- Comprehensive guide to the animals of North America - Fully illustrated with drawings and photographs - User-friendly format makes comparing species easy This uniquely thorough reference and guidebook offers illustrations, descriptions, and measurements for the skulls of some 275 animal species found throughout North America. The skull--the collection of bones that house and protect a creature\'s

Diagnose, troubleshoot and repair any type of problems on your PC from startup and file access to cloud services and the issues caused by hybrid-work. This book contains everything you need to know to keep PC systems running optimally, and to repair problems quickly and efficiently. This book provides a deep dive into the Windows OS, detailing what everything is, and how it works. You will learn about

Nothing of note has ever happened in Cockle Cove unless you can count the annual Scout Jamboree and the sudden appearance of new novices at the monastery. Things take an inexplicable turn and people disappear suddenly. A new landlord turns up to take over the Jolly Roger Pub and is not all he seems to be. The centuries-old mysteries of stashed Spanish gold and hidden tunnels are reignited and everyone

\"The Orphanage Girls reunite in the second installment of a moving saga series about an orphanage in London\'s East End, from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen Abandoned by her father for the second time, left scarred from the orphanage, Ellen finally finds happiness and hope - reunited with her long-lost gran. But it cannot compensate for being torn apart from her

New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London\'s wealthiest families. The drama is big, the money runs deep,

Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home... Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise

Team X decide to follow a robot into a drain in A NASTI Surprise, only to be greeted with a shock deep underground. This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole

Poetry. A young woman and young man in a relationship that is both intoxicating and toxic, exhilarating but ultimately at a cost to each. Experimental in form, this startling debut collection breaks with convention, bringing seemingly polarized forces into combat: religion versus primal desire, love versus safety. Edgy and compelling, Mara Nkere tells it all through the parallel narratives of the Girl

Shoyo Hinata is out to prove that in volleyball you don\'t need to be tall to fly Ever since he saw the legendary player known as \"the Little Giant\" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? Nekoma\'s defensive ace, Yaku, is removed from

Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny stories features a cast of outrageous

The Arctic was long imagined as an otherworldly place, thousands of miles from the warmth and familiarity of home, and nineteenth-century Britons were fascinated by the notion of the heroic explorer voyaging through harsh terrain in pursuit of the Northwest Passage. But the mapping of this vast uncharted territory was only part of the fascination with the Arctic; Explorers and those who eagerly followed

Lorna is a talented gardener and Philly is a plantswoman. Together they work in the grounds of a beautiful manor house in the Cotswolds. But for them both the door to true love remains resolutely closed. So when Lorna is introduced to Jack at a dinner party, it seems that dreams really can come true. But do

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin\'s newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern Front.

The third edition of Andrew Goodman\'s original and popular work on mediation advocacy is essential reading for practitioners both seeking to develop a specialisation in representing parties at mediation, and to add value to their existing practice. With forewords by the Rt Hon Lord Dyson MR and Irena Vanenkova, executive director of the International Mediation Institute, and with appendices covering

When it comes to strategy, the mistake most managers make is thinking they have one when they don\'t.Joan Magretta, author of the bestselling book Understanding Michael Porter, has teamed up with illustrator Emile Holmewood to capture essential strategy concepts in a short, easy-to-understand, graphic format.Here you\'ll find the classic Porter frameworks—industry structure and the Five Forces,

A history of Dubai, told through stunning aerial photos.- Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.- Text type--A non-chronological report.- Curriculum links--Geography: \"Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including. . . aerial photographs.\"- Check comprehension and embed learning with a reader response spread on pag

An archeological history of the indigenous cultures of the Carpathian Basin. Baden, Kostolac, Vucedol and Vinkovci uses archaeology and genetics to create a novel cultural and historical interpretation of the Carpathian Basin during the Late Eneolithic period. The author traces the linear development of indigenous cultures from the Baden Culture through the Kostolac Culture to the Vucedol Culture,

The revolution in military recruitment advertising to people of color and women played an essential role in making the US military one of the most diverse institutions in the United States. Starting at the dawn of the all-volunteer era, Jeremiah Favara illuminates the challenges at the heart of military inclusion by analyzing recruitment ads published in three commercial magazines: Sports Illustrated,

Anglický námořník a spisovatel Frederick Marryat vydal svůj román Masterman Ready v roce 1841. Příběh se ihned zařadil k nejčtenějším robinsonádám 19. století. Byl oblíbený po celé Evropě, v českých zemích především pod názvem Kormidelník Vlnovský. Slavného dobrodružství se chopil spisovatel František Novotný a se znalostmi zkušeného námořníka jej nově převyprávěl. Kniha obsahuje knižně dosud nevydané