Product Description: Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is invited to a remote Scottish castle to solve an intriguing mystery.It’s the bitterly cold December of 1955, and Donald Langham has been asked by his friend, private detective Ralph Ryland, to assist him on a case...read more

This reader provides a critical and comprehensive account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and families. It draws on debates from a range of disciplines to shed light on different perspectives, forms of practice and dimensions of policy. Its strong applied focus allows it to address a rich variety of issues of concern to professionals working with children in a range of settings. The contributing authors consist of leading academics in the field as well as those with first-hand knowledge and experience; all write in a clear and engaging style.

Product Description: The growing threat of the Weird has driven the Expansion to paranoia and oppression. Mandatory testing for infection is introduced, and the colony Braun's World - following reports of a new portal opening - is purged from orbit, at an unimaginable cost in lives...read more

Product Description: Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is faced with the classic locked-room conundrum in this engaging historical mysteryJuly, 1955. Donald Langham has interrupted his romantic break in rural Suffolk with the delectable Maria Dupre to assist a fellow writer...read more

Product Description: Épouse divorcée du roi de France Louis VII, Aliénor d’Aquitaine, alors âgée de 31 ans, se remarie avec le roi d’Angleterre Henry II Plantagenêt, d’onze ans son cadet. Le mariage de raison évolue vers une union passionnée et Aliénor donne huit enfants à Henry II...read more

Product Description: Le présent drame évoque quelques aspects saillants de l’œuvre et de la vie d’un médecin de la Renaissance, le docteur Paracelse, un homme douloureux et incompris qui fut un bienfaiteur de l’humanité. Tout entier consacré à la guérison de ses malades, fondateur de la médecine médicamenteuse, de la toxicologie et de la pharmacologie modernes, homme sans famille, sans femme, sans ami et sans foyer, Paracelse fut, sans doute par sa faute, partout un fugitif et un réprouvé, pour ne pas dire un paria, alors qu’il aurait pu devenir, comme son jeune confrère Ambroise Paré, le médecin et l’ami des grands de l’époque...read more

Product Description: The book presents twelve state of the art contributions in the field of numerical modeling of materials subjected to large strain, high strain rates, large pressure and high stress triaxialities, organized into two sections. The first part is focused on high strain rate-high pressures such as those occurring in impact dynamics and shock compression related phenomena, dealing with material response identification, advanced modeling incorporating microstructure and damage, stress waves propagation in solids and structures response under impact...read more

Product Description: The Serene are an alien race. The Earth in 2025 is an ailing world, and the Serene an end to poverty and violence - but not everyone supports the seemingly benign invasion. There are forces out there who wish to return to the bad old days, and will stop at nothing to oppose the Serene...read more

Product Description: On the backwater colony world of Chalcedony, Delta Pavonis, all is not what it seems...All David Conway wants after the death of his daughter and the break-up of his marriage is a quiet life away from Earth and when he comes to Chalcedony he thinks he s found that...read more