National Geographic Primary Readers pair magnificent National Geographic photographs with engaging text by skilled authors to help your child learn to read. Developed by education experts, this series of books for beginner readers is spread across four levels: Early Reader, Becoming Fluent, Becoming Independent and Independent

The Poet X meets A Very Large Expanse of Sea in a bold novel-in-verse starring a Persian American teen navigating his first crush, his family\'s post-9/11 dynamics, and the role of language in defining who we are.\"A dazzling story with a whole lot of heart. Read it.\"--Michael L. Printz Award winner Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad Is Untrue \"Funny on one page, poignant on the next, and often

This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context which mental capacity laws inhabit. It will be seen that these norms are created and reproduced through the binaries that pervade mental capacity laws in liberal legal jurisdictions- such as capacity/incapacity; autonomy/paternalism

Balancing the Commons in Switzerland outlines continuity and change in the management of common-pool resources such as pastures and forests in Switzerland. The book focuses on the differences and similarities between local institutions (rules and regulations) and forms of commoners\' organisations (corporations of citizens and corporations) which have managed common property for several centuries

An uplifting and moving investigation into how we think about death, Every Third Thought is both guide and companion, always \'wise and humane\' (Andrew

How Japanese is Ishiguro?What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives?Why was The Unconsoled (1995) perceived to be such a radical break from the earlier novels?. The first complete study to consider all of Ishiguro\'s work from A pale view of the hills (1982) to When we were Orphans (2000), including his short stories and television plays. Explores the centrality of dignity and displacement

In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud\'s theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new visions of the scope of psychoanalysis and expands our understanding of the creativity of the unconscious mind and the aesthetics of human character.　 During our formative years, we are continually \"impressed\"

This illustrated title traces the origins of the Tarot and famous characters associated with the cards, and considers the influence of tarot in modern-day

When homicide detective Dexter J. Daley\'s testimony helps send his partner away for murder, the consequences--and the media frenzy--aren\'t far behind. He soon finds himself sans boyfriend, sans friends, and, after an unpleasant encounter in a parking garage after the trial, he\'s lucky he doesn\'t find himself sans teeth. Dex fears he\'ll get transferred from the Human Police Force\'s Sixth Precinct,

This is a GRAYSCALE coloring book which includes 24 original unique traditionally hand drawn pencil illustrations by the artist Christine Karron. The book includes images of Mermaids, Troll Girls, Pirates, Witches, Angels, Gypsy Girls, and other characters. All images are slightly shaded and can be viewed on the back-cover image.Printed single sided - each coloring page design is on a separate sheet.Premium

In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde\'s personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde\'s death, here is a fresh, full-scale examination of the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and

True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recoveryFrom the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery comes this dynamic narrative that tells the fascinating stories of artworks stolen, looted, or destroyed in war, accidentally demolished or discarded, lost at sea or in natural disasters, or attacked by iconoclasts or vandals;

Anil Seth\'s quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science. An unprecedented tour of consciousness thanks to new experimental evidence, much of which comes from Anil Seth\'s own lab. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly

Dead Man Running: One Man\'s Story of Running to Stay Alive is the inspirational story of Kevin Webber. Diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2014 and given just two years to live, Kevin started a brutal regime of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. He also started running and refused to stop. Across the deserts of the Sahara, the snow and ice of the Arctic and the jungles of Cambodia, Kevin\'s journey

The Police Manager provides a roadmap for the challenges that police administrators face in their day-to-day duties, including considerations for dealing with subordinate officers and for interacting with the public. Covering a wide range of topics, from fiscal management to use-of-force policies, this text prepares readers for the tasks that police managers are confronted with. Readers benefit by