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When Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger win tickets to tour the dungeon, in Dungeon Danger, it seems too good to be true. Little do they know what danger awaits them This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

In Under Siege a visit to a local castle almost turns into a disaster for Cat and Tiger. Can they escape before it's too late?This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

Join Ant in Science Shocks! as he travels back in time to meet some of science's greatest heroes. People who shocked the world and changed it forever.This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

What I've Learned - An Encyclopedia of Perpetual Bullshit covers topics that affect us every single day, as seen through the eyes of Chris Heist. Just like you, he's a nobody that wants to be a somebody. So he set out to write this book, losing two jobs, an apartment, and a marriage along the way. In this book you'll learn how to properly reject etiquette, how to legally stare into your neighbor's windows, how to properly support suicide, how ...

This is a study that examines United Nations' efforts against terrorism in the 1970s and how West Germany came to influence and lead them. It is also an account of several hostage and hijacking crises as well as a look at German domestic terrorism.

By 1905 most of Africa had been subjected to European rule, in the 1940s the colonial regimes faced widespread opposition. Yet the period surveyed in this volume was no mere interlude of enforced quiescence. Many Africans suffered greatly in the First World War and in the world depression of the 1930s. By 1940 a majority of Africans were either Muslim or Christian. By the Second World War, most colonial regimes confronted not only the criticis...

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Advances in Management Accounting publishes thoughtful, well-developed articles across a broad spectrum of current topics in the field of management accounting, using a variety of research methods including survey research, field tests, corporate case studies and modeling. Volume 24 exemplifies the broad scope of Advances in Management Accounting, examining areas of management accounting such as performance evaluation systems, accounting of pr...

Die Biosynthese pflanzlicher Sekundärstoffe wird durch exogene Faktoren beeinflusst. So ist schon lange bekannt, dass Gewürz- und Arzneipflanzen aus mediterranen Gebieten deutlich höhere Konzentrationen der jeweiligen Sekundärstoffe aufweisen als Pflanzen, die unter gemäßigten Bedingungen kultiviert werden. Im Fokus dieser Arbeit stand die Frage, inwiefern sich die Sekundärstoffgehalte durch Trockenstress oder durch die Applikation von Signals...

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic, dress, power and class, the transgressive nature of dress, inappropriate clothing, the meaning of uniform, the multiplicity of identity that dress may represent, anxiety and modernity. The representation of clothing in the fiction is cent...

The subjects of this volume are the four nineteenth-century English writers who have been most enduringly hailed as Shakespearean. Shakespeare's plays extend in time and space beyond the ignorant present. They are made of up stories that ask for more telling, especially about their women characters, and this ambition may be realized in a medium less sharply bounded than the theatre. Sir Walter Scott was the first novelist to be acclaimed as a ...

Featuring innovative research by historical, literary, and film scholars from across the world, this book helps to answer fundamental questions about the nature and ultimate fortune of the Soviet order - both in its internal dynamics and in its long-term and global perspectives.

A new "Mad Libs" activity book, based on "Doctor Who". Features 21 original stories, in which players can use a list of words to substitute blanks, creating new stories each time.

Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent for baseball. His incredible skill soon got him drafted into the big leagues where he spent 18 seasons playing right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Who Was Roberto Clemente? tells the story of this remarkable athlete: a twelve-time All-Star, World Series MVP, and the first Latin American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In dieser Studie werden jene Personen der Öffentlichkeit in Erinnerung gebracht, die die Kriminalität des staatlich institutionalisierten Nationalsozialismus innerhalb der deutschen Volksgruppen in Rumänien, Ungarn und dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien unterstützten und die deutsche Bevölkerung einem verbrecherischen Regime auslieferten. Nach 1945 beherrschten diese ehemaligen Nazis nicht nur die Landsmannschaften der Deutschen aus diesen Ländern in ...

The studies collected in this book fall into four chief thematic areas of research on Fryderyk Chopin's life, stylistic changes, creative output, and musical reception. The first one is devoted to the origins of the composer's artistic formation in the context of his connections with the Main School of Music at the Royal University of Warsaw. The second thematic area is tied to the problem of Chopin's musical language and transformation of his...

The chief concern of this book is to discuss a democratic legitimation for modern law. Investigation is therefore steered towards current debates on processes of Europeanisation and the issue of self-constitutionalisation of a democratic polity. This turns out to be a complex concept referring to the threefold constitutionalisation: legal, institutional and horizontal, and hence to processes of evolutionary constitution making as well as insti...

Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of crime fiction studies. It introduces twenty-four original essays by an international group of scholars divided among three main sections: «Genres», «Authors and Texts» and...

If philosophy has limits, what lies beyond them? One answer is literature. In this study, rather than seeing literature as a source of illustrations of philosophical themes, the author considers both philosophy and literature as sometimes competing but often complementary ways of making sense of and conveying the character of ethical experience. She does so through an analysis of ideas about language, experience and ethics in the philosophy of...

Kazakhstan has become a successful market reformer under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. But what type of a market economy has emerged in the country since 1991? This book focuses on Kazakhstan's transition path, examines the role of the state in steering economic processes, and analyses the state - business interaction. The Varieties of Capitalism approach and a core - periphery analytical framework are applied to classify t...