The brain is a delicate, complex, and easily disrupted organ. Unfortunately, the frequency of brain injury and the impairing effects of even seemingly minor injury is generally unknown to the public, the media, and, surprisingly, even many health professionals. It is hoped that this book will make a[...]
Where do vegetarians get their protein? From delicious plant-based foods, including beans, nuts, quinoa, and even raw cocoa. These ingredients are used to their best advantage in this new cookbook. As a vegetarian living with a meat-eating guy, the author has developed recipes for every time of day [...]
Sachi Parker opens up about her unconventional childhood and shares stories from her past as the only child of famed actress Shirley MacLaine.
Shirley MacLaine has graced Hollywood with her talent for decades. Yet, as Sachi Parker can attest, being the daughter of a movie star was far from pict[...]
Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers for two hundred years, and his mate[...]
Key Concepts in Planning forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the Human Geography sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, Key Concepts in Planning provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in Planning. Involving detail[...]
Private Detective Spenser is on his easiest job yet. Art professor Ashton Prince has hired him to help recover a stolen painting. The thieves will return it in exchange for a ransom. All Spenser has to do is accompany Prince, just in case. And collect his fee. But, as Prince walks away from the exch[...]
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Book + CD. Interviews. Photographs by Jacques Bisceglia. During the last 12 years, William Parker interviewed 32 of his friends and colleagues, artists and musicians. "There is a special level of trust and understanding that artists reach when speaking with other artists.[...]
Boken tar for seg den aller nyeste utviklingen innenfor astrologi. Den inneholder beskrivelser av de 12 stjernetegnene, forklaringer på enkle og mer avanserte astrologiske teknikker, veiledning i karttolkninger for kjærlighetsforhold m.m. Har ordliste, litteraturliste og register.[...]
This script, with 15 major parts, has been especially adapted for schools. It contains the song lyrics and stills from the film, as well as suggestions on lighting, staging and costumes.[...]
Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne is possibly the world's most unconventional private eye - and the most charming. This is a collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable "heart specialist".[...]
A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically-acclaimed foray into light-hearted, romantic mysteries. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless [...]
'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said...' Mike Parker, presenter of Radio 4's On the Map, celebrates the richness of all things maps in this fantastic, critically-acclaimed read. Have you ever got through an entire day without referring to some kind of navigational aide, be it che[...]
Twelve tantalising cases for the retired private investigator Parker Pyne, who solves the personal cases that Scotland Yard won't handle...[...]
How many sounds do you hear in your day? Follow one boy as he fizzes, pops and crunches his way through his day in this fun non-fiction recount![...]
A collection of short stories featuring the `heart specialist', Parker Pyne.Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: `ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'.Equally adept at putting together[...]
Students gather ideas for compositions by reading authentic documents, reinforcing these ideas through conversation, and then writing about them.[...]
Documents the career of one of the world's most influential wine critics, describing his everyday American childhood, the hard work and determination that shaped the course of his successes, and his contributions to the world of wine buying and consumption. Reprint.[...]
A distinguished psychiatrist and author of the best-selling Addiction & Grace explains how to tap into the psychological and spiritual healing power of the natural world as he reveals how we can discover great lessons of life by retreating from our busy and hectic lives to find the serenity of the w[...]
Emily is . . . 1. A mad scientist2. A cat lover3. A mural painter 4. A golem builder5. A virtuo-spastic guitarist6. A wicked skater7. A wily troublemaker8. A poltergeist tamer9. A mystery solver10. A master prankster11. An eXtreme procrastinator12. A happy loner 13. A unique individual . . . and now[...]
Emily's Strange To-Do List: 1. Lose (and regain) mind2. Reprogram golem3. Locate secret book vault4. Commune with Dead Dark Aunts5. Rescue Cousin Jakey6. Redecorate souvenir kiosk7. Thwart Thought Thief8. Endure hero worship9. Grant ancestral enemy's deepest wish10. Save cat-napped kitty11. Summon b[...]
Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife - immediately - or his beloved grandmother swears she'll leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would only renounce a life of scandalous pleasure for one woman, the woman he's lusted after - and loved - for years. It's rather unfortu[...]