Full of hitmen, sneak-thieves and kidnappers, this book offers mysteries as challenging as any novel. The clues are all here, just waiting for the reader to piece together the solutions. Guided by questions, young sleuths can narrow down the evidence and find the culprit.

Include two tales: The Great Piratical Rumbustification introduces us to Alpha, Oliver, and Omega Terrapin, alone for an evening of devilish fun and none other than Orpheus Clinker, a reformed pirate cleverly transformed into a respectable babysitter. Or has he reformed?; and The Librarian and the Robbers is a tale of a band of wicked robbers.

When it was first published in 1950 The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody was on the New York Times best-seller list for four months. An hysterically funny (yet historically accurate) romp through world history by a great American humourist and raconteur.

Explore the splendid city of Singapore with this portable, comprehensive map. This genuinely pocket-sized product includes 2 PopOut maps featuring: a street map of central Singapore and Orchard Road, an overview map of greater Singapore as well as additional maps of Sentosa, Singapore Island and the Singapore metro.

The opposite of Classicism, with it regard for order and rules, Romanticism gave primacy to the imagination, to the senses, to intuition and inspiration, putting a premium on the spectacular, the mysterious, and the dramatic. This book demonstrates through drawings, designs, watercolours, and engravings, a narrative of the course of Romanticism.

Traces the misadventures of a young man a tad too curious about magic for his own good.

In 1912, on the edge of the North American frontier Robert Flaherty was there on a hunting expedition. Flaherty, an American-born prospector and a pioneer filmmaker, chanced to see the landing of an overcrowded, leaking, sealskin vessel, that held an Inuit hunter named Comock, his wife & their 11 children, this is their story.

Explore New York with ease with this portable, comprehensive transport map. This genuinely pocket-sized PopOut Map shows the Manhattan Subway and Manhattan bus routes ideal to tuck in a pocket for quick reference.

The way we use our language to convince and cajole is based on timeless principles - on repetition and variety, suspense and relief, expectation and satisfaction - that have been employed by writers and speakers since the Golden Age of Greece. This title presents an overview and analysis of the uses of rhetoric in the English language.

Barry Moser is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed wood engravers in the world. Portraits have long been a staple of his career, from his first book in 1970 onwards. This title brings together a collection of fifty of Moser's best known portraits, and includes portraits of: Charles Dickens; Edgar Allen Poe; and Jane Austen.

Jack Landry, a promising high school baseball player, and his best friend, Elphege Beaupre, live by the motto 'Never back down, never instigate'. It's a rule of stubborn passivity that Jack will follow to the end of his days. Unconsciously burdened by his heritage, the church, and a life of hard work, young Jack still has big dreams.

Artists' books always contain art, and the art often serves as the primary reason for the book's existence. This title explores more than 70 books that represent the 'best of both worlds'. It features books whose pages reveal the best graphic work of the past century.