Darlene A. Halliday celebrates the release of her first novel...During their courtship, Russ appears to have all the qualifications of a perfect mate. He's Italian, tall, dark and handsome with the body of a football star. However he is not her knight, but a man who physically and mentally abuses his wife. Jenny seriously contemplates ending their marriage but is involved in a car accident, and becomes paralysed from the waist down. She refuses to give up trying to walk. Even though...

This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English. Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of how a growing child comes to master this kind of language and put it to his or her own use as a means of learning. In subsequent chapters, Halliday explores the relationship between language, education and culture, again taki...

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted. It will be of particular interest to educators involved with linguistics and/or science curriculum and teachers of English for specia...

Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress is a timely overview of the current international research mites and ticks. The outcome of a conference of leading acarologists, it presents major reviews of all current areas of research including: *advances in acarine biodiversity and systematics *human and livestock diseases transmitted by ticks and other parasitic mites *interactions between mites and their food plants *mites as biological control agents *use of genetic markers in ...

Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture’s expectations for them, and they describe the complexity of life choices for Latinas in the workplace, including their struggles in challenging such social assumptions. Although some of the contributors ...

Based on the Commonwealth Harvard Alcohol Research and Teaching Program, this clinically oriented work is designed to give internists and primary care practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and care for patients with alcoholism.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Richard Gere and Diana Silvers.A Time and New York TimesTop 10 Book of the Year * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of the YearNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF The Year BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * LitHub * NPR * Oprah DailyThe bestselling and critically acc...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series!High Crime meets High Fashion...Struggling L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when her boyfriend suddenly disappears--along with $20 million in embezzled funds--her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. Now her every move is under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop, dead bodies are dropping around her faster than last season's trends, and the deeper...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling series!Fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer can't wait to spend the holidays with her boyfriend, LAPD Detective Jack Ramirez. It's their first Christmas together, and Maddie wants it to be perfect. Only between her zany family and wacky friends, Maddie's having a hard time finding alone time with her man. But come Christmas morning, this is one holiday she'll be sure to remember—naughty or nice!*This is a 4500 word ...

From New York Times, USA Today and #1 bestselling ebook author Gemma Halliday comes a new take on the legend of Sherlock Holmes...Martha "Marty" Hudson has it all...almost. While her best friend, Irene Adler, is a dot-com millionaire many times over, Marty's days are filled with working as a barista at a Stanford University coffee bar, crashing various courses and lectures, and dodging the rent collector at her crummy apartment. But when Marty suddenly finds out that a long-lost au...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series!A dead body in a tanning salon leads a fashion designer on a laugh-out-loud murder investigation...There's nothing fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer loves more than springtime in California! The flowers are in bloom, the fashion week runways are fierce, and fans of America's favorite pastime are filling the baseball stadiums to root for their favorite team. But when the girlfriend of the L.A. Stars rookie M...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series!Death by bite marks... is it vampires or something much more human and dangerous?Fashion designer turned amateur sleuth Maddie Springer freely admits to being a Moonlight vampire movie devotee—with hot angsty heroes and dangerous hints of the paranormal, what's not to love? Especially when Maddie finds herself pregnant and sofa-bound with time to binge-watch the whole movie series. But when Maddie stumbles on the very real body...