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A beautifully illustrated colouring journey that celebrates the
mystery and power of Tarot. A stunning exploration of an ancient
art that remains significant and special in modern times, the
intricate artwork in Tarot Colouring offers a creative twist on
traditional designs. Artist Alexis E. Thomson uses glorious natural
imagery alongside mythological references to illustrate prominent
cards from both the Major and Minor Arcana decks, including the
High Priestess and the Wheel of Fortune. Each image is accompanied
by fascinating information so the symbolism of each card can be
fully understood.
Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Fourth Edition
provides a practical reference to established and modern data
analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences. In five sections,
the book addresses data acquisition and recording, data
processing and presentation, statistical methods and error
handling, analysis of spatial data fields, and time series analysis
methods. The updated edition includes new information on autonomous
platforms and new analysis tools such as “deep learning” and
convolutional neural networks. A section on extreme value
statistics has been added, and the section on wavelet analysis has
been expanded. This book brings together relevant techniques and
references recent papers where these techniques have been trialed.
In addition, it presents valuable examples using physical
oceanography data. For students, the sections on data acquisition
are useful for a compilation of all the measurement methods.
With the US as the world's most prominent climate change outlaw,
'Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy' offers a unique
combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and
domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive
federal-state partnership for climate change policymaking in the
United States.
With the US as the world's most prominent climate change outlaw,
'Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy' offers a unique
combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and
domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive
federal-state partnership for climate change policymaking in the
United States.
'Immersive from the start and satisfying to the finish, a faultless
tale from one of our best writers of historical crime fiction' JESS
KIDD In the darkness, her face glimmered like polished bone, white,
but with a bluish tinge. Her lips were dry and cracked. I saw them
move; a black tongue pass over them as if she was trying to speak,
but she made no sound. A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more
than the Devil himself, cholera - the 'blue death' - spares no one.
As fear grows across the city, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain
are called to the bedside of a dead man, murdered, and with his
throat torn out, in the back room of a brothel. When an innocent
man is taken to Newgate, Jem and Will have until execution day to
save him. The search for the identity of the corpse, and the
killer, takes them to the gates of Blackwater Hall, home to the
secretive, and corrupt Mortmain family. With the approach of
autumn, no one is safe, for the fog brings with it an evil and
poisonous sickness - the perfect shroud for murder. When family
secrets are prised out into the open, people begin dying. But who,
or what, is the cause? Searching for answers, Jem and Will are
driven underground, to the passages and tunnels beneath the city's
teeming streets. Here, their adversary proves to be more elusive,
and more deadly, than ever. PRAISE FOR UNDER GROUND 'From the
outset every image, every metaphor and simile reflects the central
themes of corruption and disease, poverty and decadence.The plot is
complex and substantial and the final denouement has a feeling of
perfect inevitability' ALIS HAWKINS 'I LOVED it. Fantastic
characters - I never guessed! So good ... Underground is
brilliantly steeped in the lore of Victorian London, i couldn't
take my eyes off it!' SARA SHERIDAN PRAISE FOR E.S.THOMSON 'Another
gripping page-turner, add Nightshade to your reading list now.'
Edinburgh Evening News 'Vivid, pungent and perilous' CHRIS
BROOKMYRE on Beloved Poison 'Evocative...brilliant plotting'
REBECCA GRIFFITHS on Beloved Poison 'A dark gripping atmospheric
thriller' Dundee Courier on Nightshade 'Superb' Sunday Express
'Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books
are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine:
scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer' Kirsty Logan,
author of The Gloaming 'Love evocative descriptions of Victorian
London and brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!' Rebecca
Griffiths, author of The Primrose Path 'Complex, harrowing and
highly enjoyable' Daily Express 'A marvellous, vivid book' Janet
Ellis 'Jem Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid journey into the
dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale' Mary
Paulson Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker
'Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant
plotting? Then grab a copy of this!' Rebecca Griffiths, author of
The Primrose Path x x x A world of secrets, murder and betrayal lie
behind the London waterfront . . . Summoned to the riverside by the
desperate, scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will
Quartermain find themselves on board the seamen's floating
hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice,
ambition and murder seethe beneath a veneer of medical
respectability. On shore, a young woman, a known prostitute, is
found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into
the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked -
but how? Courting danger in the opium dens and brothels of the
waterfront, certain that the Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle,
Jem and Will embark on a quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that
takes them from the dissecting tables of a private anatomy school
to the squalor of the dock-side mortuary, they find themselves
involved in a dark and terrible mystery. x x x Praise for E.S.
Thomson 'Meticulously researched and masterfully plotted, E.S.
Thomson has written a complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable tale'
Daily Express 'Here's a tale of Victorian London to freeze your
blood on a cold winter's night' Evening Telegraph 'Jem Flockhart's
London is vivid, pungent and perilous. The Blood takes you to
places you will love to picture but be grateful you can't smell'
Chris Brookmyre 'E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best
I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart,
complex, and unapologetically queer' Kirsty Logan, author of The
Gracekeepers 'It's rare that a book is Gothic enough for me, but
Beloved Poison is killing it. The blood, the bones, the crumbling
hospital . . .' Laura Purcell, author of The Silent Companions 'Jem
Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid journey into the dark side
of the human soul is a thoroughly engrossing tale' Mary Paulson
Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker 'Deliciously dark and vividly
atmospheric, menace oozes from every page. Terrific for lovers of
historical noir' Saga 'A first class piece of historical crime
writing' Big Issue A marvellous, vivid book ... immaculately
researched and breathtakingly dark' Janet Ellis, author of The
Butcher's Hook '[E.S. Thomson] absorbed us totally in the grimly
fascinating world of floating hospital ship 'The Blood' moored
downstream from London docks. Meticulously researched, you're
guaranteed the 'feel' - if not the smell - of Victorian London'
Roving Reviewer in the Nairnshire Telegraph
'Vivid, pungent and perilous' CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'Evocative...brilliant plotting' REBECCA GRIFFITHS An intricate and
darkly atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, perfect for
readers of Elly Griffiths' The Stranger Diaries, Laura Purcell's
The Silent Companions and Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of
Evelyn Hardcastle. Summoned to the riverside by the desperate,
scribbled note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain
find themselves on board the seamen's floating hospital, an old
hulk known only as The Blood, where prejudice, ambition and murder
seethe beneath a veneer of medical respectability. On shore, a
young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict
boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by
poison and fear. The events are linked - but how? Courting danger
in the opium dens and brothels of the waterfront, certain that the
Blood lies at the heart of the puzzle, Jem and Will embark on a
quest to uncover the truth. In a hunt that takes them from the
dissecting tables of a private anatomy school to the squalor of the
dock-side mortuary, they find themselves involved in a dark and
terrible mystery. Praise for E.S. Thomson: 'It's rare that a book
is Gothic enough for me, but Beloved Poison is killing it. The
blood, the bones...' LAURA PURCELL 'Complex, harrowing and highly
enjoyable' DAILY EXPRESS 'Marvellous, vivid . . . breathtakingly
dark' JANET ELLIS 'Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in
years' KIRSTY LOGAN 'A marvel . . . thoroughly engrossing' MARY
PAULSON ELLIS
'Another gripping page-turner, add Nightshade to your reading list
now.' Edinburgh Evening News 'Vivid, pungent and perilous' CHRIS
BROOKMYRE on Beloved Poison 'Evocative...brilliant plotting'
REBECCA GRIFFITHS on Beloved Poison 'A dark gripping atmospheric
thriller' Dundee Courier on Nightshade A gripping and darkly
atmospheric thriller set in Victorian London, perfect for fans of
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The Strangers Diaries and
The Silent Companions. London, 1851. Restless and bored after a
long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides
to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion
when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly
nightshade, a smaller, child-like skeleton curled at its feet. The
body bears evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms, and is
accompanied by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl, a
curious coin-like token, a set of tiny ivory sculls. The police
claim the victim is too long-buried for answers to be found, but
for Jem, a corpse in her own garden is something that cannot be
ignored. The plans to the garden, laid out some forty years
earlier, reveal a list of five names. When Jem and Will start
asking questions, the murders begin. Each victim has a past
connection with the physic garden; each corpse is found with its
jaw broken wide and its mouth stuffed with deadly nightshade. As
they move closer to uncovering the truth Jem Flockhart and Will
Quartermain encounter a dark world of addiction, madness, power and
death that strikes at the very heart of Jem's own history. This
time, the poison is personal. . . Praise for E. S. Thomson's
novels: 'Superb' Sunday Express 'Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S.
Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem
is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and
unapologetically queer' Kirsty Logan, author of The Gloaming 'Love
evocative descriptions of Victorian London and brilliant plotting?
Then grab a copy of this!' Rebecca Griffiths, author of The
Primrose Path 'Here's a tale of Victorian London to freeze your
blood on a cold winter's night' Evening Telegraph 'Jem Flockhart's
London is vivid, pungent and perilous' Chris Brookmyre 'Complex,
harrowing and highly enjoyable' Daily Express 'A marvellous, vivid
book' Janet Ellis 'Jem Flockhart is a marvel . . . This vivid
journey into the dark side of the human soul is a thoroughly
engrossing tale' Mary Paulson Ellis, author of The Other Mrs Walker
'Vivid, pungent and perilous' CHRIS BROOKMYRE
'Evocative...brilliant plotting' REBECCA GRIFFITHS A dark and
richly atmospheric thriller, perfect for fans of Laura Purcell's
The Silent Companions, Sarah Perry's Melmoth and Elly Griffiths'
The Stranger Diaries. London, 1846. Ramshackle and crumbling, St
Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards
and cramped corridors the doctors bicker and fight. Ambition,
jealousy and hatred seethe beneath the veneer of professional
courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a secret of her own to hide,
apothecary Jem Flockhart observes everything, but says nothing. And
then six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried
flowers and a bundle of mouldering rags. When Jem comes across
these strange relics hidden inside the infirmary's old chapel, her
quest to understand their meaning prises open a long-forgotten past
- with fatal consequences . . . Praise for E.S. Thomson: 'It's rare
that a book is Gothic enough for me, but Beloved Poison is killing
it. The blood, the bones...' LAURA PURCELL 'Complex, harrowing and
highly enjoyable' DAILY EXPRESS 'Marvellous, vivid . . .
breathtakingly dark' JANET ELLIS 'Jem Flockhart books are the best
I've read in years' KIRSTY LOGAN 'A marvel . . . thoroughly
engrossing' MARY PAULSON ELLIS
Journey to Joy takes its readers along twists and turns as the
author walks through the tunnel of grief while dealing with the
loss of her husband of 44 years. It is not easy to accept life when
God takes something cherished from your grasp. As you read through
the pages and the pathway traveled, you will find that God does not
punish us; rather, He opens our hands and hearts to receive what He
has for those of us who remain until our own journey comes to an
end. You will learn that the will of God will never take you where
the grace of God will not protect you. Kay Thomson grew up in a
Christian home in New Jersey where her father pastored the First
United Methodist Church, Barrington, New Jersey. At age 19, she
married Dale Thomson and they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kay committed her life to the Lord at age 21, and her life began a
new chapter following whatever God had planned for her. Kay and
Dale enjoyed family life with their two daughters, their
sons-in-law, and their six grandchildren. The couple spent 44 years
serving together in both music and teaching ministries at First
Baptist Church, Los Altos, California. On August 10, 2008, God
chose to change the course of the couple's path together and Kay
began traveling a new path alone as she entered into a new journey
with God as her sole provider. Kay has worked as a professional in
the high-tech industry for 17 years. She has recently found joy in
volunteering at a cancer center. She also leads The Encouragers, a
group of widowed women and men who meet regularly to study God's
Word and encourage one another on their own journey to joy.
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London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer,
apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her
physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's
skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade, a
smaller, child-like skeleton curled at its feet. The body bears
evidence of knife wounds to its ribs and arms, and is accompanied
by a collection of macabre objects: a brass bowl, a curious
coin-like token, a set of tiny ivory sculls. The police claim the
victim is too long-buried for answers to be found, but for Jem, a
corpse in her own garden is something that cannot be ignored. The
plans to the garden, laid out some forty years earlier, reveal a
list of five names. When Jem and Will start asking questions, the
murders begin. Each victim has a past connection with the physic
garden; each corpse is found with its jaw broken wide and its mouth
stuffed with deadly nightshade. As they move closer to uncovering
the truth Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain encounter a dark world
of addiction, madness, power and death that strikes at the very
heart of Jem's own history. This time, the poison is personal.
'Superb' Sunday Express A gripping and darkly atmospheric thriller
set in Victorian London, perfect for fans of The Seven Deaths of
Evelyn Hardcastle, The Strangers Diaries and The Silent Companions.
What secret grips Corvus Hall? Visiting the Great Exhibition to
view the wax anatomical models of the famous but reclusive Dr Silas
Strangeway, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find a severed hand,
perfectly dissected and laid out amongst the exhibits. Assuming it
to be a prank by medical students they return it to Dr Strangeway,
who works at Corvus Hall, a private anatomy school run by Dr
Alexander Crowe - once one of Edinburgh's most revered anatomists.
Jem's persistence reveals that a body does indeed lie in the
school's mortuary, minus its right hand. The body has no
provenance. More macabre still, its face has been dissected making
identification impossible. All is not as it should be at Corvus
Hall. Dr Crowe's daughter, Lilith, visits the mortuary in the dead
of night. Her twin sisters, Sorrow and Silence - one blind and one
deaf - exert a malign influence over the students. Organs, freshly
dissected, appear in the anatomical museum. Fear grips lecturers
and students, even as something unseen binds them in a bloody pact
of silence. Praise for E. S. Thomson's novels: 'Gothic. Gory.
Glorious . . . E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best
I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart,
complex, and unapologetically queer' Kirsty Logan, author of The
Gloaming 'Love evocative descriptions of Victorian London and
brilliant plotting? Then grab a copy of this!' Rebecca Griffiths,
author of The Primrose Path 'Here's a tale of Victorian London to
freeze your blood on a cold winter's night' Evening Telegraph 'Jem
Flockhart's London is vivid, pungent and perilous' Chris Brookmyre
'Complex, harrowing and highly enjoyable' Daily Express 'A
marvellous, vivid book' Janet Ellis 'Jem Flockhart is a marvel . .
. This vivid journey into the dark side of the human soul is a
thoroughly engrossing tale' Mary Paulson Ellis, author of The Other
Mrs Walker
The contemporary organization of global violence is neither
timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively
modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of
the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over
the six preceding centuries.
Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the
future, St. Saviour’s Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its
stinking wards and cramped corridors, the doctors bicker and
backstab. Ambition, jealousy, and loathing seethe beneath the
veneer of professional courtesy. Always an outsider, and with a
secret of her own to hide, apothecary Jem Flockhart observes
everything but says nothing. And then six tiny coffins are
uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of
mouldering rags. When Jem comes across these strange relics hidden
inside the infirmary’s old chapel, her quest to understand their
meaning prises open a long-forgotten past—with fatal
consequences. In a trail that leads from the bloody world of the
operating room and the dissecting table to the notorious squalor of
Newgate Prison and the gallows, Jem’s adversary proves to be both
powerful and ruthless. As St. Saviour’s destruction draws near,
the dead are unearthed from their graves while the living are
forced to make impossible choices. And murder is the price to be
paid for the secrets to be kept.
"Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Third Edition"
is a practical reference to established and modern data analysis
techniques in earth and ocean sciences. Its five major sections
address data acquisition and recording, data processing and
presentation, statistical methods and error handling, analysis of
spatial data fields, and time series analysis methods. The revised
"Third Edition" updates the instrumentation used to collect and
analyze physical oceanic data and adds new techniques including
Kalman Filtering. Additionally, the sections covering spectral,
wavelet, and harmonic analysis techniques are completely revised
since these techniques have attracted significant attention over
the past decade as more accurate and efficient data gathering and
analysis methods.
Completely updated and revised to reflect new filtering techniques
and major updating of the instrumentation used to collect and
analyze dataCo-authored by scientists from academe and industry,
both of whom have more than 30 years of experience in oceanographic
research and field workSignificant revision of sections covering
spectral, wavelet, and harmonic analysis techniquesExamples address
typical data analysis problems yet provide the reader with
formulaic recipes for working with their own dataSignificant
expansion to 350 figures, illustrations, diagrams and photos"
'Evocative...brilliant plotting' REBECCA GRIFFITHS 'Vivid, pungent
and perilous' CHRIS BROOKMYRE A chilling and atmospheric thriller
perfect for fans of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, The
Silent Companions and The Strangers Diaries. 1851, Angel Meadow
Asylum. Dr Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found
dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes
stitched closed. The police direct their attention towards Angel
Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain the
crime is an act of calculated retribution, rather than of madness.
To discover the truth Jem and Will must pursue the story through
the darkest corners of the city - from the depths of a notorious
rookery, to the sordid rooms of London's brothels, the gallows, the
graveyard, the convict fleet and then back to the asylum. In a
world where guilt and innocence, crime and atonement, madness and
reason, are bounded by hypocrisy, ambition and betrayal, Jem and
Will soon find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and
hidden identities. Praise for E.S. Thomson: 'It's rare that a book
is Gothic enough for me, but Beloved Poison is killing it. The
blood, the bones...' LAURA PURCELL 'Complex, harrowing and highly
enjoyable' DAILY EXPRESS 'Marvellous, vivid . . . breathtakingly
dark' JANET ELLIS 'Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in
years' KIRSTY LOGAN 'A marvel . . . thoroughly engrossing' MARY
PAULSON ELLIS 'A tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a
cold winter's night' EVENING TELEGRAPH
The lips had been darned closed with six long, black, stitches.
Clumsily executed, they gave the face a crude deaths-head
appearance, like a child's drawing scrawled upon a wall . . . 1851,
Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr Rutherford, principal physician to the
insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his
lips and eyes stitched closed. The police direct their attention
towards Angel Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will
Quartermain the crime is an act of calculated retribution, rather
than of madness. To discover the truth Jem and Will must pursue the
story through the darkest corners of the city - from the depths of
a notorious rookery, to the sordid rooms of London's brothels, the
gallows, the graveyard, the convict fleet and then back to the
asylum. In a world where guilt and innocence, crime and atonement,
madness and reason, are bounded by hypocrisy, ambition and
betrayal, Jem and Will soon find themselves caught up in a web of
dark secrets and hidden identities. 'Following on from the events
of acclaimed debut Beloved Poison, Dark Asylum vividly portrays the
Gothic horror and questionable science of Victorian mental asylums
in chilling detail. Meticulously researched and masterfully
plotted, E.S. Thomson has written a complex, harrowing and highly
enjoyable tale' - Daily Express 'Here's a tale of Victorian London
to freeze your blood on a cold winter's night' - Evening Telegraph
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