Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.

Dot and Dash are back for even more in this interactive books for preschoolers! Dot and Dash are ready to play with their toys-but they don't want to share with their friends. When their poor teddy bear is torn, the two get a time-out. With a minute to think it over, Dot and Dash are ready to play again, and this time, SHARE! In the second story, Dot is making a kite to share with Big, Tall, and Small. Dash helps find all the materials. And when the kite gets stuck in a tree, the friends help Dot and Dash get it free!

When it is time to play, Dot and Dash look everywhere for their friend Tiny, but they cannot find him, although they find lots of other friends along the way.

Dot and Dash love to play in this action-packed novelty book. With sturdy tabs to push and pull on every spread, a giant pop-up finale and a foiled cover with die-cuts to peep through, this new Dot and Dash adventure will capture the imagination of toddlers and preschoolers everywhere

It's time for bed, but Dot and Dash don't want it to be! Dash doesn't want to take a bath. Dot doesn't want to brush his teeth. But when it's time to turn out the lights, having a friend nearby makes it much easier to say good night!

Prepare to enter a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where elephants squat in living rooms, plastic ducks fall from the skies and even the rabbits can’t be trusted. The fifty-eight stories in Jonathan Pinnock’s Scott Prize-winning collection Dot Dash show a vivid yet disciplined imagination at work.These stories, many of which have individually won prizes, are populated by a rich variety of characters, including a tightrope-walking couple with marital issues, a graffiti artist with an agenda and an interviewee who’s about to find out some awkward truths about himself. Very few of them turn out to be completely innocent, and none of them remains unaffected by the experience.Jonathan Pinnock’s unashamedly entertaining fictions explore what happens when the macabre and the absurd crash headlong into everyday life. As writer Tania Hershman says, he ‘isn’t content to just pull back the curtain, but sets fire to it and chuckles as it blazes’. With this incendiary first collection, he invites readers to pull up a chair and watch the flames rise.