A feral boy is captured and \'civilised\' in the Languedoc region. A young woman is hired to look after a cloned dog that cost its owners $250,000. A widower in a self-satisfied suburb engulfs his loneliness in a sea of rats. A weary city GP is baffled by a

For introductory courses in Forensic Science. Forensic Science: From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab, Second Edition, is designed to present forensic science in a straightforward and student-friendly format. Ideal for students with limited background in the sciences, topics are arranged to integrate scientific methodology with actual forensic applications. Discussions are focused on explaining state-of-the-art

We are the safest humans who ever lived - the statistics prove it. And yet the media tells a different story with its warnings and scare stories. How is it possible that anxiety has become the stuff of daily life?In this ground-breaking, compulsively readable book, Dan Gardner shows how our flawed strategies for perceiving risk influence our lives, often with unforseen and sometimes-tragic consequences.

Young D\'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King\'s elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: \"The Three Musketeers\". Soon part of their close band, D\'Artagnan\'s loyalty to his new allies puts him in the deadly path of Cardinal Richlieu\'s machinations. And when the

It\'s just after midnight. Winnie has gone to bed and is snoring peacefully when Wilbur is woken by a strange noise. He goes downstairs to investigate and, to his horror, discovers a baby dragon squeezing through his cat-flap! Wilbur is not impressed by the scaly visitor, especially when it starts chasing him around Winnie\'s house. But the baby dragon just wants to play and, in his exuberance, manages

The latest of Cornwell\'s perennially popular Sharpe adventures, returning, like Sharpe\'s Tiger, to India, and culminating with the battle at Assaye which Wellington considered his greatest victory. Repackaged in the fantastic new Sharpe look. As mill ions of readers came to know Bernard Cornwell\'s brilliant creation Richard Sharpe as he fought his way through the Peninsular War, so they discovered

As the first truly easy-to-read Bible translation, and still the UK\'s most popular, the Good News Bible is the ideal Bible for personal and church use. This new edition with Apocrypha and Deuterocanonical books is designed for Catholic readers. The Good News Bible was a bestseller from its first publication as \'Good News for Modern Man\', providing a unique combination of accessibility and faithfulness

The greatest creators in human history--from Mozart to Meryl Streep, Jackson Pollock to Jay-Z--don\'t just have talent--they also understand their motivations for pursuing art. What\'s Your Creative Type? helps artists do the same in a fun and witty way. Stepping away from the hyper-focus on how people create, What\'s Your Creative Type? instead explores why. By identifying your creative motivation

Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities from athletic to intellectual to artistic with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and neurochemical factors that drive performance in all domains. Peak Performance presents the newly-discovered links that hold promise as performance boosters, but that have been traditionally overlooked. In

Set 300 years before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire, FIRE AND BLOOD is the definitive history of the Targaryens in Westeros as told by Archmaester Gyldayn, and chronicles the conquest that united the Seven Kingdoms under Targaryen rule through to the Dance of the Dragons: the Targaryen civil war that nearly ended their dynasty forever. The thrilling history of the Targaryens comes to life in

Light is the element that reveals architecture. It renders texture and materials, illuminates surfaces and spaces, it creates atmospheres. The present book is a suggestive and useful guide for those who are conscious of the main role natural light and artificial lighting play in architecture, landscape and interior design.

Following the amazing success of \"Treehouses of the World\", \"Treehouse Living\" looks upward once again into the canopy to present new directions in treehouse design. Over 300 beautiful colour photographs and illustrations explore the many possibilities of truly living in nature, from very refined, comfortable structures, to the more rustic treehouses that seem to vanish into the foliage, to the

Whether it\'s a culinary adventure in vibrant Mexico City, an historic and meditative train ride through Siberia, or a solo trip to Paris, get your bucket lists ready with the discoveries of Explorer a curated collection of 100 dream trips from the distinguished travel writers and photographers of The New York Times. In four volumes\' worth of adventures in one, the Times writers offer guidance, from

Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.

By the author of the Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller The EtymologiconAlmost every culture on earth has drink, and where there\'s drink there\'s drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be religious, it can be sexual, it can be the duty of kings or the relief of peasants. It can be an offering to the ancestors, or a way of marking the end of a day\'s

The world is full of organizational cynics. Look around. Heck, look in the mirror. We sit in our cubes, adjust our chairs, sharpen our pencils and stare at our computer screens with the sense that we\'re immersed in dysfunction. We could, we\'re sure, do a far better job of running things if we were given the chance. But we know we won\'t get the chance and so sink into doubt, distrust, and pessimism.

This illustrated volume takes the reader on a visual tour of more than 60 of the world\'s most outstanding hotels. It is divided equally among metropolitan and resort hotels in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East and contains colour photographs.

This is an invitation to the hot and steamy world of bestselling Irish erotica author Evie Hunter...\"More colour and better written than EL James and a more exciting read than any of Sylvia Day\'s books\". (Irish Independent). \"A BDSM masterpiece\". (Sunday World). \"A must-read if you enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey\". (Irish Daily Star). He picked up her hand where it grasped the water glass, felt

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he\'s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set

This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia\'s resilience and struggle for survival, it describes contributions to European civilization in the Middle Ages; the development of Slovak consciousness in response to Magyarization; its struggle for autonomy in Czechoslovakia