Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

With more than 40 family-friendly cultural activities and adventures, Family Field Trip makes it easy to incorporate moments of learning and exploration into life with kids. In this engaging guide, parents and caretakers will find simple-to-follow ideas and tips for cultural experiences the whole...

More than ever, family time faces stiff competition from other activities: video games, iPhone apps, texting, and social media. Family Fun Night: The Third Edition offers the antidote: tips and advice for establishing weekly family time, as well as hundreds of specific ideas for spending quality ...

Bring the fun on your next road trip with this handy book, Family Road Trip Games, from beloved children's book author Jack Henseleit. Featuring over 60 new and classic games and more than 150 brain-burning trivia questions plus a top secret treasure hunt (yippee!), this is the definitive collect...

A compendium of fantastical facts and essential knowledge for readers to dazzle their friends with, covering every subject on Earth and beyond Did you know that the reason you can never find the end of a rainbow is because they are actually full circles? Or that our fingers shrivel up when they g...

Few sports are as synonymous with money as Formula One. Its drivers are among the world's most highly paid athletes, and it costs more than a billion pounds to keep its ten teams ticking over. Celebrities and their entourages flock to glamorous locations around the world - Monaco, Miami, Las Vega...

This book includes contributions from F1 journalists, bloggers, F1 teams and management, hard-core aficionados, and sports agencies and covers every facet of the sport. It includes: team and circuit histories, F1 rejects (teams which have entered, but then left the championship), Bernie Eccleston...

In this moral conundrum that ponders how much moviegoers enjoy depictions of violence on a grand scale, an acclaimed film critic turns his attention to war movies, exploring how war and cinema in the 20th century became inextricably linked, transforming civilian experience of war-and history itse...