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A guide for the student writing an essay, the professional writer working on a story, or the manager writing a memo for a tight deadline.

Amanda Podany here takes readers on a vivid tour through a thousand years of ancient Near Eastern history, from 2300 to 1300 BCE, paying particular attention to the lively interactions that took place between the great kings of the day.

A pocket guide on Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th president of the United States of America. Provides biographical information on Obama, his A More Perfect Union" speech, and an introduction about African Americans and politics by Henry Louis Gates

Boek A Cabinet Of Roman Curiosities, geschreven door J. C. McKeown, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imagination and deepen their comprehension skills. This pack contains six of each of the following titles: Plughole; The Top of the Taj Mahal; Not

Six fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters - Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger - plus a new micro-friend, Nok the alien! Fully decodable, with small steps of phonic progression to ensure early reading success, these books are ideal for in

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet, with these six fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters - Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger - and their new micro-friends, Nok the alien and Seven the robot. Carefully levelled and highly motiva

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet, with these six fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters - Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger - and their new micro-friends, Nok the alien and Seven the robot. Carefully levelled and highly motiva

Focuses on the early history of biological field stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological place-based research. The author examines the material and social context in which field stations arose, the actual research that was produc

Features more than 200 intriguing science questions, along with answers. They include: Where does light come from? What is my body made of? and Why is lemon juice sour? Ages: 6

One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends are walking through their desolate city and come across a familiar street that has been turned to rubble, concrete bridges towering above them like tombs and houses turned inside out. Aeh

A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life.

Twelve visions of the future-by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant-from new and established voices in science fiction.

Years ago, a picnic basket brought two hearts together. For Rachel and Mike, history may be about to repeat itself.

'Aoharu x kikanju' ... first published in Japan in 2015 by Square Enix Co., Ltd.--Colophon.

To take on the Variants, humans who have been infected with the Hemorrhage Virus, which has turned them into predators unlike anything ever seen before, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham leads his strike team on a desperate mission to take back the cities

An intense, edgy psychological thriller about an assassin hired to kill a congressman who is running for President

Keri Arthur, New York Times bestselling author of Flameout, continues the thrilling new Souls of Fire series featuring Emberly Pearson, a phoenix that can transform into a human - and is haunted by the ability to foresee death...

A gripping space opera for fans of Elizabeth Moon and Rachel Bac

A new adventure begins in the bestselling world of the Laundry Files: in a nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream . . .

A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries

How a scientific outsider came up with a revolutionary theory of light and saved untold numbers of lives.

I emptied my secret money box, arranged the coins in piles and the piles in rows.... The market is full of wonderful things -- roasted peanuts, rice cakes, toy trucks, kites -- but Saruni doesn't buy any of them. He is saving for something special.

Boek Dyeing Up Loose Ends, geschreven door Maggie Sefton, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Survival is the name of the game, as the line blurs between reality TV and reality it

Boek Bug Club Independent Non Fiction Year Two Turquoise A Cars, Cars, Cars - Bug Club, geschreven door Michael Steer, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE NONFICTION / Readers / Intermediate

Ellie has thought of another cool trick to play, but who gets into trouble when the teacher finds out?

Provides an indispensable and thorough description of HAZOP (hazard and operability study) - the most powerful technique for the identification and analysis of hazards, a technique which is unknown in many industries and where it is employed, it ofte

A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels

Dark and nastily believable... Sean Stewart [is] a talent to watch." -- William Gibson. This fast-paced adventure traces an investigation of a TV evangelist's murder by an empathic bounty hunter. Set in America of the not-too-distant-future, a land

An account English weather, which is at the very heart of English life and culture, as it is experienced physically, emotionally and spiritually. It catches the distinct voices of compelling individuals: 'Bloody cold', says Jonathan Swift in the 'slo

What is electricity? What is static electricity? Why do batteries go flat? You can find the answers to these and other questions about electricity in Why Does Electricity Flow?

Business Start-up is a two-level (CEF level A1/A2) Business English course for adults who need English for their work.