Put your detective powers to work! It's elementary that you'll find fiendish felons, uncover sinister plots, solve nasty crimes and meet up with the infamous Professor Moriarty when you're with the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty assistant Doctor Watson. Crack these cases and reveal "[...]
Describes the expedition of Buddhist scholar and mountain climber Ian Baker and his National Geographic-sponsored team into the heart of the previously unexplored Tsangpo Gorge, one of the world's most inaccessible and wildest regions, a place that lies at the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist faith. Re[...]
Speleothems (mineral deposits that formed in caves) are currently giving us some of the most exciting insights into environments and climates during the Pleistocene ice ages and the subsequent Holocene rise of civilizations.[...]
What happens to looked-after children in the longer term? This book analyses the outcomes of a large-scale study of foster children in the UK. It includes individual case studies and draws extensively on the views of foster children themselves. The authors examine: why children remain fostered or mo[...]
Suitable for engineers, this book offers key information, design techniques and rules of thumb.
Boldly reinterpreting an age old Tibetan artistic tradition, this enormous album offers gorgeously detailed representations of celestial spheres, known as mandalas. Merely gazing upon them is meant to inspire heightened states of intention and clarity. In CELESTIAL GALLERY master painter Romio Shres[...]