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Scott Snyder

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Wytches

"It 's fabulous. A triumph. " -Stephen King "The most terrifying comic you 've ever read. " -MTV NewsWhen the Rooks family moves to the remote town of Litchfield, NH to escape a haunting trauma, they 're hopeful about starting over. But something evil is waiting for them in the woods just beyond town. Watching from the trees. Ancient...and hungry. Collects WYTCHES #1-6.More praise for WYTCHES: "Dark and brutal, Wytches are like nothing horror fans have ever seen " -USA Today "In Wytches, t...

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Jock Vennell

The biography of one of New Zealand's greatest military leaders whose story has remained untold until now. The Forgotten General highlights the courage intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men. He was among the top-ranked divisional commanders in the British armies that fought on the Western Front in World War I. He has been described as 'the one military commander of genius th...

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Jock Hutchison

'Moving and refreshingly irreverent' John Nichol'A brilliant book that gave me hope for the future' Dr Duncan HardingThe powerful and heart-warming story of how horses and humans can find happiness.On a remote Scottish farm, something remarkable happens. Broken people – the war wounded, the vulnerable, the desperate seekers of happiness or well-being – start to feel whole again. Because a man in a cowboy hat, helped ...

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Jock Zonfrillo

To many, Jock Zonfrillo was a chef and MasterChef Australia judge. To us, he was a dad, a papa, a husband, and the centre of our world. Our kitchen was never quiet – music, laughter, coffee brewing, little footsteps, and always Jock in the middle, usually with one of his children nearby, learning or helping.Before we lost him, Jock was working on this cookbook. So we decided to finish it for him.Recipes to Remember are the meals he made for us – birthday d...

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Hannah Jock

Kaila Kinsworth lives inside of a video game, where monsters lurk in the shadows and adventures lie around every corner. Yet, life has always been wonderful for her – She lives in a cozy village in the middle of the forest, with a sweet little sister and a caring, adventurous mother. But when somebody closest to her passes away, she finds her heart shattered into a million pieces, scared and confused and not ready to move on. But Kaila is also not ready to accept that death. Even though it...

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Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century

This volume from a selection of distinguished international scholars is the first of its kind to explore in depth the emotional dimensions of liberal writing in Britain over the long nineteenth century. Addressing liberal writing in the public sphere rather than high political or parliamentary liberalism, it comprises a clear, context-setting introduction and eleven substantive chapters. The chapters analyse key texts and figures from the 1790s through to the 1920s and offer several differ...

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Jock McKeen, Bennet Wong

In this book, Jock McKeen and Bennet Wong distill a lifetime’s investigation of the theory and practice of Western psychology and classical Chinese philosophy and medicine. They trace the personalities and ideas from East and West that have influenced their own lives and their work with people in North America, Asia and around the globe. In so doing, they describe their vision of a world in which people can learn to appreciate diversity and experience the fullness of contact, understanding...

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Jock Serong

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.Shortlist Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025Shortlist ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way from the city to Richmond. T...

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Jock Murray

Join Jock Murray to look back over an extraordinary and varied life in this entertaining autobiography.From humble beginnings on a croft in the Outer Hebrides, at the age of fifteen he went on to work in the Hydro tunnels on the mainland as the Hydro-Electric board embarked on some of the most ambitious civil engineering projects of the century. By seventeen he had sailed several times round the world and spent two years as a whaler in the Antarctic. And over a long career in the M...

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Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series

Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the teaching and learning of psychology. Written for trainee teachers and those new to teaching psychology, it will help you to develop your subject knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of the purpose and potential of psychology within the secondary curriculum as well as support the practical skills needed to plan, teach, and evaluate stimulating and creative lessons.

The largest part of the world's food comes from its soils, either directly from plants, or via animals fed on pastures and crops. Thus, it is necessary to maintain, and if possible, improve the quality-and hence good health-of soils, while enabling them to support the growing world population. The Soil Underfoot: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite

This book provides an overview of recent government initiatives in the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies themselves, the perceived problems and issues they seek to address, and the broader social and political context in which this is taking place.The underlying theme of the book is that a qualitative change has taken place in the politics of crime control in the UK since the early 1990s. Although crime has stabilised, imprisonment rates continue to climb, ...