Bøger af Sophie Collins

Growing flowers, veg and herbs from seed is cheap, environmentally friendly and hugely rewarding and this helpful guide shows just how easy it is too.

You won’t know unless you ask! These 12 chapters cover a wide range of science topics such as astronomy, zoology, the human body, computing and technology, what the future holds, and more.Who Knew? The Big Book of Science Questions That Will Make You Think Again includes more than 100 fascinating articles across twelve chapters that will answer questions such as “Why can’t we go faster than the speed of light?” and “How green are electric cars?” This compilation of scientific knowledge consists of entries from Who Knew? Physics and Who Knew? Human Anatomy, plus dozens of brand-new articles. Chapters cover subjects such as cosmology, astronomy, planet Earth, forces and materials, life on Earth, botany, zoology, the human body, the brain, medicine, computers and technology, and the future. A quiz at the end of each chapter will test your knowledge so that you’ll be ready for mastermind status in no time!

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If modern party games seem stiff and soulless, step out of the shadows with this nostalgic book. Just a little practice will have you demonstrating the roar of a lion and the snap of a crocodile; and soon you'll be putting on an entire show to impress your friends and family.

In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism.Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages, Who Is Mary Sue? exposes the presumptive politics behind writing and readership: the idea that men invent while women reflect; that a man writes of the world outside while a woman will turn to the interior.Part poetry and part reportage, at once playful and sincere, these fictive-factive miniatures deploy original writing and extant quotation in a mode of pure invention. In so doing, they lift up and lay down a revealing sequence of masks and mirrors that disturb the reflection of authority.A work of captivation and correction, this is a book that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity, shame, gender, trauma, composition and culture: everyone, in other words, who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world. Who Is Mary Sue? is a work for our times and a question for our age: it is a handbook for all those willing to reimagine prescriptive notions of identity and selfhood.

A guide to Audrey's life, work and legacy, featuring irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the writer behind the words.

This guide offers good, workable, up-to-date advice on dog-ownership and is also the first book to consider the canine, as well as the human, point of view.

An indispensable guide to the first year (and beyond) of puppy ownership that explores dog cognition.