This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties, while inviting students to reflect on metaphysic[...]
Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. In "The Particle at the End of the Universe," Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of[...]
This volume presents concepts, and their underlying conceptual bases, central to the understanding and practice of physical organic chemistry.[...]
Offering the latest teaching and practice of applied multivariate statistics, this text is designed for students who need an applied introduction to the subject.[...]
Lets you to demonstrate for your students the importance of business ethics, sustainability and stakeholder management from a managerial perspective. This title helps students learn how effective business decision makers balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors,[...]
What do shale gas, Elon Musk's Tesla, and the global apparel chain Zara share in common? In "Resource Revolution," management experts Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers describe how each in its own way exemplifies a resource revolution--a use of natural resources so effective it defies conventional wisdom [...]
The wordsmith Lewis Carroll is famed for the freewheeling world of Wonderland in his beloved classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this gloriously illustrated picture book, Carroll's childlike love of life is showcased alongside his brilliance at creating and ad[...]
An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet. Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a se[...]
At a time when millions of Catholics are questioning the deepest aspects of their faith, James Carroll delivers a tour de force, a searching book about what it means to be a Catholic today. Brilliantly wresting meaning from the historical, social, and religious strands of his personal story, Carroll[...]
Once upon a time, American children couldn't borrow library books. Reading wasn't all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the first children's room at the New York Public Library, a bright, war[...]
David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d'Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg's guide to a complicated[...]
In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, perhaps the most popular heroine in English literature. Countless scholars have tried to define the charm of[...]
Ever since she was a little girl, all Amelia Lockwood has ever wanted is to get married. The car, the flat and three friends only go so far in consoling her now that she's in her thirties and still not married. So when Amelia hears about a course that promises she'll be saying 'I do' before the year[...]
New York jeweller Garet James has her fair share of problems: money, an elderly father, a struggling business. One day she comes across an antiques shop she'd never noticed before. The owner possesses an old silver box that's been sealed shut. Would she help an old man and open it, perhaps? She does[...]
When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is about to be turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, commissions her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box [...]
The second novel in the thrillingly original, deliciously dark urban fantasy trilogy that began with Black Swan Rising.[...]
Garet James is the watchtower - the last in a long line of powerful women sworn to protect our world from evil... She once defeated the malign sorcerer Dr Dee, but her pursuit of the man she loves - the centuries-old vampire Will Hughes - has unleashed another ages-old entity into our time - a being[...]
Concise yet comprehensive, manageable and affordable, T and T Clark Study Guides are an invaluable resource for students, preachers and Bible study leaders. Each book in the series gives the reader a thorough introduction to a particular book of the Bible or the Apocrypha and includes: An introducti[...]
It came from the woods. Most strange things do.'
Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.
These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carr[...]
"It came from the woods. Most strange things do." Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.[...]
The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twisted leaves and queer-looking flowers. And they were very definitely shut. Tilly's heart sinks. Will's at the door of their cottage, daring her to come ice-skating up at Frost Hollow Hall. No one goes n[...]
'You're telling me there are fairies in this wood?' When Alice's brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant, Alice is suddenly bundled off to her estranged grandmother's house. There's nothing good about staying with Nell, except for the beautiful Darkling Wood at the end of her garden [...]
The first in an original, new urban fantasy trilogy, which will appeal to both genre and non-genre readers. Has been compared to )American Gods( and )The Historian(, and will have crossover potential.[...]
The second novel in a thrilling and original dark urban fantasy trilogy that will appeal to genre and non-genre readers. Garet James has learnt that one of her ancestors was 'the WATCHTOWER: an immortal chosen to stand guard over the human and the fey worlds - a role that she has, it seems, inherite[...]