From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by "The" "New York Times" as "a writer to watch," a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels. "An archivist of his mother," Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life she left behind. By day, Bobby and his best friend Sunny hatch a plan to transform Sunny, limb-by-limb, into a cyborg who could keep Bobby safe from schoolyard torment and from Bobby's abusive father and his bleach-blonde girlfriend. When Sunny is injured in a freak accident, Bobby is forced to face the world alone. Out in the neighborhood, Bobby encounters Rosa, a peculiar girl whose disability invites the scorn of bullies. When Bobby takes Rosa home, he meets her mother, Val, a lonely divorcee, whose job is cleaning a mobile library. Bobby and Val come to fill the emotional void in each other's lives, but their bond also draws unwanted attention. After Val loses her job and Bobby is beaten by his father, they abscond in the sixteen-wheel bookmobile. On the road they are joined by Joe, a mysterious but kindhearted ex-soldier. This "puzzle of people" will travel across England, a picaresque adventure that comes to rival those in the classic books that fill their library-on-wheels. At once tender, provocative and darkly funny, "Mobile Library "is a fable about the intrinsic human desire to be loved and understood--and about one boy's realization that the kinds of adventures found in books can happen in real life. It is the ingenious second novel by a writer whose prose has been hailed as "outlandishly clever" ("The" "New York Times") and "deceptively effortless" ("The" "Boston Globe").

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Product Description: Now in paperback, David Whitehouse’s “ingenious” (The New York Times), “deeply affecting” (People) and award-winning debut novel about two brothers, obesity, celebrity, and the redemptive power of love.Mal Ede, a child of untamed manners and unbounded curiosity, is the eccentric eldest son of an otherwise typical middle-class family...read more

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Product Description: Cameo glass represents the ultimate achievement in Roman luxury glass, and the British Museum has the world's largest and finest collection. This comprises over seventy pieces, including two of only a dozen surviving complete cameo glass vessels: the celebrated Portland Vase, the greatest surviving example of Roman cameo glass, and the Auldjo Jug, each with its complex and intriguing history...read more

Product Description: Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime trade that supplied Western Asia with the products of India, the Far East and Eastern Africa between A...read more

Product Description: Arch of Heaven tells the remarkable story of the rainbow. Venerated as a god and goddess, feared as a demon, and a test for optical theories, the rainbow is woven into our culture, mythology and science, bridging the divide between science and art...read more

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Molecular Forensics offers a comprehensive coverage of the increasingly important role that molecular analysis plays within forensic science. Starting with a broad introduction of modern forensic molecular technologies, the text covers key issues from the initial scenes of crime sampling to the use of evidential material in the prosecution of legal cases. The book also explores the questions raised by the growing debate on the applications of national DNA databases and the resulting challenges of developing, maintaining and curating such vast data structures. The broader range of applications to non-human cases is also discussed, as are the statistical pitfalls of using so-called unique data such as DNA profiles, and the ethical considerations of national DNA databases. An invaluable reference for students taking courses within the Forensic and Biomedical sciences, and also useful for practitioners in the field looking for a broad overview of the subject. Provides a comprehensive overview of modern forensic molecular technologies. Explores the growing debate on the applications of national DNA databases. Discusses the initial phases of investigation to the conclusion of cases involving molecular forensic analysis.

The BBC correspondent and editor of BBC News Online blends history, art, literature, religion, and science to present a 'biography' of the sun, tracing its role in human civilization from ancient times to the present.

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A visual tour of the Corning Museum of Glass details some of the most significant acquisitions made by the museum, which houses the world's premier glass colleciton, during the 1990s. (view table of contents)

Product Description: From 1986 onwards, a large team of archaeologists have worked at the massive coastal site of ed-Dur on the south-eastern Arabian coast. Occupied from the 1st century BC until the 4th century AD, with periods of prosperity and decline, the site was most probably the only major coastal occupation between Qatar and the Straits of Hormuz for much of its early history...read more

Product Description: This is a reference book of glass terms. It is designed to help students, collectors, and others understand some of the unfamiliar terms they may encounter in books, catalogues, and on museum labels. It includes definitions of words and phrases describing materials, techniques and tools...read more