A colourful, illustrated celebration of wild plants around the world, and why we should love them not loathe them, with 50 graphic illustrations by Paul Farrell.To call a plant a weed is doing it a real injustice. It’s simply a wild plant that is not deliberately cultivated, growing where it is not wanted. By this definition, virtually any plant outside a carefully tended garden is a weed.The intolerance of weeds is a mark of how we have turned our backs on nature and urban...

Depending on who you ask, former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian is either seen as a feminist icon who was done over by a dud boyfriend, or a political player who did everything she could to cling to power. One thing not in dispute is that she has been at the centre of one of the biggest scandals in NSW political history, embroiled in a major corruption inquiry that also enveloped the man with whom she was in a secret relationship for five years.In Gladys: A Leader's Undoing

A last-minute end-of-year trip turns into anarchy for Scarlett as she and three of her classmates discover some ancient ruins near Delphi that ultimately lead them to another world. Now scattered across this unknown world, she must reunite with her friends, stop the mysterious order causing havoc and hopefully find a way home.

"How To Solve A Noise Problem In New York City" is a true story about solving a 'quality of life' problem with a noisy neighbor. The neighbor is a group of veterans from an American Legion post. It's about conflict resolution, anger management, gun control and how to get things done when battling arrogance, detached government and neighborhood fascism.

Current standard numerical methods are of little use in solving mathematical problems involving boundary layers. In Robust Computational Techniques for Boundary Layers, the authors construct numerical methods for solving problems involving differential equations that have non-smooth solutions with singularities related to boundary layers. They pres

In a sensational follow-up to Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canonFor the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times bestselling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: a...

‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two...

'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.'Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two...

„Mir passiert das nicht!“ Das dachte ich mir jedenfalls, als ich in den Flieger nach Venezuela stieg. Aber es passierte doch – ich wurde erwischt.Paul Keany wurde beim Schmuggeln von Kokain im Wert von einer halben Million Euro erwischt und von venezolanischen Drogenfahndern sexuell missbraucht, bevor er zu acht Jahren Haft im berüchtigten Gefängnis Los Teques außerhalb von Caracas verurteilt wurde. Dort geriet er mitten in einen Albtraum aus koksgetriebenen Morden...

Did David Cameron have to call a referendum? Did history put a gun to his head? And was Britain's departure from the EU destined from the moment he called it? Was it a lost cause, or did the Prime Minister lose it?Sky News senior political correspondent Jason Farrell teams up with political blogger and economics and politics teacher Paul Goldsmith to provide the definitive story of one of the biggest shocks in British political history.Probing into the social fabric of the ...

Il Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica è per ogni cristiano un faro che illumina la strada da cui non è possibile allontanarsi per non smarrirsi. Le pagine di quest'opera, che intende rafforzare la luce di tale faro, sono una ricca collezione di commenti, con relatori di eccezione, che appaiono necessari per approfondire i pilastri della religione cattolica. La dottrina cattolica è una linea sottile, profonda e piena di principi, insegnata dalla Chiesa sulla base della Parola di Cristo Rivel...

Among Australians use of alcohol and other drugs is almost ubiquitous and results in 13% of total morbidity, but clinicians generally receive limited training in diagnosis and management of substance-use disorders. Written by clinical and academic specialists in their fields, and providing a comprehensive overview of the principles and practice of addiction medicine, this textbook will facilitate such training.The book’s 36 chapters, by 62 specialist contributors, are organised int...