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...

“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...

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...

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...

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.

New Evolve resources including flashcards and multiple-choice questionsAudio glossary – practise pronouncing more than 2,500 medical terms with the new ‘hear, say and playback’ option on Evolve

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 everything about aliens?Are they real, or only science fiction? Stories about aliens have been used to explain everything from mysterious lights to ancient sites that seem too advanced to have been made by humans. Discover key facts about UFO sightings, how scientists are searching for alien life, and more!

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...

This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays in this volume capture such complexity by invoking the conception of “mediation” to approach c...

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!

The United States is a global superpower. With fifty states and sixteen territories, the US is the world’s fourth largest country. More than 331 million people call the US home. Learn more about the US from its first peoples to its presidents. Discover the nation’s three branches of government. Then uncover the US’s challenges from climate change to becoming a fairer country. The US’s decisions on these topics will impact the rest of the world.