Everyone is playing the new Virtual Reality game, Ray-Chay. It connects directly into your memories, so each person in gaming in their own favourite world. But Ant loves the old game he\'s almost won, Kismet Cosmos, even if he\'s the only person still playing. Which is why he sees what really

The Examined LifemeetsThree Women: stories of real couples on the couch an experienced relationship therapist \'Brilliant and touching\' Maggie O\'Farrell \'A must-read for everyone wanting to understand more about what makes us fall in - and out - of love\' Philippa Perry \'A charming, useful, kind book about the pains and hopes of relationships\' Alain de Botton Drawing on over 30 years of therapeutic

Effective lessons, strategies, and tips to become a better chess player. In an ideal world, any chess player would improve their game with help from a coach. If that\'s not possible, having chess champion coach Thomas Engqvist\'s book next to the chess set is the next best thing. In a series of lessons, he guides players through the most important elements of chess to master. He also looks at the psychology

Drones are taking the world by storm. The technology and laws governing them change faster than we can keep up with. The Big Book of Drones covers everything from drone law to laws on privacy, discussing the history and evolution of drones to where we are today. If you are new to piloting, it also covers how to fly a drone including a pre-flight checklist. For those who are interested in taking drones

In this transatlantic thriller, Scotland Yard detective Austin Grant must track a serial killer targeting those who transgress the Ten Commandments from London to New

Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.

This encyclopedia stands alone as the best, most thorough text on medical astrology ever written. The product of nearly two decades of careful study and experimentation, the Encyclopaedia of Medical Astrology is the only book ever to comprehensively compile the research carried out by generations of doctors, healers, occultists, and astrologists.Expertly prepared by the brilliant and esteemed Dr. Howard

This Newbery-Honor winning tale introduces Whittington, a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals--as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing--a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in 16th-century England. This is an unforgettable

Jem, whose whole world is now confined to a few square feet - or Hannah, whose responsibility it is to look after her husband\'s killer? As Hannah and Jem settle into their strange new situation, they begin to get used to their new

This book is for new or aspiring computer science teachers wishing to improve their subject knowledge and gain confidence in the classroom. And it\'s for experienced computer science teachers who wish to hone their practice, in particular in the areas of explicit instruction, tackling misconceptions and exploring pedagogical content knowledge. You will read some of the backstory to our subject - the

Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of Homer\'s stirring heroic account of the Trojan war and its passions. The eloquent and dramatic epic poem captures the terrible anger of Achilles, the best of the Achaeans, over a grave insult to his personal honor and relates its tragic result--a chain of consequences that proves devastating for the Greek forces besieging Troy, for noble Trojans, and

MacCloud Falls follows bookseller Gilbert Johnson who, after a cancer diagnosis, embarks on a journey to discover the story of an early settler in Canada, whom he believes may have been his runaway

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,

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions.

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

An in-depth look at genetic alteration in the natural world and the oppositions to it, seen through the case study of a gene drive for malaria. May We Make the World? is an engaging reflection on the history, nature, goal, and meaning of using a new technological idea--CRISPR-based genetic engineering--to alter the genome of the mosquito that carries malaria. This technology, called a \"gene drive,\"

Tento kompletní průvodce plánováním a sestavováním úspěšných lekcí jógy obsahuje více než 2 000 fotografií a 67 modelových jógových sestav pro široké rozpětí cvičících - pro začátečníky, středně pokročilé i pokročilé studenty; pro děti, mladistvé, ženy v různých obdobích života a pro seniory; lekce pro úlevu od deprese a úzkosti; sestavy pro každou z hlavních čaker a ájurvédských konstitučních typů.