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This is Running is a celebration of the world of running, exploring everything you'd need to know about the sport and the rich culture that surrounds it.

Running is huge with an estimated 621 million runners worldwide, but behind that statistic is a world that is as diverse as the people who engage in it. From the elite endurance of the Rarámuri tribe from Mexico who frequently run ultramarathons in nothing but simple sandals made from discarded car tires to some of the most famous races which are household names for runners and non-runners alike, coach and journalist Raziq Rauf gives a fascinating snapshot of this world.

This is Running covers why, where, and how we run, incorporating insights from psychologists, sociologists, and other experts from our first dash around a childhood playground to joining a run club or hitting high-altitude mountain trails whether that be for the health benefits, to make friends, test your own limits, or to explore the world around you.

A host of compelling essays explore topics such as running's technological revolution, brands and streetwear, women's experiences of running, the boom of trail running, and the future of the sport. Also included is a selection of the world's most notable runs including The London Marathon, the UTMB, and the Barkley Marathons, and Q&As with individuals who are pioneering global running culture including influencer and comedian Laura Green, Nils Arend from The Speed Project, professional trail running athlete Dylan Bowman, and Jessica Zapotechne from Girls Run NYC.

Beautifully illustrated throughout with striking photography, This is Running is the perfect gift for the obsessive runner in your life, or for anyone who wants to know more about the sport and the culture that surrounds it.

Quite simply, if you are a runner, this book is catnip to your passion.

Bestselling, award-winning duo Julian Gough and Ross Collins create pure picture-book perfection in this hilarious story about breaking the circle of violence.

In a moment of fury, induced by a piece of stolen cake, Tad kicks his best friend Vlad and runs away to hide.

Unable to retaliate, but similarly feeling rather angry, Vlad kicks Tad's mom who kicks the mailman, who kicks a policewoman who kicks a politician . . . Until the kick travels around the whole world! Only to land back up at Tad's birthday party a year on...

And then there's something WORSE than a kick in circulation. Oh, WHAT could be worse than a kick in the butt?

It's up to Tad to wrestle with his anger and to break the cycle and send something better off round the world.

Laugh-out-loud funny, with so many moments of shock and glee, this is the perfect teaching tool for any child who has ever had an outburst! For fans of I Want My Hat Back, I Really Want to Eat a Child and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

A modern classic reimagined: a sundrenched graphic novel adaptation of one of the greatest love stories of our time.

"We were friends first and lovers second. Perhaps this is what lovers are."

On the Italian Riviera, Elio welcomes his father's house guest. Oliver is the picture of arrogance - all billowing shirts and snide comments - and Elio is convinced that Oliver will be someone he'll grow to hate.

Thrown together, a friendship blossoms as the pair spend endless hours walking treelined streets, enjoying sun-soaked lunches, and besting each other at tennis.

Soon, Elio finds himself longing to make Oliver laugh and relishing glimpses of his glistening skin sprawled poolside. Over the restless weeks of the summer, an undeniable connection deepens as the two become entwined in the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

For the first time, from artist Sarah Maxwell-McNicol, comes the gorgeous graphic novel adaptation of this international sensation. This instant classic is one of the great love stories of our time.

A Keepsake for the Journey Ahead

And Off You Go... is a heart-lifting, keepsake gift book designed to celebrate life's next big chapter. With rhythmic, rhyming lines and beautiful illustrations, this inspiring book is the perfect way to cheer on a graduate as they step into the unknown with courage, curiosity, and confidence.

Whether it's high school, college, or a new beginning altogether, this book is a meaningful way to say: You've got this--and we're so proud of you.

A joyful, thoughtful gift for graduations, send-offs, and anyone chasing their next dream.

Ink it. Gift it. Mean it.

Dale color, textura y estilo a tu nuevo proyecto de ganchillo con más de 100 ideas de granny squares.

Encuentra la inspiración en esta increíble colección de más de 100 granny squares únicos, con patrones divertidos, colores llamativos y texturas 3D que harán que tus creaciones sean originales y atractivas.

• Colecciones estacionales con diseños de copos de nieve, hojas otoñales y flores primaverales.
• Efectos texturizados que incluyen puffs, bobbles y crochet filet.
• Más de 40 diseños de apliques 3D, como animales, estrellas, conchas y arcoíris.

Crea mantas, cojines, prendas y accesorios únicos para ti y tus seres queridos combinando cada cuadrado y o diseñando tus propios granny squares usando las técnicas de este libro. ¡Pon en marcha tu próximo proyecto y haz realidad tus ideas!

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Mix and match your next crochet project with the ultimate granny square collection.

Combining bold colours and playful, eye-catching patterns, this crochet collection contains over 125 designs covering various themes for all ages.

The book includes:

• Seasonal collections including winter snowflakes, autumn leaves, and spring florals
• Textured effects, including puffs, bobbles, and filet crochet
• Over 40 3D appliqué designs, including animals, stars, shells, and rainbows

Every square is designed to be worked up at the same size, making it easy to mix and match to create unique items, or follow the suggested combinations to make themed blankets, cushions, and more. You can even design your own granny squares using tapestry and bobble stitches, so you can crochet projects that are truly unique to you and your loved ones. And, once you've crocheted your squares, learn how to join and edge them to create a neat finish.

Whether you're creating a playful baby blanket, a statement cardigan, or a colour-block tote bag, The Granny Square Book is packed with everything you need to crochet your next project - one square at a time.

A practical and inspirational guide to creating beautiful bespoke quilts without the constraints of strict rules or patterns.

In Free-Form Quilts and Patchwork, internationally renowned Jessie Cutts of Cutts& Sons shows quilting doesn't need to be daunting or require meticulousmeasurements or lots of planning. Instead, you can design and make up yourwork as you go along, being playful with colour and allowing mistakes to take yourprojects in new creative directions. In clear and engaging text accompanied bystriking photography of the artist's own work, Jessie guides readers through:

- Exercises to help practise improvisation, encouraging a looser approach topatchwork without a specific project in mind.

- Projects that introduce methodology while allowing space to create uniquecompositions. These include hand stitching a potholder or a mini quilt;experimenting with tonal stripes; creating playful blocks and loose checkboards.

- Information on materials and techniques with tips on collecting fabrics, creatingpalettes, cutting with confidence, machine piecing, hand stitching, improvisingguidelines, patchwork guidelines and how to finish and display quilts.

With an emphasis on letting go of conventions and perfectionism, and insteadallowing serendipity to be part of the enjoyable process of creating compositions infabric, this book is ideal for anyone who feels intimidated by precise patterns andwants to create personal and unique quilts with guidance on how to get there.

Georgia is a state of great geographical diversity, and as you make your way from the Atlantic Ocean up to the temperate rainforest of the southern Appalachians, you'll find a lot to see. Thousands of meandering creeks twist and turn their way through the coastal marsh, filling and emptying its 400,000 acres twice a day with tides that can average seven feet or even higher. The largest blackwater swamp in North America is just inland, and from there you can trek north through the ever-changing scenery as the landscape transitions from the Coastal Plain to the Piedmont and finally to the Appalachian Mountains. There is plenty of beauty, including rolling farmland, intriguing barns, and stately old trees that have witnessed incredible change since Georgia's inception in 1788.

It is a place of remarkable beauty that sets a perfect scene for a landscape photographer. The Mountains, the Heartland, the South, and the Coast are gorgeous backdrops where Chris Greer captures the essence of the state in this a showcase of the splendor that is Naturally Georgia.

"A magnificent debut" (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood.
By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in Please Don't Touch the Body are thrillingly concerned with the devastation-and power-of being alive today.

In the collection's first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades. In the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped, and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in "Thank You No Thank You," a young woman grapples with the rules she learned in her religious childhood, the freedoms of her new and more liberal life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend.

Together these inventive, emotionally rich stories reveal an incredible new vision and "a writer to watch" (Rita Chang-Eppig).

A glimpse into the mind of an American conspiracy theorist, the schizophrenia, trauma, and misinformation that drove him to the brink, and the friendship that brought him back.

"A mesmerizing, compassionate, and deeply meaningful exploration of a perilous corridor of American life." - Robert Kolker, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road

On the eve of January 6, 2021, Michael Dodd and his three friends found themselves in a stolen vehicle on the grounds of the Washington State Capitol, armed to the teeth, and ready to kidnap Governor Jay Inslee. Only there weren't actually three others in the car-Michael was alone. Months later, the violent plan thwarted, Michael sat in a psychiatric hospital and learned that he was struggling with undiagnosed schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. His knowledge of that fateful day was spotty, fractured by the different personality states he now knew were affecting his reality. Skeptical of a state mental health system, but anxious to find out how his world turned upside down, he reached out to a longtime friend, the author Chris Lockhart, for help.

American Alt is the odyssey of two friends trying to piece together the fragments of Michael's shattered memory and uncover the truth of what pushed him to the edge. Set against the beautiful but economically fractured Pacific Northwest where both men rambled in their youth, Lockhart delivers a suspenseful, profoundly moving story of discovery and affirmation.

How generative systems are reshaping the way games are made, how we experience them, and what this reveals about creativity itself.

In video games creativity isn't just seen, it's played - from exploring endless landscapes to diving into character details and immersing ourselves in unpredictable narratives. Yet these elements are often the result of procedural generation - the creative use of algorithms to design game content. These generative systems lie behind some of the biggest hits in video game history, from genre-defying titles in the 1980's to the most famous blockbusters of today.
Next Level demystifies the techniques that are often as mysterious as their creations. Written by game designer and creative AI researcher Mike Cook, this book takes us on a tour of generative systems past and present, exploring how they work, the artistic uses they have in some of our favourite games, and how these algorithms didn't just revolutionise how we design games - they changed how we think about creativity itself.

An age revolution is reshaping your workforce. Are you ready to lead it?

A massive demographic shift is reshaping the world, one that is permanently altering how we work. People are healthier, living longer, and redefining the concept of retirement. The Future of Work Is Grey, by award-winning author Dan Pontefract, reveals the critical ways we must rethink work in an era of demographic, economic, and productivity upheaval.

For decades, leaders have clung to outdated models that assume younger workers will always outnumber older generations, that retirement at sixty-five is an unshakable norm, and that older employees have little left to offer. This mindset has left us working and leading in a period of "age debt"--the workplace equivalent of the climate crisis. It is the cumulative burden organizations face as our populations age, birth rates plummet, middle-aged workers become overwhelmed, internal skills gaps widen, multi-generational issues intensify, and various economic structures fail to keep pace.

In this robust exploration, Pontefract uncovers how we reached this tipping point of age debt and what organizations and leaders need to do next. He also reveals how leaders must seize the most significant opportunity of our time, the "experience dividend"--the value gained by integrating the skills, insights, and mentorship of employees across all age spectrums into a revised workforce strategy. Central to this vision is his framework of Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies--three age archetypes that reflect the evolving strengths of workers at every stage of life.

An emergency siren to future-proof your organization's success and security, The Future of Work Is Grey gives you the imperative actions leaders need to take NOW. By reframing age as a powerful asset, leaders can avert a growing crisis, redefining work and--equally important--what it means to work. The future of work will most definitely be grey, yet it can also become a future of resilience, innovation, and hope.

Isa has a gift. Premonitions, intuitive insight, a knack for tarot. But she is adrift.

Years ago, she ran away from one coast to the other and never looked back, but when her brother Cole unexpectedly shows up on her stoop, she's convinced that it's time to go home. Back in the California desert, Isa is swept up in her former life of late-night drag races by the Salton Sea, beers with the locals, and haunting reminders of the twin sister she lost and the mother she never got to meet.

When Dane, the man who raised them, becomes terminally ill, Isa is forced to confront everything she ran away from. In a posthumous letter, his revelations ignite her fearless internal drive. Traveling up and down California highways, through desert and forest, roaring coastline and border towns, Isa will follow the signs so delicately woven into the fabric of her life - a name, a constellation, a painting, a gleam of recognition on the water's surface. If she can piece them together, she just might reunite the shattered remains of her beloved family.

Artfully narrated, Schlottman's novel is an unforgettable journey through hidden stories, the depths of women's secrets, the shimmering fluidity of memory, and the magic of transmutation.

"I often traveled for work." So begins Nothing On Earth, a propulsive novel that tells the story of Anna Hendrix, an American spy, as she seeks answers for the appearance of a mysterious and potentially powerful metal of unknown origin.

For a long time, Anna was in counterterrorism, but now she is on a new mission, one which has friends and enemies across the globe scrambling to find answers. Her pursuit will take her from the Horn of Africa to Southeast Asia--through expatriate enclaves and the NGO communities in which she cultivates her cover and extracts information from a wide cast of characters: aid workers, diplomats, foreign correspondents, energy magnates, insurgents, dissidents, and of course, other spies.

As the pressure mounts to find the original source of the metal, Anna must make choices with life-changing implications not just for herself, but for the people with whom she deals, always bearing in mind the young daughter waiting for her back home. In Nothing on Earth, novelist Ian MacKenzie reimagines a pivotal decade in the Pax Americana, from the killing of Osama bin Laden to the storming of the Capitol. Anna's voice--lean, understated, unflappable--is our companion and guide through the dark topography of geopolitical power, and in the end, the furthest reaches of human comprehension.

For fans of Rachel Cusk and John Le Carré alike, this is a story of power and secrecy, geopolitics and science, parenthood and loss, and the question of how we know what we think we know, how we make sense of our existence on Earth.

From the winner of The Great British Baking Show and star of Nadiya's Time to Eat comes a heartfelt story to help give children and parents the tools they need to talk about worries and anxiety.

A touching story about a little boy whose worry monster follows him everywhere he goes. It's there when he gets dressed, when he wants to play with his toys, and even when his friends come over to visit. How can he escape his worries?

Having struggled with anxiety for as long as she can remember, Nadiya Hussain has written this heartfelt story to ensure that no child suffers in silence--no matter what shape their worry monster may take.

A delightful children's book from the whimsical world of Hermès about a dog who forms a unique alliance with a local saddlery craftsman

Published in collaboration with Hermès, this whimsical children's book tells the story of a dog who sits outside a saddlery workshop, asking the craftsman to make him a collar. At first the craftsman explains that he cannot help him, since he only makes saddles and leather goods for horses, not for dogs. Seeing the dog's distress, he finally agrees to make him a collar. The dog is so happy that he takes the craftsman into town with him. On the way they meet a collection of other animals who require his services: a squirrel who needs a satchel, a mother kangaroo who wants pockets to house her cubs, a lion who wants stripes so he can be seen when crossing the road, an elephant who wants a hat to protect him from the sun, and a penguin who wants a scarf to go home in. The animals are so pleased with the craftsman's services that the dog calls all his friends to commission him for more items. This way, the craftsman will never be alone or without business in his shop again.