This guide covers all the world's 313 raptor species illustrated with adult, juvenile and selected immature plumages as well as main geographical races. There are illustrations of over 2000 perched and flying birds, some with typical prey and facing texts summarising length, wingspan, male-to-female[...]

This volume explores the evolution in language use experienced by children and young people throughout school, and the ways they become more conscious about its multi-functionality and the choices open to them in making meaning.[...]

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m." A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at[...]

Originally published in 1906 as part of the Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Contains many period photographs and illustrations.Contents Include: Embroidery Tools, Appliances and Materials Pattern Designing Stitches Canvas work and Stitches Methods of Work Embroidery with Gold and Silv[...]

The editors include lessons from their own applied research and evaluation, and suggest ways in which practitioners might address the key issues and challenges of collecting credible evidence. The Second Edition focuses on how to produce actionable evidence as well as credible evidence.[...]

Out flew the web and floated wide- The mirror crack'd from side to side. -- "Alfred Lord Tennyson"

On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death."[...]

The massive transformations that occurred in the decade 1940-50 were decisive in shaping the modern history of Southeast Asia, and have determined the course of politics in the region right up to the present day. The 1940s saw the break-up of the European colonial empires in Southeast Asia and the c[...]

THE JAMES BOND MOVIES OF THE 1980s A survey of Eon Productions' series of James Bond films, which have long been considered among the most popular and successful of British movies, and have also come to be regarded as a useful barometer of Western geopolitical attitudes throughout the series' long-r[...]

Velikomu syschiku Erkjulju Puaro predstoit reshit samuju sereznuju zadachu v istorii chelovechestva ? razobratsja v zhenskoj dushe. Molodaja khozjajka krupnogo pomestja vnezapno stanovitsja obektom srazu neskolkikh pokushenij. Puaro nachinaet rassledovanie, itog kotorogo oshelomit dazhe ego samogo..[...]

Malenkij belgiets Erkjul Puaro saditsja v "Goluboj poezd", sledujuschij iz Londona do Rivery, i, kak :)to vsegda sluchaetsja, ego otdykh opjat omrachen prestupleniem - ubita dochka millionera. Propadaet proslavlennyj rubin, nekogda prinadlezhavshij Ekaterine Velikoj, - i v dele javno zameshany ameri[...]

Ubita molodenkaja vospitannitsa nedavno skonchavshejsja bogatoj pozhiloj damy. Vse uliki ukazyvajut na druguju naslednitsu sostojanija, prichem obvinjaemaja dazhe umudrjaetsja priznatsja v sodejannom: No znamenityj syschik Erkjul Puaro podozrevaet, chto delo obstoit ne tak prosto, kak kazhetsja na p[...]