A New York Times Notable Book, Winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, A Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club Selection, and Winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature Tamara Anderson was in third grade when she found out most people stay in the same house for m[...]

Somebody is stealing diamonds from the jeweler Mohammed Carat It looks like the culprit is someone on his staff, but who? Is it Luke Smith, the recently hired fitness fanatic with a taste for the finer things in life? It surely can't be Vivian Leander, the loyal shop assistant who is now short of m[...]

It is Christmas Eve, and the grand Braeburn family has come to stay in the luxury suite of Valleby's hotel. With them, they have brought their extremely valuable dog. The hotel manager promises the family that he'll take great care of their dog--but before they know it, the dog has gone missing with[...]

Jerry and Maya, classmates and best friends, are on the case again and ready to solve the latest caper in this international best-selling series
Circus Splendido has come to Pleasant Valley But so have pickpockets who are stealing wallets, cell phones, and jewelry from the audience as they wat[...]

Jerry and Maya, classmates and best friends, are on the case again and ready to solve the latest caper in this international best-selling series.
A robber has struck at Cafe Marzipan, Pleasant Valley's best bakery, three times in the past year And as usual, the police chief has no clue as to w[...]

Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 is designed to teach you how to write useful programs in Visual Basic 2008 as quickly and easily as possible. There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal: You're a beginner to programming and you've chosen Visual Basic 2008 as the place to star[...]

Visual Basic 2010 offers a great deal of functionality in both tools and language. No one book could ever cover Visual Basic 2010 in its entirety--you would need a library of books. What this book aims to do is to get you started as quickly and easily as possible. It shows you the roadmap, so to spe[...]

Following the much acclaimed success of the first volume of Key Topics in Conservation Biology , this entirely new second volume addresses an innovative array of key topics in contemporary conservation biology. Written by an internationally renowned team of authors, Key Topics in Conservation Biol[...]

Historically employed to estimate and measure the likely material requirements for any building project, the role of the modern quantity surveyor is diverse, with a wide range of employers and geographical locations to match.[...]

* More than twenty notable survey methodology researchers from around the world have gathered to contribute valuable insight on the role of question evaluation methods in improving data quality.[...]