Help your 7-9 year old learn about science using this fill-in home-study workbook from Carol Vorderman. Find out which foods help you grow, which animals live where and more in this activity-packed ...

Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? ...

Building on the success of its popular predecessor, this welcome second edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language. With ...

In his enormously ambitious book The Power of Babel, John McWhorter offers an account of the first common language ever spoken by human beings, and proceeds to explore why it then fragmented into the ...

In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his ...