This title explores a range of key materials, their properties and their uses. The title encourages readers to engage with this subject area via accessible text and modern imagery.Discover & Learn is a fascinating series that delves into key areas of learning. Each title features a mixture of diagrams, illustrations and photographs to make the information accessible and

\"Tower of Basel\" is the first investigative history of the world\'s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth interviews with key decision-makers--including Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve; Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England; and former senior Bank for International

Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work. There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from

Rick Sanchez was once a happy, young NASA engineer...buckle in for the backstory on how a galactic rebellion and the discovery of infinite parallel universes made Rick into the jaded nihilist we know and love. Rick Sanchez has always known he was destined for greater things. When that greater thing calls, will he be ready to answer? Rick is recruited to join a galactic rebellion, forming a bond with

This the first book of three. It introduces Anja, a vulnerable, wilful girl, and the Land; a sentient world determined to control its own destiny. Anja and her younger brother are drawn into the Land to find her youngest brother. The Land has a purpose; to empower her and test her ability to

Moved by devastating media coverage in 1985, John Tomlinson packed his bags to volunteer for the Save the Children Fund with the intent to help rebuild, and run, a small hospital in a town on the border with Ethiopia. However, faced with diminishing supplies, poorly trained staff and civil unrest, the enormity of the task became

The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland\'s largest Protestant-only fraternity shapes the lives of its members and the communities in which they live. Within this Masonic-inspired \'society with

What is your coffee trying to tell you? Are you one the many millions of people who read their daily horoscope, looking to see what the future holds? Perhaps your one of the many who spends hundreds of dollars visiting psychic readers looking for answers? What if I told you that your morning cup of coffee could give you the answers that you seek (and more) - all you have to do it look For century\'s,

George Harrison was always known as the \'quiet Beatle\'. This biography reaffirms Harrison\'s importance as an innovative and hugely talented musician and shows that, as a member of the most important band ever, as well as in his multi-faceted career after the Beatles, Harrison was no ordinary

\'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing\' HILARY MANTELIn April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman\'s

Dallas Willard\'s \'Renovation of the Heart\' has become established as a classic guide to the spiritual life. In this abridged version, Don Simpson makes its riches more easily available for devotional use.The authors believe that we fail in the spiritual life mainly through neglect of the roles played by the various elements of our personality. They reflect on each of these elements - heart, mind,

A philosophical exploration of wonder: its history, its present condition and its future potential Genevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some perplexing aspects of contemporary attitudes to wonder. Central to her argument is the claim that wonder has come to be largely eclipsed by the allure of the notion of the Sublime - a concept closely associated with Romantic Idealism. Lloyd offers us a renewed

Learn. Practice. Prepare. Survive. Survival situations can happen when least expected. The best defense is knowledge and confidence in the skills that will keep you alive--whether it\'s for a few hours, days or long term. 365 Essential Survival Skills comprises the best knowledge, tips and tricks available in the world today, and each skill is explained in fun, easy-to-learn ways that any student--greenhorn

Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean\'s life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice - \'les

Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperament. As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments,

The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her nearest neighbor, General Seamus Ogilvy, finally comes home to Tall Acre, she hopes it is a sign of better days to come. But the general is now a widower with a small daughter in desperate need of a mother. Nearly destitute, Sophie agrees to marry Seamus and become the mistress of Tall Acre in what seems

\"Krai gave us all a great opportunity.\" Krai sends a team of hunters to investigate the White Wolf\'s Den--and what they find are the deadly fruits of the Akashic Tower\'s monstrous research! Not even the breakneck strikes of Liz the Stifled Shadow can take down their mighty golem, but the battle takes an unexpected turn when Krai himself appears...Will Krai show his true strength that most definitely

The guide covers the High Pyrenees from the Cirque de Lescun on the edge of the Basque country in the west to the Carlit massif and Cerdagne east of Andorra, and is divided into five regional chapters: the Western Valleys; Cirques and Canyons; the Central Pyrenees; Enchanted Mountains; and Andorra and the Eastern High Pyrenees. Intended as a resource book for those planning a range of mountain activities