While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plutonium disasters of the United States and the Soviet Union.
In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordin[...]
2004 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association 2004 Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians and Russians lived side by side.[...]
Critical Care Nursing: Learning from Practice takes a unique approach to critical care. Based around case scenarios that have the patient as the central focus, each chapter is constructed around an example of a critically ill patient with specific care needs.[...]
Provides secondary school teachers with a wide range of highly creative suggestions for classroom starters and plenaries. >[...]
An enthralling debut novel of romance, wartime glamour and adventure in the skies, inspired by the brave young women who flew fighter planes across Britain in World War Two[...]
An enthralling debut novel of romance, wartime glamour and adventure in the skies, inspired by the brave young women who flew fighter planes across Britain in World War Two. Inspired by little known true story of the ATA girls, who flew everything from Mosquitoes to Spitfires during World War Two[...]
The Perfume Garden combines the gripping storytelling of Kate Morton with the evocative settings of Victoria Hislop to tell this sumptuous, escapist story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War.[...]
I en landsby i fjellene i Valencia ligger en glemt villa og vokter sine hemmeligheter. De hvitkalkede veggene har forvitret, og den en gang så vakre hagen er et gjengrodd villnis. Det er nøklene til denne gamle villaen og en bunke med brev Emma Temple arver da moren dør. Da Emma blir sveket av ma[...]
Artikkelsamlinga tar for seg korleis ulike lærarar arbeider med elevar i 1. til 4. klasse. Boka presenterer tema som: Omgrepet leik i barnehage og skule, lese- og skriveopplæring, og kunnskapstypar og arbeidsformer i matematikkopplæringa. Boka er basert på prosjektet "Begynnaropplæring og tilpa[...]
Denne boken tar for seg forestillinger om Norges opprinnelse som ble nedtegnet for mer enn 800 år siden. Her kan vi blant annet lese om hvordan Nor samlet Norge lenge før Harald Hårfagre, om hvordan Harald Hårfagre ble fostret av Dovre som satte ham på ideen om å samle Norge, om hans kjærligh[...]