Only a real princess could feel a pea through twenty soft mattresses... Discover the classic nursery story and three more in this beautiful book. Stories included: The Princess and The Pea, Thumbelina, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Magic Porridge Pot.

Time has done a number on the English language. Not so long ago, a slur was just mud and being nice meant that you didn't actually know what was going on. But over the years, even some of the most common words we use have done complete 360s. With The Encyclopedia of Modern Meanings, word-lovers can rediscover definitions long-forgotten, including: Thrift, n. personal wealth; Loose, v. to release an arrow; Manufacture, v. to make by hand; Doom, n. a law, judgment, or decree; and, Bimbo, n. tough guy, man's man.

Clichs have taken over the world. They didn't start out that way. There was a time when they were new and vibrant, clever and pithy. Now they're just predictable. This book is a collection of the most overused phrases of all time. Hopefully, it'll make everyone laugh.

In Titanic Notebook, spectacular paper engineering brings to life the glory and the folly of one of the most iconic ships in maritime history. From flaps and fold outs to intricate 3D cutaway models, readers can touch a lost world and explore for themselves the innermost workings of this great ship. Mingle with the 3,500 passengers and crew. Share the luxury of life aboard the Titanic. Re-live the horror as disaster strikes. Witness the extraordinary re-discovery. Complete with a 700mm long Titanic model to assemble, Titanic Notebook's fact-packed pages and imaginative paper engineering are a unique record of her story from the fanfare of her launch to her final resting place.

Your dreamiest thoughts and artistic fantasies will be gently and safely kept in this lovely book of misty purple. Spacious inside yet highly portable (at just 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches closed), this elegant blank book features smooth cream pages in a flexible sewn binding, as well as a roomy inner pocket, colored endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a closure band, all wrapped in durable textured hard covers.

Hit the road with this eminently portable keeper of thoughts and images, covered with the dark gray patina of the long-traveled highway. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your thoughts and ideas will naturally seem that much more significant between the subtle red covers of this livre rouge. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

The colors of mosses, of clear sky, and of cool waters come together in this book for growing ideas and budding visions. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

This dark blue book is the perfect place to record your deepest indigo moods—while the pink ribbon marker adds just the right touch of whimsy. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Splash your words and pictures around in this cool blue book. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your dreamiest thoughts will be gently and safely kept in this lovely book of misty purple. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Hit the road with this eminently portable keeper of thoughts and images, covered with the dark gray patina of the long-traveled highway. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your thoughts and ideas will naturally seem that much more significant between the subtle red covers of this petit livre. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

The colors of mosses, of clear sky, and of cool waters come together in this book for growing ideas and budding visions. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Splash your words and pictures around in this cool blue book. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your dreamiest thoughts will be gently and safely kept in this little book of misty purple. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD. The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked from the inside. If Bernie fails to solve this impossible mystery; not only is his reputation at stake, but also that of Reinhard Heydrich, a man who cannot bear to lose face.

Few characters in history are as fascinating or controversial as Nicholas and Alexandra. From their passionate love to their horrifying execution, they are alternately viewed as innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins or blamed for causing the Revolution themselves. Much has already been written about their lives. But acting as a curator of the many conflicting histories, acclaimed author Virginia Rounding offers a different kind of biography, with an intimate look that probes the souls of these unforgettable figures, and tells the story of their passion and its consequences for Russia. Through newly revealed letters and diaries, Rounding explores the Empress' ill health, examines the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky, Alix and her confidante Ania Vyrubova, and looks anew at the reasons behind their reliance on the infamous Rasputin. Her conclusions are surprising. With eloquence and compassion, Rounding makes these characters come alive, presenting them in all their complexity and ardour, guiding the reader into their vanished world.

The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves it has been overshadowed by other massive confrontations on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad and Kursk. And rarely has the compelling story of the siege been told through graphic wartime photographs like those that author Nik Cornish has collected for this book. Many of these images have not been published before, and they give an unflinching insight into the reality of the conditions of the siege as it was experienced by the soldiers on each side and by the civilians trapped in the city who were threatened by starvation, disease, shelling and assault. The entire course of the siege is covered, from the encirclement of September 1941, through the successive attempts by the Wehrmacht to break in and the dogged, sometimes desperate defense put up by the Red Army, to the withdrawal of the Germans and the lifting of the siege in January 1944. Nik Cornishs portrait of the ruthless struggle of Hitlers armies to capture the second city of the Soviet Union and the determination and suffering of the defenders will be fascinating reading for everyone who is interested in the war on the Eastern Front.

The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own. The Finder, a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. The Bones of the Earth features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. Darkrose and Diamond is a delightful story of young courtship showing that wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. On the High Marsh tells of the love of power-and of the power of love. Dragonfly shows how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom. Concluding with an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this collection also features two new maps of Earthsea.