New edition of Peter Arnold's classic 'Tulips', at an even more accessible price. Showcases the most popular spring flower in all its beauty and variety.

A delightful and humorous book for pet and animal lovers! Features 88 Old Masters' style animal pictures and a portrait of a shy boy. Humorous and philosophical texts about different animal characters.

Beauty amid the suffering and struggle: unique lockdown impressions from more than 60 cities. World-renowned sites and monuments as never seen them before. A photographic record of an extraordinary period in history.

In the centre of Amsterdam lies a unique oasis:

Restaurant De Kas. The most famous vegetable restaurant

in The Netherlands is one of the world’s first farm-to-table

restaurants and welcomes guests from all over the world.

Since 2017 chefs Jos Timmer and Wim de Beer

have been serving beautiful produce grown in their

Amsterdam greenhouse and their gardens in De Beemster.

Take a look behind the scenes of Restaurant

De Kas and get inspired by over 80 recipes putting

vegetables in the spotlight.

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Natasha van den Brand Horninge aims to put a smile on children’s faces with her lovely, rhyming stories. But above all she wants to dig a little deeper. In a lighthearted and witty way she wants to introduce kids to topics such as being transgender and feeling unhappy about yourself. In this way difficulties in life become more commonplace.

The illustrations are also very tender and loving and bring the poems to life perfectly. My Daddy has a beard – and other stories is fun and valuable ...

The premise that underlies this volume is that there are strong interconnections between wonder, education, and human flourishing. And more specifically, that wonder can make a significant difference to how well one's education progresses and how well one's life goes. The contributors to this volume - both senior, well-known and beginning researchers and students of wonder - variously explore aspects of these connections from philosofphical, empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives. ...

This volume establishes a rich cross-disciplinary dialogue about the significance of stone in society across time and space. The material properties of stone have ensured its continuing importance; however, it is its materiality which has mediated the relations between the individual, society and stone.

Bound up with the physical properties of stone are ideas on identity, value, and understanding. Stone can act as a medium through which these concepts are expressed and is tied to ideas such a...

Representing both a barrier and a corridor between the Eurasian and Asian continents, the Caucasus has constituted the setting for various socio-economic transformations throughout prehistory. The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Northern Caucasus is a period characterised by a shift from pastoral lifeways in the steppe to sedentary lifestyles in the high mountains, and the change from hierarchical to egalitarian societies. In this context, this book provides basic sci...

This book examines the mutual influence of architecture and human action during a key period of history: the Hellenistic age. During this era, the profound transformations in the Mediterranean's archaeological and historical record are detectable, pointing to a conscious intertwining of the physical (landscape, architecture, bodies) and social (practice) components of built space.

Compiling the outcomes of a conference held in Kiel in 2018, the volume assembles contributions focusing on Hellen...

This book contains a selection of nineteen articles published by K.R. Veenhof, focusing on his main field of study: law and trade in the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian society of the early second millennium B.C. They were originally published in journals, conference proceedings and collective volumes over the past fifty years. Their reissue here is motivated by their lasting value and their fundamental importance to the study of these subjects.

It includes both “broad” articles, which gi...