Bøker av Barbara Taylor

Uncover the most disgusting, revolting and shocking aspects of animal life cycles with hilarious cartoons

A colourful guide to the horrible, shocking and disgusting aspects of the science of animal adaptations and a fantastic way to inspire children in science learning.The book investigates disgusting animal habits from around the world, including feeding, nasty teeth and claws, poo, camouflage and scents and smells. 'See for yourself' panels help children relate the science to their everyday world.It is part of the Disgusting Science series, which explores the weird, revolting and shocking aspects of science for children aged 7 plus. It features child-friendly text and fun cartoon illustrations. From plants and life cycles to the human body and animal adaptations, the books offer fun examples to provide ways in to understanding solid scientific principles. Titles in the series: Human Body Horrors, Beastly Animals, Gruesome Plants, Revolting Life Cycles.

Get up close to stunning butterflies and fascinating moths. Take a journey through flower-filled meadows, dusky woodlands and steamy rainforests to find 36 magnificent butterflies and moths - from the delicate glasswing butterfly to the mighty Hercules moth.

Take a journey through lush rainforests, across grassy plains and up snowy mountains to find thirty-six magnificent monkeys and apes, from the tiny pygmy marmoset to the huge Western lowland gorilla.

Journey through the undergrowth with your magic three-colour lens and discover over 180 minibeasts from every continent, under the sea and even from prehistoric times. With your lens in hand, discovermini beast habitats, and learn more about the impressive insects and other creepy crawlies that scuttle and wriggle around the world.

Examines the intriguing aspects of all kinds of reptiles: learn how their bodies work and where they live, and amazing facts about their habits, life cycles, survival skills and ancestors.

Quirky, colourful guides to the horrible, shocking and disgusting aspects of science.

Explore the world of birds with this highly-illustrated children's atlas.Which bird migrates the furthest? How do birds find a mate? What can we do to help endangered birds? Fully updated for its 25th anniversary, The Bird Atlas answers all these questions and more.This lavishly illustrated atlas for children is not your average guide to birds. It takes children on a tour, continent by continent, to meet the birds of the world. Within each section, the book travels through different biomes, such as mountains, deserts, and rivers; and specific regions, from the Mediterranean to the Everglades, Galapagos, and Himalayas.The Bird Atlas is packed with beautiful, life-like illustrations of birds from all over the world, with maps showing precisely where they are found. There are many books that can tell you toucans live in the Amazon rainforest, but this book shows where in the vast habitat you could spot the species.Every continent is introduced with an overview of the ecology, climate, and landscape; and the typical and record-breaking birds that live there. The book also explains the anatomy of a bird, traces migration routes, and highlights endangered species.

Come face to face with the Earth's biggest beasts! From the elephants and giraffes of the African savanna to the whales and sharks of the oceans, these enormous animals will amaze you

A must-have information book, packed with fun facts and vivid photography!

Britain's magnificent architectural history and heritage explored in an expert visual guide to over 90 of Britain's great medieval castles, palaces and manor houses; and the kings, queens and nobles who live there.

Find out about one of the most ancient and deadly reptiles on the planet! Packed with amazing facts and over 180 stunning pictures, perfect for home and school use.

Using examples of invertebrates from all around the globe, this exciting guide offers an insight into their captivating eight-legged world. Find out which spiders stalk their prey just like cats do, how spiders manage not to get caught in their own webs, and why the venom of certain species is deadly.

A lively guide to these intriguing creatures and their stunning habitat; discover the many different penguin varieties, from Adelie and Gentoo to Chinstrap and Macaron, learn about their amazing courtship displays, and find out how they survive in freezing temperatures.

At the core of this text is the belief that learning to read should be a right for all children. From this viewpoint, the book constructs a bridge between current knowledge of reading processes and educational practice by incorporating a comprehensive range of theory, practice and research.

Offers an exploration of the wildlife of land and sea: habitats, hunting, communication, reproduction and survival. This title includes facts about your favourite animals. It helps you learn about bears and pandas, big cats, elephants, monkeys, sharks, snakes, whales and dolphins, and wolves.

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A series of geography books that explore the relationship between people and their environment. Each title begins with a child's local, familiar surroundings before moving on to the way people live in other parts of the world. Topics discussed include environmental change, population and planning.

This sssuper book investigates these shy but remarkable reptiles. With wonderful wildlife photographs and in-depth coverage of how snakes live - from teeth and venom to hunting and feeding - this book will delight and inform 8 to 12 year-olds, at home or school.

A series of geography books that explore the relationship between people and their environment. Each title begins with a child's local, familiar surroundings before moving on to the way people live in other parts of the world. Topics discussed include environmental change, population and planning.

A new edition of Barbara Taylor's classic book, with a new introduction.In the early nineteenth century, radicals all over Europe and America began to conceive of a 'New Moral World', and struggled to create their own utopias, with collective family life, communal property, free love and birth control. In Britain, the visionary ideals of the Utopian Socialist, Robert Owen, attracted thousands of followers, who for more than a quarter of a century attempted to put theory into practice in their own local societies, at rousing public meetings, in trade unions and in their new Communities of Mutual Association.Barbara Taylor's brilliant study of this visionary challenge recovers the crucial connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. In doing so, it opens the way to an important re-interpretation of the socialist tradition as a whole, and contributes to the reforging of some of those early links between feminism and socialism.

This exciting and comprehensive guide captures the enthralling world of reptiles and insects from all over the globe. From poisonous snakes and fearsome alligators to delicate butterflies and industrious honey bees, you'll discover amazing facts.

A series of geography books that explore the relationship between people and their environment. Each title begins with a child's local, familiar surroundings before moving on to the way people live in other parts of the world. Topics discussed include environmental change, population and planning.

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's haunting memoir of her journey through the UK mental health system.A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZEIn July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric institution: Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital.This searingly honest, thought-provoking and beautifully written memoir is the story of the author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century. It is a meditation on her own experience of breakdown and healing, but also that of the millions of other people who have suffered, are suffering, will suffer mental illness.'Personal story, psychoanalytic process, the experience of madness, the feel of being an inpatient in the last days of Friern, the history of the asylum . . . A beautiful memoir, engrossing' Independent'Moving, brave and intelligent' Susan Hill, The Times'Dazzling. A great achievement, full of life and hope' Sunday TelegraphBarbara Taylor's previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.

An amazing insight into the lives of these intelligent and mysterious creatures. Learn how elephants work, live and communicate with each other. With stunning photographs and illustrations, this fact-packed book is perfect for home and classroom use by 8 to 12 year olds, supplementing school studies on life processes in the natural world.

This title uses the school as a starting point to get children thinking about how changes in the physical landscape affect them. It focuses on issues such as transport, farming and the supply of goods and services to investigate the reasons for the effect of natural and manmade change.