Murray Shaw has bought his dream home - the imposing St Margaret's House in the exclusive Edinburgh district of Corstorphine. However, for his wife Rowan his dream is about to become her nightmare.Because St Margaret's House has a dark past. And, unknown to Rowan, that's exactly why Murray bought it.Forty years earlier Murray's school friend Angus lived in the house - until his shocking death in an unexplained arson attack. So what has drawn Murray back to the scen...

It was on a beautiful morning in June 1973 that eleven-year-old Miller McAllister’s world fell apart … That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And that was the weekend that Miller’s father, Douglas, was arrested for triple murder. Thirty-two years later, Douglas has died in prison and Miller returns home after decades of self-imposed exile. The McAllister family always maintained Douglas’s innocence – as steadf...

Billy is a mischievous creature who loves to cause chaos.Meanwhile, Zog the dog is surprised when he wakes up a zombie! Follow the adventures of these two characters and see how their stories connect in this flip book of related tales.Zog the Zombie DogZog the dog loves chasing cats, ginger treats, and his owner, Daniel. That is why he can’t resist running into the road to stand up to Daniel’s bully. What he doesn’t expect is to wak...

This text will take a modular approach to Medical Terminology starting with the basics of word structure and the specifics of how medical terms are devised, followed by medical terminology specific to each body system and finishing with two areas not normally covered in medical terminology texts, 'Alternative and Complimentary Therapies' and 'Public Health, Epidemiological and Clinical Research Terms'. - Two Levels - Basic and Advanced - Coverage of terminology specific to the current heal...

Think you know all about Roblox?Hop in and test your gamer knowledge! The gaming platform Roblox allows people to design their own games or play games created by others. The site has more than 40 million games available. Discover the history of Roblox, different types of Roblox games, and how to make your own games.

“Don’t touch – it’s poisonous,” thirteen-year-old Jess Ponder, the Schools’ Secret Agency ‘Double A-Star’ agent, tells schoolmate and master of the forged sick-note, Leo Sleepwell, when he sees a trail of dried, gold saliva on the seal of an envelope. The letter it contained was sent to Jess by the notorious Nine-carat, aka ‘The Man with the Golden Tongue’.The head of the agency pulls Jess from the mission to locate Ms Higson, developer of the Plascrylics Aspitator, which could rid...

Typography and Language in Everyday Life provides a detailed look at graphic as well as linguistic aspects of language and suggests there is much to be gained from collaboration between typographers and applied linguists.The first part of the book provides an introduction to aspects of typographic theory and history and suggests some areas of applied linguistics that offer approaches to studying graphic language. The second part comprises case studies which look at the rela...

Information Design provides citizens, business and government with a means of presenting and interacting with complex information. It embraces applications from wayfinding and map reading to forms design; from website and screen layout to instruction. Done well it can communicate across languages and cultures, convey complicated instructions, even change behaviours. Information Design offers an authoritative guide to this important multidisciplinary subject. The book weav...

This new handbook takes the broadest possible view of typography, defining it as 'design for reading'. It considers all kinds of reading matter and visual communication systems; digital, environmental, printed, and produced by hand.By offering a rich collection of texts that are genuinely international in authorship and in scope, it seeks to rebalance the Western bias of so many books on the subject. It gives space to new voices and emerging standpoints about the global nature of d...

Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is an authoritative resource book on the effects of brain injury on young people and how educators can understand and support their needs. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes to legislation and practice relating to special educational needs and will enable you to maximise the learning opportunities for young people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Considering key areas in special educational needs such as communicatio...

The United Kingdom is a world power. Made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, the UK covers about 94,000 square miles. Learn about key leaders from the monarchs that ruled to modern prime ministers. Then discover the UK’s branches of government and important parts of the country’s economy. Discover challenges the UK faces and look to the nation’s future.

Think you know all about ghosts?Are they real, or only in spooky stories? Ghost hunters use thermal cameras and other cool tech to search for spirits such as poltergeists. Learn about different types of ghosts, haunted places, ghost hunter technology, and more!