Dottie is a Dalmatian with class. She's from England and she's positively posh: she loves jazz, she loves her book club and she loves her cheese-and-wine evenings. There's just one thing missing in her perfect life: nothing (and nobody) to make her tail wag.When Dottie finds herself transported from her British home comforts to an American city called Backwood, she is surprised to find herself enjoying the company of a lowly beagle named Ralphie.What Dottie...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

Provides a detailed overview of the recent trends in farm information management systems, including their evolution and role in improving farmer decision makingConsiders the range of data mining techniques used in decision support systems, such as artificial neural networks and support vector machinesIncludes a selection of case studies which explore the use of decision support systems in optimising farm management and productivity

The Ultimate Halloween Treat is a mesmerizing anthology that weaves together the fantastical, the eerie, and the mysterious from an impressive array of literary talents from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. This collection encapsulates the full spectrum of dark and imaginative storytelling—from the Gothic horror of pore-thrilling tales to the whimsical fantasies that traverse the boundaries of human experience. Readers will discover themes of supernatural intrigue, psychological depth...

Warlock's Play gathers more than 550 supernatural mysteries, macabre tales, and horror classics into an expansive archive of literary unease. Ranging from Gothic romance, ghost story, occult fiction, and sensational crime to psychological terror, weird fiction, satire, and speculative nightmare, the volume traces the genre's remarkable formal flexibility. Haunted houses, revenants, doubles, cursed objects, forbidden knowledge, and inexplicable visitations recur in narratives that move from...