When you\'re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long. After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to go home. And so begins an incredible journey, filled with peril, planes, honking geese

One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm producing and consuming meat can do to the environment and our bodies. Many of us have tried to limit how much meat we consume, and many of us have tried to give it up altogether. But it is not easy to resist the smoky, cured, barbequed, and fried delights

Available now: I\'M THE GIRL, the new \"brutally captivating\" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller from Courtney Summers, based loosely on The Epstein case and \"not for the faint of heart\" (The New York Times) A reissue of New York Times bestselling author Courtney Summers\'s award-winning debut! The high price of perfection is one \'Perfect\' Parker Fadley always believed she was

Presents an account of the author\'s childhood in Czernowitz, Ukraine. This title portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past and the terrors of the twentieth

Ordered in 1985, the Class 91 was a joint venture between GEC, Brush and ASEA to deliver a fleet of 140 mph tilting electric locomotives for the East Coast Main Line. Delivered between 1988 and 1991, the thirty-one locomotives ply their trade daily from London to the North East and Scotland. Accompanied by Metro-Cammell\'s Mark 4 coaches, they formed British Rail\'s flagship \'Intercity 225\' programme.

Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions The new Fifth Edition of Shear\'s Cysts of the Oral and Maxillofacial Regions delivers a comprehensive treatise on cysts that arise in the oral and maxillofacial tissues. It is the gold-standard on oral and maxillofacial cysts for professionals working in head and neck pathology, oral medicine, head and neck surgery, and radiology. The book has been completely

Available for the first time! A workbook full of simple activities that makes learning about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly easy and fun while children practice key skills. From the master of science books for primary grades comes a jam-packed workbook of activities designed to help a child enjoy learning, while keeping them busy for hours. Targeted specifically at the kindergarten science

Home. It is an elegant word, at once both simple and far-reaching. Home is a place to live in and feel comfortable, but it is much more than that. Home is where we are nurtured, where we live, and where we love. The language of Home is universal. It is where we find the eternal in the everyday. But the Home has been neglected. To millions of women today, there is nothing worse than being a \"homemaker.\"

The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy follows the facts and circumstances of Kim Leach\'s disappearance and the investigation and prosecution of Ted Bundy in rough chronological order, from Bundy\'s escape from a Colorado jail in 1977 to his execution at Florida State Prison in 1989. It provides an inside look at the intricacies and complications of this historic

Racundra\'s First Cruise is Arthur Ransome\'s account of Racundra\'s maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him from Riga, in Latvia to Helsingfors (Helsinki) in Finland, via the Moon Sound and Reval (Tallinn) in Estonia and back. His first book on sailing, it was also the first of his titles that achieved such high levels of success. Although reprinted many times

Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral presentations, this proven guide helps you develop a reflective and advanced critical approach to your research and writing. New to this edition: Two

The Number One bestseller. A religious conspiracy thriller like no other. The end of the world is coming - one body at a

Irresistible recipes from pantry ingredients by an authentic cowboy and TV veteran Whether he\'s beating Bobby Flay at chicken-fried steak on the Food Network, catering for a barbecue, bar mitzvah, or wedding, or cooking for cowboys in the middle of nowhere, Kent Rollins makes comfort food that satisfies. This gifted cook, TV contestant, and storyteller takes us into his frontier world with simple

Congo-Zaire contains Africa\'s largest remaining tracts of intact rain forest, making it one of the most important regions for biodiversity conservation. Its Ituri Forest is home to plants and animals native to nowhere else on earth, including the elusive and little-known okapi. In this popularly written book, three long-time observers of the okapi present a complete, contemporary natural history of

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author. \'An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics...highly recommended.\' The Washington Post A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. In lucid prose Jean Aitchison introduces and demystifies a complex and controversial subject: What is language

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the miniature world of the mice of Brambly

Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural

British theologian ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) wrote more than 750 hymns, many of which are still performed today. But he was also a profoundly influential thinker in the realms of logic and general philosophy-he is said to have inspired his fellow Englishman, electricity pioneer Michael Faraday. This volume was an enormous success when it was first published in 1724, and went through numerous editions-this

This timely book, published in the lead up to the 2012-14 decision on Trident renewal, makes available for the first time the late Sir Michael Quinlan\'s private correspondence on nuclear deterrence. It shows why Sir Michael, as Policy Director and then Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence during the last years of the Cold War, became known as the \'high priest of deterrence\' his unparalleled