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About the Author Joshua George is an experienced author of both fiction and non-fiction for children. His books have been published under various ...

Product Description The exciting follow-up to Interstellar Cinderella, this irrepressible retelling of Sleeping Beauty offers an African- American...

An entertaining whistle-stop tour of rural British traditions, from the bestselling author of The World According to Kaleb. Ever wondered what goe...

*A Sunday Times Bestseller* For five generations, the Pemberton family have farmed at Birks Farm in the picturesque town of Lytham on Lancashire's...

A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature. New Year's Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious deat...

'Tense . . . stylish' Guardian 'Truly chilling' Woman * * * In a dark, dark wood In Summer 1990, Caroline and Joanna are sent to stay with thei...

A unique insight into the UK air-ambulance service, with the aim of raising awareness of the remarkable work carried out by the services, and the e...

She's accused of four murders. She's only guilty of three... When Ruby was a child growing up in Miami, she saw a boy from her school struggling a...

We may be the last generation to inhabit bodies not routinely reconstructed by surgical enhancements. Over the last decades, our body has become an...

A psychologically gripping and provocative new novel about childhood, secrets and trust, by the Booker Prize-nominated author of Love and Other Tho...

Review Powerful and heartbreaking... The book's primary and unflinching focus is the female members of the household: Ma, her daughters Alma and R...

A history of historians that demonstrates how the telling of history is inevitably influenced by the life and beliefs of the storyteller - 'Grave a...

Spanning the twentieth century, exploring themes of belonging and forgiveness, Stranger is an epic and unforgettable love story to cherish from aw...

A gripping, eye-opening account of how robotics, computing and AI might be about to alter our understanding of what it means to be human - from the...

'Armstrong deftly works suspense into the narrative...more than just a typical murder mystery.' - Booklist 'A powerful thriller that will surpri...

Review A work of visceral urgency and power: it heralds the arrival of a major talent ― Amitav GhoshExtraordinary . . . you don't come across ...

Review Exquisite -- Jane Shilling ― Daily TelegraphMartin's writing is a reward in itself, a wonderful precision-tool. She uses it to chisel a...

Review In her taut and mesmerizing follow up to Tangerine, the preternaturally gifted Christine Mangan plunges us into another exotic and bewi...

Review Winner of the 2017 Stella PrizeWinner of the 2017 Margaret Scott Prize - Tasmanian Premier's Literary PrizesWinner of the 2017 Christin...

About the Author Kit was once told by a teacher that he would become a writer so, contrarily, he went off and qualified as a scientist, then w...

Review "Sings from its first lines . . . unbearably poignant . . . a truly uplifting emotional journey; a tender, wise, brutally funny novel" ...

Product Description The only book you need to understand blockchain: what it is, how it works and how it will transform business, society and our...

Review Highly recommended for lovers of Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver and her 'Scholomance' series, as well as readers who enjoy their fantasy...

Review A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed - BOOK OF THE WEEK ― Daily MailA...

Review A joyous, uplifting story of a father and son finding their way back to each other ― Daily MailThis hits that sweet spot between being ...

Gain proficiency using Autodesk Inventor® 8 as you progress from basic sketching and modeling through advanced modeling techniques! This indispensa...

Engineers need hands-on experience in solving complex engineering problems with computers. This text introduces numerical methods and shows how to ...

Effective global response to climate change requires the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies between and within countrie...

We all rely on a familiar set of indicators - interest rates, unemployment, inflation, the Dow Jones index, and GDP, for example - to gauge the per...

The Sixth Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Applications covered the most active topics in basic nuclear physics which were grouped into four bro...

Product Description An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study ...

Adaptive signal processing (ASP) and iterative signal processing (ISP) are important techniques in improving receiver performance in communication ...

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, Second Edition provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for an undergraduate digital logic d...

The world trade of plants and plant products is gradually increasing in both quantity and variety. This book presents a number of recent scientific...

This book describes innovative techniques and the theoretical background for design and analysis of high performance RF/Microwave transmitters. It ...

An understanding of mechanical behavior is crucial for a wide variety of thin-film technologies such as semiconductor devices and packaging (includ...

Product Description What kind of man kills his own family?A gripping, tender novel about fathers and sons from the highly acclaimed authorA Guard...

Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) tech- nology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the Inter-...

This eagerly-awaited volume has been edited by two academic researchers with extensive and reputable experience in this field. Emphasis is given to...

Internet traffic is increasing by at least 200% per year and this is the first book to report on the current state-of-the-art of packet-switching a...

Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of approximately 20 established and emerging urban farm leaders across America, from Brooklyn to LA. The typ...

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Dairy Processing Food Cycle Technology Source Books By UNIFEM Practical Action Publishi...

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Energy Efficiency for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Energy and Environment Technol...

This volume examines the classical aspects of biotechnology: the application of biological principles for the purpose of converting foodstuffs into...

Everybody involved in biotechnology will appreciate having this volume at their fingertips. It contains the biological background material which is...

Volume 10 on Special Processes completes the Second Edition of the Biotechnology series providing an overview on innovative and special fields of b...

This book details a systematic characteristics-based finite element procedure to investigate incompressible, free-surface and compressible flows. S...

This book constitutes the ninth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup, documenting presentations at the RoboCup 2005 International Sympo...