Published in association with the Science Museum, this is a fun, informative and fact-filled look at fear. With a bit of biology and a spot of psychology the author of }Why Is Snot Green?{ shows...
Welcome to the world of Milly-Molly-Mandy! Read about her adventures in this collection of nine charming stories. The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friends have charmed generations of...
Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred aby the scarcity of original sources. Personal astrology did...
The book responds to the challenge of the global turn in the humanities from the perspective of art history. A global art history, it argues, need not follow the logic of economic globalization nor...
The book provides an up-to-date overview of the fast growing area of vibrational spectroscopy. Analytic methods using vibrational spectroscopy allow for the chemical analysis of materials....
Omnibus containing "Frostfire", "Ice Kissed" and "Crystal Kingdom". Bryn Aven is determined to gain status among the Kanin, but will she lose her heart in the process?
This book offers 70 diagnostic algorithms for screening methods as well as for the stepwise diagnosis of the most common symptoms and diseases, enabling a structured diagnostic process. These...
Gordo Livingstone never forgot the lessons carved into his skin. Hardened żeby the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never...
Captain Cook claimed the honor of being the first man to sail into the Antarctic Ocean in 1773, which he then circumnavigated the following year. Cook, though, did not see any land, and he declared...
Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned aby his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds...
All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider. Starting a new school, she dreams of fitting in at last -- but when her best attempts at popularity fail, she almost gives up. Then she stumbles...
Public corporations and private businesses operate in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and interconnected world. When evaluating investment decisions, business managers can no longer base their...
A important study of a previously neglected but crucial komponent of the Kriegsmarine which includes previously unpublished photographs and contains stirring first-hand accounts
Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family, never knowning from one week to the next if...
This comprehensive encyclopaedia covers every German artillery piece mounted afloat during the Second World War, from the huge 15-inch (380mm) guns carried aby the Bismarck to the smallest machine...