Art Puzzle Book - Rosie Dickins
Features a fantastic selection of famous paintings plus fun, write-in puzzles. Each painting is reproduced in full colour, along with quirky facts and details to spot, and followed by a page of puzzles. These include…
Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as President Roosevelt''s fourth term Vice President for his admired work ethic, good judgement and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man from small-town America. That is, until he was thrust in over his head following the sudden death of Roosevelt. With the world still caught up in the inferno of the Second World War, Truman found himself playing the roles of both judge and jury during the founding of the UN, the Potsdam Conference, the Manhattan Project, the German surrender, the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the decision to drop the Bomb and bring the war to the end. Tightly focused, meticulously researched and drawing on documentation not available to previous biographers, The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during this tumultuous, history-making four months - when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher . . .
Features a fantastic selection of famous paintings plus fun, write-in puzzles. Each painting is reproduced in full colour, along with quirky facts and details to spot, and followed by a page of puzzles. These include…
Reds love being red. Yellows love being yellow. And Blues love being blue. The problem is that they just don’t like each other.But one day, along comes a different colour who likes Reds, Yellows and…
Born into grinding poverty, young Freddie Musgrave relies on his wits to survive and help feed his family. He earns a few shillings by navigating his little boat across the swift-flowing waters of the Tyne,…
National hero, military genius-too bad the Black Berets had him marked for death ...To the average citizen, the Lion of Salvador was a national hero, a military general of such renown that his accolades spanned…
Místo na vojenskou školu v Milovicích omylem dorazila do Prahy, kde na ulici dostala nabídku stát se manekýnou. Marta Pospíchalová se brzy stala jednou z nejvyhledávanějších modelek v socialistickém Československu, procestovala mnoho zemí světa, dostávala…
Dějištěm i hybatelem příběhu je místo s pohnutou historií: opuštěný dům ve slezské Vidnavě, v němž býval kněžský seminář, pak zajatecký lágr, po něm lazaret wehrmachtu a po něm dětská ozdravovna. Hlavní část textu psaného…
Svazkem Publicistika 1 předkládáme obsáhlý výbor z té části novinářského díla Josefa Čapka, v níž se nezabýval výtvarným uměním, tj. z té části, jíž vedl každodenní dialog se čtenářem prostřednictvím běžných žurnalistických žánrů, kterými byly…
Jasmin has always known that monsters are real. And they wear ordinary faces. When she was a child, she witnessed her famous, adored grandfather attempt to kill her grandmother.Now Jasmin is eighteen, watchful and curious.…