Help your child learn about castles with this fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website From why round towers are better than square ones to how a castle was defended from attack, let your child visit the exciting world of a medieval fortress: and find out what life was really like behind the battlements.

A thrilling face-to-face encounter with the intimate lives, elaborate displays and extraordinary behaviour of animals in their own environment Internationally renowned zoologist and presenter of TV's Animal Planet, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, leads a compelling study that brings the animal kingdom to vivid life.

Help your child learn about forensic science with this fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website From how faces can be reconstructed to analysing DNA: let your child discover the remarkable ways in which forensic detectives can solve even the most baffling of cases.

Turn a new experience into a fun activity for you and your toddler with this step-by-step guide Are you off to see the dentist? Have you got first time nerves? Read the book together and find out what to expect. Watch toddler Dora as she goes to the dentist with her toy alligator.

Twit Twooooo, read this together with your toddler and find out how a helpless feathery chick grows inside a shell into a strong hunting owl. Watch the owl get bigger in fantastic photographs bursting with colour, and share easy-to-follow words ideal for reading out loud to the very young.

Baaaaaaaa, read this together with your toddler and find out how a frisky newborn lamb grows into a white woolly sheep. Watch the lamb get bigger in fantastic photographs bursting with colour, and share easy-to-follow words ideal for reading out loud to the very young.

Escape the modern-day commercial Christmas and enjoy a simpler, greener and craftier way of celebrating.

Do you want to help your child train their brain so they can calculate like Einstein, paint like Picasso, or compose like Mozart? Then put their grey matter to the brain-training test and see how they measure up to some of the greatest thinkers in history.

Find out how to maximise the effectiveness of your business by motivating your staff and enabling them to flourish. You'll learn how to encourage teamwork and deal with de-motivated staff.

Encourage your child to read. They'll meet bright blue starfish crawling on the sea-bed, floating jelly-fish and furry crabs climbing out of coral and discover all about the treasures of the ocean.

This beautifully illustrated travel guide showcases the must-sees in India's majestic walled city, envisioned as a grand imperial capital by Mughal emperor Akbar.

The new edition of this enduring classic from the founding father of modern self-sufficiency, John Seymour, is still the key reference to living off the land.

Did you know that in one drop of blood there are 250 million red cells and 16 million platelets but only 375,000 white cells? Marvel at the wonders of the human body, from the tiniest cells to the awesome power of the brain.

One third of all cancer is linked to poor eating habits - now leading research reveals why and how you can significantly reduce your risk of cancer by eating the right foods.

Join Johnny Ball as he shows your child that maths isn't just numbers and sums, it's a fundamental, incredible, magical way to find out how everything works.

Read together and lift the giant flaps to reveal noisy bath toys; then explore the soft, shiny and bumpy textures. Where's duck hiding? Lift the flap and she'll go quack.

When a dormouse sets out to find a safe place to spend the winter, it is the start of a dangerous journey.

Help your child unearth all the best facts about the bug world; they'll discover which insect fires acid from its abdomen, whether all bugs have brains and what makes a flea flee.

Thousands of fascinating entries, definitions, photographs and pictures make this dictionary essential reference for readers, writers and curious minds of all ages.

Did you know... that a polar bear's skin is black? That the Arctic tern flies around the world each year? Or that a silky anteater can eat 8,000 ants a day? (yum) Meet a bird that can fly backwards, a butterfly that feeds on an alligator's tears and turtles that can live up to 100 years.