Presents forty-three tales from early English history, including the 7150 B.C. life and death of Cheddar Man, the story of Hadrian's Wall, the rule of Ethelred the Unready, the adventures of Hobbehod, and the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.[...]

"A highly entertaining look at social lies and phobias, and the way the worst sort of laws are created and empowered. Unusual and fascinating."--Mark Frauenfelder, Boing BoingTaboos, by definition, are off-limit topics.As a book that covers nasal mucus, excrement, sex, and drugs, "You Will Die "is i[...]

Autiossa talossa kummitteleva Mathias Greenin haamu saa Rocky Beachin asukkaat suunniltaan. Jopa Kolmen etsivän rohkeus on koetuksella, kun karmiva vihreä aave huutaa vertahyytävästi ja katoaa hautakiven alle. Mutta miten varastetut helmet liittyvät asiaan?[...]

Jupiter Jones ystävineen kiitää taas kultakoristeisella Rolls-Roycella ratkaisemaan outoja arvoituksia. Etsivien salaisessa päämajassa Jonesin tavaravarikon romujen kätköissä Jupiterin nerokkaat aivot löytävät johtolangan sieltäkin, missä aikuiset ovat ymmällään.[...]

This thrilling "prequel" to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale imagines how Captain Flint and Murray sacked the Spanish galleon and buried their ill-gotten treasure on the Dead Man's Chest and on Treasure Island[...]

"Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Regional Award"Chief Moses (Sulktalthscosum or Half-Sun) was chief of the Columbias, a Salish-speaking people of the mid Columbia River area in what is now the state of Washington. This award-winning biography by Robert Ruby and John Brown sit[...]

With the world watching, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, third in line of succession to the throne, was born on 22nd July 2013. The next day, his proud parents stepped out of St Mary's hospital, London, to present their baby to the excited crowds. From the beginning, the world had watche[...]

Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arth[...]

This text provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioural science - general mental ability - labelled the "g factor" by its discoverer, Charles Spearman. The "g factor" is about individual differences in mental abilities. In factor analyses of any and every large and[...]

There is growing pressure to ensure that patients receive care that is proven effective and subsequently, a tremendous need to train mental health practitioners in the latest in Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). "Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder DVD Companion Workbook[...]