The endearing and heart-rending story of a woman\'s life through the worst days of the twentieth

From the bestselling author of Cry Baby comes a brand new thriller that will keep you up at night: a serial killer on the run hides out in the shared attic space of a terrace of houses, unbeknownst to the unfortunate occupants

Bombay\'s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey\'s award-winning series. India, 1922. Perveen Mistry, Bombay\'s only female lawyer, is attending a lavish fundraising party for the launch of a new women\'s hospital when she witnesses

A developer\'s resource to learning one of the most-used scripting languages JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies saves you shelf space by offering a complete introduction to JavaScript and how it\'s used in the real world. This book serves up JavaScript coding basics before diving into the tools, libraries, frameworks, and runtime environments new and experienced coders need to know. Start by learning

A Daily Mail Book of the Year\'A warm and wonderful story\' Adele ParksIt\'s the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by the Walls. She desperately needs stability, but their insecure, jealous teenage daughter isn\'t happy about the cuckoo in the nest and sets about ousting her.When her attempts to do so lead to near-tragedy - and the Walls\' veneer

It\'s Carnival time. The first Carnival since Malaika\'s mother moved away to find a good job and provide for Malaika and her grandmother. Her mother promised she would send money for a costume, but when the money doesn\'t arrive, will Malaika still be able to dance in the parade? Disappointed and upset at her grandmother\'s hand-me-down costume, Malaika leaves the house, running into Ms. Chin, the

The book examines how to begin to think like a global educator first by examining how our own histories and experiences have formed our own cultural and professional identities and second how the varied frames by which global education can be understood - pedagogical, ideological and cosmopolitan - have shaped the field. Laurence Peters connects theory and practice about global education relevant to

A twisty dark academia thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. Perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab, Leigh Bardugo, M.L. Rio and Donna

Iceland is one of the happiest countries in the world When you consider the island\'s beautiful landscape and fun activities, it\'s easy to see why. This title introduces young readers to everything Iceland has to offer. Fact-filled text and relevant photos highlight the basics of Iceland\'s geography, climate, people, traditions, and more. Added features, such as a landmark sidebar, a famous person

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Business firms around the world are experimenting with new organizational designs, changing their formal architectures, their routines and processes, and their corporate cultures as they seek to improve their current performance and their growth prospects. In the process they are changing thescope of their business operations, redrawing their organization charts, redefining the allocation of decision-making

Losing weight feels great, but what happens when your weight loss comes to a screeching halt just five or ten pounds shy of the finish

Explore Building Wembley to find out how and why the brand new Wembley Stadium was created. This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole

Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it was lived in and experienced over time. It is intended for habitual Paris obsessives, for first-time visitors, and for those who know the city only by

The twelfth part of the Saga of Darren Shan - one boy\'s terrifying journey from human to half-vampire to Vampire

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology plays such an active role in shaping our daily

Dialogues for Discovery: Boosting Psychotherapy\'s Effectiveness teaches psychotherapists of all modalities how to help their clients make more frequent and higher quality discoveries in every therapy session. Detailed therapist-client dialogues in each chapter illustrate the client-centered and collaborative 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue, as well as other guided discovery approaches such as behavioural

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies

With minimal text and bright-color illustrations, Crews captures the essence of a plane journey.--Kirkus Reviews. A satisfying adventure for very young