X's former accomplice Leigh Ferguson is shocked to learn that her high school friend has become the latest victim of "the Skin Traders," a mysterious gang of surgically modified thugs stealing slices of flesh from their abductees. Only the resilient vigilante X can stand up to the demented plastic s[...]

The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematicsuhow they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandingsuand how to use these insights to impro[...]

In this third and final volume of the hit series, Carbon Grey, the war, which not long ago was everything, seems insignificant in the face of the stone's unimaginable destructive power. As the world unravels, twin sisters face each other in battle, mortal enemies unite, and the true meaning of Gottf[...]

"Indochine" sees Red Lantern's Luke Nguyen revisit his beloved Vietnam and seek out the food and cultural remnants of this former French colonial empire. On his regular visits to Vietnam today, Luke is often struck by the appearance of people wearing berets, speaking French and the aromas of coffee [...]

Luke Nguyen's France follows acclaimed chef Luke Nguyen as he traverses the culinary landscape of France to discover the flavours, ingredients and dishes that have influenced Vietnamese cooking. From the bustling streets of Paris and the historic towns of St Malo and Strasbourg to the coastal cities[...]

Hundreds of quirky toys that you kids will love, and you will love to make.

This book focuses on computational intelligence techniques and its applications - fast-growing and promising research topics that have drawn a great deal of attention from researchers over the years. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on intelligence technologies such [...]

Three audio CDs.

"Lily was at a picnic with her father and her little sister, Ruby, but it wasn't much fun." So opens the final story in Gail Silver's celebrated Anh's Anger trilogy. Ruby was spoiling Lily's time, making it impossible for her to play her game, and she was mad. But when Lily pushed her sister out of [...]

Hieu Nguyen's bruising collection of poems, This Way to the Sugar, puts a blade and a microscope to nostalgia, tradition, race, apology, and sexuality, in order to find beauty in a flawed world. His work has been described as "an astounding testament to the power and necessity of confession." This p[...]

The first edition of the "Drilling Data Handbook" was printed in 1950. In more than six decades, the book has been improved, adding lots of new technologies and equipment in its eight additional editions. But its principle is to remain familiar and friendly to users. Its philosophy has always been t[...]