A dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mys[...]

A guide to making a full physical recovery after giving birth offers a set of simple abdominal and breathing exercises designed to combat potential back problems and give new mothers a firmer, flatter, and stronger belly. Original. 60,000 first printing.[...]

A Practical Guide to Beauty Therapy for NVQ Level 1 is an essential resource for anyone working towards a Level 1 beauty therapy qualification. Written to specifically meet the 2004 S/NVQ beauty therapy standards, this book provides students with the underpinning knowledge they need to take their fi[...]

Suitable for those wanting to structure their organizations around the winning and keeping of customers in B2B markets, this title brings together the important elements of business strategy, B2B marketing theory and sales management. It introduces a number of methodologies proven in workshops condu[...]

'A really fine book...an impressive work that adds much to the development of the use of qualitative methodology in social work research' - William J Reid, University at Albany 'The back cover of the book proclaims that "Qualitative Research in Social Work will be essential reading for all students,[...]

Award-winning author, Steven Gould, returns to the world of his classic novel "Jumper" in "Exo, "the sequel to "Impulse," blending the drama of high school with world shattering consequences.
Cent can teleport. So can her parents, but they are the only people in the world who can. This is not as[...]

Griffin, who possesses a secret ability to teleport to any place he has previously visited, vengefully remembers the men who murdered his parents and plots to avenge himself against the people who would kill him for his powers.[...]

Steven Gould's SF classic, "Jumper." Davy can teleport. He first discovers his talent during a savage beating delivered by his abusive father, when Davy jumps instantaneously to the safest place he knows, his small-town public library. As his mother did so many years before, Davy vows never to go ho[...]

A forger and thief sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony in Tasmania, William Buelow Gould escapes, only to once again land in prison, where the prison doctor Lempriere utilizes his painting talents to create an illustrated taxonomy of the country's exotic sea creatures, in a novel set in[...]

In Why People Believe Weird Things, science historian Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. The editor of Skeptic magazine and the director of the Skeptics Society, Shermer shows how the eternal search for meaning[...]

This work covers important aspects of X-ray spectrometry, from basic principles to the selection of instrument parameters and sample preparation. This edition explicates the use of combined X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction data, and features new applications in environmental studies, forensi[...]