Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made from cadmium (Cd 48)? How did radium (Ra 88) nearly ruin Marie Curies reputation? & why did tellurium (Te 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific achievements but its also a treasure trove of passion adventure betrayal & obsession. The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon" follow carbon neon silicon gold & every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history finance mythology conflict the arts medicine & the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. Why did a little lithium (Li 3) help cure poet Robert Lowell of his madness? & how did gallium (Ga 31) become the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? " The Disappearing Spoon" has the answers fusing science with the classic lore of invention investigation discovery & alchemy from the big bang through to the end of time." ...

How should you prepare for floods? What's the best way to react during an earthquake? How should you signal for help & what do you need in your supplies? This book gives you practical tips & advice to keep you prepared as far as possible to help protect yourself & your loved ones in the face of any eventuality. The Collins Gem Disaster Survival Guide provides advice on what to do in the event of a range of natural civil & terrorist disasters. This book not only covers personal safety but also explores how the safety of children seniors & the disabled can best be achieved in differing & difficult circumstances. As well as exploring physical problems the book also discusses the emotional reactions to a disaster & how best to cope
- including fear management techniques & how to treat someone suffering from shock. Natural disasters such as hurricanes volanoes avalanches & epidemics are featured as well as civil & terrorist disasters including fire chemical incidents & water shortage.
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Uncompromising. Tenacious. Fiercely intelligent. Ava Lee will follow the money.. .wherever it takes her. Hired by Tommy Ordonez the richest man in the Philippines to recover $50 million in a land swindle Ava has her work cut out. Tommys brother has messed up & the Filipino billionaires reputation is on the line. Tracking the money Ava uncovers an illegal online gambling ring & follows the trail to Las Vegas. Once there she turns her gaze to David Douglas one of the greatest poker players in the world
- & someone who knows more about the missing money than hes letting on. Meanwhile Jackie Leung an old target of Avas has made it rich. He wants revenge & hes going after Ava.
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Youve devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy...now its time to embrace the forbidden pleasures of The Discipline. Young innocent nun Chloe Reynolds is collecting money for Brazilian orphans when she meets sophisticated playboy Carlos. When Carlos opens Chloes eyes to the corruption behind the charity she is working for she leaves the Church & heads home to England thoroughly disillusioned. Even an Ocean cant keep Carlos away from Chloe & she is equally desperate to again be in his dominating presence. Carloss new mission is to seduce Chloe & to teach her that submitting to his sexual desires will bring her untold pleasures. But is Chloe ready to become a slave to the discipline...? ...

Youve devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy...now its time to embrace the forbidden pleasures of The Discipline. Young innocent nun Chloe Reynolds is collecting money for Brazilian orphans when she meets sophisticated playboy Carlos. When Carlos opens Chloes eyes to the corruption behind the charity she is working for she leaves the Church & heads home to England thoroughly disillusioned. Even an Ocean cant keep Carlos away from Chloe & she is equally desperate to again be in his dominating presence. Carloss new mission is to seduce Chloe & to teach her that submitting to his sexual desires will bring her untold pleasures. But is Chloe ready to become a slave to the discipline...? ...

In the Middle Ages there were gaols & dungeons but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes & growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society & this in effect meant a change from punishment which chastised the body to reform which touched the soul. Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons police organizations administrative & legal hierarchies for social control
- & the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that between school factories barracks & hospitals all share a common organization in which it is possible to control the use of an individuals time & space hour by hour.
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The thriller that opened a new chapter in the sex wars.. . Thomas Sanders world collapses in just 24 hours
- he is passed over
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Dr Siri Paiboun may be in his seventy-third year but he's still as sturdy as a jungle boar
- & as crafty as one. Reluctant coroner
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Moshi Monsters Pick Your Path Disco Mystery" is the first " Pick Your Path" book for fans of the online world of Moshi Monsters
- the monster adoption site that lets children interact & play games with one another. " Disco Mystery" is an exciting Moshi adventure however you choose to read it! & you can read it again & again with a different story every time! Whats more theres an exclusive virtual gift for your room at website with this " Pick Your Path" book! Theres something strange happening in Monstro City. The Underground Disco has gone eerily silent... One of the fangtastic Fizzbangs has gone missing & the other bands are refusing to perform until their friend has returned! Will you see if you can find them or seek your own mon STARdom in Rockstar Reef? Pick Your Path & decide. Moshi Monsters is a free online community that allows children (with parental consent) to adopt a monster & play online educational games that test everything from vocabulary to arithmetic to logic. You can enhance your Moshi Monsters experience with the official Moshi Monsters books including: " The Moshling Collectors Guide" " Superfan Quiz Book" " My Moshi Monsters Joke Book" " Busters Lost Moshlings: A Search-&-Find Book" " Monstar Rooms Handbook" & " Game On!"
- all available from Sunbird."

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A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen bestselling author of Freedom & the highly acclaimed The Corrections arrived late & last in a family of boys in Webster Groves Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth from a small & fundamentally ridiculous person through an adolescence both excruciating & strangely happy into an adult with embarrassing & unexpected passions. Its also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s & a vivid personal insight into the decades in which America took an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. He tells of the effects of Kafkas fiction on Franzens protracted quest to lose his virginity the elaborate pranks that he & his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school his self-inflicted travails in selling his mothers house after her death the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage the problem of global warming & the life lessons to be learned in watching birds. Sparkling daring & arrestingly honest The Discomfort Zone is warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny & unqualified affection that characterize Franzens fiction. It narrates the formation of a unique mind & heart in the crucible of an everyday American family. ...