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Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features...

The next generation of X-Men must grow up fast! Generation X welcomes the mutant called Mondo to their ranks - just in time for Omega Red to attack! And with...

Andy, Dag and Claire are twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent...

Andy, Dag and Claire are twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent...

Childhood is a pivotal time for good nutrition. Organs and blood streams nurtured with junk food cannot build a foundation for good health and longevity as an adult. Drs. Joseph...

Presents evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals,...

Written for those struggling to manage a workforce with incompatible ethics, values, and working styles, this book looks at the root causes of professional conflict and offers practical guidelines for...

What is it to be human? What is consciousness? What makes a soul? 2075. Change brought fear and fear brought destruction. The island-state of the Republic had risen up from...

"Reminiscent of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye ." - The New York Times "One of the best books I have ever read...will live in the hearts of readers for the...

In this account of the development of human genetics written for non-scientists, the authors describe the story behind the scientific breakthrough and introduce the reader to the scientists who pioneered...

The first popular biography of the legendary Mongol emperor and warlord. Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals....

The story behind the mythic brutality of Genghis Kahn, one of the most successful leaders in human history. A new title in the series created for the modern reader, introducing...

The story behind the mythic brutality of Genghis Kahn, one of the most successful leaders in human history. A new title in the series created for the modern reader, introducing...

This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.) in English. During the Middle English period the genitive inflection -es...

Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But...

From the creators of "Genius Noses" comes an illustrated collection of animal ears and their amazing functions. Early STEM has never been more fun in this fact-filled book featuring everything...

From the creators of "Genius Noses" comes an illustrated collection of animal ears and their amazing functions. Early STEM has never been more fun in this fact-filled book featuring everything...

Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and...

Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural catagories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre:...

Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts for all of the messy, perverse, practical, and inexplicable parts of being a human who writes Finally--a book of writing advice that accounts...

Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen who achieved success around the Great Depression and were...

After narrowly escaping Nazi terror, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe. But they are wrong. A bizarre murder plunges the hapless Australians into a...

The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, that would easily qualify as the holiday from hell. For George...

When small-time gambler and petty crook Steinie Taylor turns up dead in a hopper of flour at a country bakery, Gently has to figure out not only how he got...

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...

This lively introduction to geologic fracture mechanics provides a consistent treatment of all common geologic structural discontinuities. It explores the formation, growth and interpretation of fractures and deformation bands, from...

The thrilling second Geomancer book in the epic fantasy trilogy from the bestselling, award-winning Kiran Millwood Hargrave, for readers of Philip Pullman and Katherine Rundell. 'Destined to be a classic'...

Geometric figures, forms, outlines and images that seem to multiply indefinitely, in perfect balance and harmony. Recalling the famous "geometric games" by Leonardo da Vinci, the wonderful designs presented in...

"Allow me to introduce you to a remarkable book, full of love, wonder, hope, and the importance of getting to be who you were meant to be. You must read...

From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, "Anne-Tyler-esque" ( Library Journal ) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads. George and Lizzie are...

A hilarious picture book about a little boy whose pet dinosaur has a bigger appetite than he bargained for! George likes digging in his backyard. He finds all sorts of...

George and his friend Annie now face a whole new space challenge! From Lucy Hawking and her father, Professor Stephen Hawking. George and his best friend Annie haven't had any...

This work starts with an introduction by J.H. Stape, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1930, "Bernard Shaw: An Unauthorised Biography" (1930) appeared shortly after Frank Harris' death....

One of the most famous footballers of all time, George Best is an icon to football fans all over the world. He lived a tumultuous life, and died in 2005...

"Everyone who cares much for the largest-brained Englishwoman who has written will read this biography with interest. For popular purposes, the book is indeed all that can be desired" -...

Here, gathered together in one volume, are three of George Eliot's works - Middlemarch, Silas Marner and Amos Barton.

From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most undervalued...

'A fully realised portrait of a complex man: spiritual but peevish, brilliantly talented, but for ever shadowed by the Lennon/McCartney axis' The Times , Book of the Year 'In this...