysterious Na'vi. With a foreword by Avatar star Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), and an introduction by producer Jon Landau, The World of Avatar concludes with a "sneak peek" of a new Avatar era, fuelling excitement for the long-awaited release of Avatar 2 in December 2022. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241400753 • Author: Joshua Izzo • Publisher: DK • Format: Hardback • Pages: 128 • Dimensions: 28.4 x 23.6 x 1.9 cm

This Collins World Wall Map is perfect for children learning the world map, as a decorative wall piece or for aspiring travellers. With a scale of 1:22 000 000 or 1cm to 220km, this up to date World Map shows individual countries, oceans, main roads, railways, cities and towns, as well as lines of latitude and longitude and even the International Date Line. It also includes a useful educational tool and the inclusion of all the national flags. In addition, this world map details key statistics for every country, including information on the area of each country in square miles and kilometres, population size, national currency, capital city and website address. This Collins World Map also has small circular maps, with close-up views of the north and south poles.A great educational tool for at home, in a classroom, in the office or on your bedroom wall.Product Information:• World Map• Wall Poster• Learning essential• Great for all ages• Size: 40” x 54”

The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times as it unfolded. From her time as a young princess to that as an internationally admired head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. Discover insights and memories, and see a changing society reflected in reporting from throughout the 70-year reign of Britain’s longest serving monarch. Published to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, this detailed profile features essays, articles and full-colour images drawn from The Times archives. Writers from The Times and leading royal historians – among them Ben Macintyre, Kate Williams and Hugo Vickers – salute her achievements and offer insights into what lies behind the public façade of the Crown. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008485207 • Author: James Owen and Times Books  • Publisher: Times Books • Format: Hardback • Pages: 272 • Dimensions: 23.6 x 19.51 x 2.54cm

Zero-cost, low effort and a long term solution to your fresh produce needs! Grow your own food in your home garden, allotment or container and look forward to a bountiful harvest year-round. You can plant fruit and veg at home without spending a penny and Huw Richard's shows you how. Author Huw Richards is a man on a mission. He is passionate about teaching you how to garden and grow your own food. Years of experience and trying different things has taught Huw how to garden with little money (or without a garden) and he shows you how to do the same! Grow Food for Free teaches you how to produce no-cost, low-maintenance fruit and veg - and finding low-cost ways to overcome common gardening worries. Learn about the space you need and how to prepare it, make your own compost, tackle weeds, pests, and diseases, and how to get hold of your first set of seeds! Discover strategies to expand your garden. This home gardening book shows you everything you need to barter, borrow, repurpose, and propagate your way to a bountiful harvest without burdening your bank balance! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241411995 • Author: Huw Richards • Publisher: DK • Format: Hardback • Pages: 224 • Dimensions: 24 x 20.3 x 2.3 cm

Discover exactly how to navigate life's many ups and downs with the essential and empowering guidance of TikTok sensation, Dr. Julie Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, you can turn straight to the section you need depending on the challenge you're facing This book tackles the everyday issues that affect us all and offers easy, practical solutions that might just change your life. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241529713 • Author: Dr Julie Smith • Publisher: Michael Joseph • Format: Hardback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.4 x 3.4 cm

The definitive guide to the characters of the DC Multiverse and a vital addition to every comic book fan's bookshelf. Iconic Super Heroes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and The Flash have been transformed in recent years, along with many other DC characters. This new edition of the most comprehensive A-Z guide to DC's pantheon of Super Heroes and Super-Villains includes the latest earth-shaking developments in the DC Multiverse, with profiles of more than 1,200 characters. Created in full collaboration with DC, the encyclopedia features characters and art from every key crossover event, including Dark Nights: Metal and its sequel Dark Nights: Death Metal. With a foreword by DC legend Jim Lee, a brand-new cover design, and thrilling comic artwork, the fun and excitement of more than 80 years of comics history explodes off every page. Experience the DC Multiverse like never before with The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241439531 • Author: Matthew K. Manning  • Publisher: DK • Format: Hardback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 30.7 x 25.9 x 2.6 cm

Become a competent, confident spell-worker with this practical guide to witchcraft! Containing an extensive collection of traditional spells and techniques, this book will help readers attract positive friendships, love and luck as well as promote healing, careers and protection.  The Book of Spells is an essential reference for anyone wishing to master the incredible art of magic and spell-making. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781838573836 • Author: Pamela Ball • Publisher: Arcturus • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 15.3 x 23.3 x 2.1cm 

Train, teach and have fun with your puppy or dog! Puppies and dogs sure are cute, but have you tried training one without professional help? Wow! The cost of puppy preschool classes can send the cost up quite quickly. Why not take the simple route to a well-trained dog with Dog Tricks and Training? Contains: 64-page Book Dog rope toy Training clicker Activation card for online video access Product Information: ISBN: 9781865151397 Author: Hinkler Publisher: Hinkler Format: Paperback Pages: 64 Dimensions: 28 x 22.5 x 5.5cm

Good drawings aren't always the ones that you've spent a lot of time on; some of the best pieces are swift, energetic studies that capture the feel of the subject in a few well-placed lines. From understanding relationships and proportions and considering basic anatomy, to learning about mark-making and tonal values, Jake takes you through the process of drawing the most rewarding of subjects.  With step-by-steps and techniques derived from his proven life-class methods, Jake gives you the skills to create beautiful life drawings quickly, successfully and, ultimately, in only 15 minutes. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781781576267 • Author: Jake Spicer • Publisher: Ilex Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 128 • Dimensions: 22.86 x 17.78 x 1.59 cm

An accurate and fully updated atlas, perfect for road trips around Britain and Northern Ireland. The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale large format paperback road atlas of Britain, featuring Collins’ popular and well established road mapping, and designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use. The atlas has a wide range of urban area maps at even larger scale and 64 detailed town centre street plans. This fully updated road atlas covers the whole of Britain with each scale of mapping colour-coded for ease of use. The smallest scale maps are great for long distance route planning and the street plans help you locate your final destination. Main features • Easy to use, clear road maps at a scale of 3.2 miles to 1 inch of England, Wales and Southern Scotland. Northern Scotland is shown at 5 miles to 1 inch. • Route planning section including maps at a scale of 15.8 miles to 1 inch (1:1,000,000) for long distance route planning, motorway services information and a handy distance calculator. • 22 urban area approach maps at 1 mile to 1 inch which clearly show the best routes through and into the busiest built-up areas. • 64 street maps focused on town centres showing places of interest, car park locations and one-way streets. • M25 orbital map. • Information about restricted motorway junctions. • Park & Ride locations shown, ideal when visiting towns and cities. • Over 30 categories of places of interest including castles, theme parks, sports venues, universities, mountain bike trails and surfing beaches. • Full postcodes for the top 1000 places of interest – ideal for use alongside satnav systems. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008447816 • Author: Collins Maps • Publisher: Collins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 176 • Dimensions: 38.51 x 29.49 x 0.76 cm

No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver in fear when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Mythos captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405934138 • Author: Stephen Fry • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 464 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.8cm

This is a comprehensive driving test guide covering the theory test, practical test, and the highway code. The Theory Test, Practical Test & Highway Code features all the official revision theory test questions for car drivers, hundreds of practical test questions set by experts from the AA Driving School, and the latest edition of the Highway Code-essential reading for all road users. Explanatory text is included to help learner drivers understand what's required for every revision question. The Theory Test, Practical Test & Highway Code's clear and concise layout makes it easy to revise and is a must-buy for anyone learning to drive. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780749577940 • Author: AA Publishing • Publisher: AA Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 528 • Dimensions: 21.59 x 15.24 x 3.3 cm

The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to question the habits of the digital age. This book might even change the way you spend your precious time on earth. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781786892690 • Author: Matt Haig • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 17.81 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm

Let BBC Gardener's World writer Ian Spence tell you month by month what to do when in your garden, and show you exactly how to do it too. This fully illustrated book takes you systematically through the year, each chapter looking in-depth at one month at a time. A handy To Do list, along with Last Chance reminders and Get Ahead tips, gives you an overview of the month's tasks, followed by an inspirational gallery of Star Plants to showcase the visual highlights of the month. The rest of each chapter is packed with advice on plant care, maintaining garden features such as lawns and ponds, what to prune when, and illustrated step-by-step projects and gardening ideas. A photographic A-Z appendix of nearly 350 plants provides detailed information on growing habit and care.Product Information: ISBN: 9780241315613 Author: Ian Spence Publisher: DK Format: Hardback Pages: 352 Dimensions: 24 x 20 x 3.5cm

A full colour road atlas, now fully revised and updated. Clear detailed road mapping at a mainland map scale of 3.5 miles to 1 inch. Main features: • 11 pages of main route mapping covering Greater London, Birmingham and Manchester • Route planning maps • Mileage chart with average journey times • Information on motorway junctions with limited interchanges • 80 city and town centre street plans • 16 port and airport plans • Channel Tunnel terminus maps • Index to cities, towns, villages, hamlets, major destinations and selected places of interest with postcodes for satnav use • Map reference information also in French and German Instantly recognizable and easy to use, A-Z road mapping also includes the following features: Clear standard road classification colours for easy identification, Full motorway junction detail, Under construction and proposed roads, Primary route destinations, Service areas Selected truckstop locations, National and county boundaries and a wide range of tourist and ancillary information, including Blue Flag Beaches. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008445010 • Author: A-Z Maps • Publisher: Geographers’ A-Z Map Co Ltd • Pages: 280 • Dimensions: 29.69 x 21.01 x 2.03 cm

Pyrography is a beginner's guide to solid-point pyrography, a particular method of decorative burning on wood and other materials. Included are simple step-by-step solid-point projects suitable for the absolute beginner. There is also useful information on equipment and techniques, to guide you though every step of the way. Whether you wish to decorate a wooden bangle or produce a pleasing work of art, you'll find all you need to know to help you achieve your goal. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781915191007 • Author: Lisa Shackleton • Publisher: GMC Publications • Format: Paperback

Why do dogs behave the way they do? What makes one breed so different to another? And how can owners work around these inborn personality traits?  Talk to Your Dog will teach you everything you need to build an even stronger relationship with your canine companion. Find out where, when and why they want to be stroked, and how to give them a soothing reiki massage. Heart-warming, enlightening and absolutely true stories reveal how dogs use their unique powers to help humans, including warning them of danger, going to their rescue and playing a role in healing them.  Uncover dogs' ‘secret agenda’ and what they would do if left to their own devices. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781800650909 • Author: Susie Green • Publisher: CICO Books • Format: Hardback • Pages: 144 • Dimensions: 20.96 x 17.02 x 1.52 cm

Discover the elemental properties of iconic Marvel Comics characters. From the volatile gamma-irradiated Hulk to the stable Super-Soldier Captain America, and the technologically enhanced Iron Man to the cosmically charged Silver Surfer, the Marvel Comics Universe boasts a diverse array of heroes and villains. Whether mutants or Asgardians, Celestials or Inhumans, The Periodic Table of Marvel expertly classifies key and lesser known Marvel characters to reveal the properties that bind them, the catalysts that created them, the chain reactions that energize them, and the underlying structures and formulas that underpin the Marvel Universe. With more than 130 character profiles written by a Marvel expert, beautiful comic book art, and Marvel's seal of approval, The Periodic Table of Marvel reveals the fascinating and surprising connections between the most incredible heroes and villains ever created. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241500835 • Author: Melanie Scott • Publisher: DK • Format: Hardback • Pages: 192 • Dimensions: 20 x 14 x 4 cm

In just one raised bed, greenfingered wunderkind Huw Richards shows you how to grow vegetables, organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Grow your own vegetable garden with this practical, straightforward gardening guide. There is nothing more fulfilling than growing your own home produce. You don't have to be a seasoned gardener to produce a healthy, flourishing garden - all you need is a few seeds, water, sunlight, good advice and patience! In just one raised bed, author Huw Richards, shows you exactly how to grow vegetables organically, abundantly and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Here's what you'll find inside: - A month-by-month guide showing you what to do and how to do it, including what pests to look out for, and what can be harvested - Covers the first year in detail, with the final chapter on 'Next Steps' providing suggestions of what to do in years two and three - Illustrations show you what the bed should look like from month to month - Includes instructions on assessing your site and building a 1.2m x 3m raised bed - Alternative vegetables are recommended, allowing readers to tailor their bed to their taste Month by month, discover what you need to do and how to do it. Try becoming more self-sufficient in your allotment, a small garden, or even on a roof terrace. Veg In One Bed shows you that you can have a small thriving garden and still be able to maintain it, yielding fresh vegetables all year round. Learn what to do each month on your windowsill, where you'll raise seedlings, and in your raised bed, where your plants will grow to maturity. Everything is explained in clear, illustrated steps: building your bed, growing from seed, planting, feeding, and harvesting. This gardening book not only guides you through the whole process of building your raised bed through to harvesting your vegetables but also provides sustainable gardening practices, which will resonate with all gardeners committed to protecting our planet. This makes for the perfect book for new gardeners who want to grow their own produce, as well as the new generation of gardeners who are seeking a gardening guru of their own age. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241376522 • Author: Huw Richards • Publisher: DK • Format: Hardback • Pages: 224 • Dimensions: 20.5 x 20.5 x 0.5cm

Philosophy: From Morality to Metaphysics will expand your mind, put your neurons through their paces, and question the foundations of your opinions and knowledge itself. You’ll discover that you can’t even trust your own senses – even though they may be all you have. Filled with philosophical puzzles that have intrigued the greatest minds, quizzes that can reveal the inconsistency of our ideas, insoluble logical paradoxes, and moral dilemmas that force us to confront the consequences of our beliefs, Philosophy will give your intellect a workout that you’ll thoroughly enjoy. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781802420265 • Author: Michael Picard • Publisher: Quarto Publishing • Format: Hardback • Pages: 176 • Dimensions:21 x 14 x 1.85cm