They sought the box for many years because held inside that arcane magical artefact was miraculously a house. But now its real purpose has become clear
- it was a prison & the infinitely evil being it was built to imprison has been let loose. Now the real quest begins in earnest. This direct sequel to the critically acclaimed The World House is an extraordinary modern fantasy like an episode of Doctor Who imagined by the twisted mind of Clive Barker. A fearless grand adventure of escalating escapades & escapes so hair-raising that Adams deranged imagination is barely able to contain them all" -- Christopher Fowler"
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Restorative justice has made significant progress in recent years & now plays an increasingly important role in the criminal justice systems of a number of countries in different parts of the world. In many cases however successes & failures strengths & weaknesses have not been evaluated sufficiently systematically & comprehensively & it has been difficult to gain an accurate picture of its implementation & the lessons to be drawn from this. This book aims to address this need analysing the results of the implementation of three restorative justice schemes in England & Wales in the largest & most complete trial of restorative justice with adult offenders worldwide. It aims to bring out the practicalities of setting up & running restorative justice schemes in connection with restorative justice the costs of doing so & the key professional & ethical issues involved. At the same time the book situates these findings within the growing international academic & policy debates about restorative justice addressing a number of key issues for criminal justice & penology including: how far victim expectations of justice are & can be met by restorative justice aligned with criminal justice; whether community is involved in restorative justice for adult offenders & how this relates to social capital; how far restorative justice events relate to processes of desistance (giving up crime) promote reductions in reoffending & link to resettlement; & what stages of criminal justice may be most suitable for restorative justice & how this relates to victim & offender needs. Restorative Justice in Practice: Evaluating What Works for Victims & Offenders" will be essential reading for anybody concerned with restorative justice as student practitioner or policy maker." ...

Schools that have adopted the ancient principles of restorative justice in their approach to disciplinary matters are reporting better relationships with young people greater engagement in learning & a greater development of social & emotional competence among learners. Not surprisingly interest in restorative practices is growing. The highly visual Restorative Justice Pocketbook" provides an introduction to restorative practice (RP) in schools. Using cartoons diagrams & visual prompts to support the text it begins with some background to the approach & outlines a process that offers high levels of support to both victims & culprits. All parties involved in an incident or problem work in conference towards a solution. Wrongdoing is viewed through a relational lens whereby those involved come to understand the harm done to people & relationships. Accepting that such harm creates obligations & liabilities they then focus on repairing the damage & putting things right. A substantial proportion of the book details
- at script level
- how to conduct restorative conferences for incidents right across the behaviour spectrum to the point where parents & outside agencies may be involved. The practical examples are recognisable everyday scenarios & the step-by-step application of the restorative process is illuminating. Margaret Thorsborne & David Vinegrad are international experts in behaviour & relationships. Between them they have trained education facilitators & led RP & community conferencing programmes on five continents."

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Never acknowledge the dead Never get close to the haunted Never ever tempt fate My father's rules I've never broken them...until now My name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. To protect myself from the dead I've held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now a man haunted by his past has entered my world & the rules can no longer keep me safe. It started when a young woman's brutalised body was discovered in my cemetery. Only I can interpret the symbols of the killer & they're drawing me ever closer to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next. Devlin needs my help but his ghosts shadow his every move. I've vowed to keep my distance. I'm breaking all the rules... ...

Ellie Summers' life is unravelling. Finding herself pregnant
- & her sexy but idle boyfriend Rick less than enthusiastic about
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* Topic-based sections in the Student Book highlight objectives & issues so students can keep their revision relevant. * An accompanying CD-ROM of multiple choice questions enables students to identify their weak areas & focus their revision. * Real-life exam questions (and answers) provide valuable exam practice & feedback. * Results Plus exam performance data & examiner insight help students to avoid common misconceptions build better answers & maximise their marks. ...

A museum in Chicago takes possession of a body remarkably preserved in a peat bog in Germany since the sixteenth century. The body is badly mutilated & the wounds point to careful torture & execution Could the body be Peter Stubbe the first ever werewolf executed for black magic & murder? Tom & Kate are drawn to the museum in their desperate hunt to save Toms family only to find that Tom himself is being chased & hunted down as the perfect original synthesis of man & wolf the Wereling. ...

Rebus is off the case
- literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer Rebus blows up at a colleague.
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Hawkwood the Regency James Bond returns in this gripping action packed sequel to the bestselling ' Ratcatcher'. Matthew Hawkwood. Soldier spy lover -- a man as dangerous as the criminals he hunts. The tough Bow Street Runner is back where he's not wanted in the most forbidding places London has to offer: its graveyards & the rank sinister halls of Bedlam the country's most notorious lunatic asylum. There are missing bodies all around -- dead & alive. ' Resurrection men' serve the demands of the city's surgeons by stealing corpses -- & creating a few of their own along the way. Far more worrying is the escape from Bedlam of a very unusual inmate: one Colonel Titus Xavier Hyde an obsessive gifted surgeon whose insanity is only matched by his dark intelligence. & this twisted genius has a point to prove. Which will mean plenty more work for the gravediggers! ...

Philadelphia. The late 1870s. A city of cobblestone sidewalks & horse-drawn carriages. Home to the famous anatomist & surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a resurrectionist" (aka grave robber) Dr. Black studied at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts
- mermaids minotaurs & satyrs
- were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? " The Resurrectionist" offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black from his humble beginnings to the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black's magnum opus: " The Codex Extinct Animalia a Gray's Anatomy" for mythological beasts
- dragons centaurs Pegasus Cerberus
- all rendered in meticulously detailed black-&-white anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. " The Resurrectionist" tells his story."



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