A speculative fiction novel for readers who loved The Midnight Library, The Time Traveler's Wife, and The Alchemist.She is an immortal creator of worlds who meets a physicist in a Library Bar. He sees photons cascading from her presence, particles pooling at her feet and for the first time in centuries, she doesn't feel alone. True and destined love is within her reach.But the universe demands more than connection. To anchor existence itself... sh...

An essential guide to modern manners, this enlightening and useful book strikes a balance between the stuffy, rigid rules of the 1950s and today's anything-goes school of thought.It is packed with good-humoured advice for the way we live today, but also discusses which formal points of etiquette are still relevant in the 21st century.

The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto.In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries...

Au travers d'expériences récentes au sein de rédactions du monde entier, des USA à l'Argentine en passant par la France ou l'Allemagne, cet ouvrage dresse un panorama des pratiques du datajournalisme aujourd'hui et donne des repères pour ceux qui veulent se lancer dans cette nouvelle branche du journalisme, à la croisée de l'investigation, du développement et du graphisme.Destinée aux étudiants en journalisme et aux professionnels en activité qui souhaitent se former à cette nouvel...

When you search for the past, you just might find yourselfCousins Ellie and Lucie set out to find buried treasure. Instead, they stumble into an unexpected journey—one that uncovers forgotten histories, rekindles family bonds, and digs deep into who they are becoming.Reuniting for the first time in over twenty years at their grandfather’s home, the two quickly discover a shared fascination with hunting for the past. What begins as a tentative hobby soon bec...

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation launched the project at M...

There has been growing attention paid to urban agriculture worldwide because of its role in making cities more environmentaly sustainable while also contributing to enhanced food access and social justice. This edited volume brings together current research and case studies concerning urban agriculture from both the Global North and the Global South. Its objective is to help bridge the long-standing divide between discussion of urban agriculture in the Global North and the Global South and...

To know what life was like for someone in the past, we must read their story in a way that we can understand.Steve Cornish was born in 1887 and killed in action in 1917, one of the millions of victims of the First World War. He was an ordinary man—a son, brother, father and husband who simply lived his life and did what he thought he should. He spent a little over a year as a soldier, and died minutes into his first action.Just one of the millions.S...

South Australian artist Lucie Davison works in a range of media: acrylic, watercolour, pencil, pen and, the subject of this book, analog collage.Analog collage is the assembly of found images, cut and pasted to form new, and often surprising, pictures. It is an art form with a long pedigree.Lucie's collage is informed by her previous practice in other media and, therefore, includes the usual elements of the traditional artist's craft: colour, tone and composition. To these sh...

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...

Do you love learning about space? Do you know how important the solar system is? This is the audio book for you. All your questions will be answered.Uranus is an ice planet. Most of its mass is a hot, dense fluid of icy materials such as water, methane and ammonia its above a small rocky core. Neptune is more than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the normal human eye.

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will me...