\'JK Rowling meets Charles Dickens\' Metro. Imagine a world in which your sin is visible.... addictive and intoxicating, SMOKE is a Dickensian, thrilling, rich novel for fans of PHILIP PULLMAN, THE SECRET HISTORY and THE SHADOW OF THE

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A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned. Although long overshadowed in the West by the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the USSR\'s lightning strike into Manchuria in August 1945 was one of the most successful

Mediating Vulnerability meditates on the creative and destructive powers of vulnerability in literary form. To experience vulnerability is to experience the tension between ruin and creativity: a vulnerable species faces extinction but also evolution, and a vulnerable person risks both irreparable harm and transformative connection. Mediating Vulnerability explores how this tension plays out across

Georg Luk cs (1885-1971) was one of the most original Marxist philosophers and literary critics of the twentieth century. His work was a major influence on what we now know as critical theory. Almost fifty years after his death, Luk cs\'s legacy has come under attack by right-wing extremists in his native Hungary. Despite efforts to erase his memory, Luk cs remains a philosophical gadfly.In Confronting

From Reggie \"Fieldy\" Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption through a conversion to Christianity. Got the Life is simultaneously an insider\'s look at rock n\' roll superstardom--the good, the bad, and everything in between--and a survivor\'s story of a life brought

The forward-thinking techniques you need to manage today\'s diverse classrooms Contemporary educators know that discipline-based classroom management is less effective in today\'s schools. Evidence shows that a strategy of culturally responsive engagement is essential to giving students the best education, whatever their background. In a readable and compelling text, Laura E. Pinto outlines: Keys

In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. The people of the Mud Whale have been trapped on the floating island since their ancestors were exiled to the Sea of Sand

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

Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health: A handbook for frontline caregivers working with women with perinatal mental health difficulties is an accessible handbook that is intended to support midwives, health visitors, community workers and frontline healthcare providers in their detection and assessment of postnatal depression and maternal mental health. Midwives, health visitors, community

Tired of unhappy relationships? Do you feel you always choose the wrong person? Do you feel disrespected in the relationship? Are you unable to leave the relationship even though you are unhappy? Then Love Addiction: A Guide to Emotional Independence is the book for you. Love Addiction provides an insightful, step by step guide to help you develop healthy relationship beliefs and behaviors. Learn how

From spaceships to costumes, sketches to finished objects, the acclaimed designs for Kubrick\'s sci-fi masterpieceTo celebrate the 50th birthday of the Apollo 11 moon landing and of the worldwide release of the science-fiction classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Reel Art Press is reprinting its bestselling book The 2001 File. A look behind-the-scenes at the making of this most legendary of films, the book

Find out about the natural disasters people face around the world, what effect they have on towns and cities, and how we can help to protect people from them. Packed with fact files and maps showing disaster spots as well as high impact photographs, this book will tell you all you need to know about natural

Marquis Verenis--he\'s a powerful Noble...he\'s in possession of antimatter technology...and he\'s three hundred million dalas in debt to Old El, the lender of last resort out on the Frontier The vampire lord even put up his castle as collateral--but not a single collection agent dispatched by El has returned, so it\'s time to call in an outside consultant, named D But the mooching Marquis isn\'t