'Gripping' Economist'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times'Riveting' Financial Times'Fascinating' ReutersWe are entering an age of energy crises and food shortages. This book reveals why.Meet the swashbuckling traders who supply the world with energy, food and metal.Their goal: To make billions by buying and selling raw materials - flogg...

The Magic Thief: Found, the third book in Sarah Prineas’s acclaimed middle grade fantasy series, finds wizard’s apprentice Conn on the run!Sneaking out of prison isn't easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he's out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wizard Nevery, is not happy with him. Worst of all, Conn's been exiled, and staying in the city will mean his death.But W...

Fourteen-year-old Bec learned a lesson that day. Be careful whom you rob.A slave on the run from his vicious master, Bec is desperate for money. But when he mugs Tien Nu, he gets more than he bargained for. Tien Nu isn't just a superb acrobat and kung fu wizard. He's also killed his father - or so he thinks. As the paths of the two boys become intertwined with the journey of a mysterious knight, mayhem ensues when they head cross-country toward the safety of Ponti, with Bec's slave...

**Get ready to scream with this collection of hillarifying—hilariously terrifying—tales, fully-illustrated and perfect for scary story lovers who are looking for a side of humor to go with their helpings of horror.Stop!Unless you want to be scared, do NOT read this book.These tales of terror are so horrible, so alarming, they had to be bound up between these pages forever!You’ll discover The Boogerman, an oozing horror that lurks i...

Dying Was Easy: Special Edition by Larry J. Kachik MD, expertly narrated by Javier Salarich, Nathalie Caballes, and PJ Chase, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a fast-paced medical thriller, crime mystery, and action-packed suspense audiobook that will keep listeners captivated from beginning to end.Follow Zachary "ZZ" Zander

As perplexing murder leads a Spanish detective into the dangerous cultural tensions of Seville in this thriller by the author of A Small Death in Lisbon.Chief Inspector Javier Falcón is called to the disturbing scene of a faceless, mutilated corpse found in a municipal dump. But just as he begins his investigation, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a destroyed apartment building con...

80 Full Color pages containing .Digital Artworks by the artist Javier CHARRO including final art, skectches and processes.INCLUDES PHOTOSHOP DIGITAL PAINTING TUTORIAL

San Pedro / Huachuma: Opening The Pathways Of The Heart is an invitation to explore and reconnect with our inner landscapes with the help of San Pedro, also known in South America as Huachuma. San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi) is a psychoactive cactus native of the Andes, but more importantly it’s an ancestral medicine that has been used for millennia for healing and ceremonial purposes.Our Western psychic and psychological make-up differs radically from tha...

The Apple Pencil Pro is the latest iteration in Apple's lineup of stylus accessories, designed to enhance the creative and productivity capabilities of the iPad. Engineered for professional artists, designers, and note-takers, the Apple Pencil Pro offers unparalleled precision, responsiveness, and versatility.In this book you will learn the following…..iPad models that are compatible with the Apple PencilApple Pencil Pro charging and pairing with iPadUse the...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third novel by Arthur Conan Doyle whose main character Sherlock Holmes. It was serialized in The Strand Magazine between 1901 and 1902. The book is about the tension between the otherworldly and the real, between superstition and science. Holmes will seek logical explanation, which will eventually be imposed, within the canons of detective fiction, the events that occur in the wilderness west of England.

This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, ...

This practical guide is one of the first in the field to examine research-based teaching and learning strategies, promote positive and inclusive learning environments, and provide interactive features that allow readers to demonstrate and apply what they learn. Ideal for courses on teaching and pedagogy, and written for both counselor educators and their students, it provides a deep understanding of how learning works in order to improve teaching practices and create strong student learnin...