This book imparts the secrets of successful flower arranging to every reader novice & expert alike. In Jane Packers Flower Course" celebrated florist Jane Packer covers the same ground as the highly regarded four-week career course taught in her flower school putting her wealth of experience & her celebrated designs within the reach of every reader. This beautiful new book is divided into three sections. covering irresistible floral gifts gorgeous arrangements of all shapes & sizes & fabulous party & wedding flowers." ...

The first ever biography of Jane Seymour Henry VIII's third wife who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most
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Jane was Henry VIIIs third Queen & she was described by him as his first true wife both his first two marriages having been annulled. She was twenty-seven when he married her & came of a solid gentry family with good court connections. She had served both Catherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn as a Lady of the Privy Chamber & her failure to find a suitable marriage is something of a mystery. He was forty-four & desperate for the male heir who had so far eluded him but which Janes placid disposition & sexual availability seemed to promise. She was no great beauty but came of a good breeding stock & therein lay his hope. They married at the end of May 1536 & she became pregnant at about the end of the year a condition which advanced normally but which caused the King acute anxiety as the summer of 1537 advanced. Then in October 1537 Jane performed the great miracle & bore Henry a son who lived & flourished. Tragically she died of puerperal fever a few days later leaving the court in mourning & the king devastated. Her obsequies were elaborate & prolonged & Henry stayed in mourning for many weeks. The kings son Prince Edward was carefully nurtured & probably did not miss the mother he had never known. When the time came his education was overseen by Henrys sixth Queen Catherine Parr & he seems not to have had much of the Seymour in his make up. He was very much his fathers boy. ...

Reader I buried him. So begins Sherri Browning Erwins affectionate funny & brilliantly clever monster mash-up of everyones favourite literary classic. Mrs Reed & her children are vampires Lowood is run by a voodoo headmaster who is turning his pupils into the walking dead Mr Rochesters first wife is a werewolf & Jane must learn to embrace her destiny as a slayer of evil before she can win her hearts desire. Whats not to love? Jane Slayre is the one classic which can give Pride & Prejudice & Zombies a run for its money & Sherri Browning Erwins masterful take on a timeless tale will delight monster fans & lovers of Charlotte Bronte alike. ...

Do you want to grow organic vegetables but dont know where to begin? This is the perfect book for you
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Janeway's Immunobiology is a textbook that introduces the immune system in all its aspects to undergraduates & also provides a treatment of the subject that is comprehensive enough to be useful to graduate students interested in research & to medical students focused on clinical applications. The Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised & updated & is available in both print & e-book formats. Janeway's Immunobiology continues to set the standard for currency & authority with its clear writing style & organization uniform art program & scientific accuracy. It presents a consistent point of view throughout-that of the host's interaction with an environment containing many species of potentially harmful microorganisms. The full-color art program is conceptually coherent & illustrates the processes & mechanisms underlying the concepts in the text. The 16 chapters in this readable accessible textbook are organized & presented in such a way as to help deliver a complete one-semester immunology course beginning with innate immunity then moving to adaptive immunity & ending with applied clinical immunology. Discussion questions are provided at the end of Chapters 2 to 16. These questions can be used for review or as the basis for discussion in class or in informal study groups. Summaries conclude each section & each chapter. As in previous editions a caduceus icon in the margins indicates topics which are correlated to Case Studies in Immunology Sixth Edition by Geha & Notarangelo. New in the Eighth Edition Innate immunity has been updated & expanded & is now presented in two separate chapters (Chapters 2 & 3) as well as being further emphasized in the rest of the textbook. Chapter 2 covers antimicrobial peptides & the complement system & Chapter 3 deals with cellular innate receptors & cell-mediated innate immunity (e.g. TLRs phagocytosis NK cells interferon production innate-like lymphocytes). The section on complement has been reworked & reconceived-explaining the lectin pathway first-making it easier to teach by placing it into the context of innate recognition. Evolution is now incorporated throughout the text helping students see similar strategies used by different organisms. The text & figures of Chapter 7 Signaling Through Immune System Receptors have been revised to present a cohesive synthesis of signaling for immunology focusing on enhanced illustration of antigen recognition signaling & lymphocyte activation. Signaling through other receptors is dealt with wherever appropriate throughout the book. Updated chapter on B-cell immune responses (Chapter 10) especially on trafficking of B cells in peripheral lymphoid organs (e.g. lymph nodes) & the locations at which they encounter antigen. Coverage of mucosal immunity (Chapter 12) has been brought up to date including responses to the commensal microbiota & the role of specialized dendritic cells & the regulatory T cells in maintaining tolerance to food antigens & commensal bacteria. Chapter 13 Failures of Host Defense Mechanisms has been reorganized & revised to structure an understanding of primary immunodeficiencies in the context of developmental pathways. Chapter 16 Manipulation of the Immune Response has been heavily revised to include a greater emphasis on clinical issues & a complete update of immunotherapeutics & vaccines. Many new & revised figures illustrate the processes & mechanisms underlying the concepts presented in the text. The icons used have been updated & expanded to incorporate a new emphasis on signaling pathways. New references have been added throughout the text. ...

A concubine is strangled in the Sultans palace harem & a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the citys crooked alleyways & deeper still into its tumultuous past the eunuch Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s The Janissary Tree" is a bloody witty & fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast." ...

Retired operative Paul Janson is called back to the spy game to settle a personal debt he owes. Peter Novak the legendary Hungarian immigrant & head of the Liberty Foundation has been kidnapped & faces execution at the hands of terrorist extremists. It is up to Janson to rescue Novak before he is murdered. Janson puts together a top team immediately & manages the nearly impossible task of extricating Novak but something goes horribly wrong
- something that indicates the operation had been compromised from the start
- & only Janson himself survives. Now the major intelligence services think that Janson was responsible for Novak's death & are sending their finest operatives after him...

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On New Years Eve Cal is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly warning: They killed your father. Theyll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days! Forced into a life on the run Cal finds himself hunted by ruthless criminals & the police. Somehow he must uncover the truth about his fathers mysterious death & solve the Ormond Singularity a secret from the past before the year is up. But who can he turn to when the whole world seems to want him dead? The clock is ticking. Any second could be his last. Callum Ormond has been warned. He has 365 days. The countdown has begun.. . ...

Ruth Galloway's expertise is called upon when builders demolishing an old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child
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