Daedalus Books

Clichs have taken over the world. They didn't start out that way. There was a time when they were new and vibrant, clever and pithy. Now they're just predictable. This book is a collection of the most overused phrases of all time. Hopefully, it'll make everyone laugh.

In Titanic Notebook, spectacular paper engineering brings to life the glory and the folly of one of the most iconic ships in maritime history. From flaps and fold outs to intricate 3D cutaway models, readers can touch a lost world and explore for themselves the innermost workings of this great ship. Mingle with the 3,500 passengers and crew. Share the luxury of life aboard the Titanic. Re-live the horror as disaster strikes. Witness the extraordinary re-discovery. Complete with a 700mm long Titanic model to assemble, Titanic Notebook's fact-packed pages and imaginative paper engineering are a unique record of her story from the fanfare of her launch to her final resting place.

Your dreamiest thoughts and artistic fantasies will be gently and safely kept in this lovely book of misty purple. Spacious inside yet highly portable (at just 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches closed), this elegant blank book features smooth cream pages in a flexible sewn binding, as well as a roomy inner pocket, colored endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a closure band, all wrapped in durable textured hard covers.

Hit the road with this eminently portable keeper of thoughts and images, covered with the dark gray patina of the long-traveled highway. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your thoughts and ideas will naturally seem that much more significant between the subtle red covers of this livre rouge. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

The colors of mosses, of clear sky, and of cool waters come together in this book for growing ideas and budding visions. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

This dark blue book is the perfect place to record your deepest indigo moods—while the pink ribbon marker adds just the right touch of whimsy. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Splash your words and pictures around in this cool blue book. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your dreamiest thoughts will be gently and safely kept in this lovely book of misty purple. Large enough for plenty of writing space yet small enough to slip into a purse or book bag, this elegant journal features a textured hard cover with color-coordinated endpapers, ribbon marker, and closure band. It also boasts a large, expandable inner pocket and sewn binding, while the cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Hit the road with this eminently portable keeper of thoughts and images, covered with the dark gray patina of the long-traveled highway. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your thoughts and ideas will naturally seem that much more significant between the subtle red covers of this petit livre. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

The colors of mosses, of clear sky, and of cool waters come together in this book for growing ideas and budding visions. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Splash your words and pictures around in this cool blue book. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Your dreamiest thoughts will be gently and safely kept in this little book of misty purple. Stylish and elegant, with a textured hard cover, contrasting endpapers, and sewn binding, this pocket-sized journal also features an expandable inner pocket, an elastic closure band, and a ribbon marker. The cream pages are narrow-ruled on the right-hand side and blank on the left, allowing you to write and illustrate your adventures.

Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD. The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked from the inside. If Bernie fails to solve this impossible mystery; not only is his reputation at stake, but also that of Reinhard Heydrich, a man who cannot bear to lose face.

Few characters in history are as fascinating or controversial as Nicholas and Alexandra. From their passionate love to their horrifying execution, they are alternately viewed as innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins or blamed for causing the Revolution themselves. Much has already been written about their lives. But acting as a curator of the many conflicting histories, acclaimed author Virginia Rounding offers a different kind of biography, with an intimate look that probes the souls of these unforgettable figures, and tells the story of their passion and its consequences for Russia. Through newly revealed letters and diaries, Rounding explores the Empress' ill health, examines the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky, Alix and her confidante Ania Vyrubova, and looks anew at the reasons behind their reliance on the infamous Rasputin. Her conclusions are surprising. With eloquence and compassion, Rounding makes these characters come alive, presenting them in all their complexity and ardour, guiding the reader into their vanished world.

The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves it has been overshadowed by other massive confrontations on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad and Kursk. And rarely has the compelling story of the siege been told through graphic wartime photographs like those that author Nik Cornish has collected for this book. Many of these images have not been published before, and they give an unflinching insight into the reality of the conditions of the siege as it was experienced by the soldiers on each side and by the civilians trapped in the city who were threatened by starvation, disease, shelling and assault. The entire course of the siege is covered, from the encirclement of September 1941, through the successive attempts by the Wehrmacht to break in and the dogged, sometimes desperate defense put up by the Red Army, to the withdrawal of the Germans and the lifting of the siege in January 1944. Nik Cornishs portrait of the ruthless struggle of Hitlers armies to capture the second city of the Soviet Union and the determination and suffering of the defenders will be fascinating reading for everyone who is interested in the war on the Eastern Front.

The Lives of Things collects Jose Saramago's early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories explore the horror and repression that paralyzed Portugal during the harsh regime of Salazar and pay tribute to human resilience in the face of injustice and institutionalized tyranny. Beautifully written and deeply unsettling, The Lives of Things illuminates the development of Saramago's prose and records the genesis of those themes that resound throughout his novels.

There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge.

The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own. The Finder, a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. The Bones of the Earth features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. Darkrose and Diamond is a delightful story of young courtship showing that wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. On the High Marsh tells of the love of power-and of the power of love. Dragonfly shows how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom. Concluding with an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this collection also features two new maps of Earthsea.

In the first volume of this legendary fantasy series originally published in 1968, a boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard. Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

Kids don t have to wait for geometry class to get the hang of shapes.With Doodles Shapes, they ll learn triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares as they doodle trucks, tents, pizza, balls, trains, and more. Kid swill also learn the meanings of bigger and smaller, thicker and thinner, taller and shorter. They won t even know they are learning as they get to doodle on spaceships, queens, and flowers to learn diamonds, stars, hearts, and shapes of all kinds. Kids don t need a video game to be entertained. They just need doodles.

Time is all around us, and by using doodles as a learning tool, even small children can grasp the concepts of seasons, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds in a simple, step-by-step manner that is as fun as it is educational. It's all here for kids to discover: daytime and nighttime; the months of the year; and the days of the week. Kids can learn all about time by using birthdays, doodling games, and, of course, clock faces. What time is our picnic? What time can we go swimming? What time is dinner? «Doodles Time» provides hours and hours of fun, and helps to teach a complicated subject in a simple manner.

Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune's Daughter, and Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation. Now, in The Dovekeepers, Hoffman delivers her most masterful work yet — one that draws on her passion for mythology, magic, and archaeology and her inimitable understanding of women. In 70 CE, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic historical event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker's wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her twin grandsons, rendered mute by their own witness. Aziza is a warrior's daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman, who finds passion with another soldier. Shirah is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege, as the Romans draw near. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets — about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.