Books published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd

An updated edition of the best-selling DIY manual you can't afford to be without, with expert know-how for success every time. Whether you need to do a quick fix or a large DIY project, find out how to tackle any DIY task with confidence following this revised and updated step-by-step guide. From fitting a shower cubicle to applying different painting techniques, the simple, clear, unintimidating instructions ensure even hard jobs are made easy, whatever your level of ability. With step-by-step photographs of every technique and process, DIY breaks down every stage of every task, from choosing tools and essential safety guidance to advice for tackling big jobs and fixing common problems. Including the latest home features like boiling-water taps and smart security systems, up-to-date safety guidelines, and eco-conscious solutions from paint choices to solar panels, this is the tried-and-trusted guide that no homeowner should be without.

Get tastier produce from your garden with this fresh approach to growing veg, fruit and ornamental plants. Home-grown food is now a reality for many, eco-conscious gardeners everywhere should be keen to explore methods that increase yield and harvest edible crops with a depth of flavour rarely matched on supermarket shelves. Biodynamic gardening techniques promise both.This incredibly accessible guide comes with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions on biodynamic techniques for home gardeners. Crystal clear practical advice tells you what to do when, from soil preparation and planting to harvesting at optimum times for the best flavour.Even busy gardeners can incorporate biodynamic practices, so for a pragmatic guide to an all-natural, ethical approach that delivers great results, look no further.

Everything you need to know to sew your own clothes and home furnishings.Demystify your sewing machine and get to grips with essential techniques with The Sewing Book. This bestselling guide covers over 300 techniques with illustrated step-by-step sequences, showing you how to create everything from seams and hems to darts, gathers, and collars.Discover how to read a pattern and adapt designs to suit your measurements, get to grips with tools and materials, and find the best fabrics to suit whatever you want to make.Complete with ten homeware and clothing projects to help you put your new-found skills to the test, The Sewing Book shows you everything you need to know, stitch by stitch.

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Harvest year-round from your bountiful and sustainable kitchen garden. Huw Richards' ultimate guide to permaculture gardening, outlining the regenerative methods that make kitchen gardening easier to do while being more productive. Huw shows you how to expand your growing beyond annual staples like tomatoes and cabbages to perennial fruits and vegetables. By mixing your planting, gardening seasonally, and optimizing your garden design, you will create a more beautiful and sustainable kitchen garden that is better for the soil, wildlife, and your crops - without costing more of your time. The book includes:What to grow: a substantial and comprehensive reference of edible plants and flowers you can grow - when to sow, grow on, and harvestIncludes perennials that crop every year, maximizing yield for effortA permaculture approach: streamline the way your garden operates with ideas on building resilience, using vertical space, generating healthy soil, and mixed "polyculture" plantingAesthetics and environment: how to make your kitchen garden look good by planting ornamental edibles and flowering crops that attract pollinatorsA roadmap for the year ahead guides you through the key moments throughout the four seasons

Teach your little one about how we build and grow trust.For such a little word, trust means something pretty big! Trust is feeling safe, protected, and strong. And it's something we can share and grow every day through what we do and say.

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Wow all your friends and family with 5 jaw-dropping facts about science each day, then turbo-charge your memory with 5 questions about your new-found knowledge. Did you know that you can't burp in space? Or that bananas are slightly radioactive? Or that there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in our solar system? Discover the science behind all these facts and much more with 5 Facts a Day: Science. From rocks to robots, and cells to solar systems, this eye-opening book covers more than 250 different science topics in an easy-to-read, entertaining, and bite-sized way to build on your knowledge as you go. Discover 5 facts a day, 5 days a week, or just dip in and out for fun.

Combining simple, stylish graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Physics is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.Compact and clear, this book covers the core concepts of physics in a refreshing and highly accessible way - from gravitational fields and momentum to general relativity and the mysteries of quantum uncertainty. Using simple diagrams and directly worded explanations, each pared-back entry explains concepts more clearly and concisely than ever before.Whether you are studying physics at school or college, or simply want a jargon-free insight into what physics is all about, this essential guide gives you shortcuts and beelines to knowledge that will make you cry, "At last! I understand!"

Neurodiversity makes our world beautiful and is worthy of celebrating!Everything we do is because of the ways our brains work, and everyone's brain is different. Seriously! But our world doesn't operate in a way that is accepting of each brain type. Neurodiversity is what makes our world beautiful, and this author teaches us the importance of celebrating the unique ways in which our brains help us learn, feel, and experience life!Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups.

Discover how to build everything with LEGO® bricks!Be inspired by 150 awesome LEGO ideas, from cars and houses, to dinosaurs and robots and more.Embark on an imaginative building journey as the models get more challenging through the book.Each idea is shown broken down into three, four, or five important building steps.Learn essential building techniques to create scenes for your models at the end of each chapterYou can build anything!(c)2024 The LEGO Group.

Join Rose Ayling-Ellis, her cool cat Halo, and their magical tour guide, Perky the Pigeon on a ultimate time-travelling, globetrotting adventure to explore the story of communication as never before. Discover ancient language, decipher secret codes and special signs on a journey through time and learn about all the different ways we can send, or receive, a message. Perky the Pigeon will be our tour guide as we explore the beginnings of language, the first hieroglyphic 'emojis' and even communication in the animal kingdom!Interspersed between the exciting episodes of Rose's journey are Messaging Milestones: fascinating timelines of inventions that changed the world, and Rose's Superstars: a celebration of inspirational heroes, both past and present, from the deaf world - including movie star Millicent Simmonds and super stuntwoman Kitty O'Neil. Cross continents, traverse time and discover the very special gift of communication.

A series of picture books that teach children about dinosaurs through a narrative story, plus additional facts and information about what they just learned. These picture books will teach children about dinosaurs through a story! Marie Bollmann's beautiful illustrations are friendly and fun (but still technically correct!) and each story will end with a working spread on dinosaurs doing what DK does best - using photography and illustrations to teach children incredible facts that deepen their knowledge of a well-loved subject. In this instalment, follow a day in the life of a hungry Spinosaurus as it heads into the water in search of its next tasty snack.

Enter the world of a medieval horseback warrior and learn what it takes to become a knight. Eyewitness Knight follows the journey of a knight in making, from being a page or a squire at an early age undergoing rigorous training before making it to the ceremony of dubbing. Learn what knights wore into battle and enter a gallery of swords and other weapons that were an important part of a knight's armoury. Ride along with these warriors on their horses that were used not only for wars but also while hunting and jousting. Explore the mighty castles and know how they were protected from the enemy during a siege. Meet manor lord and ladies and learn about the knightly code of conduct and the idea of chivalry. Great for projects or just for fun, learn everything you need to know about knights with DK Eyewitness.

Welcome to SpicyMoustache's world, where he's on a determined mission to reduce waste in your kitchenEveryone wants to live more sustainably, but it's hard to know where to start. With all those small steps towards zero-waste will come to light. Through 100 step-by-step low-waste recipes, Alessandro Vitale (Spicy Moustache) shows that everyone can make small changes for a big environmental impact. Driven by a desire for a more sustainable world, Alessandro's success has been his plant-based 60 second videos on maximizing flavour and making the most of different fruit and vegetables. Now, Spicy brings his straightforward approach to the page, with step-by-step low- and zero-waste recipes for delicious plant-based meals and snacks, along with a handful of household remedies, cosmetics, and useful tips on food storage, shopping, and more - everything you need to reduce waste in your kitchen and home.

They say that life begins at 50 and yet, for many women, this decade is one that looms with a feeling of being lost and alone - empty nest, perimenopause, menopause, retirement. However, while these years are certainly ones full of change, with change comes the exciting opportunity for new beginnings. For new confidence, new community, and new fitness too. Follow personal trainer and influencer, Caroline Idiens six week programme designed to help you get Fit at 50. Full body strength-based and high-intensity workouts, accompanied by 60 nutritionally balanced recipes and sample meal plans, will help you get stronger, fitter, and happier in just six weeks. The programme will also help you establish your fitness goals, progressively build to longer workouts, and continue your fitness for decades to come. Caroline Idiens is a woman on a mission. A mission to show you that midlife can be the BEST time in a woman's life. She has already helped thousands of women transform their fitness, confidence, and mid(life), with her global online members programme Caroline Circuits, and with Fit at 50 she can help you do the same.

"The soul of my cooking is the symphonic layering of vibrant flavours that work together like instruments in an orchestra." - Asma KhanInternationally renowned chef and award-winning author Asma Khan returns with a masterclass on building flavour in your cooking through the intuitive principles of Indian cookery. Structured around the six core ayurvedic flavours, namely: Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal, this book aims to simplify Indian cookery by giving you the building blocks/foundations to build balanced flavours - as well as empowering homecooks to apply these processes more intuitively to their own dishes with core techniques. Including 80 flavourful, nourishing and healing recipes, as well as ayurvedic principles and veg-forward cooking this book seeks to honour the earth and traditional cooking techniques for the modern kitchen.

Here's how to make plants the centre of every meal. We're talking veg-centric main courses with main character energy. From decadent and delicious plant-based lasagne with creamy bechamel sauce, to hot honey halloumi burgers and lemon drizzle cookies. This is big flavour, without compromise, and guilt-free eating that benefits you and the planet. We all want to incorporate more plants into our diets and know that variety is key when it comes to our health - but every meal doesn't need to be super-loaded, super-food salad when what you're really craving is a bowl of steamy pulled "pork" noodles. With a background in plant-based recipe development, Elly Smart aka @ellysplate has some of the smartest tricks for incorporating highly nutritious ingredients into your diet without you even noticing. She is a champion of flavour and each recipe is protein-packed and balanced for ultimate vegan comfort. Featuring over 75 main course dishes to take you through the week from 10 minute dinners to plant-centric, dinner party centrepieces.

Scott Harrison, founder of The Six Pack Revolution, is back with his second book after the Sunday Times bestselling Eat Your Way to a Six Pack. With a focus on high protein meals, all able to be cooked in 30 minutes or less, this complete plan will have you eating and exercising your way to a six pack, with visible results in 75 days.Scott's life-changing programme, The Six Pack Revolution has helped a community of tens of thousands of people across 57 countries gain confidence and achieve the best shape of their lives - all with no calorie counting or weighing scales in sight.

Congratulations! You have been selected to be one of the crew for the first ever human missions to Mars. If your mission is triumphant, you will be the first Earthling to set foot on Mars. But the journey will not be without decisions, danger and distress! It will be up to you to get your crew to Mars safely. Along the way you'll have to navigate the frontiers of space, carry out a challenging landing, decide how you'll explore the red planet, all as you race to uncover whether life on Mars might be possible. Each decision you make will lead you in a different direction, will you complete the mission and prove that Mars could support life? Get ready to blast off on an interactive voyage to Mars.

Perfect for story time, this first board book introduces babies and toddlers to the delightful festival of Valentine's Day. From pink hearts and cuddly teddy bears to delicious chocolates and colourful balloons, all the child-friendly elements of this fun festival are included. This classic first picture book for babies and toddlers has simple language and engaging, real life photos that bring out the warmth and joyous nature of Valentine's Day. The book is clear and easy for babies and toddlers to follow, with one main image per page they can focus on, while the short text is enjoyable to read aloud and share with young children. Specially made for little hands, this hard-wearing board book has a soft padded cover and safe rounded corners. Babies and toddlers will soon be turning the pages themselves, naming objects, joining in with the text, and learning all about this happy festival that celebrates being kind and caring.

This co-branded book features 18 stories of women on the cutting-edge of virtual reality and technology: women who are building the metaverse. It showcases some of the exciting ways girls can engage with this new world of tech, from game design and 3D art to data science and software engineering.The book includes engaging activities to explore tech, art, and imagination. It will inspire the next generation to consider creative careers in tech, art, computer programming, and design-and be at the forefront of what's to come.Rebel Girls Build the Future will release in November ahead of National STEAM Day.

Take LEGO® fun to the next level with this ultimate LEGO activity book - with building and sticker activities and 400 stickers!This isn't your usual activity book: grab your LEGO brick collection and add your pieces to the pages to make them interactive!Build a LEGO spaceship to race through a meteor shower that's illustrated on the page. Create a rainbow of aliens on top of every colour on the page. Design a new planet by placing your LEGO pieces on the page... and much more!Packed with lots of fun sticker activities and quizzes, too. Discover LEGO build ideas and fun facts about space throughout as you build and stick!(c)2024 The LEGO Group.

Take LEGO® fun to the next level with this ultimate LEGO activity book - with building and sticker activities and 400 stickers!This isn't your usual activity book: grab your LEGO brick collection and add your pieces to the pages to make them interactive!Use your bricks to find a way to cross a croc-filled river that's illustrated on the page. Create a collection of LEGO creatures on top of every colour on the page. Design a LEGO butterfly by placing your most colourful pieces and stickers on the page... and much more!Packed with lots of fun sticker activities and quizzes, too. Discover LEGO build ideas and fun facts about animals throughout as you build and stick!(c)2024 The LEGO Group.

Chart Ash's journey-from his first steps toward his dream to be a Pokemon Master to becoming champion of the World Coronation Series. Pore over pages of timelines packed with fascinating facts, images, and essential details from all 25 seasons of the animated series. Revisit exciting storylines. Follow Pikachu, Charizard, and more Pokemon, as well as best-loved characters, teams, and rivals on their journeys. Dive into detailed descriptions of terrific tournaments. Explore regions and uncover incredible adventures.(c)2024 Pokemon. (c) 1995-2023 Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK inc. TM, (R), and character names are trademarks of Nintendo.

Discover the fascinating stories behind around 300 species of wildflowers, and marvel at a botanical beauty and diversity you never knew existed. Did you know that orchids existed alongside dinosaurs? And that 30,000 plant species are used as medicine worldwide? In this stunning book, leading botanist Chris Thorogood brings you closer to 300 species of wildflower through fascinating facts, plant profiles, and detailed illustrations. More than just meadows, discover wildflowers that are pollinated by birds, that look like stones, and that feed on the creatures around them.Humans have had a close relationship with wildflowers throughout history from growing dahlias as crops and comfrey as medicine, to carrying posies to ward off the plague and roses down the aisle. Bringing together natural history, culture, food, medicine and technology, this fascinating book will open your eyes to the botanical wonders all around us. With a guide to the wildflowers growing in every habitat, identification notes, a grow-your-own guide and more, this is the ultimate flower-lover's companion.

The ultimate guide to gardening under glass.Thinking of buying a greenhouse but aren't sure what to grow in it, or how? Or maybe you've inherited a garden with a greenhouse, but haven't got a clue what to do with it? Whatever your journey to growing under glass, this book gives a clear, inspiring, and brilliantly illustrated approach to all things greenhouse.A protected growing environment provides shelter and warmth to a broad range of tender plants, both edible and ornamental, and can open up a fascinating new world of gardening. Starting plants off early under glass also enables you to extend the growing season, providing additional weeks and months of home-grown, sustainable produce to enjoy and flowers to admire.From initial planning considerations and ongoing maintenance, to all the exciting and unusual plants that can be grown; from overwintering exotics, to hardening off seedlings and protecting summer crops against pests and diseases, there is a wealth of information to be shared. And you don't need a large garden: with a patio greenhouse, cold frame, and cloches, anyone with outside space can enjoy growing under glass.

With significant female figures breaking down taboos around menopause and opening up the discussion, women are in a stronger position than ever before to insist on a better midlife experience - a real cause for celebration. But while these discussions around menopause are brilliant and empowering, it's vital that we don't let the conversation stop there. Because midlife for women is a multifaceted experience, one in which our changing bodies play an enormous part, but that's far from the only thing going on.MIDLIFE MATTERS promises to be an all-encompassing guide and manual for midlife women, exploring the five key areas of HEALTH, WELLBEING, RELATIONSHIPS, WORK LIFE, CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES with humour and honesty. Guiding us through, author Katie's Taylor's friendly narrative is supported by expert contributions in each chapter, including advice and resources from a world-renowned medical advisory team - and of course the testimonies of real women from the midlife community.