Doctor Dog, the Gumboyle family's favourite pet and their very own trusty physician, is having a well-deserved rest. Until, that is, the Gumboyles turn up and need rescuing from nasty holiday ailments. But the Gumboyles have one problem that even Dr Dog can't solve. A dangerous plant is lurking in t[...]

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is produced during pregnancy by the embyro. This book describes the biology, clinical chemistry, and clinical perspectives of hCG and associated molecules and examines hCG, hyperglycosylated hCG and hCG free s-subunit, 3 separate and independent molecules with tota[...]

Prince Cinders leads a very hard life. Bullied by his three hairy brothers about his less-than-perfect looks, he spends all his time cleaning and tidying up after them. One Saturday night Prince Cinders' luck changes as a small, dirty fairy falls down the chimney and promises that his wishes shall c[...]

Lucretia Crum is a little monster with big, bad and very nasty habits. She wants a birthday party but all the really big monsters turn up and they're really, really bad! The curing of Lucretia is told through fantastically comical illustrations and a naughty but fun text.[...]

When the Queen packs off Princess Smartypants to finishing school, it seems that our favourite royal might become a perfect princess after all ...huh, no chance! Instead, Princess Smartypants makes her own school rules and teaches those other do-goody princesses just exactly how to have fun.[...]

The captain of this brave and bumbling pirate crew has ordered them to capture the entire alphabet - and they'll walk the plank if they're missing a single letter! Now these swashbuckling mateys are embarking on an alphabet adventure unlike any other, and they won't (ahem, can't) rest until they've [...]

At the Violet Hour argues that the literature of the early twentieth-century in England and Ireland was deeply organized around a reckoning with grievous violence, imagined as intimate, direct, and often transformative. The book aims to excavate and amplify a consistent feature of this literature, w[...]

Introduces crocodiles, discussing their physical characteristics, predatory behavior, and eating habits.[...]

This text focuses on the practical aspects of crystal structure analysis and provides the necessary conceptual framework for understanding and applying the technique. Many worked examples, problems with answers, and illustrations are included throughout to reinforce the material presented. Significa[...]

"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband[...]