A series of geography books that explore the relationship between people and their environment. Each title begins with a child's local, familiar surroundings before moving on to the way people live in other parts of the world. Topics discussed include environmental change, population and planning.

Today many people seem to find the pleasures of kindness literally incredible. Instead of embracing the benefits of altruism, as a species we seem to be becoming deeply and fundamentally antagonistic to each other, with motives that are generally self-seeking. This text explains how and why this has come about.

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Snakes are often hated, sometimes loved, but rarely understood. This book investigates these shy but remarkable reptiles, exploring their anatomy, instincts and survival skills. It helps you discover the secrets of the deadly poisoners and stranglers. It also helps you find out why some species lay eggs while others give birth to live young.

Children love animals, and love to learn about them. This set of eight books lets children find all their animal facts in an enjoyable, easy and captivating way, by laying out the information in the form of fun facts, focus features, folklore and myth boxes, and 'Did You Know?' highlights. Every volume in this collection examines each animal in turn and takes a detailed look at how they function, from their physical make-up such as bones, teeth, skin, scales or fur to how they use their brain and senses to find food, communicate and survive. Thousands of fascinating animal facts are made...

Helps you learn how elephant bodies work, from the many uses of their versatile trunks and big flapping ears, to their 'conveyor-belt' teeth and mighty tusks. This title comes with images by top wildlife photographers, as well as illustrations and detailed cross-sections. It is suitable for home and classroom use by 8- to 12-year-olds.

In the swamps of the world's tropical regions dwells a group of primitive but fearsome predators - the crocodilians. This book investigates every aspect of their lifestyles, and the differences between alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials. It reveals the gentle, nurturing side of crocodilian nature, as well as their lethal hunting skills.

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system. A Radio 4 Book of The Week Shortlisted For The RBC Taylor Prize. In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on...

In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association.
Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary...

Which amazing animal can change the colour of its skin? Which terrifying creature is so big it was confused for a dragon? Which tricky reptile pretends to be a toad? In Focus: Reptiles has the answers!