This elegantly illustrated volume is a journey through more than two centuries of remarkable discovery. Books on dinosaurs are usually arranged by classification or epoch, but this unique work tells the story chronologically, in order of the key finds that shaped our understanding and brought these [...]

This book is aimed at what is a growing cross-disciplinary field of study and provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective. The text does more than discuss theory: it uses case studies and personal testimonies in the debate.[...]

Darren Shan is going home - and his world is going to hell. Old enemies await. Scores must be settled. Destiny looks certain to destroy him, and the world is doomed to fall to the Ruler of the Night...[...]

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort[...]

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The price of betrayal is more than thirty pieces of silver. Two days after Jesus Christ's crucifixion, Judas Iscariot receives an anonymous note stating, I know what you did. Wrapped with it is an eye, complete with trailing optic nerve, and a splintered tooth -trophies ripped from two recently butc[...]

Covers the subjects that a beginning EE needs to know: intuitive circuit and signal analysis, physical equivalents of electrical components, proper use of an oscilloscope, and troubleshooting digital and analog circuits. This work contains a reference library of electronics information, with demo si[...]

A CD that contains PDF versions of the titles including: "Electrical Engineering 101" (Ashby), "Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers" (Wilmshurst); "Starting Electronics Construction" (Brindley); "Electronics Made Simple 2e (Sinclair)"; and, "Robotics, Mechatronics, and Artificial In[...]

From Charles Dickens' famous A Christmas Carol to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, the festive season has long been closely associated with ghostly tales. In this fascinating work Darren W. Ritson looks not only at the fictional treatment of Christmas ghosts but also at a host of true-li[...]