Jack Walsingham's comfortable life is under pressure. With his bookshop going broke and past indiscretions catching up, Jack begins to dabble in embezzlement. Meanwhile, his wife Thea, frustrated by a dead end in her career, is experimenting with some genteel theft of her own. But soon the couple are out of their depth, blackmailed by a figure from the past and implicated in two grisly killings. Their salvation comes in the form of Detective Sergeant Fiona Salmon, a recently widowed book-l...

October, 1973: Egypt is bracing for war. Cairo private investigator Pierre Farag is tidying up old cases and calling in debts when he stumbles on a plot to murder the notorious film star Zouzou Paris, his childhood sweetheart. At the same time, former British intelligence agents Mark Bellamy and Lucy Vickers are recalled to duty in Cairo to arrange the defection of a Soviet diplomat. As the outbreak of war approaches, Pierre, Lucy, Zouzou and Mark find themselves at the centre of a cynical...

Archaeological heritage legislation aims to ensure the best possible protection for the archaeological heritage, yet it remains the case that legislation can remain ineffective through other practical considerations. Some consideration may be legal or procedural, such as difficulties in enforcing legislation or in preventing crimes or damage or archaeological monuments. However other problems may be less obvious and harder to address, and require solutions which go much further than the si...

“Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s DreamsWINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Times (UK) • Library Journal“...

There are hundreds of variations within Christianity, and this guide will help you untangle the differences to find the basic beliefs that most Christians share. Overviews of doctrine, church history and church and culture are included to help explain how and why Christians differ on a variety of beliefs.

A man in a suit of iron drops from an American warplane onto a French battlefield and unleashes a powerful cosmic force on an army of Nazis, their massive war machine, and their most dangerous agent, the deadly Black Flame! Comics superstar Mike Mignola creates an alternative story of a World War II robot.

The explosive conclusion to the B.P.R.D. series is collected in full! Lovecraftian monsters ravage an apocalyptic earth as the B.P.R.D. fights to save what little of humanity they can. But even Hellboy is not who he once was, and whether anyone survives Varvara and the long-awaited Ragna Rok remains to be seen.Hellboy, Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, and other familiar faces from the B.P.R.D. gather one last time to make a final stand for humanity.Written...

This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far, namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did it emerge? It explores lines of convergence and divergence between Christian theology and evolutionary anthropology in its search to identify different aspects of wisdom. Critical to this discussion are the philosophical difficulti...

Want to incorporate medical infrared imaging into your practice but can’t find a book that explains how to do it? Well, this book is for you! Complete, practical instructions are provided on imager choice and care as well as the physical needs of a thermography service from the imaging room layout to the computer requirements. How to acquire, interpret, and report a thermal examination is covered in detail. Fully illustrated with both normal and abnormal images, Human Medical Therm...

It's 1975 in London, and Emma Stonehouse is cruising towards the end of her first year of studying politics in London, to be followed by a summer of parties, protests and music. She's part of a radical political group, and she means to prove she's got the guts to be a serious activist. Emma's at loggerheads with her dad Ralph, a senior intelligence bureaucrat in Whitehall, and she's had enough of home life in genteel Surrey.But Ralph is being blackmailed by colleague Donald Waters. ...

Through the wonder of three-dimensional ultrasound, mothers-to-be can literally watch their babies develop right before their eyes. Now in this fully illustrated and astonishing journey, you can witness a baby’s progress throughout the approximately 280 days of pregnancy. Inside you’ll find• a day-by-day view of the normal course of a baby’s growth and behavior• the current facts on how babies develop, when they acquire abilities, and how they respond to their environment

Take yourself back to the lost age of chivalry, to brave knights and fair maidens, to dark forests and enchanted lakes, to witches and sorcerers, back through the mists of long, long ago to the time of King Arthur and his court !Experience the legends of Arthurs' Queen Guinevere, of Merlin the Magician, of Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad, and their many adventures, right through to The Search For The Holy Grail !Backed with music throughout, you will find this story a pleasure...