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Barnabus Kwerk lives in the biggest, fanciest house in Undle. His family are stinking rich. They’re also dreadful people. Barnabus doesn’t want to be like the rest of the Kwerks. He wants to go to school and make friends and be happy. But that isn’t possible as long as he remains trapped in the attic bedroom of the Big House. When a stranger calls one stormy night, Barnabus is fascinated. His Aunt Jemima is like no-one he has ever met before. She knows secrets – about the Kwerks’ dark past, about Barnabus’s mother, and about a glorious golden machine at the centre of the Earth. She offers Barnabus a life of adventure. But every great adventure has danger at its heart.

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'OMG what a story ... you seriously need to read this one. I devoured this in one sitting, it is certainly one pulse-racing, nail-biting, gritty read ... I thought my heart was going to explode ... will definitely keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.' Chelle's Book ReviewsThe suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside...When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is shocked. But it's not the first time she's seen such a brutal murder...Two weeks earlier, the body of a young woman was found dumped in an identical suitcase. What connects the two victims? As Erika and her team set to work, they quickly realise they are on the trail of a serial killer who has already made their next move.Yet just as Erika starts to make headway with the investigation, she is the target of a violent attack. Forced to recover at home, and with her personal life falling apart, everything is stacked against her, but nothing will stop Erika.As the body count rises, the case takes an even more twisted turn when the twin daughters of Erika's colleague, Commander Marsh, are suddenly put in terrible jeopardy. The stakes are higher than ever before, but can Erika save the lives of two innocent children before it's too late? She's running out of time and about to make a disturbing discovery...there's more than one killer.Brilliantly gripping, Cold Blood will have you hooked from the first page and holding your breath to the heart-stopping and shocking ending.Read what everyone is saying about Cold Blood:'Unputdownable ... I couldn't read it fast enough and stayed up way too late ... best thriller I have read in ages and I've read some good ones ... this is as good as it gets, and for me it was brilliant. I loved it.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars'Robert Bryndza never fails to amaze me, he is such a gifted writer and I love the fact that he is able to maintain such a high standard of writing whilst keeping the series highly original in content. Would I recommend Cold Blood? It's a "thousand" hell yeses and if you haven't read this series yet you really need to.' The Book Review Café'I absolutely LOVE Robert Bryndza's writing and the Erika Foster series is probably one of the best female detective series I've read.....no wait, not just female, but the best detective series ever! ...Wow, wow, wow!! Erika is back with a bang.' Stardust Book Reviews'Blindingly excellent ... These books should come with a disclaimer as once you start reading you aren't going to want to walk away. This is a book you are going to want to feast upon and devour as fast as you can.' Jen Med's Book Reviews, 5 stars'This is a heart racing, hold your breath, drama packed instalment of one of the best crime thriller series available! Robert Bryndza is a genius and raises the bar for the genre!' The Quiet Knitter

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A pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist, Verbum dei deo natum, within its broader cultural context. Written and illuminated at the Dominican nunnery of Paradies bei Soest in Westfalia as part of a set of liturgical books that are among the most elaborate of their kind from the entire Middle Ages, the richly decorated fragments promise to transform our understanding of the special place of Christ’s “beloved disciple” in fourteenth-century art, liturgy, theology, and mysticism.In addition to an introduction on art and liturgy in the Middle Ages, the interdisciplinary collection of essays includes contributions by musicologists, philologists, and art historians.

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A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manu­scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. 'Schönwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault' -The New Yorker'Schönwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German-speaking world in the nineteenth century' - Daniel Drascek, University of RegensburgFranz Xanver von Schönwerth (1810-1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in lawand the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folklore.Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard, and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales. Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of theFranz Xaver von Schönwerth Society.

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Dieses Sachbuch ist eine populär gestaltete, aber fachlich anspruchsvolle, reich bebilderte Übersicht der allgemeinen, speziellen und der angewandten Mykologie (Pilzkunde). Die Lebensweise der Pilze, die vielfältigen Formen ihrer Sexualität, die Anatomie und Morphologie ihrer Fruchtkörper, ihre Ökologie samt ihrer komplizierten symbiontischen Verflechtungen bis hin zu Fusionssymbiosen werden ebenso erläutert wie die Problematik der Gift- und Speisepilze, der Mykotoxine, der Pilzkulturen, des Pilzschutzes, der Pilzkrankheiten oder des problemreichen Holzabbaus durch Pilze.Pilze begegnen uns alltäglich, sie können mit ihrer Lebensleistungen für uns Menschen großen Nutzen bringen, aber auch gewaltige Schäden verursachen; denken wir z.B. an hochwertige Pilzgerichte mit schmackhaften Trüffeln, aber auch an verheerende Ernteverluste durch pilzliche Kartoffelschädlinge -– an Hochleistungsstämme von Hefepilzen und lästige Nagelpilze im Fußbereich.Das Buch wurde für mykologisch interessierte Naturfreunde geschrieben, die mehr über die Pilze, ihre Rolle in der Natur und ihre Bedeutung für uns Menschen wissen möchten, als im Allgemeinen bekannt ist. Es ist auch für Pilzberater, Studierende biologischer Wissenschaften, für Lehrkräfte und interessierte Praktiker und Praktikerinnen in der Land- und Forstwirtschaft verfasst worden.Die nach Sachgebieten gegliederten Texte ermöglichen es zudem, das Buch als spezielle Lektüre zu nutzen. Das Organismen-Register und die Inhaltsübersichten bieten weitere Möglichkeiten des Einstiegs in den vielgliedrigen Inhalt.

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Das Referenzwerk zur pädiatrischen Pneumologie wurde von einem neuen Herausgeberteam grundlegend überarbeitet. Spezialisten aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz haben bei diesem umfassenden Praxisbuch mitgewirkt, das sich an dem European Training Syllabus der European Academy of Paediatrics orientiert. Lückenlos präsentiert das Buch das fundierte Spezialwissen zu Atemwegserkrankungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen von den respiratorischen Erkrankungen des Früh- und Neugeborenen bis hin zu Asthma, obstruktiven Atemwegserkrankungen, Pneumonie und seltenen Lungenerkrankungen. Der Bogen wird gespannt von den verständlich dargestellten Grundlagen des gesunden Respirationstraktes über die diagnostischen Techniken bis hin zu den Erkrankungen des Respirationstraktes, die nach einer einheitlichen Struktur ausführlich und praxisnah beschrieben sind.Spezielle Therapien wie Inhalationstherapie oder Heimbeatmung bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Buches. Das wichtige Thema der Interaktionen mit anderen Fachgebieten wurde neu ins Buch aufgenommen, darunter intensivmedizinische Aspekte, Difficult Airway Management oder kinderchirurgische Aspekte. Damit ist dieses Referenzwerk für alle Ärzte nützlich, die mit pädiatrischer Pneumologie in Berührung kommen. Zum Lesen, Lernen und Nachschlagen.

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Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt, who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like Cricket's mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket's best friend has dumped her for the horse girls. Eleven-year-old Cricket Karlsson is a warm and complex character with an artistic soul. This is a liberating and unexpected story about growing up, fitting in, and sorting out the adults in our lives that will reach the hearts of young readers (and older ones).

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Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: A Level Subject: German First teaching: September 2016 First exams: June 2018 This course delivers content to equip students with the grammar and structures required to manipulate the language confidently and to prepare them thoroughly for their exam. The blend facilitates co-teaching and includes AS and A Level Student Books and online resources delivered via popular Kerboodle. The audio to accompany this book is available to purchase on CD. It is also available to institutions via Kerboodle.

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The ESV Women’s Study Bible features study and devotional content along with elegant artwork from artist Dana Tanamachi to help women in all seasons of life pursue a transformational understanding of Scripture.

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Although the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of flags for national identities. This multi-disciplinary collection offers case studies and comparisons of flag history, uses and controversies. This book brings together a dozen scholars, from varying national and disciplinary backgrounds, to offers a cluster of close readings of flags in their social contexts, mostly contemporary, but also historical. Case studies from Denmark, England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States explore ways in which flags are contested, stir up powerful emotions, can be commercialised in some contexts but not in others, serve as quasi-religious symbols, and as physical boundary markers; how the same flag can be solemn and formal in one setting, but stand for domestic bliss and informal cultural intimacy in another.

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Learn to speak Japanese in 10 easy lessons—with manga illustrations, engaging exercises, and practical conversations!This bestselling Japanese textbook is a user-friendly guide for beginners designed for use either in a classroom or self-study. With an emphasis on daily communication and acquiring a working knowledge of simple, often-used Japanese sentences, you can attain basic fluency quickly!This new edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect the way the language is actually spoken in Japan today, including essential vocabulary and phrases for modern life—like talking about social media and the internet. Engaging manga illustrations are paired with each dialogue, and a bidirectional dictionary is available in the back of the book. Ten structured lessons each present a simple four-step method for acquiring basic fluency quickly: Basic Sentences: Each lesson begins with a few simple sentences encompassing essential vocabulary and phrases Communication Notes: A detailed discussion of each sentence follows to assist you in understanding the underlying structure and how to form new sentences based on the same pattern Everyday Conversations: Authentic dialogues with manga illustrations audio recordings show you how people communicate naturally in Japan today through simple, everyday interactions Engaging Exercises: Several sets of easy exercises help reinforce your understanding of the key points presented in the lesson Online audio recordings by native speakers help with listening comprehension and pronunciation All audio content is accessible on tuttlepublishing.com

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This ESV Prayer Journal will guide you in a study on peace over 6 weeks, leading you to write and pray about finding peace with God, other people, and within our own hearts and minds.

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This ESV Prayer Journal will guide you in a study on evangelism over 6 weeks, creating space to write and pray about sharing your faith with assurance, boldness, and joy.

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This ESV Prayer Journal will guide you in a study on humility over 6 weeks, creating space for writing and praying about how to develop a heart and mind free of pride and self-importance.

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One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Best Books by Women Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother, whom she loves and hates in equal measure, waits up for her. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student and ladies' man Walter Klemmer. With Walter as her student, Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction. A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism and masochism, The Piano Teacher, first published in 1983, is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece. Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power. The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke, which won three major prizes at Cannes, including the Grand Prize and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert.

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Standing at the heart of Karnak Temple, the Great Hypostyle Hall is a forest of 134 giant sandstone columns enclosed by massive walls. Sety I built the Great Hypostyle Hall ca. 1300 BCE and decorated the northern wing with exquisite bas reliefs. After his death, his successor Ramesses II completed the southern wing mostly in sunk relief. This volume provides full translation, epigraphic analysis, and photographic documentation of the elaborate wall reliefs inside the Hall. This vast trove of ritual art and texts attest to the richness and vitality of Egyptian civilization at the height of its imperial power. The present volume builds upon and serves as a companion to an earlier volume of drawings of the wall scenes made by Harold H. Nelson in the 1950s and edited for publication by William J. Murnane in 1981. Volume 1, Part 2 452pp; Volume 1, Part 3 (figures and plates) 328pp.

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Atlas of Cytopathology: A Pattern Based Approach is the latest installment in a unique new series designed to present diagnostic processes in a way similar to how clinicians actually review specimens. The book is image-rich, with scores of illustrations and tables, and filled with checklists, FAQs, and other tools to support fast, easy comprehension of material. Highlighted are common rather than obscure diseases and conditions, and “normal” cytology is presented first to give you a benchmark for subsequent discussions. Includes a unique, special section on normal background cells, which can have a significant impact on diagnostic results. Notes include sample pathology reports and synthesize complicated topics. Specimens addressed span a range of types, including breast, kidney, urinary, pulmonary, and biliary tracts. Checklists at the beginning of each chapter and scattered throughout help you pinpoint key elements of each diagnostic process. Quizzes modeled after actual board questions, Frequently Asked Questions, and hints and hazards presenting real-life diagnostic encounters are also included. Enrich Your Ebook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s),such as computer, tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook,powering your content with natural language text-to-speech.

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At her high school, she's Eriko Ichimura, the girl so boring no one remembers she exists. But online, she's "Lovesick Ellie," a brash and lusty alternate persona with quite a viral following! Ellie's favorite pastime? Spying on her handsome and perfect classmate Ohmi and spinning wild fantasies in the form of very thirsty tweets. But one day, quite by accident, Eriko learns that Ohmi isn't as perfect as she thought... and he discovers her secret to boot! What's ahead for this two-faced boy and pervy girl?

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The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 – 1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such clichés. More than 30 years after German reunification, it presents a comprehensive overview of German design history of the post-war period for the first time ever. With over 380 illustrations and numerous examples from the fields of design—fashion, furniture, graphics, automobile, industrial, and interiors—the book shows how design featured in daily life on both sides of the Wall, the important part it played in the reconstruction process and how it served as a propaganda tool during the Cold War. Key objects and protagonists—from Dieter Rams or Otl Aicher in the West to Rudolf Horn or Renate Müller in the East—are presented alongside formative factors such as the Bauhaus legacy and important institutions. The exceptional case of the division of Germany allows a unique comparative perspective on the role design played in promoting socialism and capitalism. While in the Federal Republic to the West, it became a generator of the export economy and the "Made in Germany" brand, in the East it was intended to fuel the socialist planned economy and affordability for broad sections of the population was key. While the book highlights the different realities of East and West, the many cross references that connected design in both are also examined. It impressively illustrates the many facets of German design history in the post-war period. With contributions by Paul Betts, Greg Castillo, Petra Eisele, Siegfried Gronert, Jana Scholze, Katharina Pfützner, Eli Rubin, Katrin Schreiter, Oliver Sukrow, Carsten Wolff, among others; interviews with Prem Krishnamurthy, Renate Müller and Dieter Rams.

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An in-depth study of the expanding role of the moving image in British art over the past thirty years Over the past three decades the moving image has grown from a marginalized medium of British art into one of the nation’s most vital areas of artistic practice. How did we get here? Artists’ Moving Image in Britain Since 1989 seeks to provide answers, unfolding some of the narratives—disparate, entwined, and often colorful—that have come to define this field. Ambitious in scope, this anthology considers artists and artworks alongside the organizations, institutions, and economies in which they exist. Writings by scholars from both art history and film studies, curators from diverse backgrounds, and artists from across generations offer a provocative and multifaceted assessment of the evolving position of the moving image in the British art world and consider the effects of numerous technological, institutional, and creative developments.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art

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This volume includes theoretical and empirical research into changing institutions and employee participation. Topics covered in this title include: the experience with employee ownership in relation to the fast change of institutions in transitional countries including those in Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union, and China; the influence of the specific institutional setting on development; e.g. for the Mondragon Group of coops or the Italian Cooperative Associations, development as affected both by the institutional structure within the group and the surrounding institutions; and, the influence of legislation in different countries of conditions for the development of different types of employee participation. It includes: the re-shaping of the role of the employees as company stakeholders and the impact of these changes on employee motivation, effort and productivity; the impact of new employee incentive schemes, reward structures or other incentive mechanisms (if any) on firm productivity and financial performance; evidence of the implementation and effects of the 'employee share-ownership education'; and, the impact of different informal institutions (culture) on the development and performance of different forms of employee participation.

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Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like "mediality", "media culture", "media discourse" and "procedures of media". Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research.

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The ESV Women’s Study Bible features study and devotional content along with elegant artwork from artist Dana Tanamachi to help women in all seasons of life pursue a transformational understanding of Scripture.

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High school girl Erika may be on Kyoya’s leash, but she’s determined to break free and unleash his heart! Fed up with her friends’ constant bragging about their boyfriends, high school student Erika Shinohara decides to make up a relationship of her own. When her lie starts unravelling at the seams, her charming schoolmate Kyoya Sata agrees to be her pretend boyfriend, seemingly saving her reputation. She won’t get off that easy, however, as she soon discovers her white knight is actually a blackhearted prince! Now Erika must be at his beck and call or risk her lie being exposed. But is Kyoya really as blackhearted as he seems? When Sata learns Erika gifted Kusakabe the same homemade sweet she offered him, he loses it—and the pair’s days as a pretend couple are over! Complicating matters, Kusakabe asks Erika out for White Day. Erika knows she’d be happy with the kindhearted Kusakabe, but is she ready to drop Kyoya for good?

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The outrageous shojo comedy finally comes to print! At high school, she's Eriko Ichimura, the girl so boring no one remembers she exists. But online, she's "Lovesick Ellie," a brash and lusty alternate persona with quite a viral following! Ellie's favorite pastime? Spying on her handsome and perfect classmate Ohmi and spinning wild fantasies in the form of very thirsty tweets. But one day, quite by accident, Eriko learns that Ohmi isn't as perfect as she thought... and he discovers her secret to boot! What's ahead for this two-faced boy and pervy girl?

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Die Grundlagen der Morphologie und der Anatomie von Großpilzen werden in diesem Lehrbuch, das auch für interessierte Laien verfasst wurde, allgemeinverständlich dargestellt. Es vermittelt zwischen der natürlichen Anschauung und dem Lehrbuchwissen, aber auch zwischen der akademischen und der populären Mykologie. Dies gelingt den Autoren auf der Basis von Definitionen und Erläuterungen fachsprachlicher Begriffe, untermauert durch naturnahe Illustrationen auf 112 Farbtafeln. Das Buch dient dem allgemeinen Verständnis der komplizierten Eigenheiten von Pilzen, die sich mit versteckter Sexualität, mit abnormen Vermehrungs- und Verbreitungsstrategien und mit Organismen verbindenden Symbiosen und weitgehend fehlender Individualität in vieler Hinsicht von Blütenpflanzen und Tieren unterscheiden.

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A stand-alone follow-up to the acclaimed chapter books that began with New York Times Notable Book My Happy Life. What do you do if your best friend lives in another city and the adults can't keep their promises about when you'll see her? You have to sort it out for yourself! Dani's father is away and Dani is staying with her grandparents. When she is invited to Ella's party, she thinks of the world's best gift for the world's best friend: she, Dani, will be the present! Her grandmother agrees- if she's brave enough to take the train alone.So Dani sets out on a journey all by herself.

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101 timeless TV shows for kids to discover and for families to watch together, all in one book. Can you watch them all?An interactive and comprehensive list of 101 TV shows for families to enjoy together, this book features a wide selection of age-appropriate "must see" TV shows, from popular picks of today to classic shows of decades past. Each page focuses on a single TV series with basic information about each show, including the actors, years of production, and rating. There is also a section at the bottom of each page that allows young television buffs to write in their own opinions and observations about the show. From toddler to tween and every age in between, 101 TV Shows to See Before You Grow Up is a fun handbook for TV lovers of all ages, guaranteed to introduce you to shows that will make you laugh, teach you lessons, and allow you to escape into another world for an episode or two.

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Oliver only wants to eat chips and pizza for dinner. So when Dad keeps dishing up vegetables, Oliver's cheeks turn red and he shouts: 'NO MORE PEAS!' Will Oliver ever give vegetables a chance? A story about growing vegetables, eating healthily and being brave enough to try new things.

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