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The Incredible Nellie Bly is a visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist from writer Luciana Cimino and illustrator Sergio AlgozzinoIntroduction by David RandalBorn in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in; she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Luciana Cimino’s meticulously researched graphic novel biography tells Bly’s story th...

An essential primer on atmospheric processes and their important role in the climate systemThe atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.Giving readers an overview of key atmospheric processes, David Randall looks at how our climate system re...

Clovermead's struggle with the demonic Lord Ursus — the complete series.

'Easily the best introduction to being a reporter' - Press AssociationThis is the only 'how to' book on journalism written by writers and editors who have operated at the top level in national news. It has long been the go-to book of advice for young reporters.This edition includes a chapter on social media and is extensively updated throughout, with new content from Jemma Crew, an award-winning national news journalist. The book emphasises that good journalism mus...

Twelve–year–old Clovermead Wickward's head is filled with stories of adventure. She dreams about the thrill of a sword fight, the excitement of heroic quests, and the clash of mighty armies. The last thing she expects is for those dreams to come true. It seems that her beloved father, Waxmelt, is not who she has believed him to be — but is harboring secrets that threaten to tear their family apart.

"A deftly crafted, emotionally engaging novel. Randal's distinctive and narrative-driven storytelling skills have raised his book to an impressive level of literary excellence -- making it especially and unreservedly recommended for personal reading lists." -Midwest Book ReviewA disgraced political power broker. A presidential pardon. A second chance that could cost him everything.In his quest for redemption from past sins, disgraced politi...

In classic two-dimensional video games, depth is an elaborate and fragile mathematical lie. A television screen has no physical depth; it is merely a flat grid of illuminated pixels. To create the illusion that a hero is standing in front of a tree, programmers must dictate a strict rendering order. This hierarchical system is known as the Z-order. The engine must calculate, frame by frame, which flat sprite gets drawn over another. When developers push hardware to its absolute limits, the...

Now in its tenth edition, Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine is fully updated and revised under a new team of editors.Featuring new chapters covering: o Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor – helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patientso Elderly medicine, frailty and multimorbidityo Public healtho Surgeryo Evidence-based medicineo Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection o Haematological Oncologyo Venous thromboembolic diseaseo Hypertensiono Me...

“Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America’s pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight to the public imagination.”—Wall Street Journal“David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who ...

The suburbs – long sneered at for being dreary and stultifying – have always been far livelier and more entertaining than they're given credit for. In this witty and sharply observed account of what it was like to grow up in one in the 1950s and '60s, David Randall gives the other side of suburbia: full of absurdities and happiness, scandals and follies, and inhabitants both sage and silly. Here, at last, is the truth about what life was really like behind the often-closed...

It has been just months since Clovermead Wickward discovered that she is really Demoiselle Cerelune Cindertallow — daughter of Lady Melisande Cindertallow, the sovereign of Chandlefort — and that the man she had called Father all her life was actually an embittered servant who stole her away when she was a baby. Since then, she has learned that she doesn't wholly care for life inside the walls of Chandlefort, and that she doesn't much like her mother's expectations for how a Demoiselle sho...

The fight against the evil Lord Ursus continues, and the fate of the battle lies in the hands of fifteen–year–old Clovermead Wickward. Chandlefort's army is in need of reinforcements, and Clovermead is charged by her mother, Lady Cindertallow, to seek allies among the nomadic Hordes of the Tansy Steppes. At the same time, Lord Ursus has dispatched Clovermead's old enemy Lucifer Snuff to contest her. A battle of diplomacy ensues, and it is only one of many struggles that Clovermead must fac...