Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) The Steampunk Pirates jump at the chance to earn a handsome reward in return for doing some snooping. But when they find themselves sandwiched between the Dread Captain Inky beard and a spider on the attack, it???s time to ...

Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) Causing chaos wherever they sail, the robotic Steampunk Pirates are roaming the high seas, hunting for gold! But the evil Iron Duke has other ideas… He's determined to capture the pirates in return for a handsome rewa...

Told with Gareth's signature wit, humour and thoughtfulness, this story examines the way stories shape our past, present and future Eddie is pretty certain nowhere could be more small-town, more boring, and more inconsequential than his home town of the Wellcome Valley. Unfortunately, he is about to...

A lonely girl in contemporary London encounters dark magic in Victorian LondonLondon, 1891. When orphans Esther and Tom are caught stealing by Lord Ringmore, little do they realise the peril they are in. Rather than hand them over to the police, the lord employs the children. But what does he really...

Depuis la mort mystérieuse de leurs parents, les jumeaux Ovide et Lorelei Applecoat vivent seuls dans le manoir familial et passent leur temps à rechercher le moyen le plus ingénieux pour éliminer l'autre. Ovide est persuadé que Lorelei veut se débarrasser de lui pour toucher l'héritage, et vice ver...

Armés jusqu'aux dents de savoir-faire ninja, cette force de frappe suprême ne sert qu'un but: déjouer les plans du maléfique maître de piste pour dominer le monde. Ninja-boum! Une légendaire ÉMERAUDE indienne aux pouvoirs mystique a été DÉROBÉE juste sous les yeux des singes qui la surveillaient. Le...

Armés jusqu'aux dents de savoir-faire ninja, cette force de frappe suprême ne sert qu'un but: déjouer les plans du maléfique maître de piste pour dominer le monde. Ninja-boum! Un tigre a disparu du zoo de Hong Kong, mais il ne s'agit pas d'un félin ordinaire... et il ne sera pas possible de trouver ...

Grandmaître Seuloeil a été ENLEVÉ par les copains du maître de piste et emmené dans une FORTERESSE DE GLACE. Les suricates sont à leurs TROUSSES, mais ils ne savent pas que leur ennemi juré a signé un pacte avec une ARMÉE ANTARCTIQUE pour leur réserver un accueil GLACIAL. Pourront-ils retrouver Gran...

When Dirk Dilly gets a call from Holly asking him to help her find her missing cat, he thinks that the case will be very tedious. However, soon he and the intrepid Holly are engaged in a life or death struggle in which the missing cats play only a small part. This is a case that will seriously tes...

When Holly and her friend Archie are in LA (flown out there by the billionaire Brant Buchanan) they bump into a character from Holly's past. Petal Moses is in the middle of making the film version of her autobiography. While filming in the heart of the Californian desert, the director catches someth...

When Detective Dirk Dilly gets a surprise visit from a Sea Dragon in need of his sleuthing skills, at first he dismisses the case. After all, dragons are extremely high risk and they rarely pay well. But soon Dirk is stuck - from his horny head to the tip of his scaly tail - right in the thick of a ...

When Dirk Dilly gets a call from a distraught wife, he does not expect much in the way of exciting crimes to solve, but he sets off to follow the husband anyway. He couldn't be more wrong and soon he is up to his scaly neck in stolen government secrets, wicked and treacherous dragons, and a confus...

The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envi...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) Causing chaos wherever they sail, the robotic Steampunk Pirates are roaming the high seas, hunting for gold! But the evil Iron Duke has other ideas??? He's determined to capture the pirates in return for a handsome reward f...

Wanted: Dead or Alive! (Or smashed into little bits and delivered in boxes.) The Steampunk Pirates get a taste of their own medicine when their ship is raided by a sea monster that™s greedy for gold. But when the rusty robots race to get their treasure back, they sail straight into a trap Can t...

A darkly comic Dickensian ghost story from Blue Peter Award winner Gareth P. Jones: it's not the dead you'll need to worry about!Sam Toop lives in a funeral parlour, blessed (or cursed) with an unusual gift. While his father buries the dead, Sam is haunted by their constant demands for attention. Tr...

This book consists of a selection of peer-reviewed contributions to the Workshop on Algebraic Graph Theory that took place in Pilsen, Czech Republic in October 2016. Primarily intended for early career researchers, it presents eight self-contained articles on a selection of topics within algebraic c...

Ecological economics is an exciting interdisciplinary field of study that combines insights from the natural sciences, economics, philosophy and other fields to develop innovative approaches to environmental problems. It draws on a wide range of analytical perspectives, some radical others more conv...

This volume provides an introduction to dessins d'enfants and embeddings of bipartite graphs in compact Riemann surfaces. The first part of the book presents basic material, guiding the reader through the current field of research. A key point of the second part is the interplay between the automorp...

Medical technology is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, with enormous opportunities for good. For many in affluent countries, the expectations of what constitutes the good life have been transformed, as neonatal mortality rates have declined, life expectancy has increased, and one...

In this major reference work, a team of the world's leading theologians provides a powerful overview of modern theology Covers theology's relation to other disciplines, the history of theology, major themes, key figures and contemporary issues Can be used as the basis for an introductory course or ...

Difficult Diabetes is intended for diabetologists and endocrinologists who want to keep abreast of the developments in this fast-changing world. It provides a distillation of clinical wisdom that is desperately required in the absence of evidence-based guidelines. This book seeks to avoid rehashing ...