Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain--here, in the irresistible 4\" x 6\" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It\'s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim--a contributor to Games and Discover magazines--and adapted

A superb gothic novel about the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler - one of history\'s greatest psychopaths or a hero of the West? Perhaps both... \'A chilling masterpiece that weaves fact and fable. Bedtime reading? Only if you don\'t need much sleep...\'

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. Together, its chapters demonstrate that georgic-a genre based primarily on two classical poems about farming, Virgil\'s Georgics and Hesiod\'s Works and Days-has been reworked by writers throughout modern and early modern English-language literary history as a way of thinking about humans\'

The surge in COVID-19 cases leading to hospitalizations around the world quickly depleted hospital resources and reserves, forcing physicians to make extremely difficult life-or-death decisions on ventilator allocation between patients. Leaders in academia and industry have developed numerous ventilator support systems using both consumer- and industry-grade hardware to sustain life and to provide

In, The Key to the Universe, the author, and her husband provide the reader with a guide to a range of mystical symbols in the world around them, including the mystical significance of numbers and shapes. She shares with the reader that during a particularly dark period, when she herself endured an episode of \"soul hunger\" she found guidance in symbols around her and hopes that this book will guide

What makes Classics \"global\", and what does it mean to study the ancient world \"globally\"? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understanding of pressing global issues? Global Classics addresses these questions by pursuing a transdisciplinary dialogue between Classics and Global Studies.Authoritative and engaging, this book provides the first field-wide synthesis of the recent \"global

An up-close and personal look at comets and how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our place in the solar system.Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious--comets and asteroids are among the Solar System\'s very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial

We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with whom, and with which, we dwell upon the earth. In this book, anthropologist Tim Ingold corresponds with landscapes and forests, oceans

Running Scared is the third thrilling Fran Varady mystery from the author of the acclaimed Mitchell & Markby mysteries, Ann

Up Tae the Oxters is the Scots translation of The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff

Satou\'s caught in an underground labyrinth. Zena\'s also lost, and her only companions are three beast girls. Demons abound as Satou and Zena try to get to

Dolls can\'t move by themselves. . . . Or can they? Special anniversary edition of the hair-raising mystery that\'s kept readers up at night for thirty-five years. Foreword by Goosebumps creator R.L. STINE and new glow-in-the-dark jacket. Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse in the attic, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them.

Meet With Impact gives you 40 exciting, engaging and easy visual tools to help make your meetings more productive and useful. Stuck in the same old slide-deck rut? There is a better way, and it\'s explained right here. Like it or hate it we spend too much of our time in meetings, and even though many of these meetings may be deathly they are super important to our organisations. But they don\'t

Delve into the world of Marvel\'s Avengers in this extraordinary collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Assemble your team of Earth\'s Mightiest Heroes, embrace your powers, and live your Super Hero dreams. In a future with Super Heroes outlawed and the Avengers disbanded, a young Kamala Khan must reassemble the Avengers to stop AIM. Marvel\'s

IT Professionals includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers three main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions.ProgrammersWeb DevelopersIT

An easy-to-use bilingual dictionary for both Spanish language and ESL students. Spanish-English/English-Spanish Practical Dictionary features over 35,000 word-to-word entries, making it suitable for standardized testing. It also includes a phonetic guide to pronunciation in both languages, a handy glossary of the country\'s menu terms, a bilingual list of irregular verbs, and a bilingual list of abbreviations.

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by Postmodernism in

Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an