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The page-turning psychological thriller from the author of the bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their dream trip short and flee home.
Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, they realise they are in terrible danger—and that their nightmare is just beginning…
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Roald Dahl's the BFG (DVD)
David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Ballard Berkeley, Michael Knowles, …
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A feature-length animated version of Roald Dahl's novel. Sophie is
a little girl who befriends BFG (David Jason), a big friendly
giant, but soon discovers that his brethren aren't all as
good-natured. It's up to her to convince the Queen of England that
the likes of the Bloodbottler, the Trogglehumper and the
Fleshlumpeater should be brought to book.
Inspire a new generation of capable and curious scientists. This
book will help build pupils' understanding through clear
explanations, practicals and skills-based activities, ensuring that
they're ready for the next step in their learning and promoting a
sense of cynefin through examples and contexts from all around
Wales. - Improve working scientifically skills and prepare students
for future lab work with practical skills and suggested activities
highlighted throughout - Guide pupils through the trickier maths
and literacy skills with key term definitions and worked examples
with step-by-step solutions - Support a holistic approach with
links between the 'what matters' statements in the Science and
Technology Area of Learning and Experience (AoLE) - Boost progress
using summaries to recap prior knowledge, alongside 'Check your
understanding' questions to embed understanding - Develop pupils'
curiosity and interest in science with historical context and
examples, including many from across Wales
Inspire a new generation of capable and curious scientists. This
book will help build pupils' understanding through clear
explanations, practicals and skills-based activities, ensuring that
they're ready for the next step in their learning and promoting a
sense of cynefin through examples and contexts from all around
Wales. - Improve working scientifically skills and prepare students
for future lab work with practical skills and suggested activities
highlighted throughout - Guide pupils through the trickier maths
and literacy skills with key term definitions and worked examples
with step-by-step solutions - Support a holistic approach with
links between the 'what matters' statements in the Science and
Technology Area of Learning and Experience (AoLE) - Boost progress
using summaries to recap prior knowledge, alongside 'Check your
understanding' questions to embed understanding - Develop pupils'
curiosity and interest in science with historical context and
examples, including many from across Wales
Originally published in 1994, the first edition of Field Sampling
Methods for Remedial Investigations soon became a premier resource
in the field. The "Princeton Groundwater" course designated it as
one of the top books on the market that address strategies for
groundwater well installation, well completion, and groundwater
sampling. This long-awaited second edition continues the tradition
of providing guidance on how to develop cost-effective and
defensible environmental sampling programs to support site
characterization, site remediation, and building decontamination
and decommissioning in both chemical and radioactive environments.
The book provides guidance on how to: Implement the US EPA's latest
Data Quality Objective's procedure Prepare and maintain defensible
field documentation Use quality control sampling, data
verification, data validation, and data quality assessment to
assure the data collected is of adequate quality and quantity for
its intended use Properly decontaminate drilling and field sampling
equipment Determine appropriate health and safety requirements
Manage investigation-derived waste Properly prepare sample bottles
for shipment
In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would
become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest,
this vast domain depended for its political survival on a
fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative
book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order
whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and
Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history-a role
played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis
highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and
scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and
diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to
transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the
invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the
establishment of a common script for communication and a
state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the
flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local
society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship
structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of
non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging
Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history
of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many
formative events in China's long history of imperialism-events
whose residual influence can still be discerned today.
Originally published in 1994, the first edition of Field Sampling
Methods for Remedial Investigations soon became a premier resource
in this field. The "Princeton Groundwater" course designated it as
one of the top books on the market that addresses strategies for
groundwater characterization, groundwater well installation, well
completion, and groundwater sampling. This long awaited third
edition provides most current and most cost-effective environmental
media characterization methods and approaches supporting all
aspects of remediation activities. This book integrates
recommendations from over one hundred of the most current US EPA,
State EPA, US Geological Survey, US Army Corps of Engineers, and
National Laboratory environmental guidance and/or technical
documents. This book provides guidance, examples, and/or case
studies for the following subjects: Implementing the EPA's latest
Data Quality Objectives process Developing cost effective
statistical & non-statistical sampling designs supporting all
aspects of environmental remediation activities, and available
statistical sample design software Aerial photography, surface
geophysics, airborne/surface/downhole/building radiological
surveys, soil gas surveying, environmental media sampling, DNAPL
screening, portable X-ray fluorescence measurements Direct push
groundwater sampling, well installation, well development, well
purging, no-purge/low-flow/standard groundwater sampling,
depth-discrete ground sampling, groundwater modeling Tracer
testing, slug testing, waste container and building material
sampling, pipe surveying, defining background conditions
Documentation, quality control sampling, data
verification/validation, data quality assessment, decontamination,
health & safety, management of investigation waste A recognized
expert on this subject, author Mark Byrnes provides standard
operating procedures and guidance on the proper implementation of
these methods, focusing on proven technologies that are
acknowledged by EPA and State regulatory agencies as reputable
techniques.
In this exhilarating thriller from four million copy bestselling
author Mark Edwards, Aidan's spent years looking for his sister.
Will he ever find her? Two years ago, on a trip to Seattle to visit
her brother Aidan, fifteen-year-old Scarlett vanished into thin
air. After years of false leads and dead ends, Aidan has almost
given up hope. But then a woman sees a girl running for her life
across a forest clearing in Northern California. She is convinced
the girl is the missing Scarlett. But could it really be her?
Heading south, Aidan finds a fire-ravaged town covered in
missing-teenager posters. The locals seem afraid, the police won't
answer any questions and it looks like another dead end-until a
chance meeting with returned local Lana gives Aidan his first clue.
But as they piece together what happened, Lana and Aidan make
deadly enemies. Enemies willing to do anything to silence them.
Only one thing matters now: finding Scarlett-even if it kills him.
In studies of early Christian thought, 'philosophy' is often a
synonym for 'Platonism', or at most for 'Platonism and Stoicism'.
Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to
the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian,
Muslim and Jewish philosophy. Aristotle and Early Christian Thought
is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow
appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from
the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great
theological topics - creation, the soul, the Trinity, and
Christology - it makes full use of modern scholarship on the
Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance
of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While
stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical
presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also
describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to
biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles,
and it follows their application of these principles to matters
which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself. This volume
offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology
in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction
to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.
“Brilliant, shocking and very creepy. Mark Edwards has done it
again.”—Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of the Dr Ruth
Galloway series A perfect summer. A perfect stranger. A perfect
nightmare. When British twenty-somethings Ruth and Adam are offered
the chance to spend the summer housesitting in New York, they
can’t say no. Young, in love and on the cusp of professional
success, they feel as if luck is finally on their side. So the
moment that Eden turns up on the doorstep, drenched from a summer
storm, it seems only right to share a bit of that good fortune.
Beautiful and charismatic, Eden claims to be a friend of the
homeowners, who told her she could stay whenever she was in New
York. They know you’re not supposed to talk to strangers—let
alone invite them into your home—but after all, Eden’s only a
stranger until they get to know her. As suspicions creep in that
Eden may not be who she claims to be, they begin to wonder if
they’ve made a terrible mistake… The House Guest is the
chilling new psychological thriller from the three million copy
bestselling author of Here to Stay and Follow You Home.
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All Fall Down (Paperback)
Mark Edwards, Louise Voss
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Time to die... The explosive new thriller featuring Kate Maddox
from the writers of Catch Your Death and Killing Cupid. Two years
on from uncovering a terrifying conspiracy of rogue scientists, all
Kate Maddox wants is to lead a normal life with her partner Paul
and son Jack. But then a face from the past turns up, bringing
chilling news. A devastating new strain of the virus that killed
Kate's parents is loose in L.A. - and when a bomb rips through a
hotel killing many top scientists, it becomes clear someone will do
anything to stop a cure being found. While Paul goes on the hunt
for answers, Kate finds herself in a secret laboratory in the heart
of California, desperately seeking a way to stop the contagion. But
time is running out and soon it will be too late to save their
loved ones, themselves, and the world...
Bestselling CompTIA A+ author Mark E. Soper and Series Editor Mike
Meyers provide a comprehensive update to this hands-on lab manual
that covers the 2022 update to the exams This practical workbook
contains more than 140 labs that challenge you to solve real-world
problems by applying key concepts. Thoroughly revised for the
220-1101 and 220-1102 exam objectives, this book maps directly to
Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+(TM) Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting
PCs, Seventh Edition. You will get complete materials lists, setup
instructions, and start-to-finish lab scenarios. "Hint" and
"Warning" icons guide you through tricky situations, and post-lab
questions measure your knowledge. Mike Meyers' CompTIA A+ Guide to
Managing and Troubleshooting PCs Lab Manual, Seventh Edition
covers: Hardware and OS Troubleshooting Professional Behavior
Windows 10/11 Configuration and Maintenance macOS and Linux
Configuration and Maintenance CPUs and RAM BIOS and UEFI Firmware
Motherboards, Expansion Cards, and Ports Power Supplies and Mass
Storage PC Assembly and Configuration Users, Groups, and
Permissions Display Technologies Local Area and Wi-Fi Networking
The Internet Virtualization Portable and Mobile Device
Configuration and Management Printers and Peripherals Computer
Security Operational Procedures
"The most important business book of the year" - Esquire There's
never been more discussion around diversity and inclusion in the
workplace. From gender pay gaps and the #MeToo movement to Black
Lives Matter, it seems that every organization has finally
recognised that lasting change needs to happen. Various studies
show that the most successful and productive senior management
teams are those which are truly diverse and eclectic. Yet there
remains only 8 female CEOs of FTSE 100 boards, and only 10 BAME
people working in leadership roles across companies in the FTSE
100. While there has been a clear shift in attitudes, actual
progress towards more inclusive workspaces has been excruciatingly
slow and, in some cases, has ground to a halt. Following extensive
research and interviews at over 200 international businesses,
Kathryn Jacob, Sue Unerman and Mark Edwards have discovered one
major problem that is holding back the move towards greater
diversity: why aren't the men getting involved? Most men are not
engaged with D&I initiatives in the workplace - at one extreme
they may be feeling actively hostile and threatened by the changing
cultural landscape. But others may be unmotivated to change -
recognising the abstract benefits of diversity but not realising
what's in it for them. The time for change is long past. Belonging
is the call to action we need today -the tool to turn the men in
power into allies as we battle discrimination, harassment, pay
gaps, and structural racism and patriarchy at every level of the
workplace. The lessons in this book will help us work together to
build a better workplace where everyone feels they belong.
The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and
childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and
Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in
the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras, and stele
inscriptions at temples where she is worshipped. The full-length
novel The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons narrates Chen Jinggu’s
lifelong struggle with and eventual triumph over her spirit double
and rival, the White Snake demon. Among accounts of goddesses in
late imperial China, this work is unique in its focus on the
physical aspects of womanhood, especially the dangers of
childbirth, and in its dramatization of the contradictory nature of
Chinese divinities. This unabridged, annotated translation provides
insights into late imperial Chinese religion, the lives of women,
and the structure of families and local society.
While it has often been recognised that the development of
Christian orthodoxy was stimulated by the speculations of those who
are now called heretics, it is still widely assumed that their
contribution was merely catalytic, that they called forth the
exposition of what the main church already believed but had not yet
been required to formulate. This book maintains that scholars have
underrated the constructive role of these "heretical" speculations
in the evolution of dogma, showing that salient elements in the
doctrines of the fall, the Trinity and the union of God and man in
Christ derive from teachings that were initially rejected by the
main church. Mark Edwards also reveals how authors who epitomised
orthodoxy in their own day sometimes favoured teachings which were
later considered heterodox, and that their doctrines underwent
radical revision before they became a fixed element of orthodoxy.
The first half of the volume discusses the role of Gnostic
theologians in the formation of catholic thought; the second half
will offer an unfashionable view of the controversies which gave
rise to the councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon . Many of the
theories advanced here have not been broached elsewhere, and no
synthesis on this scale had been attempted by other scholars. While
this book proposes a revision in the scholarly perception of early
Christendom, it also demonstrates the essential unity of the
tradition.
These two texts are fundamental for the understanding not only of
Neoplatonism but also of the conventions of biography in late
antiquity. Neither has received such extensive annotation before in
English, and this new commentary makes full use of recent
scholarship. The long introduction is intended both as a beginner's
guide to Neoplatonism and as a survey of ancient biographical
writing.
Successful travel photographers have to wear more hats than perhaps
any other photographic genre. In a single travel photo essay they
are at times architectural photographers, food photographers, music
photographers, car photographers - the list encompassing every
possible type of photography. The Travel Photo Essay teaches the
reader the necessary techniques to create cohesive professional
travel stories, using images that go far beyond "I was here"
photographs. From the establishing shots to the equipment list,
this book discusses the techniques and concepts necessary to create
professional looking images in various genres, including portrait
photography, landscape photography, wildlife photography, food
photography, documentary photography, sports photography and more.
Covering issues such as lighting, writing, workflow and the travel
photography market, award-winning photographer and writer Mark
Edward Harris explains how to marry photos with words, telling a
cohesive story through a series of photographs.
Successful travel photographers have to wear more hats than perhaps
any other photographic genre. In a single travel photo essay they
are at times architectural photographers, food photographers, music
photographers, car photographers - the list encompassing every
possible type of photography. The Travel Photo Essay teaches the
reader the necessary techniques to create cohesive professional
travel stories, using images that go far beyond "I was here"
photographs. From the establishing shots to the equipment list,
this book discusses the techniques and concepts necessary to create
professional looking images in various genres, including portrait
photography, landscape photography, wildlife photography, food
photography, documentary photography, sports photography and more.
Covering issues such as lighting, writing, workflow and the travel
photography market, award-winning photographer and writer Mark
Edward Harris explains how to marry photos with words, telling a
cohesive story through a series of photographs.
Gnosticism, Christianity and late antique philosophy are often
studied separately; when studied together they are too often
conflated. These articles set out to show that we misunderstand all
three phenomena if we take either approach. We cannot interpret, or
even identify, Christian Gnosticism without Platonic evidence; we
may even discover that Gnosticism throws unexpected light on the
Platonic imagination. At the same time, if we read writers like
Origen simply as Christian Platonists, or bring Christians and
philosophers together under the porous umbrella of "monotheism", we
ignore fundamental features of both traditions. To grasp what made
Christianity distinctive, we must look at the questions asked in
the studies here, not merely what Christians appropriated but how
it was appropriated. What did the pagan gods mean to a Christian
poet of the fifth century? What did Paul quote when he thought he
was quoting Greek poetry? What did Socrates mean to the Christians,
and can we trust their memories when they appeal to lost fragments
of the Presocratics? When pagans accuse the Christians of moral
turpitude, do they know more or less about them than we do? What
divides Augustine, the disenchanted Platonist, from his Neoplatonic
contemporaries? And what God or gods await the Neoplatonist when he
dies?
This volume illustrates the complexity and variety of early
Christian thought on the subject of the image of God as a
theological concept, and the difficulties that arise even in the
interpretation of particular authors who gave a cardinal place to
the image of God in their expositions of Christian doctrine. The
first part illustrates both the presence and the absence of the
image of God in the earliest Christian literature; the second
examines various studies in deification, both implicit and
explicit; the third explores the relation between iconography and
the theological notion of the image
What is Counterculture? - It's an alternative lifestyle... - The
ideas that spark a revolution... - A movement that changes the
world... This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible
originality of British post-war culture. British art, film,
theatre, dance, literature and music have attracted international
recognition, from the Angry Young Men to the Sex Pistols to Grayson
Perry. Now gaming, the internet and social media enable creative
communities to flourish and either fight for social justice - or
just be entertained. Can we find the creative inspiration to
succeed in a postcapitalist future?
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