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Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.

When all you've done seems to matter less and your heart craves more meaning, when you're entering the second half of life and unsure what your calling is for this season... you're in Halftime. Updated and expanded for a new generation of leaders, Bob Buford's bestseller shows you how to make the second half of life more rewarding than the first.

Fresh material brings this "delightful to read, fascinating" (The New York Times) classic to new readers.

Written for topically-organized child development modules, How Children Develop provides a fresh perspective on the field of child development, emphasizing fundamental principles, enduring themes and important recent studies. The authors - all noted scholars and respected researchers are exceptionally skillful at making difficult topics accessible.

An epic tale of the path to power of Vladimir Putin, emerging from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders.

A harrowing, yet inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally bestselling author Dave Pelzer.

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Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work of tremendous importance which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's subsequent work and on Russian society.

Welcome to the world of Frantz Schmidt: citizen of Nuremberg, executioner of 394 unfortunates, and torturer of many hundreds more. Most unusually for his times, Frantz was also a diarist. This title takes us inside his world and his thinking. Could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate - even progressive?

A series of Bible study guides following the format and content of the NIV Application Commentaries Series.

'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton JohnWINNER BOYZ BEST LGBT BOOK 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2017Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family.

In 1970 Jeffrey MacDonald was accused of murdering his pregnant wife, and the journalist Joe McGinniss decided to write a book about it. Malcolm's celebrated book sheds a fascinating light on the conflict and controversy that followed, and asks whether all journalists are, ultimately, immoral.

A riotous trip with Mr. Knox and a fox in socks, packed full of Dr. Seuss's famous zany rhymes. Read along with the audio CD performed by the wonderful Adrian Edmondson, complete with extra music and sound effects. Can you get your tongue around tongue-twisters like "Who sews crow's clothes?" and "It's a tweetle beetle puddle battle"?!

A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world by award-winning journalist Mona Eltahawy.

Addresses the science behind the scenes and demonstrates the advanced methods and technologies in depth. This title covers the philosophy of crime scenes as historical events, the personnel involved at a scene, the detection of criminal traces and their reconstruction, and special crime scenes, such as mass disasters and terroristic events.

Renowned philosopher Roger Scruton draws on his own experience as a counter-culture presence in public life to explain conservatism in a skeptical age.

'After two and a half millennia, it's rare to come across a genuinely new idea on the nature of morality, but in this book Josh Greene advances not one but several... Moral Tribes is a landmark in our understanding of morality and the moral sense.' Steven Pinker

The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. This book tells the story of the year that shaped the last century.

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask." Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice,

Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement.