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A little book that will amuse, intrigue, strike a chord with parents and children and maybe start a conversation or two about the things that really matter. Open the door, and enter.

XXI wiek stawia kobiety przed wieloma wyzwaniami. Zmagamy się z wieloma problemami. Jednym z największych jest zwątpienie w siebie i swoją wartość. „Alfabet kobiecości” to seria opowiadań opartych na prawdziwych emocjach i doświadczeniach tak dobrze znanych kobietom. Alfabet dosłownie i w przenośni. Alfabet naszych emocji, takich jak odwaga, miłość, strach, zwątpienie. Alfabet kobiet, bo choć każda z nas jest inna, jesteśmy też bardzo do siebie podobne. Ale na tym nie koniec. Każda z bohaterek znajduje siebie i swoją ścieżkę do szczęścia, swoją drogę do siebie samej.

Einfaches Mittel – große Wirkung – Meditationen für Kinder. Mit regelmäßigem Meditieren und positiven Affirmationen können wir das Selbstwertgefühl unserer Kinder stärken. Stressige Situationen werfen sie nicht mehr so leicht aus der Bahn und Angstgefühle sowie generelle Unsicherheiten werden gemindert. Die 20 kindgerechten und bildhaft geführten Meditationen schaffen kleine Auszeiten und sind ein tolles Hilfsmittel, um neue Kraft zu tanken und das Konzentrationsvermögen zu verbessern.

A collection of stories explaining timeless and famous Urdu idioms.

Favorite Bible stories are retold for toddlers in these delightful board books. The Lost Sheep tells of the shepherd who loses one of his 100 sheep and does not stop looking until he finds it.

My Very First Bible published to high acclaim in 2003 and its popular stories and bright illustrations have since gone onto provide the basis for a number of additional series - including board books, big books, and sticker and activity books.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader; Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled England for 45 years; George Washington, the first president of the USA; King Louis XVI, the last king of France; Winston Churchill, who led Britain in the Second World War; Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchup; William Lever, who made millions from soap; Michael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer stores; Henry Ford, who mass produced cars and made them affordable; Coco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for women; Ray Kroc, the man who created the McDonald's chain of restaurants.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Antoine Lavoisier, who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook; Humphry Davy, who discovered 'laughing gas'; Charles Darwin, who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution; Gregor Mendel, who first discovered the science of genetics; Louis Pasteur, who saved millions of lives by killing germs; Francis Crick, who helped to discover the structure of DNA.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello player; Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet player and singer; Frank Sinatra, the Italian American singer and actor; Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star; Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer; and Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all; Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre; Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer; Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet'; Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas; and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize; Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people; John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away; Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children; Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research; Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community.

Die Natur der Pferde verstehen! Wer möchte nicht reiten können wie Mika aus dem Film "Ostwind"? Frei und ungebunden sein? Pferde verstehen und lernen, wie sie miteinander sprechen, wie man ihr Vertrauen gewinnt und wie man fest im Sattel sitzt? Hier bekommen "Ostwind"-Fans Tipps zum Umgang mit dem Pferd und zum Reiten lernen.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English literature; William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history; Charles Dickens, who wanted to make England a better place; Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor; Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace; and Rudyard Kipling, who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Marco Polo, who taught the world about China; Ibn Battuta, who travelled to 44 countries; Christopher Columbus, who discovered new worlds; James Cook, the first man to sail around the world in both directions; David Livingstone, who explored Africa; and Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space.

The inspiring stories of five people who changed history, including Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to fly; Louis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplane; Charles Lindbergh, the first person to cross the Atlantic alone; Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic; and Amy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying records This book is level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery; Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric motor; Marie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivity; Albert Einstein, creator of the theory of relativity; Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic; and Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher; Socrates, the great Greek philosopher; Aristotle, the first person to organise scientific knowledge; William Wilberforce, who ended the British slave trade; Karl Marx, who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; and Mahatma Gandhi, who helped free India from British rule.

Was ist überhaupt ein Ozean? Wie viele Weltmeere gibt es? Diesen und weiteren Fragen gehen Kimmo und Saki nach - zusammen mit ihrem Freund, dem schüchternen Geist Alexander von Humboldt aus dem Museum. Die drei Abenteurer schleichen sich an Bord eines Forschungsschiffes und erleben eine Entdeckungsfahrt, die sie bis zu 400 Meter tief in die See hinab tauchen lässt. Immer dabei: der Zukunftsgenerator Nirai Kanai, der zwar aussieht wie eine gewöhnliche Taschenlampe, es aber in sich hat!

So lernen Kinder sicher schwimmen! Paul kann noch nicht schwimmen und ist ein bisschen schüchtern. Die anderen Kinder lachen ihn deshalb im Strandurlaub aus. Wie gemein! Aber als er den lustigen Seestern Anton und Karl Treibholz kennenlernt, merkt er, dass es gar nicht so schwer ist, schwimmen zu lernen. Beflügelt von den Erlebnissen am Meer, macht Paul einen Schwimmkurs. Und mithilfe von Trainer Franz und unterhaltsamen Übungen schafft er am Ende sogar das Seepferdchen!