This lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography.

The Movie Book, the latest in DK’s award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, profiles 100 of the best movies ever made throughout the world.

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The Business Book helps you over the hurdles facing every new business, such as finding a gap in the market, securing finance, employing people, and creating an eye-catching brand. It is a plain-speaking visual guide to 80 of the most important commerce theories including chaos theory, critical path analysis, market mapping, and the MABA matrix.

Its graphics and flow diagrams demystify complicated concepts and explain the ideas of seminal business thinkers, such as Malcolm Gladwell’s “tipping point” or Michael Porter’s “five forces”. It shows that you can succeed with stories of rags-to-riches entrepreneurs, including the founders of Hewlett-Packard, who began their global enterprise from their garage.

Whether you are a student, a CEO, or a would-be entrepreneur, The Business Book will inspire you and put you on the inside track to making your goal a reality.

Series Overview: Big Ideas Simply Explained series uses creative design and innovative graphics along with straightforward and engaging writing to make complex subjects easier to understand. With over 7 million copies worldwide sold to date, these award-winning books provide just the information needed for students, families, or anyone interested in concise, thought-provoking refreshers on a single subject.

A perfect introduction to Python coding for kids ages 10 and over who are ready to take the next step after Scratch – all they need is a desktop or laptop, and an internet connection to download Python 3.

Practical and Inspirational advice about our constantly changing job market.

Whether you’re a maths geek or prefer practical hands-on projects, this book combines creativity with calculations. You don’t have to be a genius or even need a calculator – each of the super-fun make-and-do projects in this book comes with simple step-by-step photographs and instructions that will help you whip up a cool maths creation.

Perfect for kids who are interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths), Maths Lab features activities that cover many aspects of maths, including numbers, measurement, and geometry. You’ll combine art and maths by drawing impossible objects, create beautiful patterns to make a times-table dreamcatcher, and perfect the ratio for making refreshing fruit drinks. Throughout the book, explanatory boxes show you how the maths works and how the skills you’ve learned can be used in the real world.

Maths Lab is the perfect package for curious kids who are interested in taking the mystery out of maths.

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Everything has a beginning and an end, but what happens in between? Follow the migration of zebra across the vast plains, meet penguins guarding their eggs on the ice, and watch butterflies emerge from their cocoons. Shoot back in time 4.5 billion years to see how planet Earth was formed and then leap into the future to see what happens when stars die. Discover a new life cycle every time you turn the page.

You’ll take a closer look at the life cycles of environments, too. Discover how a river forms and changes over time. Find out how a tree grows and all of the other life cycles it supports within it. See the amazing sculptures the ocean waves carve out of cliffs. Dive beneath the surface to see how coral reefs form, and what causes them to die. Follow the life cycles of weather–from the water cycle to ice ages, to give you a better grasp of the climate situation we find ourselves in now.

From the single-celled amoeba to how the Earth formed, the life cycles in this book have been carefully chosen to give you an amazing overview of the universe, and how everything is intricately linked.