This is the untold story of the hidden deserts of Europe. Scattered across the lowlands of this green subcontinent, these sandy and infertile wildernesses are ‘cold deserts’. In existence for millennia and formerly much more extensive, they present arid landscapes profoundly different from their surroundings and offer refuge for scarce flora and fauna with nowhere else to go. Fascinating and often magical, such places provide a rare glimpse of our planet in the raw, where extreme environme...

This book targets classroom teachers, homeschoolers, and primary students. The author chose 20 of Aesops fables that contain lessons that underscore the importance of engaging in appropriate behavior and developing desirable character traits. Each fable was written at three different levels addressing the variety of individual differences found in all classrooms. Visit www.apluslearningmaterials.net to find out how you can purchase response booklets for each fable.

The world’s greatest and most celebrated magicians, conjurors and illusionists can make us believe the unbelievable, the impossible possible. But, of course, just like everybody else these conjurors had to start at a beginning. They too had to learn the simple (but effective) card tricks, the easy (but imaginative) coin tricks and the basic (but still mindboggling) sleight of hand tricks before advancing to more innovative and radical skills and techniques.Hey Presto! is a...

This book is the first real inside look at the business of professional audio recording, which fuels a multibillion dollar global music industry. Industry pioneer Chris Stone, founder of the legendary Record Plant, provides hard-earned business strategies, guidelines, and advice on every aspect of launching and managing a professional audio recording business. This book is for every audio profit center - from the project studio in the garage to the multi-room diversified recording facility...

This book offers tangible proof that the couple that plays together stays together."The perfect Valentine's Day charmer, this clever book includes 10 games to inspire your inner-Cupid.With its 10 hilariously sexy games, this book is the perfect gift for your lover (or the bride- or groom-to-be) for Valentine's Day, an anniversary, or any special occasion. Here are the perfect risque (but tasteful) games to liven up a rainy evening or spice up a party with friends: If Onl...

This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives.The book considers the deep historical roots that many football clubs have as charitable institutions within their civic locales. Including original research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book presents an in-depth case study of Everton FC and their associated charitable trust. It ta...

“Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The ...

For more than eight years, I lived and worked in the dark underworld of Las Vegas as an exotic dancer. Some things are worth repeating-others you try to forget. Unfortunately, you never forget. I decided it was time that somebody told the truth about what really happens in Las Vegas strip clubs and their VIP rooms. Is there "sex in the champagne room?" With the right dancer and for right price, there is anything you want in the champagne room! This book gives a lot of insight into what rea...

A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find them...

My brother’s best friend is a rock god…Austin James is a platinum-selling rock-star, my brother’s best friend… and my first love. At least, he was until he broke my heart in college, and made me vow never to fall for that panty-melting smile (and voice, and abs) again.But now Austin’s back, and he’s offering exclusive tell-all profile that could make any journalist’s career. Like mine.Two weeks to land the scoop of a lifetime? I’m not about...

This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. The text critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas:t...

Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction by the lithe, smart modern humans that came out of Africa some 100,000 years ago.But was it really as simple as that? Clive Finlayson reminds us that...