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  • Prosperity on Paper
    Etienne Psaila
    Why can a country appear extraordinarily wealthy while many of its people struggle with housing, stagnant wages and the rising cost of everyday life? Prosperity on Paper explains why GDP per capita-one of the world’s most frequently quoted economic measures-does not necessarily reflect the income, security or living standards of ordinary households. Written in a clear, accessib...
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    20,65 €

  • The Japanese Kei Car
    Etienne Psaila
    Japan’s smallest cars tell one of the most remarkable stories in automotive history. Created within strict limits on engine capacity, length and width, the kei car developed from basic post-war transport into an extraordinarily diverse class of vehicles. Tiny family cars, practical vans, hardworking pickup trucks, turbocharged hatchbacks, miniature sports cars, four-wheel-drive...
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    20,89 €

  • The Adult Beginner’s Swimming Guide
    Etienne Psaila
    Learning to swim as an adult can feel intimidating, especially when past experiences, fear of deeper water or uncertainty about breathing have made the pool seem unwelcoming. Yet swimming is not a skill reserved for childhood, natural athletes or people who already feel confident in water. The Adult Beginner’s Swimming Guide offers a calm, practical and reassuring route from fi...
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    19,84 €

  • The Rowing Machine Beginner
    Etienne Psaila
    The rowing machine promises an efficient full-body workout, yet its unfamiliar movement, changing monitor figures and resistance controls can leave beginners uncertain about where to start. The Rowing Machine Beginner provides a clear, practical introduction to indoor rowing, explaining how to set up the machine, establish correct posture and perform every phase of the stroke i...
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    19,90 €

  • The Trials Motorcycle
    Etienne Psaila
    Motorcycle trials is a sport in which the smallest movement can decide everything. A momentary touch of a boot costs a mark. A misplaced wheel can end a section. Victory belongs not to the fastest rider, but to the one who displays the greatest balance, precision and control. The Trials Motorcycle tells the complete story of this remarkable discipline, from the early reliabilit...
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    20,79 €

  • The Van That Moved Britain
    Etienne Psaila
    For more than sixty years, the humble van has carried the tools, goods, people and ambitions that kept Britain moving. The Van That Moved Britain tells the remarkable social and industrial history of the commercial vehicle that became part of everyday national life. From builders, plumbers and telephone engineers to postal workers, emergency services, musicians, racing teams an...
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    20,56 €

  • The Diesel Car Story
    Etienne Psaila
    For more than a century, the diesel engine promised something petrol could not easily match: greater economy, immense low-speed torque and the durability to travel extraordinary distances. What began as Rudolf Diesel’s search for a more efficient industrial engine eventually transformed taxis, family hatchbacks, executive saloons, luxury cars and even victorious endurance racer...
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    21,07 €

  • Sprint car nation
    Etienne Psaila
    Across America, Saturday night still belongs to the dirt oval. Powerful sprint cars thunder beneath the lights, their methanol-burning engines delivering immense horsepower through machines designed to race sideways at extraordinary speed. Behind the spectacle stands a distinctive motorsport culture built by travelling champions, local heroes, family teams, skilled mechanics, d...
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    20,73 €

  • Speedway nights
    Etienne Psaila
    From Australian showgrounds and British cinder tracks to packed Polish stadiums and the modern Speedway Grand Prix, speedway has built a century of noise, danger, rivalry and fierce local loyalty. Speedway Nights tells the complete story of the motorcycle sport in which four riders race four laps on machines built for acceleration, balance and controlled sliding. It follows spe...
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    19,99 €

  • Rallycross revolution
    Etienne Psaila
    Rallycross was created for speed, spectacle and uncertainty. Several powerful cars launch towards the same first corner, race across gravel and tarmac, and fight for position in heats so short that a single hesitation can decide everything. Rallycross Revolution traces the sport from its experimental beginnings at Lydden Hill in 1967 to the rise of the European Championship, pu...
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    19,94 €

  • Hillclimb
    Etienne Psaila
    From the first fragile automobiles struggling up steep public roads to electric prototypes climbing above the clouds, hillclimbing has remained one of motor sport’s purest and most demanding contests. Hillclimb: Drivers, Machines and Mountain Roads Where Every Second Counts traces the worldwide history of uphill competition through the drivers, manufacturers and extraordinary r...
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    22,39 €

  • The Great Dinosaur Takeover
    Etienne Psaila
    More than 230 million years ago, the first dinosaurs appeared in a world already crowded with powerful predators, armoured reptiles and strange mammal relatives. They were not yet giants, and their extraordinary success was far from certain. Over millions of years, dinosaurs spread across the continents and evolved into some of the most remarkable animals ever to live. Long-nec...
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    20,40 €

  • When Monsters Ruled the Seas
    Etienne Psaila
    Long before whales ruled the open ocean, the prehistoric seas belonged to creatures unlike anything alive today. Ichthyosaurs raced through the water with streamlined bodies and powerful tails. Four-flippered plesiosaurs hunted beneath the waves, while enormous pliosaurs carried some of the strongest jaws in the Jurassic seas. Later, mosasaurs rose from lizard-like ancestors to...
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    20,29 €

  • The Age of Ice and Giants
    Etienne Psaila
    Travel back to a world shaped by advancing ice, shifting coastlines and animals larger than anything most people encounter today. During the Pleistocene Epoch, enormous glaciers covered parts of the Northern Hemisphere while mammoths, mastodons, woolly rhinoceroses, giant ground sloths, sabre-toothed cats and other remarkable creatures roamed the landscapes beyond the ice. Livi...
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    20,36 €

  • Lost Worlds of the Past
    Etienne Psaila
    Before the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, stranger creatures dominated its oceans, forests and vast ancient plains. Journey hundreds of millions of years into the past and discover the extraordinary lost worlds of the Palaeozoic Era. Meet armoured trilobites crawling across Cambrian seabeds, giant sea scorpions hunting in ancient waters, fishes developing the first jaws, and lobe-f...
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    20,18 €

  • Fossils
    Etienne Psaila
    The past has left us messages-but they are written in bone, stone, footprints and fragments. Long before humans existed, countless organisms lived, moved, fed, grew and disappeared. Most left no trace at all. A fortunate few became part of the fossil record, preserving clues that allow scientists to reconstruct worlds no human being ever witnessed. In Fossils: Messages from Dee...
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    20,20 €

  • The Greatest Inventions in History
    Etienne Psaila
    What connects the first stone tools to smartphones, steam engines, aeroplanes and modern medicine? Every great invention is part of a much larger human story. The Greatest Inventions in History takes young readers on an exciting journey through the ideas that transformed civilisation. Discover how early humans mastered tools and fire, how farming and writing changed society, wh...
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    19,94 €

  • Can a Machine Think?
    Etienne Psaila
    Artificial intelligence is already all around us. It recommends videos, recognises faces, answers questions, creates pictures, translates languages and helps robots move through the physical world. But how can a machine learn? Does a chatbot understand what it says? Why can AI sound completely confident while giving an answer that is completely wrong? Can a Machine Think? takes...
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    20,42 €

  • Earthquake!
    Etienne Psaila
    The ground beneath your feet may feel solid and still, but Earth is a restless planet that never stops changing. Deep below the surface, enormous tectonic plates move slowly across the planet. Where they pull apart, new ocean floor is created. Where they collide, mountains rise and volcanoes form. Where they become locked together, stress can build for centuries before being re...
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    20,44 €

  • Weather Gone Wild
    Etienne Psaila
    The atmosphere may be invisible, but it is never still. Every breeze, cloud and raindrop is part of an enormous weather system powered by the Sun. Most of the time, this system brings ordinary changes in temperature, wind and rain. Under the right conditions, however, a small cloud can grow into a towering thunderstorm, rotating winds can tighten into a tornado, and clusters of...
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    20,40 €

  • The Great Freshwater Journey
    Etienne Psaila
    Where does the water in your glass come from-and where will it go after it disappears down the drain? Freshwater is always travelling. It rises invisibly into the atmosphere, gathers inside clouds, falls as rain and snow, sinks through soil and flows through streams, rivers, wetlands and lakes. Some remains hidden underground for years or even centuries. Some is stored behind d...
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    20,36 €

  • How the World Gets Its Energy
    Etienne Psaila
    Where does electricity come from when you press a switch? How can sunlight, moving water, rushing wind, burning fuel and even split atoms all power the same lamp? How the World Gets Its Energy takes young readers behind the sockets, engines and power stations on which modern life depends. Beginning with humanity’s first controlled fires, it follows the extraordinary journey fro...
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    20,40 €

  • The Day Everything Went Wrong
    Etienne Psaila
    What turns a dangerous event into a great disaster-and how can understanding the past help protect people in the future? From the sinking of Titanic and the collapse of great bridges to devastating fires, railway crashes, mining accidents, toxic leaks and nuclear emergencies, The Day Everything Went Wrong investigates some of history’s most important disasters with clarity, acc...
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    20,30 €

  • The Secret World Beneath Our Feet
    Etienne Psaila
    Beneath forests, fields, gardens and city streets lies an extraordinary world that most of us rarely see. Soil is far more than dirt. It is a living system filled with branching roots, microscopic organisms, burrowing animals and fungal threads finer than human hairs. Together, these hidden communities break down dead material, recycle nutrients, hold water and support nearly e...
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    20,30 €

  • How Animals Survive
    Etienne Psaila
    How can a tiny frog warn away a predator? Why does a bat send sounds into the darkness? How can a camel endure intense heat, a penguin survive Antarctic cold or a fish remain alive beneath the crushing pressure of the deep ocean? How Animals Survive explores the extraordinary features and behaviours that help creatures remain alive in nearly every environment on Earth. From cam...
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    20,26 €

  • The Great Animal Journeys
    Etienne Psaila
    Every year, animals set out on journeys that seem almost impossible. Birds cross oceans beneath the stars. Whales travel between distant feeding and breeding grounds. Salmon leave the open sea and fight their way back into rivers. Sea turtles navigate across entire ocean basins, while butterflies continue migrations that no single generation lives long enough to complete. Acros...
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    20,42 €

  • The Deepest Place on Earth
    Etienne Psaila
    Beneath the ocean’s glittering surface lies the largest and least explored living environment on Earth. Begin in bright, sunlit waters filled with microscopic plankton, coral reefs, powerful sharks and enormous whales. Then descend through the twilight zone, where lanternfish glow and countless animals rise towards the surface each night. Travel deeper into permanent darkness, ...
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    20,48 €

  • The Invisible World
    Etienne Psaila
    A universe of life surrounds you-but most of it is far too small to see. Bacteria live in soil, water, oceans and inside the human body. Viruses enter cells and challenge our understanding of what it means to be alive. Fungi transform food, microbes recycle the materials ecosystems need, and ancient microorganisms helped create the oxygen-rich world in which animals and plants ...
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    20,23 €

  • How Earth Became Home
    Etienne Psaila
    How did a blazing ball of rock become the blue, living world we call home? In How Earth Became Home, young readers travel through more than four and a half billion years of astonishing planetary history. They will discover how Earth formed from dust and rock, why its early surface was molten, how the Moon was probably created, and how the first oceans and atmosphere appeared. T...
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    20,73 €

  • The Great Story of Life
    Etienne Psaila
    How did life begin-and how did it eventually produce dinosaurs, whales, birds and human beings? The Great Story of Life takes young readers on an extraordinary journey through nearly four billion years of evolution. Beginning with the earliest simple cells, it explains how photosynthesis transformed the planet, how complex organisms developed and how life spread from the oceans...
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    20,68 €


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