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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth - Lochdubh's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman - is back in his 32nd mystery. When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie 'Clumsy' Carson, will spend the night at ...

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

A beautiful bestselling memoir that has already taken the French literary world by storm, it focuses on a single year in which he explores his close encounter with death. Hugely inspirational, it is tragic, insightful and at times, very funny.

R.K. Narayan's immense literary oeuvre comprises novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, and film scripts. This volume offers detailed critical analyses of Narayan's fifteen novels and novellas. Through the lens of the three gunas in Indian philosophy, Ranga Rao traces the novelist's shift from sattvic comedies to rajasic and tamasic ones. He embellishes his critique with rich annotations, offering numerous facts and filiations, drawn fr...

This edited book focuses on the latest developments in classification, statistical learning, data analysis and related areas of data science, including statistical analysis of large datasets, big data analytics, time series clustering, integration of data from different sources, as well as social networks. It covers both methodological aspects as well as applications to a wide range of areas such as economics, marketing, education, social scie...

Mastering Primary Music introduces the primary music curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make music learning irresistible. Topics covered include: · Current developments in music · Music as an irresistible activity · Music as a practical activity · Skills to develop in music · Promoting curiosity · Assessing children in music · Practical issues This guide includes examples of child...

Explores how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, this book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'.

Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long himself, and contains 38 pieces, including both published and previously unpublished articles, lectures, an interview, and two book reviews. The foreword is provided by Jennifer Reid, a former student of Long. The collection is divided into four themat...

Standing at 6 feet 2 inches and weighing almost 20 stone, Billy Vunipola is a rampaging and unmissable presence on the rugby pitch, for both club and country. Wrecking Ball is his captivating story so far, chronicling his remarkable personal odyssey of 10, 000 miles, from the tiny Tongan village of Longo Longo to the imposing vastness of Twickenham. Join Billy on his journey from the year-round sunshine of Tonga to the bitter cold of a British...

For fans of Jenny Colgan and Lucy Diamond, this is a fun and feel-good read set at the Welsh seaside that blends a tale of love, friendship, community and small acts of kindness.

Explore the human and physical geography of the world's most amazing and awe-inspiring natural, ancient, manmade and unusual wonders

For fans of Jojo Moyes and Rowan Coleman, comes a warm and funny new novel about life, love and friendship.

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

A textbook for actors and acting students which teaches how to be funny on stage.

Die Neubearbeitung von Business English for Beginners vermittelt in bewährter Weise allgemeine Grundkenntnisse sowie berufsbezogenes Englisch. Komplett überarbeitet und aktualisiert richtet sich das Lehrwerk an kaufmännische Auszubildende, Angestellte in Büroberufen sowie Führungskräfte. Die New Edition besteht aus zwei Bänden: A1 für Lernende mit geringen Vorkenntnissen, A2 für Fortgeschrittene. Beide Bände liefern Unterrichtsstoff f...

An accessible, user-friendly guide to the variety of different experimental methods used in sociolinguistics, Experimental Research Methods in Sociolinguistics walks students through the "how-to" of experimental methods used to investigate variation in both speech production and perception. Focusing squarely on practice and application, it takes the reader from defining a research question, to choosing an appropriate framework, to completing a...

An ambitious, intelligent book' ObserverThree decades after quitting Class A drugs, Barney Hoskyns looks back - in sorrow and wonder rather than anger - at the addiction that gripped him for five years of his life. Seeking to understand the forces that pushed him to destroy himself in his early twenties - and quoting from his journal entries in and after those years - Hoskyns tells the story of his drug use and its denouement: a slow journey o...

First flown in 1969, Concorde was the first supersonic aircraft to go into commercial service in 1976 and made her final flight in 2003. She was operated primarily by British Airways and Air France. British Airways' Concordes made just under 50, 000 flights and flew more than 2.5 million passengers supersonically. A typical London to New York crossing would take a little less than three and a half hours compared to around eight hours for a "su...

Ollie uses his dead Grandpa's football boots to play better than ever, helped by his Grandpa's ghost!

Released in 2008, J-pop trio Perfume's GAME shot to the top of Japanese music charts and turned the Hiroshima trio into a household name across the country. It was also a high point for techno-pop, the genre's biggest album since the heyday of Yellow Magic Orchestra. This collection of maximalist but emotional electronic pop stands as one of the style's finest moments, with its influence still echoing from artists both in Japan and from beyond...