After securing popularity in home aquariums, zebrafish have also become an essential animal for biomedical research. Ensuring they are adequately cared for in research settings is therefore of the utmost importance and this book is designed to help laboratories develop good welfare and husbandry practices, refine procedural protocols and engage with ethical obligations. A wide range of topics are addressed, starting with husbandry aspects such as environmental enrichment, nutrition, housin...

Mutiny on the Bounty: An epic award-winning full-cast dramatisation. BBC Radio Drama.“Television would give an eyetooth for the cast of Mutiny on the Bounty. What is more, they are all very good. Mutiny on the Bounty is Outstanding.” Daily Telegraph“It’s an altogether stunning cast which serves the intelligent, historically aware script splendidly.” Daily Mail“It is a very good production.” The Times“Mutiny on the Bounty is a wonderful dramatisation and has ...

Alfie Parker has bagged the hottest date to prom … hasn’t he? Bestselling LGBTQ+ writer Simon James Green makes his Barrington Stoke debut with a life-affirming teen romance.Harvey is popular, cool, plays football and has been in a relationship with his girlfriend Summer for as long as anyone can remember. Alfie is not popular, not cool, has a sick note so he doesn’t have to play any sport, and has been in a relationship with his Xbox since forever.So when ...

Alex Cross's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?Alex CrossThe brilliant DC detective who never gives up on a case.Ali CrossThe tenacious kid who's determined to follow in his father's footsteps.The case that finally gives him a chanceAli knows Gabe Qualls ...

In this exciting adaptation of the novel by H.G.Wells set in 1900 we join the eccentric professor Cavor (Sir Donald Sinden) and the rakish free loading Charles Bedford (James Bolam) on their extraordinary journey to the moon in a huge metal sphere resplendent with drape curtains, gentleman’s arm chairs and brass fittings.Once upon the moon’s surface they discover more than they bargained for - within the centre of the moon there is life! Taken prisoner by the calculating Selenites,...

School, mysteries, crime-solving - just an ordinary day for Ali Cross!Ali has helped to solve two big cases and he knows he has what it takes to follow in the footsteps of his famous father, Alex Cross.Eager to keep solving crimes, Ali and his friends hack into police calls and secretly check out crime scenes to crack the cases themselves.But when Ali witnesses something terrible, he must grapple with some tough questions about what it means to be a...

Ali Cross is back in the New York Times No. 1 sequel to James Patterson's bestselling mystery for young readers featuring the son of Detective Alex Cross, the lead character in James Patterson's biggest-selling series_____________________ALEX CROSS is a genius detective.ALI CROSS is following in his father's footsteps.When Ali sees a friend get hurt,...

Machiavellis observation om ledarskapets svåra balansgång är lika relevant i vår tid, som den en gång var i 1500-talets Florens. Kinas framväxt, Rysslands attack mot Ukraina och den växande politiska och ekonomiska närvaron i den globala södern har aktualiserat frågan om vikten av kompetent ledarskap inom politiskt styre.Denna ljudbok utforskar utmaningarna för ledarskap och statskonst i en allt mer komplex värld och ställer frågan huruvida vi kan skapa politiska eliter som är kapa...

This is the After the End collection, Volumes 1 through 4.FIRST by Ali HazelwoodA general plans to use a nobleman's bride to teach him a lesson. After meeting her, he decides to keep her for himself.Content notes/warnings: ableism, blood, death of secondary characters, dubious consent, infertility, violenceBAIT by Adriana HerreraAlma Corvado has spent all her twenty-nine years believing ther...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America and around the world that have appeared on the program since its beginnings in 1965, Ideas: Bri...

Why do we tell stories?There is a myriad of reasons. Stories can be a way to gain some control over the world. It shows us patterns in chaos and meaning in randomness. Stories allow you to peek into someone else's head to see how they think. Stories affirm what we believe but also challenge us. Stories entertain and can make us cry.In Historic tales, the editor took the technology of creative storytelling seriously to give us a basis to do better as a nation. These writers ...

Two literary heavy-hitters**—New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson—**deliver a knockout critically acclaimed bestselling biographical novel about cultural icon Muhammad Ali.Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to...