Harry Caldecote is a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son\'s lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions just to keep the peace at the King\'s pub in Shepherd\'s

The latest hilarious caper from author Tom McLaughlin. Funny by name. Funny by nature. Ben\'s starting to have serious doubts that Father Christmas is real, so hatches an elaborate scheme to try and capture him on Christmas Eve. Kicking off a sequence of hilarious events that makes this Christmas the most bonkers

Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world\'s most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the social and technological context from which eHealth applications have arisen, the psychological principles on which they are based, and the key development and evaluation issues relevant to their successful intervention.Integrating how eHealth applications can be used for both mental and physical health issues, it presents a complete

A wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorusTime Zone J is Julie Doucet\'s first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women. The year is 1989 and twenty-three-year-old Doucet is flying to France to meet with a soldier. He\'s a man she only knows through their mail correspondence,

Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names and others are etched in history and included here as part of an awe-inspiring collection of profiles of thirty-three of the most influential women in science--women whose vision, creativity, passion, and dedication have changed the world. Aspiring scientists, young history enthusiasts, and children who enjoy learning about the world will

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia\'s near abroad - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia\'s neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia returned

From the recovery after the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s to the booming Celtic Tiger of the 1990s, a revival of the ancient traditions of Celtic jewelry have become a part of how the Irish, as well as the Scots, Welsh and other Celts have expressed their cultural identity. Usually the story of this tradition focuses on very old prototypes, the museum pieces turned up by archaeologists or the legend

In Building Spelling Skills, Daily Practice, Grade 4, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Two sentences for dictation are provided for each list. In this new edition, teaching objectives are provided for each of the 30 weeks. Spelling lists include the following: contractions blends vowel sounds prefixes and suffixes compound words words with silent letters homophones

\'Isla Fisher is hilarious\' DAVID WALLIAMS\'Charming, funny, delightful: Marge is the babysitter all children would wish for\' DAVID BADDIELWhistles at the ready. Marge is off!Have you met Marge?The third fun family story in the MARGE IN CHARGE series, written by actor

S&S is delighted to welcome the internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, the original master of the global

A bold, fun counting book in an eye-catching, animated style of illustration. Includes an amusing fact or anecdote per

When a dissertation crosses my desk, I usually want to grab it by its metaphorical lapels and give it a good shake. \"You know something!\" I would say if it could hear me. \"Now tell it to us in language we can understand!\"Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,3, Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, fruher: Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Lagerlogistik erfordert heutzutage flexible und anpassungsfahige Lagersysteme, damit komplexe und effektive Lagerung moglich ist. Das Lager wird dabei in verschiedene Lagerbereiche unterteilt,

Following the Russian Revolution, the cultural and political landscape of Russia was strewn with contradictions. The dictatorship, censorship and repression of the Communist party existed alongside private enterprise, the black market and open debates on Socialism. In Russian Society and politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments

Shiro Kashiba stands atop any list defining Japanese food in Seattle. He\'s been called many things--culinary master, fisherman, mushroom forager and nature lover--but first and foremost he\'s the Sushi King. His eponymous debut cookbook is no chef-vanity affair, though, but a riveting and imaginative blending of East and West in the quest for high gastronomic art. --Shelf Awareness A fabulous read