A gripping tale of Occupation, Resistance, and the Quest to reclaim stolen masterpieces.In 1940, as German forces race towards Bordeaux, a Jewish physician faces an impossible choice before the darkness descends, sending his wife and daughter to safety in America or keeping them close. Underground resistance cells form in the shadows, but every act of defiance is met with Nazi brutality. Survival means trusting no one.Decades later in Boston, lawyer Corin H...

**How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt—but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation.From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).**In the 1870s, horses were the lifeblood of North American cities. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto relied on tens of thousands of workhorses to power daily li...

This volume serves as a study guide and revision resource for postgraduate students preparing for examinations in nuclear medicine physics. The problems and solutions presented reflect the typical syllabi adopted by universities and training programmes worldwide. This invaluable study guide should be used in conjunction with other key textbooks in the field to provide additional learning opportunities.Since the publication of the first edition, nuclear medicine has continued to adv...

The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs to seek the divine overthrow of a wicked world.Tower Hill draws on a previously untapped family archive to reveal the routines of daily life and the fraught family...

The cult classic kids book in all its resplendent absurdity and subversivenessSam's love of donuts takes him to the Big City where he makes friends with Mr. Bikferd, a world class collector of donuts. But when Mr. Bikferd falls in love with Pretzel Annie, the prophecy of an old woman comes true: "Who needs donuts when you've got love?" Mr. Bikferd bequeaths his donut collection to Sam, who uses it to save the old woman from drowning in a basement flooded with coffe...

On Venus, the great mystery is not monsters or oceans, but a planet covered in warm, colorful mud that sustains sparse vegetation and a native people who live within it as naturally as humans live on dry land. When Piper Pharmaceuticals discovers that this strange soil hides a fortune, the company moves in fast, convinced Venus will yield enormous profit. But its grand investment soon becomes a financial disaster, and corporate troubleshooter Robert Kielland is sent to find out why. What h...

From the Pulitzer-Prize–winning historian, an absorbing family saga of Virginia slavery and the earthshaking rebellion led by Nat Turner.This powerful history of Virginia slavery is grounded in the daily life of a struggling plantation, Tower Hill, owned by generations of a local merchant family. A persistent debt that is both commercial and emotional drives the Blows—husbands and wives, fathers and sons—to turmoil and madness. The enslaved Blacks at Tower Hill liv...

Most organisations don't call for help because they fully understand what's wrong. They call because somebody's raised a grievance, a manager's lost control, HR is firefighting, the board is confused, a senior person has become "indispensable", or operations have quietly turned to shit.The Corporate Exorcist is a darkly funny, brutally practical guide to finding the people, politics and operational problems quietly screwing up businesses, charities and boards.Drawing on yea...

A Short StoryThe Master's Apprentice is a deeply poignant, science fiction short story set within the Echo Chamber Universe.Leo Benjamin is a brilliant modern writer trapped in a devastating paradox: his prose is mechanically flawless, but completely invisible within the suffocating noise of the twenty-first-century digital void. Desperate to discover how the literary giants of old captured the hearts of millions with nothing but ink and paper, Leo utilizes the Echo Chamber...

Dr. Chauncey Patrick Coffin's sensational "cure" for the common cold promises a medical miracle—and unleashes a catastrophe no one anticipated. As Coffin grabs the glory with a premature announcement, his younger colleagues Phillip Dawson and Jacob Miles race to keep up with the science, the ethics, and the exploding public demand for a vaccine that seems destined to end one of humanity's oldest miseries. Instead, the treatment strips away a hidden viral suppression that had been masking h...

The Dark Door is a tense science fiction thriller of paranoia, hidden dimensions, and psychological terror. Harry Scott, a brilliant engineer, wakes in fear, convinced that unseen enemies are hunting him and that the city around him conceals beings from a fourth dimension. Cut off from the police, his allies, and even Dr. George Webber—the scientist who first drew him into the mystery—Harry is trapped between impossible dangers and the suspicion that his own mind is betraying him. In a sta...

Dublin, 1937A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films!Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film.But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her rea...