These eleven masterful stories
- the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan
- deal with loneliness & longing regret

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Plants have profoundly moulded the Earths climate & the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being silent witnesses to the passage of time plants are dynamic components of our world shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet David Beerling puts plants centre stage revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment in recording hidden facets of Earths history & in helping us to predict its future. His account draws together evidence from fossil plants from experiments with their living counterparts & from computer models of the Earth System to illuminate the history of our planet & its biodiversity. This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how plants played a starring role in pushing oxygen levels upwards allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; & it strengthens fascinating & contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer. Along the way Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these & the other puzzles. This new understanding of our planets past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities & offers clues to what our climatic & ecological futures might look like. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants & to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell. ...

When the six sister-witches stole the Dragon Queens jewels of power they banished the dragons from their home in the land of Tulay. Before the dragons left they took with them a human child as hostage. Tia has been raised by the dragons & considers them her family. She is appalled to learn that her own human mother is one of the sister-witches who are now the despotic rulers of Tulay. Tia decides she will prove herself to be a true Dragon Child by retrieving the jewels with the aid of her Dragon Brother Finn. In this first exciting adventure Tia goes after the jewel that gives its possessor the power to control beasts. The second story The Opal Quest is published in March 2013. ...

This is a fantastic new adventure for brave feisty Hetty Feather
- one of Jacqueline Wilsons most well-loved characters. Since
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This is a fantastic new adventure for brave feisty Hetty Feather
- one of Jacqueline Wilson's most well-loved characters. Since
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Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants Brains Cities & Software" is a fascinating look at how self-organising systems are changing the world. Why do people cluster together in neighborhoods? How do internet communities spring up from nowhere? Why is a brain conscious even though no single neuron is? What causes a media frenzy? The answer as Steven Johnson's groundbreaking book shows is emergence: change that occurs from the bottom up. When enough individual elements interact & organize themselves the result is collective intelligence
- even though no-one is in charge. It is a phenomenon that exists at every level of experience & will revolutionize the way we see the world. " Exhilarating". (J.G. Ballard). "A dizzying dazzling romp through fields as disparate as urban planning computer-game design neurology & control theory". (" Economist"). " Mind-expanding.. .intelligent witty & tremendously thought-provoking... Popular science books interesting enough to read twice don't come along all that often". (" Guardian"). " Not just a fascinating quirk of science: it's the future". (" The New York Times"). Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books " Everything Bad is Good for You" " Mind Wide Open" " Where Good Ideas Come From" " Emergence" & " Interface Culture". His writing appeared in the " Guardian" the " New Yorker" " Nation" & " Harper's" as well as the op-ed pages of " The New York Times" & the " Wall Street Journal". He is a Distinguished Writer In Residence at NYU's School Of Journalism & a Contributing Editor to " Wired"."
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Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She still has the same friends she first met in primary school. But everything she once knew is about to be turned upside down. Judy might be ready to start a new life in vibrant Edinburgh if shes prepared to accept what it means to change. First she has to ask herself if its ever too late to make up for lost time. The Emergence of Judy Taylor is a story about first loves & second chances. Its about love & life & sex & starlings. Its about Judy & Oliver & Paul & Fabiana & Rob & Min & Lily & Harry & a French siren called Isabella. ...

This paperback edition brings together chapters from volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. This book chronicles the hardships of the Tempo era in the 1830s the crisis of values & confidence during the last half century of Tokugawa rule & the political process that finally brought down the Tokugawa regime & ended centuries of warrior rule. It goes on to discuss the samurai rebellions against the Meiji Restoration & national movements for constitutional government which indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889. The significance of Japans Meiji transformation for the rest of the world is the subject of the final chapter in which Professor Akira Iriye discusses Japans drive to Great Power status. Constitutional rule at home imperialism abroad became new goals for early twentieth-century Japan. ...

The revised & updated Second Edition of Emergencies Around Childbirth continues to provide an easy-to access resource for practising midwives. It will enhance the confidence knowledge & skills needed to perform effectively in urgent or emergency situations that can occur in a hospital at a birth centre or at home. It builds on feedback the authors received from practicing midwives on the First Edition expanding the areas found to be especially useful & informative. Growing recognition of the importance of the psycho-social elements of care is addressed by an entirely new chapter on this topic. With contributions from highly experienced midwives this handbook continues to provide key up-to-date information on high-risk medical & obstetric situations as well as relevant information on litigation & the conclusions of The Report on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths. It is essential reading for practising & trainee midwives & those who teach them. ...

This book really does make maths practice fun! Step into the shoes of the doctors & nurses who work in the adrenaline-charged world of the Accident & Emergency Ward". When emergency patients are rushed into the hospital on your shift use your maths skills to manage triage administer medication prioritize your time & save the day! Numeracy work
Includes:: numbers & the number system; calculations; handling data; measures; solving problems; & shape & space."
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