Fanny Price s rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny s childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary, and Fanny finds herself dealing

Fluid mechanics embraces engineering, science, and medicine. This book\'s logical organization begins with an introductory chapter summarizing the history of fluid mechanics and then moves on to the essential mathematics and physics needed to understand and work in fluid mechanics. Analytical treatments are based on the Navier-Stokes equations. The book also fully addresses the numerical and experimental

Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.Kumar draws on previously unexplored police archives to enter the dusty streets and market squares where

\"The Orphanage Girls reunite in the second installment of a moving saga series about an orphanage in London\'s East End, from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen Abandoned by her father for the second time, left scarred from the orphanage, Ellen finally finds happiness and hope - reunited with her long-lost gran. But it cannot compensate for being torn apart from her

Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at \'The Beginning\' and concluding with \'The End\', chapters range from the familiar, such as \'Character\', \'Narrative\' and \'The Author\', to the more unusual, such as \'Secrets\', \'Pleasure\' and \'Ghosts\'. Now in its sixth edition, Bennett and Royle\'s

Two opposites experience undeniable attraction during a journey across the Northwestern wilderness in this moving and funny rom-com from the author of Love & Other Disasters, the book USA Today called \'an essential

In The Gatehouse Boy, readers are transported to a distant, misty town on the river, where the sound of industry fills the air. This town is home to a shipyard, where a young boy grows up and shares his experiences of life in a bustling, prosperous place. Through the magic of words, he invites readers on a journey through his past, from his childhood in the shipyard to his adventures in other forgotten

New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London\'s wealthiest families. The drama is big, the money runs deep,

In Connie Berry\'s fourth Kate Hamilton mystery, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton uncovers a dark secret buried in Victorian England. As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century

Mole loves to stick labels on objects. One day, he finds something unusual in the woods. He puts a bunch of labels on the beast that read, lumpy, bumpy, gigantic. Then the thing frightens Mole, so Mole adds the label \"dangerous\". But is the Lumpy-Bumpy Thing really all that

The world is overrun with monsters called Nemeses--and a young boy infected by one will stop at nothing to defeat them all Evil creatures called Nemeses fall from the skies and the only ones who can fight them are Wizards--infected ones who survived a Nemesis\'s corruption. Seth, one of these survivors, vows not only to fight the Nemeses, but to find their mythical nest, Radiant, and destroy it Heading

Have you ever thought what it might be like if you were famous in the future? A brilliant adventure for fans of Ross Welford - a story about friendship, courage and embracing our talents even when they make us stand

A colourful guide to politics over the past four years and the road to Brexit from the pages of The

In Operation Freak, Christian Flaugh embarks upon an exploration of the intricate connection between the physical bodies and narratives that, subjected to all manner of operations, generate identity. The author spotlights such voluntary and involuntary acts to show how discourses of ability, disability, and bodily manipulation regularly influence the production in and of various Francophone texts.

Have you ever wondered how trees got their names? What did our ancestors think about trees, and how were they used in the past? This fascinating book will answer many of your questions, but also reveal interesting stories that are not widely known. For example, the nut from which tree was predicted to pay off the UK\'s national debt? Or why is Europe\'s most popular pear called the \'conference\'?

A history of Dubai, told through stunning aerial photos.- Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.- Text type--A non-chronological report.- Curriculum links--Geography: \"Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including. . . aerial photographs.\"- Check comprehension and embed learning with a reader response spread on pag

Who would have thought a simple bean could do so much? Heirloom bean expert Steve Sando provides descriptions of the many varieties now available, from Scarlet Runners to the spotted Eye of the Tiger beans. Nearly 90 recipes in the book will entice readers to cook up bowls of heartwarming Risotto and Cranberry Beans with Pancetta, or Caribbean Black Bean Soup. Close-up photos of the beans make them

A no-holds-barred account of how German society struggles with its colonial