It was supposed to be the perfect day for a wedding.There was an A-list guest list, a wedding dress from Italy, French caterers, and sprays of tea roses as far as the eye could see. The press was eager. The internet was just waiting for the live stream of this America royalty, Joan a small town girl and Jack, her handsome Senator.The only problem? Jack has become a zombie.....

After the events of her terrifying encounter with the Dog Man, Amanda Burton's been hoping for smoother roads ahead, especially now that she has Detective Ashton Leeming in her life.Of course, the Universe has other plans for Our Heroine.What at first appears to be an accidental death by snakebite turns into a murder case on Belle Isle. Now Ashton must combine his vast crime solving skills with Amanda's paranormal influences to solve the mystery before anyone else falls vic...

Everyday, Sam, an orphan does all he can to stay under the radar of the Troll government. By night, he is haunted by the spirit of his mother, a huge spider. As she taunts him from the shadows, she webs gradually make Sam's world smaller and smaller. His only hope of now becoming his spider mother's meal is in the most unlikely of friendships. Sometimes hope and a wish are all we have.

Adrenoceptors have been at the forefront of physiological and pharmacological research for a century. They served as prototypes for rationale drug design as recognized by a Nobel Prize to Sir James Black and for the molecular understanding and structure of G protein-coupled receptors as recognized by a Nobel Prize to Brian Kobilka and Robert J. Lefkowitz. Drugs directly or indirectly targeting adrenoceptors have become guideline-recommended treatments for more than 30 human and various ani...

This emphasis of this collection is upon the history of courts and their procedures, they also illustrate the varied approaches and themes of legal history today.

'The thrill is that you're actually figuring it out on your own. You're engaging with another language, not just parroting it... It's an excellent way to start, and leaves the listener thinking, Hey, Ich kann do dis.' - New Yorker, David Sedaris, humorist and author, on learning Swedish with the Michel Thomas MethodLooking for a convenient language course that fits your lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, ...

Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on...

An NPR Best Book of the Year“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay a...

It's Christmas Eve morning and everyone in the city of Detroit is gathered in eager anticipation (and not a little dread) of Santa's annual visit.

How is epistemology related to the issue of teaching science and evolution in the schools? Addressing a flashpoint issue in our schools today, this book explores core epistemological differences between proponents of intelligent design and evolutionary scientists, as well as the critical role of epistemological beliefs in learning science. Preeminent scholars in these areas report empirical research and/or make a theoretical contribution, with a particular emphasis on the controversy over ...

A simple guide to tracing British family tree before the onset of civil registration in 1837 and back to the Middle Ages.The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow—the records are plentiful, accessible, and commonly used. But how do you go back further, into the centuries before the central registration of births, marriages, and deaths was introduced in 1837, before the first detailed census ...

Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicise and celebrate sex; we discuss it endlessly; we are obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities. We think it wrong that in other cultures people suffer for their sexual orientation, that women are treated as second-class citizens, or that adulterers are put to death. Yet until quite recently our own society was like this too. For most of western history, all sex outside marria...