The final shock of it hit home. The Petches were thieves & they had stolen him." Tobias is on the run. From the father who betrayed him...from the mother who couldn't comfort him...from his own desperate fear. But when he falls into the clutches of his uncle's sinister gang of thieves his fear grows. & soon Toby realises his nightmare has only just begun..." Renner's story bristles with talent & brio craft & polish" THE TIMES on Castle of Shadows" ...

This is the latest title to join Fighting Fantasys" br&-new look! The multi-million selling gamebook series is back with a hugely popular revamped updated package a brilliant new interactive website & the monsters dungeons & peril to capture a whole new generation of imaginations. Zanbar Bone & his bloodthirsty Moon Dogs are holding the town of Silverton to ransom. Only with the help of the mysterious wizard Nicodemus do you have any hope of saving the townspeople..." ...

Four months into the siege of Leningrad the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper while his charismatic cellmate Kolya a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion seems bizarrely unafraid. Dawn brings instead of an execution squad an impossible challenge. Lev & Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake & live. Or fail & die. In the depths of the coldest winter in history through a city cut off from all supplies & suffering appalling deprivation man & boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate lawless Leningrad & the devastated countryside surrounding it in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds. ...

The crime: one scalding afternoon the mutilated body of a young woman half naked beneath her burqa is discovered on a Saudi beach; soon afterwards a Western woman's husband vanishes without trace. The place: Jeddah Saudi Arabia the City of Veils. A city of narrow streets & closed shutters where nothing is what it seems;and the Empty Quarter
- one of the most beautiful yet unforgiving deserts on earth. The people: Miriam Walker alone in an alien culture desperate to find her missing husb&. Katya a forensic scientist battling the prejudices of a society full of sexual religious & moral contradictions; & Nayir devout Muslim desert guide amateur sleuth
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The fifth edition of the highly successful the City Reader juxtaposes the best classic & contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by Elijah Anderson Robert Bruegmann Michael Dear Jan Gehl Harvey Molotch Clarence Perry Daphne Spain Nigel Taylor Samuel Bass Warner & others
- five of which have been newly written exclusively for the City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard Ernest W. Burgess Le Corbusier Lewis Mumford Jane Jacobs & Louis Wirth meet the best contemporary writings of Sir Peter Hall Manuel Castells David Harvey Kenneth Jackson & others. This edition of the City Reader has been extensively updated & expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included & in topical areas such as sustainable urban development climate change globalization & the impact of technology on cities. The plate sections have been extensively revised & expanded & a new plate section on global cities has been added. The anthology features general & section introductions & introductions to the selected articles. New to the fifth edition is a bibliography of 100 top books about cities.
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Civil Costs: Law & Practice is now well established as an authoritative & comprehensive work covering all aspects of civil costs coupled with practical applications detailed references & precedents. In addition the work is supported by the text of relevant statutes rules & cases as well as references to many authorities difficult to find elsewhere. The result is a valuable reference work which provides a one-stop-shop for the law governing civil costs. The second edition

Includes:: extensive revisions & updates including: new material on Costs issues arising out of the new SRA Code of Conduct 2011 a new section on human rights & the law of costs a new section on damages-based agreements a new section on litigation involving public bodies & the Crown a new precedent conditional fee agreement for use by barristers a significantly revised chapter concerning CPR Pt 36 dealing with C v D [2011] EWCA Civ 646 & the new Pt 36

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Including biographies of some of the great engineers who facilitated change this book charts the successes of construction from the great engineering advances of Victorian times to the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Author Hugh Ferguson (former Editor of New Civil Engineer magazine & Deputy Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers) brings his unique insight & passion to this awe-inspiring book. ...

An engaging range of period texts & theme books for AS & A Level history. This book examines the theme of Civil Rights in America between 1865 & 1980. The long struggle for black equality & full citizenship is traced from the period of reconstruction after the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The rights of other minority groups such as Native Americans Chicanos & Asian Americans are also given full consideration as is the 'rights revolution' of the Cold War period which involved the campaign for women's rights & the development of Gay rights. Drawing on a wide range of primary & secondary sources. ...

The Access to History series is the most popular & trusted series for AS & A level history students. The new editions combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design & features that allow all students access to the content & study skills needed to achieve exam success. Civil rights in the USA 1945-68 has been written specifically to support the Edexcel & AQA AS Units for the 2008 specifications. It draws on respected & best-selling content from Race Relations in the USA 1860-1981 & adapts this content in order to cover the requirements of the shorter units. Tracing the development of African-American civil rights in the USA this title ranges from segregation in the 1950s to the growth of radicalism in the sixties. Throughout the book key dates terms & issues are highlighted & historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge & understanding of the period & exam-style questions & tips written by examiners for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills. ...

When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel CIVIL TO STRANGERS three novellas & an autobiographical essay Finding a Voice Pyms only written comment on her writing career. In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a young couple Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon & her self-absorbed writer husband Adam are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village. ...