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Last to Leave is the third in the DS Ronnie Delmar series - police procedural meets psychological thriller, with a kick-ass female protagonist set against the backdrop of the police misconduct scandals in the UK. The third book in the DS Ronnie Delmar detective series begins when Hannah Lloyd is pushed from her third-floor balcony at the end of her birthday lunch party. Suspicion naturally falls upon the three guests who had just left the apar...

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A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport.In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not--and have never been--purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression. Since the body was the primary target of anti-Black racial oppression, Afric...

Stand in your favourite spot and spin around slowly. Imagine that everything you see all around is just in front of you, no further away than the stretch of your arm. It's as if the image has been perfectly painted on the inside of a sphere with you at the centre, like standing inside a planetarium. Now imagine that the sphere is squashed flat so that it becomes two-dimensional. You are now imagining a roundograph. Roundography is a coll...

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This book explains how and when developing countries will increase taxation to fund state development. Taxation fundamentally changes the relationship between governments and citizens, leading citizens to increase the demands they place on government. While this can lead governments to decrease corruption and increase public goods, it can also lead governments to strategically underinvest in state capacity and to lower taxation in order to red...

A stolen child. A missing woman. You can only save one. The second in the DS Ronnie Delmar series.

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Alice has found her place with the other dinosaurs at school. When new dinosaur Caitlin joins her class, Alice must overcome her fear of talking to unfamiliar dinosaurs, and help her classmates learn that not everyone likes to be teased.

A detective sargeant is called to investigate the case of Amie Slade, a young teenage girl abused by a caretaker at her leafy suburban school. But in this middle-class town, manicured lawns and picket fences disguise a very different reality. As DS Veronica Delmar digs deeper into the complex case and gets closer to the teenage victim and her family, she begins to discover some uncanny parallels to her own life.But something isn't quite right,...

A heart-warming picture book about a young autistic dinosaur called Alice. Alice has always struggled to fit in with the other dinosaurs, but with the help of her new friend, Alvin, she finally discovers her place - and realises that being different is good!

The sky's the limit at Pilot Academy where kids learn the skills needed to fly helicopters, jets and commercial aeroplanes.

Doc Martin geht in die zweite Runde!Dr. Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes) praktizierte lange Zeit in London als erfolgreicher Chirurg, entwickelte aber ein durchaus großes Problem: Er kann einfach kein Blut mehr sehen. So schmeißt er kurzentschlossen seinen lukrativen Job hin und zieht in das kleine verschlafene Küstenstädtchen Portwenn, um als Landarzt zu praktizieren.Nachdem nun sein "kleines Geheimnis" offenbar durchgesickert ist, geht Doc M...

Dr. Martin Ellingham (Martin Clunes) praktizierte lange Zeit in London als erfolgreicher Chirurg, entwickelte aber ein durchaus großes Problem: Er kann einfach kein Blut mehr sehen. So schmeißt er kurzentschlossen seinen lukrativen Job hin und zieht in das kleine verschlafene Küstenstädtchen Portwenn, um als Landarzt zu praktizieren. Der schnöselige Großstädter mit seinen eher ruppigen Manieren stößt bei den Einwohnern zunächst auf wenig Gegen...

Lucy Martin is an ex-City lawyer and mother of three, who set up her own childcare agency to support women returning to work. She has long been a champion for women's rights and opportunities, and is a passionate believer in enabling women to achieve their full potential. She is currently an ambassador for women in business under the 'Mark You Mark!' scheme and a member of the Small Business Forum, advising government on issues (particularly c...

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