From the expert team atGardeners\' Worldmagazine comes an accessible, year-round trouble-shooting guide to the most common gardening mistakes and problems. Even with the best planning and care, every garden can run into a problem or two. Whether you are beset with beetles or blighted by blackspot, The Garden Problem Solver has the solution. Guided by the team of experts at Gardeners\' World - including

This book provides a nuanced portrait of the complexities found within the cultural and linguistic landscape of the United Arab Emirates, unpacking the ever-shifting dynamics between English and Arabic in today\'s era of superdiversity. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach which draws on a rich set of data from questionnaires to focus groups with Emirati students, Emirati schoolteachers,

Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva follows up his acclaimed #1 New York Times bestsellers The Order, The New Girl, and The Other Woman with this riveting, action-packed tale of espionage and suspense featuring art restorer and spy Gabriel

Love\'s got us spinning round and round... Yuzuki Seo never gives up! Her past Wakamatsu confession attempts were met with...well, not a positive response...so she just has to keep trying, right?! And she can\'t expect much help from Kashima and Hori-senpai. After all, they\'re struggling to deal with the aftermath of Hori\'s awkward confession during the hypnosis-manga debacle...Meanwhile, on the

Provides a set of dialogues with one of the writer-directors in American

The Long Arc of Legality breaks the current deadlock in philosophy of law between legal positivism and natural law by showing that any understanding of law as a matter of authority must account for the interaction of enacted law with fundamental principles of legality. This interaction conditions law\'s content so that officials have the moral resources to answer the legal subject\'s question, \'But,

As heart wrenching and life-affirming as ONE DAY or ME BEFORE YOU, A Hundred Pieces of Me is a story about what it means to finally live life to the

This volume presents the weird fiction of the British writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), author of the scintillating horror collection Night-Pieces (1935). But Burke--celebrated for his evocative tales of London\'s Chinatown, gathered in Limehouse Nights and other volumes--wrote other weird tales, scattered through his many other collections. One of the most distinctive is \"Johnson Looked Back,\" a

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas. With a range of contributions from established and emerging scholars, this book illuminates the origins of Hong Kong

This absorbing collection of stories from over a century of motor racing around the world includes the Frenchman who drove 25 miles in reverse, the Grand Prix in which the leading drivers were so far ahead that they stopped for a meal in the pits, the Le Mans 24-hour race won by a car patched up with chewing gum, and the driver who drank six bottles of champagne virtually one per pit-stop on the way

How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually do service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You\'ll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service design

Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultures as diverse as the Ming Dynasty and seventeenth-century France. In a lucid exploration of the characteristics shared by these societies, the author examines such key elements as economic organization,

Digital platforms are changing the rules of competition in the global economy. Until recently, it took Fortune 500 companies an average of 20 years to reach billion-dollar market valuations. Successful platforms now reach that milestone in an average of four years. In The Platform Paradox: How Digital Businesses Succeed in an Ever-Changing Global Marketplace, Wharton professor Mauro F. Guilln highlights

Unreal City contains five highly charged stories about relationships: \"Echoes into Eternity,\" \"Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt,\" \"Emordana,\" \"The Yellowknife Retrospective,\" and \"Objet d\'Art.\" The stories address gender, narcissism, marriage, subjectivity, objectification, and the thin line that divides love from hate. Bryant\'s characters sometimes feel like they are navigating their way through the

Let There Be Light combines the extraordinary talents of Nancy Tillman, the New York Times bestselling author of On the Night You Were Born, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu in this retelling of the biblical story of creation. The pairing of Archbishop Tutu\'s lyrical text from The Children of God Storybook Bible and Tillman\'s wondrous illustrations bring the pages of this board

The world has embraced the idea that gender is something that can be decided by individuals. As Christians encounter colleagues, friends and family members who identify as a gender other than the one they were born, we need to be informed and equipped with knowledge about what the issues are, what different terms mean and what the Bible has to say about these things. While we walk the line between

An essential guide to the oil painting techniques that will allow artists to master a variety of subjects, including figures, portraits, still life, landscapes, and interiors.Many painters limit themselves to one type of subject matter, but in Oil Painting Essentials, artist and art instructor Gregg Kreutz shows how a multi-genre approach can dramatically improve your painting skills. Arranged by category,

This guide is designed to be simple, to the point, and to increase your knowledge and understanding of DSM-5 disorders. This guide is a useful supplement for psychology majors, school counselors, family therapists, social workers, and mental health

Deciphering the European Investment Bank: History, Politics and Economics examines the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union\'s financial institution and the largest lender and borrower among the International Financial Institutions.Since its establishment in 1958, the EIB has developed without becoming front-page news and has remained highly invisible. By putting together 14 chapters

In response to the growing concern about equity issues and their implications for overall development, WHO established the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) in 2005, which focused on the \"social justice\" or human rights arguments for health investments. CSDH investigated the factors involved in the so-called \"social gradient in health,\" which refers to the large observable differences