Hell hath no fury like a stepsister scorned...Elizabeth Miller has brains, a trust fund and an unreliable fianc�. Rachel Hope is a young aspiring actress: beautiful, talented, seemingly sweet. Under normal circumstances they would never have even met, but their parents' marriage makes them reluctant siblings. But the girls are about to discover they have another thing in common - they share the same taste in men...After a devastating betrayal rips their new...

Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion...Christine Fairbrother is a London barrister, specialising in high profile divorces.Her fashion designer daughter, Isabelle Cissé, is about to launch her first collection Full of dreams and ambitions, she also has a fatal weakness for unsuitable men...Victoria Crabtree's position as the mistress of Massimo Rivelli, one of the world's leading manu...

This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies.Focusing on the emergence of dementia studies as a discrete area of academic interest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it draws on critical theory to interrogate the very notion of dementia studies as an entity, shedding light on the affinities and contradictions that characterise the field. Drawing together a collection of internationally renowned experts in a variety of fields, including people with de...

The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Teaching Thinking is a comprehensive guide to research on teaching thinking. Teaching thinking is key to growing a more successful economy, is needed for increased democratic engagement and is vital for the well-being of individuals faced with the complexity of a globalised world. However, there are questions about what we mean by ‘thinking’, how best to teach it and how best to assess it, and it is these questions that this hand...

This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy.The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This biopolitics generates dementia’s public profile and is implicated in several problems, including...

Having to attend my sister's wedding with a pretend boyfriend was bad enough, but when that fake date left me stranded an hour before the ceremony, I thought my life was over.No one wore disappointment as poorly as my mother, and I'd already given her a thousand reasons to wish I'd never been born.Which was why, when a random stranger sat beside me at the bus stop, wearing a crisp suit and a winning smile as though God himself had heard my woeful prayers, I...

Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibili...

Three radio plays featuring Captain Jack, Ianto, Gwen and Rhys. The Devil and Miss Carew sees Gwen and Rhys involved in a nursing home mystery. Why is Miss Carew, an octogenarian with terminal heart disease, suddenly looking so fit and healthy? And what is her connection with the mysterious power cuts that are sweeping the nation? Written by Rupert Laight. Submission finds the Torchwood team heading for the bottom of the sea - the Mariana Trench - after they intercept a d...

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 24000 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Turn of the Screw • Daisy Miller: A Study • The Portrait of a Lady • The Beast in the Jungle • The Ambassadors • The Portrait of a Lady • What Maisie Knew • The Golden Bowl • Washington Square • The Aspern Papers • The Europeans • The Wings of the Dove • The Jolly Corner • The Figure in the Carpet • The American • The Real Thi...

In this thrilling mystery from the world’s #1 bestselling author, exclusive detective agency Private is on the hunt for London's most feared killer since Jack the Ripper.For Hannah Shapiro, a young American student, the nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when the owner of Private-the world's most exclusive detective agency-saved her from a horrific death. Now, after eight years, the terror follows her to London. The only man who can help is former Roya...

John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd star in seven full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramas based on the hit BBC TV series. In Lost Souls by Joseph Lidster, voices from the past are calling out from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and scientists are disappearing. Can Torchwood help? In Asylum by Anita Sullivan, PC Andy Davidson turns to Torchwood after he arrests a very unusual shoplifter. Who is Freda, and where she is from? In Golden Age by James Goss, Jack discovers that a dangerous ...

Private London: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *Private goes on the hunt for London's most feared killer since Jack the Ripper.For Hannah Shapiro, a young American student, the nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when the owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. Now, after eigh...