The Modern Spice Rack is an insightful guide to the most common spices in our cupboards, and offers up how to best make use of them in delicious recipes.Spices have, historically, been a tricky ingredient. They’re prevalent in everyone’s kitchens, but too often are underused, stored badly and kept years beyond their ‘best before date’. There’s the perceived alchemy of making a curry from scratch and the stringent marrying of certain spices to specific cuis...

Have you been to a farm? What did they grow there? Can you imagine a time before there were machines to help with the work? Learn about how people stopped looking for food in the wild and started to farm animals and plants instead.

Earth is one of eight planets in our Solar System, that circle around the Sun. Our Solar System is just one tiny part of The Milky Way. The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.

On Grace’s birthday she got a big surprise. Her mother and father gave her a card with a string tied onto it. They told her to follow the string to find her birthday present. Can you guess where she went? What do you think she found at the end of the string?

Have you been to a farm? What did they grow there? Can you imagine a time before there were machines to help with the work? Learn about how people stopped looking for food in the wild and started to farm animals and plants instead.

Polar Bears live on the ice, but their home is changing. As our planet Earth is getting warmer, the ice is melting. Polar Bears need the ice to hunt from. As the ice melts, they cannot find enough food to stay alive. It is getting hard for them to survive.

How does an author choose an artist? How does an artist works? How do they decide what to draw? What do they use? What are the stages of making art?

Have you ever wondered how a book is made? Who is the person that writes the story? Who draws the pictures? Who designs the pages? Who checks that everything is just right? Who is the person that prints the books? Who reads the books?

Offering a comprehensive examination into the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent under its then director Peter Cheeseman, this book provides the first detailed history of a theatre-in-the-round and demonstrates its profound influence on the careers of prominent actors, directors and writers throughout the UK.As the longest serving director of a regional theatre and creator of verbatim theatre, Peter Cheeseman's contribution to the arts is undeniable. He was a pione...

The world is in tatters and we're surrounded by systems that don't work. We desperately want to help but where do we begin? It's not surprising that many of us don't know what we can do. And those of us who try and take action often feel burnt out by the enormity of the task ahead.For activists both new and seasoned, this book offers hope and illuminates the way ahead.Featuring contributions from Shane Claiborne, Lisa Sharon Harper, Krish Kandiah, Sam Wells...

The adventure continues in the third book of the Harry Purple Monkey Dishwasher series. Harry settles into his life as a dishwasher and spends time with Leo, Massimo and Duchess. He decides to start juggling again and as each day passes he finds himself performing in back alleys. Then one day Harry makes some interesting discoveries; a photo of monkeys in his knapsack and these things called dreams. What does this all mean for Harry?

Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer, to find escape in the clouds from his own complicated family. However, the Battle of Britain makes a pilot's life a dangerous way to flee reality. Eva has her own passionate longing: to become a painter. When Eva's Jewish mother disappears to Germany, she is left alone with her elderly father. Both Eddie and Eva come of age at a time that teaches them that happiness is always fleeting, but there are thin...